Lexx

I, too, am curious how you are doing this. At present I experience two kind of missions: The ones where I don't have to reload and the ones where I get wrecked so hard, it isn't even funny. The later one are the missions with instant reinforcements. They would be a lot less hard if the reinforcements would appear a bit later and not right away, making me having to stand vs. 8 well equipped mechs. I just don't like this. It made me create a savegame at every mission start now, then I just run ahead and see what's going on. Then I likely reload and divert to the place where the "reinforcements" are standing around. I'll try to knock them out as quickly as possible, as they usually only consist of light mechs. At this point, however, this lance can't be called "reinforcements" anymore, as someone else already said somewhere. They are just another part of the main lance. It's not exactly fun and pretty much the only thing I really don't like about this game. Well, and escort and convoy missions. The LRM swarm increases the difficulty level *so much* it can't be right. I can beat them with time and savescumming, but it's just not the kind of experience I am carving for...

Anyone knows where I can buy a catapult? Tried to farm one from random contracts, but they don't appear all that much yet. PS: Never thought I'd say that, but the laser boat Hunchback is my new fav+. Totally wrecks most of what is in front of it in one go.

Nah, I'm good to go by now. Running with 2.5 million credits and in worst case I have some mechs to sell that would give me about 1 million additional credits. I'd love to get my hands on bigger mechs, but I can neither find them, nor buy them. Guess I'll have to pick the next story mission to advance the tech level or something. Still, reaching that point took me hours today, with countless reloads because I had to suffer huge losses due to the annoying RNG.

I'm more worried about mech damage than pilot damage. The rooster is limited in the beginning and you can't just swap out mechs. This costs money and time and wasting time costs even more money... and surprise, you don't have money in the beginning.

Ok, I'm slowly drifting into "this is so unfun and unfair"-territory. 8 enemy mechs + 1 veteran + 2 striker vehicles vs. my lance of 3 medium and 1 light mechs. Mission is 2 skulls difficulty. If the LRMs don't toast me, then it's the pure numbers game. Even if I circle the map and rush the target, they all clog up on me and just shred my mechs one by one. It's really not worth the reward money at all. I've won it once, but it had my main dude be injured for 110 days, a mech completely wrecked, and two damaged hard. It's not just the repair costs, but also the time needed to repair them... Oh, and I agree that convoy missions are the worst. Same deal here, just LRM spam and I can't even get close. Hitting the vehicles with lasers and... most of the time I just scratch 'em. Best example for why mechs are useless in real--- tanks are just way more effective and don't cost as much. Also there seems to be a memory leak, because loading a savegame takes more time the more often you do it.

Yup, all from MWO and I am a big fan of that. No matter what you think of MWOs gameplay, the mechs all look great, imo.

Well, combat was never hard. At least for my characters it never took long till they one-hit head-popped everything around. Always playing a technocratic half-elf, by the way. Suit and tophat until I get the power armor. Also I love the mechanical spiders and stuff.

I love Arcanum, but the combat mechanics and encounter design is just bad. It's obvious that the game needed at least another development cycle to get done for real. The game in its release state is something like an advanced beta only.

Phew. I'm beginning to agree that injured mechwarriors need too much time to recover. One hit and you're out for a month... and this happens quickly. I guess the game wants you to use multiple people, but simple truth is, I don't feel brave enough to hire more, as this also increase my base costs. The months are flying by like nothing and even traveling to a different system can take you at least a month. I can see how this might become difficult soon.

Not this mech will fire, but the 3 remaining mechs in your group.

I'll imagine the ability works well with LRM boats. Lock a target, then fire away without the enemy being able to reach you.

I'm loving it so far. Played for a couple hours and managed to prevent the worst injuries and damaged mechs. Haven't done any serious refitting yet, as - honestly - I have no idea in what way I should change the loadouts. I'm running ok with the defaults... Got the Centurion from the story mission and quite a few other mech parts. Again, no idea what to give the Centurion and who is to pilot it then.. I've noticed that some of the early missions try to fool the player with the initial starting point. That very first mining company task for example. Instead of going forward towards the first objective, it is better to revert and walk around the mountains. Then you'll stumble over the turret generator without anything else being able to hit you... finished that mission without any damage on my second try. Honestly, I'm more of a missile boat player, so I'm carving for my first catapult. That thing is my jam in non-clan tymes.

I hate scars on my dudes face. It always looks so uber-edgy hard to me and I can't take it serious.

lots of bla bla bla and no facts.

lol that's not even news. Heard about this already years ago.

Can't you change the cinematic stuff in the settings? The game has a boatload of sliders for that.

If at all then I am addicted to the internet. Haven't played much in the past years, as I was always busy creating my own content. Since this month, however, I can't get anything done and just play games in my free time. It's as if I have to catch up the past years... I see no problems in such things for as long as they don't take precedence over anything else in life. If you start staying home, not going to school or work just to play video games, THEN it becomes a real problem, imo.

Started watching Godless today. Seen first two episodes. Not bad so far, even though a bit slow at times. Will continue.

Folks read Bethesda and get instantly triggered. Sawyer did not say that Bethesoft Fallouts are better than the originals or something like that. He merely acknowledges that not every RPG must be like 20 years ago. FNV is a prime example that you can make great games even with the Bethesda-systems. The games being better or worse than the original is irrelevant and a different issue.

Well, that's exactly how I also see RPGs. Nowadays, every second game has some sort of stats to increase, but that doesn't make them RPGs. Hell, Diablo was never an RPG for me. Deus Ex was never an RPG for me, and neither was Jagged Alliance (2). If you can't have any serious influence on the game world, then it's not an RPG for me... at least not a good one. Just because he mentioned Bethesda as an example doesn't mean he's wrong.

Just got my Steam key as well.

Yup, TWD needs to end. I mean, it was always kinda hit and miss. Just remember the terrible second season, or the terrible actors such as a certain woman who made the dumbest crap, or when Rick suddenly decided to be a farmer.... But it's coming to a point now, where I'm really, really getting out of it.

Looks like same stuff as always. I'll be surprised if that new Jurassic Thing will be mediocre at best.

None of that was a thing in Fallout 1. Fallout 2 started with the experiments theme. Fallout 3 then turned it into a HUGE thing. I can accept experimental vaults to run tests for the Mars colony ship as it had been planned, but later games made every single vault wacky... it's just too much now.

Haha and now I remember the stupid space WW2 bombers. Did they ever heard of something called physics? I don't think so. Come on, you can hand wave A LOT in movies, but all this crap is just too much.