Sharpe
3626
For no particular reason, I feel you folks here need some 'mech Urbie love.
Yes, that is an Urbie fitted with a UAC20+. That’s 220 points of damage in one shot from a tiny tiny mech. It’s a one trick pony but by god it kills light mechs dead.
I do love a heavily armed trashcan! I’ve been meaning to boot up a late-game save the next time I get bored and build a team of killer urbies and try it on a few missions. Not as effective as all Bull Sharks, or all Atlas IIs, or all Marauders 2-C, or all Phoenix Hawk IIbs. But still ought to be tons of fun.
I’ve been playing career mode again and ended up with an Urbie being my best light mech for a while. They can do the work. They just ugly as sin!
eliandi
3629
You have 3 slots of ammo. 15 shots, right? Could you dump 1-2 ammo and get back some Jump Jets?
Any mech named the “BC FU THATS WHY” doesn’t need no sissy jump jets.
eliandi
3631
I think the name works even better after you’ve jumped into the rear arc of a medium or heavy and one-shotted it
Plus when you run out of ammo its Urbie DFA time!
Enidigm
3632
Ultra-AC 20s are phat but an Urbie without jump-jets is like a peanut without butter.
Not in the least. The Urbanmech isn’t really a light mech. It’s an assault mech. It’s armed like one, it lumbers around like one, etc. It’s just an assault mech that was born in the wrong body. I’m not about to deny its identify and try to force me into my stereotypes of what it should be by sticking jump jets on it!
Sharpe
3634
I did make a mech like that a year or so back…
Here it is:
I sacrificed ammo and some armor on the non-gun side of the mech to get some jumpjets in there. However, I just did the Flaspoint where you fight that Big Crab Claw Gladiator dude and the FU Mech soloed that final mission, chugging slowly along, shooting every mech in the face, and stomping on all the vehicles. It was VERY satisfying to go up to Mr. Big Crab Claw dude and say “FU THAT’S WHY”.
I don’t recall getting as much mileage O awesome out of the Oscar design. YMMV.
As long as no one sneezes on them…
Aleck
3636
In my current playthrough, I’ve been using a Stormcrow as my medium weight monster with a UAC/20. Hats off to you for putting it on an Urbie (which weighs half as much)…
Reading these is making me want to install the game for the first time in quite awhile. Anyone here using any major mods that they would recommend for career mode?
See that’s the kind of dilettantism that leads to the Spider. Karen mech mom’s to send their ADD mech kids to Montessori schools and give them a couple of medium lasers and kick them out door and make them somebody else’s issue, and now they’re just out there waving their arms, jumping around like crack babies, and taking 12 to hit shots.
You need to Tiger Mom that Urbie to success! Don’t tell them there’s no such thing as an Assault Mech. Tell them if that if they want to succeed at life they’ve got to get both feet off the ground at the same time.
Aleck
3639
I really like the BTA 3062 mod. It’s relatively easy to install and get running, and introduces a ton of newer weapons and mechs (particularly if you venture up into clan space). It does ruin some of the “AWESOME!” feeling from getting a Star League Highlander (since a gauss rifle is no longer the big deal it is in vanilla Battletech), but overall it’s a pretty good balance. Also opens up vehicles, which can be a lot of fun.
Roguetech is even more bananas, with tons of mechs, weapons, adjusted mechanics, etc., but I found it to be a total pain in the ass to get it running and stable, and it’s crazy slow once you have it installed.
Roguetech was just too much for me. I tried Vanilla Plus and had a problem with enemy forces failing to spawn. I’d start a mission and immediately get told I won, or worse, I’d go on an assassination mission and the target would not be anywhere on the map, just the escort.
I tried RogueTech and found it to be an arduous process, slow, and way too fiddly. I’ll give 3062 a try, though I feel like it may have been what I was running with last time (which is a good thing).
Aleck
3642
There’s also Battletech Extended 3025 – Commander’s Edition (which is similar, but with fewer features and no clan stuff) if you are looking for a more streamlined experience.
What version allows you to equip LB 10-X auto annoys with Cluster rounds?
vyshka
3644
This is what I’m playing. Starting over with my recent new system build.
I ended up with a grasshopper tonight and refit it to get this alpha strike:
