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Internet Explorer posted:Since you already got your witty answers, they would bid to see who could use the least amount of Mechs / elementals / dropships, etc., to fight a battle. The one who said they could do it with the least got to attack and prove how badass they were. This caused the Clans a lot of problems. Specifically caused them problems because it would turn out that the attacker was not as badass as they thought they were. It's an interesting story device that explains why the clans don't just overrun every planet they come across.
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Probably has been brought up before, but there is aot of lag right after every attack before it calculates, right? Game is good but that kind of kills some of the effect.
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Apr 24, 2018 21:29
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Punched a bit above my class and pulled through a hard mission by the skin of my teeth, game crashed after the loot screen and wiped the progress
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Apr 24, 2018 23:48
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Draynar posted:help Congratulations on your discovery of a literary device called a "time skip"
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Apr 25, 2018 00:51
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Kind of surprised that elevation doesn't really play in this game, I thought I remember that being a big thing in MechCommander. Also LMs kind of suck and that makes me sad. peer posted:Here's a thing I appreciate that I rarely see in games: if you wipe out everyone on the map, you don't have to run all the way to the extraction point It makes it kind of funny when they go "Oh good job on the missions, just go along this PERFECTLY EMPTY path to extraction. No enemies. Never."
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Apr 25, 2018 01:02
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So, uh, does anyone know the save file locations? I switched the install file from my regular drive to my SSD through steam and it unlinked the save. Or deleted it. E. Never mind, restarting helped somehow.
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Apr 25, 2018 01:19
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Magni posted:Elevation gives you a pretty decent to-hit bonus, though? If it does then it doesn't seem to show it in the tooltip, all I can see are the positives for morale and negatives for evasion and cover. E. Ended up finding a position where it did give me that bonus, you just *really* have to have a height difference, it isn't as easy as "top or bottom of a ramp" CuddleCryptid fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Apr 25, 2018 |
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Apr 25, 2018 01:27
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Just had a fight on a moon (60% heat sink efficiency) turn into an overheated punching match in the middle of a field. Glorious. E. What is the easiest way to refit a destroyed part? Do I really have to manually buy and re-place every single component by hand? CuddleCryptid fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Apr 25, 2018 |
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Apr 25, 2018 03:00
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Does anyone know if there is a background difficulty slope a la XCOM's aliens getting stronger by timeline, or am I okay just orbiting for a month to get stuff built?
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Apr 25, 2018 03:52
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RBA Starblade posted:Oh, so they're destroyed and and gone forever and not just damaged. That's fair. Then why can I equip them? Can I just send out a mech with broken trash for no reason? When you replace an arm or whatever it automatically queues up those parts for disassembly, but if it doesn't you have to. It takes additional time to remove those broken components. You might be asking why that is, seeing that you're basically taking the arm off at the shoulder anyways, but don't ask questions.
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Apr 25, 2018 04:12
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Bring out a heavy mech for the first time and it gets cores by a Jenner on the first turn 
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Apr 25, 2018 05:15
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It seems like Jump Jets really are the way to go. Evasion is such a big deal and jumping easily gives you four stacks, versus only one or none for moving normally as a big mech.GruntyThrst posted:Is there a way to see what weapon is mounted where on an enemy mech I am missing? In the tooltip for the enemy mech there is a vertical list on the right side. I believe that it gets further parsed down when you hover over a specific section. Or do you mean something else?
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Apr 25, 2018 15:34
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Party Plane Jones posted:What settings do I need to change in order to speed up combat/movement? Getting slightly annoyed at how long everything takes to move. Any mission with vehicles as objectives seems to suck. I had one where I had to blow up a convoy of them with a couple mech escorts. Easy. Except they move super fast and were on a road so it was less of an ambush and more my mech chasing them like a dog after a truck. Better LOS indicators would go a long way, or some way to break LOS like smoke or something. Since "cover" is pretty vague here compared to something like XCOM we kind of need something.
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Apr 25, 2018 16:23
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This is such a small thing but it bothers me that you can't just pick a voice for your PC, everything is all digitized for your own mech. I want to hear my PC yelling at the enemy, not listen to her computer mumble about alpha strikes.
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Apr 25, 2018 16:44
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canepazzo posted:My Dekker survived up until my 10th mission, then got knocked out. "Finally, my mech is assembled. Just gotta throw on a few lasers and heat sinks and it'll be ready to go! Time to completion: 45 days" 
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Apr 25, 2018 16:51
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Making it so Arano's survival is this Big Definining Moment in the story was certainly an interesting choice seeing that we already saw her re-crowned in the opening cutscene
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Apr 25, 2018 17:00
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Zigmidge posted:I think that only makes it seem faster. It was the first thing I did after the first tutorial mission. What I need is for the game to stop lingering on everything after resolving anything. I think that's just the engine chugging through calculations for God knows what reason. It's great to nail someone with twenty lasers then see it blow up after several seconds of nothing. Mordja posted:I feel like every Battletech-based video game I've played has had something to do with restoring a rightful monarch to the throne... That is because it is the year 3XXX and they are still obsessed with goatfucking royalty.
