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Mile'ionaha posted:I played BT back when it came out, enjoyed it. There is a hotfix for this in the discord if you want it.
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What is the best overall mech chassis and why is it the Orion
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Captain Foo posted:Right now in bta i have a marauder with three binary lasers and a precision pilot and makes a p good sniper. Earlier in the game i had an improved binary laser which was disgusting but it got blown up and i don’t know where i got it from 2xArrow carriers are also really good, 3 or 4 of them can do absurd amounts of damage over time. In roguetech offline you can get them from the Kurita faction store, not sure about BTA.
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Apr 26, 2023 16:10
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The Orion is super solid. In terms of BTA I think the best overall chassis is probably something in the 55 ton range. Speed and evasion are incredibly powerful and 55t is in the sweet spot where you can start carrying some real painful loadouts and good armor while also still being super squirrelly. The chassis I always end up getting absurd amounts of use out of is the Stormcrow. Great number of hardpoints, great speed, huge amount of free tonnage, clan perk is very beneficial for a variety of builds. You can run them as mortar boats, cooker 'mechs with flamers/plasma, backstabbers, PPC snipers, SRM boats, whatever.
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Kanos posted:The Orion is super solid. Well yes the Stormcrow Prime is the best mech on the tabletop and i don’t have any of them yet
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The Wraith is also ABSURDLY good, though it's absurdly good by virtue of being the best at one specific build - loading up 6 to 8 improved jump jets with nimble jumper and ripping someone's spine open with a disgusting amount of energy firepower. Firestarters are capable of a similar build but the Wraith has enough tonnage that instead of some medium/small lasers you can bring stuff like snubbies and VSPLs.
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Apr 26, 2023 16:22
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My favorite BTA 55-ton mech is the Shadow Hawk variant with 5 missile slots given to that one guaranteed hero pilot who loves cats and does extra good with SRMs, personally.
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Apr 26, 2023 17:38
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BlondRobin posted:My favorite BTA 55-ton mech is the Shadow Hawk variant with 5 missile slots given to that one guaranteed hero pilot who loves cats and does extra good with SRMs, personally. I have that pilot in a goliath right now which is pretty fun
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Apr 26, 2023 17:40
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Captain Foo posted:What is the best overall mech chassis and why is it the Orion Man I always kinda hated Orions, it seemed like in all my careers somehow it ended up as my first worthwhile heavy, and the builds for them always seem so boring to me. Too much just mini-atlas until you get the much later timeline ones.
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I always run my Orions hot as gently caress. Either they're going to murder you or they're going to cook themselves alive. Either way something fun is going to happen.
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In BTA my Scorpions always were the super stars in the 55t range. Incredible movespeed with their quirks and you can build them as really good flankers or absolute melee monsters while still having tons of armor.
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BlondRobin posted:My favorite BTA 55-ton mech is the Shadow Hawk variant with 5 missile slots given to that one guaranteed hero pilot who loves cats and does extra good with SRMs, personally. I always give him a Timber Wolf with 7 SRM-6s.
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Gwaihir posted:Man I always kinda hated Orions, it seemed like in all my careers somehow it ended up as my first worthwhile heavy, and the builds for them always seem so boring to me. Too much just mini-atlas until you get the much later timeline ones. I have one as my primary mrmfucker right now
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Kanos posted:Firestarters are capable of a similar build but the Wraith has enough tonnage that instead of some medium/small lasers you can bring stuff like snubbies and VSPLs. I lucked out and got one of these bad boys from winning at a gameworld: https://www.bta3062.com/index.php?title=Firestarter and I put Aether in it https://www.bta3062.com/index.php?title=Aether and loaded it up with small x-pulses and a huge engine and it just glides through the battlefield ripping backs to shreds. even without using the Nimble Jumper affinity it still rules
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Apr 26, 2023 20:33
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Captain Foo posted:I have one as my primary mrmfucker right now I do Very Much enjoy the -R variant when I find one. That many missile hardpoints solves all sins.
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I have a Raksasha -2R variant as an MRM boat and it is a real bastard https://www.bta3062.com/index.php?title=Rakshasa
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My game won't load and hangs on the validating saves still. Guess I'll just delete everything and reinstall
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Apr 26, 2023 22:59
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Schiltrons are available everywhere in BTA (the 2x Arrow variant anyway, think the others are unsalvageable and unpurchaseable). Teppos (Sniper and 2xArrow) are Kurita faction store only. Monsters can run 2x Long Tom or 2xSniper and 2xArrow. In case you salvage any.
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In vanilla the best mech that doesn’t revolve around headshot shenanigans is the Crusader AL.
