KickStarter BATTLETECH - turn-based mech combat from Harebrained Schemes

[MadMaxHellfire]

screw you guys, i'm redownloading all this shit.
btw, it's "just" 11 gb download. and then triple that with roguetech.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

roguetech vs extended vs advanced.
discuss.

i like roguetech but it's just way too heavy on the system. which is the one just one step lighter? i want to spend more time in mechlab than on mission.

 

[Stoned Ape]

I think that Advanced 3062 gives you the most stuff outside of Roguetech.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

but i read it's focused on future tech, while my favourite playthroughs involve getting the most scrawny and decrepit lance against the clan invasion. i like my battletech low tech, at least in the beginning.

 

[Stoned Ape]

but i read it's focused on future tech, while my favourite playthroughs involve getting the most scrawny and decrepit lance against the clan invasion. i like my battletech low tech, at least in the beginning.

You can choose from many factions at the beginning, all with different levels of tech.

https://www.bta3062.com/index.php/Faction_Starter_Lists#Theme_Starts

You can even choose to start with primitive mechs, if you want

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

thanks but too late, i'm installing (through the night) roguetech already. i hope 16gb ram more are going to please the god-devourer of resources.

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

is there any need or point to buying the DLC's? I notice the MOD's like Roguetech and advanced 3062 don't seem to require them...

Do the MOD's extend the variety of weapons and chassis on their own w/o using the DLC?

 

[Stoned Ape]

is there any need or point to buying the DLC's? I notice the MOD's like Roguetech and advanced 3062 don't seem to require them...

Do the MOD's extend the variety of weapons and chassis on their own w/o using the DLC?

As far as I can remember, the only way to get the mechs that come with the DLCs is to buy them, I'm pretty sure they're left out of the mods.

However, there are an awful lot of mechs that come with the mods that aren't included with the base game + DLCs.

If you only buy one DLC, I'd go for Heavy Metal, you get a decent number of classic mechs with it.

 

[Bigg Boss]

Playing Wasteland 2, and here is the thing.

Both HBS game and Wasteland are Unity games.
Both have the equivalent of a "world" map. Both have set random maps.
Wasteland has more weapon types, weapons and inventory items. The junk items list alone is huge.
Wasteland has far larger maps and more of them.
Wasteland is a larger game.
Wasteland is a real RPG with quests and an actual story.
Wasteland has a real dialog system.

Wasteland doesn't have in-your-face wokeshit crap. Wasteland doesn't have hatred for white people. Wasteland does NOT burn computers nor take 20 years to load a game!

Fuck those incompetent shits at HBS with a shattered glass dildo. Fuck 'em!

Is Wasteland 2 actually any good?

Also, if I get it, should I play original or directors cut and why?

Also I work with Unity every day (it's my day job) and it has plenty of built in systems for content optimization. The biggest performance bottleneck for Unity is usually rendering performance, since it doesn't have the best geometry culling system. It seems in this game, everything renders fine, but their content pipeline is obviously set up horribly, and they are terribly incompetent. They are probably doing something really dumb, like unpacking the entire contents of the game into memory at runtime, bloating your memory footprint. This is not a Unity problem and has everything to do with shitty incompetent devs.

"Shitty Unity" is the "Shitty Gamebryo" of 2022. Gamebryo is a fine engine, and most of the games made with it have ended up fine. Bethesda have just always been incompetent hacks, and Bethesda fans high on copium have blamed the engine rather than the shitty company and it just sort of stuck.

Play Director's Cut. From what I understand, it got rid of most of the bugs, and rebalanced the NPCs, which were far more horrible in the original.

https://forums.inxile-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?t=17009

Play Directors Cut with this.

 

[Beowulf]

Ok, I think I'll bite the bullet and give it a try.
I doubt it will hold me enough to warrant a second playthrough, so are there any recommended mods and dlc's that you need to have to make it enjoyable and feel like the game is missing something?

