New variants aren't necessarily all that exciting in terms of player use but assuming they differ enough from those already in the game they do shake up OPFOR composition which is more than welcome imho.
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I still wish the opfor is given random + weapons so premium salvage is less RNG and more rewards for overcoming an actual difficult opponent. Given how a decent player can take on 3 times the enemy weight, new variant, much like Rogue Tech, wouldn't do much.
Just giving the AI the ability to reserve (which it already can do when the Player brings an ECM to the Battle) would greatly mitigate the Player’s Supremacy when it comes to Turn Order.
I mean of all the BATTLETECH Suggestions over the years, those that revolve around features already in the game but just needing to have their scope widened - it is these suggestions that seem to be possible with a somewhat more manageable investment of finite resources than those suggestions necessitating that something be created anew and out of whole cloth. :bow:
Touching back on the topic of BATTLETECH and HBS as facets of periodic Paradox Reports to its investors, we have just over three weeks until the 2019 Year End Paradox Report and Livestream: https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/en/calendar/
Of interest there are English translations of Paradox’ original messages to its Investors: https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/en/interim-report-january-june-2019/
Unsurprisingly Paradox’s Segment Reporting turned up the information that interested me most, helping to place Paradox in a fuller context.
I find that I’ve contributed my own very, very small measure toward Paradox and HBS’s recent success.
While it is true that I supported HBS’s Kickstarter at the House Scion level, I have now spent much more than that on other Paradox Games.
<———— Whereas I began with maybe 4 non-HBS Game Icons to the left, under my Acatar, I now have 55 such Paradox Game Icons.
It was not all at once, but after I came to appreciate the following, I came to be nearly as much a fan of Paradox as I am of HBS:
1.) Paradox’s reception of us (BATTLETECH and HBS fans) here on our new forum home.
2.) Watched AndrewT continuously engage with and resolve many more of our Bug Reports than I ever though possible.
3.) And most of all engaging with our Community Developers in support of BATTLETECH Friday Night Fights and now BATTLETECH2020, a Fan Event.
After the Year End Report next month, I’ll follow up here with some more comments and excerpts. :bow:
Of interest there are English translations of Paradox’ original messages to its Investors: https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/en/interim-report-january-june-2019/
Unsurprisingly Paradox’s Segment Reporting turned up the information that interested me most, helping to place Paradox in a fuller context.
I find that I’ve contributed my own very, very small measure toward Paradox and HBS’s recent success.
While it is true that I supported HBS’s Kickstarter at the House Scion level, I have now spent much more than that on other Paradox Games.
<———— Whereas I began with maybe 4 non-HBS Game Icons to the left, under my Acatar, I now have 55 such Paradox Game Icons.
It was not all at once, but after I came to appreciate the following, I came to be nearly as much a fan of Paradox as I am of HBS:
1.) Paradox’s reception of us (BATTLETECH and HBS fans) here on our new forum home.
2.) Watched AndrewT continuously engage with and resolve many more of our Bug Reports than I ever though possible.
3.) And most of all engaging with our Community Developers in support of BATTLETECH Friday Night Fights and now BATTLETECH2020, a Fan Event.
After the Year End Report next month, I’ll follow up here with some more comments and excerpts. :bow:
QUICK REMINDER: There will be no Mitch Plays to Win livestream tonight.
Mitch is at Paradox Interactive’s HQ in Stockholm, Sweden this week.
While not confirmed, I believe we’ll see Mitch and a Tacitcal Officer of the Day next week, same Mech channel, same Mech Time. :bow:
Mitch is at Paradox Interactive’s HQ in Stockholm, Sweden this week.
While not confirmed, I believe we’ll see Mitch and a Tacitcal Officer of the Day next week, same Mech channel, same Mech Time. :bow:
So Mitch is dealing with Stockholm Syndrome running his merc outfit, by going to Stockholm?
Maybe Mitch will appears on a Prison Architect Livestream as a Red Shirt himself! : )
PH said: "Yes, I made reference to it Mitch’s mention of Update 1.9:Quad Mechs in an earlier post above, but only in passing and as more of a “Warning to Others” kind of thing. But let’s break it down a bit more here, Ben and Mitch had clearly planned this before hand"
Nope, I made it up on the spot and Ben rolled with it.
