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Wifi Toilet: Oct 1, 2004; Toilet Rascal

sean10mm posted:

You should always be able to take 0.5 skull pirate missions.

You can also tweak the values for rep vs. missions available easily enough: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/sick-of-being-locked-out-of-contracts-due-to-reputation.1143593/

e: more stuff here https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/suggestion-reputation-problem-1-low-reputation.1134610/

Thanks! Made the following changes in simgameconstant.json and can now take all missions from people that loathe me. Now to grind some rep so I can get a Gauss++ for less than $49 million!

code:

"LoathedMaxContractDifficulty" : 3,
"HatedMaxContractDifficulty" : 3,
"DislikedMaxContractDifficulty" : 3,

"LoathedMaxContractDifficulty" : 10,
"HatedMaxContractDifficulty" : 10,
"DislikedMaxContractDifficulty" : 10,

e: yes there are two sections with the same names. I changed the first three I saw the first time, but that didn't work until I changed the other 3 too.

e2: oh I see, change the ones in the Story section if you're playing Campaign mode. I changed the ones at the bottom of the file the first time, those must be for Career mode.

Wifi Toilet fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Dec 11, 2019

# ? Dec 11, 2019 00:18

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# ? May 15, 2024 06:42

PoptartsNinja: May 9, 2008; He is still almost definitely not a spy; Soiled Meat

TheDeadlyShoe posted:

i am not sure about the + versions, but hasn't the purpose of MLs in battletech to always be way OP for tonnage to provide a damage baseline and make the game about heat?

If BattleTech was a modern game designed with things like 'balance' and the like in mind, this might be correct, but it wasn't.

The closest thing tabletop BattleTech has to a 'baseline' weapon is the Autocannon/5. Balance was absolutely not a consideration in the late 1980s, trying to replicate the fight scenes from Fang of the Sun Dougram, Votoms, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, and Macross was the goal. :v:

# ? Dec 11, 2019 00:56

Deptfordx: Dec 23, 2013

Huh. Mechwarrior 5 seems to be getting suprisingly good reviews. Pc Gamer gave it 80 and Rock Paper Shotgun seems to really like it.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 01:00

Wizard Whateley: Apr 12, 2002; I am a bootlicking scab who loves seeing people be paid less than living wages. If the workers don't like it they should just kill themselves. Let me know who is organizing so I can report them to management. I pine for the days of the Pinkertons.

I'm digging it really hard. It's kind of sloppy and low-budget in a lot of places. But the actual gameplay is just what I wanted/needed.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 01:22

DatonKallandor: Aug 21, 2009; "I can no longer sit back and allow nationalist shitposting, nationalist indoctrination, nationalist subversion, and the German nationalist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious game balance."

Deptfordx posted:

Huh. Mechwarrior 5 seems to be getting suprisingly good reviews. Pc Gamer gave it 80 and Rock Paper Shotgun seems to really like it.

I saw a little bit of a stream of it and it seemed really good in the sense that it's a hardscrabble Battletech mercenary game where you also drive a mech and shoot vehicles/other mechs. It looks the way you remember MW4 looking.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 01:25

RBA Starblade: Apr 28, 2008; Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

I'll probably get it when it leaves Epic but surprising to know it's alright!

# ? Dec 11, 2019 01:33

Plek: Jul 30, 2009

Listening to someone talk about the game, it sounds like it's a really advanced version of Mechwarrior on SNES. That's not bad... maybe. It wants to lean on the the mercenary company part of the game but I need to actually see people's reviews because I can't trust PGI to actually build that kind of stuff after MWO.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 01:46

DatonKallandor: Aug 21, 2009; "I can no longer sit back and allow nationalist shitposting, nationalist indoctrination, nationalist subversion, and the German nationalist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious game balance."

The negotiation mechanics are basically an evolved and improved version of what HBS did and I hope the inevitable Battletech 2 has Mechwarrior 5's negotation system (or an improved version of it). Similarily, pilots having weapon type specializations is good and helps differentiate pilots a bit.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 01:48

Stravag: Jun 7, 2009

I wish they hadn't pulled mech specializations from hbstech

# ? Dec 11, 2019 01:56

TheDeadlyShoe: Feb 14, 2014

Weapon type specializations is more kinda...pigeonholing and encouraging boating.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 01:57

Plek: Jul 30, 2009

Well, I mean, people were gonna boat. The one review I watched basically came down as "Meh." So better than expected, at least.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 02:02

TheParadigm: Dec 10, 2009

Since this is battletech, wouldn't proper 'weapon specializations' be inline with classic 3025 philosophies such as 'medium range brackets' and 'versatility, so carrying one of each type?'

