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Ok game's fun overall, but I would love to know who designed/playtested the escort and base defense missions and said "yeah that works." It is nigh impossible to defend the targets because the AI seems to prioritize the unarmored buildings/vehicles over my mechs. Last one I did started with a Jenner running into sensor range and one-shotting a building, followed by the game spawning a full lance behind the base, which ran up and alpha striked two buildings before I could get a turn, finished by the vehicles I was fighting speeding past my mechs to launch missiles at the buildings remaining now that the new lance was giving them spotting for indirect attacks. It's like they looked at thirty years of terrible escort missions in games and asked how they could be worse.
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Bruceski posted:Same here. Got 3 LRM10s in there and keeping an eye out for bigger ones. I'm going to have to give this a try. My experience with LRMs has been pretty middling but it's probably because I'm using LRM5 typically. I got hosed in the first Prison attempt but it gave me a chance to learn about positioning and not just going charging in with all four mechs in one spot. Worked a lot better on my second try when I setup 3 mechs to focus down a single target and then delayed a Locust with LRMs to turn 1; hop up onto a wall, fire all the LRMs into a mediums backside, turn 4 hop back away and fire a few more over the wall for good measure.
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Someone tell me how to outfit a Jagermech because this thing is cool but so far for me it's just a fat BlackjackEej posted:
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Mo_Steel posted:I'm going to have to give this a try. My experience with LRMs has been pretty middling but it's probably because I'm using LRM5 typically. I'm not sure how it compares to other options, it doesn't feel punchy even though the total damage is good. Main things to note for LRMs: --all use the same ammo --bigger ones just fire more shots, not more damage per shot --The ++ versions with damage up increase damage by two per shot when base damage is 4. Those things are a 50% damage increase.
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Xarbala posted:Was this a mission to Assassinate someone named Reynauld?
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Xarbala posted:Class names by Specialization: Thanks for this. I'm slowly learning this stuff but I could really use a resource explains what kind of weapons/general builds line up to which role. Just a lot to absorb.
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Just looked at my Dekker's injury record so far and he's been wounded 30 times. Next highest is my character, and she's at 18. I put her in danger more often since I know she can't die. I don't know why the universe hates Dekker so much.
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Spoilers for later in the story most people here are talking about : That Star League base raid mission seemed impossible until I restarted and just sprinted up to the base with all my dudes and took out the turrets asap. It was still hard but managed to squeak by after ejecting Glitch out of an almost dead husk of a Centurion. The second part was good fun and the 90 ton Highlander you get after is so good and never overheats, completely upgraded what kind of missions I can handle. Can't wait to get more huge mechs.
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Apr 27, 2018 06:35
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Can someone make a #merclife smilie?
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sebmojo posted:Can someone make a #merclife smilie? Given people's battle reports, wouldn't that be  ?
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Apr 27, 2018 06:50
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Smiley Samara crawling out of the ring with "110 days" above it in a spooky font.
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Is there a credit cheat yet? I feel like giving myself a few million extra credits would help things quite a bit.
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Apr 27, 2018 07:28
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 but its battletech but its a ppc but its actually an awesome
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Those Defeat Enemy Lance missions are rough because the reinforcements are like ten feet away from the main target and it turns into 4v8 real fast. I haven't figured out the spawn patterns yet so I don't do the XCOM inching forward on starting turns thing. Also the only heavies I get are Thunderbolts and Orions. My drat lance is just a bunch of fat waddling bricks now. I need a Grasshopper or Catapult dangit!
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Furry Hunter posted:Is there a credit cheat yet? I feel like giving myself a few million extra credits would help things quite a bit. Yep, sorta. Under [WHEREVER YOU INSTALLED IT]/Battletech/BattleTech_Data/StreamingAssets/data/simGameConstants, open up SimGameConstants.json in notepad++ or something. Then search for ShopSellModifier, it should be like 0.32 or something by default. Change it to any number above 1.00 and you've got yourself as much money as you want, because you can sell things for more than you buy them for.
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Eej posted:Those Defeat Enemy Lance missions are rough because the reinforcements are like ten feet away from the main target and it turns into 4v8 real fast. I haven't figured out the spawn patterns yet so I don't do the XCOM inching forward on starting turns thing. It has to be a bug. If you kill off the reinforcements before the main group, you'll still get a message about "Hostile reinforcements heading your way" after you take out the main group (and then the mission will end). They're probably spawning prematurely.
