@@Servellion Unless you give it double heatsinks and all the heat managment you can, then you can fire 2 large lasers *and* cool off a bit simultanously. . . its glorious!
@@Lecog I ran the 6 LL with double heat sinks when I first did the campaign (stole them DHS from the highlander, since it doesn’t really need them). It was pretty effective. 4 LL in a Marauder, though, if your pilot has tactics 9, it’s head shot ‘o clock.
Until RNGesus hits the smite button and your warriors always shoot them in the foot instead. It's weird how that seems to happen on occasion, on a mission by mission basis. But it also helps to back them up with 2 additional med lasers if you have the 2R variant.
@@ovalteen4404 with tactics 9 and the marauder’s command module, it’s a 33% to called shot the head. With 4 LL, it becomes pretty easy to take the heads off mechs.
"Why my arms no work no more? I just go look at birdies like in my book from libarry. Stop making boom-booms! You make my birdies go bye-bye." - Scrombles I like to think with all the knocks on the head there is only one children's book in the library he's able to read anymore. It's heavily grease/blood stained and each page is more tape than paper at this point, but everytime the librarian tries to bring him a different book Scrombles rages and starts pulling random IVs out so it is just easier to patch it back together. Thank goodness you invested in the improved library so you could afford a quality archivist.
Darius has been on the lookout for a replacement copy for nearly a year, but has had no luck since it's an old terran book and most of the great house libraries have snapped up the remaining copies in a fit of pique...
Re: the enemy mechanic -- that sounds awesome, I agree. I would say that one (or several) lances hired by your enemies have a chance to show up on any non-story mission you undertake and try to just murder you. How strong they are and the chance for them to show up is dictated by who you pissed off and how much. Taking out one of these teams would reduce the threat level a lot; running would reduce it a bit. It reminds me of the NCR/Legion hit teams from Fallout:NV in concept.
@@TheInsomniaddict Especially in this game. With the huge number of hardpoints it has, it is the definition of overpowered. Load it up with medium and small lasers, jump it behind an assault mech, and it can 1-shot just about anything other than an Atlas or King Crab. I recently bought a Grasshopper in MWO with the intention of using the same strategy and... it doesn't translate well.
@@David_Fellner Med lasers, especially before Heavy Metal, was the most efficient system. Sure, other weapons systems can give you longer range or indirect fire but it's a bit meaningless in the game. Well, except for STAB MLs are/were the best dmg-to-weight ratio and could concentrate well with Focus Fire (I think that's what it's called, been playing a lot of RT). It still works in MWO to a degree. Take ghost heat into account and you'll see that different ML spams hold their own. I was running 6xML Cicada a couple nights ago and scoring top dmg. An old bestie was 8x MPL Executioner, and the 3xLPL/4xML Banshee is still pretty great. MLs are almost always worth their weight as secondaries.
Holy Shit! Test9 was a Kickstarter Backer!? I used to play in the Pods with that guy at the Dallas sites! He was co-owner of XMax Games when it was a thing in Dallas and later went on to start up Gunslinger Games in Garland! Both sites hosted the Dallas Pod Group VGCorps for a while! He was a great guy and a skilled pilot in the Pods! I sadly haven't heard from him in years, so I don't know what he's up to these days. But I hope he's doing well. Thanks for yet another great video and stay safe out there Tex!
Good, I was wondering what I was gonna do today...guess its watch Tex play Battletech. Ahhh okay so there IS a reason the guy from a few episodes looked like a real person; kickstarter funder. Awesome.
I laughed my ass off when they were bagging on that pilot pic in the mega-episode. In fairness that backer knows what he did when he submitted that pic.
with the factions - maybe for Battletech 2: There is the standard MRBC contracts like this game has, but also an option to directly approach representatives of the factions to negotiate more particular or specialized contracts based upon your reputation with them. Like a really good reputation may have you doing a planetary campaign for them (4-5 mission mini-story campaign with related objectives over each mission.) Or if you are in bad with that particular faction you can pay a bribe to approach the representatives to negotiate improved relations in some way, Either paying off some damages, giving them particular equipment they want or by doing some dirty jobs for shit pay, just to prove you are genuine in you interest to make good. At which point they may also give you redemption mini-quest which is a few missions long, before they allow you to take their standard mission again.
Discount Dan... who will guarantee to take your money. Who can pass up an offer like that? Besides, his scrap pile is legendary. I hear there are a few dozen Urbies mixed in there along with the other bits... most 'slightly used'.
"Of noble heart" achievement means you did a mission with minimum rewards. There's another achievement that has to do with extremes of the salvage or money sliders.
