Whisper is a quiet person? We're talking military call signs here. Can see his interview now.. Tex: "Nice to meet you Whisper." Whisper: "NICE TO MEET YOU SIR." Tex *blinks* "Let me guess...former Artilleryman?"
Professor Tex needs to make money cuz if he had any kids with that Clanner wife he needs to pay the child support or else she's going to rip off the other arm.
@@mikecampos1193 The implication that you have to pay child support to your clanner wife while you're STILL MARRIED TO HER for fear of physical violence is very funny.
@@miniondaechir Seeing as claner children are usually produced in batches of 100 or so, the potential ”child support” must run into millions of C-bils, add to that the cost of raising, training, ammunition, disposal of bodies for the ”failures” and no wonder Tex hides on some forgotten planet that not even Comstar can find.
My first Mechwarrior character was awarded the callsign "Cannonball" after inadvertently landing on the CT of a heavy that had fallen down on the battlefield. It was his first kill, and looked amazingly badass. Especially considering it was a complete accident.
“Holy shit! Awesome kill man.” “Oh I uh…” *Looks down at the mangled wreckage they caused* “…y-yeah that’s as completely intentional. Totally didn’t just fumble the controls, yup.”
The Clans making The Great Father into their Spongebob Squarepants is something I never knew I wanted to see once in my life. I'd probably die of cringe if I saw it twice, but I'd die smiling.
@@eddapultstab2078 Hopefully soon. I’ve been saying ‘It’ll be this year’ for the last 3 years but it’ll definitely be next year 😂 Well as long as my kids are fed and I’ve got a roof over my head, a computer can wait 👍
Don't want to assume what your financial situation is like but if you don't need a full power desktop the SteamDeck can reliably run HBS Battletech (mods are possible but tricky to get working). Refurbed base model is 270usd, new is 350, there'll likely be a 20% off sale soon for black Friday.
@@DarkRavenhaft cheers dude, had completely forgotten those were a thing. I’ll have to have a serious look into them as the whole computer thing was on the back burner. 🙂
Love how there is a big red banner on a mech that says 'PILOT IS BLEEDING OUT. 0 ACTIVATIONS REMAINING. EJECT NOW OR DIE' and it is completely ignored and induces confusion when she dies.
at about 20:00 when your pilot fell over - she bled out. The First Aid thing only stops the bleeding for a couple of turns, and needs to be reapplied repeatedly.
@@djbiscuit1818well the ridiculous amount is probably to make it essentially infinite. Tho imo the bleed out is too fast. And it gets really op when you build an lrm 10(clan for even less weight) and get a pilot to 10 gunnery so he can aim for parts when precision firing. Almost always triggers a bleed and you can effectively ignore a mech and get all 4 parts, because AI never applies 1st aid. It only ever stops working on 4+skull missions when AI gets ridiculous lostech mechs every time and they have all the lifesaving cockpit mods.
"I knew a guy that liked the Hollander. He doesn't like it anymore. He blew up." ~ Professor Tex "The Lyrans said you're a war criminal. After saying that out loud, I just realized how ridiculous that sounds."
The Great Father as the Clan's Spongebob doesn't seem so outlandish when one recalls the Clans do canonically have a kid show of anthropomorphic characters teaching Clan values to the sibkids.
Played a bit of co-op with a buddy of mine through steam's remote play. One particular mission had us interrupt a scuffle between The Bounty Hunter and Black Widow. My buddy brought a Davy Crockett. The two of them were reduced to slinging foul language at each other as their mechs shut down and their lance mates exploded from the several rounds of heat produced by a localized fission event.
This is awesome!! As a proficient mech commander I'm yelling at my screen going what are you doing!! And Tex's voice is just the madness I imagine the inner sphere to be. "Sir, I'm bleeding out. Why can't I eject?" "Because it's more cost efficient to hire a new guy than replacing the cockpit." "Sir, our scanners show the Opfor's pilot heat signature is dropping rapidly, their bleeding out Sir." "Keep firing."
