The Battle for Battletech - A Rant
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Remember, the ones complaining about gatekeeping are the ones that need to be kept out
And these same people crying about gatekeeping are fine with it when it’s marxist politically motivated.
Depends on the context but yes.
@@chalkdeamon6070 Not really. A vast majority of most gaming communities don't care who you are, what you are, your personal beliefs, as long as you come to participate in the community in good faith. I don't care what your ideology is of you're trying to change the game.
How was anyone supposed to gatekeep this? Which of us fans are in charge of hiring/firing at Catalyst or any other of these other captured companies? How do you gatekeep after the damage has already been done?
@@thegreenwig5026 we do exactly what we're doing now. Stop giving them money. Refuse to play with anyone who brings outside politics to the table (emphasis on OUTSIDE, damn Capellans...) and expouse the virtues of the hobby being for everyone, except people who want to change it.
Helldivers community -> "No politics" -> Great success
Battletech community -> "Correct politics" -> Abject failure
Democracy.
Catalyst...not the Battletech community.
Helldivers. It's politics , but satire. Now get back into pods and drop down, for Democracy!
What are you talking about?
Helldivers blatantly has politics.
you just didn't notice because you're a consoomer.
what are you talking about?
It literally does have that.
"Why has half of the lance we are fighting vanished before we even made contact and the rest is heavily damaged?" 'Well, it's only a guess, but looking at the paint...'
Q: Why do mechs painted in pride colours have a 41+ % attrition rate?
A: They keep having meltdowns.
@@OmegaReaverBut why are the Generators Intact?
Oh...
There's not enough double heat sinks in the inner sphere to chill them the fuck out.
kek@@OmegaReaver
@@OmegaReaver
Lmao, it's easily 60% plus at this point.
Remember gang, Gatekeeping is good & never let these commies in 😀🎉
Dont be stupid. Its not about commies
@@MD-yd8lh Uh... it _absolutely_ is. They're following Antonio Gramsci's playbook to the letter.
or any left wing ideolog from socialists on down the left's ranks and liberals are just the trogin horse to get to those things in due time.
@@MD-yd8lh it is about the commies. it also includes the national socialists. as well both are one and the same.
@MD-yd8lh It really is, that's why Liao is the point and laugh faction.
I've been experiencing this since the late 90's on the Egosoft forums. Your opinions are banned under their "no politics" rules. Their opinions are "just being a good person, there's nothing political about that."
Like the case of how the US military went from being a right wing institution to a leftist one overnight. Right wing politics are "politics" and the military is supposed to be apolitical, but leftist politics are "human rights" and you wouldn't dare question human rights like trans rights would you?
Exactly. Their religious dogma shall not be blasphemed.
Sup RGE, hope you’re doing well
@@thedoctormayhemfuntimeshow3213 It all starts with brown nosers, blue falcons, and yes men getting the promotions over the competent ones. Saw it happen in real time, turned me from a lifer to 214er real fast.
Derivative of the old "Your speech is violence, their violence is speech" mantra.
Conquest’s Second Law: Any organization not explicitly right-wing will eventually become explicitly left-wing
It’s time for another Exodus, then we can return and reclaim battle tech
We will be known as
“THE FANS”
Perfect.
They'll face the Fan Invasion...and this time, we won't let the megacorp win this!
I am *NOT* wearing hot pants...
@@digitalis2977
I challenge you to a Trial of obsession
You shall be made to wear the Shortest of Shorts
has this worked for DND? for 40k ? for comics? for star wars?
name ONE IP where an exodus has actually helped anything
5:57 - In nature, poisonous creatures will often develop bright colors to warn others of their toxicity. 🙄
😂
I've thought similarly myself....
The QA said when asked "How long have you been a fan of the Battletech setting", they said "Never heard of it till I started here". Yes nobdy is best to moderate a setting forum, than someobody who has never heard of the setting. Following the path of Disney, can't wait for Transgender Battle Mechs.
I mean, we can drop the IP.
All we have to do is buy all the old stuff we actually LIKE and ignore the new stuff. That’s what keeps the Warhammer community going and that’s the only way Star Wars has anything left.
Nothing makes these IP holders more angry than seeing their new stuff bomb in sales.
That is exactly what I have done: Ignore the new stuff... and, to me, everything from "Jihad" forward is "new stuff".
Already on it. I don't buy new GW stuff, not wanting to offend them with my money. Besides which, I kind of want more than 1 model of Ork Trukk on my table.
@@1krani wasn't the original idea of the Ork Trukk that gamers would grab another (non-GW) kit and mod the shit out of it? I thought Orkie gear was supposed to be virtually random and ramshackle
90% of tabletop IP was already surviving purely because of piracy to begin with. It's just like WotC thinking they have any authority over the game of D&D.
