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Does anyone know if there is a background difficulty slope a la XCOM's aliens getting stronger by timeline, or am I okay just orbiting for a month to get stuff built?
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So far just played the intro missions but the game started flawlessly. So much lol at the broflakes getting mad about gender-neutral pronouns. It doesn't even make much difference mechanically -- you just get to choose from both genders' portrait defaults. DreamShipWrecked posted:Does anyone know if there is a background difficulty slope a la XCOM's aliens getting stronger by timeline, or am I okay just orbiting for a month to get stuff built? I get the impression this advances with the story missions, but you'll likely always get a selection of mission difficulties offered.
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Apr 25, 2018 03:56
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Does anyone know if there is a background difficulty slope a la XCOM's aliens getting stronger by timeline, or am I okay just orbiting for a month to get stuff built? I think the only limitation is your operating cost.
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Apr 25, 2018 03:57
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Stayed up until 6am playing this. Slept for two hours. Dreamt about robots. Good game.
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Apr 25, 2018 04:00
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Pylons posted:Yeah, I've had a fairly easy time of it so far but I have absolutely no clue what I'm doing WRT design. Waiting for inevitable goon write-up! Agreed, I don't need (or really want) meta templates to follow, but every time I look at the lab I'm like "ah jeez" and back away slowly. I'm sure I'll grok to it with time but a basic common sense overview from someone more experienced would be appreciated. I popped a few more missions and will have to stop at this point. Going to be thinking about the game until I can get back to it in two weeks though.
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Apr 25, 2018 04:02
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Found the Word Of Lowtax reference! Loving this poo poo. Sumire knows that goons are awful creatures Thanks for all the prerelease chat that let me enjoy that poo poo when i found it. The Dipshit fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Apr 25, 2018 |
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Apr 25, 2018 04:05
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FunkMonkey posted:Agreed, I don't need (or really want) meta templates to follow, but every time I look at the lab I'm like "ah jeez" and back away slowly. I'm sure I'll grok to it with time but a basic common sense overview from someone more experienced would be appreciated. Like, my Blackjack had it's right arm blown off. The laser and autocannon are red now. Does that mean I can't equip them when I drag them on to re-equip them to the refitted arm? Statistically they seem identical to the not-hosed-up weapons on the other arm.
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RBA Starblade posted:Like, my Blackjack had it's right arm blown off. The laser and autocannon are red now. Does that mean I can't equip them when I drag them on to re-equip them to the refitted arm? It means they're gone!
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Apr 25, 2018 04:07
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Gwaihir posted:It means they're gone! Oh, so they're destroyed and and gone forever and not just damaged. That's fair. Then why can I equip them? Can I just send out a mech with broken trash for no reason?
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RBA Starblade posted:Oh, so they're destroyed and and gone forever and not just damaged. That's fair. Then why can I equip them? Can I just send out a mech with broken trash for no reason? This tripped me up too. They’re destroyed but still exist for some reason. You gotta buy new poo poo from the store and have it equipped. Drop the red ones with the X’s into the dismount box and you don’t have to see the broken trash again.
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Apr 25, 2018 04:12
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RBA Starblade posted:Oh, so they're destroyed and and gone forever and not just damaged. That's fair. Then why can I equip them? Can I just send out a mech with broken trash for no reason? When you replace an arm or whatever it automatically queues up those parts for disassembly, but if it doesn't you have to. It takes additional time to remove those broken components. You might be asking why that is, seeing that you're basically taking the arm off at the shoulder anyways, but don't ask questions.
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Thanks guys, I get it now. The ol BJ spent the first mission in the wrong position so my teacher had his arm blown off, then in the next mission I learned from my old mentor and had the same arm blown off. Guess my ancestral Blackjack's shittier than ever! 
