I think for me I am also enjoying being a low level merc from the deep reachs. I really dont care about what the princess’s concerns are. She can save her pretty speeches for her courtiers, I am all about the credits baby. :)
No idea but I really want to find out now!
Speaking of mods, apparently there’s a way to skip the tutorial if anyone wants to restart or whatever.
RichVR
1728
Depends upon the Ogre of course. But in general their main batteries fire Megatons per second, I think the mechs would be toast.
Rod hit the nail on the head for me. I want to feel like a third-rate mercenary company, living from paycheck to paycheck. Barely scraping by, choosing which mech to repair and what parts, and going into battle with damaged mechs would suit me just fine. Well, to start with anyways.
To that end, has anyone done the good faith withdrawl on a regular basis? I think that’s totally in line with what a mercenary company would do to make money yet save $$/damage. I mean, we’re mercenaries, not 1st-line house troops! Dying for the mission is totally out of character, unless your last name happens to be Kell and you’re taking on the Genyosha and the 5th Sword of Light.
RichVR
1730
As well, Ogres have incredibly dense armor. The early ones used flint steel. They could take a direct hit from multiple nukes and keep fighting. Mechs are hollow cored doors compared to Ogres.
Later Ogres are the size of a small town. They are call Continental Siege Units. For a reason. Mech weapons are pretty much BB guns in comparison.
When an Ogre was taken out of battle, due to damage, they were encased in tons of concrete and lead due to the fact that they were dangerously radioactive. And one even woke up and got out of that.
This covers Bolos but a Bolo is an Ogre. Same thing. Intelligent super tank.
Edit: Upon further thought, an Ogre is not a Bolo and I was conflating the two. Instead of deleting my posts I leave this here as an example of an old man’s ravings.
But they are FUN ravings!
I guess the Ogre being an AI helps it too.
I really think I’m doing something wrong. I keep having the same issue, which is taking horrendous pilot damage from the first few salvos, which then inevitably leads to at least one dead MechWarrior before the match is out.
Do your max out your armor on the Mechs? I started to do that (after reading the suggestion) and my pilots fair a bit better. At least not so many injured at once.
I reworked my mechs to remove all jump jets and increase armour. If its your light scouts getting popped then switching the loadout from being short range to long range really helped me. My scouts now just… well scout. They go for head shots with a long range laser or track targets (and remove their dodge level). Then they run away to distance, they are always moving. This has reduced my pilot injury levels a fair amount.
Whenever i have a lot of injuries and repairs i fly somewhere else - transit time is the best down time.
I haven’t had a death yet. Never lost a mech either. I’m also swimming in money.
Deleting save games the easy way:
Steam:
\steam\userdata[steamid]\637090\remote\C0\SGS1.
GoG:
\AppData\Local\GOG.com\Galaxy\Applications\50593543263669699\Storage\Shared\Files\C0\SGS
I deleted them from explorer while game was running, no issues.
You could also just move them to a subfolder.
Thrag
1737
Heh, I found that a little while ago and was just pasting the link into a reply when you posted that.
Removing old saved does seem to have improved things.
I hear all these things about how Unity has an undeserved reputation and people shouldn’t just dismiss a game built on Unity.
Then I read that the number of saved games affects game performance.
I don’t know if it’s steam cloud saves… or that the games parse information inefficiently from a large number of saves (100+) or something but many games seem to have laggy load game menus.
Civ 6, Total Warhammer (at least they made an interface that groups them so it’s easier to mass delete)
Yeah, so that works.
The tutorial is still in the Blackjack, but then you drop into the frontier mining mission that follows in whatever Mech you set the file to.
Yep - you can see the panel there showing pulse lasers, ER Large lasers, loaded AC20 and so on.
There’s not much chance the early opponents will punch through your armour, so you won’t have repair costs, but the upkeep is pretty steep and may outstrip your ability to earn early on.
I’m not really interested in breaking the game that way, as I like limping around in busted up garbage mechs, but it does mean that if you struggle with the early game you’ve options now away from the Blackjack.
You can even use the same file to change the composition of your starting teammates. So you could go for a classic Steiner Recon Lance of four Atlas.
I do wish the game let me name my own save files.
RichVR
1744
I hate you.
Having said that, I started a new campaign. I think having some experience now will help a lot.
