Bubbacub posted:

The atmosphere in Mechwarrior 2 was greatly assisted by the game not bothering to have voice acting outside of the trainer and computer voice. I can't imagine how cringy the game would get if they tried to incorporate less sterile storytelling.

Third World Reagan posted:

To fix a statement

if anyone is a fan of any faction in battle tech, you should side eye them

Comte de Saint-Germain posted:

What's the best mod for getting the enemy to behave a little less suicidally in battles? Specifically, the NPCs never seem to eject under any circumstances and even the pirates seem to be willing to DIE FOR THE CAUSE when things turn hopeless. I found one on the Nexus but I dunno if there are better ones- this one seems to add a whole new morale system that I'm not sure if I actually want in the game. https://www.nexusmods.com/battletech/mods/137

I've still never beaten the story campaign, so I'm really looking for something minimal. I had a ludicrous situation last night where a pirate in a locust with no weapons left was trying to melee an undamaged centurion a full turn after the rest of his lance got smoked.

EDIT: apologies if there's a modding guide elsewhere in the thread, I didn't see one in the OP.

Third World Reagan posted:

To fix a statement

if anyone is a fan of any faction in battle tech, you should side eye them

Q_res posted:

As far as major factions go, yeah this is pretty spot on. They really only differ in the specific ways that they suck.

Hating a specific faction is totally fine though.
gently caress you Kurita

Insert name here posted:

gently caress the Inner Sphere where my Periphery State homies at

No I will not learn any relevant lore

Third World Reagan posted:

To fix a statement

if anyone is a fan of any faction in battle tech, you should side eye them

Crazy Joe Wilson posted:

BattleTech fiction has almost always focused on individuals and their choices as opposed to sociological analysis because ultimately the BattleTech lore is there to serve the purpose of the games, which is; "Make big stompy robots that can fight each other." Writing about characters serves that purpose better than writing endless books about how messed up these societies are.

The Clans get a ton of attention because they make some of the biggest and coolest stompy robots.

Also, since most people consider BT a hobby as opposed to a Master's Coursework in dystopianism they tend to ignore most of the negative aspects of their favorite factions so they can focus on the fun roleplay aspects.

It should be mentioned as well most of the Inner Sphere factions have their own flavor of f-ed up as well. Kurita and the Capellans are pretty dystopian totalitarian states; the Feds Sun is your typical feudal monarchy with lots of poverty. Free Worlds League is constantly fracturing over politics and killing each other (Until recently). House Steiner is... House Steiner.

It should be noted that FASA said the reason the Clans are so different is this was their way to have "aliens without aliens". The Clans are meant to be a completely alien culture very unlike anything seen in humanity before.

I really doubt the vast majority of Clan fans want a Eugenics & Caste Based society with a Communist economy. They just want to paint their mechs with cool Wolf or Falcon decals and say "I AM AN HONORABLE WARRIOR FIGHT ME".

Which is far as hobbies go, eh, who cares. They're having fun.

Saman posted:

Started up a BTA 3062 game and had a surprise drop of 2 Cataphracts, a Rifleman and another heavy on my lance of 50t mediums on a lab mission when i got to the first lab, on top of another set of mixed medium/heavies on the second lab stop. Literally first mission I'd run (picked medium mech start to get a jumpstart). Is there some .ini file I can hit to turn down reinforcements or something? I only dropped with 4 and it feels like 2 mechs + vehicles, 4 heavies (dropping in a circle around you, no less) and 4 medium/heavies is maybe a little much for a 2 skull.
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[quote="Third World Reagan" post="530706886"]
Probably. Just remember, you can always just leave a mission. This is acceptable.

GD_American posted:

Third World Reagan posted:

Probably. Just remember, you can always just leave a mission. This is acceptable.

GD_American posted:

This, but I also like playing through the "you're hosed" drops the game sometimes gives you. You can always just reload to before the mission if you get completely boned. Some of my favorite missions were squeaking out of massive odds.

