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jng2058 posted:CQC Suite and a COIL-S on a machine as fast as the Vulcan is a nice way to use a COIL-S until you can find a COIL-M or -L. Do COIL-Ms exist? I haven't seen them.
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Taear posted:The house Kurita final (probably) flashpoint level is absolutely bananas. Have you tried ECM and faster 'mechs? RBA Starblade posted:Do COIL-Ms exist? I haven't seen them. I started my most recent campaign with one. Got a COIL-M, COIL-S, and a Vulcan out of the loot box. Put the -M on a Jenner and the -S on the Vulcan and went to town.
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jng2058 posted:Have you tried ECM and faster 'mechs? I've genuinely not seen any ECM, no ravens. And faster mechs would get rolled really quickly. The enemy has 8 mechs, mixture of assault and heavy and i have to walk through them to get to where I need to be.
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Dec 6, 2019 19:19
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Taear posted:The house Kurita final (probably) flashpoint level is absolutely bananas. Don't send the big boys and don't try to fight. Send your faster, shittier jump-capable heavies and assaults (or a plucky medium) and pilots with sure footing, max your evasion pips, brace in the point, then run. Shoot nothing unless they can't get to another point then use them to distract. If needed eject all but one pilot to get to the evac point after. Try not to send your best pilots either  Alternately bring three of the above and the most heavily armored headcapper you've got and have it delay them.
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RBA Starblade posted:Don't send the big boys and don't try to fight. Send your faster, shittier jump-capable heavies and assaults (or a plucky medium) and pilots with sure footing, max your evasion pips, brace in the point, then run. Shoot nothing unless they can't get to another point then use them to distract. If needed eject all but one pilot to get to the evac point after. They just get blown up. Like honestly - there's no space to kinda move around so I can sneak to the spots or anything like that. The central bit is where the bull shark is stood, even. If the baddies were running to me that'd be fine but they're not, they're stood in the centre on the point and on the left and right on the mountains near the other points.
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Dec 6, 2019 19:23
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Note that failing the evac time limit doesn’t fail those missions any more.
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Dec 6, 2019 19:23
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Cyrano4747 posted:Note that failing the evac time limit doesn’t fail those missions any more. Whoa now really? What happens instead? Do I just lose some money?
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Taear posted:Whoa now really? What happens instead? Do I just lose some money? A reinforcement lance drops
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RBA Starblade posted:A reinforcement lance drops Then that's going to have to be the way I do it. I can easily blow up the enemies if I have time to lounge around but getting to the points in 8 turns is impossible. It takes 2 turns just to get there! It's not like the one in the Heavy Metal flashpoint. Then again every step of this particular flashpoint has been insane. Loads of enemy reinforcements spawning ON me with two assault lances and stuff, it's horrible.
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I just turned over one of my Mechwarriors to a likely gruesome and bloody death. In my defense, A) It wasn't on the battlefield, and B) He very much deserved it. He was my seventh best mechwarrior (out of seven), and had been in trouble several times (including one time he was caught selling small arms out of the Argo's stash (not that we were going to USE it, mind it, more like he didn't cut us in for a share until we caught him at it, and then got all rebellious and mopey). But this is a whole new level of stupidity. He apparently racked up a 2 million CBill debt at one of Mechdur's seedier gambling establishments. (something like $20,000,000). The gambling syndicate wanted either their 2 million Cbills or the Mechwarrior. The mechwarrior obviously wanted us to pay or take off from the planet. I wished him well on his future endeavors. He told me as the engines lit up that we were making a horrible mistake. No pal, you did, and hopefully you'll learn from your mistake. If you live through it.
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Dec 6, 2019 19:33
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Taear posted:Then that's going to have to be the way I do it. I can easily blow up the enemies if I have time to lounge around but getting to the points in 8 turns is impossible. It takes 2 turns just to get there! No you still need to set the beacons on time. It just doesn’t auto fail if you miss the extract countdown. You fail the extract on time as a secondary objective, it spawns a kill lance, and you get killing that lance as a new secondary.
