Battletech

Just a one line description: Combat drops into metropolitan territory, with explosive results. Fight through urban sprawl with new ‘Mechs and mechanics.

Here's hoping for ECM and destructible terrain.

Clearly Urban Warfare is a campaign starring everyone's favourite Battlemech, the Urbanmech.

One thing I noticed quite starkly is that the current game shows that at least the Aurigan Nobles have full-on Star League era cooling suits instead of just simple cooling jackets, so Mastiff, Kamea, and Victoria are all fully suited in-cockpit rather than dressed skimpily like 80's Mad Max rejects or like 'Tasha 'K's pinup model look.

Seems to be an Art Shift.

I'm more upset about the giant SW-era Neurohelmets being phased out.

So, the new expansion Flashpoint just came out. Anyone got any thoughts on it?

Urban Warfare is set for a June 4th release.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/04/23/kick-over-buildings-in-battletech-urban-warfare-this-june/

Edited by Rationalinsanity on Apr 23rd 2019 at 6:23:14 AM

Oh boy, been waiting for something like this to come out xD

So what is in the dlcs anyway? Like do they have story stuff?

Not for the big main story but they've got new mechs and locations and the flashpoints one has multi-stage events and jobs.

I like the Urban one a lot, all the new environments are very pretty and a ton of fun to fight in.

They are still stuff that affects main campaign though even if not main story missions?

How do you mean?

Can you play the flashpoints whilst also tackling the main campaign or is it "post game" sort of stuff? And if you can, do they have any bearing on the main game, outside of providing new toys to hit people with

And does the campaign get updated to reflect the new mech roster from the DLC?

Pretty much what I meant I'm bad at articulating so I'm seriously glad someone else articulated it better

Edited by SpookyMask on Jun 11th 2019 at 4:57:53 PM

Flashpoints only appear when Restoration is cleared.

Edited by Rationalinsanity on Jun 11th 2019 at 1:43:21 PM

They are available from the get go when you do career mode though.

Hey, someone who has played the Urban Warfare expansion should update the BattleTech page with info pertinent to the expansion, since, at present, it contains a summary of the first expansion, but not the second. The wikipedia page only lists the first expansion too. That second expansion DID come out, right?

Edit: Never mind, did it myself.

Edited by WillKeaton on Aug 18th 2019 at 11:03:47 AM

Resurrecting this thread because I have this question: is this thread appropriate to discuss the entire Battletech franchise, from the original tabletop game to all of the spin-off games, or is that elsewhere?

It's in Video games that should answer your question.

Check for the tabletop game or books. There is no truly coherent picture for the various pieces of the Franchise.

Thank you for that.

Here's the actual reason I'm in this thread. In my childhood, my brother and I watched our father play the original Mechcommander. Then, we got Mechcommander 2 and we played it. My brother did better than I though.

Out of childhood nostalgia, I watched a walkthrough of Mechcommander 2, Unlike the first game, the second had good writing I must say. Truth be told, I just can't seem to remember if the first one had good writing like the sequel. I mean, the second game had House Steiner's David Renard turn into a dictator that was signified by having a prison complex attacked and resorting to martial law after the mercenaries forced House Liao out in the last portions of the game and that there's how the whole thing, which was well-armed bandits attacking Steiner bases on Carver V, be a Liao scheme from the get go as the bandits were led by a Liao officer and that it was orchestrated because Mandrissa Anita Cho, who lost her husband, wished to give all of Carver V to her son Jason.

Was there anything story-related that the first Mechcommander had to offer?

Edited by HallowHawk on Jul 10th 2020 at 3:35:37 AM