The problem is that these SJWs (Yeah, going back in time for that term, but it still fits) have already done this to every other major franchise and hobby. I was a HUGE Star Wars fan before I ever even knew what Battletech was. They ruined Star Wars and about a dozen other various hobbies I've had. This is it. Battletech is the last remaining hobby and even though I am far from an old grognard I am here for the mechs and I WILL NOT GIVE UP THIS HOBBY!
Nice callback to AZ's rant at the end :D
Also, the encouragement to keep playing BattleTech and not supporting Catalyst needs to be repeated at double volume for all the blackpillers who want to abandon it.
catalyst - "access is a privilege, not a right."
me, kitbashing custom 'mechs out of spare gunpla and model tank kits - "I am ungovernable."
If Bandai could make 1/72 scale Battletech mech kits I would buy one of everything they produced.
@@crazymcgee3604 Hell yes! The sheer pose-ability at that scale would be killer.
🤘😎🤘
Stay ungovernable, and keep kit-bashing! Customized mechs are the best part of the hobby.
or the classic in this day and age: 3D PRINTER GOES BRRRRRR
That interview Sarna did with that community manager is a fucking hoot. Right off the bat, 'xer' claimed it's favorite mech was based not on a particularly favorite playstyle or loadout. Not even because of particular aesthetics. Nope, it's favorite mech was the ONE mech it once saw as a PLUSHIE!
That's like hiring a kindergarten teacher as your SWAT medic.
Am I weird for my favorite mech being for aesthetics, and it being the Catapult?
@@chrism.1421 yes, but it's an acceptable reason 😂
@@chrism.1421 weird? Nah. Tasteless? Yes. But not weird.
@@chrism.1421 Not really, I love the Thanatos, which is good, and also the Assassin, which is horrible. Both look cool as hell.
>No politics in our games
>but you put those flags on everything
>"Oh my God that isnt political! This is literally people trying to simply exist! "
A flag is a symbol of conquest and supremacy. if you are "planting your flag" you are the definition of a colonizer.
Their religious dogma isn’t political! Submit to every demand they make or be labeled an infidel!
I have to fight back a laugh whenever someone tries to tell me that a fucking FLAG of all things isn't political.
I kinda laugh since the Houses and Clans are all about politics. Even the merc units sail the political spaceways.
(minor trolling here)
Ditch the real life politics, keep the Battletech game politics. 😃
"You have been banned for making a mod that removes those flags, because we're so non-political"
Gatekeeping these absolute narcissists is essential for any online community.
Once enough of them get in they will destroy any semblance of enjoyment because that is what narcissists do they extract joy from normal humans.
The solution with narcissists is zero contact. This is what therapists recommend. If we leave the Internet they will have to sell the old school way, like in 1984.
The art of communism is accuse your enemy of the thing your doing to your mommy who always sides with you
"Rules for Radicals". Funny how the rules for radicals means basing your entire strategy not on truth, but on lies and slander.
@@1kranibecause it's about demoralizing the public till they go numb. Then the public gives up. The kicker this time is this recession will encourage the inclusive crowd to 'exit stage left' because they won't like the struggle on the lower end of Maslow's Pyramid
@@1krani And they never stop to consider that if they're having to lie about what they're doing, maybe what they're doing isn't the right thing to do afterall.
@@rishnix the ends justifies the means is how they operate.
@@1krani I mean it's literally dedicated to the "prince of lies" so not a surprise
Y'know what would be funny? If the community decided to write a better story than the official writers. Wouldn't it be crazy to make an extended universe that actually compelled people to play?
Yeah. That'd be crazy.
and that would be easy. Make the wolves actually LOSE the territories they removes their troops from in order to take terra. Have the homeworld clans hear about what happened somehow, and launch a second invasion for the express purpose of purging the sphere, ESPECIALLY the spheroid clans. Make clan wolf's new position of power place them as the bad guys, and see how long they last from here before being taken down a peg, allowing a new status quo to take place...
Abandon reddit.
Embrace ancient forums.
The ancient forums are under attack too. Got a ban from one recently for off-topic posting, after I posted a batrep.
@@rishnix the benefit is that new forums may also be made.
A good friend of mine was a member of the Green Ronin forum for their Mutants & Masterminds (superhero rpg) forum for over 16 years. Well liked by the community, always actively engaged with new players teaching them the rules, et cetera. One day a discussion broke out between her and one of the few other women who were on the board about sexy costumes on female characters (specifically Spider-Woman and Catwoman). My friend had the temerity to claim that sexy costumes on fictional women didn’t necessarily bother her.
For this she was permanently banned.
Sixteen+ years as a member of a SUPERHERO COMIC BOOK based forum and they banned her for not being offended by Catwoman.
