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 This mission dropped me off on a cliff that I can't walk down and my two Orions are stuck on top. On the bright side I guess I get height advantage as I draw in the enemy to the cliff.
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Eej posted:The game does a really bad job of pointing it out but you can just drive around space where ever you like instead of following the next out of town contract. Do it if you don't like your current batch! There also seems to be some mission and event variety between different areas. Check out the description and tags on a system and you might get an idea of what sort of stuff goes on there, plus of course whose space it is inside of.
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I went to a system to do a contract, and said "I'll do this in a bit" and levelled my guys. I went back to the contracts screen and there are 4 contracts, and when I try any one of them it says 'this will break your current contract'. I can't tell which is mine but I went to this system for this contract... my contract should be one of them. Does anyone know how to tell what your accepted contract is?
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Apr 27, 2018 02:06
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redreader posted:I went to a system to do a contract, and said "I'll do this in a bit" and levelled my guys. I went back to the contracts screen and there are 4 contracts, and when I try any one of them it says 'this will break your current contract'. I can't tell which is mine but I went to this system for this contract... my contract should be one of them. Does anyone know how to tell what your accepted contract is? It's on the screen with your ship in space, above the fast forward button.
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Apr 27, 2018 02:07
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Your accepted contract is in your main ship screen i.e. launch contract.
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Apr 27, 2018 02:07
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Hard to tell since this is a bigass thread: Is there currently a way to fix my bugged low-spirits pilots? Save editor? Cheat engine table?
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Apr 27, 2018 02:09
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Can someone explain the point of the precision strike ability? I have a pilot with guns 8 right now, and I never get above 15% to hit. If it was a guaranteed critical or whatever I could understand it being so tricky to aim, but it's just a normal shot that might sorta maybe possibly hit a location near somewhere you might maaaaaaybe want shot. Am I missing something? is there a trick to it or what? or is it really just that bad?
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Apr 27, 2018 02:12
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Space Skeleton posted:There also seems to be some mission and event variety between different areas. Check out the description and tags on a system and you might get an idea of what sort of stuff goes on there, plus of course whose space it is inside of. Yeah there are an absolute shitload of different missions and any non-priority ones (and generally ones without a travel contract) will be different from one system to the next.
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Apr 27, 2018 02:14
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The aimed shot is much better than the 15% chance might look. I pretty much use it whenever I can and it's saved my bacon many times by blowing up legs.
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Apr 27, 2018 02:14
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I don't have the Argo yet and I just got my first Heavy, a Dragon. Took a really-good paying Assassination mission (2 skulls) and brought 3 mediums and a Firestarter. The VIP's escorts were some vehicles and a Locust, didn't have too much trouble taking them out, and then I just flamed the Dragon so he couldn't do anything and had all my mechs take potshots at his head. None of them killed him so I started a melee beatdown and before we wrecked him my own character got a melee attack hit on the head, insta-kill, and oh look I negotiated for 4/18 loot so I get a shiny new Dragon and a AC5+ 
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Apr 27, 2018 02:18
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King Doom posted:Can someone explain the point of the aimed shot ability? I have a pilot with guns 8 right now, and I never get above 15% to hit. If it was a guaranteed critical or whatever I could understand it being so tricky to aim, but it's just a normal shot that might sorta maybe possibly hit a location near somewhere you might maaaaaaybe want shot. Am I missing something? is there a trick to it or what? or is it really just that bad? You roll to hit and then you roll on what part of your target you hit. Called Shot does not alter your chance to hit your target, it just increases the likelihood a successful shot hits a specific area of the mech.
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Apr 27, 2018 02:19
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Jesus christ the Blackjack lost it's loving arm again what do you want from me game I hit it behind a mountain so it wouldn't get hosed by autocannon sniper turrets My precious heirloom  Seriously though I'm running out of weapons because the Blackjack keeps losing them and ppc light mechs turbofuck me. The only thing I've ever salvaged was a locust. That's all it's given me. How do I budget this my mechwarriors are dying
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Apr 27, 2018 02:21
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Eej posted:You roll to hit and then you roll on what part of your target you hit. Called Shot does not alter your chance to hit your target, it just increases the likelihood a successful shot hits a specific area of the mech. So what exactly are the mechanics of it? I select say the head, and it lists it as being 2%. Is that a 2% chance of any shot hitting the head, a 2% bonus, what?