Just realized that the creator of BT was one of lead designers of this game and, I think, major staff member at HBS. Pretty cool. Be like if Priestley was involved with Warhammer Total War games...oh wait, the creator of Warhammer quit GW long before they came out due it to becoming too commercial, and not about the games anymore...hmm...funny that xD
I actually made a mod that adds stores to Terra (Fochts 'R Us) and Tukayyid (Krazy Kerensky's Clan Superstore) that sells unlimited quantities of rare mechs and weapons, and Clan gear. It definitely makes for some fun playthroughs.
A small modification I made to my runs of BT was to unlock the flashpoints before the campaign story finishes (and the full map movement needed to get to some of them) by editing a file by adding a pair of tags into the text. It just sets the flags to activate flash points and map movement, I set it up so it happens after the Argo is acquired. It doesn’t really effect balance or difficulty in my opinion and more importantly allows flashpoint to be run when they are actually useful or relevant, (and not going to just drop 4 assault mech on every target or have to reassemble a lighter lance for the weight restricted drops from scratch). And the added side effect of allowing the few mechs locked behind flashpoints to filter out and see use. I unfortunately can’t remember exactly what and where off the top of my head but they should be a simple matter of google of exact details. I realise this is much too late to probably be useful for this run, but might be useful if you do another campaign run.
Listening to this lets play while playing Battletech... Good stuff... Also i'm playing the Battletech Extended 3025 - Commander's Edition mod and it is not as heavy as rogue tech or advanced, but allows second lance deployment and opens the whole star map...
So does the 3062 mod. Which, I happen to be playing. So far, lots of nice scrap... but few worth while Mechs. I keep selling off the lights (Locusts, Stingers, Wasps, etc) because I am collecting Heavy Mech parts, and buying the occasional Assault Mech parts as I find them.
I know your already well beyond this as your recorded these a while ago but for future reference: 1. If you want to build pirate rep after demolishing it you need to go find .5 and 1 skull planets with pirates. 2. Keep a couple medium and light mechs around for Flashpoint missions that have weight restrictions. Loving the vids, stay safe.
"This thing gets way too hot way too quick" I know this is potentially several months late, but you could probably solve that with a heat exchanger +++ and a heat bank +++ Though i've only ever found that kind of gear on the black market, in terms of heat output an exchanger on 20% would be better than an extra heatsink (3.6) meaning your heat per shot would be 14.4, throw in some extra dualies that can be purchased on kimi (though only one at a time and for 600kish each) and you've got a pretty cool runner, i've done it with a black knight and an all-energy (mostly) warhammer 6-R all up to pretty close to 7-8 heat efficiency. I'm also seeing a disturbing lack of ultra ac's here, they get tonnage modifiers that mean you can carry more of them :P
Beeing a sizeable guy myself, I dropped a good 40kg after a GBP surgery. I really noticed the muscles I'd built by carrying around all that extra weight 24/7/365... And, even at 152kg and 184cm, I was fit enough to do the equivalent of an in-range featured Finnish brutality obstacle course in full army kit, and still hit my targets. (Though my thighs, calves and hips ached and all I heard under my hearing protection was the rush and thumps of my own blood stream almost muffling the firing sounds of the next militia buddy out on the course) My total weight with kit back then was about 215kg... more than enough to set off the most basic AT landmine by walking onto it's trigger...
It's not entirely unreasonable for the pirates to widely decide to shut out your company. You've done of a lot missions against the various pirates, to the point that you are a probable threat to them wherever you're operating. Sure you took out a competitor las week, but you took out allies the month before. There's also the fact that large pirate confederations do have historical precedence.
While there core of this game is really solid, I do wish there was some more variety with faction/mission stuff. I like the idea of more than mid-mission curve balls, like accidentally running into a 3rd party/Kurita continuing to kill steal from you because mercs. The first mission does a great job of setting up the idea of like "what if your allies betray you", maybe if you try to haggle for too much salvage/money, or like what happened to poor Hit man, if something horrible happens to one of your Mechwarriors, you can guilt the employer for more money. "She was doing mercenary work to send her kid to a good school you monster! Don't make me open up a Go-Fund-Me!"
Caffeinated Tex is another awesome face of Tex Also always loved fitting my Annihilator with UAC-5s. Hilarious amounts of dakka but you also need hilarious amounts of ammo.
Mechs like the Vulcan, Rifleman, Assassin, Shadowcat and more than a few others seem custom designed to kill their pilots if the machine falls forward.
Originally I thought that they had different pirate factions for different systems, because in the captains quarters they specifically call them the Agurian pirates. There was even one mission where the factions randomly team up, and over the coms someone said "this is a joint Pirate Pirate operation, back off mercs!". Sadly it is still one pirate faction whither you are in the perephery or not. Also the one edit I did changed it so that they still offer you 1.5 skull missions even if they hate you , just so that it is easier to dig yourself out of that hole. And from now on, if I ever get a Pirate vs Local Government mission I always do those for basically no money to keep my reputation passable.