The moderator deleted all of her posts and re-wrote one of them to read “Banned permanently. Reason: Fucking GamerGater.”
I’ll remind you this was a discussion about comic books. My friend hadn’t owned a video game console since the original NES in the mid eighties.
Forums are not safe for freedom of thought if the forum is run by a corporation.
Abandon Internet. Without internet it will be expensive for them to enforce anything. In 1984 there was no Internet.
lets go back to BBSes
I take great exception to you calling them "Lyrans".
This behavior is *VERY OBVIOUSLY* Capellan.
Lyrans understand Capitalism, Free Trade and Market Share.
The new BT "fans" sure do love the Capellans and the Magistracy of Canopus oddly enough.
@@rishnix Of course they do.
Davion. Now, and forever.
Hm. Funny how that works.
@@sixmillionisimpossible that was before this went public
He called a Timberwolf a Timberwolf.......
Clanner recognizes clanner😉
That's the combination of a marauder and a catapult, right? We call those Cat Mads in the inner sphere.
@@ChrisFoxWrites You wish free birth!!🤣
@@jal1656You clanners and your batch-all of test tube babies can go back the way you came! Free in the Periphery! [Loads AC20]
@@InquisitorJack keep your fringe territories. Who sits on Terra now? That's right, the clans do. AT&T could only save your asses for so long😋
PS. I'm a Ghost Bear so I don't agree with anything Jade Falcon does
Because we're superior
If there was ever a hobby better suited for supporting small, independent model designers and 3d printers, it's Battletech.
Just FYI, Ironwind Metals has, to the best of my knowledge, stayed completely away from any of this drama. So if you can deal with metal instead of plastic, they aren't a part of this whole deal and have a ton of different BT minis.
Dude, I've been stocking up on as many of the Mongoose Gunslingers as I can from IWM for my mercenary unit.
@@SargonarhesI've got a pair of those myself. It's my favorite Mongoose!
I live 15 minutes from their physical location. They are not really set up for retail, but you can walk in, and they will hand you a bag and set you loose in what is essentially their store room. They have aisle upon aisle of bins just filled with every Battletech miniature you could imagine. It's been a while since I have been there, but I seem to remember them simply charging by weight. They were very nice, and I left there feeling like I ripped them off. I highly recommend doing business with them.
"Battletech Is For Everyone!" And then the gatekeepers arrived and hate ratioed me out of the game I've loved since 1985...
And that comment got me a 9 month ban from r/Battletech
>Using Reddit
I think I found one of your mistakes here.
Really proved your point didn't they?
You cannot do something for everyone because nothing will be liked by everyone.
So everyone is nobody. Let them discover that the hard way.
Everyone = Nobody
Former member of the Catalyst Demo Team. I didn't have much sway in the CDT community, but I help run the largest Battletech group in my city. I left the Demo Team once I saw Catalyst confirm all our worst suspicions, and the rest of the group is dropping as well. Our city is officially off-limits to the forces of Clan Raw Dog.
What specifically happened? What city? How bad is it getting in your area?
@@kamerionsmith4551 No,even if your question is sincere, that's a fast way to get somebody doxed. He tells you the city and then some Pinko finds the biggest gaming group and talks somebody up. Next thing you know, friend up here is going to have a SWAT team in his house.
Best of luck.
@@diggman88It's sad that you're right
@@diggman88 I'd argue that their original comment already says too much; but that merely further highlights precisely your point. It's astonishing to me the way these people think and act; more so when you consider that these same "individuals" are the very same who are more than prepared to do horrible acts. Yet us "old guard" types are made to look like the toxic ones because we are unyielding. Stay strong my brothers.
"To withdraw is to conside."
As a Clanner, I take that personally.
As a clanner you can take it all the way back where you came and leave that Omnimech tech where you stand
As an Steiner, I'll take that as a threat and respond accordingly!
*Launches Scout Lance!*
@@sixmillionisimpossible I can't hear you out here in the Periphery. When you gonna try what the last Star League did? Maybe there'll be enough moons to bury your fallen.
Mess with the bull, get the horns and the flared PPC
@@sixmillionisimpossible Hahaha I actually love what I've become! It's even better
I'm not withdrawing... I'm redeploying
guess what catalyst? access to my disposable income is a privilege, not a right.
100% fact!
That's right!!
Not according to today's activist corporations. "You vill buy our product unt be happy!"
@@arthurpendragon3000 well, they can try....
The best part, is like when I dropped 40k, the money I would have spent mostly goes into my firearm enjoyment.
As a 40k refugee I'm not letting them detour me from my mecha love
Remember, Transphobia is just telling a freak that you think they are a freak and don't want to associate with them.
Or not buying into their game of pretend because they can't cut it as who they were born as...
