3106

the rockpapershotgun article mentioned a mission type just for medium/light mechs. so not just a medium.

3107

Two reasons.

  1. It’s a classic mech that those of us with a tabletop Battletech experience wanted to see as an old favorite.

  2. It (very likely) means they tuned up the melee system. This is good as that was the rare area where the I felt the video game really didn’t capture the feel of tabletop. After simplifying melee so much and taking out all the options except Death-From-Above what was left was a bit bland and uninspiring to me.

3108

I still need my hovercrafts and infantry. VTOL would be cool, as well.

Yeah, I just want combined warfare.

3109

I’m cool with the waiting, but I still want my Linux version… On the positive side, more balance patches by the time they finish it.

3110

Or it means they added a zero-range weapon with a special animation. I’m probably less hopeful than you because of how much I think they dropped the ball on melee, in particular how they discussed intentionally nerfing it.

Eliminating the choice to kick or punch because it’s too confusing for the user? Sigh.

3111

When do you all think this might come out? I’m wondering if I should keep my campaign on hold til then. And I sure hope they’ve fixed the awful performance in the store and when editing your mech loadouts (when you have tons of items).

3112

I’m going to guess, no. The switch from buy to sell still takes over a minute for me. OTOH, I’d keep playing. This seems to add certain kinds of missions. Of course YMMV.

3113

On the splash screen for the trailer, is that a Marauder at the bottom? Sure looks like one to me.

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3114

Arghh you’ve got to be kidding. It’s a simple tiny database. It’s like they’re having the game run nuclear physics subroutines just to pull those numbers.

3115

This game’s on sale. What is the hivemind’s recommendation?

3116

It’s great until you have a lot of crap. Then have a magazine at hand when shopping or mech customizing so it doesn’t grate on your nerves how slow it is. But if you don’t hoard components for variety and sell most stuff you won’t notice.

3117

Just to echo and clarify jpinard’s point, the game is technically sound in that it doesn’t have bugs. However, it has aspects which are as slow as molasses in winter.

Still, loads of fun for a Battletech fan. And if not a fan of the game but just the “big robot destroying stuff” genre, keep in mind this is very much a slow-paced approach (think slow vs. fast zombies).

3118

Selling all regular items, deleting all unnecessary save games and restarting the game every few hours seemed to help. Somewhat.

3119

The game is gold, I think you would enjoy it. Semi-ignore the people talking about how slow parts of the menu system is, it only becomes an issue far into the campaign after you’ve already had alot of fun, and it won’t prevent you finishing the game easily.

3120

I agree on the menu slowdown thing. I played 50+ hours, completed the campaign, and had a solid stable of mechs and parts but didn’t pokemon everything and had no significant issues with slowdown.

It doesn’t invalidate that it is a problem for some people, but if you’re not super focused on collecting a trillion extra small lasers it shouldn’t be a huge issue.

3121

Another datapoint for no significant slowdown. I finished the campaign, collected at least one of each mech, and never saw this issue. Admittedly, I sold items regularly and kept only 10 or so of each type of item. The mechbay UI could definitely use some improvements, but it it’s okay.

This is in my top 3 or so games of the last year. Great game.

3122

Yep, pretty much same experience, I deleted saves and sold off stuff I didn’t want around because at 185 hours played I collected half a dozen of everything that existed in the game along the way at some point and didn’t want stuff slowing down. I’m still perplexed on why HBS couldn’t figure out how to allow me to sort my mechs in the bays, that’s just baffling. I got around this problem by giving them all unique names, but still…

Anyway, definitely among my top 2 so far. I loved this one. And can’t wait for some DLC to jump back in.

3123

Get it.

3124

One of the top-5 games of the year. Definitely snag it if it’s cheap.

3125

With all the clap-back on the UI complaints, I sincerely hope people weren’t thinking I wasn’t recommending the game. It’s a really great game. It just also happens to have crap performance on the UI, and nobody should be required to delete saved games and sell off excess parts in the store to speed it up. Still, totally worth putting up with those extra steps.