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Captain Foo posted:so in BTA, if i'm really not into using battle armor or vees, am I seriously hamstringing the amount of firepower the game is expecting me to have or what I would say honestly no? As noted you get some slots that can take BAs and vehicles, but I don't generally bother deploying more than four mechs unless it's a particularly difficult mission. Some vehicles will often be useful but all suffer mobility issues in the majority of missions, so mostly I would say the support vehicles and LRM carriers are most likely to be useful, you can get ones that can call in support, repair mechs, rearm them etc. BAs are actually severely useless IMO, they are very fragile and have terrible mobility unless you spend your time carrying them around, however you can get a device that lets you call them in via drop pod for 10k each and they will be AI piloted, this is actually a very useful bit of kit because you can drop them directly on top of enemy formations and they will go on the immediate next turn, allowing them to quickly tie up a mech and who cares if they die? So I would not spend slots or pilots on them but absolutely use them via drop pod. Overall though I do not find it difficult to do missions with just four mechs. If you're doing four or five skull missions late in the game you might want to take more, but you can also just bring heavier mechs. Bring as many units as you feel might be useful, honestly, if you want to bring lots then do so, if not then the game should still be fine. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Mar 5, 2023 |
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Idk I’ve been bringing six mechs as soon as i could And still walk into missions feeling overmatched somewhat often but I’m still pretty early in my career
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Captain Foo posted:Idk I’ve been bringing six mechs as soon as i could And still walk into missions feeling overmatched somewhat often but I’m still pretty early in my career eh if you're having fun don't worry about it. I run 6 still and am like 400 days. 6 let's me run some flex pieces like a SHD-6M with TSM, Super Charger and melee weapons. it walks 10 spaces and punches people for 200dmg 
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Falcorum posted:Finally had a complete mission failure in BTA. Jungle map where Sumire landed everyone on a tiny peninsula on the corner, connected to the main land only via a small strip of cover-less shallow water, with most of the enemy force on the other side. It was a 2 star assassination contract, I was fielding mediums and 2 flamer equipped lights (hadn't had much luck with heavy salvage so far), and there were a lot of enemy reinforcements so it ended up being 6 vs 13 in the end (including a full heavy mech lance). I was reading this going "oh that's workable, could be rough but I think-" then I got to the last line and lol'd sorry friend
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How do you guys build your Orion-Ks in BEX?
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Are the MW5 Davion mechs being all 'Merika painted for a lore REASON that I didn't pick up on previously?
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House Davion's parade livery is a blue-white-red-white-blue pattern. It's closer to the French flag than anything American.
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OwlFancier posted:I would say honestly no? As noted you get some slots that can take BAs and vehicles, but I don't generally bother deploying more than four mechs unless it's a particularly difficult mission. Some vehicles will often be useful but all suffer mobility issues in the majority of missions, so mostly I would say the support vehicles and LRM carriers are most likely to be useful, you can get ones that can call in support, repair mechs, rearm them etc. I'm legitimately curious how you're dealing with the (surprisingly common!) 15+ enemy unit clusterfuck missions with only 4 mechs. BA aren't fragile when built properly. With the proper pilot, you can get super common Achilles squads up to passive 50-60% DR and laugh as they soak entire lances' worth of fire with no suit losses. Proper DPS-built BA also pump out substantially more firepower than even tweaked out custom assault mechs - a squad of Sloths/Elementals/Salamanders built for swarming or a squad of Marauders/Gnomes/Golems/Grenadiers/Ravagers built for shooting can easily pump out hundreds of damage in one action for the princely sum of 10 tons off your deployment tonnage and 0.5 tons on a carry hardpoint for a 'mech to carry them around, and with proper usage of initiative they'll never be directly shot at - the 'mech carrier moves in, the BA(who have reserved down until after their carrier moves) dismount and shoot, then next turn the BA move at initiative 10 and either shoot again if it's safe or climb onto their carrier if it's not. Also if you don't want to deal with 'mech carriers you can spend a vehicle slot on one of the various BA carriers that BA can shoot out of - Dakotas are super common but there are better ones - and just strip all the armor off the BA and load them with guns because they will never be directly shot at.
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Gnomes are goddamn terrifying, and honestly Elementals are almost as dangerous if you have the right transport. I've one-shotted so many light/mediums by pulling the battle taxi 2-3 hexes away and letting them swarm. If you can get behind something, even a 100-tonner, dropping a Gnome down is insta-death.
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PoptartsNinja posted:House Davion's parade livery is a blue-white-red-white-blue pattern. It's closer to the French flag than anything American. The Davion Guard units specifically  As for the rest of the MW5 schemes, Marik is sort of based off a mix of Andurien units (I think), Liao is based off of House Dai Da Chi's, and the Steiner scheme is a cross of the Royal and Lyran Guard's. The only odd one out is the Kuritan one but I guess Piranha wanted to jazz things up for them with some white and green instead of using just plain red on everything. 
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In a co-op career one of my friends picked the davion guard scheme just before we went into a mission to fight them and I was incredibly confused why one enemy was showing up as an ally.
