Why are clan women so happy?
Nicholai Malthus is a bitch.All Jade Falcons are pussies.Luv Clan Ghost Bear.Kristen is my personal Bondswoman.
Start this thread again near midnight and I can take part in it, sorry
>>739635491Not playing the new DLC before mods work again.
>>739636172what are you? a canopus casino bouncer?
>>739635491Please God don't let this lady have the fucking horrible lisping voice actor they picked for the black widow. Speaking of that has to be someone on the team's wife or something right? Did they ever even credit her?
>>739635941You forgot to say that the house steiner is trash.
>>739636347They hired the og cartoon va's back, even adam steiner is adam steiner.>>739636402They pay well.
>>739636347No idea about her specifically, but some of the voice actors they've used in DLCs previously have been eye-gougingly terrible. That female mechwarrior from kestrel lancers jumps out as the worst.
>>739636452Neat.>>739636510Yeah. Couldn't get through the last MW5 Clans DLC because this lady kept telling us "Come on Wolth Thpiders!" every four seconds, like someone was too afraid to tell her listen this isn't going to work. Pro tip to PGI if you're going to hire someone to do the voice work for one of the most famous soldiers in a setting please make sure they don't sound fucking ridiculous.
>>739635491They regularly get beat up by eachother, no remotely sane clanner wants to play their 'sports' with women
>>739635491I bounced hard off of Shadows of Kerensky. I welcomed the challenge of the clan mechs but Jesus Christ the elemental swarms are fucking insane. I'd bring more mobile mechs but a lot of missions have you facing against heavy hitters and throwing off equipment to make room for anti infantry options sucks and I can't trust the bots to actually handle them. Last I played I was stuck in Wolcott as its the deepest independent system in the invasion corridor and I kept bouncing from missions to back there for repairs. I guess it's a pretty realistic look at what it's like fucking with the damn clanners. You can win but you'll be walking home with your ass in a sling
>>739636347>>739636452Also, the black widow's voice is like that because natasha spent so much time on rejuvenation treatments to stay ahead of the curve that by the time of her death in mechwarrior 2, where she was 80, she pretty much aged fast because the treatments werent working on her anymore.She's going from cory chase and trish stratus in looks, to old dry hag pretty much after Tukayyid.
>>739635491Their PMS is encouraged behavior.
>>739637249bullshit, her voice is like that because some nepo hired that actress either for being related to him or for being someone he likes from only fans
>>739637169clans and mech 5 managed to replicate the horror of facing these fuckers in lore.
>>739637169>>739638093Elementals in ghostbear dlc really made me wish for a MW:LL style mod in big-ass meatgrinder battles.
>>739635491Joanna has canon bad hygiene. Imagine the smell of her cockpit.
>>739638490Seeing that this may be the next dlc, i imagine how they are going with the mix of book and mech 2 route.
>>739637169You really had a problem with the elementals? You just shoot them with lasers.
>>739640482Yes if it's just one squadron that's fine. its literally a hornets nest in some missions. Did a base destruction and in the process of picking at the madcat standing by the wall 30 plus swarmed inIts kind of insane they can just eat an LBX 5 point blank and keep trucking. I wound up succeeding but it ripped off half of my longbows armaments because the AI kept making it spin in place and try to take them out with its L laser. Its really a number of issues that makes them a problem.
>>739636452They really got Neal McDonough back?
>>739635491When they are going to make a properly simulated mech sim?For all the 'realism' faggotry, Battletech games come across as more arcadey than the new Armored Core.I'm not expecting pure fidelity, but a bit of weight and physics destruction would be nice.
>>739640886watch the trailer
>>739641743I don't have the ear to distinguish it from voice acting and I did not see any credits.
>>739641030Use the vr mod with its modules, one guy got a full motion chair for it.
>>739641816How would that improve the fact that physics destruction engine is kinda lame?
Federated Commonwealth... home. Or at least it was before Katherine Steiner ruined everything.
>>739641898this is shitreal engine's fault
>>739641030MW needs a stagger meter and lock on camera to be popular!
need Mechwarrior 6 set in the Jihad where you play as an armored core (LAM w/ blakist cyborg pilot)
>>739643218mang I wish it was that easy No matter how arcady or hardcore realism,MW will popular around the same time some madlad builds real mechs in industrial amounts.