 

[razvedchiki]

try the extended 3025 mod, it doesnt burden too much the engine like roguetech and advanced do.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

recommended mods

roguetech vs extended vs advanced.

in decrescent order of autism.

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

bought this game on recent sale, playing the campaign right now to get used to mechanics before loading up something like Roguetech....... so far I like it better than I thought I would actually..I do notice the 'woke' stuff, but that does not trigger me or ruin a game for me like some people even if I wish it were not there..

 

[Lady Error]

So the mods just add more mechs and stuff to the existing campaign or do they have their own campaigns?

 

[Jason Liang]

So the mods just add more mechs and stuff to the existing campaign or do they have their own campaigns?

All 3 (BEX, BTA, RT) add new flashpoints and new mission types (like Duels and Duo Duels) to career mode.

 

[Bigg Boss]

Has this game ever went under $9.99?

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

So the mods just add more mechs and stuff to the existing campaign or do they have their own campaigns?

All 3 (BEX, BTA, RT) add new flashpoints and new mission types (like Duels and Duo Duels) to career mode.

just started playing, what is difference between campaign and career mode? Is career mode just a randomized 'roguelike' version of the game while the campaign has written story and characters?

 

[Trithne]

So the mods just add more mechs and stuff to the existing campaign or do they have their own campaigns?

All 3 (BEX, BTA, RT) add new flashpoints and new mission types (like Duels and Duo Duels) to career mode.

just started playing, what is difference between campaign and career mode? Is career mode just a randomized 'roguelike' version of the game while the campaign has written story and characters?

Pretty much that, although Campaign also does the random missions, which you'll do in between key story missions, and your movement is limited until you complete said storyissions and open up more systems for access.

Once you finish the story it becomes a career game anyway.

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

So the mods just add more mechs and stuff to the existing campaign or do they have their own campaigns?

All 3 (BEX, BTA, RT) add new flashpoints and new mission types (like Duels and Duo Duels) to career mode.

just started playing, what is difference between campaign and career mode? Is career mode just a randomized 'roguelike' version of the game while the campaign has written story and characters?

Pretty much that, although Campaign also does the random missions, which you'll do in between key story missions, and your movement is limited until you complete said storyissions and open up more systems for access.

Once you finish the story it becomes a career game anyway.

nice, thanks

 

[Cael]

Ok, I think I'll bite the bullet and give it a try.
I doubt it will hold me enough to warrant a second playthrough, so are there any recommended mods and dlc's that you need to have to make it enjoyable and feel like the game is missing something?

Errr.... Wasteland 2 or the big stompy robot game by HomoBastardSucks?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Ok, I think I'll bite the bullet and give it a try.
I doubt it will hold me enough to warrant a second playthrough, so are there any recommended mods and dlc's that you need to have to make it enjoyable and feel like the game is missing something?

Errr.... Wasteland 2 or the big stompy robot game by HomoBastardSucks?

Realms of Arkania HD

 

[Stoned Ape]

bought this game on recent sale, playing the campaign right now to get used to mechanics before loading up something like Roguetech....... so far I like it better than I thought I would actually..I do notice the 'woke' stuff, but that does not trigger me or ruin a game for me like some people even if I wish it were not there..

Just to let you know, Roguetech completely changes the mechanics to the extent it plays almost nothing like the base game except in the very broadest sense.

https://roguetech.fandom.com/wiki/Gameplay_Changes

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

roguetech is larping paradise.
i officially survived early-game and now i'm jumping from system to system just to disrupt steiner operation, just to piss them off. sometimes i even helped enemy invasions. as some slaver-pirate-raider, which clans i should oppose the most?

 

[Beowulf]

Jesus, this game is so boring and slow. There are hardly any meaningful decisions in-between all the loading screens and waiting for your turn.

 

[Jason Liang]

BEX bumps the difficulty up just enough to make decisions meaningful, if that's what you're looking for. Vanilla difficulty is tuned too much to popamole, at least for me.