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Zaodai posted:Plus it gives them a less complex system to start with that they can expand in the next game when we all go to space and punch the Clans in the dick. I want to play the clanners, and punch the IS in the dick though. Hopefully HBS lets me fulfill this desire in due time
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I don't really care which side we get to play, so long as they do those jackets again and this time with a Jade Falcon patch.
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May 22, 2017 19:24
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I would be really happy if they do neat things to help dispel the illusion of only the player having money as a limiting factor... Mission briefing: "We are going to raid a hostile planet that just saw some fighting because of a pirate raid - we are hoping to catch them with their pants down". Player: "poo poo THEY HAVE TWO ATLASES!" Mission enemies: *Has two Altases with no AC/20 or SRM ammo* Or Big Al style, missing an arm.
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May 22, 2017 20:27
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Special condition: The ruler of this planet has severe sinestrophobia, so you need to remove all left arms from your mechs before deploying to the battlefield. +10% c-bills on completion.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:I would be really happy if they do neat things to help dispel the illusion of only the player having money as a limiting factor... I think that's something MW2 Mercs did a few times, and very well. The first Atlas you fight is indeed a special variant called "Crippled Atlas" and it is next to "Damaged Orion," both deep in the city center past all the undamaged mech, pushed into service out of desperation. There are a few places in the game you encounter damaged or otherwise not fully repaired mechs.
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May 22, 2017 22:25
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Is it too much to ask for to let you beat another robot to death with their own arm after shooting it off?
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That would require a lot of animation work, glorious though the result would be.
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May 23, 2017 00:46
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WebDO posted:Is it too much to ask for to let you beat another robot to death with their own arm after shooting it off? The game you're looking for is Nier: Automata
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Somebody did a full 3028 TRO for this game, covering all the mechs, factions and the state of the Inner Sphere in the era. They used art from MWO and the new updated models for the mechs, including the unseen, I haven't read it through yet but the production value is pretty good. https://wlu.box.com/s/cl1sj07p0eccuozxg6ow4svr1kg6dhvx
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May 24, 2017 00:13
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Phrosphor posted:Somebody did a full 3028 TRO for this game, covering all the mechs, factions and the state of the Inner Sphere in the era. They used art from MWO and the new updated models for the mechs, including the unseen, I haven't read it through yet but the production value is pretty good. holey moley ... how much is it to buy into the beta at this point, if I'm down for the lowest price at release?
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May 24, 2017 00:27
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Are you guys going full star citizen with dreams for this game or is all this speculation translated to the game itself?
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Ramadu posted:Are you guys going full star citizen with dreams for this game or is all this speculation translated to the game itself? HBS has actually showed what they're producing, and the stuff people seem to be dreaming about in this thread are stuff they haven't paid for yet. So pretty much the opposite of Star Citizen.
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They have actual gameplay videos, so it looks pretty unambiguously good at this point
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sebmojo posted:holey moley https://battletech.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders You want the $60 tier if you want Beta Access. Ramadu posted:Are you guys going full star citizen with dreams for this game or is all this speculation translated to the game itself? A lot of the stuff posted in this thread isn't speculation, it's stuff we've actually seen or the devs have spoken about on the official forums. Here's a match between the studio head and lead designer from last weekend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt6FatHHnzI Q_res fucked around with this message at 00:37 on May 24, 2017 |
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May 24, 2017 00:35
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Like I own their other games so I trust HBS to make a game, but when I'm seeing 5000 words about giant robots I'm gonna get a little wary. I'm sure we can all agree that scifi nerds can be overenthuisiastic!
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May 24, 2017 00:36
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The 1st Royal Guards Griffin in that fan TRO... 
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Ramadu posted:Are you guys going full star citizen with dreams for this game or is all this speculation translated to the game itself? It's gonna be a turn based xcom-style combat system with a pseudo-random mission generator. There's nothing out of control about the design spec and everyone involved has experience of delivering games of a similar scope. Now game 2 I want them to go full Chris Roberts, pull in the CK2 team to make a full Inner Sphere campaign map with each planet's nobility represented and a dynamic economy. And FMV.
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Alchenar posted:It's gonna be a turn based xcom-style combat system with a pseudo-random mission generator. There's nothing out of control about the design spec and everyone involved has experience of delivering games of a similar scope. The death of FMV in games has always made me sad. I always enjoyed the heck out of how cheesy and b movie they were.
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May 24, 2017 00:40
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Ramadu posted:Are you guys going full star citizen with dreams for this game or is all this speculation translated to the game itself? I honestly don't understand why people keep coming in here and comparing this to Star Citizen. What the game is going to be has pretty much been finalized, HBS has an actual release history of (good) games as a studio, and they've vehemently cut off all scope creep. They're actually probably going to cut out a feature as well that fans wanted simply because it will tie up too much time and money before their internal targeted release. I'd say that's the complete opposite of Star Citizen.
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May 24, 2017 00:42
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Ramadu posted:Like I own their other games so I trust HBS to make a game, but when I'm seeing 5000 words about giant robots I'm gonna get a little wary. I'm sure we can all agree that scifi nerds can be overenthuisiastic! Imagine writing post after post convincing strangers that your care level about a videogame is the correct amount.