Why accept them when they can’t even accept themselves?
Or just saying anything that isn't positive about them.
transphobia is asking what rights they dont have and are fighting for
Based
We will defeat the Wokes just like the Clans.
And the Commie Capellans!
We didn't get beat like the wokes! We respected our foes with honor and ER weaponry.
I refuse their batchal
Under that logic, wasn't GamerGate Tukayyid?
Clans are the good guys though
You dare refuse my FUCKING PRONOUNS needs to be a stream notification
This!
A masterpiece of an outro clip
IT'S MA'AM
Psst psst. I sell make up for combat helicopters just in case 😂
Three Dimensional Printers are a wonderful thing.
I sure hope no one would leak the designs for Battle Tech like equipment with an instruction manual on how to paint them.
No need to leak anything.
MWO models are fair game since they don't make minis. Catalyst would have to literally turn into Harmony Gold and hound Piranha to get them to file DMCAs.
It would be the ultimate irony that they literally will turn into the very thing that nuked BT the last time around.
Just remember friends... models are expensive but 3d printers are getting plenty cheap... you don't need corpo support to enjoy your hobbies with your friends, especially if you surround your group with large walls and well guarded gates
no guts, no galaxy!
The woke brigade came from nowhere and struck like lightning. But they made one mistake, when they attacked MY HOME PLANET!
I don't care if the line doesn't fit at the end, I'm not changing it.
Everything changed when the Woke Brigade attacked…
(Different IP, I know)
This is the same attitude I've been espousing towards Magic the Gathering for a 5 years or longer. Play the cards you like in the ways you want to play them with friends. Support your local gaming community, if you need to. Make your own cards, if you need to. Stop supporting Wizards/Hasbro and stop giving them money.
I've been screaming it at 40k for years, talking to a fucking brick wall...
They won't listen. The game gets more progressive, they excuse the race washing of Aragorn, and they just came out with a Fallout set of all kinds of IPs to do. Game is down dirty, but still I play, at least hoping people hear my pleas. Eventually, they'll see how corporate it is getting.
Some people love to play the game of FA&FO (f around and find out). Lorraine Williams CEO of TSR said "players will like what I tell them to like" and TSR went bankrupt. It seems the cautionary tale did not reach them. If they want to play FA&FO be my guest...😂
Fresh off the presses
I came to Battletech as a Warhammer Refugee, and I'll be damned if i'm forced out again by these same hacks. Stand your ground MechWarriors.
Yep no retreat from me either.
This is a Trial of Annihilation against us old fans, and as a fellow 40K fan I think this quote fits our situation well:
"No remorse, no mercy, no forgiveness. Not a single step back, not a single moment of hesitation. You will not succumb to fear or doubt, and you will relent only after you have given your last moment for the Emperor. Nothing less than this will be tolerated."
As a new fan of Battletech coming from Warhammer 40k and Star Wars it´s sad to see modern politics in universe and comunity
Years ago Arpanet the military network became a civilian open network. What you see is politicians reclaiming it back as a military network.
Humanity never needed Internet. In 1984 we did not need it either.
So the solution is that if they want their network back, let us give it to them.
We can always do things the old fashion way we had when we were kids.
I can guarantee you that without Internet you will not have drama. Try it for a week and you will see.
Only you and your friends and anyone joining will have to show respect.
People… Let’s keep Battletech/Mechwarrior alive. We can go the Tex route and make lore that everyone can enjoy. We can make stories that everyone can enjoy. I will be dropping a story of a character that I hope everyone can enjoy and say “Wow. This is good.” Stay happy and stay safe everyone.
Yeah, just don't buy whatever you don't want to buy. That's the only thing companies care for anyway.
With the state of the world as it is, of course they have to bow down to radical pronoun creatures. It's just politics, don't waste your energy on anger, you deserve better.
@@TheR00k There's a difference between "It's trendy" and "You must."
@@boobah5643the difference is called “five years.” Two years under Brandon.
Metal Mythos: Dio WHEN RAZOR
Probably after the Sabaton or Prince Music Mythos. 😢
I'm still hoping for DS9 content. Razor has a very patient fan base, it seems.
Still waiting on a new Shadowcast and Film Noirchives too...
I'm gonna play it like normal, but if someone wants to play me with their politics painted on their mechs, I'm bringing out the General Lee and watching them spurge out.
If I ever get into painting, I'll keep a special squad of Celestians with little red arm bands just for rainy days.
Wokeness really has infested every corner of popular entertainment franchises, tainting them all with it's evil. No wonder boycotts of woke products are happening everywhere.
To quote the NWO: When you're with the Razorforce & Razorfist, You're in 4 Life 😎🤘🏾
The real battle is getting Terran to make his character
The clanner folk are going to make the next star league by the time he makes his character
@@sixmillionisimpossibleYou mean the Clanner version of SL or did TG actually make a character sheet?
