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John Charity Spring posted:The Shadow Hawk properly outfitted is the star of the show for a long time. I refitted mine to have an SRM4 in the head, SRM6 and SRM4 in the torso, kept the medium laser in the arm, and gave it a small laser for extra melee punch. Put the rest of the tonnage on armour and maybe one heatsink, I can't remember. This beast was the mainstay of my lance for a long, long time, able to brawl with most heavies and come out on top thanks to top-tier armour and really good damage output once I got some + SRM weapons. I was still using it until I got my first assault mech and had two heavies in the lance too, it was just that useful. This is literally my build, except I drop some armour for four JJs and two heatsinks. It's pretty screwed just how much damage it can put out. Only drawback is it's stuck at ML range only, but that's what SHD's speed and the JJs are for. Coucho Marx fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Apr 26, 2018 |
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Glitch has the best multishot line, too.  YOU GET A HEADSHOT! AND YOU GET A HEADSHOT! Unfortunately, Dekker died in the very first mission and Behemoth died later on, too. I picked up another random mechwarrior named Download who has a Wisconsin accent, though, and she owns.
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Wow the Blackjack is trash. Overheats instantly, can't move, arms constantly blow off. What an heirloom! Also on this moon mission I thought I understood initiative but I clearly don't. The shadowhawk escort DFA's my BJ, then two rounds in the same turn later punches me to KO my Blackjack. I thought you could only go once a turn? How do I double up? It went round two then round 4. e: I...guess my Incapacitated pilot can just stand up and keep going? Does "Incapacitated" not mean anything? RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Apr 26, 2018 |
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Apr 26, 2018 03:48
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Is it worth trying to get the Quickdraw in one piece on the moon mission or will you get more heavy mechs thrown your way soon afterwards?
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Apr 26, 2018 03:50
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:It's me, I restarted my campaign because I thought of a better callsign/merc outfit gimmick. Yes I know I'm the only one who will ever see this. 
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RBA Starblade posted:Wow the Blackjack is trash. Overheats instantly, can't move, arms constantly blow off. What an heirloom! Okay so the Blackjack is a 45 tonne medium so its actually just barely above a light mech, also on that moon mission you have penalties to heat sinks so anything that has some heat issues will be crippled by it on that map type. So initiative can allow you to reserve mechs between different phase and move mechs around in different phases. Did the shadowhawk get hit by a precision strike or get knocked over or get hit by a pilot with the 2nd Guts skill? Did any of your mechs get knocked down? You definitely cant go twice in the one turn but you can say, go in round 4, then when the next turn starts, trigger off in round 2. What happened between the enemy shadowhawk's two turns?
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woohoohoo taking the LRM's out of a Dragon and slamming down some SRM+'s turns that thing into a very slow wrecking ball.
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Is there a way to add waypoints in moves? I'm pretty sure I could get through this radiation field on a wriggly path!
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Apr 26, 2018 03:53
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Synthbuttrange posted:Is there a way to add waypoints in moves? I'm pretty sure I could get through this radiation field on a wriggly path! Jump jets? Basically any mobility question can be answered with proper application of jump jets
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kingcom posted:Okay so the Blackjack is a 45 tonne medium so its actually just barely above a light mech, also on that moon mission you have penalties to heat sinks so anything that has some heat issues will be crippled by it on that map type. I get there are penalties but it's never approached overheating. The hawk didn't reserve it's turn, it attacked then attacked again. In round 2, the hawk DFA'd my BJ. In round 4, my locust moved and attacked. In round 4, the hawk melee'd and attacked. This ended the turn. The next turn, my Incapacitated Pilot stood up and punched it back. quote:Is it worth trying to get the Quickdraw in one piece on the moon mission or will you get more heavy mechs thrown your way soon afterwards? It just overheated and killed itself for me. 
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RBA Starblade posted:e: I...guess my Incapacitated pilot can just stand up and keep going? Does "Incapacitated" not mean anything? Incapacitated pilots are out, you should not be able to control them in any way. I'm not sure whats happening in your game but I've not heard anyone else report this issue before.
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kingcom posted:Incapacitated pilots are out, you should not be able to control them in any way. I'm not sure whats happening in your game but I've not heard anyone else report this issue before. Lucky me I guess! I thought it just straight blew up the mech when I wrote that post tbh e: Nevermind, it just did. This mission's brutal. My locust is hosed, my useless BJ is gone, my original character do not steal is out for ages, and I have three mechs in the whole lance. 
