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I’d like to have access to a full company - maybe make it much more expensive to drop the other lances but it feels like a single lance is so limiting .... maybe the next game - make it a tad more mech commander
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Remove the drop limit and \ or let us summon reinforcements
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Comrades dying left and right.. Ill bring the whole company to support. Hopefully this can be done. Maybe only allow for it when we have less than 50% lance armour.
Darius: we are getting chewed here.. Im sending reinforcements your way. Hang on commander.
Darius: we are getting chewed here.. Im sending reinforcements your way. Hang on commander.
I a bit torn on this one because as awesome as it would be to have multiple lances, quite simply it would require a complete rebalance of just about everything! i.e. A MASSIVE task. There are other aspects of the game that need work first, I would far rather have a complete set of mechs and weapons implemented, ways of keeping lights relevant, more sim game RPG elements, different contract types, mini campaigns, actions affected the star map. Basically a whole host of things before I would want the devs to drop significant time into this.
It really was a fundamental decision made at the start that is a lot of work to reverse out of it, I agree it was probably a mistake in hindsight, but it is what it is!
It really was a fundamental decision made at the start that is a lot of work to reverse out of it, I agree it was probably a mistake in hindsight, but it is what it is!
I don't think there will ever be 2 player controlled lances in BATTLETECH, but it is at the top of my wish list for BATTLETECH 2.
All depends. The Raven flashpoint I've found a very balanced and enjoyable setup for that 200-ton drop weight, but admittedly that's an early, low difficulty flash, and many of us are running it in aged campaigns and careers, with the means to take a top shelf medium lance in there.
But a big city brawl under 60 involving three Houses...that's a fun drop.
But a big city brawl under 60 involving three Houses...that's a fun drop.
Have to agree with that.. 2 lances would increase playtime per mission..
I do appretiate the random help from ally escort and turrets in some missions.. So maybe that should be the case. Sends in some ai controlled reinforcements..
not sure how this idea idea would pan out, some play testing on HBS's side could shade some light though.
When I have one lance the AI needs 2-3 to keep it challenging. If I had 2-3 lances they'd need 4-6 lances to stay competitive. That's 24-36 mechs, plus any defensive turrets, convoys to kill/guard, allied units...
A single mission would take half a day. That's fine and dandy [Mod edit: unintended or not age related commentary will read as dismissive ergo disrespectful, and thus flamebait], but a lot of us have jobs, families, other hobbies, and the like. Four hour missions would be a deal breaker for a lot of us.
However, there's no reason that the brilliant awesomeness linked in my sig couldn't work.
A single mission would take half a day. That's fine and dandy [Mod edit: unintended or not age related commentary will read as dismissive ergo disrespectful, and thus flamebait], but a lot of us have jobs, families, other hobbies, and the like. Four hour missions would be a deal breaker for a lot of us.
However, there's no reason that the brilliant awesomeness linked in my sig couldn't work.
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If the enemy out numbering you 3 to 1 is necessary to keep the game challenging, then I'd say the AI needs a lot of work. If there's going to be 16 units on the field, it's more fun to be controlling half of them than it is to control 4 and have to sit and wait for the other 12 to move.
I don't mind the fights being longer if it means there's a better ratio of time spent playing vs time spent watching too.
I don't mind the fights being longer if it means there's a better ratio of time spent playing vs time spent watching too.
AI improvements would be great, and if HBS could ever manage to make a 4 v 4 fight into a serious challenge that would be great, too. But we're not there, and frankly most games never get past overwhelming the player was a strategy. I assume that's because developing AI that's smart enough to compete with experienced players, yet dumb enough to be manageable for new/casual players is really difficult. So sure, I'm rooting for that, but I'm not going to hold my breath. I suspect that throwing numbers at us will be a mission design strategy well into the future.
That brings us back to where we started. If the player gets X more units then the AI is going to need 2-3X more units to compete. That would take all day.
That brings us back to where we started. If the player gets X more units then the AI is going to need 2-3X more units to compete. That would take all day.
I dont think I have ever played a tactical or strategy game where the AI didn't have to either cheat or be given more units, until very recently it has simply been impossible to make an AI for a complex game that will challenge a good human player (especially in a game with a large dose of randomness involved).