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Captain Foo posted:My early firestarter and pilot died to suicide dfa my commander was double DFA'ed and took a cockpit hit. was out for 102 days on one hand man that sucks wtf; on the other 
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Apr 10, 2023 17:45
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Captain Foo posted:Is there something i missed about bta artillery? Ballistas seem way way better than chapparals Sniper arty actually hits what you aim at regularly which is nice. The Arrow IV has a bigger blast radius I think, but I agree, I definitely prefer the ballista. On a similar note, what sort of mechs do people use for arty? What's your favorite long tom/thumper host in BTA? Also how do you keep them alive when 75% of your drops are in knife fighting range of the enemy? Three drops in a row last night plopped my lance in the middle of three lances of clanners. The one thing I miss about RT is the ability to choose your landing because what sort of idiot would deploy on the corner of the map on a frozen lake three sprints from any sort of cover
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Apr 10, 2023 18:05
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Azhais posted:On a similar note, what sort of mechs do people use for arty? What's your favorite long tom/thumper host in BTA? 1) Omega with twinned Long Toms 2) It's an Omega (use shaped charge ammo)
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Apr 10, 2023 18:38
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I always just use my tanks for artillery in BTA. Mechs carrying arty aren't really noticeably more effective than tanks carrying arty, whereas direct combat mechs are way more effective than direct combat tanks, so I'd rather spend my mech slots on direct combat and leave the fire support to my tank slots. If you're really dedicated to mech-based arty, I find the most cost effective pieces are 55t chassis carrying a single sniper or 95-100t chassis carrying dual snipers. There's not much you can do to really optimize an artillery mech besides tweaking the ammo mix and slapping a TCS on there. The most important thing is to never skimp on armor despite it being an "artillery" mech - you will get hotdropped at some point and you'll be thankful you maxed the armor on your dual sniper king crab instead of cramming an extra couple tons of ammo in there. Kanos fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Apr 10, 2023 |
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Apr 10, 2023 19:22
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Kanos posted:The most important thing is to never skimp on armor despite it being an "artillery" mech - you will get hotdropped at some point and you'll be thankful you maxed the armor on your dual sniper king crab instead of cramming an extra couple tons of ammo in there. BTA opfor will also go out of its way to focus fire your lowest evasion mech even if you hide it behind a hill so everything has to be able to tank shots actually this ends up being a challenging factor if you decide to bring a mixed lance of lights and assaults -- your lil guys are running around at 9 EVA so the enemy will just lay into your poor King Crab. This is more on flashpoints than full drops tho
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Apr 10, 2023 19:36
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all that happens with my 9 evasion guys is some jackass in a mist lynx sprints 73 tiles through a forest to drop battle armor on it since swarming isn't blocked by evasion in any way
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Apr 10, 2023 19:44
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Azhais posted:all that happens with my 9 evasion guys is some jackass in a mist lynx sprints 73 tiles through a forest to drop battle armor on it since swarming isn't blocked by evasion in any way my 9 EVA guys get DFAed by assaults and the DFA never, ever, ever misses
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Apr 10, 2023 20:19
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I had a helepolis with a pair of sniper arty once, it was a good time
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Apr 10, 2023 21:30
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Pattonesque posted:my 9 EVA guys get DFAed by assaults and the DFA never, ever, ever misses man gently caress it, i put in a request for them to tone it down a bit, it's real dogshit when you're like "oh I got one hex too close to a MADII and it decided to kill itself to ensure that one of my mechs would also die"
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Apr 11, 2023 05:17
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I R SMART LIKE ROCK posted:my campaign has fizzled out not because it's going poorly but because I have a full C3i lance that can dunk on pretty much everything that isn't hot dropped reinforcements behind me starting turn with the regular opponent within los in front of me When I got so powerful that I was basically invincible in MW5, I used my vast fortune to build ridiculous mechs with completely impractical loadouts like 80 LRMs and nothing else. It was pretty great even though I still won easily.
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I'm experimenting with melee bots now. The Fox is nice (Clan Endo-steel but no Clanner melee penalty.) The Leaper (new Sanctuary Mech) is also a good DFA Mech, with the partial wing. I've got a Huron Warrior that's roided up with punch actuators and TSM. My only complaint is that it can only run one hand actuator.
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The next big BTA 3062 patch is out 16.0. https://www.bta3062.com/index.php?title=Patch_Notes It comes with a big update to the MechLab. See video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVT4Xi8N0Jk Tons of new mechs, weapons etc. LAMs got a bit of love as well. Most important, the patch does not break savegames!
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Apr 14, 2023 20:06
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Honestly if BTA had manual deployment I'd never play anything else. RT has too many options for my level of focus, but god do I get sick of the dead pool Darius and Sumire seem to have going
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lagidnam posted:The next big BTA 3062 patch is out 16.0. Awww yisss
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Apr 14, 2023 20:19
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MW5 keeps crashing during the credits, lol. Do you get to keep playing post main story line? Or shall I restart with a bunch of mods?
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tactlessbastard posted:MW5 keeps crashing during the credits, lol. Never not use mods 
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Is that the "Let's put some tits on this mole rat" of Battletech?
