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yeah, it sounds like your ship crew are the supporting characters of the game, although I don't know how in-depth that element will be
All HBS has to do to get me to back one of their videogames is for me to be aware they've got a Kickstarter for it going. I actually enjoyed Dragonfall more than Hong Kong, but that by no means equates to not being able to see where the studio is improving.
Plus their writing is always their strongest point and it's just way too damn hard to find RPGs with more actual story than grinding these days, so anything they make goes up to the top of my list for that reason as well.
I've only ever played hong kong, which as the last game they did in the series will have the most polish and smoothest gameplay..so I are scurred of going back and playing the previous ones.
They backported many of the gameplay improvements with the deluxe editions, actually! The previous parts are great.
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The Bulwark skill gives you Guarded when you don't move. Nothing gives you Entrenched except for Bracing, which immediately ends that pilot's turn.
e: also Highlander burials are amazing and I'm looking forward to seeing the Highlander with an Angel of Death pilot.
Yup, pretty much.
The Master Tactician pilot skill also removes Unsteady if the 'Mech it's piloting is Reserved.
Frankly, it annoys me a little that I have to take measures to remove it. I'm fine with Unsteady, but I think it should also go away if the 'Mech doesn't suffer concentrated round-over-round attacks. The way it works now breaks verisimilitude for me.
Yeah that seems like it should wear off if you go a round without taking any significant stability damage. Or maybe something like: So that low skill pilots need 3-4 rounds, mediocre pilots only 2-3, and really good pilots only need 1.
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So my current loadout on my Timberwolf/Madcat is 3x C-ER LL and 5x C-SML PLS. It's actually been working really well. I've heard people not favoring the C-LL because of heat/damage ratio or something. But with only being 1 slot and the weight I was able to cram in a good amount more heat sinks. I also gave up on running SRMs because I just never used them as much as I always thought I would.
Critical Failures - Havenhold Campaign • August St. Cloud (Human Ranger)
The reason wasn't that it was hot/damage ratio but the burn time to allow it to do all the damage. That is why most people run CERML to lower the exposure time and most of the time that range is good enough for most matches.
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Ah. That makes sense. I've been running the 3LL in my shoulder-pod so it I've been able to chain-fire pretty reliably with not a ton of exposure.
Critical Failures - Havenhold Campaign • August St. Cloud (Human Ranger)
This actually brings up a good point. I know this is the Beta and therefore incomplete, but boy oh boy do I hope I can light forests on fire in the full game.
Scorched earth for days, son.
forest fires are apparently on the list of things that they want to do and have plans to do but will probably not be in at launch, like co-op multiplayer
Think of poor Smokey. Then all of his woodland friends without homes...
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If they really wanted to protect their forests, they'd have battlemechs of their own.
That's what overheated mechs look like, glowing red hot. The visual disappears as soon as you cool off. The Urbanmechs were able to restart and reduce heat from 100%. It does seem like the overheat status is bugged and so much heat had been applied to the Kintaro and Hunchback they were shutting down two or three times in a row. They didn't have enough heat sinks to recover, so they stayed in the overheated animation.
Being able to stand up while you are shut down is also a pretty awesome bug. If they don't nerf flamers before release, that'll be the way to capture mechs early, shut them down and take called shots against their head until you kill the pilot.
Great, I now imagine Smokey piloting a Kodiak.
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I've never really had a good handle on when/where the Word of Blake stuff happened.
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If you're at all familiar with the "Chaos March" area around Terra that was briefly the connecting part of the Federated Commonwealth; that was pretty much it. I mean, during the Jihad proper they were suddenly everywhere, but prior to that they had a large presence in the Free Worlds League, and managed to use a large force of mercenaries to take Terra and start trying to consolidate a hold in the March. The Fed Com had effectively lost control of the region in the wake of Operation Guerrero (The FWL and CapCon retaliatory campaign during Victor Steiner-Davion's early reign to reclaim their Fourth Succession War losses and avenge Joshua Marik's death while he was in the care of the New Avalon Institute of Science's medical school, or more specifically rebuke the FC for the Fed Suns' Ministry of Information & Intelligence Operations attempt to buy time in their leukemia-treatment-for-war materials agreement by using a body double to cover up his death) and Katherine Steiner leading the Lyran half of the FC into seceding to form the Lyran Alliance, all of which happened around the mid-3050's. WoB's influence in the March steadily increased (despite concerted efforts by the Wolf's Dragoons) from mid-late 3050's up till the Jihad, which lasted from the late 3060's into the early 3070's.
Sarna.net's maps of the Inner Sphere (scroll down to images at bottom of page) do a pretty good job of showing where borders changed. Dunno about their timelines though.
Edit: Well, they used to have a whole bunch of more detailed maps in that article, but the current ones are good enough for showing the progression of the big players, and the specific stuff you're asking about.
Edit 2: Oh, and in case you didn't know; Word of Blake was founded by members of Comstar at the tail end of the Clan Invasion (3052, 3053, thereabouts), when then-Primus Myndo Waterly planned to initiate Operation Scorpion; an attempt by Comstar to backstab everyone and seize power in the wake of victory at Tukayyid, only for Precentor-Martial Anastasius Focht* to assassinate her and force the First Circuit (ruling council of Precentors who represent Comstar's operations in the 5 main successor states) to appoint Kuritan spy & Precentor-Deiron Sharilar Mori as Waterly's successor (knowing she'd back his efforts to reform Comstar into a benevolent secular organization). Many refused to go along with it, and fled to the Free Worlds League were Precentor-Atreus Demona Aziz helped organize them into a rival group which would maintain the religious idolatry and, secretly, the plans to try and conquer everything.
*Major spoilers
It doesn't go past the Third Succession War, but the graphic HBS put up on its Kickstarter for the timeline is really good.
Did they ever do books about this stuff, or was it all left in their incredibly ill-advised time skip to Dark Age?
All of the Jihad era events were eventually thoroughly spelled out through sourcebooks. Someone else would have to speak to the novels.
The original time skip happened from the end of the Civil War, to the Blackout.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
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oh maybe you mean the battletech game though
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Hoorah you did it!
But really the amount of sub 50 dmg potatoes is shocking. I was shocked. So yeah team with other good players to limit potential potato teammates = profit.
Yeah, the Battletech game.
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