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Re: HBS Expansion Thread- its time for II (spoilers)
« Reply #1080 on: 13 February 2020, 18:17:22 »
People were expecting a sequel with the Clans.

Which is funny since they had said they'd explore the time between the current game and the clan invasion first.

Either case is still possible, just not in the near future.
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« Reply #1081 on: 13 February 2020, 18:21:30 »
Hmm... if they did the 4th SW, I might just be tempted back into the game.

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« Reply #1082 on: 13 February 2020, 18:38:45 »
People were expecting a sequel with the Clans.

For myself, much as I want BattleTech 2: Clan Invasion, I wasn't expecting it.
I was also hoping for a return to the Shadowrun games.
In practice though I was expecting them to do something totally different for the next year or two then hopefully come back to a new BT or SR game after that. Sometimes you need time away in order to recharge the creative batteries properly.
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« Reply #1083 on: 13 February 2020, 19:22:11 »
For myself, much as I want BattleTech 2: Clan Invasion, I wasn't expecting it.
I was also hoping for a return to the Shadowrun games.
In practice though I was expecting them to do something totally different for the next year or two then hopefully come back to a new BT or SR game after that. Sometimes you need time away in order to recharge the creative batteries properly.

Like Bethesda. They were doing an Elder Scrolls, Fallout tick tock pattern for a bit, but it's clear the leaders (Todd, Pete, etc) want to do something different in Starfield.
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« Reply #1084 on: 13 February 2020, 20:22:36 »
Like Bethesda. They were doing an Elder Scrolls, Fallout tick tock pattern for a bit, but it's clear the leaders (Todd, Pete, etc) want to do something different in Starfield.

I feel it IRL as well. After 20 years of switching back and forth between Liquid Effluents and Vitrification I'm being sent off to Advanced Fuel Cycles next FY.

Still, I'd love to see HBS do a new SR game followed by BT2
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« Reply #1085 on: 13 February 2020, 20:24:29 »
Has anyone had a bug where you can't load the Contracts screen on the Argo?
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« Reply #1086 on: 13 February 2020, 20:33:45 »
Yes.  It can also affect the Hiring Hall, Store, and Navigation Map.
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« Reply #1087 on: 14 February 2020, 02:25:54 »
The other possibility about the game is that after having worked on it for more than two years, by now they'd simply like to take a break and do something else before working on the sequel.
I can relate to that. It takes me months to write a new novel, and when its done I'm usually so sick of that universe that I want to write something completely different for awhile.

On a side note: I defeated the Black Widow and the Bounty Hunter, and all I got was a measly AC5++ for a reward.  :(

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« Reply #1088 on: 17 February 2020, 19:58:20 »
Looking at gyro mods, am I correct in thinking that +1 Hit Defence increase the TN for someone else to hit you in melee and +1 Melee Hit increases your chance to hit in melee?
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« Reply #1089 on: 17 February 2020, 20:07:30 »
Yes.
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« Reply #1090 on: 17 February 2020, 20:11:42 »
Thanks
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« Reply #1091 on: 17 February 2020, 20:17:11 »
Take a Vulcan and give it a Gyro that has +3 Hit Defense and a pilot with 10 piloting ability and it's practically immune to melee attacks.

I'm not sure why you'd want to bother, but you could.
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« Reply #1092 on: 17 February 2020, 20:43:17 »
It could be fun in the early game  ;D
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« Reply #1093 on: 17 February 2020, 21:23:57 »
How are you going to get an ability score that high early in the game?
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« Reply #1094 on: 17 February 2020, 21:32:40 »
Take a Vulcan and give it a Gyro that has +3 Hit Defense and a pilot with 10 piloting ability and it's practically immune to melee attacks.

I'm not sure why you'd want to bother, but you could.
But you can't, the CQC suite takes up 2 of the 4 slots and gyros take up 3 slots.
Which is a real shame since the Vulcan is a speed tank medium, and without the ability to mount gyros it's a glass cannon

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« Reply #1095 on: 17 February 2020, 21:53:55 »
Oh.

Oh well.
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« Reply #1096 on: 18 February 2020, 00:23:55 »
I can tell you without the gyro it is still pretty damn effective.  Just load down the arms with 0 mass enhancements and a couple point weapons.  Even if the melee doesn't hit, you are still going to inflict some modest damage and on a light mech it doesn't take much. 

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« Reply #1097 on: 24 February 2020, 01:13:33 »
So the final content patch has been live for a few days but I've just now fired it up and...

1) ...holy hell, the SLDF mechs have engine doubles now.
2) There is an Inferno Carrier.
3) Proto-TSM Raven.
4) ECM Cataphract.
5) Can confirm the escort missions now clear once you kill all of the OPFOR.

It is pretty nice for a send-off.

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« Reply #1098 on: 24 February 2020, 10:43:01 »
Please explain engine doubles.
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« Reply #1099 on: 24 February 2020, 11:11:55 »
I think they mean the the engines are now counted as having DHS.
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« Reply #1100 on: 24 February 2020, 17:54:18 »
That would almost make that Atlas usable...

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« Reply #1101 on: 24 February 2020, 17:58:35 »
I really wished rear weapons were a thing in this game.  Imagine a light mech catching a face full of snub ppc, or running past a mech, then backstabbing them.

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« Reply #1102 on: 24 February 2020, 18:01:32 »
That would almost make that Atlas usable...

That Atlas II?  I don't have any double heat sinks pre patch and I'm still wrecking things with it.
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« Reply #1103 on: 24 February 2020, 18:13:16 »
With both ER Larges? How??  ???

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« Reply #1104 on: 24 February 2020, 18:44:57 »
Easy, I use regular lasers.

Playing with unequiped salvage means I miss out on a lot of the fun toys.  Double heat sinks being one of them.  :(
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« Reply #1105 on: 24 February 2020, 18:47:41 »
Ah, you're not using that 'mech right out of the box, then.  I can see that.

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Re: HBS Expansion Thread- its time for II (spoilers)
« Reply #1106 on: 25 February 2020, 00:38:34 »
Please explain engine doubles.

DHS in the engines, weight- and crit-free, like on the table.

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« Reply #1107 on: 29 February 2020, 11:20:55 »
finally beat the game ( since flashpoint came out ) ( between all my issues I never got to complete the game until now since expansion packs came out)  So i didnt realize the flashpoint missions came once completed the main game lol.. so now i can play those more. during my entire gme play I didnt see the raven mech in my battles.but then again I running 3 atlas and a ann and it a auto cannon mine field lol.. and I have like 3 ac 20  6 ac 5  plus various lrm15/20 mixes and a  few energy weapons lol..

 I need to fine replacement guass rifles and some ultra ac 20 ammo lol and work on getting last of my kingcrab built.   funny part was  I kill Victoria in her KC with a head shot but got none of it to salvage on the final mission..

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« Reply #1108 on: 29 February 2020, 11:49:34 »
Like the Hatchetman, the raven won't show up until you finish the flashpoint for it(I still hate that).   As for Victoria, I thought her hit table was rigged against head shots?
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« Reply #1109 on: 29 February 2020, 11:52:53 »
Even if you did salvage it,  you won't get the inherent bonuses she has, same with the Bounty Hunter's Marauder and Natasha's Warhammer.  Those abilities seem locked to the pilot. Vick's KGC has some interesting hardpoint choices though,  if you mod your game to start with it.

Like the Hatchetman, the raven won't show up until you finish the flashpoint for it(I still hate that).   As for Victoria, I thought her hit table was rigged against head shots?

 

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