17:23 the difficult part is normally defending the convoy while it sits in front of a dropship. For some reason enemies didnt move for a whole turn and that made the mission so easy. Yesterday I had opposite problem. Convoy got to dropship, enemies spawned, they immediately got another turn and blew convoy sky high before I even had an option to move, much less to defend. Was fairly annoying (2nd part of Kell Hounds flashpoint if anyone wonders where it happened).
Yea, me too. Not the filthy Fedrat ones, but the proper cataphract's are great. It's even one of the very, very, few functional stealth mechs they ever produced.
You are correct Tex; the pirates are not a single group. The first time I was offered black market contacts all the options were red because the local pirates didn't like me, even though the pirates in the Reach were up to LIKE from all the anti Cappellan missions I had been doing.
I bet you that the reason why Scrombles has his callsign is due to what he says whenever he gets out of his mech whenever he gets shot in the head (statistically higher than normal): I got Scrombled again... medic...
I've been playing the hell out of BTech again, and it's hilarious. Running a Marauder, a Warhammer, an Archer and an Orion. Using things like actual tactics and terrain, I fear no assault mech. Or assault mech lance, for that matter. Yeah, they've got more armor and the heaviest of them have more firepower, but my heavies are universally higher mobility and my fire support takes care of everything else. I probably won't even *use* assault mechs.
I always assumed the Pirates being a single force was because you were dealing with the Black Market rather than pirate bands. That is where you get the black market bonuses and penalties after all.
For your Annihilator get 2 UAC10 ++ and 2 UAC5 ++. 2 ammo racks for each cannon. 3 med lasers, and a 120 meter rangefinder. Load as much armor as possible and have Behemoth as pilot. Her called headshots at range are terrifying.
I am that one person that likes the Cataphract, even that old super ugly frankenmech version, or is that especially that one. Also q fan of the MWO version of the art, just looks like it means business.
tactics question: is there a reason after knocking out a leg you go for a torso and not the other leg? Haven't played the video game yet (just bought it) but it's what we did back in the tabletop days.
Also up to RNG gods....you can do a precision strike on a specific part and the game still says 'nope, not today' and makes you hit the CT instead of leg.
Tex, your fake scots accent is worse than mine, and I say that as an englishman who once got told by a scots woman that if I ever made that horrific noise claiming to impersonate her accent again she'd rip my balls off.... Seperately, I fully agree with you regarding RPGs and other games. While fetch quests CAN exist in games, and in fact make great tutorials for crafting systems if they exist, they aren't something enjoyable as a major gameplay loop...
Yep, I've got Glitch in one and her stats are 10/10/10/10 and I don't know if the LBX-5 on that MAD-3R makes any difference, but a high number of enemy mechs drop in one round with only head damage. Oh so nice for salvage.
I don't have access to a 3D printer, or someone that has one, so I am wishing they had released more IS designs... it's pretty damn nearly all Clans at this point... wanders off hacking, since he said the 'C' word.
Agreed on the pirates being one faction is dumb point. I like trying to think about how to fix that issue, maybe adjusting how the pirate faction tracks your relationship with them to represent the different groups perceiving you differently? Having an absolute ton of individual pirate factions is another way but I feel that would just bog down a ton of the game as you wonder which backwater militia with half a jenner you've pissed off and which you've befriended.
Dark Fate... as much as I really want a good Terminator movie besides the first two... no... Hell, T3 was bad, but watchable. Salvation was dull, Genysis was just fucking with the terminator timelines, Dark Fate... its like being fucking gutted. Then they shove some replacement guts and say its better...
I didn't mind T3 that much. Wasn't good, but wasn't awful either. Salvation was set in a period I was looking forward to - could have been better but I didn't mind, but Genysis is when it all went wrong and Dark Fate.... the trailer put me off. And by all accounts, I didn't miss anything.
And all of a sudden it's a pirates life for Tex. Result? Not being murdered on sight by any pirate bands aaaaaaaaaand they'll let you buy their shit at less than the price of an organ harvesting racketeering band................ winning!
If/when you get to play with heavy metal items, I found the LB10x to be perfect for the Annihilator. You can't really target anything specific but the total damage is stupid. Throw on a couple DHS and medium lasers and you basically have a fully armoured form of the original Star League Annihilator.
I'm about 20 minutes in and I'm pretty sure I just heard to ask for the game to murder you if you piss people off. Wolf's Dragoons? I, uh...I DONT think I want Natasha Kerensky showing up and blowing my face out the back of my skull at any point, but hey, you do you.
A 2nd lance, that would solve a lot of this games issues, call it in if you need it or deploy it separately at the beginning, every mission has you fighting a lance with reinforcements
Wait so if this is before the clan invasions how do you have an Annihilator?! I thought those were basically lostech until Wolf's dragoons from the clans recon groups who had like a handful of them.