>>739643218>MW needs a stagger meterThis but unironically, it's a core part of the tabletop
>>739644853mwo had staggers, til poopsockers bitched over light mechs using cryengine wonky mechanics to put a 100 ton atlas on the ground
>>739644853Rolling for stagger is lame. We need a meter so you can stagger even with laser weapons.
This expansion is the same material as the old cartoon, right?
so if I want to play this do I start from the beginning of Mercs or do I buy all the DLC?
>>739645352You can force PSR with anything in tabletop as long as it deals enough damage, even lasers. And everything needing a roll is the entire motto for battletechI'm not opposed to a meter in a video game, but AC6 handled it terribly and I have far, far, FAR more faith in fromsoft than I have in PGI
>>739645671Old AC games had stagger that worked like in Battletech it's just AC6 that is absolutely slopified.
Bit of /tg/ question maybe, but I shoot:I mostly stopped caring about fluff/table timeline after clan invasion calmed down and since no vidya I played really took the timeline further, now I know shit-all about jihad but wiki blurbs.Now I peek at some WoB sourcebook and what is all that shit?Is the WoB technology in general as much of a shock to the IS as Clan tech was, or are they roughly on parity there and its just the amount of warships and mechs coming to the party which nobody expected?
>>739646182The WoBies are still slinging tech that are on level with the Star League itself during its heyday and some extra stuff (Their secret cyborg super soldiers) and its all in damn near mint condition. The tech gap is much smaller than it would be as after the Clan Invasion they were able to jury rig and retrofit and rediscover older shit at such a scale Comstar couldn't keep it down so the progression genie was let out of its bottle.However they still have more battleships than the inner sphere and did not have any sort of autistic bargaining game forcing them to give it up as the Clannies did so they could really bring it to the fore and glass some cities at their discretion.
>>739646182WoBtech is more along the lines of boss mechs, gimmicks, or ace combat-ish superweapons. Variable speed pulse lasers and retractable blades are both signature weapons, though snub-nose PPCs and MMLs see a lot of use too. Many Blakist units mount a C3i computer so the whole squad gets to use the best-available targeting rolls.The blakist tech is more shocking in how extreme it was, exemplified by the manei dominei cyborgs who resemble an AdMech or a NOD cyborg. the inner sphere is generally pretty foreign to the armored core 6-style "pilot built into their mech" style of augmenting, which is what the MDs piloting the celestial series (pic related) would be rocking.
>>739646616>>739647113Thx, guess I am due to pick-up some TROs (or whatever they are now) once the games get there
If you're not Ghost Bear, you're a faggot.
>>739642968*Katrina
>>739635491Kill freebirthers!
>>739647949She's a fake Katrina. The real Katrina was her gam gam.
>>739647681One of only two clans that scored a win on Tukayyid, if only just.
>>739645536Aside from for the mechs you want, you might want some DLCs for the battle-zones they bring along.You control your company during times where shit take place, and if you do not own "Fate of the Lowballhanging Fusileers" or w/e while you are at the date it happens, the battlezone its related to might simply not happen or at least not with contracts the DLCs adds as I recall.But there are enough other contracts to pick up.
>>739635491Okay, I've been reading a lot of battletech novels lately and I have the answer to this. Clanners are horny as fuck. Like, constantly thinking about sex. But they don't do teh babies so their bitches be crazy
>>739650668>t. Phelan Cuk just heard about hot and cold water
>>739650357There is also the super sekrit date to get a free atlas ii in all of its sldf glory
>>739650668So youre saying that if I manage to snatch a qt lady elemental from the battlefield I got a shot?
>>739651010You'll die a happy man, with your pelvis in several pieces.
>>739651068
>>739651126/v/ needs elemental tan asap
I played mechwarrior 2 mercs as a lad. I don't know shit about battletech lore tho, wat do?
>>739640749The best experience I've had with elementals was a glitch.4 swarms spawned in as allies on an invasion mission and did all the work for me, going to com relay to com relay, devouring everyone on the map like a deranged swarm of bees.
>>739635491Their cinematics becomming better and better
>>739638093Yeah, because the game will spawn the ever loving shit out of firemoths. I hate them, I HATE THEM.
