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Gamerofthegame posted:brigador is inspired by one of the mechwarrior games, we can't go full circle here Party Van when
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Apr 27, 2018 17:30
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Flipswitch posted:It might be me being poo poo, but I'm getting plastered at this game, it feels like my mechs are in repairs 24/7 and I'm launching missions just to stave off being bankrupt. I'm the same way except with three months of rent. I love that I'm basically a mercenary outfit of hobos desperately trying to not have our lovely cardboard box repossessed. quote:10/10 small time Merc sim I took on a mission for a local planetary government that is probably a warcrime to pay for repairs for my prime warcrime generating machine They were pleased enough I could afford refits for another warcrime machine
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Apr 27, 2018 23:06
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My mechwarriors sure do miss stationary targets ten times their size a lot. Like over half the time.
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Apr 28, 2018 01:30
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Coldforge posted:Invest in gunnery skill, watch your optimal range. Get gud I mean it says it's an 85% chance to hit and it's literally the broad side of a barn. They're just bads  Also I have twelve unfinished mechs argh quote:My glass cannon LRM-boat has been on north of 60 missions so far and has only lost one part, the LT with all the fancy LRMs in it - this was back when it had even less armor. And yes, 50 missiles is worth stripping the armor. The only threat is enemy LRMs or a light rush, and I run three close-range mechs that tear lights apart, and have high enough mobility to challenge any dedicated LRM craft. I switched my Centurion to fire 30 lrms a pop at Weldry and it was a hilarious cakewalk except the end where Arano decided to suicide rush the mechs and almost kill herself, I'm definitely going to go with this RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Apr 28, 2018 |
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Apr 28, 2018 02:26
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Stop loving coring the mechs I'm trying to loot you fucks there's no room left on this stupid ship for more thirds of a mech. We're drowning in mech arms
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Apr 28, 2018 06:11
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Black Griffon posted:Tbh, treat Glitch as Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow. Tbh. Maggot
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Apr 28, 2018 16:33
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Ihmemies posted:So I got escort mission with 22 armor "swift wind" light vehicles, with 1 structure. None survived. The enemies instagibbed them before I had time to do anything. I realized almost instantly that escort missions were going to be nightmares and have done any.
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Apr 28, 2018 17:37
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Galaga Galaxian posted:The problem is, how DO you mech Light mechs more useful later on? The game tracks tonnage being deployed, just have contract limits or something. Choose between one big mech and a small or a mix of four.
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Apr 28, 2018 17:51
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LRMs and sniping in general feels hilariously powerful. Let me just rain poo poo on you for the next thirty seconds
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Apr 28, 2018 18:23
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Ratzap posted:That would be the best choice but it'd be a mammoth task depending on which ref books they include in he rework. If they are planning a long term set of releases via DLC or updates then there is just so much material. Just for 3025 they could do a good half dozen campaign modules for various houses and conflicts. Then they could move on to 3028 and so on down the line of ref books. If they're smart they can put off touching the silly stuff from 3050 onwards for quite a long time. Enough time to work out how to do it in a reasonable manner. I played Warhammer tt and this sounds way radder lol I spent most of my time getting owned by spergs with rulers.
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Apr 28, 2018 19:43
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Jumpjets let you not care about positioning and also seem amazingly overpowered so yes keep those.
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Apr 28, 2018 20:22
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I keep trying to overwatch my mechs and it keeps not working
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Apr 29, 2018 01:55
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I have three mediums and one light mech because the game still hasn't deigned to give me any salvage to complete a mech. I just beat Weldry. The easiest possible mission I can do is ten medium and heavy mechs at a time. They all have ppcs or large lasers. 
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What the gently caress, this super easy baby mission that's a 10 v 4 with medium and heavies vs. my light and mediums, the only mechs I've seen or salvaged, is a 10 v 4 before reinforcements. If I withdraw I'm withdrawing in bad faith. Kamea sent me on this according to the contract. Did I just gently caress myself over and instantly lose the campaign by beating Weldry with a light/medium lance? How is this possible? e: By the way if you didn't realize, pausing the game doesn't stop combat. Why? gently caress you!
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Apr 29, 2018 02:38
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Synthbuttrange posted:Try heading back out to easier space and kick pirates around. This IS easier space. Went ahead and backed out and reloaded an earlier save since everybody died. I guess I'm going to savescum a lot here.
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Apr 29, 2018 02:43
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Someone explain to me how armor works and why my locust gets its structure exposed when an lrm5 hits it but the enemy locust can take 240 missiles. I understand it's locational but that's almost literally more missiles than it has armor points. Nearly all hit too. e: Also who else just reloads when the reinforcements spawn instantly?
