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[SQW]

New update from HBS!

Showing off one of the early missions.




Now isn't constant update and community engagement so much better than using an annual CON to promote your product?

[Finring]

Looking good.

[Armored Yokai]

Feels good!
feel like it's missing a little something but I don't know what to pinpoint...

[Wolfways]

If only MWO had maps that looked that good...

And vertical drop LRM's

[Khobai]

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Feels good!
feel like it's missing a little something but I don't know what to pinpoint...

its not mechcommander is what its missing

mechcommander gold is still the best battletech game ever made

[5th Fedcom Rat]

Armored Yokai, on 16 November 2017 - 08:01 PM, said:

Feels good!
feel like it's missing a little something but I don't know what to pinpoint...

Professional voice acting for one. The pilots sound reasonable but that mining dude at the start doesn't read the intonations in those lines correctly, so it all sounds out of universe/character.

Music is good, though.

Edited by 5th Fedcom Rat, 16 November 2017 - 08:59 PM.

[Muujig612]

Armored Yokai, on 16 November 2017 - 08:01 PM, said:

Feels good!
feel like it's missing a little something but I don't know what to pinpoint...

Death from above!

[BigBenn]

I'm liking it!

[Davegt27]

I am bored after watching for 3 mins

this is 1990s tech with better graphics

now if all your Mechs moved at the same time that would be an improvement

or issue a command "light scout" and the light takes off to reconnoiter the area

JMTCW

[Vellron2005]

When will the common folk be able to play that gem?

[Jay Leon Hart]

Vellron2005, on 17 November 2017 - 12:31 AM, said:

When will the common folk be able to play that gem?

When they pay for it.

Try here.

Edited by Jay Leon Hart, 17 November 2017 - 02:26 AM.

[Kotzi]

To be released early 2018.

[SQW]

Armored Yokai, on 16 November 2017 - 08:01 PM, said:

Feels good!
feel like it's missing a little something but I don't know what to pinpoint...

It's like judging XCOM from just a skirmish battle - half of the meat of these games is the management aspect. Salvage, contract negotiation, mech management will add context to each battle.

[Kotzi]

+ Endless campaign. All bow down to House Kotzi.

[Verilligo]

Muujig612, on 16 November 2017 - 09:08 PM, said:

Death from above!

Except the part where they actually destroy a Spider with a DFA from a Panther? Nah, I'd say it's not so much "missing" something as it is just early game material. Early missions are always fairly boring. But it doesn't help that the player came to the party with vastly more tonnage than the opposing side. He basically steamrolled the opposition. The AI played extremely poorly, too, the only real threat that was faced during the entire mission was the player's own willingness to take heat damage. But again, early game, and fighting against basically non-military targets.

[Rusharn]

Did they ever "fix" the issue with the AC 10 one shotting mechs with a head it?

[Dimento Graven]

Rusharn, on 17 November 2017 - 12:24 PM, said:

Did they ever "fix" the issue with the AC 10 one shotting mechs with a head it?

Is that a real "issue", or is that a game that is following the lore of a 10 point weapon being capable of taking out all the armor of a 9 point component?

[Sjorpha]

The game mechanics look pretty good, lots of things you'd wish was in MWO like running max speed (sprint mode) giving negative effects and heat having real consequences like structure damage, and melee combat + knockdowns of course (if it was possible to do well).

Still I don't really feel it to be honest.

The voice acting is pretty bad, the music is bland, repetitive and doesn't help create any suspension, I would turn it off right away if it's like that. This particular mission looked extremely easy which may or may not be fixable in settings, not sure why they would use a cakewalk mission as showcase, a nailbiting hard one where the player lost several mechs would be better marketing. The AI didn't look smart, coordinated or tactical, but it didn't have any good units to work with so it's kinda hard to tell. The low difficulty also made the video feel grindy and kinda boring.

Also what kind of mission design is that, go here blow this tower up, go over there to an almost identical base and blow this other tower up, then go to this third base and blow more buildings up. I didn't feel the story or any dramaturgical curve in the mission itself.

I get that it's a beginner mission and early development and so on, but if you want to showcase mission gameplay it should be representative of the best gameplay there will be.

Map and graphics looks ok, just a bit repetitive, but I don't like the sound effects and the screen shake was more annoying than immersive.

Edited by Sjorpha, 17 November 2017 - 03:05 PM.

[Dimento Graven]

For the music you'd do what all the rest of us do, bittorrent down the entire MechWarrior 2-4 soundtracks and play those in the background instead.

[Rusharn]

Dimento Graven, on 17 November 2017 - 02:18 PM, said:

Is that a real "issue", or is that a game that is following the lore of a 10 point weapon being capable of taking out all the armor of a 9 point component?

In the HBS Battletech game the AC10 does the equivalent of 15 points of damage in the TT, so there is no check for a 1 in 6 cockpit hit, it destroys the head out right exceeding both armor and structure in a single attack. This makes an IS AC10 as powerful as a Gauss rifle or a Clan ERppc.

From what I have read in the HBS forums this was an intentional decision to make the AC10 more useful, however with how frequent head shots occur I honestly would see a huge amount of frustration in the campaign mode of losing pilots to the relatively common AC10 that is mounted as a mainstay weapon on several battle tanks, as well as common armament on mechs such as the Urbie. Instant kill head shots were bad enough in the TT with weapons like the AC20, Gauss and Clan ERppc, but at least you paid for that decapitation power with a heavy weapon that either has the chance to explode when hit, has short range, or runs very hot.