Jack B Nimble posted:

Right, from what I can tell I basically have to do one random mission per story mission, because it seems like going off and doing some rando merc work is what makes the next "priority" mission availble.

What I was hoping is someone could take a ball park guess at how many priority missions I have left. I'd try to google it myself but I'm sure any list I found would show something like "Mission 14: The One Where Kamea Betrays You and Yang Dies" or something.

PhotoKirk posted:

Pretty much. I don't recall anyone who really took the whole Clan thing to heart. The biggest problem was a the usual set of min-max players who didn't want to attempt any kind of play balance and only followed Zellbrigen when it suited them. Rec.games.mecha had fun with the "NO CONTRACTIONS" thing for a while and calling everything omni-whatever.

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I always saw the Great Houses as the cast of Seinfeld - a group of really terrible people that we are supposed to like and root for. I guess that makes the clans... Newman.


And, of course, fugu wasps in gauss rifle ammo.

Amechwarrior posted:

What mission exactly? Any details on what triggers the crash? What mod pack are you playing with?

I tired really hard to make it as reliable as stock FPs but if it's crashing within a mod pack, I can ping the mod makers to take a look at it.

Psycho Landlord posted:

For ref this was almost a year ago, but it mission... five? I think? The one where you go all out on taking care of the pirates. Crash would happen during loading, don't remember what the log said and unfortunately that's long since gone. This was a BEX run.

It worked fine the other route and never crashed anywhere else though. But this was a while back, I'm not gonna be much help troubleshooting.

Warad posted:

BEX: Simple but more immersive. Vanilla gameplay but the everything else is more geared to making you "FEEL" like you're a poor Merc trying to make a living during 3025 up to the Clan Invasion. No major overhauls for your Mechs, fancy LosTech and Mechs very few and far between, factions and mercenaries stick to where they actually were in the sourcebooks, and more focus on handling your company in comparison to the other two depending on your difficulty settings. But honestly the most smoothest experience out of all of them overall.

BTA: Not as simple and can get a bit wacky with some of the content that's not even the even wackier optional community content, but even the more outlandish things fits the overall free-for-all madhouse of the Civil War era anyway I think. If you want to worry less about paying the bills and more about literally nuking Clanners with Arrow IVs and turning a Lumberjack IndustrialMech into a murderbot that can chainsaw the heart out of an Atlas, then it might be the most "fun" mod for you

RT: If you want to see the poor unity engine meltdown the moment you turn the game on from the sheer amount of stuff packed into it. The most loyal to the TT experience so if you want the absolute purist way to play with literally anything you can think of to play with there, then RT's your thing.

Warad posted:

BEX: Simple but more immersive. Vanilla gameplay but the everything else is more geared to making you "FEEL" like you're a poor Merc trying to make a living during 3025 up to the Clan Invasion. No major overhauls for your Mechs, fancy LosTech and Mechs very few and far between, factions and mercenaries stick to where they actually were in the sourcebooks, and more focus on handling your company in comparison to the other two depending on your difficulty settings. But honestly the most smoothest experience out of all of them overall.

Captain Foo posted:

https://discourse.modsinexile.com/t/battletech-extended-3025-3061-1-9-3-7/426/1

Klyith posted:

check this post for some settings I use with Basic Panic System to remove the panic / morale part and reduce it to just ejection. notepad or other plaintext editor to edit the mod.json file in the mod folder.

You still won't see a locust eject very often. The way the mod works, enemies only think (roll dice) about ejecting when they take hits. In a locust you only need 2 hits to be crippled and the third hit is a kill. So they don't get many chances to roll. The general problem is that making enemies "smart" about ejecting can make the game really easy. You kinda want the armless assholes hanging around to make your life difficult.


The OP never got updated for mods, since it took a while between the game coming out and mods appearing. I have a list of faves for vanilla.

Comte de Saint-Germain posted:

As for the favorite faction chat, sorry not sorry but MW2 imprinted on me hard as a kid and I love the clans.