Vanzam militia gots a good thing going. Send out a handful of expendable meat. A somewhat competent commander (he can write his name) and a lance of urbies. If they complete their tour they got some money and new better mechs. And if they die … well they lost some urbies
I can’t think of Urbies anymore without thinking of the utterly absurd variant of a UM-R60 that I created in MW5 with the YAML mod. The weapons loadout wasn’t too out there - Two Medium Lasers & an AC/5 - but I also equipped it with a *comically,* stupidly overpowered (for an UrbanMech) XL engine. The result? An Urbie that was *rocketing* around the battlefield at just north of 100 km/h.
Oh, if you want an absurd variant....Rocketpod Urban mechs UM-R25 have SO much rocketspam. Fortunately the AI is prone to firing them early before they have a good target...but not always. Often Supported by the scariest mech weapon in the game(For AI. it's not so good for you.). The COIL. A weapon that's damage and heat production (especially heat) is proportional to how much evasion charges you have. The mech has basically nothing onboard except engine. It can run like a jenner on meth and when it gets close enough will potentially dump 300damage into a single location of your mech Oh....and then the urbie immediately explode. It's kinda suicidal from the heat. You WILL lose a mech the first time you encounter one.
Try the 'Super Royal Urbanmech'. XL 150 engine, Double Heat Sinks, Ferro Fibrous armour, ER PPC, M Pulse, Guardian ECM, Supercharger. Solve all your problems with Urbanmech until your only remaining problem is Urbanmech!
Well Tex, been waiting for this, and yes Deleting Grid squares is the best way to deal with Enemy lite mechs. Only issue i have with BTA at all is that if you get a Clan mech the AI will target that thing to the exclusion of all others. I had a Kitfox that was running away they tried to destroy but ignored the Atlas that walked over to them and showed the real meaning of the Stiener fist.
@@Ozymandias2x Yeah, I get it. But designs optimized for one on one duelling do not work in a furball. Sure, strip back armor to add more weapons. But don't be surprised when you lose a heavy to a Flea running behind you.
I like the idea of expanding the pilot injuries. But at the same time, the way RNGesus in this game deals out pilot injuries, this is also a terrifying mechanic.
Recruitment checklist; 1. Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy? 2. Have you any idea which end of that thing should be pointing at the enemy? 3. Are you, or have you ever been indebted to Discount Dan?
Edited comment as i was too early: Carcharodon, that's ME! I was part of the wiki team briefly during covid lockdown, and as a lil thank you a bunch of us got to add our own likeness and pilot to the random roster. That's actually a photo of me edited by the BTA art guy, it is BEYOND cool to be a tiny tiny part of such an awesome mod and game. I'm from UK so the brit voice is perfect. As for Carcharodon's backstory, he's gonna be VERY happy about your plan to travel through Steiner space and start kicking clanners. This is too perfect ^_^ (hope i don't die)
Well, this has singlehandedly convinced me to try out 3062. And that Urbanmech squad is...about as effective as expected. 10/10, they're doing their best.
Yeah, that medical ability has to be triggered every other turn to keep a pilot like that up and running... otherwise they just bleed out in the cockpit. So it's heal, move, heal, move. Not your fault, it's not exactly an explained thing that the medical ability doesn't completely patch up a pilot unless you read every little description the game offers. Best of luck in this playthrough Tex, looking forward to watching this.
6:30 Isn't it a common theory that that why the Argo is not taken away from us by Comstar is because Dr Murad is a ROM agent and already has de-facto control of the ship.
Sadly they use that during the Vietnam war duct tape was common I don't know my neighbor was telling me about it I thought he was making this up you know they they carry the duct tape for bleeding wounds.
@@mikecampos1193 what you actually do is tape the wound over with clear plastic wrap so when you jab them with the valve needle the air in the lung cavity can escape and the lung can reinflate.
Once again thanks Mr Tex for introducing me to the battletech lore / universe. As a side note since the Hunchback video dropped in my latest run i am aiming for at least one lance of only hunchback variants. Of course this run i barely found any while before i was tripping over them every other mission :)).
I got to say your comment on call signs really hits home. And I got to say that’s usually true. You can always tell who gave themselves a callsign versus who earned enough respect or did something memorable enough to get a callsign.