Nope, I made it up on the spot and Ben rolled with it.
Behold! The strength of Mitch's improv skills, more so than when he was doing RPGs on Hyper
Is it possible that Paradox might be truly benevolent House Lords, supporting and enriching their vassals instead of bleeding them dry as so many corporate overlords are wont to do?
It's strange to think, in this era of media empires devouring everything in sight... but I'm actually feeling a wee bit optimistic. That doesn't happen very often.
Something that I did not sufficiently highlight yet (from my parsing of the last Paradox Interim Report to Shareholders) was that 40% of all games actively developed by Paradox and it’s Gaming Studios, but not yet announced, are evaluated and cancelled before they are ever announced/been made public.
As a matter of fact, just last Quarter two such pre-Announcement Games were cancelled, freeing up those Studios to put their resources and people against their next game development attempt.
Think of that for a moment please...
Paradox regularly underwrites the failures of its Gaming Studios and at some level of coordination between the two entities (Paradox and the studio in question) move that studio toward a successful future.
I do not know this to be the case, but perhaps Mitch was in Stockholm this week for one such GO / NO GO evaluation of one of HBS’s “Special Projects...”
Perhaps, perhaps not. I could very well be wrong here concerning the purpose of Mitch’s visit to Stockholm.
But what I am not wrong about is that 40% of Paradox games are cancelled for very good reason, and that two such games were cancelled last quarter.
Also, it is just possible that HBS has already been the recipient of just such an underwriting of a failed game.
It always struck me as noteworthy that Kiva, Mitch and a few others made reference to “Secret Projects” (plural.) it is just smart business sense to move HBS forward with multiple teams working their own “Project.”
Some Projects will succeed and no doubt some fail, but HBS now has a mechanism fo be VERY ambitious with one Project and maybe somewhat conservative with a second Project, knowing that they’ll get their shot at hitting a Homerun... or at the very least, falling back to a bunt and Runner on First.
And I like all that ALOT! :bow:
Less than an hour until the next broadcast of Mitch Plays to Win!
Come join us at 8pm EST, on: http://twitch.tv/paradoxinteractive
Come join us at 8pm EST, on: http://twitch.tv/paradoxinteractive
@HBS_HighCommand Towards the final minutes there, your Twitch feed went unstable for everyone - just before you killed the Vindicator and the mission ended. I dunno if it was *just* Twitch or if it was something going on with your end.
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Good news!
We can look forward to another broadcast of Mitch Plays to Win next week. During next week’s livestream we can anticipate Mitch sharing more details on Free Update1.9’s 16 new BattleMech Variants. : )
We can look forward to another broadcast of Mitch Plays to Win next week. During next week’s livestream we can anticipate Mitch sharing more details on Free Update1.9’s 16 new BattleMech Variants. : )
Did he happen to mention anything time frame related?
I know they aren't going to give anything even remotely specific, but even a couple month window, ie April-May or whatever, as a goal for 1.9 would be nice to know.
Soonish or not so soonish helps me decide what I will do in game for the near future.
I know they aren't going to give anything even remotely specific, but even a couple month window, ie April-May or whatever, as a goal for 1.9 would be nice to know.
Soonish or not so soonish helps me decide what I will do in game for the near future.
Did he happen to mention anything time frame related?
I know they aren't going to give anything even remotely specific, but even a couple month window, ie April-May or whatever, as a goal for 1.9 would be nice to know.
Soonish or not so soonish helps me decide what I will do in game for the near future.
"Next week we'll talk more about things coming in the next update" was the best we could get. He was very agile dodging anything teaser-ish, probably because he had his "coffee".
HBS is very careful to withhold release dates until they are sure they can make those dates with all the features slated for that particular update.
The way I see it, the longer until Update 1.9 is released into the Wild, the fewer features and refinements might need to be left on the HBS Cutting Room floor!
So while I hope BATTLETECH Free Update 1.9 might be something we see in early Spring ‘20, if it didn’t get to us until a month or two later, I would not mind in the least, :bow:
The way I see it, the longer until Update 1.9 is released into the Wild, the fewer features and refinements might need to be left on the HBS Cutting Room floor!
So while I hope BATTLETECH Free Update 1.9 might be something we see in early Spring ‘20, if it didn’t get to us until a month or two later, I would not mind in the least, :bow: