

Victoria Espinosa will demand your surrender and when you refuse she’ll drop in a Cicada CDA-2A, a Spider SDR-5V and a Locust LCT-1S. Once you arrive you’ll learn it’s too late. Along the way you’ll need to wipe out the vehicles, 2 Strikers, a Galleon and a Scorpion. Next you’ll need to make your way to the Rotua Township’s Armory. They have a Panther PNT-9R and a Shadow Hawk SHD-2H. The Royal Guard look a bit beat up and obviously they’ve been in a fight. You’re to investigate the Guard Post and then rendezvous with the Royal Guard. You’ll also have Raju Mastiff in a Centurion CN9-A and Lady Kamea in a Kintaro KTO-18. You begin the mission in your trusty Blackjack BJ-1. It’s Lady Kamea Arano’s big day but her uncle decides to launch a coup d’etat and take over the council. You’ll also be introduced to two important characters, Raju Mastiff and Lady Kamea of House Arano. You’ll have the chance to test out your weapons, use the jump jets, sprint, cool off in water and perform melee attacks. The tutorial mission will introduce you to the basic game mechanics. A gunnery skill of 10 will give you a base accuracy of 100%. For this reason the single best way to increase accuracy is to increase a Mech Warriors gunnery skill. Bonuses can wipe away all negative penalties but they can’t turn the modifier into a positive. In other words the modifier is only ever zero or negative. The bonus shot modifier can never be larger than the negative. Bonuses can come from weapon accuracy bonuses, mounted weapons, TTS mods, elevation and being inspired. Penalties can include things like firing outside of a weapon’s range, firing at small Mechs, recoil for autocannons, and so on. For example if you have a Mech Warrior with 2 points in Gunnery and no penalties than the chance to hit will be 80%.Īll bonuses and penalties are combined together into a single modifier.

After that penalties will be added for things like indirect fire and evasion charges. When you fire a shot you have a 75% base chance to hit. Speeding up the timeline will make the days pass quicker while you’re travelling and speeding up combat will speed up all aspects of combat. The other option for speeding up gameplay is to go into the options menu and select “Speed up timeline for singleplayer” and “Speed up combat for singleplayer”. look for the following lines and change the numbers next to all of them to 0. Steam\SteamApps\common\BATTLETECH\BattleTech_Data\įrom here open “AudioConstants.json” in Notepad or other text editor. If you purchased from GOG you can find Battletech in GOG Games folder. To remove the dramatic pauses open the following folder. There are a few ways to speed up the missions, including removing the pauses added for dramatic effect. While the animations and graphics are nice you’ll find after a few missions that gameplay is quite slow. This will bring up a paperdoll during all attacks so you can see precisely where each strike is hitting. From the options turn on “Show UI during attack”. It can be difficult to see how and where you’re shots are hitting the enemy mechs. It adds new weapons systems, including a mortar with area of effect damage. Heavy Metal adds 8 new mechs, 7 from the original board game and 1 new design for this expansion. Urban Warfare adds new urban landscapes which are fully destructible and new enemy vehicles. New mechs include the Hatchetman, Crab and Cyclops. Flashpoint adds new branching short stories to link together mercenary missions. Since Battletech has been released there have been three new expansions packs, Flashpoint, Urban Warfare and Heavy Metal. While searching for contracts you’ll stumble across a wealthy client whose missions will lead you into a much larger war with some of the bigger houses. You’ll take command of a mercenary group who are trying to make their way in the galaxy. In the year 3025 the galaxy is split between the noble houses who fight with enormous BattleMechs. Battletech began as a tabletop mech game back in the 80s and has spawned many Battletech and Mechwarrior games over the last 40 years. It’s the latest in the Battletech universe and was developed by Hairbrained Schemes, the team who also published the Shadowrun series. Battletech is a deep tactical wargame where you lead a lance of Mechs into battle.
