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Skippy McPants posted:One of the things that makes BT notable as a sci-fi setting is that's it's only humans doing human things. No aliens, and no magical realism. Well, there's FTL, but that's deliberately something that hardly anyone barely understands, it just kinda works and they try not to break it.
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HBS has shipped 3(Three) isometric turn based games already. I'm confident in their ability to do it again, especially since they're staffed and run by people who are so crazy about Battletech that they made Battletech.
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May 29, 2017 18:51
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You guys mean the Hellstar, the abomination with 4 cERPPCs and 30 DHS, although the Nightstar is a perfectly solid mech as well.
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Jun 6, 2017 02:09
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It's easy to understand grogs: they actually think they're very important. They have the Nerd Disease: they think the long-term consumption of media matters, and is a replacement for a personality. When a grog gets pissy at you, it's because they literally cannot understand how you could disagree with them.
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Jun 14, 2017 06:04
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It's a gangly licensed japanbot that they didn't even bother to take the weird plane parts off the back from when it was a transforming jet.
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Jun 25, 2017 00:11
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Party Plane Jones posted:"Morning! How's it feel to be strapped into a walking 'nuke reactor at 6 AM. Bet you're sorry you didn't study harder in school." Then again, your career turns out pretty well in M2Mercs. Most people in the sphere won't even have a c-bill in their lifetime, even the people who live on planets that don't suck.
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Sep 22, 2017 08:42
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On the other hand, Hurting People and Breaking Things does tend to pay pretty well, and it's a seller's market in the Inner Sphere.
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Nov 18, 2017 06:40
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Phrosphor posted:Posting for posterity Which clan were they making fun of, or was it just all of them? MWO did attract spergs like flies to carrion.
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Nov 21, 2017 20:51
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Just make sure that the right merc company operates out of Butte Hold.
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Nov 24, 2017 10:12
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Having the WoB be literal space terrorists who'd wiped their bases off the records and were doing bad guy things would have been better than a new ultra-fanatic army and navy out of nowhere that was just strong enough to provide fodder for the nominal heroes but not able to actually accomplish anything meaningful.
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Jan 26, 2018 22:27
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Strobe posted:I'm the Blood Angels codex underneath. Holy poo poo, you're right. They must be attracted to each other, like some singularity of bad decisions about money.
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Jan 31, 2018 07:28
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UI takes a really long time to do, because the first three times you build it will completely suck and the whole thing is directly user facing and has to be intuitive, pretty, and useful.
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Mar 16, 2018 23:56
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We don't have wired reflexes but we can probably work out something rather similar to Novacoke.
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Apr 3, 2018 00:32
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Radio Free Kobold posted:Does that make this the Titanic? Probably more like the Queen Elizabeth.
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Apr 12, 2018 00:30
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Magni posted:So, uh, this seems to be a thing: So what you're saying is, Unseen DLC in three months?
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Apr 13, 2018 01:06
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Mwll is an incredible game and I am constantly astonished that it doesn't have a bigger player base.
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Apr 18, 2018 14:28
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Nickiepoo posted:Is space combat a thing within the BT universe? I am ignorant and this seems like a thing which should exist. Yes, but it's rare because warships are ruinously expensive and hard to build.
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Apr 19, 2018 20:17
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Libluini posted:The Battletech Universe always makes me wonder what would happen if mankind makes contact with an alien civilization who didn't waste all their resources on giant robots and killing each other. They'd be exterminated or enslaved by one of the aggressive, expansionist powers of humanity.
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Apr 19, 2018 20:30
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Hands and wrists are a robust, flexible, and proven design for interacting with a wide variety of objects. It's hard to beat them.
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Apr 21, 2018 20:42
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Coucho Marx posted:The other big 'oh hey that's clever' thing you can do (or at least I found clever) was actually making use of terrain as cover. Obviously this isn't a cover shooter, but it's really often easy to hide your mechs behind some rocks or the slope of a hill and get the enemy to come close. Works even better with JJs, as you have so much more control over angles of attack from there. This is what makes the second piloting ability so powerful. You can reserve a light or medium to the end of the order, move out and shoot, then shoot again, then break line of sight, all without the enemy ever getting a chance to engage them.
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Apr 28, 2018 05:48
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Szcwczuk posted:So another question I have is about money. I am so poor all the time, like on the verge of bankruptcy constantly. When you finish a mission and get salvage you see this screen. If you get 3 parts and sell a completed mech, it will be worth a lot of money.
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Apr 29, 2018 16:53
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BitterAvatar posted:I feel like I have no idea how to successfully use called shot. It always seems to be pointlessly low percentage chance to hit. What am I doing wrong? The percentage displayed is not your hit chance, it's the chance for a hit to be on that specific component (as opposed to elsewhere on the target.) Your chance of hitting somewhere are still displayed in the lower right.
