BATTLETECH Steam Pre-downloads to begin Monday

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Thile

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For @Thile, when you register the game on your PDX account (notice all the badges that us users have), the avatar selection will appropriately expand. Note that registration of all the games on your account may take a while, because this is basically a background task on the forum software (that is to say, come back the next day and you might see the badges show up, which at that point you can select the avatars).

How do I do that, I am not used to play games that you register like that :)
I bought the game and choose steam as download thingie :)
 

Jack Frost

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Mitch just confirmed on the Thursday BATTLETECH Paradox Stream that Backer Keys will go out over the weekend and Steam pre-loading of the game can begin Monday for both Backers and Pre-Orders.

#GREATnews

Crap! I knew it was about 4 days away, but it didn't hit me that it's 4 days away until this post!

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Ark Evensong

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Got a similar problem: I have linked my Steam account and my forums account, but I preordered on GOG... so no shiny preorder avatar for me.
From https://accounts.paradoxplaza.com/redeem
You will receive redeem codes if you buy our games outside Steam or our own store. These codes allow you to unlock private game-specific forums as well as forum icons.

Check your GOG account? Maybe it's there already? (Not sure, I haven't used it for any Paradox games.) If not, then yeah, you'll have to wait a while, but a code should show up there sometime so you can verify your purchase to Paradox (and thus get BattleTech avatars.)
 

Wanderer2142

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How do I do that, I am not used to play games that you register like that :)
I bought the game and choose steam as download thingie :)

Paging @Havamal for appropriate screenshots, since he's already had to do this before. ;)

Use the edit account button on the top right, go to settings, and connect your steam account. Eventually, the forum software in the background will look at your steam games and update your badges appropriately. This is not done automatically (with regards to connecting your PDX account to your Steam account) for privacy reasons. Note that by allowing PDX to connect to your steam account you give them xyz information that is explained in some EULA so you're not surprised by anything else that they might pull from your steam account (even if it is benignly related to forum features).

Note that if you were a kickstarter backer, you should have a separate forum code to insert to basically manually add the badge without having to go through the steam account. This is applied in the redeem section in the same account page.
 

General Lee High

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https://twitter.com/WeBeHarebrained/status/987014249657569287

Heads Up! We'll be sending out #BATTLETECH Backer Keys over the weekend and @steam_games Backers and pre-orders will be able to preload on starting Mon, April 23 at 9am PDT!! #videogames

Back to the Inner Sphere again, sergeant,
Back to the FedCom again.
Don't look so 'ard, 'cause I'm hard,
I'm back to the cockpit again!


Shameless stolen and paraphrased from Rudyard Kipling's "Back To the Army Again"
 

Stuckenschmidt

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The Stream today was nice and I am really looking forward to this now. :D

Plus I don`t have a lot to do next week, so I can crush some Mechs and Vehicles.
 

Havamal

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Paging @Havamal for appropriate screenshots, since he's already had to do this before. ;)

Use the edit account button on the top right, go to settings, and connect your steam account. Eventually, the forum software in the background will look at your steam games and update your badges appropriately. This is not done automatically (with regards to connecting your PDX account to your Steam account) for privacy reasons. Note that by allowing PDX to connect to your steam account you give them xyz information that is explained in some EULA so you're not surprised by anything else that they might pull from your steam account (even if it is benignly related to forum features).

Note that if you were a kickstarter backer, you should have a separate forum code to insert to basically manually add the badge without having to go through the steam account. This is applied in the redeem section in the same account page.
I believe I threadmarked it all in the welcome thread. Hold on.. .
 

Havamal

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How do I do that, I am not used to play games that you register like that :)
I bought the game and choose steam as download thingie :)
Paging @Havamal for appropriate screenshots, since he's already had to do this before. ;)

Use the edit account button on the top right, go to settings, and connect your steam account. Eventually, the forum software in the background will look at your steam games and update your badges appropriately. This is not done automatically (with regards to connecting your PDX account to your Steam account) for privacy reasons. Note that by allowing PDX to connect to your steam account you give them xyz information that is explained in some EULA so you're not surprised by anything else that they might pull from your steam account (even if it is benignly related to forum features).

Note that if you were a kickstarter backer, you should have a separate forum code to insert to basically manually add the badge without having to go through the steam account. This is applied in the redeem section in the same account page.
Badges and account synch;
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...battletech-forum.1073479/page-5#post-23998959
 

Havamal

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Hurray, got to go, I have to bribe my local comstar adept to bump my download to be the one with the highest priority....
I upgraded to GB internet yesterday...
:cool:;)
 

Kereminde

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I upgraded to GB internet yesterday...
:cool:;)

Ghost Bear internet? So . . . it works real hard, until it runs into vikings and stops cold?
 

Havamal

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Ghost Bear internet? So . . . it works real hard, until it runs into vikings and stops cold?
Nope. Wrong side of the Galaxy, far from me.
 

Warspectre

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I pre-ordered through GMG and speaking from previous experience I'll be lucky if I get my key on the 24th, let alone on the 23rd in time to pre-load it. But lucky for them getting the game on time isn't why I order through them, it's because they tend to be cheaper than anywhere else :p
 

Kellcat

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Seeing as how that's not possible, I would imagine not.
I'm...not sure it's not possible. I vaguely recall that they did a preload for the Witcher 3, a bit back (aaand yeah. Google confirms). That said, I've heard nothing about a preload, so... I'm guessing I'll drive back home on my lunch break and kick things off. The rest of Tuesday will be torment. :p
 

Zythen1975

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The Stream today was nice and I am really looking forward to this now. :D

Plus I don`t have a lot to do next week, so I can crush some Mechs and Vehicles.

I am trying to be a adult and get the todo list beat back over the next few days, while my inner child screams at me to watch Battletech streams and let future me deal with playing and doing the todo list.