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They had a free weekend a while back and I really liked it, but unfortunately the combat was incredibly impossible to get. Still a little too early stages for me to figure out whether I'm comfortable getting into it

If you're even mildly into wargaming, Unity of Command is a wonderful thing to get. $7.50 for the game + all of the extra content. Wonderful, sleek presentation, it's definitely one of those wargames even for non-wargamers.

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Hahaha, I know what you mean. Somehow really oldschool things are abstract/visually-limited enough that it's super easy to get into it for pure, unadultered gameplay. Reminds of of Sword of the Samurai... I got super addicted to it a couple of years back. Somehow once graphics became 3d and visuals became so much more important in gaming, the lack of fidelity of the visuals became a problem.

Anyway, theorizin'. Looks like this campaign is really going to need a big push at the end if MP is gonna get made. I hope their KS campaign manager works hard on it

What difficulty are yinz playing at? I've been doing classic, and it's definitely the case that you need to use moods sometimes (agreed that the system is fairly convoluted and kind of hard to keep up with).

I'm thinking that for a real challenge I'll just go to the highest difficulty level. This will mean you need to manage moods a lot better.

For example, both the enemy side and your side have a "mood", Aggressive, Devious or Friendly. If both are Aggressive, then Devious attacks deal extra damage. However, as soon as you do a Devious attack (especially if you KO an enemy unit), chances are that you'll switch to a Devious attitude. And then you stop dealing more damage... you simply get more defense against physical attacks. But who's to say the enemy can't use friendly attacks on you, and one-up you, getting rid of your defense?

There's a whole lot you can do once you get into the system. Suppose you're Friendly and the enemy is Aggressive, giving them the edge. It's easier to change to Aggressive than it is to change to Devious directly. So you might have one or two characters execute aggressive attacks against useless enemy units, change your mood to Aggressive, which give Devious attacks a +25% bonus, which might just be what you needed to one-shot the remaining of the boss' health.

Even in classical though, it's fairly easy to just not care about this and just do an entire battle in a single mood, bonuses or maluses (depending on your team + treasure that you've found, ending fights in a given mood gives you bonuses). That's why I'm considering the highest difficulty setting. I'll have to think about the intricacies of the system so that I can actually beat battles.



And yeah, some of the boss fights are all but impossible and it's often hard to get the information you need about the boss. Also, I wish there were more meta-unlocks like new ships in FTL. As it stands you're just collecting treasures and unlocking new characters' ability to be leaders, whose bonuses are relatively tame.

As for strategy? I think Science is somewhat useful at the beginning, but I'm wondering whether it's worth trying to get two complete research sections. Maybe just one of the first. Money is definitely super important. You easily get enough fame to upgrade your shops a couple of times to get to items that cost 450, which are immensely good. But getting 450x3, just for defense items, is hard.

For the record, the devs have stated that they're looking into making an option for campaigns to be longer so that there's more usefulness in developing characters, getting science, etc. Looking forward to what they come up with!

This update makes me very, very excited.

That is all.

If y'all want a open-world campaign fix before Battletech comes out, I can recommend MekHQ + Against the Bot rules, which are mostly implemented in MekHQ anyway.

Been playing this for a couple of weeks or so. It's pretty weird sometimes, but it gives you so much more than just MegaMek or just MekHQ... it's not just skirmishes, and you don't have to build up your scenarios yourself or have a game-master. It generates missions for you, tracks money, etc etc, in relatively reasonable ways.

It'd probably even be possible to have one person playing commander, and each mech being assigned to different people that connect for each battle I think there was a B12 try at this a while back! http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=148285.msg6012543

Looks like the campaign is slowing down a lot now. Hopefully we'll reach $2m but I'm fine with it as it is.

I actually saw it dip under $1.85m the other day. It was confusing because it listed that stretch goal reached but was only at $1.84m.

This is also super confusing. They're also taking Paypal donations outside of the Kickstarter, so there's some amount of money that isn't showing up "officially" in KS.

We're about halfway through the campaign, and I might increase my tier just so we can increase the chance of getting multiplayer. Although, to be fair, it doesn't look like Multiplayer will have any "persistence", just PVP matches. I'm a sucker for persistence across MP matches. It just gives each match meaning.

To be fair, that we need to have this discussion indicates that they didn't make it was easy as it should have been to understand what's going on. I wonder how many people think this is shady enough not to back out there, even though it isn't.

I'm definitely considering increasing my pledge a little for there to be multiplayer though. This would also get me beta access to stuff, which would be nice. I mean, honestly, if I'm going to contribute money to Battletech stuff in general, it's not going to be on the tabletop stuff I have noone to play with. This is sponsored and led by the person that helped create Battletech in the first place, so that seems like that's the kind of project you'd want to back

I'm really hoping this is good. We really need a good story-driven Battletech game. We haven't had one since... I dunno... Mechwarrior 4: Mercs. I have some faith though. I really liked the studio's other games, though they were kinda limited in scope.

I feel a bit strange that they're just doing the Inner Sphere mechs due to the nature of the story but I guess that's fine. It'd be a fresh look at the series.

I hope the Uziel is in this. It's my favorite mech. Dual PPC all the way. Fast, capable, decently tough, powerful sting. I always take off the SRMs and the HMG and max out heat sinks on it.

Interestingly, I have the hardest time getting into story-driven games. Something about the fact that once you've finished it, they're done, just gets to me. Genuine and dynamic open world, like this Stage 2 just unlocked though? Right up my alley. Especially if there's MP persistence....