KickStarter BattleTech Pre-Release Thread

[Jimmious]

Wait we have someone in here that cares about multiplayer more than singleplayer???

 

[Ulminati]

For a game about strategy I'll take a human opponent over a shitty AI any day.

That goes double if HBS is going to pull a shadowrun and make AI pilots only use half their actions to attack.

 

[Bubbles]

I have no faith in HBS's single player design. If they manage to implement PvP, it will probably end up being the best gameplay element.

 

[Gremius]

They advertise the game with Shadowrun: Hong Kong bland, boring music. Hype dropped to zero.

 

[DwarvenFood]

Stretch goals are retarded.
Multiplayer is the one thing I wanted from the game, and it's at $2.5 million.

Meanwhile, Golem Arcana got $518k, SRR got $1.8mil and SRHK got $1.2 mil.
On top of that, their previous games had a $15 buy-in minimum if you wanted a digital copy. Now they're asking for $25.

It's a shame, because I was pumped for this game until I saw how they prioritized the goals. I set a reminder for when there's 48 hours left. If they've broken $2.5 mil by then, I might buy in at minimum price. Otherwise this thing is bundle fodder.

Well they are going to reach the 2mil - I think that chance is like 99%. It will be interesting to see how much higher than that it will go, personally I think it will get to almost 3mil.

 

[Bubbles]

Isn't this thread in the wrong forum? They aren't even claiming to have any RPG elements.

 

[Infinitron]

Isn't this thread in the wrong forum?

Could be, but as you may know I'm unhappy with the way "tactical squad-based RPGs" are discussed on this forum so I'm okay with it being here.

They aren't even claiming to have any RPG elements.

Not true.

 

[Bubbles]

From the KS main page:

Is this an RPG like your Shadowrun games?

Our Shadowrun games are cRPGs with tactical combat. BATTLETECH will be a tactical ‘Mech combat game. If we’re lucky enough to reach the Stage 2 and Stage 3 co-funding levels, we'll be able to add some RPG elements, but the core of this game is tactical combat.

Adding "some RPG elements" is a stretch goal, so they aren't part of the base pitch.

 

[khavi]

And pretty unlikely to succeed given their previous KS totals and Shadowrun being a more popular IP than mechwarrior right now.

Shadowrun has never been more popular than Mechwarrior/Battletech. If you take the tabletop BTech versus PnP shadowrun only I might give that to you, but the long lineage of Mechwarrior and Btech PC titles puts Shadowrun to shame.

 

[khavi]

Day 1 KS counts:

Battletech: 754k (12 hours)
Pillars of Eternity - $705k
Divinity 2: $534k
Wasteland 2: $470k

Only beat by Torment and Shenmu 3, heh.

 

[taxalot]

I do not really care for this so I hope they keep making more Shadowrun

 

[FuriousGamer87]

I do not really care for this so I hope they keep making more Shadowrun

Didn't they say they are stopping already?

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

I do not really care for this so I hope they keep making more Shadowrun

Hong Kong high level DLC is still coming.

 

[prodigydancer]

I do not really care for this so I hope they keep making more Shadowrun

Alas, this Kickstarter will probably bring them more money than both SR campaigns combined.

 

[Zetor]

Well, miniatures fanatics for an existing IP are a pretty good target market compared to pen-and-paper fans (especially if your RPG club handed out photocopied 'warez' versions of rulebooks, like mine did) -- heavy investment into and loyalty for the IP, plus probably a whole lot of disposable income. Warmachine is a much smaller IP, and WM:Tactics still got 1.6mil in its kickstarter... despite the dev team being a completely unknown quantity (they had the backing of Privateer Press, but still) and the KS itself not being organized that well.

 

[sser]

I don't understand how they can get that much without showing gameplay in a gameplay-focused game. Their other games have the shittiest combat imaginable, so this seems awfully lenient to me. Whatever. Kickstarter gonna Kickstarter I guess.

 

[ArchAngel]

I don't understand how they can get that much without showing gameplay in a gameplay-focused game. Their other games have the shittiest combat imaginable, so this seems awfully lenient to me. Whatever. Kickstarter gonna Kickstarter I guess.

You mean like WL2, PoE and TToN?

 

[Stompa]

I don't understand how they can get that much without showing gameplay in a gameplay-focused game. Their other games have the shittiest combat imaginable, so this seems awfully lenient to me. Whatever. Kickstarter gonna Kickstarter I guess.

Battletech fans will throw a lot of money at the slightest promise of a working mech game, as shown by MWO.

 

[PeachPlumage]

Will definitely back this! (Listening to MechWarrior 2 OST)

 

[DeepOcean]

I don't understand how they can get that much without showing gameplay in a gameplay-focused game. Their other games have the shittiest combat imaginable, so this seems awfully lenient to me. Whatever. Kickstarter gonna Kickstarter I guess.

FASA IPs have a huge nostalgic power, how many mech strategy games that aren't animu retarded and have a huge storyline and universe built around them do you know? You are assuming that the average player and the average game designer even know what shitty combat is.

 

[prodigydancer]

BTW, ITT I'd really like to hear from the preachers of KS burnout - come tell us about how incline is over, Kickstarter is dead and no-one can get decent funding for your project via crowdsourcing anymore.

 

[Obviousplant]

I hope they don't skimp out on the customization options. That's what games like this are for.

 

[Galdred]

I don't understand how they can get that much without showing gameplay in a gameplay-focused game. Their other games have the shittiest combat imaginable, so this seems awfully lenient to me. Whatever. Kickstarter gonna Kickstarter I guess.

Actually, BattleTech was designed by Weisman, so the players appalled by his designs are probably not fans of Battletech in the first place.

 

[DwarvenFood]

I'll wait a bit before backing on the off-chance that the Codex will run a campaign.

 

[Infinitron]

I'll wait a bit before backing on the off-chance that the Codex will run a campaign.

You can withdraw your pledge you know