Talking to combat pilots has shown me that all their calls callsigns are inside jokes pointed at embarrassing moments in training. Lite-brite would be a pilot who killed their battery in their car by leaving the lights on. None of them sound particularly embarrassing, but are never a cool as Maverick or Ice Man. Unless Maverick drives a rusted P.O.S. Ford Maverick and Ice Man flew into a mountain top all by himself in the sim.
Tex: Thanks for the message to HBS. It is certainly sad news. Thank goodness for the great modding community. I have months sunk into this game and don't regret any of it. We are here for you and to support the legion. We like listening to your voice bassing out our headphones and your cool stories.
Don't be afraid of the person who gave themselves a scary callsign, be afraid of the person who gave themselves a silly callsign. Dont be afraid of the person given a silly callsign by the opposition, BE VERY AFRAID of the person given a scary callsign by the opposition. I have a pilot who's callsign is Akuma. He did not give this title to himself. He earned it when his merc squad of 4 mechs went up against a squad of 4 Draconis mechs. It turned into 3 Draconis mechs, 2 assualt 1 med vs his lone Catapult and he was out of ammo. That was the halfway point. He DFA killed the med, dfa and immobilized and knocked down one assault, dfa and killed the second assualt and ONLY THEN fell down and couldnt get back up. The Combine's recovery team only found a headless Awesome with the one legged and one armed (lrm tubed?) skeleton of the Catapult planted squarly on top. All of its armor having been slagged off, revealing nothing but mech's skeletal internal structure behind. The pilot nowhere to be seen in the half melted cockpit. The Draconis pilot still inside his own mech's cockpit, when they cracked it open he was as white as a ghost and could only say "Akuma" over and over That catapult pilot now rides a charger and that Draconis pilot quit and retired to a farm.
The Hunchback is as speedy as a 64 year old overweight Floridian with a pint of Guinness in him and he needs to pee. Faster and with more momentum than ever expected
I love that you said “my main objective is to roll over to clanner space and be belligerent” that’s literally the only thing I do in this game 😂😂 make my way to clanner space and be belligerent.
Callsign: Copycat "Do you talk a lot?" -As much as you need me to, sir. "When you drink the last cup of coffee, do you make more?" -Yes sir, after cleaning the pot and making sure the coffee grounds are fresh, sir. "Which way do you fold the toilet paper?" -Whichever way you do, sir. "Are you aware of deodorant?" -Yes sir, love deodorant, sir. "Do you listen to loud music?" -Only what you put on the radio, sir.
22:19 That makes no sense. All a mech needs to arrest its fall during an orbital insertion is a single jump jet. And I'm supposed to believe that a mech with 2 jump jets can't make that tiny little hop?
Love the dedication to HBS in the beginning. I remember when the Kickstarter for shadowrun first started, i stumbled on it by accident, and I've rarely been as pleased with the work of a small studio as i have been with HBS. I didn't actually know, though i assumed, that a sequel to battletech was dead in the water, and it's so disappointing, because like Tex said it was way better than we had a right to. Thankfully, the game is rich enough, and the missing community has put in so much work, that there's no end in sight for battletech replayability. One of my favorites of the last 10 years
I just watched all the Tex Talks battletech episodes and loved them. I then got a hankering to dive back into the game and figured I'd look for gameplay of the big 3 mods and see what I'd like. I spent 5 minutes watching this video thinking "man I guess battletech just attracts all the people with the whiskey gravel voice" before realizing this is literally the same channel and i'm a moron. Thanks for all the great content.
I LOVE the Hollander. not saying its a good mech, but I just love how goofy the art for it is and the buddy who got me into BT introduced it to me as the Big Iron mech
Your meandering, rambling and story telling is what most of us are here for. If we wanted boringly competent there are a lot of other places we can ignore honorably.
HBS actually asking for a sequel and Paradox saying no has got to be one of the biggest let downs I've had in years. I used to be a big fan of Paradox too and this has turned me right around the other way.
My brother was playing this and was doing the Bounty Hunter/Natasha Kerinskie throw down and in the first few turns the one of the Clan lance came into view. "Ah, what the hell." Takes a shot and misses. Cockpit destroyed. Pilot killed. The shot had missed the initial target and killed a blood named Clanner in the fog of war. That is a story not going into the Remembrance.
