Battletech - Kickstarter game pre release game play

Sephiroth_dude · 03-05-2018 6:21pm

Nice to see different difficultly levels coming.

Canis Lupus · 06-05-2018 2:54pm

The amount of 90% shots I miss in this game........

Nody · 06-05-2018 5:13pm

Just had my character PPCed in the head; 140 days recovery... Going to be a lot of mercing around until I'm back in the boat again and can continue the story mission.

Jayd0g · 06-05-2018 9:29pm

Giant Robot Amputation Pokemon sounds intriguing .....

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/05/04/battletech-salvage-explained/

Canis Lupus · 07-05-2018 2:03am

Or my newest favourite. Rng headshot killing both a heavy mech and a med, both mechs that I want and then realising I can only pick 2 pieces and rng decides to give me sh*t like heatsinks in the remainder parts.

Canis Lupus · 07-05-2018 12:55pm

Really enjoying this game. Love how it just lets you go at your own pace. No pressure to move the main story line on, difficulty seems reasonable so far. Haven't ventured into multiplayer yet as I don't want to ruin the fun of getting my own heavies and assaults for the first time.

I just wish it was A: a bit prettier and B: ran a bit better. It's a bit chuggy at times considering not a lot is going on on screen whether that be due to optimisation or the Unity engine.

VinLieger · 11-05-2018 8:20am

One problem im really having with this game is the varying difficulty of missions that are supposedly the same level.

Tried two 2 skull missions yesterday, one had 2 damaged heavies and was a relative walkover for my 4 mediums, the second had 3 mediums and 7 lights all pounce at the same time. Im fine if the game is difficult but that is a pretty bull**** difference in difficulty for supposedly the same level of mission.

Shiminay · 12-05-2018 11:10pm

The instability and bizarre difficulty ratings are, I believe, their top priority for fixes, so there's that, but I concede that they're both big problems for anyone who's on the fence about whether they want to pick it up or not.

Speaking of dodgy encounters with the RNG gods... I lost one of my primary pilots (10/7/9/7 stats) in a Battlemaster Assault Mechs to a fecking Locust alpha strike that took the head clean off. The salt was *very* real at that.

Canis Lupus · 12-05-2018 11:59pm

Liberate Smithon. 2 skulls.... Yeah right.... I'm continually getting rekted. Have had to 'cheat' and look how others completed it. Gonna try again when I feel less annoyed.

Shiminay · 13-05-2018 1:50am

Yea, that one was a proper pain in the arse. I ended up

completely ignoring the transports and turtled in the bottom right corner taking out anything that came up the hill and any turrets I had vision on

.

Nody · 13-05-2018 6:47am

Shiminay wrote: »

Yea, that one was a proper pain in the arse. I ended up
completely ignoring the transports and turtled in the bottom right corner taking out anything that came up the hill and any turrets I had vision on
.

I did not find it to hard; simply waited them out until I could blow a crate and seriously damage/kill most of the reinforcements as they were approaching and I had a Hunchback Laser (HBK-4P) on dedicated anti transport duty at the laser tower. It one rounded the trucks and drew long range fire from the reinforcement allowing me a break on the other three standing in the water pool taking pot shots (all my mechs run maxed front armor as I like to go into close combat and melee the enemy down :P ).

But if you think that one was rough wait until you get to Raising the dead (3 skulls). That one whopped my ass around so badly (it's a two part mission) I was embarrassed and I had been doing 3 and 3.5 skull missions for months before that with 50/60 ton mechs and ended up having to cheese it by

kitting backwards & knocking them down one by one with missiles and then focus fire the CT to blow them up

...

Canis Lupus · 13-05-2018 12:53pm

I want the pew pew hbk.. Although I have the 4g variant and a 100dmg hit AC/20 wrecks light mechs.

Doing the mission again and I never noticed as I thought it was just normal terrain but the bluey bit are mineral fields that adds +4 difficulty for enemies to hit you although it also debuffs your shots by 2. Seems to be making a difference mid way through this attempt. Taking out that bottom right ammo dump destroys the two turrets which removes alot of destabilisation and subsequent knockdowns..

Also question... is there a way to get a better idea on terrain? Sometimes it looks like you're safely behind landscape and the enemy blaps you anyway.

Nody · 13-05-2018 2:58pm

Canis Lupus wrote: »

I want the pew pew hbk.. Although I have the 4g variant and a 100dmg hit AC/20 wrecks light mechs.

