KickStarter BATTLETECH - turn-based mech combat from Harebrained Schemes

[AdamReith]

Giant warmachines are either fine ladies or gud bois, that's why the pronoun matters (except ships, ships are always fine ladies).

 

[lightbane]

Soo, has the option of making your pilot blonde been patched in or added as a mod, or not yet?

 

[Galdred]

Soo, has the option of making your pilot blonde been patched in or added as a mod, or not yet?

It is set in the future. Blondes have been assimilated.

 

[Lichtbringer]

Soo, has the option of making your pilot blonde been patched in or added as a mod, or not yet?

The game was patched after HBS was accused of being a "woke" racist studio with anti-white/-European sentiments.

Battletech is thoroughly saturated with SJW ideology and has a severe lack of white characters, blond-haired or otherwise, so perhaps it was just a Freudian slip on the part of the developers.

 

[Lady_Error]

 

[ArchAngel]

Soo, has the option of making your pilot blonde been patched in or added as a mod, or not yet?

It is set in the future. Blondes have been assimilated.

I guess they also lost the tech to color hair blond..

 

[razvedchiki]

this game would be much better if it had a campaign ala battle brothers,running your merc company across the galaxy taking part in various wars,fielding multiple lances plus tanks/aerofighters/infantry etc. but then of course all the "muh storyyy brah" gaymers wouldnt buy the game.

 

[lightbane]

The game was patched after HBS was accused of being a "woke" racist studio with anti-white/-European sentiments.

Battletech is thoroughly saturated with SJW ideology and has a severe lack of white characters, blond-haired or otherwise, so perhaps it was just a Freudian slip on the part of the developers.

That's odd, I thought they used some excuse about "diversity in the future" and refused to edit in such option. They did that in ME: Andromeda, for what's worth.

 

[Infinitron]

Now on YouTube:

 

[Dedicated_Dark]

So. Is this game worth playing yet. I read the codex review a while back where he mentioned something about our mercenary protagonist sucking off some random princess' cock. So, gameplay good enough to put up with that?

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

no.

 

[Lady_Error]

So, gameplay good enough to put up with that?

The proverbial not great, not terrible.

 

[Xeon]

I wonder how long will they continue supporting Battletech before moving to another game and if the next game will be RPG or tactics.

 

[Lady_Error]

I wonder how long will they continue supporting Battletech before moving to another game and if the next game will be RPG or tactics.

Apparently we might get more Shadowrun:

Kalaam
21 points · 6 months ago
They said that they plan to focus on Battletech for now and may return to Shadowrun again afterward, but no timeline was given.

https://www.reddit.com/r/shadowrunreturns/comments/bg4inv/any_news_of_a_new_shadowrun_title/

 

[Dedicated_Dark]

Apparently we might get more Shadowrun:

Will it still be made mobile first? The lack of group select and the atrocious UI I do not want to put up with another time.

 

[Olinser]

So. Is this game worth playing yet. I read the codex review a while back where he mentioned something about our mercenary protagonist sucking off some random princess' cock. So, gameplay good enough to put up with that?

It's decent for what it is as long as you go into it understanding what you get.

You get a very small scale turn-based mech battler with mediocre customization of both mechs and pilots (NO clan or clan tech), a fairly boring campaign with a truly laughable excuse 'story' that is insanely short as well (seriously you can see the whole campaign story in 20-30 min on youtube), a terrible AI that is laughably easy to slaughter on the hardest setting, and max of 4 mech v 4 mech multiplayer.

Since you haven't bought it yet I assume you are not a hardcore BattleTech fan, which is the only reason to buy it full price.

Wishlist it and wait for a sale and it will give you some entertainment. 100% not worth full price.

 

[Lady_Error]

Apparently we might get more Shadowrun:

Will it still be made mobile first? The lack of group select and the atrocious UI I do not want to put up with another time.

What are you talking about? Shadowrun Dragonfall is an excellent RPG with some of the best writing you can find. Hong Kong was also pretty decent.

Wishlist it and wait for a sale and it will give you some entertainment. 100% not worth full price.

It was already in Humble Bundle and the regular discounts on other sites are steep as well.

a terrible AI that is laughably easy to slaughter on the hardest setting

Not true either, though it does get much easier the more tonnage you get. The real difficulty is in the numbers, eg. dealing with 8 or more opponents at the same time.

 

[Dedicated_Dark]

Will it still be made mobile first? The lack of group select and the atrocious UI I do not want to put up with another time.

What are you talking about? Shadowrun Dragonfall is an excellent RPG with some of the best writing you can find. Hong Kong was also pretty decent.

All you had to do was read the sentence.

 

[AdamReith]

Shadowrun was an "any port in a storm" kind of situation. There was literally no other games released around then in that genre so everybody was extra forgiving.

I finished the first one but Dragonfalls writing really failed to interest me.

 

[Jimmious]

Dragonfall's writing was much better than the first one though.

 

[Lady_Error]

Will it still be made mobile first? The lack of group select and the atrocious UI I do not want to put up with another time.

What are you talking about? Shadowrun Dragonfall is an excellent RPG with some of the best writing you can find. Hong Kong was also pretty decent.

All you had to do was read the sentence.

There is nothing wrong with the UI and I have no idea why you need group select there. The first game was indeed somewhat limited. The other two are much, much better.

I finished the first one but Dragonfalls writing really failed to interest me.

Edgy newfags are the worst. There are not many RPG's with better writing than Dragonfall.

 

[AdamReith]

Am I allowed say "get fucked" at this point or do I need to be with the forum longer.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Dragonfall's writing was much better than the first one though.

Dead Man's Switch was mainly there to showcase capabilities of editor tool, which was main focus of their pre-release marketing.

 

[AdamReith]

Dragonfall's writing was much better than the first one though.

It didn't hook me, the writing and characters definitely weren't the focus of Dead Man's Switch and that might have been to its benefit. It was a nice straight forward combat focused rpg.

 

[Xeon]

I don't think Shadowrun Hong Kong came out for console and the UI was mostly the same to the previous games tho with some improvements iirc.