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[BoldricKent]

By the HBS update and set date for beta release on 1st june,
ill be joining mass exodus on greener fields. Who is with me ?

[Lily from animove]

BoldricKent, on 12 May 2017 - 12:28 AM, said:

By the HBS update and set date for beta release on 1st june,
ill be joining mass exodus on greener fields. Who is with me ?

I guess the Bus of the salty tear club is with you.

[Y E O N N E]

Not me. That game and this one are completely different.

[Lorcryst NySell]

Nice reference, but not me.

I hope we'll see less salt and vinegar on this board once the bittervets and naysayers are on another game, but I think that's a dream.

[Widowmaker1981]

nope. Ill probably play it a bit when its fully released, but its hardly a replacement / substitute.

Turn based top down strategy vs first person vehicle shooter. Why do people think they compete?

edit: And if you're going to quote Douglas Adams, get it right

Its 'So long and thanks for all the fish'

Edited by Widowmaker1981, 12 May 2017 - 12:57 AM.

[El Bandito]

I will definitely be spending more time with the new BT game, and less with MWO. Still be playing MWO though...

[zeves]

good time slot

[PhoenixFire55]

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice ...
No more betas.

On a side note, if skill tree comes out on tuesday then I'm done with this beta as well.

[SteelMantis]

I'll be staying here although I will likely play a bit of the new game as well.

To be honest I am unimpressed with HBS's work on the Shadowrun games. While they aren't really that bad they are no where near to some of the other recent party based single player RPG games that have came out in the same time frame like Path of Eternity. Aside, of course, from being set in the Shadowrun world.

I'm hoping the new Battletech will be awesome but I'm not expecting more than an enjoyable week or two out of it.

[BoldricKent]

Actually im not salty, cant say im white knight for MWO, it has a lot of shortcomings...but its still playable.
Im just far more impressed by HBS PR and commitment to particular universe, i also much
more prefer Mechcommander over Mechwarrior...so my leisure hours will be split accordingly.
With long Tukayyad burn its time to take a bit of rest.

[MustrumRidcully]

BoldricKent, on 12 May 2017 - 12:28 AM, said:

By the HBS update and set date for beta release on 1st june,
ill be joining mass exodus on greener fields. Who is with me ?

I am certainly going to try it out, but that doesn't mean I'll leave this game, or any other, for good.

Unless it's truly amazing...

[invernomuto]

BoldricKent, on 12 May 2017 - 12:28 AM, said:

By the HBS update and set date for beta release on 1st june,
ill be joining mass exodus on greener fields. Who is with me ?

Again and again, they are two different games.
One is a FPS with focus on action and the other is a turn based game focus on strategy and squad management / campaign.
Mechwarrior is a series of FPS games based on Battletech;
Battletech is a turn based game taken from the TT rules.

Different gameplay, different public. Of course I will buy BT when it comes out but I do not expect to play with it more than a couple of weeks or months if it is really good.

Edited by invernomuto, 12 May 2017 - 02:12 AM.

[Lorcryst NySell]

Widowmaker1981, on 12 May 2017 - 12:54 AM, said:

And if you're going to quote Douglas Adams, get it right

Its 'So long and thanks for all the fish'

Heh, if you really want to nitpick, Douglas Adams wrote that "thanks for all the fish" in french in the English text, like this : "Salut, et encore merci pour le poisson." ... and that's an intentional typo and double-entendre, since "poisson" means fish, but "poison" is the same meaning in French and English ...

So the Dolphins thanked humanity for all the poisoned fish in the ocean, and did a play on words ...

/hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy fanboy mode off

And remember ... don't panic

[Sjorpha]

I don't really see how there is direct competition, there are other good single player tactical TBS games you can play if you like that, like XCOM etc.

If there are people here who don't actually like playing arena shooters they probably shouldn't wait for HBS to leave.

[HGAK47]

Some people are just here for the mechanics of the game and what it offers as a stompy robot shooter.

I dont have a raging hard on for battletech like many of you do so no I wont be going to some terrible turn based game that looks like it was made about 10 years ago.

Oh and I am a big fan of strategy games but real time, not turn based. Ive never enjoyed turn based games much except very few exceptions.

Edited by HGAK47, 12 May 2017 - 03:52 AM.

[CK16]

Yea. I don't think there will be a "mass Exodus" for Btech....wishful thinking though, don't let PGI's door hit you on the way out now.

[Marius Romanis]

I am pretty sure we will lose a lot of lore people, a lot of t5 t4 and maybe t3 legendary founders, a lot of "stock only" buildist's.

Thats probably 25% of this games population ?

[JC Daxion]

I'm never eating Chinese again.. Only pizza for the rest of my life...


On second thought, no thanks.



On the plus side, now there will be two mech games for people to complain about. I played HBS's shadow run, Its a pretty decent game, and i can see how they could make a nice turnbased mech game. But i'm certainly not going to hold my breath thinking its the second coming. Maybe it will be on sale black Friday. Perhaps i'll be tempted to grab it then. Shadow run was a perfect game for 2.50

Edited by JC Daxion, 12 May 2017 - 06:00 AM.

[Scyther]

Founder, BT enthusiast, inveterate gamer.

That said, there isn't much calling to me in a turn-based strategy/squad digital version. Did that already, we called it 'BattleTech the Boxed Set'.

My experience with previous BT titles, then comparing to MWO and even my TT days, has shown me that what I really enjoyed the most was mission play: trying to accomplish storyline-based objectives using available/achievable resources, all leading up to a (hopefully) glorious end goal. That feeling of working through the story/lore background of the BT universe was what I enjoyed most.

I'll definitely keep an eye on news and reviews about HBS' game but no plans to play it as yet.

[Mole]

I prefer the FPS nature of MWO over the RTS nature of HBS. I'll be staying here.