Some portrait changes. Mission payout might be lower. Costs shifted: loan is now 70k, while light and medium 'Mech upkeep is 12k each.
Changes spotted in new PDX Stream
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On second thought, I think the mission payouts might be the same. 82k was the lowest seen, and that's comparable to the lowest I've seen before. Maybe Carlos just got unlucky on that mission.
AI seemed a bit more aggressive.
Increasing per-'Mech upkeep costs makes unreadying them more impactful. If the upkeep costs increase with weight class for heavies and assaults, it will be worse still.
Medical tech numbers reduced a bit? Phil's beginning numbers were: Mechtech = 3, Medtech = 8. This stream sees: Mechtech = 3, Medtech = 6.
Those dead spaces in the faction reputation and MRB rep spots have been filled with the appropriate icons.
AI seemed a bit more aggressive.
Increasing per-'Mech upkeep costs makes unreadying them more impactful. If the upkeep costs increase with weight class for heavies and assaults, it will be worse still.
Medical tech numbers reduced a bit? Phil's beginning numbers were: Mechtech = 3, Medtech = 8. This stream sees: Mechtech = 3, Medtech = 6.
Those dead spaces in the faction reputation and MRB rep spots have been filled with the appropriate icons.
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It was a bad payout mission, but there are missions that pay a lot more later on. You also need to think that in this contract I was facing 2 Locusts and a Spider... Can't expect much payout from that! Since it was a low payout but high salvage mission, I decided to go for full salvage and get loaded with things I'm most definitely going to need later on.
One other change I just noticed: once the contract is negotiated and you are in the load screen, the mission pay is now updated to what you negotiated for instead of the maximum numbers.
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Actually, that's a pretty good OpFor compared to some we've seen. I remember one mission was 4 half-armored tanks. It was over in about 4 rounds.
That is what we in the mercenary business call a "milk run" - it's the best kind of mission; all the pay with little to no actual work
That is what we in the mercenary business call a "milk run" - it's the best kind of mission; all the pay with little to no actual work
From what I've learned from shadowrun: There is no such thing as a milk run ;D
Yup! You can watch it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/251009514
I guess it will also be up on YouTube tomorrow.
-Carlos
Obviously you've never had to steal experimental meta-bovine lactate.
Doubling the Mech upkeep prices will make the early campaign a little harder and the prospects of keeping more Mechs active in MechBays a tougher decision in the later game. The AI did seem to make better decisions with both aggressive and defensive movements.
Agree, but it's hard to know for sure with a sample size of 1. It's also unlikely we'll get any more proof in volume before April 20.
I agree with @Cyttorak001, it is such a small sample size to make an AI-efficacy call... plus Carlos was himself very efficient in putting down AI Mechs, not giving them long to make much a go of it.
Hopefully this coming weekend will see a second round of Streamers make use of a more current Pre-Release Built. : )
@AldathPDX's play speed is almost comically fast compared to all the streamers who are new to the game. It's like watching at 3x speed.
I think Kiva said she lowered Leopard upkeep (the loan) to match the rise in mech upkeep to keep the early game the same for players, while still adding to the economic challenge of the game once you get the Argo. From the screenshots, looks like the loan dropped 30k, while mechs went up 6k/each, so to 24k with the starting four.
She also said she upp'd the Argo upkeep fees just a bit. Will be interesting to see how much that got tweaked.