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Slo-Tek posted:Fuuuuuuck what a miserable loading scheme. Seriously got tired of reading e-mail on my phone watching the tiny little chiron on the corner in a black screen. Hello fellow liberals.
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Tsyni posted:So what's the word here. Wait a bit for a patch? It's fine and great now? It's not actually a good game and I should go play Rocket League? I have enjoyed the two hours I got! It seems to be a very good game, but is crashing for some people or... having problems starting the Campaign? It's not universal. There are some quality-of-life things they could use control-wise, that I have literally zero doubt will actually come in a patch or two.
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A fun game if you can get it to work apparently. My pc is old as hell and its run fine through the tutorial missions.
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Tsyni posted:So what's the word here. Wait a bit for a patch? It's fine and great now? It's not actually a good game and I should go play Rocket League? It probably wouldn't hurt to wait for a stability/QoL patch.
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Getting constant "user already have a profile for battletech" error during the initial customization and can't play the game. Won't even let me skip it
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Finally got a chance to play - hooray half day at work. People complaining about extreme pacing issues - i think someone mentioned 7 seconds before a mech fell over after it died - could it be a system thing? I'm not seeing anything like that. There's a slight delay as the damage scrolls up from the attack, but nothing beyond what was there in beta. Sure as hell not a 5+ second delay. I'm on a good but not great system (2015 era i5 processor, 16gb of whatever the good ram was in 2015, gtx970, SSD for both OS and games) and I"m not seeing any of those issues. Likewise for the people complaining of really long load screens. I have loads, but nothing too insane. Maybe 15 seconds to get into a map? Games' good so far. Really liking it. The beta was a good indicator of how the actual combat would turn out, and it's treating me well.
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That Italian Guy posted:I just went through the Steam reviews and, while there are 4-5 hateful "my space safezone" ones, most of the negative reviews are, in order: Yeah it's up to "mixed" by now, and it does seem to be mostly due to those issues. Some of the issue is definitely that Paradox/HBS games are generally intended for a very specialised and dedicated audience, who have a fair bit of patience with the quirks of a small indy games producer. This game seems to have generated a lot of hype among more mainstream gamers, which is actually a good thing (for keeping HBS and Paradox in the black), but isn't so great for early reviews. Also, I set mine to install in Steam before leaving for work today, and will get to see if I have issues tonight. Lol.
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I think SSD may be the big difference in here. E: regarding loading time / damage resolution. Also Cohh, is talking about how this game is not meant for everyone, but it's the best thing in 10y for tactics enthusiasts and/or Battletech fans. E2: apparently he was talking about the mixed reviews on Steam and was not aware about the crashes. That Italian Guy fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Apr 24, 2018 |
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This game is really good and I am really into it.
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Cowcaster posted:it launched like an hour ago and reports are still coming in, the only consistent comments so far are "doesn't work on ultrawide monitors" and "doesn't do windowed borderless" My monitor is only 1080p and I usually go dedicated fullscreen so makes no difference to me. I'll see when I get home, hours from now but god I hope it works, LMAO at people itt trying to charecterize all the negative steam reviews as "toxic internet" though when most of them are tech complaints. E: My rig's pretty good but I am on a HDD.  Oh well, nothing new, I played a shitload of Total Warhammer.
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That Italian Guy posted:I think SSD may be the big difference in here. I am starting to think that may be the case too. I know one other recent game (Obduction) that needed a SSD to optimize load times.
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Gyshall posted:keep getting roflstomped on the first merc mission I had to load before because I somehow missed the turret generator in the final bit and ended up with 3 of my pilots in medbay for 100+ days and a fortune in mech costs. I also feel like I'm barely doing any damage to enemy mechs in this mission while its real easier for them to start doing internal damage. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
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Mordja posted:LMAO at people itt trying to charecterize all the negative steam reviews as "toxic internet" though when most of them are tech complaints. At the same time, kinda lovely to bomb a new game's reviews with tech support issues instead of, you know, asking tech support for a fix.
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Unlucky7 posted:I am starting to think that may be the case too. I know one other recent game (Obduction) that needed a SSD to optimize load times. Well, I'll test this tonight. I have a lovely laptop with me that is underspecced for the game but comes with and SSD.
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Someone help me understand the He/She/They issue. It seems like it makes it inclusive to all. Are the people upset over it being too inclusive or not enough?
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That Italian Guy posted:Sorry for the repost, but do you need 100% a Paradox account to be able to play? I don't think I have one, and it looks like it may be problematic to get one created today. You do not. You only need it for 1v1 skirmishes. Cowcaster posted:it launched like an hour ago and reports are still coming in, the only consistent comments so far are "doesn't work on ultrawide monitors" and "doesn't do windowed borderless" It's a bit of a bummer, as far as I know we've never claimed to support Ultra-wide and has said as much to those that have asked. If you have 2 monitors the game does behave like windowed borderless, as least my install does. But I don't know how it works on just running one monitor. Furry Hunter posted:Someone help me understand the He/She/They issue. It seems like it makes it inclusive to all. Are the people upset over it being too inclusive or not enough? We are SJWs, that love to censor people, and probably also fascist or something. It's pretty lovely people that want to gatekeep people out of "their" gaming community. But yes, we're too inclusive. cKnoor fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Apr 24, 2018 |
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Furry Hunter posted:Someone help me understand the He/She/They issue. It seems like it makes it inclusive to all. Are the people upset over it being too inclusive or not enough? Close minded people can afford to live in their bubble most of the time and they don't like it when it gets pierced by something, especially if they are not expecting it.