In fairness to the Assassin, if you load it with TAG, maybe some ECM and a Beagle, and squint really hard, it's almost a slightly heavier and shittier stand-in for a Raven, for the 'mech commander on a budget. The fact that you'd get the same effect from a platoon of guys on dirtbikes with man-portable TAG and satchel charges for a significantly lower C-bill investment is neither here nor there...
Especially since MW5 is getting a stand alone Clan Invasion game. Yay...more arcade shooter MW. The gaming industry has become so freaking shallow. Crispy graphics, zero depth.
Unless you refuse the loot crate, you get the Heavy Metal crate after the first day It might have a more palatable mech than your initial lineup ... But Urby Derby is the destination for this run Working as intended 😆
Dang, that was the fastest hour long video ive watched. I love the disgust in your voice as you took out the assassin and then the flea. The flea is probably the only mech that is below the urbie in terms of uselessness
Give an Assassin an LB-10X with a ton of each ammo type and a pulse laser if you have one. It becomes both a great backstabber and the bane of Locusts the Inner-Sphere over.
Slapdash is a hilarious name, mainly because one of my friends recently bought a hamster. They didn't expect it to live long, the last two they got died within a week, so they named it something dumb; it's name is Spindash. This dumb hamster outlived that pilot and their life expectancy is 5 days.
As a MW5 commander my hiring requirements would be: 1) Everyone has to take the occasional urbie duty.(yes, weight limits are silly, yes, you did well last time in the Atlas. No exceptions.) 2) are you willing to cover me as my mech cools down for the 14th time in the battle. No I don't have an srm problem. The Stalker F was always meant to be a point blank brawler. 3) Your willing to admit *CASE* clearly stands for *Cockpit Ammo Storage Enclosure.* And are willing to sign a waiver about any _completely theoretical_ health problems from using the chemical laser ammo as a seat.
Oh man, this will age me, but I remember my first introduction to Shadowrun being on a BBS turn a day forum and reading through like 90 pages of serious hardcore roleplay. Then i begged my parents to buy the rule book, but nobody would play cuz they said it was too complex. I also devoured the novels back in the day. Such an amazingly well fleshed setting!
The engine is fine. Their code just happens to be spaghetti. Which is, honestly, why it's a good thing they're not getting another shot. I'd rather have another BT game made by people who know what they're doing.
@@dynamicworlds1 Yeah, my issue is not the unwillingness to properly patch it up, but the inability to. You really noticed the game was a complexity grade above what the studio could properly handle.
1:06:07 reminds me of what John F. Kennedy once said: "We choose to drive UrbanMechs and do the other things, not because it is easy, but because it is fucking fun!"
Jurassic Park? Oh! You mean McEvedy's Folly, yeah... Pretty sure that was one of the guys they found out there. Sad stuff that, getting stranded at your own science experiment gone awry...
Song, Never Leave Van Zandt Alive: "In the deep star fields of the far off Periphery, That's the planet where I trace my bloodline, And it's there that I found in a hill side gravestone, You'll never leave Van Zandt alive."
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Whisper is a quiet person?
We're talking military call signs here. Can see his interview now..
Tex: "Nice to meet you Whisper."
Whisper: "NICE TO MEET YOU SIR."
Tex *blinks* "Let me guess...former Artilleryman?"
whisper: SAY AGAIN, SIR?
“The enemy can’t hear you sneaking up on them if you can’t hear, either”
@@toobin8r Sun-tzu is boundlessly wise in all things.
Helepolis pilot sir!
That, or a tanker
"Go poke the clanners"
Sounds like someone's getting a Clan wife again, or however they do it over there.
Professor Tex needs to make money cuz if he had any kids with that Clanner wife he needs to pay the child support or else she's going to rip off the other arm.
@@mikecampos1193 The implication that you have to pay child support to your clanner wife while you're STILL MARRIED TO HER for fear of physical violence is very funny.