@@zmmj2024 No you do not. Only if you refer to the other morale ability, in which case - called shot is an entirely valid one to use over it, and with an agrressive playstyle it's even more useful.
@@EgorKaskader Hmm 🤔 I was sure there's a cost to use precise shot. It's why you don't use it unless you are high in initiative. Guess I might be mistaken, been awhile since I had it installed.
If Behemoth ever dies we should give her a proper burial. Hollywood's deserves a good clip and Archangel's should be forgotten guy was always snitching on ppl.
1:17:27 - Pity you're not using mods for this run, I think there's a mod that disconnects rep from what missions you can take (I checked, it's called "Alternative Reputation") so you can take better missions even if that side hates you (just at significantly reduced pay). Personally though I agree that, like the local government, generic Pirates should've always been neutral. 1:31:15 - Tex talks about how he needs to use evasion to keep crappy lights alive, then proceeds to shoot at the heavy turret without any evasion... right, it was Scrombles leading this team.
I'm the one in a million guy who likes the Cataphract. Don't like the Capellans, but their discount Marauder looks cool and hits pretty hard. I like the mech.
I think primary thing when Jack prices like that is going to upset diff curve. Sure same gear maybe devs factored in have by certain points in game is out there but short of salvaging really good stuff in field you’re essentially the freebie player in a pay to win MMO. Which is basically a long winded way of saying very accurate to the reality of being a periphery merc company lol
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_"This thing gets way too hot way too quick."_
-Sounds like a functioning Stalker to me.
Pretty much. Any Stalker packing a punch is gonna run hot.
@@Servellion Unless you give it double heatsinks and all the heat managment you can, then you can fire 2 large lasers *and* cool off a bit simultanously. . . its glorious!
@@Lecog I ran the 6 LL with double heat sinks when I first did the campaign (stole them DHS from the highlander, since it doesn’t really need them). It was pretty effective. 4 LL in a Marauder, though, if your pilot has tactics 9, it’s head shot ‘o clock.
Until RNGesus hits the smite button and your warriors always shoot them in the foot instead. It's weird how that seems to happen on occasion, on a mission by mission basis.
But it also helps to back them up with 2 additional med lasers if you have the 2R variant.
@@ovalteen4404 with tactics 9 and the marauder’s command module, it’s a 33% to called shot the head. With 4 LL, it becomes pretty easy to take the heads off mechs.
"Am I overcaffeinated"
*lists pirate factions before singing the terminator theme*
*mercenary factions.
The proper designation of an Inferno Stalker is STK-H1DNBG.
Giggles. Similar shape
*snerks, falls down laughing*
I can't decide if I should vote up or vote down.
@@gigastrike2 I think that I using hydrogen as a punchline is worth a thumb down for sure.
Hah! Nice.
*newby Green pilot dies to a BIG ppc turret, and Tex goes* Wellcome to training
Scrombles is just the tool pusher at this point, Behemoth and Boomer have been his roughnecks for some time now.
"Why my arms no work no more? I just go look at birdies like in my book from libarry. Stop making boom-booms! You make my birdies go bye-bye." - Scrombles
I like to think with all the knocks on the head there is only one children's book in the library he's able to read anymore. It's heavily grease/blood stained and each page is more tape than paper at this point, but everytime the librarian tries to bring him a different book Scrombles rages and starts pulling random IVs out so it is just easier to patch it back together. Thank goodness you invested in the improved library so you could afford a quality archivist.
Darius has been on the lookout for a replacement copy for nearly a year, but has had no luck since it's an old terran book and most of the great house libraries have snapped up the remaining copies in a fit of pique...
Ah Tex, I love your wacky ass quotes. Spiders: "It's like hitting a pinata with a sledgehammer"
43:23 - Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the bravest Locust pilot in the Inner Sphere.
Re: the enemy mechanic -- that sounds awesome, I agree. I would say that one (or several) lances hired by your enemies have a chance to show up on any non-story mission you undertake and try to just murder you. How strong they are and the chance for them to show up is dictated by who you pissed off and how much. Taking out one of these teams would reduce the threat level a lot; running would reduce it a bit. It reminds me of the NCR/Legion hit teams from Fallout:NV in concept.
The Quickdraw is one of those "If you use them right"-Mechs.
@john smith Except it's really hard to use the grasshopper wrong.
@@TheInsomniaddict Especially in this game. With the huge number of hardpoints it has, it is the definition of overpowered. Load it up with medium and small lasers, jump it behind an assault mech, and it can 1-shot just about anything other than an Atlas or King Crab.
I recently bought a Grasshopper in MWO with the intention of using the same strategy and... it doesn't translate well.
@@David_Fellner Med lasers, especially before Heavy Metal, was the most efficient system. Sure, other weapons systems can give you longer range or indirect fire but it's a bit meaningless in the game. Well, except for STAB MLs are/were the best dmg-to-weight ratio and could concentrate well with Focus Fire (I think that's what it's called, been playing a lot of RT).