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Gwaihir posted:Some of the tougher high end planets (Like if you go fly to a Taurian concordat owned place or something) will only give you contracts if you have a high enough rep with one of the factions. I went over to a taurian planet with a black market to look for hot loot and the only contracts there were 4+ skull missions from Liao against the Taurians, but they'd only give them to me if I had high enough rep with the CC. I'll just have to shuttle around and do some exploring.
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So I wrote a lovely little app in an hour to do it for me. Backup your BattleTech_Data\StreamingAssets\data\movement folder in your Battletech directory first, then run totally not a virus dot exe from the zip file, enter a speed multiplier, click Update, and voila, next time you enter a mission the animations will be sped (or slowed, you madman) by that much. (edit) blah blah blah I don't guarantee it won't burn down your internet blah MIT license blah. But it worked a treat for me and a mate. nevermind just do this instead Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Apr 28, 2018 |
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Eej posted: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. It's OK, I used it until I replaced it with a second Centurion (it was my first heavy, got one from Sybil) Mo_Steel posted:I'm going to have to give this a try. My experience with LRMs has been pretty middling but it's probably because I'm using LRM5 typically. LRM5s are actually pretty great, it's just that because of hardpoints you can't stack enough of them to really get much done. LRMs in general feel bad until you start shooting 30+ of them at once, two mechs doing that can generally score a knockdown.
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Mazreal posted:Spoilers for later in the story most people here are talking about : That Star League base raid mission seemed impossible until I restarted and just sprinted up to the base with all my dudes and took out the turrets asap. It was still hard but managed to squeak by after ejecting Glitch out of an almost dead husk of a Centurion. The second part was good fun and the 90 ton Highlander you get after is so good and never overheats, completely upgraded what kind of missions I can handle. Can't wait to get more huge mechs. Let me show you what to do with that mech I'm spoiling it since it has some uh gear on it that may be a spoiler?  I call it the "Sit the gently caress down". It will load just about any mech up in the game with enough stability damage that they will promptly have a lie down, does enough damage that called shots to the center torso just blip out most bad guys, AND since everything is long range you can keep it WAY the hell away from things that might blow it up because some of the stuff on it is literally irreplaceable. EDIT: I probably put my ammo in dumb places, but it literally never gets touched. RabidWeasel posted:LRM5s are actually pretty great, it's just that because of hardpoints you can't stack enough of them to really get much done. LRMs in general feel bad until you start shooting 30+ of them at once, two mechs doing that can generally score a knockdown. See my highlander build in this post. It scores knockdowns all by itself. Rhymenoserous fucked around with this message at 08:24 on Apr 27, 2018 |
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Ciaphas posted:Based on a reddit post about what configuration values affect animation speeds and accels, I decided I didn't want to edit all those loving files to find a nice value. Even if it does burn down computers, you're doing the Lord's work in the attempt.
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Bruceski posted:Even if it does burn down computers, you're doing the Lord's work in the attempt. I actually don't mind all the slowness but i agree vis a vis the godliness of your efforts
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Magni posted:So, just did Weldry and uh... Sell them and just use centurions. Those two barely qualify as heavy mechs and a centurion with an AC20 and 2 SRM6's will tear the rear end off of either one. The first good heavy mech you are likely to get is a dragon, which loving owns it must be said. E: to put this in perspective, if I see a light mech with any evasion and a jaegermech on the field I'll kill the Jag first because it's the mech most likely to die in one or two salvos. Centurion should be your workhouse mech because you can fit it out to be anything from an AC-20/SRM6 brawler to a LRM boat. I have a whole lance of the things in storage. Rhymenoserous fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Apr 27, 2018 |
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Mo_Steel posted:I'm going to have to give this a try. My experience with LRMs has been pretty middling but it's probably because I'm using LRM5 typically. Rascyc fucked around with this message at 08:52 on Apr 27, 2018 |
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 Thanks folks, hope it helps a little. I've found 2 to be a good multiplier to start with.For what it's worth I agree that the ponderousness and deliberation of the whole thing is important, but different strokes for different folks and I'm impatient. 
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https://i.imgur.com/t8ttOe2.mp4 That feeling when I whiff melee
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So can someone tell me when this game is going to have Warhammers? I can't really work up any enthusiasm for what seems like a great game unless it has Warhammers. Also are PPC's still garbage? I'm really a one trick pony here. It's me, im the grog they warned you about. I'm that guy.
