I played it, Mechassault was a decent console game back in the early xbox live days, terrible battletech game though
I played it, Mechassault was a decent console game back in the early xbox live days, terrible battletech game though
christ, where to even startOriginally Posted by Eshnala
i don't like the series on youtube thus far, one gets a lot of the nitty-gritty details wrong and the other starts at the inception of the Star League, skipping about 600 years of history and has a terrible narrator.
this series seems like a okay start though it gets some details wrong, including the origin of the Fusion engine and the early history of the Kearny-Fuchida drive (Kearny and Fuchida worked on early fusion tech, but didn't invent the damn thing, it was a ITER style project, their work on KF drives are "theirs" tho)
this guy jumps forward a bit too quickly for my taste, (some of the age of war stuff is fucking mental) and doesn't seem as engaged, but has significantly more marterial to listen to.
Last edited by Liare; July 23 2019 at 05:59:14 PM.
Viking, n.:
1. Daring Scandinavian seafarers, explorers, adventurers, entrepreneurs world-famous for their aggressive, nautical import business, highly leveraged takeovers and blue eyes.
2. Bloodthirsty sea pirates who ravaged northern Europe beginning in the 9th century.
Hagar's note: The first definition is much preferred; the second is used only by malcontents, the envious, and disgruntled owners of waterfront property.
>Not smoking a fat stogie with your mercenary boys, who all have laser uzis, in space.
Lmao fat fucking nerds
(The game looks mediocre)
i will happily take a mediocre mech game that can be tinkered with like PGI claims this one can tbh.
Viking, n.:
1. Daring Scandinavian seafarers, explorers, adventurers, entrepreneurs world-famous for their aggressive, nautical import business, highly leveraged takeovers and blue eyes.
2. Bloodthirsty sea pirates who ravaged northern Europe beginning in the 9th century.
Hagar's note: The first definition is much preferred; the second is used only by malcontents, the envious, and disgruntled owners of waterfront property.
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA
wew lad
how about you start by reading through arguably the best battletech book series, Gray Death and Jade Falcon?
neither gives a good introduction to the universe as a whole, the Jade Falcon books doesn't make much sense if you have no fucking idea what the SLDF actually was and the Gray Death Legion books are naff unless you understand the universe per 3025.wew lad
how about you start by reading through arguably the best battletech book series, Gray Death and Jade Falcon?
Viking, n.:
1. Daring Scandinavian seafarers, explorers, adventurers, entrepreneurs world-famous for their aggressive, nautical import business, highly leveraged takeovers and blue eyes.
2. Bloodthirsty sea pirates who ravaged northern Europe beginning in the 9th century.
Hagar's note: The first definition is much preferred; the second is used only by malcontents, the envious, and disgruntled owners of waterfront property.
Yeah they were great books, one of my friends actually named his son Aidan..
Oh no
^Oh no
lul
Also Lmao this zombie of a company never gives up (mildly related but funny)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comme...once_more_and/
Hormony gold back to life.
Last edited by Isyel; July 24 2019 at 05:30:48 AM.
there is sarna.net for thatneither gives a good introduction to the universe as a whole, the Jade Falcon books doesn't make much sense if you have no fucking idea what the SLDF actually was and the Gray Death Legion books are naff unless you understand the universe per 3025.wew lad
how about you start by reading through arguably the best battletech book series, Gray Death and Jade Falcon?
boox kickstart the imagination/perception
Just start with World of Blake stuff
A book neither meets my "tl;dr", nor my "video" requirement.wew lad
how about you start by reading through arguably the best battletech book series, Gray Death and Jade Falcon?
A lot of us got the inspiration from doing this and reading the fluff text with baited breath. It was a good way to get the imagination going.A book neither meets my "tl;dr", nor my "video" requirement.wew lad
how about you start by reading through arguably the best battletech book series, Gray Death and Jade Falcon?
You had to be there I guess.
Poland treats me like shit and I hate them as a result of it
https://youtu.be/-X3GD0UnBCk
FHC being terrible, non shock. This is what peak MW looks like.
Real men pvp in barges.
Always liked MW2: Mercs
A book neither meets my "tl;dr", nor my "video" requirement.wew lad
how about you start by reading through arguably the best battletech book series, Gray Death and Jade Falcon?
Well, if youre not going to read the Warrior trilogy at least, then theres no helping you :P
Jokes aside, sarna.net is an okay portal to click through, but its very dry for space make-believe.
The absolute tl;dr is http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Timeline but even that is :words:
The central points are:
2100 interstellar travel via instant-jump, limited range "jump ships". Settlement of interstellar colonies follows along cultural lines of the settlers, leaving them very heterogenous (and thus prone to conflict).
2100 - 2300 rapid expansion under a nominally united terran government, although factionalism eventually leads to civil war.
2300 - 2750ish terran hegemony and eventually "Star League": a neo-feudal federation of the major cultural factions, with a terran leader. Infighting was the norm but held short of all-out war most of the time.