It still works in MWO to a degree. Take ghost heat into account and you'll see that different ML spams hold their own. I was running 6xML Cicada a couple nights ago and scoring top dmg. An old bestie was 8x MPL Executioner, and the 3xLPL/4xML Banshee is still pretty great. MLs are almost always worth their weight as secondaries.
I fear, Sir Tex, that you are spoiling us with all this Scrombling, my good man.
Holy Shit! Test9 was a Kickstarter Backer!? I used to play in the Pods with that guy at the Dallas sites! He was co-owner of XMax Games when it was a thing in Dallas and later went on to start up Gunslinger Games in Garland! Both sites hosted the Dallas Pod Group VGCorps for a while! He was a great guy and a skilled pilot in the Pods! I sadly haven't heard from him in years, so I don't know what he's up to these days. But I hope he's doing well. Thanks for yet another great video and stay safe out there Tex!
Good, I was wondering what I was gonna do today...guess its watch Tex play Battletech.
Ahhh okay so there IS a reason the guy from a few episodes looked like a real person; kickstarter funder. Awesome.
I laughed my ass off when they were bagging on that pilot pic in the mega-episode. In fairness that backer knows what he did when he submitted that pic.
with the factions - maybe for Battletech 2:
There is the standard MRBC contracts like this game has, but also an option to directly approach representatives of the factions to negotiate more particular or specialized contracts based upon your reputation with them.
Like a really good reputation may have you doing a planetary campaign for them (4-5 mission mini-story campaign with related objectives over each mission.)
Or if you are in bad with that particular faction you can pay a bribe to approach the representatives to negotiate improved relations in some way, Either paying off some damages, giving them particular equipment they want or by doing some dirty jobs for shit pay, just to prove you are genuine in you interest to make good.
At which point they may also give you redemption mini-quest which is a few missions long, before they allow you to take their standard mission again.
Utterly giant pile of scrap? Sounds like Discount Dan's backyard.
Discount Dan... who will guarantee to take your money. Who can pass up an offer like that? Besides, his scrap pile is legendary. I hear there are a few dozen Urbies mixed in there along with the other bits... most 'slightly used'.
Discount Dan is the shadiest purveyor of fine shitboxes this side of Solaris VII.
He finally found the blue button praise Jesus.
Black market is love, black market is life. First priority of any campaign run is to get on the pirates' good side ASAP.
"Of noble heart" achievement means you did a mission with minimum rewards. There's another achievement that has to do with extremes of the salvage or money sliders.
Just realized that the creator of BT was one of lead designers of this game and, I think, major staff member at HBS.
Pretty cool.
Be like if Priestley was involved with Warhammer Total War games...oh wait, the creator of Warhammer quit GW long before they came out due it to becoming too commercial, and not about the games anymore...hmm...funny that xD
Good luck with the straw drinking, Scrombles! Get well soon!
I actually made a mod that adds stores to Terra (Fochts 'R Us) and Tukayyid (Krazy Kerensky's Clan Superstore) that sells unlimited quantities of rare mechs and weapons, and Clan gear. It definitely makes for some fun playthroughs.
Were you tempted to name the Terran store "Get Focht," or would that be too obvious?
@@patrickcoyle5469 Too obvious. I did consider "ComStar's Surplus Star League Superstore" and "Blake's Secret Stash".
@@monkeybiziu Don’t Ask - Don’t Tellmart?
Tex you are like a giddy little kid when you're overcaffeinated, it's great lmao.
A small modification I made to my runs of BT was to unlock the flashpoints before the campaign story finishes (and the full map movement needed to get to some of them) by editing a file by adding a pair of tags into the text. It just sets the flags to activate flash points and map movement, I set it up so it happens after the Argo is acquired. It doesn’t really effect balance or difficulty in my opinion and more importantly allows flashpoint to be run when they are actually useful or relevant, (and not going to just drop 4 assault mech on every target or have to reassemble a lighter lance for the weight restricted drops from scratch). And the added side effect of allowing the few mechs locked behind flashpoints to filter out and see use. I unfortunately can’t remember exactly what and where off the top of my head but they should be a simple matter of google of exact details. I realise this is much too late to probably be useful for this run, but might be useful if you do another campaign run.
Was just watching this 85' tv show where Corn was a required topic in school.
Listening to this lets play while playing Battletech... Good stuff...
Also i'm playing the Battletech Extended 3025 - Commander's Edition mod and it is not as heavy as rogue tech or advanced, but allows second lance deployment and opens the whole star map...
So does the 3062 mod. Which, I happen to be playing. So far, lots of nice scrap... but few worth while Mechs. I keep selling off the lights (Locusts, Stingers, Wasps, etc) because I am collecting Heavy Mech parts, and buying the occasional Assault Mech parts as I find them.