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Sherbert Hoover posted:How do you guys build your Orion-Ks in BEX? this got a bit glossed over but Orions are the beginning of best boy territory. they can carry you for a long time as either a front line super brawler or a mid-range fighter I haven't played BEX in a while but that's the one with 1 Ballistic, 4x Laser and 2x Missile hardpoints ya? I want to say I've ran LL's & SRM's or ML's & A/C20 & SRM's DHS should let you go hog wild
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Got my first heavy and it’s a royal crusader MISSILE TIME
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Captain Foo posted:Got my first heavy and it’s a royal crusader I had a CRD-3L in my last career run and it is beastly. all SRM's, ML's, SL's and JJ's. it would just jump around one-shotting mechs in the back what a king
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Captain Foo posted:Got my first heavy and it’s a royal crusader I was really enjoying my Jaeger as the ultimate chopper swatter but I dropped that chump like a bad habit when I chanced across a rare stalker for sale. You'll never get me out of that sweaty cockpit aga EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN
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the proper way to paint your mechs in MW5 is as if you were 5
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Honestly the best advice. Make it easy for your friend to tell who you are in the inevitable murder brawl.
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Third World Reagan posted:the proper way to paint your mechs in MW5 is as if you were 5 On games were you can adjust the livery of your team (X-COM, MW games etc) I turn my wife loose on it and come back 15 minutes later to some sort of pastel-coloured dazzle-camouflaged nightmare. 10/10
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I bought a ballista spg and now i can barely use it without shelling my own dudes lol
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Does BTA still do that annoying thing where if you shoot someone with artillery, all your guys will complain they’re taking hits?
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Dalaram posted:Does BTA still do that annoying thing where if you shoot someone with artillery, all your guys will complain they’re taking hits? I only get multiple complaints if I shoot someone too close and splash my own mechs. I get a single complaint if I use "attack ground" with it, from the firing vehicle.
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Sherbert Hoover posted:How do you guys build your Orion-Ks in BEX? I found a Gauss on the black market so Gauss and 2xLL. Before I got the Gauss I was running 2x UAC/2. Speaking of Orions, I have an unused -K I got from a random AC/20 headcap. Waiting for the inevitable turning of the tables on that one.
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Ugh this escort mission was going fine until a third lance dropped on top of my convoy and destroyed half of them immediately
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So I tried to do the BEXCE Battle of Tukayyid flashpoint. Two missions, 10 Clan mechs each time, managed to win with only one or two pilot injuries and a destroyed DHS. The third mission I dropped is absolutely busted. It's the map that starts you at the south end of a narrow wooded canyon, and the enemy reinforcements are triggered as soon as you make contact. My Orion got knocked down and CT cored in a single turn. Reload. Max armor Bull Shark in cover + bulwark (60% damage reduction) gets knockdown and headcapped before I even get a visual on a target. No thanks. Vorenus fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Mar 7, 2023 |
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tactlessbastard posted:I'm dropping you off near, Ryanna says Meanwhile if you're in a fast medium or light she'll hot-drop you right into combat.
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Is the Victor as a bigger bag of poo poo in MW5 as it in HBS BT?
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tactlessbastard posted:Is the Victor as a bigger bag of poo poo in MW5 as it in HBS BT? Victor is an excellent AI controlled mech. Even with YAML, it’s hard to make it a good player mech, but it can add some good damage soak to your later game drops. For the tonnage, I would take a grasshopper or an Marauder for myself over a Victor. Double so with YAML.
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tactlessbastard posted:Is the Victor as a bigger bag of poo poo in MW5 as it in HBS BT? The Hero Victors are great in MW5. Especially the BSK if you put 2 LB-5Xes on it.
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The victor has one of the best hero variants in thr game though, don't sleep on it Kinda funny that it and the cyclops get the unequivocal best assault heroes (boars head is real good too though)
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Have to redo an entire long flashpoint because the last mission was bugged and didn't trigger the end after all the objectives were complete. Honestly genuinely mad rn
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BTA 3062 question- when a enemy Mech drops his Battle Armor in the same hex, how the hell do I target either of them? They're unable to be selected as a target.
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What's the point of stream SRMs in MW5? The St-LRMs seem like they're better at hitting moving targets but for the SRMs you always want the burst damage of a regular launcher.
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LRMs, as you noted, have a tighter spread on the Stream models. Stream SRMs also have a tighter spread, but they also have a higher rate of fire.
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GD_American posted:BTA 3062 question- when a enemy Mech drops his Battle Armor in the same hex, how the hell do I target either of them? They're unable to be selected as a target. With indirect fire weapons. You should be able to fire at those with LRMs. PODs and artillery weapons with splash damage should also work. You might need to press Tab to cycle through targets to select them.
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Is there a (standalone) mod that lets me respec pilot skills in HBS Battletech?NoNotTheMindProbe posted:What's the point of stream SRMs in MW5? The St-LRMs seem like they're better at hitting moving targets but for the SRMs you always want the burst damage of a regular launcher.
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You're also less likely to completely miss the target since you can do some aim correction while it fires.
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I went and did a 1.5 red skull mission in RogueTech before I have assaults to try to snag some better equipment. On the one hand I managed to get enough pieces to make a special stone rhino (railgun + 2xHAG/40) variant, but on the other the same variant scrapped 4 of my mechs. Still probably worth it.
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Insert name here posted:Is there a (standalone) mod that lets me respec pilot skills in HBS Battletech? I think the save game editor lets you redo pilot skills. https://discourse.modsinexile.com/t/battletech-save-editor/710 Bentai fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Mar 8, 2023 |
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Insert name here posted:Is there a (standalone) mod that lets me respec pilot skills in HBS Battletech? ayyup https://www.nexusmods.com/battletech/mods/310 I think in the default settings it costs a bunch of money, edit mod.json in notepad to change that.
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