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Apr 27, 2018 02:27
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Moonshine Rhyme posted:Anyone located the game saves in the game files? Returning from a trip and definitely want to slide my save from my laptop to my desktop Game has proper cloud saving, no manual work required thank God
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Apr 27, 2018 02:43
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I did uh, I guess the first boss? Grim Sybil. I hit reserve a whole bunch from behind a rock until I lapped her initiative and then took 8 turns in a row surrounding her and punching her until she exploded without getting an attack. Strategy.
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Apr 27, 2018 02:44
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King Doom posted:So what exactly are the mechanics of it? I select say the head, and it lists it as being 2%. Is that a 2% chance of any shot hitting the head, a 2% bonus, what? So by default you have a 1% chance of hitting the head. If you select the head, then you have a 2% chance of hitting the head and with a resulting reduction in chance to hit any other part of the body. Basically hitting a specific part of a mech is more or less random. The only thing you can do to change this is alter the angle at which you are attacking (you can't hit the right arm if you're shooting from their left, for example) or use Called Shot to weight the RNG towards a specific body part. Indirect LRM fire comes from above so it's got a pretty good chance of dinging a head but they made it so that missiles cluster around the first(?) missile to land so you're not rolling like 40 chances of headshotting someone.
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Apr 27, 2018 02:47
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Melee Centurion is pretty good. First mission it was on, it punched an enemy's head off, disabling the mech instantly. Loaded it up with a bunch of short-range missiles so what it can't punch, it knocks over. What it can't reach, it lands on with its jump-jets.
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Apr 27, 2018 02:47
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RBA Starblade posted:Jesus christ the Blackjack lost it's loving arm again what do you want from me game I hit it behind a mountain so it wouldn't get hosed by autocannon sniper turrets I had my first encounter with the Hunchback in this game, which is one of my personal favorites. It fired 3 shots from it's ac120 and two of them were head shots that were instant pilot kills including my own story line pilot, the other shot was the one that knocked over the mech starting the murder fest. Game owns.
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Apr 27, 2018 02:49
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How far into story do we have to go before we can get more Bay's and such so we can work on Mech's faster? Read people say rush to that point but not sure when that is.
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Apr 27, 2018 02:55
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Draynar posted:How far into story do we have to go before we can get more Bay's and such so we can work on Mech's faster? Read people say rush to that point but not sure when that is. Its on Weldry. The second (third if the Miner mission/3 years later counts) special story mission you can take.
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Apr 27, 2018 02:57
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TheTrend posted:I had my first encounter with the Hunchback in this game, which is one of my personal favorites. It fired 3 shots from it's ac120 and two of them were head shots that were instant pilot kills including my own story line pilot, the other shot was the one that knocked over the mech starting the murder fest. Well the game crashed and deleted my save so I tried the other mission I have, 2 stars. Hunchback, Shadow Hawk, Vindicator. Glitch died to ten billion lasers and ppcs because twelve rounds of shooting the same mech in a row did loving zero damage. Then instead of meleeing Behemoth walked up to a mech and did nothing. I'm reloading because gently caress that a crash and a deleted save is enough for a day but what the hell am I supposed to do? .5 skull missions have sniper mechs with ppcs I can't beat without one kill because it takes at least two rounds to finish them, and the others have mechs that are more armored and I can't even scratch or unsteady in six rounds. I don't get it. Did I just do plot missions too quick and now I don't have the gear to handle things? RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Apr 27, 2018 |
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Apr 27, 2018 03:00
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King Doom posted:So what exactly are the mechanics of it? I select say the head, and it lists it as being 2%. Is that a 2% chance of any shot hitting the head, a 2% bonus, what? In addition to what Eej has said, getting Tactics points will increase your Called Shot %s at two different points on the track.
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Apr 27, 2018 03:09
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Is there some reason I can't counterpunch the hostile Firestarter that is now standing in melee range of my Shadow Hawk (because it meleed me on its phase). Because I really want to knock it the gently caress out (and also FOR SOME REASON my heat is now so high that I really need to not use any weapons right this second).
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Apr 27, 2018 03:11
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SilverMike posted:In addition to what Eej has said, getting Tactics points will increase your Called Shot %s at two different points on the track. I wish you could hover over pips in game to see what each one gives.
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Apr 27, 2018 03:15
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Dallan Invictus posted:Is there some reason I can't counterpunch the hostile Firestarter that is now standing in melee range of my Shadow Hawk (because it meleed me on its phase). Because I really want to knock it the gently caress out (and also FOR SOME REASON my heat is now so high that I really need to not use any weapons right this second). Your heat skyrocketed because a Firestarter punched you and then unloaded its flamers into your mech. Support weapons fire after melee attacks, and foamers specifically jack your heat up but do very little damage.