@@franksmedley8619 might have to look in to that one at some point for sure...
Mmm 2 lances of King Crab, sounds like i REALY REALY need to get that mod.
I know your already well beyond this as your recorded these a while ago but for future reference:
1. If you want to build pirate rep after demolishing it you need to go find .5 and 1 skull planets with pirates.
2. Keep a couple medium and light mechs around for Flashpoint missions that have weight restrictions.
Loving the vids, stay safe.
Tex these Scrombles BT videos are great! Thank you for making and posting these and looking forward to Tex Talks BT Warhammer episode.
I get the same way when I am over-caffeinated.
"This thing gets way too hot way too quick"
I know this is potentially several months late, but you could probably solve that with a heat exchanger +++ and a heat bank +++
Though i've only ever found that kind of gear on the black market, in terms of heat output an exchanger on 20% would be better than an extra heatsink (3.6) meaning your heat per shot would be 14.4, throw in some extra dualies that can be purchased on kimi (though only one at a time and for 600kish each) and you've got a pretty cool runner, i've done it with a black knight and an all-energy (mostly) warhammer 6-R all up to pretty close to 7-8 heat efficiency.
I'm also seeing a disturbing lack of ultra ac's here, they get tonnage modifiers that mean you can carry more of them :P
cappellean/liao faction store has those items.
The Sure Shot is a pressurized sprayer that we use to clean stuff with brake clean in the automotive business. 😉
Beeing a sizeable guy myself, I dropped a good 40kg after a GBP surgery.
I really noticed the muscles I'd built by carrying around all that extra weight 24/7/365...
And, even at 152kg and 184cm, I was fit enough to do the equivalent of an in-range featured Finnish brutality obstacle course in full army kit, and still hit my targets.
(Though my thighs, calves and hips ached and all I heard under my hearing protection was the rush and thumps of my own blood stream almost muffling the firing sounds of the next militia buddy out on the course)
My total weight with kit back then was about 215kg... more than enough to set off the most basic AT landmine by walking onto it's trigger...
It's not entirely unreasonable for the pirates to widely decide to shut out your company. You've done of a lot missions against the various pirates, to the point that you are a probable threat to them wherever you're operating. Sure you took out a competitor las week, but you took out allies the month before.
There's also the fact that large pirate confederations do have historical precedence.
While there core of this game is really solid, I do wish there was some more variety with faction/mission stuff. I like the idea of more than mid-mission curve balls, like accidentally running into a 3rd party/Kurita continuing to kill steal from you because mercs. The first mission does a great job of setting up the idea of like "what if your allies betray you", maybe if you try to haggle for too much salvage/money, or like what happened to poor Hit man, if something horrible happens to one of your Mechwarriors, you can guilt the employer for more money. "She was doing mercenary work to send her kid to a good school you monster! Don't make me open up a Go-Fund-Me!"
I have a Pinchy Pinch of my own. It has 2 UAC/20s. It's funny when I core an Atlas in one alpha.
Ooof XD
Looking at that King Crab refit.... Isn't that just a catapult with more LRMs? Hahahaha - hey, if it works.
Caffeinated Tex is another awesome face of Tex
Also always loved fitting my Annihilator with UAC-5s. Hilarious amounts of dakka but you also need hilarious amounts of ammo.
Mechs like the Vulcan, Rifleman, Assassin, Shadowcat and more than a few others seem custom designed to kill their pilots if the machine falls forward.
the Highlander is my absolute favourite Mech the last table top campaign I played I ran 4 of them in a single lance
p.s. fuck capellans
Originally I thought that they had different pirate factions for different systems, because in the captains quarters they specifically call them the Agurian pirates. There was even one mission where the factions randomly team up, and over the coms someone said "this is a joint Pirate Pirate operation, back off mercs!". Sadly it is still one pirate faction whither you are in the perephery or not.
Also the one edit I did changed it so that they still offer you 1.5 skull missions even if they hate you , just so that it is easier to dig yourself out of that hole. And from now on, if I ever get a Pirate vs Local Government mission I always do those for basically no money to keep my reputation passable.
mechwarrior 5, but with competent people making it, and shove in the nemesis feature from LotR shadows of war. :D
17:23 the difficult part is normally defending the convoy while it sits in front of a dropship. For some reason enemies didnt move for a whole turn and that made the mission so easy. Yesterday I had opposite problem. Convoy got to dropship, enemies spawned, they immediately got another turn and blew convoy sky high before I even had an option to move, much less to defend. Was fairly annoying (2nd part of Kell Hounds flashpoint if anyone wonders where it happened).
Those missile boats are causing a lot of missile-thelioma.
I love the Cataphract.
I guess I’m that 1 in 100, lol
Yea, me too. Not the filthy Fedrat ones, but the proper cataphract's are great. It's even one of the very, very, few functional stealth mechs they ever produced.
