Me too! An hour ago!
Now I have a Stalker, 3 Highlanders, and a King Crab.
Man, you’re set. I’ve got 2/3’s of a Highlander (besides the one they gave you on a priority mission), I don’t run across those often so don’t know if I’ll manage to find the last 1/3 before I decide to run the last mission and complete the campaign.
Is it worth it to upgrade my Highlander 733 (non LosTech) with a King Crab? The King Crab can carry more, but it lacks the Missile Hard Points for a good missile boat. The best I can do is 3 LRM 15s and an LRM 5.
That being said, I can give it a two AC+++ 2 to compliments to give it more long range punch.
Believe me, you don’t need a host of assault mechs to win the final battle. I did it with, I believe, one assault mech in the Highlander I received via script and of course Arana’s Atlas. I didn’t lose a single mech in that battle and destroyed the entire enemy lance. One of the easier fights in the game all things considered.
RichVR
3011
You know what’s annoying? The virus random event. No matter what I pick I end up with one or more pilots in medical for 30 to 45 days. Screw that noise.
Headshots. So satisfying when doing them yourself, so devastating when they happen against you.
Always thought it was goofy that you’d stick the pilot in the actual head of the giant warmachine.
Ha, if I was a pilot, I would hide in the big toe!
Remote control, all the way, lol
RichVR
3016
Behind a big window. Not like, you know, real armor.
Pilot: Why is there a window? Is that glass?
Mechanic: Real strong glass.
Pilot: As strong as Ferro Fibrous or Endo Steel?
Mechanic…
Pilot: Do we have any SRM tanks?
Sharpe
3017
Any pretense of military efficiency or combat effectiveness must be left at the door when you enter Battletech-land. Dudes, really, giant walking robots that tip over and require half their mass to support internal structure and engines? You just have to roll with it.
It’s a feudal society, with status and power denoted by being able to field and pilot groups of Battlemechs, combat effectiveness be damned. Leaders fight from the front, even though no trained military leader has done that since the 19th Century. Large caliber weapons have shorter ranges than small caliber weapons. The range of the ballistic and missile weapons are an order of magnitude or more too short and the velocity of the projectiles, well my parrots fly faster than that.
It’s all part of the mechwarrior/battletech experience. Their economy, politics, military, etc., make no sense at all. And it does not matter b/c we get to drive giant battlemechs and take the role of heroic combatants.
Cuter? Spoken like a man who has never had a long tour of duty with no company but a saucy AC/2!
RichVR
3020
My cockatoo could easily out damage an AC2.
Sharpe
3022
Since the Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries thread on this forum is 15 years old, I’ll post this here:
Battletech made me desire to play MW4:Mercs again but last time I looked into it, it just wouldn’t play on Windows 10 and due to the free release and collapse of MekTek, there was no GoG version.
However, a redditor named Volkar the Destroyer posted a very comprehensive Guide to Running MW4 on WIndows 10.
I followed it and although I did have to read all the way down and apply a couple of the troubleshooting tips, I was able to get the glorious old beast to run.
Here is a screenshot of a starting Cougar in glorious pink:
RichVR
3023
My Awesome Q was gathering dust for a while. Now running it with 5 LLs, one +++ the rest ++. It’s… interesting. Double heat sink and two exchangers along with a few more regular sinks leaves it with 1400 armor and several alphas before heat kicks in.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/mechanics-of-called-shot-and-clustering.1107634/
The paranoid players were correct for once! Headshot chances doubled, a dev confirms they will fix bug next patch.
“That bug has been fixed and will be in an upcoming hotfix, and should bring head hits from the current ~2.4% (2/82) down to intended ~1.25% (1/81)”
