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For those curious, I ended up looking up the bit in the Operation Klondike book that talked about Clan technological development and the Inner Sphere's own advancements following the invasion.
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I'm not sure I like it, but I've found myself putting it on when I need background noise in a couple of occasions, and it does the job in the game itself just fine. Just the fact it has guitars and isn't 100% orchestral bombast nets it a few points in my book.
Back of the napkin, I'd personally drop even more heatsinks and one of the Large Lasers and give it another Gauss, or an UAC/10 or LB-10X, depending on how much I can free up there. That 'mech is just criminally undergunned for a 95-tonner, "sniper" role or not.
I know it's not the case, but it's kind of funny that the Clans work as a parody/criticism of strictly regimented societies (and a definite oblique jab at the Soviets in general, why else would their founder have a Russian name?). Yeah, they funneled all their advances towards war and kept their civilians under strict control, and what a fat lot of good it did them when the rubber met the road.
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And it's not just, like, some random Russian-sounding name. It's Kerensky.
Aaaaaand don't forget the Strana Mieczt' (Strana Mechty).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kerensky
https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Aleksandr_Kerensky
Name aside, I ain't really seeing the similarities.
One was a brilliant general who saved the Inner Sphere, only to be let down by what he fled and his own egotistical offspring, and the other was a general failure who rose to the level of his incompetence.
Okay, that's pretty funny. The photoshopper should have used an Orion though. Talk about lame to use a Marauder when it comes to Alexander Kerensky.
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Yeah, I mean, there's probably some deep meta-level hyper-ironic point to that, I guess. Surely. Totally.
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Okay, they both had their hopes and dreams of a new society dashed by reality, but only one of them died a hero and the other lived long enough to see themselves become the laughingstock.
EDIT: One thing not related to this discussion but the initial post of mine that I'd like to note is that XTRO Davion makes explicit mention of how willing Clan Happy Merchant is to sell off Clan tech to the Spheroid powers post-Jihad. That and someone at NAIS is a fan of Ace Combat or Armored Core given all of the fancy CODE NAME units. What's interesting is that I saw no source mentioned for the Clan-grade FF used on some of the units, and going by the fluff for the Corsair RIGID NIGHT, the Clan weapons for the prototypes were assembled in FedSuns R&D labs for the project. Keep in mind the project started in 3074, while the Jihad is still on-going and New Avalon had just gotten hit hard by the WoB.
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Man, Kerensky got cursed by some sort of bad cosmic god. Going from fighting some of the worst fighting men has ever seen to leading an exodus of the remnants of the Star League well passed the periphery for some sort of peace, only for your descendants to fuck it up because of muh honor and muh ego.
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Your pilot made his way to Valhalla, shiny and chrome.
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Picked up MW5 on steam last week and I managed to find a Stalker 3F early on in the campaign at one of the industrial centers. Have yet to find an assault mech as satisfying to use as that thing, and I'm reputation 14 now.
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The Stalker is the quintessential BattleMech: a big, ugly box of guns that will kill you even faster than the enemy if you don't know what you're doing. I fucking love it.
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Question about the Battletech PC game:
I haven't played it since release. Didn't realize the devs were trannies; got banned from their forums for asking why there were no blonde people and no Christians, despite the fact that both are common in the fluff. Also, the missions were repetitive, the storyline campaign sucked, most of my favorite Mechs were missing, and it just wasn't fun. Hoped there'd be some kind of open world, Mount & Blade style merc campaign later on, so I shelved it.
Just went back to check out the state of the game, and... it looks like there's mods now? Really, really good mods? That possibly add an open world campaign, as well as blonde people and mechs that are actually cool? I might be wrong, but I'm cautiously optimistic.
For those of you who play Battletech PC, what mods are essential?
Nexus seems to be recommending either Battletech Extended, or Battletech Advance. Are these OK? Is one superior?
Are there any cosmetic mods I can get, to add custom Mechwarrior portraits or new Mech paintjobs?
Also, if during the installation of BTA - let's say, hypothetically, someone was to accidentally select the option to install content from a DLC that he did not own. Obviously, as soon as he realized what had happened, he would immediately clear the mod folder and do a fresh install without the option selected! But let's say, hypothetically, this person didn't notice his mistake at first; would this cause problems in the game? Would he get access to all the "bonus" mechs that HBS is charging full-game-price for, for free?
I haven't played it since release. Didn't realize the devs were trannies; got banned from their forums for asking why there were no blonde people and no Christians, despite the fact that both are common in the fluff. Also, the missions were repetitive, the storyline campaign sucked, most of my favorite Mechs were missing, and it just wasn't fun. Hoped there'd be some kind of open world, Mount & Blade style merc campaign later on, so I shelved it.
Just went back to check out the state of the game, and... it looks like there's mods now? Really, really good mods? That possibly add an open world campaign, as well as blonde people and mechs that are actually cool? I might be wrong, but I'm cautiously optimistic.
For those of you who play Battletech PC, what mods are essential?
Nexus seems to be recommending either Battletech Extended, or Battletech Advance. Are these OK? Is one superior?
Are there any cosmetic mods I can get, to add custom Mechwarrior portraits or new Mech paintjobs?
Also, if during the installation of BTA - let's say, hypothetically, someone was to accidentally select the option to install content from a DLC that he did not own. Obviously, as soon as he realized what had happened, he would immediately clear the mod folder and do a fresh install without the option selected! But let's say, hypothetically, this person didn't notice his mistake at first; would this cause problems in the game? Would he get access to all the "bonus" mechs that HBS is charging full-game-price for, for free?
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Unfortunately Kerensky was also an idiot for not planning the Exodus way better: no planning of putting the right kind of colony teams together not mxing the different nationalities together (that is one point the Republic at least managed for some time though it backfired when the IS went into the Dark age again) and being paralyzed for years by the loss of his wife. Jerome Blake was almost right when he wrote in his diary "Kerensky and his ilk are too stupid to realize that they will die out there without us" Well, almost.
and yeah the Clans got really complacent when it came to their techadvantages. The War of Reaving also has an interesting journal entry from a Star Adder scientist: "the Golden age must have been a dream for any scientists living. But then the warriors decided Everything of significance has been researched and they confined us with the predictable limits of genetics" And another fun fact: when the IS got their hands on the Grey Death Memory core right before the4th Succession war it took them a decade to unlock the first SL type weapons. 10 years! And by the time the Clans invaded they had basically unlocked all SL weapons tech save battle armor, Null signature system and Warship technology. Though mass production was still a far cry.
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What's good about it? And is it Rouguelike? I'm not really a fan of Rougelikes, especially when it's a campaign I intend to invest many hours into.
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I don't have it. From what I understand it makes everything harder but is some kind of persistent campaign.
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The big deal about RougeTech is that it has an online component: planets will dynamically change ownership based on player input: do enough missions for Stiener on Tukayyid, and eventually they will take it over, and this is happening for all players simultaneously.
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Yeah, I'll skip that, then. Rougelike and MMO are two of my turnoffs.
What about other mods? Anything else worth checking out?
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There's a mod that is set during i believe 3057 so you can have all the nifty mechs and technology. Plus the option to drop with two lances.
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The mighty Battledildo, when you want to LRM/SRM bukkake every fool on the field. Its hit boxes are great for spreading damage to avoid coring, agility is garbage though.