@@harmen2456 More of a Caesar guy myself.
Btw there's a few frames at the end right around 2:15:32 where your steam cuts into frame.
Just thought I'd let you know.
Rowing machines are great. Hit all the major muscle groups while watching a movie.
Man , the king crab and I annihilator are so cool here. The crab with the AC20 look like duel wielding Mac 10s
You are correct Tex; the pirates are not a single group. The first time I was offered black market contacts all the options were red because the local pirates didn't like me, even though the pirates in the Reach were up to LIKE from all the anti Cappellan missions I had been doing.
Scrombles needs his own personal medical pod.
I bet you that the reason why Scrombles has his callsign is due to what he says whenever he gets out of his mech whenever he gets shot in the head (statistically higher than normal): I got Scrombled again... medic...
I've been playing the hell out of BTech again, and it's hilarious. Running a Marauder, a Warhammer, an Archer and an Orion. Using things like actual tactics and terrain, I fear no assault mech. Or assault mech lance, for that matter. Yeah, they've got more armor and the heaviest of them have more firepower, but my heavies are universally higher mobility and my fire support takes care of everything else.
I probably won't even *use* assault mechs.
Random thought: bullets were to 2020 what tickle me elmo was to 1996. All i wanted for christmas was 5.56 and 9mm.
I always assumed the Pirates being a single force was because you were dealing with the Black Market rather than pirate bands. That is where you get the black market bonuses and penalties after all.
For your Annihilator get 2 UAC10 ++ and 2 UAC5 ++. 2 ammo racks for each cannon. 3 med lasers, and a 120 meter rangefinder. Load as much armor as possible and have Behemoth as pilot. Her called headshots at range are terrifying.
I hope Tex finds the urban mech flash point or the parrot one
I don't care if he is a pirate that kills everyone who works for him, HE FIGHTS URBIES!
Now I'm imagining Pennsylvania Dutch Mechwarriors lol
@john smith They see me stompin', they hatin'
But, hey, I'm in an Atlas, so what are they gonna do?
Beat the clanners and be home in time for some gobs.
I'm that one guy in 100... I like the Cataphract.
I don't like the makers of that particular machine, but I like the mech itself.
It’s solid mech IMO too. At least in mw5 cheap to maintain and while not toughest thing in their weight class, find at least get job done.
I did not step on that V.I.P.
He drove underneath my Mechs foot.
Even having individual pirate groups on each house system. This way it's not just one, but it's not 1000 different bandit clans.
close only counts with horseshoes hand grenades and razor blades
I hear you'll be running into the Dragoons if you play the DLC story missions.
Hey tex u could always do some missions for the awesome capellans just for laughs lol
1:27:36 I would have just backed out of that shit assignment, I don't care how good the pay is even an Atlas wouldn't be enough for this.
We need to have Assautl Mech version of an Urbie.
The IMP
@@theblackpantslegion Impy and Urbie. Big Brother and Little Brother :p
I am that one person that likes the Cataphract, even that old super ugly frankenmech version, or is that especially that one. Also q fan of the MWO version of the art, just looks like it means business.
tactics question: is there a reason after knocking out a leg you go for a torso and not the other leg? Haven't played the video game yet (just bought it) but it's what we did back in the tabletop days.
better chance of hitting CT compared to leg. . . ironically given size
Depends on what bit of the mech is more damaged, just how much you want to salvage the mech, and how quickly you want it to die
Also up to RNG gods....you can do a precision strike on a specific part and the game still says 'nope, not today' and makes you hit the CT instead of leg.
I feel you on the weight loss, i used to be 365 and got down to 180 before my leg got run over
Tex, your fake scots accent is worse than mine, and I say that as an englishman who once got told by a scots woman that if I ever made that horrific noise claiming to impersonate her accent again she'd rip my balls off....
Seperately, I fully agree with you regarding RPGs and other games.
While fetch quests CAN exist in games, and in fact make great tutorials for crafting systems if they exist, they aren't something enjoyable as a major gameplay loop...
At 43:22 there should have been a trio of ejection pods just going full burn the hell away from king pinchy XD
What I have never seen is keeping two lanes one for the a team, other for for the b team. Makes it easier for both monthly report and experience
Did you end up doing the flashpoints like teh Heavy Metal mini campaign with the Cameos and the fanfic about REDACTED FACTION's fate?
Sorry for the double post but just had an idea a bit later. Is there going to be a tex talks on the idea of the Frankenmech?
Funnily enough, Marauder is the best 'mech for blowing heads off. The Lance Command Module gives it bonus to called shots.
Yep, I've got Glitch in one and her stats are 10/10/10/10 and I don't know if the LBX-5 on that MAD-3R makes any difference, but a high number of enemy mechs drop in one round with only head damage. Oh so nice for salvage.
