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Triangle Shirt Factotum posted:I feel Iike this could be solved with planetary mini-campaigns that are 3-5 battles all in a row with no breaks allowed. I really like this idea too. Currently doing a playthrough with the restriction that if a priority mission comes up I must do it right away and I'm not allowed to let the clock run in between missions, and it's forced me to actually hire some extra pilots and go with weaker compositions. (Three mechs out of commission after Smithon and not enough bodies? Slot in the newly salvaged stock Griffin, hire two recruits, and go again right away.)
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That's an unfortunate typo for Zeon lmao
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May 4, 2018 22:23
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the clans have a place in the future of battletech but they occupy the unenviable position of being a flaming sack of garbage thematically, narratively, and mechanically adds up pretty quickly to being filed under Future Me's Problem
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May 4, 2018 22:24
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RBA Starblade posted:That's an unfortunate typo for Zeon lmao ahahahah jesus, no poo poo
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May 4, 2018 22:24
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May 4, 2018 22:26
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Do enemy pilots take damage if you overheat them into shutdown?
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May 4, 2018 22:27
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I really want to see an "operation map" system for bigger missions where you're given a number of possible objectives to hit and a limited amount of drop capacity to split between the objectives you decide to take. like you could be given the ability to hit your actual objective, an artillery park, an ammunition dump, and a communications tower, with 650 tons or whatever split between then. for bigger campaigns you could have this happen in multiple drops with objectives being added or unlocked based on what you did in the previous drop.
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May 4, 2018 22:27
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Night10194 posted:Do enemy pilots take damage if you overheat them into shutdown? no, which would annoy me more were an overheated robot not at least one free round of target practice
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May 4, 2018 22:28
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The clans are bad, but they aren't the Republic of the Sphere or Word of Blake bad.
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May 4, 2018 22:35
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Jack2142 posted:The clans are bad, but they aren't the Republic of the Sphere or Word of Blake bad. What's their deal?
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May 4, 2018 22:41
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from osmosis from MWO goons, i think they're from way, way further on in the timeline than this game is set in?
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May 4, 2018 22:43
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Trip report: https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/927056706499324183/205E836D76617CB7127B32415DCF0FCB7B86454E/ TOTALLY WORKS. Only downside is that you get Stability damage with each DFA. Otherwise, you can just Chain Stomp enemies nonstop.
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May 4, 2018 22:46
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Trip report: Use the morale ability that gives you defense + removes stability. You should probably be gaining enough morale from killing mechs to keep it up.
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May 4, 2018 22:48
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My dude, that's what vigilance is for.
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May 4, 2018 22:49
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Reiterpallasch posted:from osmosis from MWO goons, i think they're from way, way further on in the timeline than this game is set in? you know how the Star Wars EU had Our Heroes running into a new threat... even worse than the empire??? every other goddamned week you are best off thinking along those lines
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May 4, 2018 22:50
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Trip report: huh, finally a good use for the Dragon
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May 4, 2018 22:50
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Glenn Quebec posted:What's their deal? The Word of Blake is if Comcast ran the world, and was also ALL ABOUT the Pope. But hey, not everyone in Comcast is religious right? So they eventually say money matters more then the Pope, we can make more if we stop the Pope stuff. Then the people all about the Pope declare Jihad ( literally, they declare a Jihad in the games lore. It's called the Jihad ) and conquer a whole bunch of worlds and force people to care about the Pope. Needless to say all the Successor States are suddenly drawn into a war with this crazy religious army.
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The Saddest Robot posted:Use the morale ability that gives you defense + removes stability. You should probably be gaining enough morale from killing mechs to keep it up. It's cool. I got knocked over, and all the enemy lance gathered around my dude to try to kick his teeth in. Packing that much armor meant he shrugged all their attacks off as negligible, got back up, and restomplaunched. There's basically no downside here.
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Glenn Quebec posted:What's their deal? Word of Blake is space ISIS and the republic of the sphere is Star Leauge 3.0. They were a clumsy attempt at a setting reset that failed terribly.
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May 4, 2018 22:51
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Lmao what I gotta wiki this. That makes clan stuff seem cool.
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May 4, 2018 22:51
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poo poo, now I'm sad my dual -30 DFA grasshopper can't get down to 0 DFA damage.
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May 4, 2018 22:53
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Rookersh posted:The Word of Blake is if Comcast ran the world, and was also ALL ABOUT the Pope. The other stupid thing was that their pope was the "real" heir of one of the Successor States the FWL and that state once it finally stopped being the Waluigi of Battletech was run by a secret body double all along and then imploded. Also the Jihad included with lots of nukes, genocide etc. trying to turn back the clock to 3025... Then someone's Mechwarrior character Devlin Stone who was more a Mary sue than any that came before in the goofy lore saved the day and everyone decided to give up their Battlemechs and disarm. Then let him reform the Terran Hegemony and steal half their planets in Star League v3.0 Jack2142 fucked around with this message at 22:58 on May 4, 2018 |
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May 4, 2018 22:54
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Glenn Quebec posted:What's their deal? The clans society is ruled by loving idiots who are obsessed with honor and competition with the other clans, which made their invasion of the Inner Sphere end in a hugely embarrassing defeat that permanently crippled several clans and caused their already poorly structured society to implode from their obsessive rivalries. Imagine combining a neo-Nazi with a frat boy with a weeboo with a football player. That's everyone in the clans. Everyone. Except clan wolf who were actually good and smart people.
