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Orlanth wrote:

Soladrin wrote:If you read the Q&A's theres quite a few restrictions.

Weapons can only be placed in areas that had weapons to begin with. So for instance, no weapons in a hunchbacks left torso.

They also have a slot system for fitting in weapons.

Not enough. The slot system is actually standard battletech. Modding mechs is permissable, but discouraged on a large scale.

As for limiting guns to where they are already, that just saves on unit skins. Nothing to stop anyone from replacing the armament exclusively with large pulse lasers and heat sinks. Ultimately that will be all anyone sees.

Could be me, but I think these guys know what they are doing, and not to forget, this game will have 24/7 support and patches in the making, they will be balancing this stuff. Besides, if people start making all the same build I'm just gonna call them boring bastards. Wheres the fun in being the same as everyone??

Lighten up Mister Pessimism.

True - every single game of this nature will have a community babbling about supposedly superior builds. And if there wouldn't be builds, people would hype up specific 'mech types.

Just play what you think is cool. Ultimately, it's all about the fun. Whether the act of winning is that important that it overrides any other aspect of the game is everyone's choice.
Me, I've always been a style over substance kind of person. And in my experience, it is usually possible to find a good balance between the two.

By the way, any other samurai willing to assemble here? -> http://www.housekurita.org/
It's not a clan site, more like a community for all things Draconis, where individual mechwarriors and unit leaders can coordinate the war effort or simply talk about stuff.

And the fun fact with lots of people using the cookiecutter build. You only need to come up with one counter build and your fine.

Ledabot wrote:

Melissia wrote:

Ledabot wrote:I'm not even going to try activating. Not surporting overseas

Actually, they said they're going to have an overseas beta eventually. It's just that they're still arranging for the servers necessary for it.

Small flame ignites someware deep in my heart

Yeah, that also means that it's not peer to peer. It's server based. Which maens feth YEAH LESS LAG!

Closed Beta invites are being sent out.

BE SURE TO UPDATE YOUR BETA INFORMATION.

The more complete the information is, the more likely you are to get picked for the closed beta.

Edit: Nvm.

Mine's 100% complete

Same here. Though I doubt EU users are gonna get invites for the first beta round.

Well, they didn't say "US only" - what they did say is that users from elsewhere would likely not have as much of a good gaming experience due to latency.

Which sounds like they don't care about location, I guess?

True, but I still don't expect them to recruit in equal numbers from both areas.

So what do you guys think?

About what?

About the Beta.

What an unspecific question...

What do I think about the beta? I want in. The end.

I'd also like in.

The beta IIRC hasn't started yet for most people, they're still sending out invites.

The first 1000 are out. They will be sending new ones in a few days.

Source?


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Ah, found it. http://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/9348-first-1000-beta-keys-have-been-issued/

@ soladrin sorry your not in yet.

I guess my question was for those that made it in. What do you think so far?

I was up till 5 am playing it non stop, and already people have some dirty mech designs. The people that run in packs with Jenners with only flammers are tough. Its really hard to target those speedy mechs. Not sure how much we can say with their being a nda so I'll leave it at that.

You made it in? YOU BASTARD!

I will set you on fire. And then pour salt on yoru burn wouuuuunds!

Hehe. Jokes aside, I'm waiting for myself to get in before bothering to read any reviews.

Yeah, same.

Had I known that they only sent out 1000 invite i would have kept my mouth shut, sorry.

Yeah same? Is it a melissia post I'm guessing?

Yes it is.

*gathers torch and salt-rock pitchfork*

Soladrin wrote:


Could be me, but I think these guys know what they are doing, and not to forget, this game will have 24/7 support and patches in the making, they will be balancing this stuff. Besides, if people start making all the same build I'm just gonna call them boring bastards. Wheres the fun in being the same as everyone??

Lighten up Mister Pessimism.

its Battletech, now online where the minimaxer lurks. You can tell its battletech becvause it uses the same slots system. So other things might be similar too.

Now we all know that FASA immediately fixed the balance between energy weapon and ballistic weapons. On release ammo exploded and destroyed the mech and that was offset by making autocannon fairly light and with good range brackets. Except that they didnt, and the difference only grew with pulse and Er technology, even with the inclusion of Ultra and CASE.

Furthermore twenty five years alter no attempts to redress the balance have been forthcoming. In part I like that, but some semblance of balance should exist or the IS factions simply wouldn't use autocannon.

No unbalanced Battltech isnt pessimism, its business as usual. Thats ok for the tabletop, people like their crap mechs, after all just look at the following Urbanmechs have, but online its different: Pulse laser, pulse laser, pulse laser, pulse laser. A different mech is one that goes Pulse laser, pulse laser, LRM, pulse laser; and those mechs are 'sucky' designs.

Well, this game has a party up system, and if I'm organizing matches, no boating allowed unless it's the standard config for a mech (which I doubt any will have).

Orlanth wrote:its Battletech, now online where the minimaxer lurks.

Ahahahah... you think people didn't minmax in btech before...

Epic faaaaail.

Everything with customization has min-maxers.

I only do it in RPG's. XD