It's brilliant; I've run 2 of them with having pretty much every 50 to 70 ton mech in storage as alternatives. They have so many heatsinks that even on a desert world you still fire all guns multiple turns; take one turn to dump heat and then continue shooting. You're also likely to get a headshot out of them simply due to volume of fire and they are cheap to maintain as you have M Lasers out of your wazoo from random salvage anyway (they got 1 M Laser in each arm and rest is in the torso).

Also question... is there a way to get a better idea on terrain? Sometimes it looks like you're safely behind landscape and the enemy blaps you anyway.

Landscape basically never protects you short of some serious rock outcrops or similar and even then they can usually move around enough to get a shot on you (as shots can go through terrain in both directions if they can draw a line of sight through it).

degrassinoel · 13-05-2018 5:54pm

have that ace skill that reduces initiative (piloting?) and running a big ol' Thunderbolt stripped down of almost all it's armour and weapons with just jumpjets and 2x LRM20's

it's comical :pac:

Oooh you have an atlas mk II? FWAAAAPx2 - knockdown, Highlander with Gauss Rifle snipes and launches another volley of LRM20 to the face

that or double legshots are awesome!

VinLieger · 14-05-2018 1:11pm

Saw a youtube vid with a 65 LRM stalker which im itching to try when i manage to catch one, gotta catch em all Pokemech!

Nody · 14-05-2018 1:39pm

VinLieger wrote: »

Saw a youtube vid with a 65 LRM stalker which im itching to try when i manage to catch one, gotta catch em all Pokemech!

Got an Orion with 55 LRMs on it; could theoretically stick 60 LRMs on it but I'm at 55 LRM due to heat management (and lack of a +stability 20 LRM) as it allows me to continue shooting turn after turn.

Canis Lupus · 24-05-2018 10:34am

Always thought regular contracts maps were randomly generated but I've played the same one twice today.

Also noticed (thanks to some bs headshots and reloading) the game responds to your mechs. I played the same contract with a heavy and had heavy opponents then used only mediums and faced only mediums then back to the heavy and faced a couple of heavies. Whilst it makes sense it also now that makes me think that just using meds would be the easiest way of dealing with contracts

Patser · 24-05-2018 10:42am

Right, game will still not work on my laptop, seems to be an issue with older Radeon graphics cards. Took only sensible option available and bought new laptop.

Please tell me its a good game.......

Shiminay · 24-05-2018 6:12pm

I think it's great

TheValeyard · 24-05-2018 6:14pm

Bought it last night.

Its basically xcom in space.

And giant mechs.

Good so far.

Canis Lupus · 24-05-2018 10:05pm

Patser wrote: »

Right, game will still not work on my laptop, seems to be an issue with older Radeon graphics cards. Took only sensible option available and bought new laptop.

Please tell me its a good game.......

I'm really enjoying it and I don't normally do turn based for long.

There's some things they could improve on like how to speed up the game during turns etc (this is in the works). The camera can be dreadfully stupid during turns focusing in on strange things whilst the action happens off screen. There's little to no help regarding the tutorial phase and there's a chunk to learn especially if you're not used to the Battlemech world. It's not the prettiest either. I don't often buy games but after trying this from another source I went to GoG and made it legit. Don't regret it a bit.

Shiminay · 25-05-2018 12:25am

You can disable the automatic camera stuff in the menu, made things much more sensible. The starting couple of hours definitely needs work in explaining itself to the new player though, but that's a common theme in turn based games I think.

TheValeyard · 25-05-2018 5:13pm

Im liking the battle music

TheValeyard · 04-06-2018 2:00pm

Right one thing that is annoying me.

No voice audio during cut scenes just text options.

I donr get why there is audio and voiceovers during the missions, but not after?

I know its only a small thing, but it bugs me

Sephiroth_dude · 06-06-2018 6:53pm

Took the plunge and got this the other day for 15, hope I like it now!

Shiminay · 08-06-2018 8:00pm

So Quill18 has a 57min video showing off a pretty substantial mod pack for Battletech called Roguetech which seems to make for a tougher and more roguelike experience with tons of extra features and mechanics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ubDlmQ_Yqs

You can download it from Nexusmods here: https://www.nexusmods.com/battletech/mods/79

Shiminay · 17-06-2019 11:27am

*bump*

There's new DLC available for this now centred on Urban Warfare, so I felt inspired to fire it all up again this weekend. Started a new Career and tried to learn how to play again

Spent ages trying to get some mods working, they wouldn't (I'm guessing the compatibility with the new content is to blame), so I went for vanilla. Note: HBS have added a speed up option for single player, so you're not waiting for ages as mechs stomp all around the map.

The issues with inconsistent difficulty on skull ratings still seems to be there and I haven't encountered any "Urban" settings yet, but it's been fun.

Battletech - Kickstarter game pre release game play

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