Tim Curry is my dream casting for Kerensky
Love me some battletech. Have you seen the new catalyst games battletech plastic minis? I'm really liking the ones I have picked up so far
I don't have access to a 3D printer, or someone that has one, so I am wishing they had released more IS designs... it's pretty damn nearly all Clans at this point... wanders off hacking, since he said the 'C' word.
Irony: Tex mentioning the grey death legion as i'm doing a flashpoint mission to help carlyle and said legion lol
Agreed on the pirates being one faction is dumb point. I like trying to think about how to fix that issue, maybe adjusting how the pirate faction tracks your relationship with them to represent the different groups perceiving you differently? Having an absolute ton of individual pirate factions is another way but I feel that would just bog down a ton of the game as you wonder which backwater militia with half a jenner you've pissed off and which you've befriended.
Dark Fate... as much as I really want a good Terminator movie besides the first two... no... Hell, T3 was bad, but watchable. Salvation was dull, Genysis was just fucking with the terminator timelines, Dark Fate... its like being fucking gutted. Then they shove some replacement guts and say its better...
I didn't mind T3 that much. Wasn't good, but wasn't awful either. Salvation was set in a period I was looking forward to - could have been better but I didn't mind, but Genysis is when it all went wrong and Dark Fate.... the trailer put me off. And by all accounts, I didn't miss anything.
I'm surprised you havnt done a crazy urbie yet.
Tex should always caffeinate before one of these videos.
Tex gives great ideas for battletech 2, now if only there is a sequel.
Is there a Tutorial you can point to that was show me how you went about increasing the KB pilots in BATTLETECH
Just out of curiosity, what do people think of my Stalker build: 2 LRM20s, 2 LRM15s, and the rest is a bunch of ammo and heatsinks.
Wish I could play this game more. sadly my computer only can handle about an hour just barely at that.
And all of a sudden it's a pirates life for Tex. Result? Not being murdered on sight by any pirate bands aaaaaaaaaand they'll let you buy their shit at less than the price of an organ harvesting racketeering band................ winning!
If/when you get to play with heavy metal items, I found the LB10x to be perfect for the Annihilator. You can't really target anything specific but the total damage is stupid. Throw on a couple DHS and medium lasers and you basically have a fully armoured form of the original Star League Annihilator.
I'm about 20 minutes in and I'm pretty sure I just heard to ask for the game to murder you if you piss people off. Wolf's Dragoons? I, uh...I DONT think I want Natasha Kerensky showing up and blowing my face out the back of my skull at any point, but hey, you do you.
A 2nd lance, that would solve a lot of this games issues, call it in if you need it or deploy it separately at the beginning, every mission has you fighting a lance with reinforcements
Missile boat= BEST BOAT
Scrombles no need medbay upgrade...
Wait so if this is before the clan invasions how do you have an Annihilator?! I thought those were basically lostech until Wolf's dragoons from the clans recon groups who had like a handful of them.
My pizza needed an ASIAGO restoration!
I thought Terminator Genesis was alright...
All the LURMS!! Let's underrun them for the funnies! lol
I hope you know spamming precision shot, kills your characters initiative, you literally burn initiative to use precision shot.
@@zmmj2024 No you do not. Only if you refer to the other morale ability, in which case - called shot is an entirely valid one to use over it, and with an agrressive playstyle it's even more useful.
@@EgorKaskader you click precision shot, and it's -1 initiative
@@zmmj2024 What? No it is not. The *enemy* drops 1 initiative.
@@EgorKaskader Hmm 🤔 I was sure there's a cost to use precise shot. It's why you don't use it unless you are high in initiative.
Guess I might be mistaken, been awhile since I had it installed.
If Behemoth ever dies we should give her a proper burial.
Hollywood's deserves a good clip and Archangel's should be forgotten guy was always snitching on ppl.
A true Christmas miracle :)
1:17:27 - Pity you're not using mods for this run, I think there's a mod that disconnects rep from what missions you can take (I checked, it's called "Alternative Reputation") so you can take better missions even if that side hates you (just at significantly reduced pay). Personally though I agree that, like the local government, generic Pirates should've always been neutral.
1:31:15 - Tex talks about how he needs to use evasion to keep crappy lights alive, then proceeds to shoot at the heavy turret without any evasion... right, it was Scrombles leading this team.
I always found the Cyclops was a great mech, just it doesn't have enough armor.
I want the building you stepped on at 8.10.
They love picking on your stalker
I'm the one in a million guy who likes the Cataphract. Don't like the Capellans, but their discount Marauder looks cool and hits pretty hard. I like the mech.
I think primary thing when Jack prices like that is going to upset diff curve. Sure same gear maybe devs factored in have by certain points in game is out there but short of salvaging really good stuff in field you’re essentially the freebie player in a pay to win MMO.
Which is basically a long winded way of saying very accurate to the reality of being a periphery merc company lol