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How does mission difficulty scale? Story completion, location, both, neither? Wondering when I should/could stop and smell the roses, having just finished Grave Robber.
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Major story milestones increase global difficulty; Grave Robber is one of them and is probably a good time to do some randoms if you feel like doing so. You'll begin encountering a lot of heavies and some assaults.
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May 5, 2018 14:48
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In the TT game there's a 100 ton 4 legged mech (or at least 80+) that isn't the king krab that I can't remember the name of, but it's IS tech and it basically has a 360d firing arc, gets all the pros of a 4 legger (can lose like two legs and keep limping) and basically just deals death. I think it has 2 guase rifles too. I know that's not in game, I just wanted to sperg a bit.. poo poo I cannot remember what it is called.... It's basically a Landwalker.
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May 5, 2018 14:50
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Ciaphas posted:How does mission difficulty scale? Story completion, location, both, neither? Wondering when I should/could stop and smell the roses, having just finished Grave Robber. it's both locations and story, but yeah, I just did GR and I'm noticing a big increase in the mechs I see out in the wild.
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May 5, 2018 14:53
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Ah, behold Sirocco SRC-3C
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May 5, 2018 14:56
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Big Beef City posted:*sets down Juicy Joose* Now this, this is good design:  Fully articulated shoulders and other than some issues with premature pilot ejection in CQC it is perfectly stable and can't be knocked down.
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May 5, 2018 14:57
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A campaign where you only stay in the Leopard, but repair times dramatically scale with mech weight would be interesting. Like if 50 tons was the baseline and then the number of tech points required to do something was scaled based on relative weight. 20 ton mechs would be done in 40% of the time, 100 ton mechs 200%.
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May 5, 2018 15:07
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TMMadman posted:I agree, jump jets for life. Mostly because they are the best way to reposition yourself, especially if you are trying to move backwards. I ended up doing pretty much the same tactic as the game went on. Really good for spreading the damage paper thin. It also meshes well with any ace pilot mechs.
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Big Beef City posted:In the TT game there's a 100 ton 4 legged mech (or at least 80+) that isn't the king krab that I can't remember the name of, but it's IS tech and it basically has a 360d firing arc, gets all the pros of a 4 legger (can lose like two legs and keep limping) and basically just deals death. I think it has 2 guase rifles too. You might be thinking of the 90 ton Lich, which is a Wobbie design. Two light Gauss rifles, a whole lot of armour, and some miscellaneous bits of equipment that make it even more resilient.  edit: Welp, nevermind 
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May 5, 2018 15:09
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In light of my next mission, is this crew quarters upgrade a bad investment?  I guess there's always re-runs. Killstick fucked around with this message at 15:12 on May 5, 2018 |
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May 5, 2018 15:10
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I really dig the idea of chromehounds style 4 legged walkers but if they do redo them please god hire a good designer This also goes for every other mech too
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May 5, 2018 15:15
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Perestroika posted:You might be thinking of the 90 ton Lich, which is a Wobbie design. Two light Gauss rifles, a whole lot of armour, and some miscellaneous bits of equipment that make it even more resilient. If they ever introduce quads I hope that they look like this and not like that abortion of an AT-AT ripoff up the page.
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May 5, 2018 15:28
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I ran into a impossible to 100% escort mission last night. When the APCs get to the LZ, the pirates spawn two commandos and a hunchback within range of the LZ. First action, one of the commandos slags an APC, completely ignoring Glitch in a centurion ready to back stab him. I guess they really wanted to stop those doctors. I had the hunchback on the ropes hoping to salvage him and after knocking him down, one of the surviving APCs called shots him to the CT and kerblooey. I would have stomped on him if the game would let you.
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May 5, 2018 15:29
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I feel like every aspect of battletech is cool but hamstrung by lovely 80s art/concepts/game design and could really unlock it's potential popularity if it gets remade with a modern coat of paint
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Perestroika posted:You might be thinking of the 90 ton Lich, which is a Wobbie design. Two light Gauss rifles, a whole lot of armour, and some miscellaneous bits of equipment that make it even more resilient. To be fair, whoever dreamed up the Sirocco, was playing on late game madness. "Is it as heavy as possibly allowed?" Yes. "Does it have ferro fiberous armor?" Yes. "Does it have whatever those fast-running fiber ligaments are installed that you should never use but always do?" Yes. "Can all of it's weapons rotate to fire in any arc?" Yes. "Can it go prone easily?" Yes. "Does it have x2 heat sinks?" What do you think? Basically I'm surprised the thing doesn't have goku pants and wasn't issued by default to all starting recruits. The thing is stupid retarded dumb. I found it playing MegaMek against some people a long, long time ago and took out an entire lance and they were like "ok, stop"
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May 5, 2018 15:32
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RabidWeasel posted:If they ever introduce quads I hope that they look like this and not like that abortion of an AT-AT ripoff up the page. The most bizarre thing about Battletech is that it's been as popular as it is while using designs that are barely any better than cool robot doodles in your high school notebook
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May 5, 2018 15:43
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I ran five missions last night and got at least one head injury in each of them. 