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Rhymenoserous posted:Sell them and just use centurions. Those two barely qualify as heavy mechs and a centurion with an AC20 and 2 SRM6's will tear the rear end off of either one. The first good heavy mech you are likely to get is a dragon, which loving owns it must be said. My Jag is currently a star as a ballistics platform. It's not the best heavy, sure, but it does have a whole lot of available tonnage to fill with guns.
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GoLambo posted:So can someone tell me when this game is going to have Warhammers? I can't really work up any enthusiasm for what seems like a great game unless it has Warhammers. Also are PPC's still garbage? I'm really a one trick pony here. It might have Warhammers and other macross unseen a month or two after the lawsuit between PGI and HarmonyGold ends. PPCs are pretty good IMO.
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PPCs are good even though LLs are better for general usage simply because they're PPCs and they also reduce enemy accuracy if you hit them with it.Rascyc posted:It's actually probably cause you weren't using a Centurion. Centurion trades mobility for like an extra 5 free tonage (sorta) so you can cram an LRM15+LRM5 combo. If you strip all the rear armor and are okay with minimal support equipment, you can even fit an LRM20 too. Nah you don't even need to strip anything if you want to do LRM20+5 on a Cent, you just have to go literally pure missiles.
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LRM40 (20/15/5) Centurion is pretty spectacular as a missile boat. Stacked with ++ weapons its keeping the enemy on their asses on top of doing incredible damage. Also Dragons make great front line mechs they are very durable with max armor and properly fitted make real nasty close in brawlers.
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I took my own chance at modifying the highlander based on the post above and some of the equipment I came across. Any feed back you guys have? 
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My game just froze in the cinematic screen of a close up on the enemy when you shoot him. The game music is still playing, the enemy is still looking to the left and right, but I can't control anything and it's not zooming back out. This is on the prison mission. Anyone else seen something like this? edit: escape works. Load game tells me my last save game is from 45 minutes ago  gently caress.
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I was looking at some other IS mech designs from MWO and I'm sad a few of them didn't make the cut becausd they seem really cool as extra visual variety. Wonder if we'll see them as dlc.
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Ciaphas posted:Based on a reddit post about what configuration values affect animation speeds and accels, I decided I didn't want to edit all those loving files to find a nice value. To be fair you would struggle to do a better job of setting fire to my PC than Battletech itself just now. GPU running at 100% constantly, yes that's cool and good. I got a Trap Sprung mission where the target in the powerful mech was a Locust and the trap that he sprung (before I ever saw him) was another Locust and 3 small tanks. That sounds like a 2 Skull mission to me, sadly I had traded for Salvage and the 135k I got for scrapping the Locust didn't quite cover the gap.
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Jimbot posted: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. This is exactly how I have been using my Centurion, with a high piloting+guts Behemoth to bring the pain. Just salvaged a second one and I’m thinking of kitting it out as an LRM boat like a poor man’s catapult, just as someone earlier was suggesting. What’s the received wisdom on the best way to use a dedicated LRM boat - soften up heavies? Snipe installations?
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Azran posted:I was looking at some other IS mech designs from MWO and I'm sad a few of them didn't make the cut becausd they seem really cool as extra visual variety. Wonder if we'll see them as dlc. The majority of them are either hung up in the lawsuit or out of the time frame. Off the top off my head the ones that those two statements don't apply to are the Flea(20t), Javelin(30t), Assassin(40t), Crab(50t), Cyclops(90t), and maaaaybe Annihilator(100t).
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Beefeater1980 posted:This is exactly how I have been using my Centurion, with a high piloting+guts Behemoth to bring the pain. LRM boats are your primary way of killing and salvaging heavies. You'll often want to reserve your LRM boat to fire last after you've cleared out your desired target's evasion pips. This let's you maximize your damage since you can miss per salvo, evasion just consistently cuts into your damage instead of like a laser which either does all of it or none of it. Also if you're trying to knock down a heavy then you want to usually hang on to your fire until after they activate in the turn so you can push cut the maximum stability bar. Remember that you can't knock someone down unless they're already unsteady so your can't just knockdown in one go. Once a heavy is down you can either kill it with focus fire or l let it hop up so you can down it again and again...
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