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DrPop posted:Would any of you be interested in playing some one-off MegaMek games here and there? I'm gonna pick up HBS' game again when the expansion comes out, but I'm pretty much always down for some classic games. I'm always down to play random Megamek games, I love a good TT bout. If you're on the SA battletech discord just @ me there and I'll get a ping. When I've played goon quick matches it's usually just been pick a BV and random roll a Lance unless both people have specific things they want to try. Helps avoid terminal munchkin custom force syndrome.
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Every thing I read about clans is somehow dumber than the last.
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Nov 14, 2018 19:41
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While the scientists had developed a virus that targeted trueborns, a good number of trueborns who fail out of warrior training get shunted to the scientists, so kill_all_trueborns.exe.iic would've hosed themselves as well as everyone else over. Their long term/pie-in-the-sky aim was to replace the warriors as top caste, not wipe them out, but they had their hand forced and thought they could win by rolling out their secret weapons and subverting the Coyotes. As things stood, the handful of viruses they used to target specific bloodlines killed far more civilian descendants of washouts than active warriors and played a big role in depopulating the Clan homeworlds.
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Nov 14, 2018 20:01
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RBA Starblade posted:Every thing I read about clans is somehow dumber than the last. The only good thing about them is that the invasion period makes for some good computer game and general story fodder. Having a technologically superior foe invade and just start tooling on the PC's side makes for a decent gameplay arc where you have to stop the seemingly invincible enemy, develop counters (steal their guns and put them on your rides), and then force them back or at least stalemate them. There have been a lot of good games that skillfully used them as antagonists. It's after that point that things just go full stupid. Doubly so if you are coming from a TT background and knew that one guy who just loving insisted on playing a clan character but somehow never in the framework of a clans-only game where he would fight other clan mechs.
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Nov 14, 2018 20:11
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RBA Starblade posted:Every thing I read about clans is somehow dumber than the last. Cyrano4747 posted:It's after that point that things just go full stupid. Hard disagree, the Clan story arc is very well handled. They're at their dumbest when they're all mysterious fanatic elite warriors with animal totems and a hard-on for limited warfare. Watching that ritualized microsociety collapse and acculturate as they confront the impossibility of their Grand Purpose is the interesting part. The more the Clans become an interesting and lively part of the political landscape (rather than truce line boogeymen who must be defeated by Our Heroes every couple books, supporting a status quo of good-guy faction teamups overcoming evil politicians) the better they are. The Wars of Reaving are well written and good because they explore the catastrophic effect of social change on a conquering society. The real-world equivalent of the Clans (the Mongols) went through apocalyptically self-destructive periods of civil war, genocide, and convulsive change as a result of their contact with societies they invaded too. They didn't stay a bunch of horseback nomads living on mare's blood. General Battuta fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Nov 14, 2018 |
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Nov 14, 2018 21:06
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Does anyone know where this is from? https://twitter.com/mitchgit/status/1062827298083155968
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I am seconding every single thing Battuta has said about the Clans and why the Wars of Reaving book is good. Also despite being in-theory a dry historical/intelligence document, it has some pretty entertaining plot twists as some Clans manage to pull off incredible coups while others get hoisted by their own petards. All of the hypocrisy and tension in their society bubbles over and everything goes to hell in a nuclear handbasket. It's grand.
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Nov 15, 2018 00:13
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So the best clans story is the one where the get poo poo on by themselves?
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Xarbala posted:I am seconding every single thing Battuta has said about the Clans and why the Wars of Reaving book is good. Also despite being in-theory a dry historical/intelligence document, it has some pretty entertaining plot twists as some Clans manage to pull off incredible coups while others get hoisted by their own petards. And here we have, summarised, every single reason why I wanted them to "win" in the alternate universe LP. Seeing them collapse in on themselves as they neared total victory wouldn't just be interesting, but hilarious.
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Phrosphor posted:Does anyone know where this is from? Mechwarrior Online. It’s not as cool as it looks.
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Nasgate posted:So the best clans story is the one where the get poo poo on by themselves? Yeah pretty much. But the book and story are very, very well done. Also the tech is very neat.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Mechwarrior Online. It’s not as cool as it looks. The animation is from  ? That is so disappointing.
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The Clans are good at one thing, building Battle/Omnimechs. They are outrageously incompetent at everything else. They can build/improve Lostech and they won't hesitate to use it to shoot themselves in the foot at every opportunity. If they had done the smart thing and thrown everything they had at Tukayyid instead of underbidding their forces FOR HONOR AND GLORY they wouldn't have had their poo poo pushed in by Comstar and they'd own the galaxy. Also MWO isn't *that* bad as long as you remember to turn your brain off when you play. Horace Kinch fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Nov 15, 2018 |
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Nov 15, 2018 01:35
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Wait what? I thought that was a cartoon, I've seen it lots of times before. Is that pgi? E: mwo is in a p good place at the moment, for what it is (arena robot coop deathmatch)
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Nov 15, 2018 01:37
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is pgi, as the emote name implies. they make Mechwarrior Online. Mechwarrior Online is bad. if you want to pilot mechs you're better off finding a copy of MW4:Mercs (ideally with the mektek stuff) or maybe that one crysis mod is still around 
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Phrosphor posted:The animation is from It's actually from this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56yGc-zVH_E
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Radio Free Kobold posted:
Living legends is still around, is back under active development (last I heard) and has an all-in-one installer that uses a demo version of crysis so you don't actually need to buy anything to play it. https://mechlivinglegends.net/ EDIT: Looking at their forum a new version was released last month, ver 0.10.1. https://wiki.mechlivinglegends.net/index.php?title=Mechwarrior:_Living_Legends/Versions#0.10.1
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HBS will probably have a modest panel/presence there like in the past, but MechCon's mainly a MWO joint. If anything big's revealed, word or footage will percolate around.Cyrano4747 posted:Doubly so if you are coming from a TT background and knew that one guy who just loving insisted on playing a clan character but somehow never in the framework of a clans-only game where he would fight other clan mechs. Battuta's got the right of it, though. If you like the Clans, then the book's all about them; if you hate the Clans, then it's all about them dying. It's a rare sea change in the universe and payoff on a bunch of threads from earlier Clan books, which is something that the main plot struggles with.