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May 5, 2018 15:48
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Improbable Lobster posted:The most bizarre thing about Battletech is that it's been as popular as it is while using designs that are barely any better than cool robot doodles in your high school notebook That's kind of the reason why it is popular. Because you're fighting with those super cool robot doodles. Mine were never that cool
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Lord Koth posted:The more amusing thing about the Thunderbolt is that the artists apparently can't decide which shoulder it mounts the missile pod on. Some of its art, including the original, has it on the left making the similarity to the Summoner even more blatant. IIRC the Steiner variant shifts the missile pod over to the other side.
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May 5, 2018 15:58
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Do people free roam using the star map or just follow the contract board around?
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May 5, 2018 16:06
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Anyone have a good Orion spec? I took off the medium lasers and switched the AC 10 for an AC 20, but it's not that great.Phi230 posted:I really dig the idea of chromehounds style 4 legged walkers but if they do redo them please god hire a good designer Why do the clan mechs look so good compared to all the others? Even the dumb , overbuilt ones look great.
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May 5, 2018 16:07
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terrorist ambulance posted:Do people free roam using the star map or just follow the contract board around? Used to stick to the contract board but now I free roam when I can afford to. Modding the max contracts per system helps with variety too.
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May 5, 2018 16:08
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 Nice moustache.  "I'm an even better tactician than all the others!" I like his callsign...
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May 5, 2018 16:10
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it took me way, way too long to notice the "Manage Tasks" button in the main interface
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Ghetto Prince posted:Anyone have a good Orion spec? I took off the medium lasers and switched the AC 10 for an AC 20, but it's not that great. Which Orion, the one with two missile hard points or three? Also RE: clan mechs meet the kraken 
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Ghetto Prince posted:Anyone have a good Orion spec? I took off the medium lasers and switched the AC 10 for an AC 20, but it's not that great Mine has an AC20, 4 ML, 2SRM4, all ++ versions as appropriate. 2 tons of AC20 ammo, 1 ton of SRM. Max armour and heat sinks as available. This thing carried me through most of the game after I got it, trading it out for a king crab only in the last mission. I had a jump jet variant as well, with 2 less ML and a bit worse on heat I believe. Breaching shot, and bulwark were my pilot skills, eventually with high tac for called shot mastery. Abuse that aimed shot with the ac20 to cut guarded enemies in half, or just alpha unprotected mechs. Orcs and Ostriches fucked around with this message at 16:28 on May 5, 2018 |
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RabidWeasel posted:If they ever introduce quads I hope that they look like this and not like that abortion of an AT-AT ripoff up the page. Anime was never cool bro
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Is Matt plog anime? Find out this week on Battletech
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May 5, 2018 16:21
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*flips through his 3055 technical readout*
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1 ballistic, 4 lasers, 2 missiles. Xarbala posted:
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*glances at tro3025*Ghetto Prince posted:1 ballistic, 4 lasers, 2 missiles. Yeah orcs and ostriches' AC20 build is a good brawler then. If it was the three missile I'd have gone lrm boating and pretended the ballistic slots weren't there. Runa fucked around with this message at 16:29 on May 5, 2018 |
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Ghetto Prince posted:Anyone have a good Orion spec? I took off the medium lasers and switched the AC 10 for an AC 20, but it's not that great. Get an expert pilot and put them in an orion-k with max armor (you have to sacrifice some rear armor but w/e), max jumpjets, AC20, two SRM6s. Jump and fire the AC20 until you're in their face. If you can't reach for a punch, unload the SRMs until you can. If you can get two of these? You'd have to make a big mistake to lose either.
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How many minimum jump jets would you recommend?
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Tae posted:How many minimum jump jets would you recommend? As many as you can fit
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Ghetto Prince posted:Why do the clan mechs look so good compared to all the others? Even the dumb , overbuilt ones look great. Battletech started in 1984 with designs licensed from multiple anime series and also some originals. The Clans were introduced in 1990, presumably after some financial success and they could hire an actual artist to produce 1) art that didn't look like hot garbage 2) thematically consistent mech designs
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Perestroika posted:You might be thinking of the 90 ton Lich, which is a Wobbie design. Two light Gauss rifles, a whole lot of armour, and some miscellaneous bits of equipment that make it even more resilient.  The saddest mech.
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Ghetto Prince posted:Why do the clan mechs look so good compared to all the others? Even the dumb , overbuilt ones look great. No offense to the artists but it still boggles my mind to look through the old TROs and behold the sheer lack of aesthetic sense of all lot of the designs some of which are so bad not even Alex Iglesias can convince me they're cool. Exhibit A) The ANH-1A Annihilator http://cfw.sarna.net/wiki/images/6/64/MWO_Annihilator.png?timestamp=20180121125416
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Eej posted:Battletech started in 1984 with designs licensed from multiple anime series and also some originals. The Clans were introduced in 1990, presumably after some financial success and they could hire an actual artist to produce 1) art that didn't look like hot garbage 2) thematically consistent mech designs Actually the art was still done by Duane Loose when the clans were released, the guy just had more practice since tro3025. the revised tros do use new art though
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OhGreatAGinger posted:No offense to the artists but it still boggles my mind to look through the old TROs and behold the sheer lack of aesthetic sense of all lot of the designs some of which are so bad not even Alex Iglesias can convince me they're cool. Oh my god, it looks like someone started drawing a geth and then remembered when they were mostly done that they were making battletech stuff instead.
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