Battletech?

>>15652089
No reason not the encourage cross traffic.

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>>15652089
I need to watch the new Battletech campaign trailer that came out at E3.

>>15652089

Cuz the tabletop is too number heavy for a lot of people and the current video games are either shit or filled with insufferable elitists.

>>15652170
Urbie best mech.

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>>15652721
Hands or no hands?

>>15652089
>Use to be huge BTfag
>Can't remember the name of that mech
FUCK
uh...
Masakari was the IS name, I think.
Not being able to remember the clan name...I want my Wizard status revoked. Shameful.

>>15652724
What are hands even good for in BT?

>>15652089
Patiently awaiting the new game, mostly

>>15652770
Picking up trees/blown off limbs to hit other mechs with. Also for brushing off swarming infantry.

>>15652770
With advanced rules on, they make getting up after falling down easier.

>>15652791
I played that demo thing they sent out, it was pretty fun. I actually got some Front Mission vibes while playing it, because you can destroy mechs part by part, so that made me really happy. Can't wait for the actual game.

The new Battletech game by Harebrained is gonna be cool.

Is the online thing okay?

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>>15652768
Warhawk is the Clan name.

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>>15652770
What >>15652816 and >>15652819 said, also punching other mechs in the face, picking up ejected mechwarriors, rarely used and not very useful handheld weapons, dragging back salvage, and other tasks that involve using your mech to "finely" manipulate things.

>>15652837
They sent out a demo?

>>15653767
High level kickstarter reward.

>>15652989
>Is the online thing okay?
You mean MW:O? If you're with a bunch of friends, don't care about winning or losing, have a beastly PC, don't care for horrendous graphics and low production values,... Then it's kinda fun once in a while.
Not really a game worth playing for anything more than casual entertainment. It's basically /m/ Candy Crush.

>>15652089
I kinda liked the Genesis game but that's really all the knowledge I have with Battletech.

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>>15652089
A weapon to surpass Metal Gear

>>15653875
>horrendous graphics
I've played it and I don't know what you mean by this. It looks the same as any hi-def post-2012 game, and at least as good as Renegade X.

>>15654138
Have you given Mechwarrior: Living Legends a try?

>>15654140
I haven't tried it, but looking at screenshots the graphics seem like a straight downgrade from MWO.

>>15654150
It came out before MWO, it's actually a mod for Crisis. The game shows that you don't have to have good graphics for a fun time. They incorporated weapons that I don't think the MWO engine is really capable of up until now.
>Heavy Lasers
>Long-Toms
>MRMs
>NARC/TAGs working according to lore
>Ammo types coming soon
>Battle-armor
>Vehicles
>VTOLS
>Aerospace Fighters
It's pretty fun, especially the Ultra-10x2 Ultra-20 Atlas.

I don't like how the mechs are like made of tissue paper in the MW:O game.

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>>15654138
It looks straight up horrible for a CryEngine game.
And I'm not just making shit up, there have been numerous accounts of industry veterans chiming in on the forums and getting explained by the developers why this or that thing has to look horrendous because at some point this or that guy fucked up and in the endless rush to get something out, the error accumulated enough shit on it that the boss wouldn't let them fix it and redo all that shit properly.

It's a very budget-lacking game all in all.

>>15652089
I wish I had people to play the board game.

>>15654461
Me too.

>>15654461
>>15654463
Run it on Roll20. People have run Warhammer 40k decently on Roll20, so I imagine you could get something going for Mechwarrior/Battletech if you're willing to get that shit going.

Hell, there might already be attempts to do so.

>>15654481
I made an account on there, but never actually used it. I think I'll give it a try.

>>15654481
I've been looking for people on there I just don't know the rules either.

>>15654502
Recruit from /m/. You'd probably be surprised to learn that many of the people on this board are actually reasonable people to game with.

>>15652505
btfo

WHAT A LITTLE BITCH! LOL

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>>15654461
>>15654463
>>15654481

No there is better. Download the program Megamek. It is the entire Battletech tabletop game put into a computer program. All units are there, and almost all optional rules can be turned on or left off. All the rules and dice and handled by the program, you just give orders and watch hilarious reports of pilots failing at basic functions and ammo exploding.

>>15654653
>Megamek
Oh right, I forgot about that. Listen to this Anon's song! He knows better.

Megamek for 40k when?

>>15654666
>Megamek for 40k when?

Considering how awful a game to play 40k is, never.
GW has all the reasons in the world to shut down any such efforts lest their huge fanbase online realizes investing into the models is not worth it because the game sucks horribly.

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>>15652089
An anon on tg dropped these custom builds for patlabor a while back.

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>>15652089
Been playing some Walking War Robots on phone. It's making me long for the days I played Battletech.

>>15654873
The Urbanmech is empowered with the soul of his nation. He cannot fail.

>>15654423
>And I'm not just making shit up, there have been numerous accounts of industry veterans chiming in on the forums and getting explained by the developers why this or that thing has to look horrendous because at some point this or that guy fucked up and in the endless rush to get something out, the error accumulated enough shit on it that the boss wouldn't let them fix it and redo all that shit properly.
It's literal fucking Jenga code. PGI had a few talented contractors left over from their UE3 days after DNF that polished off a minimally viable vertical slice clone of WoT back in 2012. Look at the gameplay footage from GDC 2012. They never again had that fidelity. They removed inverse kinematics and have been using a generic copy paste damage texture instead of the original work they did due to shitty optimization.

It's a reason why they don't have ammo switching. It is lost due to brain drain and slapping more bandaids on top of another. It was stuck in release beta up until late 2015 but they still had a launch party back in 2013.

They have the MechWarrior license hostage and a minimally viable product is enough to keep old men strung along.