>>739646616>citiesplanetssolar systemsstar clusters
>>739651464You lucky sonuvabitch. Grab any technical readout manual and immerses yourself. There are plenty of youtube videos that break down the lore if you want that too. If you just want a story, Stackpole.
>>739651464The only lore that matters is the novels/board game. The vidya tends to rape it horribly, and the cartoon was pain.I'd read the books in chronological order (libgen.li has them all, and there are chronological lists) with the knowledge that William H. Keith/Andrew Keith are fucking horrible writers, but they cover certain political points others don't. Stackpole/Charrette/Milan are the best. Pardoe has his moments, but he's a faggot.
>>739651464You can ignore it really, unless you want some tripe-that-can be-kept-running-forever novels to read. Tech Readouts feel like a better choice if you just into the mech aspect, and going in dry wont hurt much either.
>>739651464Black Pants Legion puts out some good stuff, though I am admittedly a newcomer to the franchise.
>>739651464see >>739651776 also watch the BPL Stuff about battletech lore.the mech videos are the best, and the historical stuff are also good.big red isnt bad too.
>>739651872BPL is cool outside of BT. I like their videos. But they aren't short, there is a lot of war theory and logistical discussion. They got some passionate haters.
>>739651464Just play the vidya and learn from there. Don't read the novels, they're shit and a waste of time. Maybe grab a technical readout if you feel like you want to know more about mechs from a specific timeframeThat or just ignore it, for 99.9% of purposes you don't need to know more than>Steiner = german>Liao = chinese>Davion = american>Kurita = japanese>Marik = retarded>Clans = autistic>Rest = irrelevant
BPL's biggest flaw is that it spawned over 9000 memespouting casualswhich, if one is a memespouting casual oneself, means you'll be in good company
>>739652124>davionthey're worse than american, they're FRENCH
>>739652124>>Davion = americanRetard
>>739652124Fuck you
>>739652062I like the tangents, it adds greater context to the main topic while further adding to the lore building in the video itself. That whole bit with the Christmas Bullet being the early days of aviation before a snake oil salesman tried to pass himself off as a expert at aerodynamics was great.
>>739652124>calling marik retardwhy the fuck does this post reeks of chop suey, social credit and checking his own shadow?
>>739652398Could just be another Marik. No one hates a Marik like a Marik.
>>739637249>to old dry hag pretty much after Tukayyid.Actually after Ulric's election to the ilKhan
>>739652510I find it sad that no one has ripped her model yet and made a ton of r34. Since she was a huge slut.
>>739651776>If you just want a story, Stackpole.Seconding this. The warriors trilogy is everything you need in Battletech. Espionage, Solaris, Capellan Bullshit, Davion/Steiner steamrolling all opposition and CORE BREACH CORE BREACH CORE BREACH!
Talking of lore, there is one confusing thing I never fucking understood how it came into the setting:WTF is Buckaroo Banzai and his NAIS secret projects stuff doing in Battletech? There was some capeshit-ish 80s movie with the same name I remember that played on 80s earth itself and I think there were comics but... why battletech?Was the creator of that stuff somehow involved in BT, or what do I miss that made some un-famous Bruce Wayne or Reed Richards equivalent into a character on New Avalon?
>>739652949that's ridiculous but I believe it
>>739652949they were real? i just thought they were an example for player characters to follow
>>739636297This. I want to buy it to show support but im deep into a modded game and dont want to fuck everything up.
>>739652485Damn the Mariks! They ruined house Marik!
>>739653117Yeah he was at least mentioned in the wolf and dragon books or w/e novels had Jamie Wolf ripping Kurita a new asshole for causing his bros seppuku at the end.Ol' Hanse mentions its a pity Doc Banzais myomer prototype got blown up or some shit.Also the Hatchetman mech was made by him/his crew I think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIJZMruQju8
>>739635491The intro is out.https://youtu.be/wDVWfOXdlrE?si=jCRPaF6LOkOIMq44
Elemental snu snu wife or Canopus catgirl?
>>739654043You fool...they can be one in the same!
>>739635491Vibrating dildos installed in the pilot's chair that go off when you get a kill or meet an objective.
>>739647113NtaThat sounds so fucking cool.
I want Evantha Fetladral to fist me.
