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A wasted opportunity for some risk/reward choices

Does Tonnage affect the cost of my drop? It says the harder the mission the more tonnage I should bring, but is there an incentive to bring less? Do I want to drop in with just a couple of mechs so I earn more money? Or should I always drop in with all my acitves, so I can take out enemies faster and thus limit return fire?

Roses are red Violets are blue Give the game to someone else Because I won't write a Haiku

I have only played the first couple of missions. But I already miss my Mech Commander 2 swarm of Swarm LRM Ants. Fire Ants with the flame throwers replaced with Swarm LRMs. Tiny, fast, and as they'd deploy in numbers, would often take out the opposition's legs in the opening salvo.

That isn't all that strange or unethical. You give finances and accounting to the person you trust with the money. And a lot of firms do this out of house. I have a close friend who is an accountant. He has his own little accounting firm and handles a number of big clients, including shipping companies and foreign investors. He doesn't "join" the company for the business. They hire his services. And if I had a larger business so would I, because he is the person I'd trust with such large sums: because he has a proven track record, but yes, also because we have been friends for 20 years. Would you employ that friend even if that friend is charging much more than another business which also has a good reputation on the market, but doing the work for e.g. 70% of the price? Because that would be pretty bad management. That was never something claimed in the Codex stuff linked. We have 0 information on how much was charged by the accountant and how much competitors would have. We have no actual information on how competent that person is. So your question is mood.

That isn't all that strange or unethical. You give finances and accounting to the person you trust with the money. And a lot of firms do this out of house. I have a close friend who is an accountant. He has his own little accounting firm and handles a number of big clients, including shipping companies and foreign investors. He doesn't "join" the company for the business. They hire his services. And if I had a larger business so would I, because he is the person I'd trust with such large sums: because he has a proven track record, but yes, also because we have been friends for 20 years.

It is not a fun first person shooter

I PMed Shady. I am doing my part. Are you?

Thing is, he actually seems to be delivering. It is promising to be a good, deadly tactics game. He isn't pulling a Molyneux

Very different in a lot of things. 1) you don't have actions, but time units. So you can take baby steps and react as necessary. 2) ammo is limited. You end up scrounging the battle field for bullets. 3) Bullets each have their trajectory calculated, so in an assault rifle burst not all bullets will hit and not all will hit the same spot. And of course you can hit unintended things in the bullet's path (i.e. your squad mates) 4) Each soldier and each enemy have body parts with their own HP and Armour values. So you end up doing some Fallout3/4 vault tec assisted aiming. 5) Inventory management: you pick up loot, you drop loot, you change the weapons you are holding. Assault guy had an arm disabled and can't fire their rifle anymore as it needs two hands? The sniper can drop their pistol for them to pick up and at least shoot that. 6) Willpower is used for everything except basic actions. Kill stuff or rest to replenish willpower. Use it to trigger abilities. But by using it your soldiers' have less Willpower to resist that panic test when things go bad.

I still got 2 hours of download ahead of me.

Tomorrow's Alpha build will have that demo level plus random tactical maps. Only with those pre-made soldiers apparently.

You know I'll post enough screenshots for the both of us

Tomorrow

Real time you had to be a magic user Thrown Weapon Master. If you grabbed the chakrams that cast time stop on hit you could kill everything: click - freeze. And since at that point your attack speed was the speed at which you clicked...

My summoner killed that gnome as well. Then she uncovered the truth about half ogres. So she went back to Tarant and left no gnome alive.

I loved talking my way through the final encounter. Also Torian Kel was one of the best evil npcs to join a player's party.

And then my mum went and threw away a large part of my coaster collection because "You didn't actually need all those coasters."

Apology accepted

I mostly stopped playing RPGs. Because of "choices that matter" where the choices and consequences are arbitrary forced into the story without truly being mutually exclusive. and because of the other thing I hate: the insistence of painting everything as morally gray. Things aren't always gray, sometimes they just are black and white, and trying to convince your audience otherwise does not make your story deep, does not make you a good writer.

I backed it on Kickstarter. Did not regret doing so even though I never finished it. I like what they did. The game does become repetitive though. Still on the list of games I mean to return to and complete. Fell asleep because someone flushed a cleaning rag, which got sucked into the pump. Pump busted. And of course no plumber ever shows up saying "It's a me: Mario."

I was going to post that and fell asleep

When keyrock gets rich I'll make a killing following him around with a boombox.

I never understood why Mike will happily have sex with anyone except for SIE. People have joined the VCI to get into her pants.