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Pattonesque posted:I have a Raksasha -2R variant as an MRM boat and it is a real bastard I love that mech on principle It's fine, we have Mad Cat at home
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Runa posted:I love that mech on principle Yeah
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Runa posted:I love that mech on principle it's hilarious right although in this it gets the unlimited power quirk which is real good while the TW's initiative quirk is just fine
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I have 2/3 of an Ostscout and I really want that last piece so I can stick as much EWAR equipment and as big of an engine on it as possible and use it as a mech-shaped NARC beacon
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Ams, narc, ecm, tag, c3(i)
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Captain Foo posted:Ams, narc, ecm, tag, c3(i) yessss for anyone who has BTA, highly recommend sprinkling AMS among your company and having one mech that boats it. you'll be facing so many enemies and so many of them will have LRMs that it's a lifesaver
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BlondRobin posted:My favorite BTA 55-ton mech is the Shadow Hawk variant with 5 missile slots given to that one guaranteed hero pilot who loves cats and does extra good with SRMs, personally. In my current career, Wulfbanes got absolutely murdered by a DFA on his second deployment. Which sucked because I got a lot of mileage out of him the first time around. I did the Radio Crowd start this time and I've had Grampa whining his rear end off in a Wolverine since day one. At first it was the one I got at the start, then I got my hands on a Sanctuary version with some DBACs.
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Pattonesque posted:I have 2/3 of an Ostscout and I really want that last piece so I can stick as much EWAR equipment and as big of an engine on it as possible and use it as a mech-shaped NARC beacon Four words: Strafing. Run. Comm. Suite.
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GD_American posted:Four words: i love those, especially once i got the mechbuster. set it up to strafe the rear and it can get multiple kills in one pass
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Pattonesque posted:yessss Remember to set your ams to overload mode
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McGavin posted:In vanilla the best mech that doesn’t revolve around headshot shenanigans is the Crusader AL. When did the crusader get added to vanilla? Do you mean the centurion?
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Yes.
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GD_American posted:Four words: Hell yes. Being able to sprint to a good position and backshot a half-dozen mechs is awesome.
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Gwaihir posted:A lot of the flashpoints are designed for lower tonnage lances than the typical endgame assault crew, so doing them with your existing save will just feel kinda pointless. There are plenty of endgame max level ones too that you could do now though. I think the issue with the final mission was more me being burned out and just trying to zerg the bad guys. I used the same loadout for the run where I finally beat it and only lost an arm on two different mechs, just by going much slower and letting them come to me. The loadout was basically: A Grasshopper to jump behind bad guys and punch their spines out. (Dekker) An Atlas with AC/20 and SRM6s to core mechs. (Behemoth) Wound up losing the AC/20 just due to tanking so much damage. The SLDF Highlander with a bunch of long-range ballistics (including the Gauss) and LLs. (Self) Wound up losing an AC/5 because the enemy mechs for some reason really focused fire on the Highlander despite it jumping around everywhere and having high evasion all the time. Kamea in her Atlas II.
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just had a bta mission where i had to face down 30 wobbies my two lrm carriers mk2 had 13 kills between them
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bgreman posted:I think the issue with the final mission was more me being burned out and just trying to zerg the bad guys. I used the same loadout for the run where I finally beat it and only lost an arm on two different mechs, just by going much slower and letting them come to me. So by final mission you mean the 2nd to final mission right? Because the final "showdown" 4v4 fight should be insanely easy with that set. The balance changes to the game had a pretty big impact on some of the campaign missions. Some of them got easier but a fair number got much harder. And a couple of the endgame missions were always a bit perversely difficult when you over-teched to assaults just by being really slow. The enemies get all the positioning & terrain advantages, and those are easier to neutralize when you're fast. (Your jumpy long-range highlander probably got focused by the AI because it has less armor than everyone else. One of priorities for AI targeting is a simple damage/armor ratio; they love to attack glass cannons.
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Klyith posted:So by final mission you mean the 2nd to final mission right? Because the final "showdown" 4v4 fight should be insanely easy with that set. No I mean the actual final mission. Like I said, once I took my time and didn't just try to rush the enemy, I had a breeze with it. The prior time when Kamea got iced, I also was doing fairly well, I just left the Atlas II overexposed and right after killing Victoria the Awesome or Battlemaster or whatever their left flank mech was got another turn and got a lucky ammo explosion on Kamea and killed her.
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That's part of what I love and hate about Battletech. Every mech and pilot is a lucky/unlucky ammo racking or headshot away from going down.
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That's why I only hire zombies
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I have officially downloaded the BTA 3062 game after having stepped away from the 2018 BT game for a while. And now It's time for me to get destroyed in new and interesting ways
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hey, installation question for those folks who are familiar with BTA 3062. I asked the folks on the discord server and they were nice but didn't really seem to be able to offer a solution (if there is one). So I've got the launcher downloaded and all of the folders set up correctly, when I click Update/Install BTA the installer tells me it needs to initialize the cache, and then I get a message stating that the "BTA Cache update has failed." When I look back at the log, the last message is: "_pygit2.GitError: failed to send request: The operation timed out" When I reached out to the BTA3062 support folks, one of them told me this was a 404 message and the issue was with my internet connection. I've tried this a couple of times over the course of the day, and from multiple different networks - same issue regardless. I'm currently downloading the pre-cache manually to see if that resolves it, but does this sound familiar to anyone?
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