>>739654160That'd be implausible as hell. You'd need a desgra elemental that didn't fucking die travel all the way to the other end of the galaxy and then not be too proud for sex work.it is possible and my god would it be glorious but lets be real
>>739654043
>>739652949Abominable Intelligence ftw I guess.Just a fan homage and a time with non-rabid IP owners then.
>>739654043Canopian maid cafe elemental
>>739654930Char Aznable died like a bitch Misery, But Emma Sheen survived and died of old age after the Jihad.Also the Zeta Batallion is back, since jamison wants to rape the ilKhan.
>>739655026That's got to be some crazy Steiner businessmans idea for a new venture. Either way, I'm on the fence to just keeping a vanilla save file so that every time PIG releases new shit I still have one save that can play it right then and there and not have to wait for all the mods to be updated for the new client. It's ridiculous how often this happens, but there might finally be enough content in the base game to justify playing it vanilla now too.
>>739654160>somewhere in the Battletech universe, Aisha Clan-Clan is realmy god...
>>739655173Catgirls are more or less canon already.
>>739655321I'm going to blow up that Capellan orphanage to pay for a Canopian cat-girl. I do a net positive for the Sphere, AND get paid. Win win in my book.
>>739654393Before charles inbred alaric ward ruleship it was impossible, now that clans pretty much moved to the inner sphere to survive, or werent forced into a civil war by the inbred fucking their century old peace out of muh honor spite like the rashalague dominion, is possible now.
>>739654208Comstar and the WoBblers are pretty fantastic in general. It's one of the reasons I don't like the post jihad setting is because these guys as a massive secret power keeping their thumb on the scales of power as a sort of secret fifth house. They essentially no longer exist in post Jihad.
>>739655603Post Jihad you start getting into the CGL lore and those faggots aren't very good stewards of the IP.
>>739651010She has to respect you as a warrior but otherwise sure. Clan warriors treat sex extremely casually since they're all on futuretech birth control. They'll have it with basically whoever they don't hate/see as beneath them.
>>739655730>with basically whoever they don't hate/see as beneath them.Falconer Joanna could have fooled me
>>739655865Well... yeah but that's Falconer Johanna. That's like using Horse as a standard for clan freeborn and he's the motherfucker that beat a stormcrow in a race in a goddamn Mackie
>>739655730Don't forget the part where Clan warriors have very low opinions of Freebirthers in general so she'd automatically view your average Inner Sphere pilot as beneath her. You gotta beat her ass in a Batchall before you can get her beneath you.
>>739655956>implying my feats of daringdoo and charming wit wouldn't melt the sheets on her icy heartIts basically an anime, but shes like 7 feet tall
>>739655658DA wasnt CGL yet, in fact both mechassault games are from the jihad.
>>739653732the tech girl is cute
>>739656225"From the jihad" is being forgiving. Mechassault just mixes and matches names, throwing retarded shit together. It's a better game than a piece of lore.
>>739656197But these are clanners we're talking about. Their entire society is one big dick waving competition to see who's the strongest warrior. You beat her in a "fair" fight, and you're gonna have yourself a bondsman AND possibly a very loyal wife. My condolences to your pelvis.
>>739656225DA was during the time I think it was Hasbro owned it and tried to get their heroclix spin off for Battletech to get off the ground. It didn't go so well, and they later sold off the IP. Which is something that happens very often with Battletech...
>>739656598Its honestly amazing it's been going for as many hands have been at the helmFASA into WizKids into TOPPS into CGL and all sorts of weird licensing in-between
>>739656685Don't forget the part where CGL only owns parts of the IP. Microsoft still owns bits of it, and for the minis they still have to contend with that one guy who's been making pewter minis as far back as the 80's for the game. It would be interesting to see someone go over the whole history of the IP and its many, many owners.
>>739656758Microsoft now owns even tbe old mechwarrior games too.
[X] Missiles[X] More Missiles[X] All the Missiles
>>739657272>We going to forever do as much with it as with Shadowrun, saar!Oh great
>>739657374Frankly ms owns microsoft and even mech3 was with it too, so all is left is asking if the src at iron mountain is in a good state.
>>739657296>300+ rockets
>>739657296>>739657714At which point have you stuffed enough tons of ammo into a mech that your move rate should be significantly changed after you run dry?
>>739657824The same point where any critical leads to a sudden 4th of July fireworks display while you still have it in the mech.
