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Wut? The Devs have been around posting here way more than between say the last Q&A of 2017 and up to when the forum move happened.
Nice to have it more-or-less confirmed, but I would have been shocked if it wasn't.
The bottom line is that the people writing the code and the people writing the story are - for the most part, anyway - entirely different groups. And the people writing the code don't want the people writing the story to have to come back to them with new requests every time they want to change a minor story point. Flexible code is just good design, really.
So far, I haven't seen a single streamer that has used lights properly.
Although I didn't try it myself, from what I've heard many people sent 4 locusts up against 4 atlases (atlai?) during the backer beta and won. Reserve and (more or less literally) run circles around them. I doubt I'll ever go heavier than 2 assaults, a heavy, and a medium... manipulating turn order is just that powerful.
Edit: And even if I end up using mediums as my scouts in the end-game, in the earlier parts of the game lights fill that higher-initiative role perfectly. Those pure medium lances I see in the streams would be much improved by a properly used light scout.
2nd Edit: Plus we didn't even have Ace Pilot as an option in the backer beta... once you add that in? Manipulating turn order using reserve with high initiative becomes even better. Roughly twice as good, at a guess.
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If somebody could mod 8 mech deployment AND tonnage limits we could see mixed lances being in use!Of course the missions would need to be reworked as well. Time will tell...
And mod in controllable vehicles. Combined Arms lance!
This. Once I get my hands on a Jenner or Firestarter they will remain part of my Lance until I run out of Spareparts or the OpFor stops deploying mediums.
My dream lance for the endgame is King Crab, Highlander, Black Knight, Kintaro
Just watched the QnA session. I enjoyed it; although I agree not as many questions as I would like and many were repeats from previous videos. Still nice to see the devs chat it up and talk about their 'baby'. I wish them luck on their launch
They aren't asking if CASE is on the mech (which is out of time frame, as you mentioned).
Ammo explosions have been seen in the backer beta and streamer buildare to be restricted to their component, which is a CASE feature. So the answer is kind of yes, every mech gets "free CASE".
Leapord at most could carry 5 mechs and that is clan tech. So not likely. Now if you could get ahold of a union which has a base 12.......
I just wish people would check battletech wiki first before asking about 3050 tech or later. It was GDL core that started the tech renaissance.
Hmm, I'm not sure if @Faenaris is working on that one.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/battletech-q-a-transcript-thread.1072169/
Maybe a "by exception" transcript of only new information or changes to old information. It would help keep the transcription effort more manageable.
And let me please take this time to once again than @Faenaris for all the contributions to our community that he has already made. Thank you good Sir! Your efforts are greatly appreciated. :bow:
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Youtube's suggested content is not always up to snuff but the video it recommended after this one was a robot chicken skit about the justice league trying (in vain) to score at a bar that I had not seen before. Most entertaining.
The standard leopard has 4 mechbays and two Aerospace bays that can be converted to cargo, each storing 150 tons. That means you can have four mechs in the bays. One atlas in each Aerospace bay, and then smaller or partial mechs in as well.
In other words, if you are willing to pack them in like peanuts then you can fit much more than four mechs.
Sadly, I'm not working on a transcript. Work is eating into my free time and since I need about three to four hours for an hour of transcription, I haven't advanced very far. I will try my utmost best to get the transcripts out as soon as possible.