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Cyrano4747 posted:Yeah IItB is good But not as much turn-based tactics as a block puzzle with a pacific rim skin
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:My gosh if the original Warhammer and Marauder and Archer come back to Battletech I'll have to start playing it again. Good memories and they were absolutely some of the coolest lookin' mechs, no question.
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The phrase "make do", much like "just desserts", make more sense to the modern English speaker, even when the modern definitions of those phrases sound more childish and simplistic than their more archaic forms. Make due was the more popular form in the late 19th, early 20th century, and to attempt to decode what they may have meant when they said it, the phrase may have been short for "we require and deserve better than this, but necessity demands we make our due with the means we have." Today that meaning is apparently the purview of the illiterate clod, as the modern English literati prefers the shortened form of "we don't have the thing we need so we make some other thing do something in its place" and it's reasonable enough tbh
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Apr 8, 2018 19:03
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I've always used the phrase "make do" but reading it written as "make due" just feels so much more linguistically dense than the accepted form of the phrase. Then again modern English also seems to have a grudge against the Oxford comma despite it being much more syntactically precise than the preferred omission.
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Apr 8, 2018 19:29
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I always write it as "make due" because it just made sense in my head to do so. Make do just sounds like gibberish. It'd be like saying we had to "make go" somewhere. Mercifully, I'm not an English teacher, so I'm not obligated to care. 
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Apr 8, 2018 19:38
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Someone just scoop up the myriad of licenses or whatever it takes to get MechWarrior 2 on Steam or GOG kthx ilu
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Apr 8, 2018 20:05
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It's actually "make Dew"
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Apr 8, 2018 20:24
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It’d be nice if we got a MechWarrior 3 that isn’t complete rear end to get working on modern systems. It’s a decent game with a decent story that’s sold very well by your mission control.
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Apr 8, 2018 20:51
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We've actually been talking about whiskey mixers this entire time
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Apr 8, 2018 20:59
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rt4 posted:It's actually "make Dew" Funny, I always say it as "Do the Dew."
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Apr 8, 2018 21:33
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Has there been any word on how much Star League era tech is going to be in this game? I know we've seen a fair few of the weapons like pulse lasers and gauss but what about DHS or endo steel and the like?
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Apr 8, 2018 21:46
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DHS are kind of confirmed, endo steel I have no idea.
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Apr 8, 2018 21:48
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I want to say there was something in the beta Files about the Black Knight and Endo Steel
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Apr 8, 2018 21:54
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Apr 8, 2018 21:58
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Another question is: can you pay off the original loans that has your rear end in debt at the start of the game? How much are they?
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Apr 8, 2018 22:43
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Triangle Shirt Factotum posted:Another question is: can you pay off the original loans that has your rear end in debt at the start of the game? How much are they? Well, given that the Argo and three Leopards probably cost more than a BattleMech regiment to own and operate, I'm hoping the answer to this is "yes" and "what made you think getting your rear end into this much debt was a good idea, idiot?"
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Apr 8, 2018 23:05
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I don't think so. I'm pretty sure you basically get all that paid off by getting on as the Restoration's retainers
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Apr 8, 2018 23:25
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PoptartsNinja posted:Well, given that the Argo and three Leopards probably cost more than a BattleMech regiment to own and operate, I'm hoping the answer to this is "yes" and "what made you think getting your rear end into this much debt was a good idea, idiot?" So I'll just imagine the commander blew way too many C-Bills on memorabilia. "Remember the Tetatae? They're back! In pog form!" Though most people mad at the fact we have our own ship without immediately self destructing, would still probably be upset at us ever being able to pay off our debt without owning a ship. I get that money pits and failure is the expectation of trying your luck as a mercenary company. But the apparent upset some people have that you are not paying $40 for "Week two. Bank has repossessed our stuff. New game Y/N?" seems a bit odd. Section Z fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Apr 8, 2018 |
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Apr 8, 2018 23:27
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Spectre's merc outfit ran entirely on bullshitium so why can't some goons hired on retainer for a deposed monarch
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Apr 8, 2018 23:45
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Xarbala posted:Spectre's merc outfit ran entirely on bullshitium so why can't some goons hired on retainer for a deposed monarch Though yes, for all the concessions we get so we can, you know, have fun. HBS Btech is probably the most paying your space bills heavy video game yet, isn't it? "I blew up my Blackjack. It's gonna take 45 days to repair, during which time nothing else can be worked on. My protagonist is in the hospital for 60 days. Help." Section Z fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Apr 8, 2018 |
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Apr 8, 2018 23:52
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Section Z posted:HBS Btech is probably the most paying your space bills heavy video game yet, isn't it? It's a game for mature audiences now. You need to be able to impart dread, fear, pain, and ultimately accomplishment into an audience of grown nerds, and what better way to do that than paying off your
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Apr 9, 2018 00:18
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Every mercenary contract I apply for I'm competing with 5000 other regiments that also have shadowhawks. 