>>739657296I begged and ree-ed myself a Longbow as some asian model-kit when I was a rugrat. Didn't even know shit about battletech, just wanted it because it looked so cool. It had some weird western-style comic flimsy of a few pages along, with teenagers finding a buried Shadowhawk with a talking computer. I never ever seen anything about that comic afterward, wonder if was 'exclusive' to those kits or if there is more of it somewhere on the internets
>>739658460CGL needs to reach some people about selling die cast baatletech figures.the old timber wolf toys are still sought til this day.Also none of this would had happened thanks to fucking playmates and EXO squad.
Anyone know what year the first mission for the new DLC is?
>>739659743begins at november 3055
>>739659782Does it add anything like academies to check out or am I just going to be grinding clanners into paste for four years?
>>739661229it is operation bulldog anon.the sunder is unlocked in 3059
Fucking PIG turned bird brain from a ugly bastard off soredemo into a handsome motherfucker.https://youtu.be/KpCLz9s6DhY?si=LWeT5oAB7IcKh2d4
>>739654043Belter catgirl for me, thanks.
>Get home from work just to discover all the YAML mods are causing fatal errorsFUCKGues I'll have to wait a week or two to actually play the damn game.
>>739635491is battletech actually good? I hear its woke but its seem surprisingly popular for a mecha title.
>>739657296Could use a few more missles if you ask me
>>739663660Or infinite leopard screens. The mod team already promised a hotfix so all we can do is wait.>>739663704It's >funExtremely autist coded.
>>739663704>is battletech actually goodIts a game of charts and tables. It lets you do some funny shit but you need to be able to accept the charts and tables into your life. You'll be rolling 2D6 many MANY timesIf you want to try it in a automated way but still true to the tabletop look up MegaMek
>>739665690Rolling 2D6 is incredibly simple to remember, but you have to refer back to a lot of modifiers to that roll.
Of the kodiak variants whats my best choice for turning into a makeshift melee brawler? The 14-tons of the assault arena fists are kinda hard to fit in
>>739656758>for the minis they still have to contend with that one guy who's been making pewter minis as far back as the 80's for the gameCGL bought IronWindMetals back from the owner last year. They're still producing plastic minis in china.
>mechlab mods are workingTime to get all that sweet new clan tech
>>739635491is this like the 5th all powerful female warrior leader in a row.meanwhile still not a single tough, competent and cool straight white male leader in the entire gamesuch woke trash
>>739666046Kodiak claws are infamously ornamental.
>>739643218The fact that a game with those mechanics feels weightier than MechWarrior should make you feel ashamed.
>>739667747Yeah, they'll never see it coming then
>>739666046Melee is derzka
>>739666113I was unaware of that. I'm more impressed that dude was still burning the midnight oil making mins with sculpts about as old as the people who still play tabletop Battletech.
>>739668843>not playing with folded paper tokens on a rubberstand, straight out of starterboxMeh, why even bother then?
>>739667169You can load the labs but people are saying missions aren't working.
>>739670051Apparently it's related to mods that change or alter the overworld map. I had to delete basically everything in the MW5 folder, after verifying the data files didn't work but a reinstall did. Also holy shit, this game is 95 Gb now, I didn't even notice.
>>739670141I can't think of anything I have installed that would do that but I'm still freezing on leopard screens.
>>739670256I honestly don't know what to tell you, PIG coders are amazingly bad and they only just now fixed an oversight where all the variants that have double heatsinks in the engine now actually have them. That's been in the game since launch and we are...5 years later.
>>739670335More than anything I'm just annoyed I can't figure out what's causing me to get stuck on leopard flying screens, none of my mods except yaml really do much more than add stuff and the detected conflicts are apparently not really conflicts says the devs.
>40Gb patch on gog>but Chaos DLC isn't even available there yetTECHNOLOGY
Why can I give the kodiak a cock cannon?
I miss you /gerg/tfw see your name
>>739672419Why SHOULDN'T you give the Kodiak a cock cannon?
>>739672419Clanners take their pissing contests seriously.
>>739672704Its kind of a stiff hardpoint, very frustrating to aim at times. Like every time I fire the ppc-x it just sprays everywhere, sometimes not even remotely close to what I'm aiming at since I forget that it doesn't bend that way. Also apparently I have to apologize to the ghost bears now since its technically NOT a cock cannon but lower stomach cannon is close enough
>weapon typed slots imo suck somewhat and limit custom loadouts too much>but everyone doing 20 medium laser loony builds bullshit sucks even moreIsn't there another compromise inbetween to find?