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Furry Hunter posted:Someone help me understand the He/She/They issue. It seems like it makes it inclusive to all. Are the people upset over it being too inclusive or not enough? People are angry that other people they don't like or make their confined worldview uncomfortable are being openly acknowledged and accommodated instead of being quietly ignored at best.
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How do you build mechs? I'm trying to to just max out armor and use what's left for weapons but it doesn't leave much.
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So yeah, I can force it to 3440, but the UI doesnt scale right. I'm on an ssd and the loading times are a bit long. I'm gonna put this to the back of the line until the UI/UD support thing is sorted I guess. I dont like playing with black borders.
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ZenVulgarity posted:Why do y'all care about the reviews so much If it gets tanked by reviews now (due to it being totally broken) then the plug will get pulled and no more Battletech. They'll want more than just die hards playing it, which means it has to be appealing, reviews matter for that.
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Phi230 posted:Why oh why are AC/2s 6 tons?? A question people have been asking for decades
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Aramoro posted:If it gets tanked by reviews now (due to it being totally broken) then the plug will get pulled and no more Battletech. They'll want more than just die hards playing it, which means it has to be appealing, reviews matter for that. Yeah, that. There is potential for a franchise - same as with HBS's Shadowrun games - and we'd like to see this happen as we haven't had a BT-MW new game in a long time (apart from  stuff and MWLL, and it was just Multiplayer stuff anyway).Plus there is some goon involvement in the project - both on the HBS and Paradox side - so it's kinda "rooting for the home team" as well.
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So just to ask the thread if I'm going in the right direction: I've maximized the armor for the starting Blackjack totally, everywhere. I've got 1 AC/2 and 4 MLs + 3 heat sinks + 4 JJs. Is that a good build or should I sacrifice like 6 tons of armor to cram on another AC/2
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Aramoro posted:If it gets tanked by reviews now (due to it being totally broken) then the plug will get pulled and no more Battletech. They'll want more than just die hards playing it, which means it has to be appealing, reviews matter for that.
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Someone wondered if this reference was in the game E:Oh, beaten 
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ZenVulgarity posted:Why do y'all care about the reviews so much Same reason I care about my credit: because people with the power to make decisions around it care.
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ZenVulgarity posted:Why do y'all care about the reviews so much Because bad Steam reviews can hurt sales and the ability to get Steam promotions, it matters less for the end user of course. It's less of an issue if the reviews actually relate to the game, but in our case a lot of them are hating on "censorship" and "They". Which again matters less when there are more reviews, but can trigger a negative spiral which is kind of what's happening right now. People that are crash clearly have legit concerns but at least we have a support them for that, we can't really do much about the broflakes.
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cKnoor posted:We are SJWs, that love to censor people, and probably also fascist or something. It's pretty lovely people that want to gatekeep people out of "their" gaming community. But yes, we're too inclusive. I'm just sorry this is negatively impacting the reviews of a great game. ZenVulgarity posted:Why do y'all care about the reviews so much Because sometimes developer bonuses are tied to reviews, and we like HBS. Aramoro posted:If it gets tanked by reviews now (due to it being totally broken) then the plug will get pulled and no more Battletech. They'll want more than just die hards playing it, which means it has to be appealing, reviews matter for that. I really don't see Paradox doing this. They seem to "get it" in a way that other publishers probably wouldn't. With luck it will do well enough that they can buy the license from Microsoft, BattleTech is right up their alley and my secret hope is that we'll get a Crusader Kings style grand strategy game set in the BattleTech universe out of it.
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Phi230 posted:So just to ask the thread if I'm going in the right direction: AC/2s are kind of mediocre, they do the damage of an ML but just at longer range. You're better off just maxing that armor tbh. Hell I'd drop the other AC/2 and upgrade one of the MLs to a Large Laser.
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Yeah, what's with the first 3 year later mission? Did the rest of my lance abandon me? I walk anywhere near the target and get sensor locked and LRM'd to death.
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Anyway, question. I'm thinking of actually playing this semi-ironman instead of neurotically savescumming like I usually do in these types of games. Is the only fail-state running out of money? Also, I know that your custom pilot can't technically die but others can. Seeing as it gives you a specific set of characters to start with, if too many get wasted does it generate new pilots, or is there a hard limit?
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Mordja posted:Anyway, question. I'm thinking of actually doing a semi-ironman run in this game instead of neurotically savescumming like I usually do in these types of games. Is the only fail-state running out of money? Also, I know that your custom pilot can't technically die but others can. Seeing as it gives you a specific set of characters to start with, if too many get wasted does it generate new pilots, or is there a hard limit? There's a lot of procgen pilots too, it's just the starters and the kickstarter backers that are pre-set.
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Phi230 posted:So just to ask the thread if I'm going in the right direction: Drop 2 Heat Sinks and upgrade the lone AC/2 to an AC/5.
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