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Apr 9, 2018 00:30
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And contracts are just so short term, even for ones requiring elite pilots in Assaults! The odds of follow up contracts from the same employer are abysmal.
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Apr 9, 2018 00:45
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The only contracts requiring less than 5 years experience are unpaid internships! Bernie Clanners: 3020
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PoptartsNinja posted:Well, given that the Argo and three Leopards probably cost more than a BattleMech regiment to own and operate, I'm hoping the answer to this is "yes" and "what made you think getting your rear end into this much debt was a good idea, idiot?" Huh, I thought you never had more than one Leopard that you start with.
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Apr 9, 2018 01:38
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Previously, they planned on having two leopards so you could drop two Lances at a time. Either two separate contracts, or for two different parts of one
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Section Z posted:No see, treating my herd of Argus mechs as a unit of currency is more authentic because I can have my clantech-I mean, uh... "Sir, we salvaged a Timber Wolf! It's not even heavily damaged, so we can utilize this amazing piece of advanced tech as soon as --" "yeah OK whatever, sell it in bulk with the rest of them"
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Apr 9, 2018 01:49
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Pattonesque posted:"Sir, we salvaged a Timber Wolf! It's not even heavily damaged, so we can utilize this amazing piece of advanced tech as soon as --" Calling it a Timber Wolf? Your chief mechtech may be a Clan spy. 
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Apr 9, 2018 02:40
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I can't wait until someone hacks the campaign to make it just an open, no-plot sandbox in the Leopard. I actually kind of want to find a way to replace the Leopard with a bog standard Union Class and maybe introduce some (weaker) Argo style upgrades. I kinda doubt its possible though.
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Anticheese posted:Calling it a Timber Wolf? Your chief mechtech may be a Clan spy. No, he used a contraction, so not a Clanner. Or he's learnt how to, which means he's a fantastic spy, which means he can't possibly be a Clan spy, so still not a Clanner. QED
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Galaga Galaxian posted:I can't wait until someone hacks the campaign to make it just an open, no-plot sandbox in the Leopard. If the streams are anything to go by, the bit where you go beyond the Leopard is a thoroughly optional and signposted mission. You should be able to stay away from the plot, massive loans aside, in vanilla.
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Anticheese posted:If the streams are anything to go by, the bit where you go beyond the Leopard is a thoroughly optional and signposted mission. You should be able to stay away from the plot, massive loans aside, in vanilla. You're restricted to a handful of systems before you get the Argo unfortunately. Also, the Leopard is a bit too restrictive, which is why I'd like to see a Union. I mean I'll take a no story sandbox with the Argo for a second game, but part of me wants to do it without the special snowflake ship, even if it is an impractical boondoggle.
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Yeah, they've said a number of times that you can just avoid that story missions and go full sandbox if that's what you wanna do. That said, not getting the Argo probably locks you out of tons of content, if not any of the actual procedural missions. Edit: I love special snowflake ship, and will fight anyone who knocks it!
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I am not knocking the Argo, its a loving awesome ship and so well thought out (I'd love to see more ships with folding hab sections like the Argo's). But maybe for my second game I wanna just play random hard scrabble mercs in a crappy Union.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:I am not knocking the Argo, its a loving awesome ship and so well thought out (I'd love to see more ships with folding hab sections like the Argo's). Overlord 
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Apr 9, 2018 05:27
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Haven't really been keeping up with this game at all and I just want to check can I just go all tanks and aerospace or do I really gotta use mechs
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Eej posted:Haven't really been keeping up with this game at all and I just want to check can I just go all tanks and aerospace or do I really gotta use mechs NOPE SORRY MECHS RULE AEROS DROOL e: j/k flying ac20 strafes are in fact the best
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Eej posted:Haven't really been keeping up with this game at all and I just want to check can I just go all tanks and aerospace or do I really gotta use mechs You get no tanks or air support on your side, that was cut for time (or being too fiddly to actually be fun, I forget).
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Apr 9, 2018 05:42
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At this stage I'm expecting it to be at least solidly successful, so there's good cause to hope for expansions.
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Aw that sucks. If they don't have the time to implement that stuff I assume they don't have time for more fluffy stuff like AC's of the same rating differing in RoF/calibre but performing the same.
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