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Apr 25, 2018 17:06
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Cowcaster posted:also can we talk about how the whole "battlemechs are rare antiques, handed down from generation to generation, whose price tag is worth a king's ransom, also you will munch through them like popcorn over the course of a single game in a single small sector of space" is a real have your cake and eat it too concept It's like EVE Online, where the fluff says that it costs the savings and lives of hundreds of thousands of people just to build and run the smallest of ships, which are then flown directly into the sun just to see what happens.
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Apr 25, 2018 17:24
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Ihmemies posted:I need to somehow learn to use light mechs. On 3 years later the light mech got destroyed and pilot got a 4-month sickbay leave. Like the first attack blew up that thing, with 4 evasion. All my mediums are fine, except one where a dropship landed on top of it. I am in the same boat. The thing for me is that my previous experiences mostly have been through mechwarrior, and there the strongest use for lights was as a target painter that let your not-poo poo teammates blow up enemies without getting sensor locked. Now that isn't really a thing given the relatively short distances that the fights take place over, they are a bit weird to work with.
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Apr 25, 2018 17:34
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Beefeater1980 posted:Also one question, and it’s kind of embarrassing since I’ve been interacting with Btech stuff since late 80s and even have the boxed set with the marauder and warhammer (which are cool af) etc in it. Not directly, but in a tactical sense it makes better formation to do a close/far/close/far positioning. The reason for this is so that fast mechs can't just jump behind the whole line, relying on you not being able to rotate without exposing your own side. You want to have the firing arc of your rear mechs to include the back of your forward mechs if your setup allows for it.
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Apr 25, 2018 17:55
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:So I restarted now that I've had a little more experience with the game and I got to the bit where the Bad Guys send a guy named Captain Haust to kill you. I know it would break the game but it would be great if meleeing a downed enemy was an instant kill. Why bother with shooting a prone target, just step on it with your fifty ton mech.
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Apr 26, 2018 01:35
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Bruceski posted:Is poptarting (shooting mid jump before landing back behind cover) possible in here, or is that just a MWO thing? You can jump for the four stacks of evasion and then shoot someone, which is kind of the same thing 
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Apr 26, 2018 02:22
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Baron Porkface posted:How do you expose structure and what are the consequences? How do crits work? To simplify, think of structure as health and the armor as, well, armor. Once you melt off the armor you can start directly attacking the health of a part until it fails and is destroyed. Mechs don't really have a single health bar, they are made up of several separate places, so you can burn off an arm and a leg and it will still be walking until you hit more delicate parts.
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Apr 26, 2018 02:36
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:It's me, I restarted my campaign because I thought of a better callsign/merc outfit gimmick. Yes I know I'm the only one who will ever see this. Hey, that stuff is important. I was going to have a serious crisis of character if my in game avatar had to be the same as my unique MP name.
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Apr 26, 2018 02:59
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That Italian Guy posted:That's actually your best move, especially if you have weight disadvantage or have used vigilance in that round. If someone has to sprint to reach you, they can't shoot you; you can use your reserved lights to backstab them, then scram at the beginning of the following round, use sensor lock to remove evasion pips then punch them and dog pile them and so on. If you are in the perfect position, nothing bara you from reserving everything till the last phase for a powerfull combined punch. My god, reserving your lights until initiative four effectively gives them two moves in a row, one to move in and one to bug out. Not being sarcastic I honestly never realized this very basic idea.
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Apr 26, 2018 03:37
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Synthbuttrange posted:Is there a way to add waypoints in moves? I'm pretty sure I could get through this radiation field on a wriggly path! Jump jets? Basically any mobility question can be answered with proper application of jump jets
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Apr 26, 2018 03:54
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Eej posted:Dude you should be excited to get some Orion parts Technically the AC round you got in the chest once was housed inside an Orion, sure.
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Insert name here posted:I wish you could just sell the scrap parts for C-Bills because I really don't give a poo poo about having like 2/3 of a Locust and 1/3 of a Commando or whatever Made even worse when the tooltip points out that those unsellable pieces are worth whatever millions of c-bills
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Apr 26, 2018 04:33
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Flavius Belisarius posted:Thank you, I knew it was something right in front of me. Don't worry, I literally spent several minutes just clicking randomly trying to find the button to get to that screen. None of the other rooms had stuff outside of their radial menus, why would the ship?
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I need to figure out how to mitigate damage better because I spend a month repairing after every matchup. I guess I can put one in front to soak it up and rotate them out, but for a relatively even match that doesn't work.RBA Starblade posted:I keep trying to overwatch my mechs and it keeps not working "Full cover and I still get hit, this is bullshit"
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Apr 29, 2018 01:59
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SRM carriers crack me up. "Surely he must be out of rockets now. He's been firing for full seconds. Nope, still more rockets. It's like a clown car for explosions."
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Noob question, but does anyone have any tips for the early macros game? As in just got the Argos. It feels like I'm bleeding money and time because my mechs get damaged and then spend a month each in the shop between every mission.
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Amechwarrior posted:https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/battletech-tactics-guide-line-of-sight-control.1130808/ Cheers!
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