I want to say the real only boating I've seen before the clans came along was with -heavy- guns. PPcs, big lrms, that sorta thing.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 02:37

PoptartsNinja: May 9, 2008; He is still almost definitely not a spy; Soiled Meat

TheParadigm posted:

Since this is battletech, wouldn't proper 'weapon specializations' be inline with classic 3025 philosophies such as 'medium range brackets' and 'versatility, so carrying one of each type?'

It's PGI so it will be +5% with autocannons (what that 5% means won't be documented anywhere)

# ? Dec 11, 2019 02:48

Jabor: Jul 16, 2010; #1 Loser at SpaceChem

+5% heat produced

# ? Dec 11, 2019 02:59

Pornographic Memory: Dec 17, 2008

TheDeadlyShoe posted:

Weapon type specializations is more kinda...pigeonholing and encouraging boating.

Hardpoints are way too limited in MW5 to allow excessive weapons boating for the most part. There's no extra hardpoints like MWO/HBS Battletech - if your mech doesn't have a weapon in a certain place in its stock loadout, there is no hardpoint. And the hardpoints have a maximum size determined by the original weapon - a slot that holds a medium laser originally can mount a smaller or equally sized weapon, but could not mount a large laser or PPC.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 03:30

Dramicus: Mar 26, 2010; Grimey Drawer

Pornographic Memory posted:

Hardpoints are way too limited in MW5 to allow excessive weapons boating for the most part. There's no extra hardpoints like MWO/HBS Battletech - if your mech doesn't have a weapon in a certain place in its stock loadout, there is no hardpoint. And the hardpoints have a maximum size determined by the original weapon - a slot that holds a medium laser originally can mount a smaller or equally sized weapon, but could not mount a large laser or PPC.

I sort of agree with ac/20 and gauss limitations. But I really don't like limiting mediums lasers, they should be considered small and large lasers considered medium.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 04:25

Chronojam: Feb 20, 2006; This is me on vacation in Amsterdam
Never be afraid of being yourself!

DatonKallandor posted:

I saw a little bit of a stream of it and it seemed really good in the sense that it's a hardscrabble Battletech mercenary game where you also drive a mech and shoot vehicles/other mechs. It looks the way you remember MW4 looking.

MW4 looked a little too sterile and floaty after MW3 feeling nice and crunchy. Like, New Super Mario vs old Mario games.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 04:32

RBA Starblade: Apr 28, 2008; Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

Chronojam posted:

MW4 looked a little too sterile and floaty after MW3 feeling nice and crunchy. Like, New Super Mario vs old Mario games.

I played 4 first and could never get into 2 and 3 as a result

# ? Dec 11, 2019 04:44

Horace Kinch: Aug 15, 2007

MW3 had a better campaign and pulse lasers

MW4 had a better mechlab, combat, and music

# ? Dec 11, 2019 04:49

Der Waffle Mous: Nov 27, 2009; In the grim future, there is only commerce.

I know its for mechanics/economic reasons but the repair costs and times for just fixing the armor are a little nuts.

In the grog-tier tabletop rules this is the poo poo you give your newbie mechtechs to do to keep them out of trouble and they can re-armor a mech over the course of a day.

Which just leads me to the conclusion that Fahad is not kidding about being overworked because he's the only mechanic in the company.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 04:51

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

MW4 gave us chin turret Mad Dog and honestly that's probably PC gaming's greatest gift to Battletech since All Systems Nominal.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 05:34

Chronojam: Feb 20, 2006; This is me on vacation in Amsterdam
Never be afraid of being yourself!

If you could slap the MW4 mech lab and netcode into MW3 you'd have a perfect title

# ? Dec 11, 2019 05:36

Stravag: Jun 7, 2009

Mw3 mechlab was better for omnis but mw4s was much better for non omnis. Mw4 omni mechs omnibays were so lacking. Direwolf had like 4 omni slots

# ? Dec 11, 2019 05:56

Deptfordx: Dec 23, 2013

MW4 was fine, but I goddamn loved MW3. I must have played through that entire campaign at least 3 times. I wish that game had made it to GOG but I think it's stuck in rights-hell/lapsed IP type issues.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 10:03

Jedit: Dec 10, 2011; Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Trip report on the Banshee 3S: it's a slow as treacle variant on what is traditionally a mobile assault mech, but Jesus gently caress can that thing mount some guns. I slapped a UAC/20 and a bunch of Lasers on it and cored an almost intact Black Knight with one salvo.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 11:27

Aramoro: Jun 1, 2012

I think I've messed up this Career Mode a little, I've got under a 1000 days left and I'm still hanging around doing 2 difficultly missions because I don't have good enough rep to do better missions. Oops. I'll need to focus on getting some rep and going somewhere good.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 12:03

Jabor: Jul 16, 2010; #1 Loser at SpaceChem

Flashpoints are a good way to spike your rep.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 12:07

Aramoro: Jun 1, 2012

Jabor posted:

Flashpoints are a good way to spike your rep.

