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Hieronymous Alloy posted:well, I figured out why I was having a hard time: I wasn't using Morale like it was candy Yeah, it comes in quick. Great for high-level tactician, who gets a bonus to targeted strikes.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Is there no way to speed the game up? Having to watch every ponderous animation and wait for every attack to resolved is a huge amount of time. I already turned everything I could in settings down or off. Turn on Debug Mode. There's a 'speed up animations' button that doesn't have any gameplay effects, so you get all the challenge without waiting five minutes for enemy attacks to finish. Edit: It may turn off steam Achievements, though. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Apr 28, 2018 |
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Apr 28, 2018 15:00
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geonetix posted:So I’m tempted to try it on my MacBook as well, but that nearly burns itself when playing shadowrun already, but then again I need to do something in meetings at work. yeah, it works pretty well (at 1680x1000 resolution and lowered graphical settings). i had severe framerate stutter on the second tutorial mission, but only on that misson and no crashes.
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Just finished a mission where the first heavy I've ever seen, a Grasshopper, spawned on top of a building and couldn't move. my lights outranged almost everything it had and I plinked it for about 25 turns till I managed by pure luck to take the head off. No arms, no sides, everything else in the red. I could only choose 2 salvage.
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DrManiac posted:So is there a list of good stock mechs I should be keeping my eye out for? Best mediums appear to be the Centurion CN9-A (great LRM boat, equal-highest max tonnage medium), either model of Hunchback (silly damage potential, equal-highest max tonnage medium), and either model of Shadow Hawk (fast, great melee, good overall performance). Best heavies are the Grasshopper (bonkers in melee), Black Knight (loads of energy hardpoints, good in melee, equal-highest max tonnage heavy) and either model of Orion (good hardpoints, equal-highest max tonnage heavy). The Cata, Jager, and Thunderbolt are more common and are competent. I dunno about assaults yet, but stats suggest the Awesome, Stalker, Highlander, Atlas, and King Crab are all good. The initiative system generally biases towards mechs at the top of their weigh class; there's not much separating, say, an Orion and Victor, but the Orion will get to move earlier. Straight max tonnage is good for sniper or LRM boat builds since you generally won't care about speed or melee as much as the sheer amount of hardware you can fit in. Coucho Marx fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Apr 28, 2018 |
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Apr 28, 2018 15:22
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Woof. Just lost my first pilot, took two PPC hits to the head in one round. RIP Medusa. Got the 'mech back though. 
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Apr 28, 2018 15:26
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Apparently if you press F6 while you have the barracks open all of your warriors will receive a wound. 
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Seriously glitch is the only one I savescum for. I will say this, Glitch was the pilot I lost in the jabroni savescum I mentioned earlier. I can't lose Glitch. And watching The Expanse has given me a whole new appreciation for artifical gravity in sci-fi.
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Had a destroy convoy mission that spawned me in a chokepoint forest, I couldn't even catch up to the APCs. What rear end
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So is there any reason to ever mount a PPC if your mech can mount an AC5 instead? Is the PPC debuff really worth it? I don't really notice it when I get hit by one.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Is that some kind of Easter Egg? Developer testing feature accidentally left in most likely.
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How 2 get good mech? But seriously should I try harder missions to get heavier mechs instead of grinding low level ones?
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Anyone figured out how to skip the splash screens at launch and skipping the opening movie automatically? Bad enough that the gameplay is roughly 18% wasted time waiting for things to move/blowup/interpolate, but I have to wait a good 25 seconds just to get to the front end. Give me my seconds/minutes/hours back!Eraflure posted:So is there any reason to ever mount a PPC if your mech can mount an AC5 instead? Is the PPC debuff really worth it? I don't really notice it when I get hit by one. ACs get a penalty to hit if you fired them the previous round, I believe.
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Bruceski posted:Yeah, it comes in quick. Great for high-level tactician, who gets a bonus to targeted strikes. If you take something like Gunnery 2 / Guts 1 you can still dump a bunch of points into Tactician and get the called shot and indirect fire bonuses, right? It's only the skills you miss out on?
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:If you take something like Gunnery 2 / Guts 1 you can still dump a bunch of points into Tactician and get the called shot and indirect fire bonuses, right? It's only the skills you miss out on? Correct, and it's the best way to build your dedicated shooters anyhow
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:Apparently if you press F6 while you have the barracks open all of your warriors will receive a wound. Confirmed it's not some debug-only thing. Commander stays unhurt, everyone else goes to 15 days though their "healthy" graphic stays the same.
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Eraflure posted:So is there any reason to ever mount a PPC if your mech can mount an AC5 instead? Is the PPC debuff really worth it? I don't really notice it when I get hit by one. AC's have tonnage issues, PPCs have heat issues.
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Very next mission, an escort defense this time. A centurion spawns right next to the evac point, and before I even get a turn, it runs in and kills an APC. Everything got punched to death after that.
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Well, Glitch just got smoked in one salvo by the Schrek(?) tanks. Just crit the poor lass and blew her mechs head off.