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Apr 27, 2018 03:23
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RBA Starblade posted:Well the game crashed and deleted my save so I tried the other mission I have, 2 stars. with missing saves i think restarting the game is supposed to bring them back Dallan Invictus posted:Is there some reason I can't counterpunch the hostile Firestarter that is now standing in melee range of my Shadow Hawk (because it meleed me on its phase). Because I really want to knock it the gently caress out (and also FOR SOME REASON my heat is now so high that I really need to not use any weapons right this second). are you set to sprint? if so, you can't attack. that confused me no end
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Apr 27, 2018 03:25
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Ciaphas posted:I wish you could hover over pips in game to see what each one gives. I know, right? When I found out about the minimum range reduction + Called Shots from Tactics and increased overheat threshold from Guts, my mind was blown.
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Apr 27, 2018 03:30
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sebmojo posted:with missing saves i think restarting the game is supposed to bring them back Well that's good to know for next time! Beat this mission on retry, only reloaded because of that melee bug. Two wounded pilots, three hosed mechs. PPCs are basically the ultimate weapon here early game, and lights and Vindicators are bulky or quick enough to do whatever they want; you can't stop it.
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Apr 27, 2018 03:31
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Restarted my campaign because I wanted Glitch back and to build a gunnery/tactics commander. First mission after the milestone 114 trick to skip the tutorials, headcap a Griffin and proceeded to stomp my way to the Argo. About to do Prison with my Griffin, Vindicator, Shadow hawk, Cent lineup. Missed out on the Quickdraw from grim sybil.
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Apr 27, 2018 03:38
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RBA Starblade posted:Well that's good to know for next time! PPCs are great until your PPC arm/torso gets blown off (many such cases!) Likewise, missile are fantastic for headshots (but only when the enemy is shooting at you) Also, rip Behemoth and Medusa, you died for the AURIGAN PEOPLE gently caress jagermechs
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Apr 27, 2018 03:41
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No idea who was talking about having to quickly sprint out of combat before your turn ended on enemy contact, but you can finish your entire turn at your leisure.
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Apr 27, 2018 03:42
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Thronde posted:milestone 114 trick What's this?
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sebmojo posted:are you set to sprint? if so, you can't attack. that confused me no end  I don't think that was it because I could melee a DIFFERENT mech a few hexes away, just not the one I wanted to. Anyway it jumpjetted away so I murdered it with a DFA and moved on, no big, I'm just curious now. Bussamove posted:Your heat skyrocketed because a Firestarter punched you and then unloaded its flamers into your mech. Support weapons fire after melee attacks, and foamers specifically jack your heat up but do very little damage. Clearly I need to work on my sarcasm.
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Apr 27, 2018 03:46
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Synthbuttrange posted:What's this? people have figured out how to skip the prologue (up to and include the IPL betrayal mission) by tinkering with milestone flags.
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So, uh, I managed to acquire an Assault before I finished putting together a single Heavy. It did give me a GREAT place to put all the ++ LRM launchers I'd been acquiring for awhile though. I've since managed to get my hands on a full Grasshopper too from a single mission. Hilariously enough I still haven't finished putting together the Quickdraw, Jaegermech, or one or two others I'd had parts from for a while before I ran into the Grasshopper. In terms of timeline, I'm currently in-between the prison mission and the next one. Now that I've actually got something other than Mediums I'm probably going to take it on soonish.
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Apr 27, 2018 03:53
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RIP Dekker, Week 54.  Turns out even 7 Guts isn't enough.
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Apr 27, 2018 03:53
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Wow, the misisons where you are supposed to run down some "old mechs" seems to end up being the cool old poo poo. Got Black Knights twice in a row. "Stubborn Surrender" is the title of it.
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Apr 27, 2018 04:03
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The Quickdraw is a hot turd I sold mine cause I live paycheque to paycheque. Has anyone had any success with it? All the heavies just turn and focus fire it down and it can't even carry scary weaponry anyway.
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Apr 27, 2018 04:06
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I just passed one of those up because the number of skulls and the reward money seemed wildly out of tune, so I suspected something bad guess I should've rolled the dice on it!
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This is my father's Blackjack. Sometimes I replace the head, sometimes I replace the arms, sometimes I replace the center torso, but it's still my father's Blackjack. game owns
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