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RBA Starblade posted:I get there are penalties but it's never approached overheating. The hawk didn't reserve it's turn, it attacked then attacked again. In round 2, the hawk DFA'd my BJ. In round 4, my locust moved and attacked. In round 4, the hawk melee'd and attacked. This ended the turn. The next turn, my Incapacitated Pilot stood up and punched it back. Are you sure its not just being knocked down and the pilot is just wounded? Because the stand up button is specifically for mechs being knocked over. How many wounds does this pilot have underneath their picture?
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kingcom posted:Are you sure its not just being knocked down and the pilot is just wounded? Because the stand up button is specifically for mechs being knocked over. How many wounds does this pilot have underneath their picture? It's now blood red so a lot, but it said on screen Pilot Incapacitated as the mech fell over and got the knocked down status. 
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RBA Starblade posted:It's now blood red so a lot, but it said on screen Pilot Incapacitated as the mech fell over and got the knocked down status.  So its got 1 pip left? In the picture above we can see Glitch has 3 health left. I'm just wondering if you got like the wrong message or you got a god mode pilot lol.
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Apr 26, 2018 04:00
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Beat the Quickdraw boss mech on the moon mission in a funny way. She jump jetted up onto a little tower Mesa thing and unleashed one really devastating barrage against one of my mechs and I was like welp. Next turn- she overheats and isn't a threat for the remainder of the fight. It still took forever for us to take her down though. My Dekker is still in a stock starting spider and even 3 turns of consecutive laser hits to the rear of mechs seems to have no impact. Gotta get him into something with teeth!
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kingcom posted:
I guess just the wrong message, though it was the main character pilot if that impacts things like that. I know they can't die at least. I'd be more annoyed about the bj going away but it never really accomplished anything and kept losing body parts lol RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Apr 26, 2018 |
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RBA Starblade posted:I guess just the wrong message, though it was the main character pilot if that impacts things like that. I know they can't die at least. Yeah so the BJ really needs to be kept back and when you get a chance yank one of the Medium lasers off of it and pump up its armour. By default it starts very low. Alternatively, replace the AC/2s with 1 AC/5 and beef up armour, maybe strip a Medium Laser too if you need it. You want a blackjack at the back and the shadowhawk way in the front.
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kingcom posted:Yeah so the BJ really needs to be kept back and when you get a chance yank one of the Medium lasers off of it and pump up its armour. By default it starts very low. Alternatively, replace the AC/2s with 1 AC/5 and beef up armour, maybe strip a Medium Laser too if you need it. You want a blackjack at the back and the shadowhawk way in the front. I'll try that later if I see another. Though I think the game actually just gave me it back? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1370484972 Also wow that guy got more kills than I thought.
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There's something really wrong with the mission tuning. 2.5 skull mission. Enemy force: 2 Wolverines, 1 Griffin and a loving Orion. RIP Coldforge fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Apr 26, 2018 |
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Magni posted:Welp, had to leg Grim Sybil's Quickdraw and only got two parts. OTOH, the next generic mission had me go up against a pretty scary medium lance; Centurion, Griffin and an Enforcer rolling in as a mob put quite a bit of pressure on my guys. I ignored one enemy Mech that tried to go the long way to flank me. Turns out it was a freakin' Hunchback. Gave me quite the fright when it appeared on the flank at short range... except Glitch promptly turned around and blew it's head off with her PPC. And I got all of it in the salvage pile. So what are the odds of this happening to two different people, because.... https://giant.gfycat.com/TatteredCraftyIslandwhistler.webm 
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Coldforge posted:There's something really wrong with the mission tuning. Dude you should be excited to get some Orion parts
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kingcom posted:Yeah so the BJ really needs to be kept back and when you get a chance yank one of the Medium lasers off of it and pump up its armour. By default it starts very low. Alternatively, replace the AC/2s with 1 AC/5 and beef up armour, maybe strip a Medium Laser too if you need it. You want a blackjack at the back and the shadowhawk way in the front.  This is my Blackjack build, from when I still used it - keep it as far back as possible and just lob dual AC/5 shots at stuff. For the Argo moon mission I didn't bother with the MLs, heat's too big a problem - just put it into frontal armour as the AC/5's range means you're not gonna be in a position to get flanked anyway. edit: now that I think of it, my Jagermech is just a bigger Blackjack; three AC/5s instead of two. I know I can do two AC/10s for the same tonnage, but I'm not sure if I want to. Coucho Marx fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Apr 26, 2018 |
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Eugh, 150k to repair my ANCESTRAL!!! Blackjack BJ-1 after that cockup, let alone to refit it. Otoh I could get 280k for scrapping it... I scrapped it, but what say you? also are we talking about this in a discord somewheres by chance?