Gatekeep.
Kinda like the automobile industry, become further enamored with the old but gold. Let the contemporary era fiscally rot.
Prepare to get Focht Catalyst
Best comment.
I played the game before the Woke. I'll play it long after they've moved on to swarm & consume the next IP of their choice.
You don't need Catalysts permission to enjoy Battletech the way it was meant to be played.
They are doing the same to Shadowrun.
is this stupidity that killed even Heavy Gear
all of those franchises are relatively small financially speaking yet have a large population of fans so its easy for ESG plants and money to turn them to their side.
Shadowrun is owned or leased by Catalyst Game Labs too. That Rem Alternis is a huge Shadowrun fan, and is most likely working on that as well.
You've actually convinced me to rewatch both (I said what I said) Star Wars trilogies come May, for very related reasons. Tired of ceding ground to these bloody Philistines...
You said what _you_ said
nothing like a razorfist video to help get through the day
Not to mention he is finally talking about a videogame again for once now. It's like today is really a new day.
Wokies: You Dare REEfuse my Batchall?
The rest of us: Um, yeah. We just want to play good games and not shit.
Wokies? Is that really the best you can come up with?
@@Kyzrath
Ah, I see you crusading all over the comments. Found the wokie lol
In my local group, we have several Demo team members that are all considering dropping out of it. I don’t blame them, and honestly, I’m sick of the crap Catalyst has been pulling. The Urbanmech LAM box is just the last straw for me.
I almost past out laughing when I heard about an Urbie LAM! ! Then almost died when it is an actual product! What next, Optimus Prime joins the Federated Suns?
@@arthurpendragon3000 I have seen the STLs.
Do not obey them, do not let them decide - just decide everything about the woke and similar things that they do not apply to you. Its like with Star Wars, or Star Trek, or any other franchise that was ruined by this new-age religion: I've decided that most of the new Star Wars stuff, isn't real, its a hacked "fan"-job and does not apply, same with Star Trek, or movies like Ghost Busters and indeed this same thing applies to Battletech: Just decide these people are unimportant, what they write is unimportant and not canon, what they produce is not canon, the rules they make for the game is unimportant and not canon (hint: Yes, you can actually just mentally decide "Nope, this isn't happening, the old stuff is still what applies" and there is nothing they can do about it)...Keep playing like you always have. I do and it gives me even more satisfaction than before - Not only am I playing a game on my terms and in a way that is actually good, I also get to know that the mediocre thinking of unstable people - do not apply to me.
Try it, you'll love it.
I've been screaming this at 40k for years. It's a toy soldier game, the rules are what we say they are. Alas, it's like talking to a brick wall.
@@cousinzeke4888 Bingo,
They have gravely misunderstood our relationship it seems to me.
Don't get me wrong, it is wonderful that there is a great library of lore about a fictional universe called Warhammer 40k, or Battletech, and many years of various things added and removed from various rule systems and so on, good stuff. (That I can pick and choose from as I damn well please)
But come on, they're a toy model company with a fictional universe franchise, lets not any of us pretend that this qualifies them for anything but that. Certainly not to moralize at me nor require anything of me besides a regular purchase. After that I'm not terribly interested I must say.
Don't worry bud, I'm with you.
I stopped buying new Battletech Books and products. Thankfully there are plenty of older products available online and they aren’t too expensive. Ditto for older novels. But I won’t keep supporting Catalyst.
I finally dropped Btech like a hot potato last year. I was reading Decembers Shrapnel, when the author broke out bitchy "current year" racist black woman protagonist. The intro of the main character was saying how hard it was to be a black woman in the Lyran Alliance, and having to interact with the "lily white" jade Falcons. I dropped the book then and there. Battletech has it's own cultural break downs, and national identities in it's world. I do not need entitled racist whining from activists today putting their words in the mouths of characters in the battletech universe.
Fantastic video. You had more info than even I managed to get hold of. Well done.
"Participation is a privilege. Not a right."
I paid to get in. _It's a right._
They get it all wrong. We are the ones defining who participates in our budget. They want to own a website? If we leave the Internet, good luck for them trying to sell us something.
Yes, we paid; not to use the forums, but to have an informed opinion about the game.
There's literally a 9-year-long thread that was originally about the speculative fate of Clan Wolverine, but got mutated by disingenuous commenting to be about Blaine Lee Pardoe allegedly being a bad writer, and somehow _Betrayal of Ideals_ is a Mary Sue story.
That means someone thinks that Pardoe 'identifies' with either Sarah McEvedy (which defies the notion of a Mary Sue story),
OR...
Nicholas Kerensky.