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Apr 29, 2018 03:26
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Ok I've reloaded my way and bankrupted my way to even weaker planets where I still can't win because my four lovely mediums can't take 4 heavies, 4 mediums, two lights, and two tanks on a one skull mission. I'm probably restarting because I made this unwinnable by rushing. I guess maybe don't do Weldry until you have at least 1 heavy and three mediums to hold yourself together?
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I just had a mechwarrior get shot in the head by machine guns four turns in a row to kill them and someone else shot in it a fifth turn jesus christ cut me a break Battletech e: Holy poo poo he survived and is out 94 days RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Apr 29, 2018 |
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Apr 29, 2018 04:32
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I'm not even pretending I can do Panzyr until I get a heavy. My mediums barely cut it at the lowest difficulty as is.
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sebmojo posted:Panzyr tips: Be aggressive on the tanks at the start, advance fast, focus down the SRM carriers and stamp on the rest. Make sure you're near the main ramp down to the port as you finish the last tank so you get the 'ignore the turrets' message fast. Ready a fast light to double initiative sprint off through the trees to the right, after you've drawn the main force in with the rest of your robots. I'm sure the mission is fine but my lance of failures can barely do 1 to 1.5 skulls. I just can't deal with being outnumbered by heavier mechs 2 to 1 right now and the difficulty ramp up will end things. As it is I'm savescumming if a contract deploys reinforcements instantly.
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Apr 29, 2018 15:09
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Jabor posted:I got screwed out of winning my first attempt at that because finishing off the last enemy (and going back into noncombat mode) screws anyone that hasn't moved yet out of their turn. Ended up one turn short of blowing up the objective. Speaking of combat shenanigans I'm not a huge fan of how sensor locking an unknown enemy on first contact starts combat and un-locks the target.
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Apr 29, 2018 15:11
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GreyjoyBastard posted:i thought you were the guy talking about facing multiple lances of heavies at 1.5-2 skulls, you should have one already from the salvage I lose those missions and reload. I almost have a Quickdraw though.
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Apr 29, 2018 16:07
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mlmp08 posted:Speaking of builds, beyond very basic/obvious stuff, where should I be focusing upgrades to the spaceship? Things that straight up make mech repairs faster make sense, but vague things like "power grid improved" don't really explain themselves. Things like those are pre-reqs for other upgrades. I've just been queuing them up as I get spare cash.
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JacksLibido posted:How is your lance built? I did panzyr with a 20/15/10/LRM 1mlas cent, a stock AC20 hunchback, the original shadow hawk that I put 2xSRM6 1xSRM4 1mlas, and a 3xSRM6 1mlas wolverine. The srm carriers all had max front chest armor and bulwark so I’d just sprint them to the bottom of the ramp and tank for days. The HBK did work on heavy dudes, but SRMs are king of the low weight classes. So far I'm using a BJ with 2 AC/5s, Vindicator which is mostly stock but upgraded parts and removed a bit to uparmor it, a Centurion which is barfing missiles everywhere, and a Shadowhawk I switched to close range combat. I'm jumping them around trying to flank or take advantage of openings but it's not really working. Maybe I'll switch to SRMs on the Centurion to help out the Shadowhawk, and definitely retire the BJ once I get anything else. quote:this is the question we probably should have asked earlier, i can't think of a single mission where i've been outnumbered by heavier mechs but if he's piloting his initial four mechs on two skulls i think i can see where it might get a little tricky It's a lot of starter stuff yeah, I just haven't gotten the salvage to piece more together. The 10v4s are just always going to withdraw or reload though. I'm pretty comfortable sticking to 1.5 skulls max until I get a heavy or two now though. I can fairly consistently handle that until the reinforcements instant spawn. RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Apr 29, 2018 |
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Ciaphas posted:Yo there's an HBS dev in here right? Ammo explosion graphic sizes should scale with the amount of ammo destroyed It's weird that mechs remain intact after years of Mechwarrior where an exploding mech was going to gently caress you up if you were near it.
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I like how these SRM carriers can shoot me from longer range than I can shoot them with LRMs. It's been one round and a mechwarrior is already critical and with three wounds. From cover. With four evasion. Two headshots. Behemoth's hosed. e: Also it bugged out and I can't actually shoot any of the srm carriers with anything but lrms so that's cool, this is definitely winnable now RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Apr 30, 2018 |
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Coucho Marx posted:I think people knock the Jager because it's one of the first Heavies easily available to you and they're expecting it to just wander around a wreck poo poo. It had the letter "s" and had even had Arano pop up and say "hey don't get shot by these SRM Carriers" the turn the drove up and hosed Behemoth up. Not that it mattered I ended up losing the old fashioned way - by trying to drive my baby mediums around all the heavies they have no hope of defeating even with the turrets that already blew up, running into an invisible wall, and running out of time because I didn't see the little orange line and thought I was being clever by using the dropships as cover. This game is doing a lot to break me out of feeling bad about reloading in what are usually 'ironman' kinds of games. 