Are Flashpoints in the Flashpoint expansion? I just have Heavy Metal just now.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 12:15

TheDeadlyShoe: Feb 14, 2014

They are in urban warfare as well

# ? Dec 11, 2019 12:23

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

The fact that MW5 is still muddling through in the pre-Clans tech level means I'm fine waiting for the Steam release tbh

# ? Dec 11, 2019 12:31

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

The main three games that would've tempted me to install EGS, The Outer Worlds, Phoenix Point, and MW5 each have managed to untempt me in various ways and I'm okay with this.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 12:36

Alchenar: Apr 9, 2008

Deptfordx posted:

MW4 was fine, but I goddamn loved MW3. I must have played through that entire campaign at least 3 times. I wish that game had made it to GOG but I think it's stuck in rights-hell/lapsed IP type issues.

MW3 and Freespace 2 should be the starting point for anyone wanting to construct a game story around a military campaign.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 13:34

sean10mm: Jun 29, 2005; It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, MAD-2R World

Xarbala posted:

The main three games that would've tempted me to install EGS, The Outer Worlds, Phoenix Point, and MW5 each have managed to untempt me in various ways and I'm okay with this.

Hard

from me.

I did Outer Worlds on Xbox game pass and lost interest before the 1 month trial expired. Phoenix Point and MW5 look sloppy.

After my current Heavy Metal run I'm probably trying Phantom Doctrine which only cost me :10bux:

on Steam.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 13:42

Dramicus: Mar 26, 2010; Grimey Drawer

sean10mm posted:

Hard from me.

I did Outer Worlds on Xbox game pass and lost interest before the 1 month trial expired. Phoenix Point and MW5 look sloppy.

After my current Heavy Metal run I'm probably trying Phantom Doctrine which only cost me on Steam.

I got phantom doctrine from the last humble monthly. It's interesting, but it's absolutely not xcom.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 14:00

Cease to Hope: Dec 12, 2011

Aramoro posted:

Are Flashpoints in the Flashpoint expansion? I just have Heavy Metal just now.

There are flashpoints in all three DLCs, but most of them are in Flashpoint.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 14:05

RBA Starblade: Apr 28, 2008; Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

I really need to get my pirate rep up this is the third Atlas 2 I've seen but can't buy lol

# ? Dec 11, 2019 14:29

Aramoro: Jun 1, 2012

RBA Starblade posted:

I really need to get my pirate rep up this is the third Atlas 2 I've seen but can't buy lol

Game stiffed me on some Assault Mech salvage, It was a either 1.5 Star or 2 Star Base Defence can't remember which and I had taken a Shadow Hawk, Phoenix Hawk, Vindicator and a Jenner. First wave was straight forward, Marauder anda couple of lights but then the re-enforcements were a Banshee BNC-3E and an Atlas 2 whittled them down till they were both hanging on by a thread when the Base Defence timer ran out went to mission successful, NO Atlas SALVAGE, 1 more turn and he'd have been dead.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 14:51

Rhymenoserous: May 23, 2008

Deptfordx posted:

Huh. Mechwarrior 5 seems to be getting suprisingly good reviews. Pc Gamer gave it 80 and Rock Paper Shotgun seems to really like it.

The game has some pretty major issues that don�t really start showing till you are a few hours in.

The first is Procgen just shits turrets all over every map, I remember going to the extraction point on a planet that was kind of a dead end hellhole and turrets for miles.

The second is enemies spawn out of the ether. Doing a defense mission I kept noticing tanks and mechs were literally on top of me in seconds then I had the pleasure of watching a commando literally Star Trek materialize in front of me. This poo poo is bonkers considering they have actual drop ship assets.

The salvage game really sucks early on, you can forget salvaging a mech till a faction likes you.

Also bug stomping loses its fun fairly early on. I�d like to fight robots in this here robot jox reboot, not endless waves of helicopters and tanks.

# ? Dec 11, 2019 15:17

sean10mm: Jun 29, 2005; It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, MAD-2R World

Dramicus posted:

I got phantom doctrine from the last humble monthly. It's interesting, but it's absolutely not xcom.

Yeah I know. I just haven't played a game involving spy poo poo in a while and I'm ready to be a sneaky gently caress. :ninja:

# ? Dec 11, 2019 15:20

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# ? May 15, 2024 06:42

Klyith: Aug 3, 2007; GBS Pledge Week

Aramoro posted:

I think I've messed up this Career Mode a little, I've got under a 1000 days left and I'm still hanging around doing 2 difficultly missions because I don't have good enough rep to do better missions. Oops. I'll need to focus on getting some rep and going somewhere good.

You can get more rep reward from missions by dragging both the pay slider and the salvage slider down.

edit: this will guarantee that a random annihilator shows up on a 2.5 skull mission when you've set salvage to minimum because you don't care about yet more medium mech parts. ask me how I know.

Klyith fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Dec 11, 2019

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