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Eej posted:Dude you should be excited to get some Orion parts Technically the AC round you got in the chest once was housed inside an Orion, sure.
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Also also gdi is melee damage not listed ANYWHERE outside combat?
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Hey if anyone is like me and new to Battletech and kind of overwhelmed by it, I found this Let's Play series very helpful ("Lewis and Ben Save the World" is the channel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9dA7CylC80 It's helpful because it's a guy who's played the the video game and loves Battletech basically explaining to his friend how to play as he goes through the campaign.
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Ciaphas posted:Also also gdi is melee damage not listed ANYWHERE outside combat? No. Neither is walking distance, which would be nice to see. (And not listed as kph or whatever the gently caress tabletop uses, but by loving hexes. Actually, distance measuring in this game needs an overhaul, since they're a bit arbitrary and don't show well in combat. Yeah, I know that they're there when you're choosing movement and stuff, but the game never spells it out for you that a hex is 30m so you can measure it out yourself)
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Eej posted:Dude you should be excited to get some Orion parts Dekker did not die in vain, I got a single Orion bit that I won't be able to use in forever (and a TON of pilot xp for everyone who survived)
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Welcome to MERC LYFE!
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I wish you could just sell the scrap parts for C-Bills because I really don't give a poo poo about having like 2/3 of a Locust and 1/3 of a Commando or whatever
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Insert name here posted:I wish you could just sell the scrap parts for C-Bills because I really don't give a poo poo about having like 2/3 of a Locust and 1/3 of a Commando or whatever Made even worse when the tooltip points out that those unsellable pieces are worth whatever millions of c-bills
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Insert name here posted:I wish you could just sell the scrap parts for C-Bills because I really don't give a poo poo about having like 2/3 of a Locust and 1/3 of a Commando or whatever Yeah it's a little weird you can't just dump that somewhere or at least pull out some weapons from it or something.
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Impermanent posted:woohoohoo taking the LRM's out of a Dragon and slamming down some SRM+'s turns that thing into a very slow wrecking ball. Slow? No my friend, the Dragon is a monster. 
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:So I restarted now that I've had a little more experience with the game and I got to the bit where the Bad Guys send a guy named Captain Haust to kill you. I actually had more trouble with the two laser turrets that you fight as well.
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Made even worse when the tooltip points out that those unsellable pieces are worth whatever millions of c-bills  Man how do Merc units ever go bankrupt with values like these right guys?...Oh, if WE sell one third of a commando it's not worth half a million credits? Huh. Game crashed anyways, and the replay was a single spider+tanks... Which was honestly much better salvage despite being "Worth" 500k less because free LRM10 baby! Items being worth garbage for resale is nothing unique to Btech. But putting that pricepoint reminder sure draws attention to it more than most games. Even if I expect the well meaning intention was to inform new players how much money you save scooping up materials rather than paying for it in stores. Section Z fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Apr 26, 2018 |
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Phrosphor posted:Slow? No my friend, the Dragon is a monster. Oh poo poo there are melee upgrades? I was just going to have this Jenner flail at something. Coming off Mechwarrior where I slammed as many weapons into a Mech as possible and just stood in water or let my hud fizzle out while slamming the coolant button it's really weird trying to balance like two or three weapons on some of these light/mediums.
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This is probably a dumb question, but I don't understand how to wait until my mech is finished refitting without jumping to another system.
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Also recovering after that moon mission was fun, trying to wrangle finances, a new mechwarrior to replace me, refitting two mechs, and repairing two more. Feels nice and XCOMmy and like I'm barely holding together.Flavius Belisarius posted:This is probably a dumb question, but I don't understand how to wait until my mech is finished refitting without jumping to another system. This took me a minute too but click "Leopard" then just click the play button in the middle of the screen. If you don't have a contract you'll just wait in orbit.
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Thank you, I knew it was something right in front of me.
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