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Coucho Marx posted:Best mediums appear to be the Centurion CN9-A (great LRM boat, equal-highest max tonnage medium), either model of Hunchback (silly damage potential, equal-highest max tonnage medium), and either model of Shadow Hawk (fast, great melee, good overall performance). Best heavies are the Grasshopper (bonkers in melee), Black Knight (loads of energy hardpoints, good in melee, equal-highest max tonnage heavy) and either model of Orion (good hardpoints, equal-highest max tonnage heavy). The Cata, Jager, and Thunderbolt are more common and are competent. I dunno about assaults yet, but stats suggest the Awesome, Stalker, Highlander, Atlas, and King Crab are all good. The initiative system generally biases towards mechs at the top of their weigh class; there's not much separating, say, an Orion and Victor, but the Orion will get to move earlier. Straight max tonnage is good for sniper or LRM boat builds since you generally won't care about speed or melee as much as the sheer amount of hardware you can fit in. The "only fits energy weapons" Awesome variant isn't so great, either you run with longer ranged energy weapons and have to dedicate an absurd amount of weight to heatsinks or you go full medium laser boat and have to slowly crawl into range to actually do a decent amount of damage.
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Flipswitch posted:Well, Glitch just got smoked in one salvo by the Schrek(?) tanks. Just crit the poor lass and blew her mechs head off. Tbh, treat Glitch as Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow. Tbh.
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Eej posted:https://www.pcgamer.com/battletech-lore/ MY HOME PLANET
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Black Griffon posted:Tbh, treat Glitch as Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow. Tbh. Maggot
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This game's progression is kinda weird. As you get farther along, you start fielding heavier mechs with more weapons. Your enemies also field heavier mechs, so the extra damage is kinda balanced out by the higher durability all around. The main difference is that now everything moves agonizingly slowly. I miss the days when even my front-line tank mechs could zip around reasonably well.
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Vargs posted:This game's progression is kinda weird. As you get farther along, you start fielding heavier mechs with more weapons. Your enemies also field heavier mechs, so the extra damage is kinda balanced out by the higher durability all around. The main difference is that now everything moves agonizingly slowly. I miss the days when even my front-line tank mechs could zip around reasonably well. Yeah this is why I wish we had multiple lances
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Bubbacub posted:MY HOME PLANET "Pay us to make a sequel and you'll get the Clans." Sold. Take my money and gimme dat Mad Cat. Maybe take time to crank out another SR:Returns game in between because I need both flavors of FASA crack to fulfill my addictions.
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Clantech is insanely boring, though. It's just exactly what you already have, but at less weight and more range.
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Night10194 posted:Clantech is insanely boring, though. It's just exactly what you already have, but at less weight and more range. It's cool looking, though, and the storylines are neat.
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Liquid Communism posted:"Pay us to make a sequel and you'll get the Clans." The opportunity to chump on stupid Clanners by leading them into melee ambushes? Sign me up. Though no rush, it's still amusing to see the hardcore BT players whine about not having their EZ win Clan tech while still squawking about how much better players they are.
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https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/eck-vs-amechwarrior-pvp-skirmish-at-3pm-pdt-today-saturday.1093187/ Come watch me get wrECKed at 3pm PDT. I haven't been able to pull away from the SP, so this will be my first PvP match. I'm off to a great start, this should end well.
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Liquid Communism posted:It's cool looking, though, and the storylines are neat. Yeah, I came around a lot on the Clanners as an enemy, I just wish their gear wasn't so dull.
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Black Griffon posted:Tbh, treat Glitch as Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow. Tbh.
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So I managed to pull off my first headshot and was rewarded with a minty fresh wolverine. I figure I should reward the pilot and finally get rid of the Blackjack he's been driving but no idea how to build it. Any suggestions?
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Flipswitch posted:What does this mean? She a gonner cap'n? Save-scum.
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I gave glitch a armored cockpit and the next fight she took six injuries and got knocked out of action for over ninety days
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Night10194 posted:Clantech is insanely boring, though. It's just exactly what you already have, but at less weight and more range. You forgot the worst part - no heat mechanics. Double heatsinks utterly ruined BT making a sharp divide between 'must pay attention to heat' and 'lol, heat?'. See the rotting abortion that MWO has become. They went straight to DHS mechs and then clan shite, rapidly realised it was all broken to hell and back so they invented new terrible mechanics to try and paper the cracks. If people want BT-lite (clan tech) I'm sure there'll be mods for than soon enough. Some people do love the easy mode life. I remember watching clan vs IS at a TT Con a few times in the 90s before people stopped accepting fight invites. They brought less mechs sure but it's so one sided even an excited teen would be embarressed to play it. The pilots are better, the weapon rolls lower, no heat concerns, more armour, faster and so on ad nauseam. The awful books might let the IS underdogs win now and again but given roughly equivalent players in the Cons (and by extension in computer games pvp) that just ain't happening.
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Coucho Marx posted:Best mediums appear to be the Centurion CN9-A (great LRM boat, equal-highest max tonnage medium), either model of Hunchback (silly damage potential, equal-highest max tonnage medium), and either model of Shadow Hawk (fast, great melee, good overall performance). Best heavies are the Grasshopper (bonkers in melee), Black Knight (loads of energy hardpoints, good in melee, equal-highest max tonnage heavy) and either model of Orion (good hardpoints, equal-highest max tonnage heavy). The Cata, Jager, and Thunderbolt are more common and are competent. I dunno about assaults yet, but stats suggest the Awesome, Stalker, Highlander, Atlas, and King Crab are all good. The initiative system generally biases towards mechs at the top of their weigh class; there's not much separating, say, an Orion and Victor, but the Orion will get to move earlier. Straight max tonnage is good for sniper or LRM boat builds since you generally won't care about speed or melee as much as the sheer amount of hardware you can fit in. The Jager that can mount missiles is an A++ LRM boat and easily the star of my Heavy lance.
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