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May 4, 2018 22:02
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Steam's news feed has always been a ridiculous joke.
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May 12, 2018 02:28
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Cyrano4747 posted:I'm waaaay more likely to savescum if some nigh-irreplaceable +++ bit of expensive gear (PPC or AC20 or LRM20 or the gauss or something) eats it than if someone has to punch out. God help us if they start putting Gauss+ or ++ in the game. Actually, there's probably a mod for that right now.
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May 13, 2018 17:09
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Over time the fluff on neurohelmets has evolved to where your brain is doing most of the heavy lifting when it comes to piloting a mech. It's not just reading your sense of balance, it's a weird kind of mental discipline that helps the computer control tons of myomer.
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May 15, 2018 14:20
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RBA Starblade posted:For how much MW4 I played I remember gently caress all about what I did playing them. Playing through Mercs again one mission and one crash at a time isn't helping! The first, like, half of the game is just you making your ridiculous rep while the war heats up. Then it's open contract time from both sides. Assuming this all isn't just some old smarmy sounding guy telling impossibly tall tales about how he won the war for Victor and walked into Solaris to win it, etc.
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May 16, 2018 01:03
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CommieGIR posted:I kind of hope they start adding support for ECM stuff. Doesn't Keith link up with the northern elements trying to reach you in the first place?
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Jun 4, 2018 16:37
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Captain Foo posted:a MechWarrior calling himself Spectre has arrived at your command post... If Spectre isn't the boss fight for Solaris in the next mechwarrior game I'm going to riot.
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Jun 10, 2018 17:01
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NihilCredo posted:On that note, is there a goonsensus on pilot skills? The best way to avoid damage is to kill things very dead as quickly as possible, and the best way to do that is with called shots, so tactics are a good way to go.
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Jun 10, 2018 19:10
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Pattonesque posted:gimme my Blaze/Mustang/Aisa Thastus lance from MW4: Mercs and get out of my way Falcon was so mad about having to work for you in that game, it was great.
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Jun 18, 2018 18:55
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The worst part of the whole MWO debacle was PGI thinking it was actually their success and not the franchise carrying them, which they immediately attempted to squander by pouring the MWO revenue into their dumb EVE rip-off.
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Sep 14, 2018 21:02
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Living legends is still running and still has a devteam. Play it instead of MWO.
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Sep 15, 2018 07:20
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Panfilo posted:I tried it, and while it is neat being able to also use vehicles and aircraft it is still pretty fast paced. I'm guessing it is a heavily modded version of some other FPS game? I think it's the extremely modded corpse of the Crysis Wars free demo, which is ironic because MWO is cryengine.
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Sep 15, 2018 18:52
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Good old rocket nose chest, ready to deflect shots right up into the cockpit.
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Sep 25, 2018 02:03
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Skippy McPants posted:It's even a thing in the fiction, where mechs lose a lot of their mystique during battalion and regiment sized engagements because they melt in fractions of a second under the weight of combined fire. It's why the Great Houses avoid actual wars, because they don't really want things to change, they just want to show up and robot joust a bit before going back to putting their robot feet on the backs of the people.
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If you want to aggressively suspend your disbelief and Enjoy The Robots, you have to start with the core principle that Mechs are a good idea and work backwards from there. Clearly the advantage over conventional vehicles isn't that they're more efficient from a cost standpoint, so the other benefits as presented by the setting (they're more durable, they last longer because of Myomer being space magic, they have superior endurance, they can handle rough terrain better, they tend to have more flexible loadouts) have to be enough to push the choice of discerning buyers in the direction of picking them over conventional forces. I mean, LRM carriers firing at something that's been hit with a TAG by a dude under a camo net are still probably a better choice for a planetary defense force on a budget, but that's not as portable as a Baron von Oppressor's household lance in a Leopard.
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Nov 6, 2018 07:01
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Mechs take time to get used to, they're partly brain piloted. Each model is a new skill, especially with the clunky interfaces of the timeframe the game takes place in. Professional pilots are in part sought after because they can pick up new chassis easily or have experience in a wide variety of them.
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Nov 6, 2018 19:01
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What's the two-line summary of Wars of Reaving? The Clans finally collapsing under the weight of their own hypocrisy?
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Nov 14, 2018 15:12
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So why not release the viruses first then wait until they've cut down on brutal overlord populations before deploying the clones?
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Back Hack posted:I remember when the community at large called us conspiracy nuts, because how dare we accuse their special snowflake of underhandedness and dishonesty! It was so obvious that the bare, cut to the bone minimum of revenue was going to mwo and oh look here's a stupid eve knockoff.
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would never do something so deceiving. 