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Apr 25, 2018 04:13
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A day of playing done, looks like my 970 and SSD was a lucky combination as I had zero bug/performance issues. Received my first heavy mech, the Dragon, and it's sweet. Turns out it gets a whole new lease on life outside of MWO when you just run around slapping light mechs out of existence with your hand/claw. What sort of mechwarrior tract combos have y'all gone? I've done a lot of gunnery/tactics and pilot/guts. I'm trying to decide if a pilot/tactic build is best for a scouting light, or if pilot/gunnery is the way to go.
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I can’t remember when I developed crippling second-thoughts-about-choosing-skills-itis but I hate it.
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Apr 25, 2018 04:14
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Game is real good! I've put in 4 hours already, and the only bug I've had was trying to log in to a paradox acount. Other than that it's been bug free, which is surprising considering I'm running this off an external hard drive on my lovely lap top. Only complaint is watching AI ally apcs slowly crawl around for 2 minutes. I hope they add an option to speed up animations by a shitton. Also make slightly better death animations for the tanks, like why the hell do the wheels all pop off symmetrically???? Just have them brew up or w/e
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Apr 25, 2018 04:15
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Jeez, early game shoddy/ramshackle lights just loving fly apart when you hit them with the Shadow Hawk's melee. Behemoth has by now scored three one-shot kills on pristine ones via just clotheslining the poor little things.
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Apr 25, 2018 04:19
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Pylons posted:Yeah, I've had a fairly easy time of it so far but I have absolutely no clue what I'm doing WRT design. Waiting for inevitable goon write-up! Just make sure to maximize (front) armour on torso and arms and you'll be way ahead of any default loadout
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Apr 25, 2018 04:24
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RBA Starblade posted:Like I'm liking the game but it did an insanely lovely job explaining how not to get owned instantly by the guys who survive your ten turns of artillery fire to walk up and punch you in the dick so hard your arms pop off while your own dickpuncher forgets where the dick is even located This post made me laugh so hard I cried. True story. What are the mechs to just avoid?
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I've got 3 core thoughts. - The intro needs to be skippable, letting you just start on the Leopard. If you choose this, just let Arano and what's her face not actually know you, because you started with the Marauders. I don't know why it's not, the meat of the game isn't the campaign, it's the mech stuff, and it's largely locked off behind all the story ( which doesn't tell you jackshit you couldn't have learned by just scrolling over the Aurigan Directorate conversation option. ). - Your character should start with a buffer for the first 2-3 missions where if you get injured you can heal in 5-10 days. I like the long healing, and like it as a mechanic for everyone else. But boy howdy one of those tanks in the desert mission got a lucky shot on me and whoops, I got 2 strikes out, now I can't use my character for the first 57 days. I ended up restarting due to it, it was super annoying because it happened before I had a chance to really get my corps running and all of a sudden "my character" was out of commission. - Do we know if there is an endgame for merc contracts? Going to be honest, I don't really care about the Arano stuff. But I'm hoping the endgame merc stuff will have us changing borders for the Houses, doing major power plays against named folks, etc etc. I realize it's ~noncanon~, but it'd still be nice to actually have some real meaty missions outside of just scaling "murder dudes in a desert thanks." missions.
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Apr 25, 2018 04:33
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Oh, I picked up an AC20. This poo poo is the bee's knees
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Lost the dude and the Spider on the first post tutorial mission. Every single vehicle and 2 turrets turned on him and smoked him. RIP Spider dude.
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CitizenKain posted:Lost the dude and the Spider on the first post tutorial mission. Every single vehicle and 2 turrets turned on him and smoked him. RIP Spider dude. He came within a hair's breath for me. I was dumb enough to take out the individual turrets instead of popping the generator though. Chalk it up to a costly learning experience.
