Ancestors

Written by schratze on 2024-11-12 at 19:17

There's this thing in video games that portray combat in a modern or sci-fi setting. A trap they all fall into. Bigger is always better. And that completely defeats the purpose of smaller and lighter tech in these games

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Written by schratze on 2024-11-12 at 19:18

There should be a tradeoff in the type of technology you use. Or there should be a rock-paper-scissors type thing going on. If you have neither of these things, then players are always gonna gravitate towards the largest, most advanced and heaviest loadout and it gets boring

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Written by schratze on 2024-11-12 at 19:20

Take Star Wars: Empire at War for example. A fleet full of Star Destroyers is always gonna beat a fleet that composed of fighters and bombers, even though bombers are allegedly strong against star destroyers. They just forgot to balance the game that way.

It would be interesting if certain types of ships beat other ships, so you always have to keep your fleet composition optimized. Instead, it's "larger ship beats smaller ship" all the way down

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Written by schratze on 2024-11-12 at 19:23

I'm also experiencing this with both Mechwarrior 5 games right now. Light mechs are beaten by medium mechs are beaten by heavy mechs are beaten by assault mechs. There's nothing that can beat a 100 ton mech, except for another 100 ton mech. And since you can only field 4 or 5 mechs at a time, the optimal loadout is gonna be 4 assault mechs every time

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Written by schratze on 2024-11-12 at 19:25

This also means that the game is incredibly hard at the beginning, when you only have a single light mech, and gets easier and easier until it's almost trivial in the end. This is just not an interesting way to design the game

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Written by schratze on 2024-11-12 at 20:02

The problem with this game is that it takes forever until you get to play a mech build that isn't complete trash

Love firing twice and getting the "heat critical" warning in the useless Centurion

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Written by schratze on 2024-11-13 at 20:41

I beat this mission despite the arm that houses the AC10 getting shot off just a few minutes into it. What a slog, god damn

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Written by schratze on 2024-11-13 at 20:41

I still haven't played a mission that paid more than I had to pay in repairs afterwards

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Written by schratze on 2024-11-13 at 20:45

me, just finishing the mission: shit fuck shit repairs all the mechs

mech bay: are you sure? this is gonna cost more and take longer because we're in a conflict zone

me: well yeah I have no choice in that confirms

Ryanna: how about we head to an industrial hub next. We could repair all our mechs there, it's gonna be cheaper

me:

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Written by schratze on 2024-11-13 at 21:09

SRM60 carriers exist? okay

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Written by schratze on 2024-11-13 at 21:10

nobody cares about this game but I'll keep posting about it until it's a thing on the fedi

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Written by schratze on 2024-11-14 at 15:24

hell yeah the sassy Phoenix Hawk is back in the party

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Written by schratze on 2024-11-14 at 19:54

Locusts are so fucking annoying

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Written by schratze on 2024-11-14 at 19:56

nomen est omen

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Written by schratze on 2024-11-16 at 00:00

Inner Sphere heavy mech:

• LRM-10

• two medium lasers

Clan heavy mech:

• two LRM-20

• two large ER lasers

• two ER medium lasers

• medium pulse laser

• two machine guns

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Written by schratze on 2024-11-28 at 21:14

What's the point of multi mission objectives? There's only two ways you can do them

• take little to no damage during the entire run

• have enough spare mechs for x missions in a row. If we're talking 3 missions, that's 12 mechs you gotta have at the ready 😬

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Written by schratze on 2024-11-28 at 21:21

The existence of things like the Manticore Heavy Tank basically means that none of the mechs in this universe make sense.

