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M_Gargantua posted:When did battletech get away from giant robot mercenaries? Battletech is big stompy robots. Every video I've seen of AC6 looks like they plucked the air raider out of edf and gave her her very own dark souls franchise.
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House Arano (from the Campaign) gets a callout in the latest Battletech Recognition Guide. Captain Chris McMillen: McMillen was a MechWarrior in House Arano’s Royal Guard. When the Aurigan Coalition threatened to fracture in the Directorate Coup, McMillen remained faithful to his liege lady, following Lady Kamea into exile and fighting in almost every major battle of her long and bloody Restoration. In one notable engagement, McMillen and his Phoenix Hawk single-handedly smashed a reinforced Taurian armor lance in an hour-long running battle. Slated for ennoblement, McMillen was killed when damaged sensors and comm gear and a confusion of orders resulted in him standing unaware squarely in the landing zone of an Aurigan DropShip. Most of us can still remember the first time the dropship accidentally crushed one of our mechs.
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SirFozzie posted:House Arano (from the Campaign) gets a callout in the latest Battletech Recognition Guide. ... yes, i accidentally crushed those newbies i was training. definitely not intentional
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Jul 27, 2023 21:55
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Azhais posted:Battletech is big stompy robots. Every video I've seen of AC6 looks like they plucked the air raider out of edf and gave her her very own dark souls franchise. More like taking an ace combat game and swapping out the plane for a mech. Don't go into an AC game expecting Dark Souls like combat.
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Jul 27, 2023 22:09
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The old AC games were much more in the stompy robot territory, which I think is largely an artifact of them being more primitive generally and not able to do the flashy stuff the new ones can. If anything AC6 looks a bit less anime than AC4, which was the last one I played, breifly, as I couldn't handle the way it felt to play, having really enjoyed AC1 and 2. They always had the ability to skate around with your boosters, but it used to feel much more like piloting a vehicle rather than the seizure inducing flying around and boost-dodging focus of later games which seem much more like controlling a character that happens to be a robot, rather than driving a tank, that happens to be a robot (and also possibly still kind of a tank, if you use the tank legs) In AC2 you could build your AC to be quite mobile and even to be fairly airborne, but there was no real extra mobility so it's just like an extended jump jet, AC4 had you building poo poo that barely touched the ground. I think they even had an in universe explanation where the new super anime mechs were like, a new kind of technology, while the clunky old ACs were basically cannon fodder. AC6 looks interesting, but I'm not sure whether I would enjoy it. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Jul 27, 2023 |
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Jul 27, 2023 22:23
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Carcer posted:On your own its ok. The allied AI is probably the weakest part of the game and you can always feel it. They've improved the base game significantly now, over like 3 major patches, to the point where it's better than the AI mod. It's still not perfect, but it's much better than it was. fe: talking about MW5
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RBA Starblade posted:https://mw5mercs.com/dlc/the-dragons-gambit How many warcrimes do you think the player will have to commit?
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Jul 27, 2023 23:08
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Azhais posted:Battletech is big stompy robots. Every video I've seen of AC6 looks like they plucked the air raider out of edf and gave her her very own dark souls franchise. wing diver
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NihilCredo posted:What's the state of MW5 these days? I haven't paid much attention since the poor impression it made at release, and MWO suffices for my occasional first-person-robot cravings. Has the AI been improved (by patches or mods) to a point that is fun? Considerably better than it was. The DLC campaigns show the attention to detail that the base game lacked. That said it’s still probably the worst iterative mainline entry (assuming you are comparing them to when they were recently released). I don’t know how to properly explain this besides saying it sparks less joy than when I played previous titles did when I first got them, but I’d rather play it than them because modern graphics are nice and some of those old UI’s were the worst. Not that this one is good. In short Meh, get it on sale. Edit: I understand co-op makes it a lot more fun.
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Aug 5, 2023 08:36
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Proc gen being the goto solution for the game really made it feel bland. Theres a couple of actually planned out missions, but theyre far rarer than they should be, especially when you compare it to the last mercenary mainline game released, 4, where every mission was an actual planned experience other than the solaris matches. Hell even some of the main story missions in 5 are indistinguishable from mission_contract_seed_arid_1a_recon or mission_contract_seed_lunar_3d_attackdefend
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Aug 5, 2023 11:05
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MW5 really could use FFA Solaris matches too, tbh
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Aug 5, 2023 11:12
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I don't know if any of the mainline games are going to recapture the magic of kid me running around in an Atlas in MW2:M, but I'm going to keep chasing that dragon.
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Polaron posted:How many warcrimes do you think the player will have to commit? Ideally all of them
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RBA Starblade posted:Ideally all of them gently caress you pay me more 🎶
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BTA 16.4 Patch Mostly focused on quirk rebalancing, HGR and Snub-Nose PPC got a rework, and various other stuff.
