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So this will be a turn based version of Mechcommander? Still got the original booklet from that game.
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Cardiac posted:So this will be a turn based version of Mechcommander? Essentially, with the extra mechanical depth afforded by being turn-based and with significantly more to the whole 'running a merc company' aspect.
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Apr 23, 2018 14:54
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Also being produced by the same guy behind MechCommander too.
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Apr 23, 2018 14:55
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Yo clownshoes log back into your MWO accounts and stomp some robutts. You losers have nothing else to lose until Tuesday so might as well ride the mech nostalgia train straight to hell until then. Probably won't hurt that the game is actually pretty good these days.
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Axetrain posted:Yo clownshoes log back into your MWO accounts and stomp some robutts. You losers have nothing else to lose until Tuesday so might as well ride the mech nostalgia train straight to hell until then. Probably won't hurt that the game is actually pretty good these days. No
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Jack Trades posted:Has anyone who pre-ordered this game from GMG gotten their keys yet? I ordered on fanatical and got the key a couple hours ago, no signs of preloading tho so I'll have to download the whole shebang tomorrow.
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Apr 23, 2018 15:00
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GMG tweeted saying keys should be released later today.
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Axetrain posted:Yo clownshoes log back into your MWO accounts and stomp some robutts. You losers have nothing else to lose until Tuesday so might as well ride the mech nostalgia train straight to hell until then. Probably won't hurt that the game is actually pretty good these days. Is ghost heat still a thing?
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Maybe Poptarts or other BT gurus can answer this: As I was playing MekHQ, I decided to try playing during the 1st Succession War. Besides having to fiddle with the rules a bit and figuring out how a lot of them work, it made me realize how few details are available on the war itself, or even most of them aside from the 4th and the tail-end of the 3rd. I'm guessing there are books out there with a few more stories and general layout of the war, but all I'm finding are things like "The Kentares massacre happened" and "about this time technology started to decline." Trying to run a campaign during the era seems hard, especially since there are these little tidbits added like how during the 3rd war the neo-feudalist things we see during the later years started popping up... but at the same time it doesn't look all that different from any of the earlier eras?
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evilmiera posted:Maybe Poptarts or other BT gurus can answer this: As I was playing MekHQ, I decided to try playing during the 1st Succession War. Besides having to fiddle with the rules a bit and figuring out how a lot of them work, it made me realize how few details are available on the war itself, or even most of them aside from the 4th and the tail-end of the 3rd. I'm guessing there are books out there with a few more stories and general layout of the war, but all I'm finding are things like "The Kentares massacre happened" and "about this time technology started to decline." Trying to run a campaign during the era seems hard, especially since there are these little tidbits added like how during the 3rd war the neo-feudalist things we see during the later years started popping up... but at the same time it doesn't look all that different from any of the earlier eras? Perhaps this would help? I don't own it am not sure, but just googled it. https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-first-succession-war-pdf
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Ramadu posted:what are they on too clans have cool elements but they're a really unpleasent bit of lore where even heroic characters tend to just be space nazis feeling the impure need to be culled and all. In the Waypoint stream they talk about shifting BT's old stereotype based universe to a more multicultural one and that's good but there's very little you can do to clans due to their weird "THE BLOOD MUST BE PURE" thing being a core part of their entire deal.
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DrPop posted:Perhaps this would help? I don't own it am not sure, but just googled it. https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-first-succession-war-pdf Very probably so. Unfortunately at the moment I don't even have 15 bucks 
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Regarding balancing SL era tech, one thing Kiva mentioned is that (story spoilers) they exist and are completely irreplaceable in the campaign, if you lose a double heatsinks it's gone forever
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I'm trying to get a friend to split the cost with me because I'm a cheap fucker, do we know if the story is just an extremely bare-bones framework to get us fighting robots, or is it actually fairly involving with characters and stuff? Not asking for anything dumb like a Bioware game but just something like the XCOM stories where there's a developing plotline and major missions advance it.
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Apr 23, 2018 15:19
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Drone posted:Didn't see this posted here yet but I love how the company customization screen has a tiny little miniature painting station The Mechlabs' and Barracks' have the TT and RPG Mech/Character sheets on the screens respectively. 
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Regarding balancing SL era tech, one thing Kiva mentioned is that (story spoilers) they exist and are completely irreplaceable in the campaign, if you lose a double heatsinks it's gone forever Does this mean that there is a finite number of pieces seeded into your campaign (maybe given out in story missions?) or is it just that the really old bits can’t be bought new or repaired?
