Gaming Battletech on Steam

[Notebook]

I know some on here will be interested. Not sure if its been covered before?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/637090/BATTLETECH/

 

[Urwumpe]

I know some on here will be interested. Not sure if its been covered before?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/637090/BATTLETECH/

Some friends are interested in it, while I am still not sure what to think of it compared to the tabletop game its based on. Anyway, my hardware is aging pretty fast now and I can't plan many games right now.

 

[Notebook]

Good excuse to buy new!

I've done it before....quietly.

N.

 

[Urwumpe]

Good excuse to buy new!

I've done it before....quietly.

N.

The problem is: I could buy one instantly. Even a bigger and better one than the current ever was.

But then, real life mentions that I need a new car this year an this car needs to be bigger and better than the current one. And better is hard, while bigger is easy. :lol: And my family grew by 200% while my income remained the same over the past four years. Which is making me so annoyed, that I could become honorary scotsman.

 

[Notebook]

Sorry, there are no Honorary Scotsman, its like The Channel Islands, you have to be born there. You can visit, but you will leave feeling...was I really there?

Do I remember Battletech in the 80/90's?
I had an Amiga then. Might have been on that.
Do remember it was complex, and hard work. Probably went back to Frack!

 

[Urwumpe]

Do I remember Battletech in the 80/90's?
I had an Amiga then. Might have been on that.

Mechwarrior 2 had been one of the most epic games ever in that period of time and was also a very good adaption of the source material... playing in the refusal war period allowed some liberal interpretation of Clan honor. :lol:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/mechwarrior-2-31st-century-combat

 

[n122vu]

Very interested in this one. It's also gotten me nostalgic for the Batteltech tabletop days, as well as Mechwarrior 2, Mechwarrior 3, and Mechcommander Gold.

Still to this day, when someone ends an answer/statement with "I think," my response is always, "Don't think, Mechwarrior, find out!!!"

 

[Andy44]

This game looks really cool. As a sign of how out of the loop I am, I have no real grasp of what Steam is, and like Urwumpe, I have doubts as to the ability of my current machine to handle newer games, and with a house that needs a new roof, it'll be a while before I get to this.

I was hugely into BattleTech tabletop wargaming in the 90s, and I played the tar out of MechWarrior 2 on the PC back then as well, including the occasional online battle over a dodgy dial-up modem.

Very interested in this one. It's also gotten me nostalgic for the Batteltech tabletop days, as well as Mechwarrior 2, Mechwarrior 3, and Mechcommander Gold.

Still to this day, when someone ends an answer/statement with "I think," my response is always, "Don't think, Mechwarrior, find out!!!"

When I get angry at some idiot in traffic, I still yell out what my Jade Falcon MechWarrior drill instructor used to tell me,

"Back to the barn, recruit. You drive like a freebirth!"

 

[jedidia]

Sorry, there are no Honorary Scotsman

But... there are no true scotsmen either, so... what scotsmen are there actually?

Somehow battletech passed me right by. For some unexplicable reason (like, seriously, I have no idea why) I just never found giant robots to be cool. Some of it whas their distinct disadvantage of not being spaceships, but still, it's baffling that they never interested me at all given that I basically ate all things science fiction I could get my hands on as a kid.
Couldn't get into Mechwarrior2 back then, and tried to get into Mechwarrior4 when it went free, but I didn't play it for very long.

 

[Notebook]

Humour aside?

If you are born in Scotland, you are a Scotsman or Scotswoman. Same as any other nation really. As Scotland isn't a separate nation, you can't adopt its nationality, I think!

Just making a point of the "friendly" banter between the English and Scots, sometimes.
I'll get my coat.

N.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

I'd seen Battletech played at a few cons and mini cons (in the game room). I was always more of an OGRE/GEV player myself.

But I'll admit some of the video games piqued my interest.

 

[Andy44]

I just never found giant robots to be cool.

Well, they're not robots. They're vehicles in vaguely humanoid or animal shapes, like the AT-AT or AT-ST from Star Wars.

In fact, in looking at the source books and novels, I recall very few robots in the BTech universe for some reason.

 

[jedidia]

Well, they're not robots.

Nitpick! :lol:

 

[Urwumpe]

Well, they're not robots. They're vehicles in vaguely humanoid or animal shapes, like the AT-AT or AT-ST from Star Wars.

In fact, in looking at the source books and novels, I recall very few robots in the BTech universe for some reason.

They are walking tanks. Sometimes jumping tanks.

Their only big advantage over tanks: They can operate in various different environments, from up to 900 meter deep water to outer space.

 

[jsky]

What do you guys think of this game??? I'm on the fence and can't decide whether to get it or not :blink:

 

[Urwumpe]

What do you guys think of this game??? I'm on the fence and can't decide whether to get it or not :blink:

With a better, working notebook, I would buy it, it looks interesting.

 

[Notebook]

Battletech update

BATTLETECH 1.1 HAS ARRIVED
Thank you for playing BATTLETECH! Today we released update 1.1.0 on the Paradox Launcher, Steam and GOG.

This update is all about giving you more ways to customize your experience, as well as reacting to common pieces of feedback that we've heard from you about the game. It also includes a healthy dose of optimizations and general bugfixes across all areas of BATTLETECH.

Tune into Twitch tonight at 6:00 PM CEST to get the full rundown of the new features and updates!

https://www.twitch.tv/paradoxintera...medium=email&utm_campaign=batt_bt_20180621_dd

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[Notebook]

An update to the franchise:

https://www.paradoxplaza.com/battle...edium=email&utm_content=header&utm_source=crm

 

[Urwumpe]

BTW, did I already mention the next BattleTech convention of my BT chapter? :hello:

http://www.con.phoenixguard.de/

 

[Notebook]

Some info on the Urban update on Steam:

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/hbs-dev-diary-12-mechs-and-the-city.1193820/