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spacetoaster posted:It's actually from this: No Guts No Galaxy has been owned by PGI almost entirely from the start.
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Let's all just play Alpha Strike and ignore the rest. Stalkers doing 6+ damage when a light has 5 HP pips is good and I refuse to read any books.
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PoptartsNinja posted:You are misremembering. There was a big stink on the official forums because DropShips having docking collars is a big "no-no" in tabletop to prevent That Guy (You Know The One (The Munchkin)) from building fractal DropShip lattices in the tabletop game. The Argo was always intended to be a super-special DropShip that was too expensive to mass produce but neither armored nor armed well enough for anyone to give a poo poo about. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it already (i.e. well before this game) stated that jumpship collars have a mass limit per collar and pre-existing big dropships required two collars making them expensive as heck to run
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PoptartsNinja posted:No Guts No Galaxy has been owned by PGI almost entirely from the start. I remember when the community at large called us conspiracy nuts, because how dare we accuse their special snowflake of underhandedness and dishonesty! would never do something so deceiving.  E: A handful months later, they kickstarted Tranverse.
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Nov 15, 2018 05:53
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luIKMpl1lfk Found this one from the same animator. https://dcbruins.weebly.com/animation.html
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Back Hack posted:I remember when the community at large called us conspiracy nuts, because how dare we accuse their special snowflake of underhandedness and dishonesty! It was so obvious that the bare, cut to the bone minimum of revenue was going to mwo and oh look here's a stupid eve knockoff.
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Amechwarrior posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luIKMpl1lfk That has a criminally low number of views. It's pretty good. It opens in stills but transitions to some good action. Clearly an abandonded work in progress. Worth a watch.
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Psion posted:Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it already (i.e. well before this game) stated that jumpship collars have a mass limit per collar and pre-existing big dropships required two collars making them expensive as heck to run wiegieman posted:It was so obvious that the bare, cut to the bone minimum of revenue was going to mwo and oh look here's a stupid Star Citizen knockoff.
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Nov 15, 2018 06:55
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Up to 215 million Cbills, so hoping to see what new fancy toys I can buy in 12 days or so. I mean, a few Hatchetmen are a given, but I haven't seen much of the other stuff yet.
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I really appreciate the story missions because man I overvalue getting scrap even when I know it's just gonna be lights and maybe a hunchback. Edit: thanks for that cicada piece and a bunch of m lasers game. I totally expected to get some Jagermech pieces since the made up literally half of the scrap, but those are much better choices 
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Nov 15, 2018 17:13
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Back Hack posted:I remember when the community at large called us conspiracy nuts, because how dare we accuse their special snowflake of underhandedness and dishonesty! Where PGI actually claimed they owned the license to Wing Commander. lol
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I'm going against the flow with my new GHR. It's the heaviest thing I got and it really should be put to use on the front, but I've been loving my dual LL HBK and made a bigger one with the GHR. This thing can cool down in the desert with just the LL and still had the armor to push forward when needed, it also adds in 3 ML when it's time to get in range. I picked up Arclight with Master Tac. about the time I got that HBK and I've been using her to cut the legs and heads off of everything. I want to do this with the dual 30+ STB PPCs I got, but the tonnage just isn't there yet.
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Is there a regional distribution to the different mech types? I've salvaged 7 King Crabs, but zero Black Knights.
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No.
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Bubbacub posted:Is there a regional distribution to the different mech types? I've salvaged 7 King Crabs, but zero Black Knights. Were are you at? You must have stumbled upon the legendary spawning grounds for King Crabs. But seriously, I think only the rarity rating matters and region or factions don't tilt the odds. I think both are rarity 5. Someone on the PDX forum suggested they try and adapt that new shop weights system to Lance generation, that could allow easy and tweak-able faction based Lances in the future.
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spacetoaster posted:Where PGI actually claimed they owned the license to Wing Commander. lol This was great just for the guy from EA going, "Uh, I don't know what the gently caress they're talking about..." I like to think PGI "bought" the WC license from some random con artist.
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Q_res posted:I like to think PGI "bought" the WC license from some random con artist. But enough about Sandi Roberts. 
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I don't think the Argo will wind up a secret Jumpship. Cause it's gonna turn out to be a secret WarShip instead 
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Hey did Stackpole ever finish that novella he was writing for the kickstarters or is that not happening? I keep remembering to check for the last bit every few months but jesus its' been a year now and I'm too lazy to dig up that backer kit login right now
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Back Hack posted:E: A handful months later, they kickstarted Tranverse. My biggest regret with Transverse is that it was such a dead-on-arrival failure that we never got to see the true heights of failure that it was capable of reaching.
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Novella Part 4 has not come out yet, no. I wonder why.
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