If you can strap 4 heavy weapons to a tank that's really low to the ground and difficult to hit, why would you strap those same 4 weapons to a mech that is basically a huge metal dude standing up

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Written by schratze on 2024-12-16 at 19:29

men will literally approach the hidden object to pick it up instead of going to therapy

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Written by schratze on 2024-12-22 at 13:10

Going around a corner and running directly into a Centurion with a burst fire AC-20 💀

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Written by schratze on 2024-12-22 at 14:00

AC-20 Boyfriend

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Written by schratze on 2024-12-22 at 21:11

Blackjack, Rifleman and Jägermech are all the exact same mech. You cannot prove me wrong

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Written by schratze on 2025-01-07 at 18:12

what the heck is this

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Written by schratze on 2025-01-07 at 18:13

why does it have a PROPELLER

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Toot

Written by schratze on 2025-01-07 at 18:14

why is it equipped with 2 PPCs and ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY rockets

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Descendants

Written by schratze on 2025-01-07 at 18:14

what the hell even is a rocket

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Written by schratze on 2025-01-10 at 15:50

What were they thinking when they wrote the arena announcers for this game

Ava Masters is painful and Jackson and Cotton are unbearable

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Written by schratze on 2025-01-10 at 15:51

If this game came out last year, I would assume that an AI wrote their dialog and a different AI did the voice acting

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Written by schratze on 2025-01-10 at 19:50

They designed the Catapult's armor to be one point too little for a full ton just to fuck with autists and people with OCD

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Written by schratze on 2025-01-10 at 20:23

Seeing the number 64.97 out of 65 available tons and being unable to do anything about it is INFURIATING

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Written by schratze on 2025-01-10 at 20:59

I hate the arena build of the Urbanmech so god damn much

Light rifle burst fire, PPC-X, two light lasers and UNLIMITED HITPOINTS

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Written by schratze on 2025-01-10 at 21:38

Well now I got one of them. What are you gonna do now mfers

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Written by schratze on 2025-01-11 at 00:01

being a Christian means you can't take care of your children anymore??

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Written by schratze on 2025-01-11 at 00:01

punctuation can save lives

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Written by schratze on 2025-01-11 at 00:03

The entire Rasalhague arc is so funny to me. "What if there was racism against Swedes". "What if Japanese people subjugated Europeans". 10/10 fantasy writing

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Written by schratze on 2025-01-11 at 00:11

the existence of the mech Warhammer (the one I'm piloting in the screenshot above) is also really funny

do you think 40k has a dude working for the imperium of man as a battletech?

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Written by schratze on 2025-01-11 at 18:09

Idk if it's all the mods I'm using but all those missions where you have to destroy sattelite uplinks, dodge artillery and conquer a command post are way too fucking difficult

You're facing numbers of enemies that you usually don't see over the course of five missions

I straight up do not have enough HP or firepower to complete this mission, even on a perfect run

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Written by schratze on 2025-01-12 at 20:16

What

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Written by schratze on 2025-01-12 at 20:17

I feel very indifferent about LAGOM-GUMI

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Written by schratze on 2025-01-13 at 19:08

Cockpit Primitive is such a troll item

Trade offer

I get 110 000 c-bills

You get +200% death chance

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Written by schratze on 2025-01-13 at 19:09

oh also it's 2 tons heavier for no reason

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Written by schratze on 2025-01-17 at 18:45

rear-facing weapons are so funny to me. I'm sure they make sense in the tabletop, but in the video games? Yeah sure I'd like to fire two medium lasers in a direction I can't see anything in

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Written by schratze on 2025-01-17 at 18:47

It would make so much sense to place a turret on a battelmech, but apparently that violates the constraints of the setting.

Come to think of it, it's actually really hard to believe that a battlemech would be operated by one single person. A main battle tank in the real world is crewed by three to five people. So why would a battlemech, which is a far more complex machine, be able to be operated by a single pilot?

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Written by schratze on 2025-01-19 at 16:04

Me blocking the doorway so that Duncan Fisher cannot get out and get shot to pieces in the arena: Hahaha yes! Yeah!!

Me being a stationary target for the other combatants and getting shot in the head: Well this sucks. What the fuck

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Written by schratze on 2025-01-19 at 17:00

Phoenix Hawk Tuah

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