BattleTech coming back via Kickstarter

I looked at the specs and I'm wondering how much I'm going to suffer having a GTX 780. From the gameplay videos I didn't think it would be too much of a graphics games, but the minimum is a GTX 660 and recommended is GTX 950...

Wait, I looked this up on PassMark Videocard Benchmarks and supposedly my GTX 780 is better than a GTX 950

. Huh, the things you learn.

Anyway, over on Green Man Gaming (which is offering 20% for the next day or so with a code) the description blurb says "jump into single-player skirmish mode to test your strategies against the AI". I'll probably only be playing solo, does this game have a lot of content for the solo player?

Sorry to be so ignorant of the game but I haven't been following it, I've been confusing it with that VR first player one

NickAragua · Post by **NickAragua** » Sat Apr 07, 2018 10:48 pm

Yeah, it's actually mostly single player. You basically run a mercenary company out in the sticks doing jobs for various Inner Sphere and periphery powers.

There's a multiplayer skirmish component to it, but I don't really plan on spending too much time there.

IceBear · Post by **IceBear** » Sat Apr 07, 2018 10:49 pm

There's a full on single player campaign (not sure as the length but there's apparently infinite number of procedurally generated missions that you can play instead of the story missions). The Inner Sphere map has hundreds or thousands of systems you can visit and take missions from. The single player campaign can be infinitely long

Then there's single player skirmish against AI as well.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Sat Apr 07, 2018 10:49 pm

jztemple2 wrote: Sat Apr 07, 2018 9:52 pm I'll probably only be playing solo, does this game have a lot of content for the solo player?

The campaign is single-player, so far as I know.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Sat Apr 07, 2018 10:56 pm

Thanks for the responses, it looks like you all hit the Submit button at almost the same time

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Sun Apr 08, 2018 12:43 am

And game preordered through Green Man Gaming, 20% off. OO effect for the win!

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Wed Apr 11, 2018 1:49 pm

Battletech Basics: Story trailer

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Wed Apr 11, 2018 2:39 pm

I clicked on the last two trailers before that and realized immediately that I'd rather wait and experience the game first-hand and then backtrack on these things later. 13 more days.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Wed Apr 11, 2018 2:42 pm

Longest 13 days of my life.

There are a few steamers who have been allowed to preview the first section of the campaign. I've watched them all and they just make me want it more.

Plan to be playing(and streaming) this for a long time.

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Wed Apr 11, 2018 3:18 pm

I watched just enough on Youtube to satisfy myself that it's right up my alley, but want to experience it firsthand. Day One for sure

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Wed Apr 11, 2018 4:09 pm

Rip wrote: Wed Apr 11, 2018 2:42 pm Longest 13 days of my life.

There are a few steamers who have been allowed to preview the first section of the campaign. I've watched them all and they just make me want it more.

Plan to be playing(and streaming) this for a long time.

I watched two different people play the "3 years later" mission where the intro tells you, "take out the turret generator quickly to shutdown the turrets." They both are getting hammered over and over by the turrets while trying to kill the pair of mechs that are hardly touching them. At the end they both are like "I probably should have gone after the generator first." In fact one of them says they should prioritize it over and over again and never freaking do it. I enjoy watching ChristopherOdd play XCOM, but man he doesn't learn fast.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Wed Apr 11, 2018 7:07 pm

It doesn't help that in that mission there was a bug so that when talking about the Turret Generator the screen is focused on the Command Post and then when talking about the Command Post focus shifts up to the Turret Generator. Confused a lot of people.

I don't see why more people don't do as was my gut instinct.

Spoiler:

Punisher · Post by **Punisher** » Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:25 pm

I am SOOO looking forward to this game, unfortunately, I will be away on vacation when it hits...

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:45 pm

Punisher wrote: Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:25 pm I am SOOO looking forward to this game, unfortunately, I will be away on vacation when it hits...

This is so weird because until a couple of weeks ago I didn't have much interest in it and now I'm excited. I'm hoping it's got a lot of the flavor of Titans of Steel: Warring Suns. I played a lot of that game.

Punisher · Post by **Punisher** » Wed Apr 11, 2018 10:01 pm

jztemple2 wrote: Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:45 pm
Punisher wrote: Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:25 pm I am SOOO looking forward to this game, unfortunately, I will be away on vacation when it hits...
This is so weird because until a couple of weeks ago I didn't have much interest in it and now I'm excited. I'm hoping it's got a lot of the flavor of Titans of Steel: Warring Suns. I played a lot of that game.

Well, I've been a fan of BattleTech ever since it was BattleDroids... I bought the original Mechwarrior game before I even had a PC to play it on (and my PC requirement at the time was "Can it play Mechwarrior?". I bought my PC at PC Richards because they were he only ones who let me install and test the game on their demo PC. I sat and played for about 1.5 hours in the store...
If they have a pre-load by early Sunday, I can pre-load onto my laptop that I'm taking with me and then just have to unlock it.