@@miniondaechir you either pay child support or you beat her (sexual) and good luck doing that without being a clanner yourself
@@miniondaechir Seeing as claner children are usually produced in batches of 100 or so, the potential ”child support” must run into millions of C-bils, add to that the cost of raising, training, ammunition, disposal of bodies for the ”failures” and no wonder Tex hides on some forgotten planet that not even Comstar can find.
I'm hoping he picks up a Jade Falcon Aerospace pilot this time.
My first Mechwarrior character was awarded the callsign "Cannonball" after inadvertently landing on the CT of a heavy that had fallen down on the battlefield. It was his first kill, and looked amazingly badass. Especially considering it was a complete accident.
“Holy shit! Awesome kill man.”
“Oh I uh…” *Looks down at the mangled wreckage they caused* “…y-yeah that’s as completely intentional. Totally didn’t just fumble the controls, yup.”
Solid callsign and reason for it.
I will never get tired of Tex enthusiastically talking about robits
The Clans making The Great Father into their Spongebob Squarepants is something I never knew I wanted to see once in my life.
I'd probably die of cringe if I saw it twice, but I'd die smiling.
I want ALL the LYRICS to this SONG! 🤣
3:48
I’m so glad you’re back to playing battle tech. As a gamer who doesn’t own a computer, I live vicariously through you and others like you 😁👍
I hope you get a computer some day bruh
@@eddapultstab2078 Hopefully soon. I’ve been saying ‘It’ll be this year’ for the last 3 years but it’ll definitely be next year 😂
Well as long as my kids are fed and I’ve got a roof over my head, a computer can wait 👍
Don't want to assume what your financial situation is like but if you don't need a full power desktop the SteamDeck can reliably run HBS Battletech (mods are possible but tricky to get working). Refurbed base model is 270usd, new is 350, there'll likely be a 20% off sale soon for black Friday.
@@DarkRavenhaft cheers dude, had completely forgotten those were a thing. I’ll have to have a serious look into them as the whole computer thing was on the back burner. 🙂
I remember those days ❤
Love how there is a big red banner on a mech that says 'PILOT IS BLEEDING OUT. 0 ACTIVATIONS REMAINING. EJECT NOW OR DIE' and it is completely ignored and induces confusion when she dies.
at about 20:00 when your pilot fell over - she bled out. The First Aid thing only stops the bleeding for a couple of turns, and needs to be reapplied repeatedly.
Ngl I would've made the same mistake. 183 turns to 0? Tf?
@@djbiscuit1818well the ridiculous amount is probably to make it essentially infinite. Tho imo the bleed out is too fast. And it gets really op when you build an lrm 10(clan for even less weight) and get a pilot to 10 gunnery so he can aim for parts when precision firing. Almost always triggers a bleed and you can effectively ignore a mech and get all 4 parts, because AI never applies 1st aid. It only ever stops working on 4+skull missions when AI gets ridiculous lostech mechs every time and they have all the lifesaving cockpit mods.
"I knew a guy that liked the Hollander. He doesn't like it anymore. He blew up." ~ Professor Tex
"The Lyrans said you're a war criminal. After saying that out loud, I just realized how ridiculous that sounds."
The Great Father as the Clan's Spongebob doesn't seem so outlandish when one recalls the Clans do canonically have a kid show of anthropomorphic characters teaching Clan values to the sibkids.
Good ole Clan Spaniel
Wait they talking animal shows for kids?
@@razorburn645 Yes. The in-universe kids show is called "The Adventures of Clan Spaniel."
@@philtkaswahl2124 Wow. That's actually kind of adorable.
Played a bit of co-op with a buddy of mine through steam's remote play. One particular mission had us interrupt a scuffle between The Bounty Hunter and Black Widow. My buddy brought a Davy Crockett. The two of them were reduced to slinging foul language at each other as their mechs shut down and their lance mates exploded from the several rounds of heat produced by a localized fission event.
Flea as the only enemy mission is the best ending for a video.
Excellent video. Glory to Marik.
This is awesome!! As a proficient mech commander I'm yelling at my screen going what are you doing!! And Tex's voice is just the madness I imagine the inner sphere to be. "Sir, I'm bleeding out. Why can't I eject?" "Because it's more cost efficient to hire a new guy than replacing the cockpit." "Sir, our scanners show the Opfor's pilot heat signature is dropping rapidly, their bleeding out Sir." "Keep firing."