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quote:Anyway, I'm getting headshot four or five times a mission now. I don't even plan out skills for mechwarriors because by the time they come back I've totally forgotten what I wanted to do with them.
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Night10194 posted:How are people getting headshot so constantly. It seems to happen to me a lot when I'm above an enemy, I wonder if that matters at all.
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Coucho Marx posted:You can fit a ~40 LRM salvo and enough ammo (4-6) with enough space left for four JJs and some paper-thin armour. You're keeping it behind a rock well back from the fight anyway, so you don't need much. All my mechs had long range options. No one's past 5 or 6 in a skill but that's fine. The SRMs blew them off one mech so it was useless except as a meatshield (they weren't from fog b ut I didn't know they were carriers because they were in fog, though I don't know why no one could shoot them on an open road). After reloading I rushed two on the main road with the lrm boat as cover. The hawk just barely made it and took the control center out; it lost both of its arms as the price. The Blackjack took a few mechs out but finally lost its arms as well, the pilot ejected. The first crippled mech finally ejected with the lrm boat because it was too slow to make it. I beat the mission with no deaths, three wounded warriors, and three hosed up mechs. I lost most of my good gear but that's fine, I can recover. I have nothing in reserve but I do have money to burn so I can wait it out. Sorry I forgot to take screenshots I was clenching the whole last half hour. I beat it with three rounds to go, now that I drove down the road and didn't try to rappel down the cliff. I have eight heavies at 1/3. Ol' MechCOM has been having a bad time. No salvage this mission either because the heavies survived; I just hauled rear end and ran. I got a second Trebuchet part and a whole Panther though! I'm finding the game really frustrating (because I've played too much XCOM I think) but super fun. quote:Are you guys just trying to run like, four pilots? I've got six right now, rip dekker RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Apr 30, 2018 |
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Coucho Marx posted:Yay! I'd say stop now and recover, then do contracts until you actually have a few heavies. It's not like it was an easy mission, anyway - I went in with a Black Knight brawler, Jagermech sniper, Centurion LRM boat, and the Shadow Hawk, and the first two got it pretty hard. Haha yep, I flew all the way back to Detroit for a nice easy mission (which immediately sent me somewhere else  ). Going to focus on finishing up some of these incomplete mechs, if I can ever get my dudes to not just blast the core to bits when I aim for a leg.
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cugel posted:This is a world of special snowflakes. Backer characters were the worst in Pillar of Eternity for me, even the names of the backers in the random names of the aliens of Faster Than Light were annoying. In Battletech I don't mind them. A couple aren't too bad. I found one that was just "she graduated early and was pretty good at flanking!" and another that was "he's an old fart who lies to everyone about who he is because he doesn't give a poo poo anymore". Then I also saw the one who graduated at the top of his class kid, nothin' personnel
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Apr 30, 2018 03:56
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Night10194 posted:You're getting shot at with the kind of weapons designed to punch through a 60 ton robot. That's how you're getting hurt. Also a machine gun that ricochets juuuust right
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Apr 30, 2018 04:17
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Plek posted:I'm liking the game but it really needs sequential contracts/missions. I want to campaign on a world, not jump between planets every couple days. Contract subplots would be pretty good yeah.
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Apr 30, 2018 18:15
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The Saddest Robot posted:I really wish there were some weapons in 3025 to bridge the gap between 1t MLasers and 5t LLasers. I miss rotary autocannons and artillery. Also those suicide nuke things.
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Apr 30, 2018 18:22
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Man, I'm really itching to play MW4 Mercs again. How well does it work on Windows 10 with a 360 controller? I haven't owned a stick in years.
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Apr 30, 2018 18:47
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John Charity Spring posted:MW4 Mercs is really difficult to get working on Windows 10 now, if not impossible for some people. Some nvidia driver update last year essentially broke it and makes it crash on startup. I spent some time trying to find a way around this but none of the suggested fixes worked for me or for several other people posting about it online. Well poo poo. 
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Apr 30, 2018 18:53
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Randler posted:There's an AMA on reddit right now. The reinforcement thing is good to know I should just withdraw in bad faith instead of reload. The only penalty is to rep right?
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Liquid Communism posted:I like Gundam style naming conventions. Hence Glitch Custom on my sniperchicken. "WHAT, AN ATLAS"
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