KickStarter BattleTech Pre-Release Thread

[Infinitron]

Re: tracking sales numbers

This game will be our first major release after the Death/Rebirth of Steamspy.

#3 in global sales now, after Frostpunk and PUBG.

http://steamspy.com/app/637090
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?filter=topsellers&os=win

 

[Kem0sabe]

 

[Xeon]

[citation needed]

Sorry, the post of me asking about it doesn't seem to be available anymore, maybe deleted because it was an off topic post or something. But iirc Fairfax was the one who posted the number of sales so he/she might still know.

 

[Bohr]

I know all the HBS megafans ITT will want to watch the release stream:

 

[Sykar]

Also why there is no planes,when there is starships?

There are, ones that can operate both in atmosphere and space no less, they are usually just swept under the rug or otherwise hidden in the closet because the BattleMech's status doesn't survive closer scrutiny.

I never got why the human race degenerated that much to use inefficient mechs. In our century we have a lot better weaponry than the one in the game. A single bomber could fuck them over,seeing how they can't hit shit with laser from 100 meters. I do get it that to-hit-chance is there for a game reason. Still it kind off feels unrealistic as fuck.

That's usually why mecha tend to have magical powers. The only magical powers that BattleMechs got are ignoring recoil and weight distribution, which while impressive in their defiance of laws of physics don't quite begin to justify why the BattleMech is treated as the be-all-end-all weapon.

That is because people love giant robots, simple as that and I am sure you actually know it.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Naturally, point is more in regards to the legwork for suspension of disbelief. Which is to say there's an insufficiency of magical powers for the giant robots. To justify the supremacy of giant robots beyond them being by principle cooler, an easy step for example would be to rename tonnage to whatever else that isn't a measurement for mass, and then hardcap all non-mech warmachines at, say, 5 tons equivalent. There's plenty of more elaborate bullshit excuses to be made for why giant robots > everything else, but even something that simply would be preferable to just trying to ignore the elephant in the room.

 

[fantadomat]

Also why there is no planes,when there is starships?

There are, ones that can operate both in atmosphere and space no less, they are usually just swept under the rug or otherwise hidden in the closet because the BattleMech's status doesn't survive closer scrutiny.

I never got why the human race degenerated that much to use inefficient mechs. In our century we have a lot better weaponry than the one in the game. A single bomber could fuck them over,seeing how they can't hit shit with laser from 100 meters. I do get it that to-hit-chance is there for a game reason. Still it kind off feels unrealistic as fuck.

That's usually why mecha tend to have magical powers. The only magical powers that BattleMechs got are ignoring recoil and weight distribution, which while impressive in their defiance of laws of physics don't quite begin to justify why the BattleMech is treated as the be-all-end-all weapon.

That is because people love giant robots, simple as that and I am sure you actually know it.

And the source material is pretty old. That is why i am a little bit on the fence when comes to recreating PnP rules on the pc. Still the game looks promising and fun.
Vaarna_Aarne,i was going for satirical pointing out of the illogical things in the game. I do agree that mechs are pretty useless peace of metal.

 

[almondblight]

After all this cemetery filled with games killed by slow animation and lack of animation speed settings, you would believe they would stop doing that... I really hate it when a game requires me to use a speed hack to play properly.

According to reports, it's also made worse by HBS decisions to send you against 8 weak and idiotic mechs instead of simply going against 4 strong mechs with decent AI - doubling the amount of time spent watching enemy animations, but not increasing the difficulty. They did the same thing with SRHK (trying to increase the challenge by throwing more trash mobs at you instead of more challenging enemies). My guess is that some higher-up at HBS thinks that players want to feel powerful by letting them kill a lot of things, but this approach just makes the game much slower and more boring (at least, that was the result in SRHK).

 

[fantadomat]

After all this cemetery filled with games killed by slow animation and lack of animation speed settings, you would believe they would stop doing that... I really hate it when a game requires me to use a speed hack to play properly.

According to reports, it's also made worse by HBS decisions to send you against 8 weak and idiotic mechs instead of simply going against 4 strong mechs with decent AI - doubling the amount of time spent watching enemy animations, but not increasing the difficulty. They did the same thing with SRHK (trying to increase the challenge by throwing more trash mobs at you instead of more challenging enemies). My guess is that some higher-up at HBS thinks that players want to feel powerful by letting them kill a lot of things, but this approach just makes the game much slower and more boring (at least, that was the result in SRHK).

Guys,are you saying that you can't disable/speedup the animations?! Such heresy should be burned!