So the implication is that Pardoe, who has otherwise kept politics and personal views out of his work on Battletech for over two decades, has 'evil villan hero domination' fantasies.
As the line from Get Smart goes,
"I find that hard to believe."
Same goes for Warhammer for me. I still support old edition Warhammer Fantasy.
No matter how many asian and black chicks they put into the 4th edition RPG. I have the whole 2nd eidtion books and I will spread them like it's Sunday at the church.
They can try to sell me Age of Sigmar all they want, I know what had to be killed for it to exist.
They can re-boot The Old World all the times they want, I'm still not touching a Bretonnia with female Karen Knights. We already had a Joan of Arc, and no one minded it.
It may not be Battletech related, but I hope the BT community holds a similar mentality.
I'm staying put with 9th edition 40k. 10th sucks a dick. As for lore, I'm kind of screwed because my faction was more or less a meme up until 2016ish. I've hoovered up most all of the existing lore so I'm pretty much dependent on new shit.
@@cousinzeke4888make up your own lore my dude.
I did for Battletech, got some medieval level court drama backstory for my character, the merc units lore and the homeworld.
I do but I'm under no illusions about my skill as a writer.
I think we need a Kerensky Exodus where we lead the SLDF away from Catalyst and rebuild under another banner?? Who's with me??
Not before we have our war with Amaris, we fight first, try to rebuild second and then if we cannot we leave it behind.
Man I just thought of Kerensky's message to the IS, hits differently when tied to all this crap going on.
There will be a clan invasion one day 😂
I posted this video on Black Pants Legion Discord. Lets see how this works out.
Probably be deleted. Tex had quite enough stress from a simple nerd talk with arch and the insane people jumping down his throat. Sucks but I understand.
Tex has a good grasp of history and can hold his own, but when you do something because you love it and it's fun, then find you have to constantly defend a social and political position just for saying you like the game, the delightful hobby becomes a nightmare. I wish it wasn't so @@warpsmith8698
I suspect a ban knowing how crazy they are and how they want to cover things up.
He probably knows but doesn't want to get dragged into it he just wants to have fun like it was back then.
Tex and everyone else in the BPL are cowards: they took one salvo from crybully they/thems are it caused them to turtle up. No respect for anyone who won't defend themselves, especially from something so pointless as mean words online.
I've been playing Battletech since it came out. I remember Battledroids on the shelf of the hobby store I frequented (12 year old me didn't know a $20 investment would be worth $600 today). My gaming group has had several table top Mechwarrior games over the past two decades. I may have bought only one or two Catalyst supplements in that time. The thing is, we don't need them. Unlike most long term IPs, Battletech has barely changed since it came out. You could only read the rule book from 1986 and still play in a tournament today with only a few surprises (mostly with new weapons and equipment). This IP has survived more crap than most. It will survive this.
There is a reason why all galaxies move away from us humans.😂
I happen to own the almost the entire game from the FASA era and have the option of playing it with whom ever I choose.
They forgot that entertainment is NOT an essential business. Let them play the game of FA&FO (f around and find out)
This is why I don't engage with Battletech much anymore. It's become a cultural battleground, and there's enough of that in every other facet of life. Don't need it in my entertainment too!
Gotta dig your heels in and take a stand somewhere. Otherwise, you'll run out of places to fall back to.
@@jaffarebellion292 No, I don't. The culture war is going to rage on regardless of if I participate in every arena or not. I'm not advocating for checking out entirely, but I'm not doing it for Battletech.
I miss Heavy Gear
Wdym? There's a new edition. Its still a thing
As I recall the story was kind of lame.
@@PitPwny The new edition or over all? If you're talking over all, I mean it's not on par with Battletech (though Battletech is less a story and more probably what IRL politics are gonna be 600+ years from now) but it's not horrible. It's ok. Though I do think it's biggest issue is it tried to "balance" things to much buy making both sides almost identical sans one likes angular mecha and the other likes roundy mecha.
@@TheRyujinLP I’ve only seen the original computer game from the early 2000s. Played it like crazy, really enjoyed the gameplay, but I remember the story being somewhat dumb, even by my adolescent standards.
@@PitPwny Ah, too poor for a PC when I was kid so I never played that or MechWarrior back in the day.
Not a Battletech guy but the solution is the same in most hobbies. GFS
The legend razorfist Just in time for my lunch break and talking about a subject I definitely wanted to know more about keep up the great content sir respect.
A play D&D almost weekly, with more or less the same group since 1988, yet we don't use a single official product made by them since the brand was owned by TSR.
Tabletop gaming companies going woke, abandoning their core, lifelong customers, is nothing but cooperate harakiri. Eventually they'll go bankrupt and be forced to sell the IP they've butchered, and then someone who loves the brand can just scoop it up for a bargain, excise all the garbage, and continue on.
