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Drone posted:Oh my loving God, HBS you're brilliant (or Kiva/Isildur): SQUAWK!
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Xarbala posted:There's a lot of procgen pilots too, it's just the starters and the kickstarter backers that are pre-set. Cool, cool.
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FunkMonkey posted:Every anticipated Steam release gets the initial throwaway review barrage from the peanut gallery and usually evens out over next week or two. This is nothing new. This is not correct. This is a new-ish thing. You normally see the opposite, and then after the initial hype the scores lower slightly.
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Anyway, this is the first game all year that I've bought new instead of cleaning up my backlog, it had better be good or else I'm a failure at life.
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Xarbala posted: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. So is like every mech they give you massively underarmored from the start or what
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Man I really wish I had taken tomorrow off work. Going to have to hold out for playing in the evenings for just a few more days, then I have next week to devote to this game. I haven't had any of the tech issues that a lot of people seem to be having. The animations have only really ever struck me as slow when there's a bit of lag at the end of the cinematic camera, I think when the game is loading the voice line that the NPC would actually say in response to scoring a hit. Beyond that, game looks and feels completely fine to me. PoptartsNinja posted:my secret hope is that we'll get a Crusader Kings style grand strategy game set in the BattleTech universe out of it. brb i need a towel
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OB_Juan posted:Someone's the best. What's the joke here
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Phi230 posted:So is like every mech they give you massively underarmored from the start or what A lot of the default builds either prioritize offense, or have a very mixed ranged weapon loadout that requires a lot of tonnage. A game where everyone specs armor first turns into a long, slow slugfest.
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PoptartsNinja posted:
If you use the whole tabletop franchise, RPG + the entire battletech line, you can run and manage your own periphy states as a metagame to fighting in space on the ground. Kinda halfway to that point
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Phi230 posted:So is like every mech they give you massively underarmored from the start or what They're based off the TT default mechs. You don't have access to any of the neat weight saving poo poo in this time period so your mechs are going to be significantly undergunned compared to what you're used to in say MWO
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Drone posted:The animations have only really ever struck me as slow when there's a bit of lag at the end of the cinematic camera, I think when the game is loading the voice line that the NPC would actually say in response to scoring a hit. That seems to be what's happening - I don't know if the voice lines are generally all around the same length, but it seems to wait for the whole blurb to play before backing out of the cinematic view and relinquishing control. Drone posted:Beyond that, game looks and feels completely fine to me. But yes, the graphics complaints are....weird. Moonshine Rhyme posted:What's the joke here "Squawk!" is the battle cry of the Mechwarrior Online goon platoon Squiggle fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Apr 24, 2018 |
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Moonshine Rhyme posted:What's the joke here Squawk!
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Phi230 posted:So is like every mech they give you massively underarmored from the start or what I'm not going to say you're wrong
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Moonshine Rhyme posted:What's the joke here It's the battlecry of the MWO goonsquad - the Word of Lowtax. Just squawking when you pop into the game was sometimes enough to make the other team tilt. Good times!
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OB_Juan posted:It's the battlecry of the MWO goonsquad - the Word of Lowtax. Just squawking when you pop into the game was sometimes enough to make the other team tilt. Good times! I miss when MWO was good and goon clan friends. Squawk fellow warriors 
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Moonshine Rhyme posted:What's the joke here The only sentient aliens that ever appeared in Battletech are a bunch of birds. The book they appeared in is terrible and widely disregarded, so they obviously became the goon favorite
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WMain00 posted:I miss when MWO was good lol when was this?
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I said come in! posted:lol when was this? Early open beta, and then again for a month or three when community warfare came out. Alternate answer - whenever you can get a full goon drop, and keep sync video running.
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I said come in! posted:lol when was this? Between 10pm-2am when I was too high to care
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I said come in! posted:lol when was this? knocking over paul's mech.mp4
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OB_Juan posted:Early open beta, and then again for a month or three when community warfare came out. Pretty much both of these answers. Goon clan open beta was a happy time. ...I might sign up to the event we're doing here now.
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Bubbacub posted:The only sentient aliens that ever appeared in Battletech are a bunch of birds. The book they appeared in is terrible and widely disregarded, so they obviously became the goon favorite Also, even if the book is canon,
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I said come in! posted:lol when was this? The early days of beta, before the dark times, before lights were restricted due to buggy netcode, before collisions were taken out because of Dragon bowling, before Ghost Heat.