2450 Big stompy robots invented as an all-terrain independent weapons platform.
2770 Entire terran dynasty wiped out from within, war between the military of the former central authority and the usurping faction originating from the largely independent frontier regions. Since the ursurping forces are vastly outmatched, they rely heavily on ABC warfare, scorched earth, autonomous weapons etc. They get curbstomped anyways, but the conflict is traumatizing for the Star League forces.
2777 Every major feudal lord formerly on the central council claims the new leadership, Star League breaks apart. Much of the central military head off for unsettled regions rather than be weapons in the coming civil war. These guys eventually settle down and form "The Clans", a warrior-cult based on an eugenic caste system. Their religion basically revolves around returning home and "enlightening" mankind through force.
Also around that time: The vital parts of the central authority (mostly organization of the communications network) is given to a non-lord who is also charged with reconstructing the devastated terra. He goes on to form a communications and banking cartel with a tech-priest touch. They also plot in secret for the restauration of a unified interstellar empire, but believe that this will come about when humans have regressed to an agrarian state, and the tech-priests can then swoop in and take over by virtue of their preserved tech knowledge.
2780 - 3015 Houses of the council lords at constant war, resulting in vast loss of knowledge and production capability. Basically, they bomb each other halfway to the stone age, like the tech priests anticipated. At some point they say "okay maybe we are going a bit too hard" and agree on Geneva Conventions pt. 2. As a result, Big Stompy Robots become the de-facto "civilized" way of warfare, but due to loss of technology they become ever harder to produce/maintain. A mech outside the few elite cadres is basically an heirloom that promotes the pilot and his family to something like a medieval knight.
Thats roughly where the books take off, through one way and another a restauration of much of the lost knowledge and a partial political union of two of the most powerful factions means humanity is back on track to recover, but its happening through a lot of shooting. The military-turned-nazis then invade, possibly because they saw their window for military domination closing. The feudal houses grudgingly unite for a brief time and defeat them after a lot of killing.
While that is happening, the true believers of the tech-priest faction try to swoop in by first playing all sides and then backstabbing them. They get bitchslapped, but 50 years later they try again and succeed.
Theres some newer books set after that, which i havent read because i aged out and they are honestly quite bad. Also, such a short recap really cant do any of it justice. The draw is that it tells rather basic hero stories in a semi-believable, far-future, "everything new is old again" setting, with aforementioned big stompy robots.
Last edited by Lilalaunebör; July 24 2019 at 11:48:57 PM.
best installer ever, you could tell the people who made MW4 gave a actual fuck about the universe from the getgo, that installer alone is a fair few programmer and coder hours invested, and you're only going to see it maybe 2-3 times. but then, that was the era of FASA Studio, a company started by the Weissman and the WVE folks who made the "tesla" simulator pods and these folks, where without a doubt the biggest Battletech grognards around who genuninely love the universe.A lot of us got the inspiration from doing this and reading the fluff text with baited breath. It was a good way to get the imagination going.A book neither meets my "tl;dr", nor my "video" requirement.wew lad
how about you start by reading through arguably the best battletech book series, Gray Death and Jade Falcon?
You had to be there I guess.
then microsoft butchered the place, culminating in Shadowrun, a Vista exclusive title on the PC (remember those? no ? because NOBODY BOUGHT THE DAMN THINGS)
no, MW2 Mercs was excellent, but basegame MW2 was a bit meh.
Viking, n.:
1. Daring Scandinavian seafarers, explorers, adventurers, entrepreneurs world-famous for their aggressive, nautical import business, highly leveraged takeovers and blue eyes.
2. Bloodthirsty sea pirates who ravaged northern Europe beginning in the 9th century.
Hagar's note: The first definition is much preferred; the second is used only by malcontents, the envious, and disgruntled owners of waterfront property.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2KN...3Rg9pNw4O9hTiAA book neither meets my "tl;dr", nor my "video" requirement.wew lad
how about you start by reading through arguably the best battletech book series, Gray Death and Jade Falcon?
edit: and some fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bDW...Q6k4OeYjy2daZ3
ah yes, the AWS Awesome a mech where every tech "upgrade" made the mech worse, literately the best thing you can do with that thing is to rip out the single sinks, slap in as many doubles as you can (19 for those wondering) and rip out the small laser for a TAG or command console and strap on electronics for the rest.
i suppose you could swap the 240 for a 260 light if you're playing a mechwarrior game to get another badly needed engine sink, but the next up in tabletop is 320, otherwise, there's enough weight leftover for a couple of comedy jumpjets.
(also, the 9Q is not a bad ride, at all)
Last edited by Liare; July 25 2019 at 11:22:06 AM.
Viking, n.:
1. Daring Scandinavian seafarers, explorers, adventurers, entrepreneurs world-famous for their aggressive, nautical import business, highly leveraged takeovers and blue eyes.
2. Bloodthirsty sea pirates who ravaged northern Europe beginning in the 9th century.
Hagar's note: The first definition is much preferred; the second is used only by malcontents, the envious, and disgruntled owners of waterfront property.
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