They wont go bankrupt, because they are propped up by Blackrock.
Something else that works to our advantage is the that practically everything past 3067 sucks. All the good stuff FASA already made.
You like a new sculpt? Buy it secondhand. Sail the high seas for rule books, or buy the older ones. Make that 3D printer spin to life, buy 3d printed stuff from people in the community, or from Iron Wind Metals. Form your own communities and groups online and off and gatekeep them fervently. I guarantee you nothing is going to piss off these narcissists more than knowing they can’t make you leave and there are spaces they have no access to. Write your own stories, I myself am cooking one up about the Minnesota tribe for my local group.
Lastly, CGL doesn’t have the staying power of GW or any other tabletop company out there. As it is they already survive kickstarter to kickstarter. We’ll be here long after they’re gone and the tourists get bored and move to other franchises to try and ruin.
3D print all your minis
Remember: Battletech predates Catalyst.
We were here before them. We will be here after them.
You do not need them, not for books, not for models.
Play Battletech. Don't pay Catalyst
Reactors of Timberwolf/Madcat with trans livery have a 41% chance of going critical each turn.
It's over 60% now.
If Catalyst wants to go the way of Clan Soy Viper, be my guest. it won't end any better for them.
So abunch of actual fascist got in charge and. Started purging ranks
You dont know what fascism is.
3D printer go BRRRRRRRR
A-10 mode
4:32 let’s not use their “automatic weapons” lines man. My ar has the little switch for it, but it can’t go to it because it isn’t fully automatic.
That’s some Don Lemon shit there man, though I do agree with you about the Troon shooters problem. Must be injecting that toxic masculinity lol.
Your _AR_ cycles automatically and is an automatic carbine in this sense. Were it capable of automatic fire, then it would be a machine carbine
For a while my favorite local game store was slowly building a large display at the end of an isle for Battletech. Right up towards the front counter. First there was what, 4 boxes? Taking up a little corner of the board? Then slowly rose to covering the whole board. Now it’s in a back corner with a couple boxes available. The owner does not believe in promoting a game where the owners do these things, he promotes his games to families and kids he will not have his store promote a game with people focused on sexuality instead of plastic. It’s sad, truly. Such high hopes for this game, the models and lore are truly great yet we gottta end this immediately.
Ah, it's the old "our game is for everyone, so these people must leave" again. Very inclusive.
I just saw Disney+ is getting Robotech. I hope that doesn't mean they are getting the I.P.
Nope. That's just for Disney+ inside Japan. And that's for all of solely Macross, not Mospeada.
All of the original Robotech is still offered on Microsoft's store and Fandango at Home as a transaction.
I'm almost certain it's only the japanese Macross franchise.
Yeah it's Macross not Robotech, and it's just streaming rights.
They're getting just about everything BUT Robotech. They've got rights for streaming Macross II, Flashback 2012, Plus, 7, Zero, Frontier and Delta (other licensers, such as Anime Ltd and AnimEigo, had recently acquired the home video rights). The part of Macross cut up for Robotech, the original SDF Macross, as well as the movie, Do You Remember Love? are the only titles they don't have, likely due to Harmony Gold holding tight to that zombie of a franchise. Genesis Climber Mospeada and Superdimensional Cavalry Southern Cross, the other two titles caught up in the mess, as well as Megazone 23 Part 1, which was used for Robotech: The Movie, are also not on Disney.
I doubt Disney is interested in the Robotech IP, it has limited boomer appeal while most anime fans shun it for the bastardization of the original shows it was; the many failed projects at continuing the franchise speak volumes to its commercial appeal. Plus, working with Harmony Gold must be a nightmare. It took even the Japanese rights holders 20 years to reach an agreement in 2021 over being able to license the unrelated Macross shows to other companies.
Mech designs belong to the Japanese company Studio Nue. Harmony Gold bought rights from Tatsunoko productions who ONLY had distribution rights for the audiovisual product Macross owned by Big West, another Japanese company
So if Harmony Gold sold rights they just sold rights of distribution of Big West product but they do not own the rights of mechs by Studio Nue.
Steve Shives, I haven't heard that name in an eternity.
Neither has the man himself.
He does videos on YT
I warned you folks that I was just the start. People post nasty shit about me all of the time on their forums and I'm not even allowed on to rebuttal or report the offenders.
Nice to see you here, Blaine. Thank you for your hard work on what you did in my childhood.
@@zgrillo2004 You are more than welcome
Always gatekeep your hobbies!
Razor, I think this was actually brought about by alpha strike. The game systems where this woke shit is most prevalent are the more barebones game systems. Look at warhammer 40ks woke shit and then look at The Old World. Both are games workshop games, but the more complicated game has fewer normies that get manipulated by the woke twitterati. They also have fewer activists because the less popular a game is, the less these cultural marxists care about a thing.