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I always thought it would be cool if there were other merc companies bumping around. Maybe they shanghai one of your pilots and you try to get them back, maybe they underbid you on a contract, some rival company shows up having been hired in the opposing force, they have their own reputations etc. Know it would be a big lift to put in the game, just something that occurred to me last time I played and saw all the unemployed pilots languishing on every planet etc.
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Dec 6, 2019 19:48
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RBA Starblade posted:Do COIL-Ms exist? I haven't seen them. I got a Coil-M and an Assassin. Shooting that thing with 5 evasion pips just straight deletes lights. Goes through the arm, side torso and center torso.
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Taear posted:I just can't do it, I don't know how it expects me to. At least not without taking absolutely insane amounts of damage. Like I've got a Bull Shark, a King Crab, an Atlas and a Highlander all with decent setups but if I stop to try and blow stuff up I run out of time and I've got to split my group too. I just don't get it :/ Orbital strike missions are one of the few I just go full cash on and break out the lights. Just take the money and run. If you have any, a sprinting or jumping Firestarter (or a sprinting Jenner) with a +3 hit defense gyro and a piloting 10 pilot has something like 22,000 effective HP, they'll effectively stay at the evasion cap until they drop down to like 1-2 pips.
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Dec 6, 2019 19:50
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Oh also the cap points only take 1 turn to snag now, not 2
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Dec 6, 2019 19:56
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The lovely fast Banshee variants are actually perfect for target acquisition missions. Max out their armor and just have them sprint to the location, they can sit there and soak damage and it doesn't mean poo poo because their max armor is ludicrous. Stick +++ resolve generation cockpit mods and just spam vigilance and they're functionally immortal.
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Dec 6, 2019 20:01
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They don’t need to sit there any more. You can pop a light in and it will complete next round. They changed from 2 rounds on the spot to 1. Just go with you dumbest high speed jumpers. 4 Phoenix hawks would be ideal but really any light or fast medium that can get five pips will do.
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Dec 6, 2019 20:07
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I like to use a max armor heavy or assault that can draw fire from multiple areas as bait while bracing. Fast mechs with disposable pilots for everything else. Eject down to one mech to win quickly after capturing all points.
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Dec 6, 2019 20:20
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Taear posted:The house Kurita final (probably) flashpoint level is absolutely bananas. If it's the same one I remember the best way to beat it is to field three mechs that are missiles boats, they can take care of things ranged very well, and have one mech that's a light to run run run once you get things taken care of pretty good. There should be a building or emplacement that needs to be destroyed for some friendlies to be sent down as well. They'll help keep poo poo off your runner.
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Keltar posted:If it's the same one I remember the best way to beat it is to field three mechs that are missiles boats, they can take care of things ranged very well, and have one mech that's a light to run run run once you get things taken care of pretty good. There isn't - that's the other one you're thinking of there unfortunately.
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Oh man. Clash of the titans went beautifully for me. I was all mediums so it was real sketch but I waited until one assault got crunched and when I showed up, the other assault was on a mountain with no weapons and no jumpjets so I just ignored it until I killed the few 3 mediums and 1 light remaining.
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I keep waffling back and forth between either continuing Heavy Metal career mode, or rolling back to 1.7.1 and trying out RT for the first time. I have to admit, I really like the big murderous family flavor from crew interactions and events - does RT add anything at all to that section of the game, or is it all beep boop only tactics/flavor text written with the proficiency and subtlety of a 12-year-old? I’d just go ahead and try it, but the setup is kind of intimidating.
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pangstrom posted:I always thought it would be cool if there were other merc companies bumping around. Maybe they shanghai one of your pilots and you try to get them back, maybe they underbid you on a contract, some rival company shows up having been hired in the opposing force, they have their own reputations etc. Know it would be a big lift to put in the game, just something that occurred to me last time I played and saw all the unemployed pilots languishing on every planet etc. It was not quite this but I did get an event where another mercenary company tried to pay me 100,000 c-bills for one of my mechwarriors? But was Dekker so that was never going to happen.
