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Waypoint spends 45 minutes on character creation.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJNC0xA5XSk
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hooman posted:I wonder if you could run all the battles as AI vs. AI, and let the RNG play your terrible lance comp. What if we could do a tourney with custom AI vs custom AI!
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Apr 23, 2018 03:59
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NmareBfly posted:Waypoint spends 45 minutes on character creation. Man, I love Waypoint.
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Apr 23, 2018 04:05
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Amechwarrior posted:What if we could do a tourney with custom AI vs custom AI! I did consider that but then I thought that you might end up with both Ai's set too evasive and nothing even happening. But tweaking the settings for AI hilarity/insanity is also amazing. Maybe a rule where if the lances don't engage or it goes beyond a certain number of turns it counts as a loss for both players to disincentivise overly defensive settings? I wouldn't even know how to set up a custom AI vs. AI skirmish.
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Apr 23, 2018 04:17
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NmareBfly posted:Waypoint spends 45 minutes on character creation. I love how watching the intro they basically have both sides of the BT fandom coin. "This intro ACTUALLY kinda fucks up by leaving out Kerensky..." *images of sick mech fights and dramatic betrayals* "I get why you feel that way but LOOK AT THIS"
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Amechwarrior posted:What if we could do a tourney with custom AI vs custom AI! BattleBET
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hooman posted:It seems like a Shadow Hawk would be a good "scout" mech for a much heavier lance. It's strong enough to eat lights, fast enough to keep good evasion and sturdy enough to take punishment while still staying in the "medium" weight for initiative. As well as having a decent melee profile (and some support slots) if you really want to punch someone in the back. Actually that's the Shadow Hawk's role in the official description: quote:The Shadow Hawk is equally adept whether commanding a reconnaissance company or serving as a spotter for heavy and assault lances. http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Shadow_Hawk
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Apr 23, 2018 04:39
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2018 is the year of the Shadow Hawk
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Apr 23, 2018 04:41
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NmareBfly posted:Waypoint spends 45 minutes on character creation. Jesus gently caress I can't believe I watched them gently caress with hair and make up for 7 minutes...
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Apr 23, 2018 04:42
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Xarbala posted:BattleBET I would watch Saltybet but with Mechs. Alternately, Twitch Plays Battletech.  "Stop pressing A you're making it put all the armor on the left leg only!"
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Apr 23, 2018 05:06
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Mo_Steel posted:I would watch Saltybet but with Mechs. Solaris 7et
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Apr 23, 2018 05:18
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DatonKallandor posted:vvv At 6 Pips you are basically Phantom Meching this poo poo. Yeah, Sidestrafe got completely chewed up by Ecks because the Firestarter (the real MVP) and the Jenner were just loving impossible to hit at 5+ pips with his shooty lance, with the firestarter still being able to gently caress poo poo up with like <5 structure in its centre torso, as it still had a flamer + MG running. Yeah, I'm taking a master tac shadowhawk or something similar to punch the poo poo out of any lights in multiplayer.
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i cannot watch beagle for long lately because he says chad every 3 seconds like he just discovered the meme this is awful i just wanna watch robits
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Apr 23, 2018 07:50
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Other than a couple Cohn videos I ain't watching poo poo. Might as well avoid spoiling my self whilst getting angry at other garbo streamers.
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Apr 23, 2018 07:56
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Ramadu posted:i cannot watch beagle for long lately because he says chad every 3 seconds like he just discovered the meme Watch Eck's videos.
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Apr 23, 2018 07:57
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Watch Eck's videos. who is eck
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As of this post we have 20 sign-ups for the tournament!
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Ramadu posted:who is eck One of the game devs
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Ramadu posted:i cannot watch beagle for long lately because he says chad every 3 seconds like he just discovered the meme In italics. He really didn't used to suck like this.
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Apr 23, 2018 08:20
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Caros posted:In italics. I think getting incredibly mad at XCOM2 was a symptom of a larger problem, because seriously, who the hell is this dude and what happened to old EW Longwar Beaglerush?
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Apr 23, 2018 08:24
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Tythas posted:One of the game devs got a link at all
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Apr 23, 2018 08:48
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Eck's channel.
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Phrosphor posted:Just thinking about the game in the future. We could run a builders league on SA. Start off with four light mechs, then every-week get a sum of money that raises the max value of your lance, so you can buy new mechs or customise your current ones. that would be so awesome. half the fun is the mechlab, right, so what better way to have fun than competitive mechlabbing?
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Apr 23, 2018 08:53
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Section Z posted:While a bulwark swap would be a huge loving deal to how fragile your outnumbered lance is, I do wonder what would happen just because my insane twisty straw logic thinks about how much easier it could potentially make a lot of the early game too. I'm not sure how many AI pilots actually have bulwark, I think a lot of those examples you're looking at are because the AI almost always does a move-and-guard if it can't shoot directly at an enemy.
