3386

Great observations Tortilla. and yes, one of the objectives is at least one had to live.

Sounds like some work mates of mine

3387

Watch out for the bees.

3388

Thanks. My next question was going to be, “Do any allies ever show up? And can you command them?” Some games do this occasionally.

3389

When I load a save game, the mission triggers fail to trigger afterward. I can’t get past mission 2 because of this. Anyone else have this problem?

3390

No, I have not seen that myself.

3391

I’ve largely moved away from the vanilla game and on to RogueTech. I don’t recall any issues like you’re describing though.

3392

I had the same thing happen on that same mission - my employer would never turn the turrets on me. I just replayed the mission.

I ran into it on another campaign mission late in the game. One spotter mech never appeared and registered as off the map. When I reloaded the game after shutting everything down the mech just appeared mid-map. It is a weird and fairly random bug.

3393

Convoy mission are the worst because I think they slave each convoy unit to one of your Mechs, and if your Mech gets too far outside it’s activation radius, the vehicle just stops moving, regardless if you’re ahead of behind it.

3394

I think simply any Mech must be within a certain (fairly close) distance. If not the vehicles stop moving. So I generally set my mechs up in a conga line with steady intervals if there are no enemies around. If there are enemies I generally take them out first and then go back to pick up any stragglers.

3395

Yeah convoy missions are generally easy because there are no enemies after the first wave until the first vehicle makes it to the destination, so even if the convoy gets separated, just waste a turn not leading the forward elements to the goal and the rear will catch up. Usually I find either all four get off on the first turn, or else it takes two turns, but either way dealing with the second enemy wave is usually pretty straightforward. If you just tag them with any attack whatsoever it diverts their aggro away from the convoy. I usually let my LRM mech shepherd the convoy while the others set up to wait for the enemy to land.

3396

I meant, the first campaign mission after the tutorial, in which the princess first discovers that some of her subjects have been turned against her.

If this is not a common occurrence then I will simply start over without loading/saving anything. If it is a common occurrence then I’m not sure what to do.

3397

My apologies as I experienced it on the NEXT mission. Since I experienced a similar issue in other scripted encounters at least twice (thought that is not bad in 400 hours of play time), I would just try replaying it. If however it continues to occur I would check my file integrity and report it to the developers.

3398

I did some further snooping and I think the problem was the BattletechPerformanceFix mod. It has not been updated for BT 1.6.0, and other people have made complaints too. Anyway, I turned it off and was able to complete the mission.

3399

I noticed there was no autosave after this mission. Do autosaves after missions need to be turned on in settings somewhere? I can’t find the option.

3400

sorry no idea.

3401

Thanks. Now I am facing the dilemma that my air conditioner may not be up to snuff to play this game. My PC is old but it kicks out a ton of heat. And I can’t open the window since it’s still 80+ F and very wet and humid.

:(

3402

I had that with my previous PC and some racing sims. Would heat up the room bad. I was able to get by with fans pumping air, but it got really warm.

3403

I would suggest a small window air conditioner unit if that’s possible.

3404

A few more suggestions:

  • buy two, 64 ounce bottles of fruit juice. Empty them out and fill them with water. Put one bottle in the freezer and drink the other, and then switch them out as needed. A continuous supply of ice-cold water makes a huge difference in keeping your heat down.
  • get a $15 box fan from Walmart. They work forever and keep the air streaming by
  • clothing is the enemy. You want to strip down to the bare essentials needed for decency and cooling. Ideally you should look like this while playing:

3405

Following from the other replies, some tips:

  • Don’t fire your PPC’s as often.
  • Look into coolant flush, may be worth the investment if heat is what’s stopping you from reaching your potential as a Mechwarrior.
  • Open the hatch of your cockpit during any downtime.