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I've restarted the House Kurita level using a Quickdraw as my fast mech. It does seem to be okay? But it helps that this time the assault isn't a Bull - it's a Banshee. I know it's on purpose that the game is a bit swingy but man the way it picks mechs is a bit annoying sometimes.
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Lol a fp reward gave me a rare mech part of a dragon, then three more of them I just want a DHS 
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RBA Starblade posted:Lol a fp reward gave me a rare mech part of a dragon, then three more of them
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CommunityEdition posted:I have to admit, I really like the big murderous family flavor from crew interactions and events - does RT add anything at all to that section of the game, or is it all beep boop only tactics/flavor text written with the proficiency and subtlety of a 12-year-old? It doesn't add a whole lot of events, and looking a selection they're all over the place between fine and embarrassingly bad. The flavor text descriptions of mechs and equipment are ok, and on that side I'd give them a pass because RT makes equipment a whole lot more complicated. Honestly I think the base game's flavor text on weapons and equipment is often pretty lackluster; descriptions for upgrades (gyros, arms, etc) are both useless and all the same. Basically if you like the flavor & lite RP parts of the game I don't think RT adds much.
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Klyith posted:It doesn't add a whole lot of events, and looking a selection they're all over the place between fine and embarrassingly bad. Thanks for that, looks like I can comfortably wait to see what eventually shows up in 1.8.
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This loving level is just the absolute worst. I am constantly reloading it because my quick mech is dying - I've done the artillery strike now but the vehicles that spawn every turn have gone after him and I just want to eject my other mechs and win because he's stood on the evac point but I don't think I can do it. God drat. I managed to do it that way - which is dumb. Three assault mechs ejected and my fast mech on the evac point. What a horrible flashpoint, my god. Taear fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Dec 7, 2019 |
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Are you Jumping + Guarding + Bulwark?
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Conspiratiorist posted:Are you Jumping + Guarding + Bulwark? I was yea. There's 8 enemy mechs and an infinite supply of vehicles. It's a rough level. It's also a consecutive deployment level after quite a hard other level. Taear fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Dec 7, 2019 |
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So I just found out that a narc++ and an lrm with +2 damage equals 10 damage per missile. I also have an LRM stalker.
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What are the rules for called shots with spread weapons? Because my tactics 9 mechwarrior is coring everything in sight with her snub ppc++.
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I can't help but feel the rules are different for missiles and shotguns.
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I think they might be, but a pilot with called shot mastery is never going to hit 90% of their shots to the target location with either of those weapons.
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I'm not complaining, I'm saying that my mechwarrior may as well be calling her shots from an Awesome. Called shots may do something to spread?
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I think they reduced spread more in the base game, but after the recent expansions/patches, Called shots for LRMs/other scatter weapons have been a little underwhelming.
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Ugh, had the last stage of the heavy metal mini-campaign disappear (and right when I almost felt ready). ... And I am pretty sure it didn't list expiration?
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Azran posted:Only mod I've added was Commander Portrait Loader, I never messed with mods before Heavy Metal. All other games work just fine and video drivers were the first thing I updated just in case. I took a look through the Paradox forums and I found the "how to cleanly uninstall BattleTech" video and I made sure to delete every folder including save games. For some reason I forgot I had steam cloud saves on I did the whole procedure, reinstalled once more and the only thing that changed is that the game doesn't register that I own all DLCs. No files fail to validate, doing everything again didn't change anything. Game is absolutely bricked.  The menu is also missing stuff in the dropdown menus, like the Language tab is completely missing... in a fresh reinstall and with apparently no missing files. Azran fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Dec 7, 2019 |
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. I had no idea about the registry thing either, reinstalling now. We'll see how it goes. Thanks!