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lagidnam posted:The next big BTA 3062 patch is out 16.0. this doesn't break saves, but there are some mech-breaking changes that you'll have to change out gear to fix. apollo and artemis fcs have been deleted, and now they're attachments per weapon...but also buffed to ignore some eva pips ppc capacitor works similarly, +25H/+25D TTS have been removed in favor of weapon-class attachments weapon tab filters have been updated along with some weapon type resorting artillery hardpoints and artillery typed weapons, no longer ballistic or missile. mortars are still ballistics Bombs are now their own thing; LAMs have bomb hardpoints; LAMs are scattered across the galaxy out of just rasalhauge omni hardpoints have been changed to be a lot clearer, and you can put artillery on omni hardpoints melee hardpoints exist and are primarily visual? BA have their own hardpoint types; this nerfs Knife Fighter QUADS: all special actuators have been depreciated so you can just pull them off omni lower arm and omni hand actuators have been changed to regular actuators, you will have to store and re-ready the mech in order to fix it if they're fixed actuators
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I was ready to be angry, but they gave the Monster artillery hardpoints.
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Hmmm- can't use battle armor. All designs illegal, try to restore to stock and it says you have to strip equipment first, do that and it says not enough heat sinks.
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GD_American posted:Hmmm- can't use battle armor. All designs illegal, try to restore to stock and it says you have to strip equipment first, do that and it says not enough heat sinks. store them and then ready them again
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There's also been a few hotfixes already, but yeah you have to store/restore BA to get a valid config.
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Can't store if it has damage. Can't fix it since it won't let you verify repairs (b/c missing heat sinks). Hell, I've got a ton of Elemental suits. Might just sell them off and move on. I'd really miss the one Golem suit I have damaged though.
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Mission briefing: "We're getting a number of reports of a powerful 'Mech operating in the area." It's a Cicada.
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McGavin posted:Mission briefing: "We're getting a number of reports of a powerful 'Mech operating in the area." At least it wasn't a tank.
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Good old Trap Sprung. As a difficulty 2 contract, it rarely spawns anything strong (mediums are typical in a hard career, although sometimes it's a Quickdraw, Rifleman or the like). It can go the other way, too: I've had a Flea as the bait mech.
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McGavin posted:Mission briefing: "We're getting a number of reports of a powerful 'Mech operating in the area." It's just a bunch of civilians from a backwater world going "THERE'S A HUGE MECH AROUND HERE!" and Darius taking their word at face value 
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Falcorum posted:It's just a bunch of civilians from a backwater world going "THERE'S A HUGE MECH AROUND HERE!" and Darius taking their word at face value The mech was 6 tractors tall!
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Hey, give them some benefit of the doubt, they might have thought it was a Jenner!
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It was Bogdan in a suit of armor
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Of all the little bits of fluff in game books, I think my favorite ever was a commander complaining about how he had a well-trained infantry unit armed with the latest in anti-armor weaponry, in a perfect positioning, well dug-in, and then they kept hearing the louder and louder thuds of a BattleMech headed their way, and they eventually broke and ran, and the city was conquered by a single Locust from the Davion National Constabulary
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GD_American posted:Of all the little bits of fluff in game books, I think my favorite ever was a commander complaining about how he had a well-trained infantry unit armed with the latest in anti-armor weaponry, in a perfect positioning, well dug-in, and then they kept hearing the louder and louder thuds of a BattleMech headed their way, and they eventually broke and ran, and the city was conquered by a single Locust from the Davion National Constabulary 
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yeah the average person rarely sees a mech. if they do it's usually in the context of "welp we're hosed"
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GD_American posted:Of all the little bits of fluff in game books, I think my favorite ever was a commander complaining about how he had a well-trained infantry unit armed with the latest in anti-armor weaponry, in a perfect positioning, well dug-in, and then they kept hearing the louder and louder thuds of a BattleMech headed their way, and they eventually broke and ran, and the city was conquered by a single Locust from the Davion National Constabulary I mean honestly every time you see infantry in like, PTN's let's play they always get completely ravaged even if they're used well so I can't blame them for not wanting to die horribly
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GD_American posted:Of all the little bits of fluff in game books, I think my favorite ever was a commander complaining about how he had a well-trained infantry unit armed with the latest in anti-armor weaponry, in a perfect positioning, well dug-in, and then they kept hearing the louder and louder thuds of a BattleMech headed their way, and they eventually broke and ran, and the city was conquered by a single Locust from the Davion National Constabulary I'd probably loving book it too, given that even a 20 tonner with a couple of machine guns can kill several platoons of infantry without breaking a sweat if the infantry can't pop it immediately from ambush.
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Do they not have ATGMs in battletech? Like an abrams tank is 65 tonnes and you can still blow it up with a single missile. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Apr 16, 2023 |
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OwlFancier posted:Do they not have ATGMs in battletech? Imagine getting hit by a single srm but much tinier and we all lol when we see the Assassin roll up with its SRM2
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Did something happen in-setting to make armour technology improve wildly ahead of everything else then? Because as a rule you would expect it to be easier to build missiles to blow things up than to protect the things from being blown up.
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OwlFancier posted:Do they not have ATGMs in battletech? There's infantry portable SRMs that are roughly as effective as mech launched SRMs. A couple of platoons of SRM infantry is roughly equivalent to like an SRM 12 to 18, which can hurt a mech really bad if it all connects and groups well but if the 'mech has anti-infantry weapons loaded like MGs/flamers those infantry are going to evaporate if it can shoot back. OwlFancier posted:Did something happen in-setting to make armour technology improve wildly ahead of everything else then? Because as a rule you would expect it to be easier to build missiles to blow things up than to protect the things from being blown up. This is basically the setting conceit, yes, given that 'mechs can unload gauss rifle shots, directed energy weapons, and enormous walls of missiles into each other and remain upright and functional.
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