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That Italian Guy posted:Also, even if the book is canon, No that was telling people how to enter third person mode. Mentioning Transverse also gets you banned from the forums.
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Unscientific, but there are currently almost 30K people playing Battletech right now and it's still worktime for a lot of us. Shadowrun Returns peaked at about 24K concurrent, Dragonfall 2.5K, Hong Kong 7.2K. Game will be fine.
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KDdidit posted: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. I'm terrible at the game and/or missing something obvious, but is it just me against 2 mechs and a bunch of far away turrets I'm supposed to defeat? I feel like there was a mission briefing I totally skipped telling me how to go about this.
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Like all HBS games, this would've benefit from more time in the oven. I just lost a mission because my fire prompt disappeared despite no heat/damage and a valid firing arc.
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Mordja posted:Anyway, not scientific, but there are currently almost 30K people playing Battletech right now and it's still worktime for a lot of us. Shadowrun Returns peaked at about 24K concurrent, Dragonfall 2.5K, Hong Kong 7.2K. Unless there's a typo there, why is the best game in the series the least played?
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Nickiepoo posted:No that was telling people how to enter third person mode. Oh yeah sorry, it was the Alf+ Speaking of more important things, positive Steam reviews are now up to 55%, from a low 40% an hour ago.
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Nickiepoo posted:Unless there's a typo there, why is the best game in the series the least played? 
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quote:I'm also not a fan of identity politics being thrown into the game, as a heavy kickstarter backer I will think twice in the future as I would of rather had ultra-wide support than what kind of snowflake. quote:The character creator is extremely limited and lazily done, missing standard features that have been in games for decades now. You can't even pick your gender! quote:They have a "Gender neutral" pronoun option. "He, She and They". Well They can ♥♥♥♥ off. Also got banned on the forums for mentioning it. quote:Just want to be sure I have this straight. No high resoultion spport or wide monitor support, but plety of time to code in transgender pronouns and head graphics? I mean really? You guys sat around and made a decision to go with three sexes..but not high resolution. quote:Gender neutral pronouns in a BattleTech game? quote:No time to add ultrawide support to the game but plenty of time to add mentally ill trannies! quote:Got instantly banned from the BATTLETECH forums by the devs for criticising the neutral gender pronouns. And my personal favorite: quote:My nu-transsensual ZETA-8 genderfluid heteromollusc Timber Wolf did not agree with the bad graphics, stale hyper simplified gameplay, lack of costumization and obvious paradox tier DLC to come.
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How do I repair mechs in storage? I salvaged a Locust, it's in storage and unfieldable. I have no options to send it to a bay, or repair, or refit. Do I have to collect the equipment for a standard loadout for that mech in order to make it fieldable? Where do I check the standard loadout? E: I just noticed I have 1/3 parts thing. I need to get 2 more salvaged Locusts to make one?
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canepazzo posted:I like that it's BATTLETECH and not just Battletech on Steam like normal. It sums up my mood when I launch it. LET'S PLAY SOME BATTLETECH!!! Anyway, after finishing the prologue I can't say the pacing really bothers me so far. Haven't encountered any serious animation delays, and all the actions complete quickly enough not to grow impatient (yet, at any rate). Performance seems a bit iffy though (both in terms of framerate and loading times), all things considered. Some further optimisation might help there. Other than that, I only have one major complaint at this stage and that's the fact that the computer doesn't sound like it does in MW2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FxVPdk0IN0 Oh yeah talk indifferently to me about explosions and overheating and unggggh
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Nickiepoo posted:Unless there's a typo there, why is the best game in the series the least played? Concurrent plays. I think a lot of people knew Dragonfall would be good but waited for various sales, so I'm sure the numbers were fine overall. canepazzo posted:How do I repair mechs in storage? I salvaged a Locust, it's in storage and unfieldable. I have no options to send it to a bay, or repair, or refit. Do I have to collect the equipment for a standard loadout for that mech in order to make it fieldable? Where do I check the standard loadout? 3 salvage parts = 1 locust, so you'll need to salvage two more bits of that same model of locust.
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I browsed all the reviews and less than 10% have anything to do with the gender stuff. Almost all of them mention the pacing, graphical issues, and stability. Just blaming the negativity on gamergaters is not being objective.
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:User already have a profile for battletech I fixed it by getting out of the game and starting it back up and logging in. Think the server is getting smashed
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