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Aramoro posted:Enemy Turn....Enemy Turn....Enemy Turn....Enemy Turn.... Your Turn! The initiative system is good but it's also quite unclear, like the number doesn't seem to be on the portrait of the MechWarrior but only above the mech's themselves. With some other general UI issues, where it the moral listed on screen? I can see something costs 20 moral but can't see on the screen where this is. Heat should be a number also so it's easier to fine tune your strikes. It doesn't zoom to the selected MechWarrior when you click on them. Also if it's the enemies turn 5 times in a row please please just say Enemy Turn once. Also a bunch of UI elements need a mouse over to explain what they mean. Initiative is pretty straightforward. It goes from 5-1, Lights are 4, Mediums are 3, Heavies are 2. 5 and 1 exist for when you get bonuses and penalties to initiative. So if you have two mechs at 4 and the enemy has two mechs at then you just alternate turns (you can choose which 4 mech you can use first) until all the 4 mechs have taken their turns.
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Axetrain posted:Think I ran into a bug. I finished a mission and managed to get a Dragon but when I saved and exited then came back it was gone? Not in storage or any of my mechbays You don't purchase/salvage full mechs, you get mech parts. You need 3 parts of a mech to assemble a full one. Purchasing is always 1 part at a time. Salvaging is 1 part if killed by center torso destroyed, 2 parts if killed by both legs destroyed, 3 parts if headshot kill (this kills the pilot).
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. Also I purchased a Griffin and it also just disappeared, I got charged for it but it's nowhere to be found.
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Pyromancer posted:I can't seem to stop making SRM-loaded brawlers out of all my mechs, how do I get out of this habit? Brawl lyfe best lyfe
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canepazzo posted:You don't purchase/salvage mechs, you get mech parts. You need 3 of the same mech and variant to assemble a full mech. Purchasing is always 1 part at a time. Salvaging is 1 part if killed by center torso destroyed, 2 parts if killed by both legs destroyed, 3 parts if headshot kill (this kills the pilot). That explains the Griffin but I had all 3 Dragon parts. Same variant too the 1N.
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Apr 25, 2018 10:45
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I ran into the same bug. Were you loading a post-mission autosave? That lost me my Trebuchet, had to do weldry again. Got the Jagermech that time instead  Just keep making manual saves, I guess.
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Eej posted:Initiative is pretty straightforward. It goes from 5-1, Lights are 4, Mediums are 3, Heavies are 2. 5 and 1 exist for when you get bonuses and penalties to initiative. So if you have two mechs at 4 and the enemy has two mechs at then you just alternate turns (you can choose which 4 mech you can use first) until all the 4 mechs have taken their turns. I know how initiative works, like I say my issue is with the UI, it doesn't list the initiative on the character portraits only on the mechs themselves. So when it says it's your turn you have to scan about the map for a bit to find the mech who's turn it actually is, the portraits for the active mechs don't seem to highlight or anything like that. It's pretty minor compared to the Enemy Turn...Enemy Turn...Enemy Turn thing but it's a QoL improvement that should be made.
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Apr 25, 2018 10:55
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Finished a mission and just before the success notification a huge drop ship landed on me and killed me. I'm dead now (103 days)
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Coucho Marx posted:I ran into the same bug. Were you loading a post-mission autosave? That lost me my Trebuchet, had to do weldry again. Got the Jagermech that time instead Yup, It was right after a story mission. Oh well I guess the dragon is no huge loss I suppose, yeah guess I'll just have to manual save alot.
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Soup du Journey posted:so the deal with double heatsinks is that they used to be strictly better than regulars in earlier games, yeah? what's the tradeoff in this iteration? Any doubles you get are unique in that the store wont replace them if damaged. tech isnt there to build new ones. I think its also not a mech level upgrade, as your first 10 are in the engine, and that would require an engine rebuild. so its less upgrade a mech with 11 heat sinks, and under TT rules mech goes from 11 to 22 heat cap, its upgrade that one external engine sink, mech goes from 11 to 12 for same tonnage. marginal increase unless you are running something like a Cat-K2, where your heat cap would go from 20 to 30 with that replacement plan. Your pilots can have all skills maxed out, like this. its abilities that are limited by expertise and specialty. What you pick for specialty and expert defines their role. 1st skill 8/2 abilities, 2nd skill 8/1 ability, 3rd skill 8, 4th skill 8
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Apr 25, 2018 11:03
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The convoy escort mission is some bullshit. The mechs at the end just suicide run, run past your mechs, expose their backs, and snipe half the vehicles in the first round.
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"Okay, my Jenner just took a pretty heavy hit and can't take much more. I'll just jump it behind that wall and have it sit safely out of sight for the rest of the fight..." https://i.imgur.com/95GIiE3.mp4 
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Forgot I backed this but glad I did. Same here, and due to my incompetence, I ended up with a spare Steam key 
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Cheap Trick posted:Same here, and due to my incompetence, I ended up with a spare Steam key Ill take it
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Perestroika posted:"Okay, my Jenner just took a pretty heavy hit and can't take much more. I'll just jump it behind that wall and have it sit safely out of sight for the rest of the fight..." I think the party line is 'terrain clipping is normal in games like this' and 'it's just like XCom'
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Apr 25, 2018 11:12
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Fuckin' lol Dekker gets killed in the THREE YEARS LATER mission because all the tanks ignore my mechs and just keep driving past them to pepper him with missiles no matter how far I try to move him. I'm not playing that whole mission again because the AI has target fixation.
