BATTLETECH - (Minor) Reinforcement lance spawns at start of mission

[Asherett]

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(Minor) Reinforcement OpFor lance spawns at start of mission

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
On several Battle missions (for example: Letter of Marque, Reposession) the reinforcement OpFor lance spawns at the start of the game, together with the original OpFor lance. This results in having to face 8 mechs/vehicles at once.

I'm guessing this is a bug, since it seems unbalanced, and the text and voice clip when you defeat the original lance says something like "I'm picking up enemy reinforcements heading your way". I'm guessing it's supposed to spawn when you've killed half the enemy lance or something.

Steps to reproduce the issue
Start most any Battle mission in the Campaign. Wander around until you find OpFor. You'll either run into the reinforcements directly, or they'll "activate" immediately upon engaging the original lance.

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[LeChacal]

Yes this happens frequently (if not always) to me when reinforcements are involved. I see both the Reinforcement and main OpFor mission objectives as soon as I make contact. It's happened on 'Hot Landing' including often making them basically unbeatable. Letter of Marque and another few types. Very frequent occurrence.

Edit: Also perhaps this is somewhat more than Minor as it greatly upsets the design intent of many missions....

 

[KILLMORE]

i concur with this and have started mission over and gotten same results with both teams just attacking together but sometimes the mechs change into vehicles and visa versa. I blame the it on Darius on the Argo going to the same command school as Bradford from the X-COM games talking in my head about things that have already happened or telling me the obvious as the reinforcements are blowing away my armor.

 

[Asherett]

i concur with this and have started mission over and gotten same results with both teams just attacking together but sometimes the mechs change into vehicles and visa versa. I blame the it on Darius on the Argo going to the same command school as Bradford from the X-COM games talking in my head about things that have already happened or telling me the obvious as the reinforcements are blowing away my armor.

Ha ha, for sure Now that I've played further I've noticed that the voice messages from the "commander" are extremely often wrong in timing. In the missions where reinforcements spawn at the start of the mission, you'll get the "reinforcements incoming" message when you complete the mission. And at least at one point the voice sample didn't match the text message.