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Apr 23, 2018 09:04
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Are average Battletech fans as bad as the ones on the paradox forums? There's a new edition starter box coming out this year and I might be interested in getting it.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Are average Battletech fans as bad as the ones on the paradox forums? There's a new edition starter box coming out this year and I might be interested in getting it. The old grognards can grog the nards pretty goddamn hard; BTech is famous for it. Meanwhile, the glorious, badly-shopped icon of the Hyadean Heavy Horse is ready and waiting for 32 hours from now.  Ciaphas posted:Yeah it's HBS's proven track record with sequels and learning from missteps that has me hype for the future of the game. From what I've seen on streams I know it'll be better at the offing than Shadowrun Returns was, equivalently This product is launching with at least a Dragonfall level of quality and polish. The idea of what Battletech: Gray Death, or Battletech: Misery, or Battletech: Jaguar vs. Dragon could be makes me almost giddy. For real though, I kind of suspect Austin and Rob at Waypoint are on to something, and this game, the revamped tabletop box set, and Mechwarrior 5 are all kind of avoiding the Clans for a reason.
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Apr 23, 2018 09:14
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SpaceDrake posted:The old grognards can grog the nards pretty goddamn hard; BTech is famous for it. what are they on too
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Phrosphor posted:
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Something Awful Battletech Launch Tournament!
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I've been watching Cringer's Battletech streams and he's been pretty okay to watch. He's not really a Battletech guy, more of a Paradox all-rounder. Checked out DasTactic's LP on Youtube too and couldn't make it very far in. As soon as someone sees the pronoun choice during character creation and says anything resembling "ugh political correctness is at it again!" I just immediately tune out.
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SpaceDrake posted:The old grognards can grog the nards pretty goddamn hard; BTech is famous for it. I love your heavy horse. Also I don't think anything is as toxic as the paradox forums.
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SpaceDrake posted:The old grognards can grog the nards pretty goddamn hard; BTech is famous for it. Also, I actually forgot to write the rest of this.  So: old grogs etc, but it seems very likely that the BTech game and MechWarrior 5 are going to spur a lot of renewed interest in BattleTech tabletop, and so there'll probably be a lot of new players and/or returning non-grogs to play with, especially if you're in a larger metro area. So it'll probably be worth picking up the new box set, as the current BTech community is likely to represent only a chunk of that set's intended and likely audience.
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hooman posted:I love your heavy horse. Have a little faith in the internet's ability to poison you! Improving on that tubby horse would be tough, good work.
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Anyone know what the requirements are for putting in a custom logo? Like resolution, etc.SpaceDrake posted:For real though, I kind of suspect Austin and Rob at Waypoint are on to something, and this game, the revamped tabletop box set, and Mechwarrior 5 are all kind of avoiding the Clans for a reason. Eh, I dunno about the new box set so much. The last one (and the one before it) were also all 3025 tech, minus a couple clan mechs that were added as a bonus as a make-good for the lovely quality control on the previous version.
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Just a note that the new box isn't a new edition. It's a repackaging of the same Battletech that has existed for decades. The copy will be cleaner, but the rules are still very much rooted in old game design. That doesn't make it a bad game, it's just very slow and fiddly.
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Drone posted:Anyone know what the requirements are for putting in a custom logo? Like resolution, etc. It's in the thread, 256x256 dds? I think?
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sebmojo posted:It's in the thread, 256x256 dds? I think? Actually, it's apparently just a 256x256 PNG with transparency, much like the pilot portraits. Probably best to make a version in both formats, though, until we know for sure on Tuesday. Atlas Hugged posted:Just a note that the new box isn't a new edition. It's a repackaging of the same Battletech that has existed for decades. The copy will be cleaner, but the rules are still very much rooted in old game design. That doesn't make it a bad game, it's just very slow and fiddly. Oh, for sure, it's still BattleTech, but the real point is that it's pretty obviously angled at releasing when the hype from BattleTech: Restoration and MechWarrior 5's releases will be at an absolute maximum. It's even using the new BTech logo debuting with this game. It's very likely to draw in a good number of new and returning folks, even if it's the same ol' BT, so it'll be a good time to jump in if folks want to give TT a shot. Also, the BT thread in Trad fell into archives a while back. 
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Even though the new intro box is using Classic Battletech rules (for better or worse), it occurred to me while watching videos of the HBS game that Jordan and the team probably designed the game to work as a groundwork for establishing a streamlined version of the tabletop. Not fully modernized (because it's Battletech), but you can see the framework for a new edition there.
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Drone posted:Even though the new intro box is using Classic Battletech rules (for better or worse), it occurred to me while watching videos of the HBS game that Jordan and the team probably designed the game to work as a groundwork for establishing a streamlined version of the tabletop. Not fully modernized (because it's Battletech), but you can see the framework for a new edition there. Stuff like the initiative phase system and the simplification of heat and what it does to the mech are both really good ideas that I could see translating to a tabletop game very well, yeah.
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Didn't see this posted here yet but I love how the company customization screen has a tiny little miniature painting station  
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PoptartsNinja posted:Still works, 'Mech armor is at least partly ceramic so I imagine there's not a lot to magnetize to. Works fine for little 1-ton battle armors but not so much for a 100-ton Assault 'Mech. It might just be the claw-to-mech ratio, but possibly in another way: The claw is huge compared to the Battle Armor, but a mech's hands (and hence fingers) tend to be rather small in comparison. I'm imagining the myomers of the hand just being torn out from the sheer force, or fingers snapping off and ruining their function that way if they're just those little bits found on some mechs.
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