Archinerd · Post by **Archinerd** » Thu Apr 12, 2018 1:09 am

jztemple2 wrote: Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:45 pm
Punisher wrote: Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:25 pm I am SOOO looking forward to this game, unfortunately, I will be away on vacation when it hits...
This is so weird because until a couple of weeks ago I didn't have much interest in it and now I'm excited. I'm hoping it's got a lot of the flavor of Titans of Steel: Warring Suns. I played a lot of that game.

Hopefully better level/mission design though. I remember one mission where you had to make your way through a narrow mountain maze full of lava lakes, not fun.

Sepiche · Post by **Sepiche** » Mon Apr 16, 2018 7:09 pm

Have they announced when backers are going to be getting keys yet?

Stefan Stirzaker · Post by **Stefan Stirzaker** » Mon Apr 16, 2018 7:12 pm

Sepiche wrote: Mon Apr 16, 2018 7:09 pm Have they announced when backers are going to be getting keys yet?

Day or two before is what I saw.

Sepiche · Post by **Sepiche** » Mon Apr 16, 2018 7:33 pm

Stefan Stirzaker wrote: Mon Apr 16, 2018 7:12 pm
Sepiche wrote: Mon Apr 16, 2018 7:09 pm Have they announced when backers are going to be getting keys yet?
Day or two before is what I saw.

Thanks!

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Fri Apr 20, 2018 11:32 am

Ordered today from Fanatical to get the discount. Now to sleep away the next 4 days.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Apr 20, 2018 11:54 am

jztemple2 wrote: Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:45 pm
Punisher wrote: Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:25 pm I am SOOO looking forward to this game, unfortunately, I will be away on vacation when it hits...
This is so weird because until a couple of weeks ago I didn't have much interest in it and now I'm excited. I'm hoping it's got a lot of the flavor of Titans of Steel: Warring Suns. I played a lot of that game.

<3 <3 <3 Many many many hours were spent with this game as well as it's predacessor on the Amiga many years ago.

too many game and too little time, so I'ma go GreenGoo on this and watch here reviews and wait for deep discounting even if this does very much look like my game.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Apr 20, 2018 11:55 am

Archinerd wrote: Thu Apr 12, 2018 1:09 am
jztemple2 wrote: Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:45 pm
Punisher wrote: Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:25 pm I am SOOO looking forward to this game, unfortunately, I will be away on vacation when it hits...
This is so weird because until a couple of weeks ago I didn't have much interest in it and now I'm excited. I'm hoping it's got a lot of the flavor of Titans of Steel: Warring Suns. I played a lot of that game.
Hopefully better level/mission design though. I remember one mission where you had to make your way through a narrow mountain maze full of lava lakes, not fun.

Missions were terriblle. I never played the campaign but skirmished a gazillion games.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Fri Apr 20, 2018 11:59 am

The full game is being streamed by numerous people on twitch. Not hard to see how good it is.

IceBear · Post by **IceBear** » Fri Apr 20, 2018 12:40 pm

My only concern is the AI seems a bit brain dead and all the missions boil down to kill all the enemy mechs. The Escort missions I watched basically were walk the friendly units to a point and then kill all the mechs . Don't get me wrong I enjoy killing the enemy mechs but more variety in the missions will give it longer legs.

Hopefully the AI has been tweaked during this streaming period and I am wondering if things change after the embargoed mission is unlocked with respect to the missions.

I know that sounds negative but I watched all of COHcarnage's 36 stream videos and really enjoyed what I saw. I just noticed some odd unit behaviours and how all the missions basically boiled down to destroy all the enemy mechs (but then again that's the whole point of Battletech).

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Fri Apr 20, 2018 12:47 pm

There is no longer an embargo and they are all streaming a newer version.

They can now play the entire game with ANY restrictions.

IceBear · Post by **IceBear** » Fri Apr 20, 2018 1:45 pm

ooo...missed that. Supposedly I'll get my backer key this weekend though that's just going to make waiting until the 24th that much more unbearable

NickAragua · Post by **NickAragua** » Fri Apr 20, 2018 2:30 pm

Let's see... Sunday I'm traveling half the day, Monday I can power through the shakes while pre-loading, then Tuesday I may mysteriously get sick for a couple of days.

IceBear · Post by **IceBear** » Fri Apr 20, 2018 6:51 pm

And I got my key...it's just sitting in my game list mocking me

xwraith · Post by **xwraith** » Fri Apr 20, 2018 10:21 pm

Yep, me too

Punisher · Post by **Punisher** » Fri Apr 20, 2018 10:41 pm

Just got mine.. I REALLY wish the pre-load was Sat or Sun. I'm going away during the week and while I will have my laptop, the Internet connection where I will be usually sucks ass..

Stefan Stirzaker · Post by **Stefan Stirzaker** » Fri Apr 20, 2018 11:29 pm

Hoorah got mine

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Sat Apr 21, 2018 9:34 am

Moi aussi.

Grifman · Post by **Grifman** » Sat Apr 21, 2018 10:57 am

Just go to your Backer kit, all keys are there now.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Sun Apr 22, 2018 9:20 pm

I kickstarted and chose to get my key through GOG.

Does anyone know if that means I'll be able to install and play on multiple computers?