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I have to admit, it does annoy me a bit that the fan-made TRO has so many Mechs that aren't in the game. Including some that likely never will be. Just because it might set up false expectations for less knowledgeable (of this game) folks and lead to disappointment.
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Q_res posted:I have to admit, it does annoy me a bit that the fan-made TRO has so many Mechs that aren't in the game. Including some that likely never will be. Just because it might set up false expectations for less knowledgeable (of this game) folks and lead to disappointment. I figured it was just a nice bit of fan made fluff to inform about the setting. No one is going to go through the effort of making a fan TRO without already knowing whats going to be in the game. I mean, there's a very public list of launch confirmed mechs.
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Q_res posted:https://battletech.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders You want the $60 tier if you want Beta Access. Gggnnn. Gonna wait.
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Ramadu posted:Are you guys going full star citizen with dreams for this game or is all this speculation translated to the game itself? The Backer Beta launches next Friday, so we will see for sure then.
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Ramadu posted:Like I own their other games so I trust HBS to make a game, but when I'm seeing 5000 words about giant robots I'm gonna get a little wary. I'm sure we can all agree that scifi nerds can be overenthuisiastic! Well that's because we're nerding out about the tabletop game the IP is from and imagine trying to stop a tabletop nerd from writing words.
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http://community.battletechgame.com/forums/threads/6879/comments/134880 Mech Lab might be ready for the beta, but not at the start of it.
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Skoll posted:http://community.battletechgame.com/forums/threads/6879/comments/134880 So stock mechs only for the start of the beta? I quite like that actually, you can focus on learning the game play instead of min-maxing chassis.
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A thing I'm curious about is HBS's approach to post-release support. Are they going to poo poo out a million mech packs and mission packs, which I would probably buy if the game ends up being as good as it looks from the match videos we've seen, or are they going to focus on a Shadowrun approach and release iterative versions of the game instead? I'd be okay with either, to be honest.
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The second. They've said no to Mech packs and have been pretty vocal about iterating. "With great success, anything is possible."
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I will say one thing for stock only. In the TT after you get past your initial "OMG I can make heat neutral Clan Tcomp, Pulse/Gauss monsters and beat everything!" phase, learning how to assemble a stock lance/company to work together as a team was the new challenge. When the plan comes together and each mech on the board covers the others weaknesses felt way more satisfying than just min/maxing a single chassis. It becomes more about positioning and LOS compared to who brought more headcapping weapons.
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Is it worth making a new thread for the beta, or to wait for release? The title doesn't really apply anymore.
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Phrosphor posted:Enforcer-4R The Enforcer has never been a "civilian police `Mech," it's the premier workhorse medium of the Federated Suns and is a direct answer to the Centurion. The two have similar performance but the Enforcer's arguably better.
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PoptartsNinja posted:The Enforcer has never been a "civilian police `Mech," it's the premier workhorse medium of the Federated Suns and is a direct answer to the Centurion. The two have similar performance but the Enforcer's arguably better. I think at this point my post has been picked apart by most people as being really bad and wrong  I just wanted to work out what the roles are for the mediums would be in multiplayer and threw in some fluff I had in my head. I was sure there was a piece of art with an Enforcer done up as a police mech and that is what I based it on.
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PoptartsNinja posted:The Enforcer has never been a "civilian police `Mech," it's the premier workhorse medium of the Federated Suns and is a direct answer to the Centurion. The two have similar performance but the Enforcer's arguably better. DISPERSE AND RETURN TO YOUR HOMES (dumps AC/10 rounds into a crowd of people). Everyone knows the Fire 'full warcrimes' starter is the correct riot suppression mech.
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Yeah, Autocannons aren't a great choice for killing crowds (I forget, does LBX AC rounds get a bonus against infantry?) Speaking of, I'm a bit sad that infantry won't be in the game. They'd be fun to squish and there is always the chance they're carrying some man portable Inferno SRMs or something to make things interesting. Oh hey, thats another thing that'll probably not be in the game, Infernos... those are around in 3025, yeah?
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Yeah, Autocannons aren't a great choice for killing crowds (I forget, does LBX AC rounds get a bonus against infantry?) Yes. They kill exactly one more poor bloody infantry than slugs. Which is normally one poor bloody infantry for every single autocannon until you get to the 20. Then it's two guys.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Yeah, Autocannons aren't a great choice for killing crowds (I forget, does LBX AC rounds get a bonus against infantry?) Infernos are around but they wont be in the game. Maybe in an expansion, who knows?
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Strobe posted:Yes. Unless you use the classic 'everyone conga-lines when fighting mechs' rules.
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Phrosphor posted:I think at this point my post has been picked apart by most people as being really bad and wrong It's fine, you might've been thinking of the Marshal which is more space cowboy lawman robot than police officer. BattleMechs typically don't have non-military roles, they're too "expensive" and most planets are dirt poor shitholes with no economy to speak of. There are civilian robots, but they're all trash (aside from the CattleMaster) that are usually ill-suited to the jobs they're designed to perform. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 07:05 on May 24, 2017 |
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PoptartsNinja posted:It's fine, you might've been thinking of the Marshal which is more space cowboy lawman robot than police officer. BattleMechs typically don't have non-military roles. There are civilian robots, but they're all trash (aside from the CattleMaster) that are usually ill-suited to the jobs they're designed to perform. You forgot forestry mechs friend. 
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