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Magni posted:The Mechlabs' and Barracks' have the TT and RPG Mech/Character sheets on the screens respectively. This is amazing. <3
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Pierson posted:Not asking for anything dumb like a Bioware game but just something like the XCOM stories where there's a developing plotline and major missions advance it. Got it in one! I don't know how much of any streamers you've watched to see stuff (if at all, which isn't a bad call really), but (first mission spoilers) you start out working for the heiress to the throne of a small state, when everything goes to hell and she is presumably killed in an uprising. (spoilers up to the start of a second story mission you can take very soon after) Cut to three years later and you're heading a semi-failing merc team in the middle of nowhere. After a mission, you're contacted by a mysterious benefactor who needs your help and wishes to hire you for a mission of great importance! But yes, basically you're progressing through story missions while taking other side-missions for cash, new mechs, and exposure to better (and harder) merc contracts.
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The actual point of the game is to salvage four King Crabs and sometimes people talk at you. Oops spoilers sorry
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Regarding balancing SL era tech, one thing Kiva mentioned is that (story spoilers) they exist and are completely irreplaceable in the campaign, if you lose a double heatsinks it's gone forever Eck also mentioned on his stream that he thought it could also show up in black markets (On planets where those are a thing).
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Apr 23, 2018 15:34
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I'm guessing yeah MekHQ hasn't updated since the 1SW (and now 2SW) sourcebooks came out.
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Apr 23, 2018 15:37
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Psion posted:The actual point of the game is to salvage four King Crabs and sometimes people talk at you. jesus loving christ dude don't just give it away it's not that at all, it's obviously NAH IT TOTALLY IS 
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Apr 23, 2018 15:41
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King crab > Atlas.
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sexpig by night posted:clans have cool elements but they're a really unpleasent bit of lore where even heroic characters tend to just be space nazis feeling the impure need to be culled and all. In the Waypoint stream they talk about shifting BT's old stereotype based universe to a more multicultural one and that's good but there's very little you can do to clans due to their weird "THE BLOOD MUST BE PURE" thing being a core part of their entire deal. I don't really think that's a fair representation of Clan culture in its entirety at all. It's a lot more nuanced than that--their bullshit weird genetics aren't linked to racial or ethnic heritage, but to the 800 (multicultural) Bloodnamed. To be sure, there were some amongst the Clans (and entire Clans pretty much, like the Smoke Jaguars) who felt that way, but they got murked. I think that the Clans and their weird-rear end society could be introduced to games just fine. I don't think they're any more or less "problematic" than the rampant misogynistic, xenophobic representations of pretty much every other person and faction in the BT universe.
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Pharnakes posted:King crab > Atlas. This is the truth so I'm not empty quoting.
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Axetrain posted:This is the truth so I'm not empty quoting. King Crab posted:So I gave 'em the old CLAMPS ya see. I peeled 'em open like a can of tuna.
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Someone was just asking about GMG codes? Just got the key I preordered for my brother.
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Got my key from Fanatical, arrived today.
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Psion posted:The actual point of the game is to salvage four King Crabs and sometimes people talk at you. Great, now people are going to know that if you unite all the lost legendary King Crabs at the long forgotten shipyard, Pride of Butte Hold, you'll open a castle brian that ushers in a new golden age for mankind and you be declare Grand Duke-Khan of the new reformed Star League.
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Back Hack posted:Great, now people are going to know that if you unite all the lost legendary King Crabs at the long forgotten shipyard, Pride of Butte Hold, you'll open a castle brian that ushers in a new golden age for mankind and you be declare Grand Duke-Khan of the new reformed Star League. Yeah but do I get an Atlas II. Otherwise no deal.
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I Kickstarted just for a key way back when, how do I get that key now?
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Mr E posted:I Kickstarted just for a key way back when, how do I get that key now? Log into your backer kit account. You should have gotten an email recently. Steam keys have been available for a few days, looks like other platforms are happening now.
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Mr E posted:I Kickstarted just for a key way back when, how do I get that key now? Should be in your backerkit stuff now. Emails were sent out this weekend letting folks know the keys are there.
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I'll settle for a Lancelot.
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Pharnakes posted:Do we know when the preloading is going to open up? Also what the actual release time is? Release time should be 09:00 PST on Tuesday. I imagine preload is probably around the same time today. Wouldn't be surprised if PDX runs a going-live stream at 17:00 CEST for an hour, and ends it with the Pushing Of The Button. That's what they usually do.
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Preload is available, restart Steam if you don't see it, etc.
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24 hours to go! Well plus a few for me due to work 
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Axetrain posted:Yo clownshoes log back into your MWO accounts and stomp some robutts. You losers have nothing else to lose until Tuesday so might as well ride the mech nostalgia train straight to hell until then. Probably won't hurt that the game is actually pretty good these days. Bad game made by bad people. Bad bad. 
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