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Aug 8, 2023 00:37
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BTA has released "BTA Light". It's a one off release off BTA 3062 that's closer to the vanilla game. https://www.bta3062.com/index.php?title=BTA_Light Stuff that's gone: quote:Any non-canon mech variants or chassis that were not available in exactly 3062-3063, including the MWO non-canon chassis (Corsair, Sun Spider, Roughneck). This also included chassis that are canon but no longer are available, such as the Age of War designs like the Mackie and obscure designs like the Dragoon, these have been removed. The total body count was around 1k total variants. IT REQUIRES A NEW DOWNLOADER! https://www.bta3062.com/index.php/Main_Page Might be something for a player who want's a bit more than BTX but is scared by all the bullshit that BTA 3062 has. (I'm looking at you, LAMs and BAs...)
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Aug 8, 2023 22:21
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LAMs and BAs are hilarious though.
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Aug 8, 2023 22:41
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One of them anyway, love me some LAMs in the video game. Unlike how bad they are on tabletop
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Aug 8, 2023 22:42
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BAs are hilarious too, you just drop them from space onto a mech and it basically flails around trying to get them off. Best use of the 10k or whatever it costs to drop one you could ask for.
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How widespread/common are the LAMs in BTA? Does the AI use them? About to finish up the base game campaign and I might start a BTA career play next, trying to figure what version of BTA to go with
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Aug 9, 2023 14:38
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They're fairly rare. Mostly only Comstar/WoB, although the Rim Collection faction store carries Screamer LAMs
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Aug 9, 2023 14:47
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Still love 3062 but man I only ever have time for a single mission because they take foreeeeeeeever
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Captain Beans posted:How widespread/common are the LAMs in BTA? Does the AI use them? I had an assload of LAMs show up on a flashpoint early on when I was mostly doing 3-4 skull missions by fielding an assload of mediums, and the flashpoint was limiting me to four mechs.
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lagidnam posted:BTA has released "BTA Light". It's a one off release off BTA 3062 that's closer to the vanilla game. Goddamn this is PERFECT. If this is basically BexCE with mechlab, I’m set for the rest of this games life. Tired of fiddling with BA, when I drop as many BA as mechs. Love vehicles, but happy to lose VTOLS since they’re basically just only good to use for BA carriers. Community content is just too broad. LAMs are funny when you use them, and lovely when not, so I’ll trade them out. And I never used air strikes, just because they were said to be OP, so no loss there.
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Dalaram posted:Goddamn this is PERFECT. It seems pretty good, but it being a one off means It’s not likely to get other changes that get made. That might not be a bad thing, depending on your point of view. Might be neat if they were able to release Light every several releases, but i can see why they wouldn’t really want to, either.
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Aug 9, 2023 23:16
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I wouldn't deploy with BA, that's why you can fire it at the battlefield from space. Solves both the issue of it being annoying to transport and fragile as hell, and also it pilots itself so you don't have to click as much, just equip your dudes with drop targeters and forget about it once it's launched.
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Aug 9, 2023 23:25
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On the other hand, piloting BA is a good way to level up extra pilots
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I like bringing BA for training up extra rookies and it’s nice to have some extra activations to burn if both sides have reserved down to 1 and you want to force the enemy to activate first.
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BA are insanely easy and safe to transport and you don't even need to bring APCs or VTOLs, BA claw hardpoints are half a ton to slap on literally any mech you want. They're also monstrously overpowered in numerous ways, though they've hammered down on some of the more egregious ones(RIP Golem squads doing 400+ damage salvos every turn).
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Yeah I kinda hate BA because they ruin a lot of the fun of the setting for me and they're stupid obnoxious in BTA. Wish I could turn them off exclusively.
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Just don't run them. I don't, unless I'm specifically fielding 4 fast Mechs with BA handholds. I'm all about the headhunting right now, so I take them less and less.
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GD_American posted:Just don't run them. Makes trying to fight the clans a complete gently caress when you get highly honorable firemoths sprinting in to dump salamanders on your rear end
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I kinda dig the fear factor, honestly. If I let them close in, that's my own drat fault. They really oughta use the infantry ambushes more in the urban maps. It'd be nice to see a camo-netted ambush version of it on normal woodland/jungle maps too. For a while there I had a lance of 7/11 moving 50 tonner punchbots that would drop BA. They would reliably one-hit KO a Mech or two, drop BA who could finish anyone left off. Then I had a few bad runs of losing limbs and lost the best hand actuators, and they were no longer one-punch wonders.
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ah the highs and lows of battletech. you can be doing great for like 15+ missions just crushing it. then a random gauss shot gets ya
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I finally got to the final Bounty Hunter mission in MW5 and it took so long to gather enough intel that it wasn't really challenging at all for the lance I brought. The confrontation after the big plot twist took probably less than 30 seconds and the final boss died before he could get a single shot off. After so many DLC missions that were actually interesting to play, this one fell flat even compared to the original campaign.
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i’m installing BTA mod for the first time wish my pilots luck
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pmchem posted:i’m installing BTA mod for the first time Have fun!!
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Captain Foo posted:Have fun!! I had a pilot get injured during the BTA training mission. 20 more days for one of my tactics specialists to heal. 10/10 finished the half-skulls on starter world
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I would definitely suggest the getting started guide on the bta wiki
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Not the most novel concept, but movement is life. Keep those evasion arrows up.
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