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May 4, 2018 22:58
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Trip report:
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May 4, 2018 22:59
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I heard they were making a mechwarrior 5, but the preview videos look pretty ugly. I hope they improve it before it releases. I miss mechwarrior offline.
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May 4, 2018 23:01
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I sure did end up with a lot of bulwark/multi-target/breaching shot mechwarriors. One sensor lock ace pilot and one meleeman too. Turns out ignoring cover and shooting everyone over and over is good. 
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Wizard Styles posted:So, just in case: I assume the second Piloting ability does not allow you to punch and jump/DFA in the same turn?
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RabidWeasel posted:Rewriting lore to make it better is almost always a good thing, yes. This isn't some epic masterpiece, it's 30-year-old schlocky backstory for a nerd strategy game. What benefit is there in retaining unaltered something which can be improved, other than some fans' rediculously unhealthy irrational attachment to the original? I don't particularly disagree with you, but modern day rewrites are mostly being done by fans. You know, the same types that produce some of the utter poo poo people are mentioning for Kickstarter self-insert pilot backgrounds? Or, to give a more specific example... Eej posted:Clan Widowmaker planted a nuke in Clan Wolverine's capital city and got Wolverine blamed for it. Heck, Clan Widowmaker basically got Wolverine deleted from the history books because they didn't like their nascent Marxism. This "Wolverine did nothing wrong" garbage was a rewrite within the last few years, because someone apparently has a hard-on for their special snowflake Clan and thus they can't have been morally ambiguous at all. As per original lore, the Wolverines detonated two nukes on their way out - one in their capital to deny it to their enemies, and one in the capital of another Clan they had currently been in conflict with. Now the Widowmakers being behind the one nuke could almost be believable (if you ignore that previously the Watch was said to have been directly created in response to IS intelligence organizations), but the explanation behind the other not really being them is so utterly goddamn stupid that one should just ignore the whole thing. Let's not forget that the idiotic novel this crap is from (Betrayal of Ideals) is also the one that ends with it turning out some sibko of Ghost Bear is actually tainted with Wolverine DNA, so it has to be purged, and said sibko - to a child - willingly shoots themselves rather than take any other option. Because apparently Wolverines are just that honorable or something. I'm also not remotely remembering anything particularly Marxist about them at all, so no clue where the hell Eej is getting that from. And yes, the caveat to this is that you do also get incredibly well-written additions/rewrites by fans as well - PTN's AU being a good example of this. But let's not pretend that just because it's a rewrite of a 30-year old schlocky game innately makes it good.
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Is there like a single person actually attached to the Jihad or the Dark Age? It feels like they could more or less follow the timeline up to the Great Refusal and then go off into their own timeline cause, you know, Weisman is there.The Skeleton King posted:The clans society is ruled by loving idiots who are obsessed with honor and competition with the other clans, which made their invasion of the Inner Sphere end in a hugely embarrassing defeat that permanently crippled several clans and caused their already poorly structured society to implode from their obsessive rivalries. Don't forget Clan Ghost Bear who just wanna envelope everyone in a big bear hug, with the grip tightening if they misbehave
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Lord Koth posted:I'm also not remotely remembering anything particularly Marxist about them at all, so no clue where the hell Eej is getting that from. It's a joke because their transgression was to increase the size of their Labourer class
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So, can anyone tell me what getting critted does to a weapon? I don't think it destroys it, so is it just less accurate?
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Wizard Styles posted:So, just in case: I assume the second Piloting ability does not allow you to punch and jump/DFA in the same turn? I'll try it and let you know I've been using junky pilots to test edit: nevermind apparently it doesnt, sad
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Eej posted:Is there like a single person actually attached to the Jihad or the Dark Age? It feels like they could more or less follow the timeline up to the Great Refusal and then go off into their own timeline cause, you know, Weisman is there. I think the Jihad has some fans, and Catalyst has made the Dark Ages a bit less stupid than when Wiz Kids was pushing their clip stuff. I kinda agree, maybe push it up to the start of the Fedcom civil war.
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School Nickname posted:So, can anyone tell me what getting critted does to a weapon? I don't think it destroys it, so is it just less accurate? Yep, if it gets crit it becomes less accurate and if it gets crit again it gets destroyed. Of course, if you lose the entire section it skips straight to destroyed.
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How do you all go about deciding how to fit new-to-you 'Mechs? I kind of had a discussion last night in the Discord about this, about comparing armor and speed and available tonnage, but it's still not sitting very well in my head. Makes me feel like I'm doing it consistently wrong, even if I'm not.
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Lord Koth posted:I don't particularly disagree with you, but modern day rewrites are mostly being done by fans. You know, the same types that produce some of the utter poo poo people are mentioning for Kickstarter self-insert pilot backgrounds? Since we're talking about the HBS game I'm assuming any rewriting will be done by them and not by dumb fans but point taken.
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Think my game might be a bit broken ish, applied the milestone change, did the second Smithson mission, now every planet is one or less skulls? Is this by design, or have I turbo hosed my game?
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May 4, 2018 23:12
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I like that General Motors is still around in the 32nd century.
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Ciaphas posted:How do you all go about deciding how to fit new-to-you 'Mechs? Stop worrying about efficiency and just use what you got.
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Eej posted:Is there like a single person actually attached to the Jihad or the Dark Age? It feels like they could more or less follow the timeline up to the Great Refusal and then go off into their own timeline cause, you know, Weisman is there. Everything past 3048 is a mistake.
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