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I am not at all qualified to make this [BATTLETECH] thread
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Do you like Battle?
Do you like Tech?
Then friend, have I got a game for you!
Battletech released on Steam earlier today, where it is only a 10GB download on Windows and inexplicably 26GB on Mac what the fuck???
Honestly I mostly just made this thread to complain about the Mac download size. I've barely played the game yet.
Tell me about your dope callsigns though, mine is Aurora.
Do you like Tech?
Then friend, have I got a game for you!
Battletech released on Steam earlier today, where it is only a 10GB download on Windows and inexplicably 26GB on Mac what the fuck???
Honestly I mostly just made this thread to complain about the Mac download size. I've barely played the game yet.
Tell me about your dope callsigns though, mine is Aurora.
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and a RPG
Also I’m not sure I’d recommend this for someone who hasn’t been able to get into battletech in the past/someone new to the system. Between vague memories of this from childhood and Waypoint’s stream I feel like I have a decent grasp on how it all works but
could probably be doing better. I feel like they could have a better tutorial system.
On the other hand all my mechs are in constructicon paint jobs and I punched a mech’s cockpit so hard it exploded.
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It is, but I’m already less frustrated with it than I was with Xcom at the same point, about 45 minutes in.
Finished turning my extra Shadow Hawk into a janky fire-support mech until I get something better suited for that and I'm feeling pretty good about things.
but I'm actively looking for a brawler
just some nasty little punch delivery device
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That Shadow Hawk they give you at the start is a good candidate for that. Thing does 85 damage per punch. It’s absurdly heat-efficient so you can drop a heat sink or two in exchange for more armor. I don’t know about the support slots on it, but just it’s raw melee can easily cripple the light mechs they throw at you in the early game.
oh I love this
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Steam: MightyPotatoKing
but, yeah, not all mechs are created equal in looks and performance
I'm surprisingly okay with an ugly ass mech, because I know when it's actually beautiful on the inside
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Or a grown up Urbanmech.
There's software you can get that will force a windowed application into windowed fullscreen. Windowed Borderless Gaming I think
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
I'm kind of tempted to restart the campaign already though, I bought some cool looking guns that turned out to be too big to actually cram into my mech yet.
I'm enjoying the game so far, although I really wish the UI was more helpful for letting you figure out ranges. Like the game gives you info for each gun's ideal range and minimum range, but when I have to move I'm just kinda like... Here I guess? It'd be nice to have more precise information.
Into the Breach really spoiled me for "All the information you will ever need, immediately visible"
There were tabletop rules for using the spotlight to help with targeting! Also, I think the warhammer got killed in the harmony gold stuff.
http://www.sarna.net/news/more-news-on-harmony-gold-vs-battletech/
Related article on the sidebar there:
http://www.sarna.net/news/harmony-golds-case-against-harebrained-schemes-dismissed/
Looks like soon-ish means two weeks ago.
Not exactly, the case against Harebrained Schemes and the one against PGI are sort of intertwined. HBS is using the updated 'mech models that PGI uses in MWO and MW:5, which include updates of the "unseen" 'mechs that Harmony Gold believes they own the rights to. So the judge still has to dismiss the case against PGI to put HBS totally in the clear to include 'mechs like the Marauder and the Warhammer.
Steam
ARGH
So now I am replaying that last fight and I am savescumming called PPC shots against the thing's head like a giant dorkus and I don't even care. I am entitled to that mech. It is mine by all the laws of God and man.
I haven’t figured out how to do that yet, if it is possible.
I did learn that if you walk a short enough distance you get a much wider facing selection, and you can use this to make your mech walk backwards.
Yeah, I clocked that one, but I'm trying to find out how to make a light mech even remotely useful
"Run real far away from support and then just stand there and get demolished" ain't my favorite tactic, but "Hang with everybody else and fling your pebbles at a collossus" isn't much better
Yeah this is kinda true for me too, I love the Marauder and Warhammer because Robotech on Toonami was my first real introduction to mecha as a genre. I owe Harmony Gold a little for creating Robotech, but man have they been jackasses.
Other original 'mech designs that I really love (Fafnir and Uziel) come later in the BT timeline so I won't see those unless we get to that point in DLC or a sequel.
Delay with high evasion + brace, wait for enemy to go first, run up and hit them to strip an evasion pip to make the rest of the team more accurate, go before them again the next turn and position to whatever side is crippled to finish them off has been my basic light strategy.
What is the bar underneath the heat gauge on mechs for?
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The orange bar? Stability. Hitting with physical object based attacks: missiles, auto cannons, punches, etc (not lasers though PPCs count) destabilize the enemy.
If they become unstable they lose evasive. If it fills up all the way they fall over (and then usually die).