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Croccers posted:Fuckin' lol Dekker gets killed in the THREE YEARS LATER mission because all the tanks ignore my mechs and just keep driving past them to pepper him with missiles no matter how far I try to move him. I'm not playing that whole mission again because the AI has target fixation. my dekker got straight DFA'd by the shadowhawk in the first merc mission it was extremely hilarious. i didn't reload because #merclife sebmojo fucked around with this message at 11:41 on Apr 25, 2018 |
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Not gonna get attached to the starting pilots just because they’re the starters. This ain’t Pokémon. #merclife
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Apr 25, 2018 11:23
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PSA: make sure you bargain for a minimum of 3 priority salvage items in every mission. It's entirely within the realm of possibility that you'll have the chance to salvage an entire BattleMech for free at the end of a mission, and you don't want to miss the opportunity to capture, e.g., a Jenner or Firestarter early on just so you can earn a few extra c-bills on the contract.
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Had my first extremely tough mission, probably because I was aiming for a bunch of extra objectives. And my mechs are too heavy on energy weapons on a desert planet. Which I love.
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Aramoro posted:I think the party line is 'terrain clipping is normal in games like this' and 'it's just like XCom' Sensor lock is a cruel skill
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Dekker is is my only original left alive. The rest are dead. Dekker's trick to staying alive? He's always too busy recovering in the medbay to come on dangerous missions. e: incomprehensible phone post Cirofren fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Apr 25, 2018 |
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Apr 25, 2018 11:34
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Don't ask me how but resetting the paradox password failed on edge, ie11 and desktop chrome but worked on first attempt on Android chrome. Oh well at least now I can play multi if I want.
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Played WAY too goddamn much and have had some incredibly scary situations also it only took a few dead (including dekker, of course) for me to start actually ejecting pilots who are one side torso crit or knockdown from being killed finally got my first heavy mech like 250 days in, an Orion, and the very first Serious Mission i brought it to it survived with just one side torso and a leg left, but no critical damage on anybody else in the lance at all had an amazing on of the 'kill the spy' missions where it was a forested hill and all my mechs had jump jets and none of the opfor did but they had a black knight and an orion and my heaviest anything was a griffin so it was just, an INCREDIBLY long nailbiter that i barely won after exhausting all ammunition and resorting to kicks and medium lasers. sadly i have yet to find another black knight to get a third scrap after i legged that one, because it looks AMAZING atelier morgan fucked around with this message at 11:39 on Apr 25, 2018 |
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Apr 25, 2018 11:37
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Squawk! Can you do other missions when you get a priority mission, I mean, will the priority one expire? Or does it sit until you choose it and it advances the storyline?
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Looks like there are a few people getting save corruption errors, don't forget to make manual saves regularly. You can save right from the beginning. Priority missions don't expire.
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Thanks Seb, Re the save files, usually exiting and re entering the game makes them visible
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Kharnifex posted:Thanks Seb, cool, good to know. noone wants to be this guy: 
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Haha, colossal turd! Speaking of, wonder if they'll add in the mackie
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PSA: Orions are so goddamn tough, the pilot dies way before the Mech does. Went into a fight that ended up having two full armor Orions as a bossfight with a LRM25 Shadowhawk, a stock Trebuchet, a stock Vindicator and a brawler SRM boat Centurion. I ran the Treb dry, almost ran the Shadowhawk dry and the Centurion got sandpapered to poo poo and the Orions just wouldn't loving die.
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DatonKallandor posted:PSA: Orions are so goddamn tough, the pilot dies way before the Mech does. Went into a fight that ended up having two full armor Orions as a bossfight with a LRM25 Shadowhawk, a stock Trebuchet, a stock Vindicator and a brawler SRM boat Centurion. I ran the Treb dry, almost ran the Shadowhawk dry and the Centurion got sandpapered to poo poo and the Orions just wouldn't loving die. Stick an AC/20 in the one ballistic slot and take care to bulwark or vigilance as much as possible and an Orion on your side becomes a nigh invincible threat just remember to bring along a pilot with at least 5 wounds really all it is missing is some support weapon slots
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The big disadvantage of missiles is that sandpapering. LLs and PPCs and big ACs kinda suck early because they're so hard to mount in numbers that matter, but they make up for it in just completely loving up whatever they do hit. I sympathize, though, Orions are pretty brutal.
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In randomly generated missions with enemy reinforcements, are the reinforcements supposed to, y'know, show up immediately, before any shots have been fired? 'Cause I don't think I'm really at the point where I can take on ten mediums with my four mediums
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Okay, so Dekker loving eating it seems to be the norm. Thought I'd be a sneak thief and smuggle him around one of the mesas in three years later so I could take out the generator. That didn't work.
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All my guys have lived and I've only reloaded one mission (not even a story one) and I am well after the part where you get the Argo.
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Two of pilots are stuck on low spirits debuff forever apparently, was only supposed to last 14 days but 2 months later and they're still costing extra to use skills.
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i believe him
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Axetrain posted:All my guys have lived and I've only reloaded one mission (not even a story one) and I am well after the part where you get the Argo. I'm thinking about making a new character now that I've got the basics down, but then again; Mercenary Lyfe.
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Dekker died almost immediately on the first mission, to a turret headshotting his Spider. Laughed pretty fuckin' hard at that. i voted for urbie
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RoyalScion posted:Two of pilots are stuck on low spirits debuff forever apparently, was only supposed to last 14 days but 2 months later and they're still costing extra to use skills. Same for me, but High Spirits.
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