KickStarter BATTLETECH - turn-based mech combat from Harebrained Schemes

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

Female mechwarriors aren't supposed to be beauty pageant contestants. Not many people can qualify in the first place.

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Lakin Chaffer, an embarkation specialist deployed to Iraq with Task Force Al Asad poses for a portrait, Sept. 13, 2015. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Garrett White

Maybe you should go out and see actual people instead of acting as women to be competent MUST be ugly. They made those women ugly either because either they have not seen a semi-attractive women in their life or because SJW do not tolerate the notion women can be attractive (since they are not).

 

[Mustawd]

 

[Cael]

Female mechwarriors aren't supposed to be beauty pageant contestants. Not many people can qualify in the first place.

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Lakin Chaffer, an embarkation specialist deployed to Iraq with Task Force Al Asad poses for a portrait, Sept. 13, 2015. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Garrett White

Maybe you should go out and see actual people instead of acting as women to be competent MUST be ugly. They made those women ugly either because either they have not seen a semi-attractive women in their life or because SJW do not tolerate the notion women can be attractive (since they are not).

Those women cannot exist! They are a fantasy of the patriarchy keeping REAL WYMMYN down! Kill the patriarchy! They are objectifying wymmyn! RAAAAARRRGGHHHH!!!! RRAAAAAAAGGGGEEEEE!!!
- Kevin

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

yeah I googled 'hot female soldiers' and there are actually a ton of them across various cultures. There are some 'fantasy cos-play' examples, but the real thing is easy and plentiful. For example the one I posted is also a Philadelphia eagles cheerleader. Israel actually seems to have a large number-- I am guessing its because every healthy citizen must do a stint in the military so they have the entire population of healthy young women to select from.

 

[Cael]

yeah I googled 'hot female soldiers' and their are actually a ton of them across various cultures. There are some 'fantasy cos-play' examples, but the real thing is easy and plentiful. For example the one I posted is also a Philadelphia eagles cheerleader. Israel actually seems to have a large number-- I am guessing its because every healthy citizen must do a stint in the military so they have the entire population of healthy young women to select from.

Of course there are, but it would go against the narrative that the sjws are trying to build, and so they just simply ignore it. That has always been the core problem of sjws and the fact that this game had them in spades in the development team was already ringing alarm bells for me back in November. That is why I didn't back it, much as I would love a new Battletech game.

I have played every single BTech single player game out there, all 10 of them plus all expansions. I have been playing the tabletop game for decades. I refused to back this one without knowing what they were doing first for the very reasons we are discovering now. My fears are realised, and I am glad for two reasons: 1) My prediction of sjws is still 100% correct, and 2) I didn't waste any money on a product that I had vanishingly slim hopes of not being absolute shit despite my love of the franchise.

 

[Elex]

charisma is a dump stat, soldiers don’t need it.

 

[Cael]

Oh, while we are at it: That no blondes controversy.

1. You are a merc unit, which means you are going to be as colourful as humanity can get and then some. Seriously, there are few merc units who only allow on ethnicity to join. They generally don't give a crap about your ethnicity so long as you are capable and loyal.
2. Minobu Tetsuhara is a BLACK samurai Kurita colonel (later general) who practices kendo, kyudo and Japanese vase painting. Greig Samsonov is the Kurita Warlord of the Galedon district and he is a big, white, blond son of a bitch. Subhash Indrahar was the Director of the Kurita ISF. Take a wild guess as to his ethnicity. This is all in what is supposed to be the more intolerant, racist part of the Inner Sphere. But, of course, according to the sjws of HBS, the Taurian Concordant must be more racist still because they kill blondes on sight.

Well, all I can say is that if the sjws really do win the culture war in real life, you blondies better watch out. The Gestapo is going to be kicking down your doors right smart.

 

[Cael]

charisma is a dump stat, soldiers don’t need it.

Charisma != pretty.

 

[ArchAngel]

Someone said Glitch is a trans but I have not seen the pronoun in her character details and nothing about it is in her background info.

 

[Grotesque]

That said, how long I'll have to wait before this gets playable

it's playable now but for a change in game mechanics that makes the game more challenging and immersive, maybe half a year?

I have worked for a mercenary group for several years, which would make me a veteran

in 3 years, you come to know near nothing, let alone become a veteran

Highly recommend that you mod up the difficulty with a lighter start, like the above:

So that means I have to replay the first two missions that serve as a tutorial?


I never intended to launch the game until some mods will come out but the curiosity won.

Overall I liked it and the game has potential, the music is nice.

 

[Jason Liang]

Female mechwarriors aren't supposed to be beauty pageant contestants. Not many people can qualify in the first place.

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Lakin Chaffer, an embarkation specialist deployed to Iraq with Task Force Al Asad poses for a portrait, Sept. 13, 2015. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Garrett White

Maybe you should go out and see actual people instead of acting as women to be competent MUST be ugly. They made those women ugly either because either they have not seen a semi-attractive women in their life or because SJW do not tolerate the notion women can be attractive (since they are not).

You realize that I'm talking about a fictional setting and characters from the novels about that setting, not real women in the US Army, right?

Besides which, here's my response to your example-

Art portraying "real" women (social realism art) -

Honore Daumiere, The Laundry Woman

And the woman you posted I imagine will look like this in 10 years -

Grant Wood, American Gothic

 

[Grotesque]

The game caused 2 bsod and now my gpu is badly damaged. It artifacts, causes the screen to flash on and off then inevitably crashes the computer to bsod. There has to be a way to get reimbursed for a replacement card. This is ridiculous.