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Game is good and fun but definitely needs some (very doable) technical work, also generally speeding up the action as a whole (2x animations or something at least) and removing dead time Dunno how long the legs are going to be yet but the child in me nostalgic for MW2 Mercs is happy 
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Pylons posted:Yeah, I've had a fairly easy time of it so far but I have absolutely no clue what I'm doing WRT design. Waiting for inevitable goon write-up! It's not that complicated. Lasers are your default weapon, they trade damage for heat reasonably efficiently, don't need ammo, don't have any weird negatives, etc. Medium lasers are more efficient, large lasers give you better range. If you build a mech just using lasers, make sure to be able to fire most of the guns every turn but you don't need to be able to shoot every gun. Compare the rest of the guns to lasers to figure out the role. AC/2, PPC and LRMs are all long range with different benefits, AC/20, SRMs and support weapons are all close range. Mechs should have a plan, like a melee mech that's fast and has support weapons, or a sniper, or a mid range brawler or whatever. Also keep in mind what happens if things don't go to plan, but remember that the AI is pretty dumb. Mixed loadouts also aren't too bad in this if you've got the multi targeting ability.
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Gwaihir posted:I'm guessing steam cloud or something at this point. I can't find any file at all that gets opened when you load a game. I see. I wonder if there is some way to make items more likely to show up in stores then.
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Rookersh posted:I've got 3 core thoughts. I would like a sandbox mode that ignores the story yes. As for pilot injuries, you're expected to maintain a decent roster of mechwarriors and to be suffering one or two injured pilots every fight. That is why even the little Leopard can fit in up to 9 mechwarriors (8 barracks berths plus your Commander). If it helps, eventually you can start finding cockpit mods which can be installed in the head slot that basically soak up 1 (or more) injuries every mission. As far as endgame stuff I don't think the map borders can actually change. Kiva never mentioned anything like that, nor has the promotional material.
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Summer Meyer background, SA Easter egg?
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If you're completely new, try to stick with the default roles and descriptions of your Mechs and think about what would be good to fill that role. Once you get more comfortable with things, try to adjust loadouts to what you think might be good for the way you're using the Mech.
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Bring out a heavy mech for the first time and it gets cores by a Jenner on the first turn 
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Apparently the LRM-20+++ I got is +Damage and ++Stability Damage, which combined with the +Crit Chance +Stability Damage PPC I got is doing  things to whatever I point it at.
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So far my best luck has been looking at the board like you’ve got a scalpel in your hand and cut out whatever feels like the biggest threat - which can be a mix of armaments and mobility. A damaged unit can still attack you for full damage with whatever weapons it still has. You can have decent luck with using jump jets to get the mobility around heavier units while cutting out the smaller guys before focusing in on the big boys. Try to not let yourself be exposed to more targets than the one you want to shoot next - that’s all the goons that are gonna be shooting back at you in a minute. If you have to fall back, then fall back and let them come to you.
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Default loadouts go far (especially with multi-targeting), I don't think any particular mech should be felt as a trap choice or that customization must be done to get past the first 10 hours of the game or so.
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Taintrunner posted:So far my best luck has been looking at the board like you’ve got a scalpel in your hand and cut out whatever feels like the biggest threat - which can be a mix of armaments and mobility. To touch on this: the most dangerous thing on the field is the one that hasn't moved yet. If you have a shot at two equally killable things, but one has moved that round and the other has not, kill the one that hasn't moved yet. That's damage that you're suddenly not taking, whereas the one that's already moved has already done all its damage for that turn.
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More and deadlier contracts spawn forever, but it's never really a thing that can move nation borders for the IS.
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What is the purpose of multiple jump jets?
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Baron Porkface posted:What is the purpose of multiple jump jets? Each jet lets you jump 1 dot of distance, roughly.
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Baron Porkface posted:What is the purpose of multiple jump jets? Madder ups. E: beaten, alas.
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gently caress yah battletech! woot woot Forgot I backed this but glad I did. It's weird playing a battletech game that isn't a FPS, but it works. edit: strategy tips beyond "shoot them in the butt" ? Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Apr 25, 2018 |
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Oh nice, I like the thing in conversations where you can mouse over a highlighted word to get some background info/lore.
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It's pretty unfortunate that you are restricted to 4 mechwarriors rather than a tonnage limit. Doesn't seem to be a role for lighter mechs.
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