Ordinary battletech was complex enough that the normies didn’t want to play.
I don't know much about this hobby but I've resorted to emulating older games from IPs that were ruined by these freaks.
Battletech as a game has been thrown into the ether so many times and survived they can scream they can try to destroy it they will fail as all have in the past because the Battletech community doesn't need CGL it doesn't need Topps they need us we hold the power
Do not confuse SUPPLY side KPI with DEMAND side KPI. Sales, audiences and subscriptions are supply side KPI.
Fan work and passion is not defined by these KPI.
We have long past the point of having an attitude of live and let live with these invaders. To quote Capt. Picard: “I will not sacrifice the Enterprise. We’ve made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And (we) will make them pay for what they've done.”
You do realize that Picard walked back on that statement in the very next scene after a lecture from some chick? 😁😋
@@milankostic2571 Extremely accurate to the real world, then. So many modern-day problems were caused by women whining and lecturing, and men deciding to give them the benefit of the doubt and try their solution.
The scene in "Independence Day" when POTUS mind-links with the alien.
Outro is magnificent!
@@milankostic2571 And yet his actions stopped the borg and even saved the Enterprise. So you do realize that Picard stuck to the conviction of his words despite being lectured by the diverse independent woman?
What a surprise. It gets handed to Capellans and goes to shit.
No guts, no galaxy!
No guts, no personal pronouns!
As if some activists could keep me from playing...
I have enough lances for all my friends, a gaming table and enough terrain for the next years. I don't need catalyst or a toxic community
Us the Razorforce must unite and fight for Battletech! I call for Warhammer and Mechwarrior fans as well.
I'm in.
Honestly, most warhammer fans coming over to Battletech has been a disaster for BT. They need to go back to the game they still love and take it back because I'm sick of hearing about how they're only now playing BT because it's their backup female-dog.
@@rishnix with all due respect, we ain't all like that.
We both like big Stampy robots.
@@rishnix lol
@@rishnix I'm a 40k fanatic and flatly refuse to be pushed out. I'm glad BT players are fighting back but my war is over here.
I played the game when it was all but dead after fasa died... i played the game when mechwarripr players were asking me in surprised tones "there is a dice game for that?", i played the game through the short community resurgance after battletech relesed... what makes these assholes think i need their manifestos to engage in the game now?
They fire one of the last remaining OG creators of the whole IP over political BS, while claiming to be non-political. They hire a community manager that's only even known about Battletech for about 3 years, and has only played it twice. And their chief artist thinks the old mech designs are dumb and ugly, so allows stupid changes to them that actually make them generic, dumb and ugly. But somehow Catalyst can't figure out why so many people are pissed at them...
The corprat mind is truly a baffling thing.
There is tons of old content that is still awesome to revisit or for new players to play and experience. We have 3D Printers for making our own Minis in amazing poses and a better price point.
There are areas of space and planets that haven't had a story told, so make something new, yourself, for you and your friends to enjoy. The beauty of Tabletop Games is that at the end of the day, the books aren't the rules. They're suggestions. Many, bad ones.
So true.
At the end of the day we can make our own stuff.
Hell I still remember some really old fanfic that manged to introduce aliens and keep it in line with BT.
Another was a simple story that used the Terminator premise of a Skynet style AI being found and automated mechs, fighters and such.
Another was a down to earth more drama based one following one woman's journey from simple farmers daughter to mechwarrior up to leading her own unit (and thank god it was well written and not modern mary sue trash, Julia went through some real shit, had to overcome it and came out stronger for it.)
What's the name of the last one?
You ever read "Centurion?" That one's a classic, even if it was sadly never finished.
This is why I stick to Original D&D and AD&D. "Bill, don't support WotC, leave D&D behind!" No. I won't. I'll quit supporting WotC but I'll be damned if I'll surrender the field for Original D&D and Advanced D&D.
Catalyst hasn’t gotten a dime from me since they canceled Blaine Lee Pardoe.
It's a good day when the homie Razör drops a new video.
Also, 0:21...I didn't need to have that image in my head, bro. Thanks...
No Guts, No Galaxy!
🤘🏼
Liked and shared.
Godspeed.
Glad to see this getting more airtime. MageLeader's done in-depth videos on the subject, too.
As a Warhammer 40k fan and as a BattleTech fan, I stand with my fellow mech warrior brothers and sisters in absolute DEFIANCE. The Emperor protects and glory of the Star League!
I've been messing around with Megamek. So far looks like a good way to play Battletech online without giving CL money
You dig giant robots!
I dig giant robots!
We dig giant robots!
The RRREEEE is on.