 

[warpig]

Female mechwarriors aren't supposed to be beauty pageant contestants. Not many people can qualify in the first place.

idk...this one is cute XD

even the commander has some milf-ness to her.....so fuc off with your pro-ugly propaganda, ok XD

BTW...the female characters in BT lol. When I went to the character creation screen I thought I had the male option selected and was wondering why are all the guys so faggy looking XD

 

[Cael]

Female mechwarriors aren't supposed to be beauty pageant contestants. Not many people can qualify in the first place.

idk...this one is cute XD

even the commander has some milf-ness to her.....so fuc off with your pro-ugly propaganda, ok XD

BTW...the female characters in BT lol. When I went to the character creation screen I thought I had the male option selected and was wondering why are all the guys so faggy looking XD

MechCommander wasn't made by a bunch of self-mutilating soy boys. That is why it had pretty females in it.

Ahh, the old MComm music. Used to play it over and over again. Beautiful stuff.

 

[Perkel]

So game is shit or not ? Can't seem to get codex consensus over last few pages

The game caused 2 bsod and now my gpu is badly damaged. It artifacts, causes the screen to flash on and off then inevitably crashes the computer to bsod. There has to be a way to get reimbursed for a replacement card. This is ridiculous.

Which means his already dying gpu died under load which has nothing to do with game itself other that it requiring GPU to work at 100% load. GPU bios manages GPU shutdown so it literally cannot get fried from anything you do in system.

 

[Bohr]

Someone said Glitch is a trans but I have not seen the pronoun in her character details and nothing about it is in her background info.

Yep it was just Kiva going around talking about the "canon trans" characters and some earlier speculation based on rather prosperous portraits. As I said when I posted that dump of comments "and no, there don't appear to be any Dragonspear-style speeches from Glitch, for those hoping for 'drama'". The game has more serious issues than this bit of virtue signalling.

Will probably appeal to certain Codexers anyway. Looking forward to the "full tranny" LP

Spoiler

 

[Matador]

Why is not ELEX pronoun in the game?

 

[da_rays]

Gnnnhh , getting hard reading this thread , been silently waiting for these one . SJW agenda , loading time , various performance issue and hair length/color aside , how is the gameplay and tactical layer on this? Crew management is alright? a chore? Am I looking at a dumded down Front mission 3 ? ( Damn ,that sentence wasnt fun to type ) Or the first opus in the new ((good)) mechwarrior game serie?
Reading the last 4 pages got me awfully confused.
Would love some detailed input on combat gameplay , management and how good thoses two fuse togheter in the game

 

[Cael]

Someone said Glitch is a trans but I have not seen the pronoun in her character details and nothing about it is in her background info.

Yep it was just Kiva going around talking about the "canon trans" characters and some earlier speculation based on rather prosperous portraits. As I said when I posted that dump of comments "and no, there don't appear to be any Dragonspear-style speeches from Glitch, for those hoping for 'drama'". The game has more serious issues than this bit of virtue signalling.

Will probably appeal to certain Codexers anyway. Looking forward to the "full tranny" LP

Spoiler

Jeez. Two for the price of one...

 

[lightbane]

After the fiasco of Battletech, this game will receive more pressure and attention from disgruntled Codexers, I'm sure.

 

[ArchAngel]

After the fiasco of Battletech, this game will receive more pressure and attention from disgruntled Codexers, I'm sure.

What fiasco? That one only exists in the head of few "special cases".

 

[Jimmious]

So...7 hours in , game's great. I'm no BattleTech expert and I don't care about the lore specifics or the exact representation of the systems but what is in the game works.
Apart from the kinda brute forced intro, story wise, I really enjoy the game so far.
Combat is great, mech bulding etc is awesome if not a bit overwhelming so far for me...
I can see me playing this for quite some time.

There are some UI issues that bug me a bit but nothing serious. Also I'm wondering how the difficulty will go. I mean mechwarriors get injured a lot and mechs get damaged frequently but I didn't feel any serious threat in 6-7(?) missions so far.
Also don't really have any performance issues apart from my beast PC heating like crazy when I run the game (but without performance impact)

 

[Alpharius]

Gnnnhh , getting hard reading this thread , been silently waiting for those one . SJW agenda , loading time , various performance issue and hair length/color aside , how is the gameplay and tactical layer on this? Crew management is alright? a chore? Am I looking at a dumded down Front mission 3 ? ( Damn ,that sentence wasnt fun to type ) Or the first opus in the new ((good)) mechwarrior game serie?
Reading the last 4 pages got me awfully confused.
Would love some detailed input on combat gameplay , management and how good thoses two fuse togheter in the game

Dumbed down nuxcom more like. Or idk, dumbed down party crpg? Combat is ok i guess (other than a ton of trash mechs they throw at you every mission), mechlab is not bad, economy is largely irrelevant(like in a crpg), story is meh.

 

[I ASK INANE QUESTIONS]

Some random thoughts:
First of all, the loadtimes are crap even though I installed the game on SSD. 16 Gb memory, 1070GTX, performance is still shit. Makes me wonder if they even did an optimization pass or shifted it straight into post-release. Wouldn't surprise me - they skipped any sort of LOD work completely when beta rolled around.

The terrain looks worse than beta, I'm pretty sure of it. It actually feels extremely weird - in the beta, the skirmish maps felt like they actually did some work with their terrain generator of choice and then edited it in engine - you know, did it the way it was supposed to be done. It doesn't look that way in campaign. Maps look very, very rushed, and there are clearly some cases where somebody just went over the maps with default unity terrain tools and went "yeah, that's fine". They were in a hurry.

Mech textures are ugly as sin - somebody at HBS clearly thought that just adding random noise everywhere == gritty and worn look.

 

[Jimmious]

16 Gb memory, 1070GTX, performance is still shit.

Seems to be an NVIDIA issue? I have no problems at all with my 390X