>>739675052the second option but having the self restraint to not spam optimal builds.
>>739675575Not that it matters much in singleplayer beside YOU DIDN'T BEAT THE GAME ammo, but fair enough
>>739663704Battle tech the video game is woke but it's also alright. It's a bit to simple to "solve" gameplay wise but that's what mods are for
>>739667880AC6 AC feel like weightless mosquitos that zoom around they don't feel like 16m robots at all. I'm not gonna even mention the tragic quality of animations in AC6. A step back in every way from previous games.
>>739676151The weapon animations in six rock what are you referencing?
>>739675978Doesn't feel like someone went out of xis way to try and make everything lame and gay on purpose just to piss in the players cereal at least.It sticks to the source material, period.That seems a common sense that few games get graced with now.
>>739676240>weaponI'm talking about the AC's they have sloppy animations compared to AC4 and AC5. They don't even move like AC's anymore.
>>739676359 It was mostly in the marketing what with giving characters nationalities in spite of even their ancestors not being from there. No they are not Chinese and Indian and that is no way sticking to the source material. Let alone Jensen's entire character.It's completely minor and honestly something being woke would never turn you off of something if everything else is good. Battle tech also isn't good because it's bulwark+ lrm spam the video game but I've played way worse games. again that's what mods are for.>>739676387That's insane to say with how different 4 and 5 move from each other let alone the rest of the games
>>739672672/gerg/ moved to /vm/
>>739656475DEATH BY SNU SNU
>>739675978"Solving" the video game is just figuring out how much burst damage or stagger damage possible while being just barely heat neutral to knock out Opfor mechs as fast as possible because even 1 skull missions can dump 8+ enemies at you. It's difficulty and scaling is all over the damn place, PLUS THERE'S STILL A MEMORY LEAK IN THE GAME THE DEVS NEVER FIXED. It will slow to a crawl after a while that even loading the various menus will start to take forever before it eventually crashes. The wokeness is the unusual bit of there being not a single white character in the cast that isn't an enemy, antagonistic, or being undermined. Like some bitch stealing not just Prince Davions yacht, but his nickname of "The Fox" and no matter what decision you choose, she always manages to escape anyway.The game is still fun if you like tactical turn based games and the management sim parts are fine, but once you know what to do, triple UAC/2 marauder will probably be on every drop list even in late game. It's too good.
>>739676696AC4/5 AC's don't turn like Elden Ring character.
>>739678968Brother you said animation. Stick to a theme
>>739679031Yeah animations. If you don't know what I'm talking about you never cared in the first place.
>>739680778My man there was literally no turning animations until 4 and 4 has other animation problems like QB having next to no physical impact on the mech. V had objectively the best animations but at like 20fps and AC6 does have turning animations but combined with a bad camera system makes it easy to look jank as fuck.I got gripes with AC6 too. Weapons ranges are a fuck in that game, and hard lock sucks. Complain about consequential things.
>>739678324The entire game states that Taurians suck.And you are helping one.So fuck the Taurian Concordat.
>>739663704>ts seem surprisingly popular for a mecha title.well first it's not a mecha title, it's a mech title. don't go in expecting japanese mecha shit like armoured core
>>739681806>Fuck the Taurian ConcordatFilthy Fedrat hands typed this.
>>739675052weapon hardpoints is the compromise. base MW5 mechlab where you couldn't even swap out a large laser for a medium was giga aids, but so is 30 medium lasers because you have 30 free tons
>>739682526MW5 just takes the same rough system that MW4 used with weapon hardpoints to curb what people would do in MW3 with removing all weapons from the arms and slapping them in the torso. And Battletech 2018 showed that if given the opportunity of total freedom....people will optimize the shit out of the mechs to the point of absurdity. Or do equally dumb shit like the sleepy Awesome.
>>739682448Nah fuck em.
Can i run this game and mercs on a 7600 and 5060?
>>739684746I was running it on a fucking GTX970, you're fine
>>739684746idk about clans but I ran Mercs on a 660 years agoit will run on almost anything at this point