Vanzam militia gots a good thing going. Send out a handful of expendable meat. A somewhat competent commander (he can write his name) and a lance of urbies. If they complete their tour they got some money and new better mechs. And if they die … well they lost some urbies
Hey Discount Dan vouched for those urban mechs.
Playing BTA with Tex's voice while listening to Tex play BTA is my favorite Inception moment.
Texception if you will
@@Digiarcstudio Spot on!
Makes me want to go back and listen to the Scrombles episodes.
@@AndrewJoyce86 Scrombles smash play on playlist. Hate scorp'n. But scrombles like playthrough. Had own special bed in hospital. Much comfy.
I can’t think of Urbies anymore without thinking of the utterly absurd variant of a UM-R60 that I created in MW5 with the YAML mod. The weapons loadout wasn’t too out there - Two Medium Lasers & an AC/5 - but I also equipped it with a *comically,* stupidly overpowered (for an UrbanMech) XL engine.
The result? An Urbie that was *rocketing* around the battlefield at just north of 100 km/h.
Oh, if you want an absurd variant....Rocketpod Urban mechs UM-R25 have SO much rocketspam. Fortunately the AI is prone to firing them early before they have a good target...but not always.
Often Supported by the scariest mech weapon in the game(For AI. it's not so good for you.). The COIL. A weapon that's damage and heat production (especially heat) is proportional to how much evasion charges you have. The mech has basically nothing onboard except engine. It can run like a jenner on meth and when it gets close enough will potentially dump 300damage into a single location of your mech
Oh....and then the urbie immediately explode. It's kinda suicidal from the heat. You WILL lose a mech the first time you encounter one.
@@jamesdejager4938 Lmao. That's incredible
Try the 'Super Royal Urbanmech'. XL 150 engine, Double Heat Sinks, Ferro Fibrous armour, ER PPC, M Pulse, Guardian ECM, Supercharger.
Solve all your problems with Urbanmech until your only remaining problem is Urbanmech!
Commander-It's time CHARGE. Uban mech 1- Sir we're Urbies we don't charge we MEANDER WITH PURPOSE.
Well Tex, been waiting for this, and yes Deleting Grid squares is the best way to deal with Enemy lite mechs.
Only issue i have with BTA at all is that if you get a Clan mech the AI will target that thing to the exclusion of all others. I had a Kitfox that was running away they tried to destroy but ignored the Atlas that walked over to them and showed the real meaning of the Stiener fist.
The AI likes to target the thinnest armor.
That usually means Clan mechs.
@@patrickkenyon2326 Which is weird because Clanners can actually afford to max out the armor on their mechs.
@@Ozymandias2x But " Max" is still paper.
Look at the back armor on a Mad Cat.
@@patrickkenyon2326 That's a deliberate design decision, not a limitation of their armor capacity.
@@Ozymandias2x Yeah, I get it.
But designs optimized for one on one duelling do not work in a furball.
Sure, strip back armor to add more weapons.
But don't be surprised when you lose a heavy to a Flea running behind you.
Hearing "Good enough" in that voice, followed by some great BT gameplay made my morning.
I had a Slapdash with that character icon, too. She died, but she was in a Wraith at the time. AC20 to the cockpit. RIP.
I like the idea of expanding the pilot injuries. But at the same time, the way RNGesus in this game deals out pilot injuries, this is also a terrifying mechanic.
It could use some mitigation as an option. It's a bit insane to bleed out every time a mech falls.
I look forward to the debut of "spongebob kerensky" in the iTunes charts.
"Oh this is a promising start". master of understatement Tex, as ever great line. thanks. 😆
Recruitment checklist;
1. Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy?
2. Have you any idea which end of that thing should be pointing at the enemy?
3. Are you, or have you ever been indebted to Discount Dan?
Imagine how many drunks and murder hobo are in the Van Zandt Milita door
Ah yes, Artillery. The King of the Battlefield
Where aiming is more a suggestion than a requirement
“Macho man was- Hunchback Pilot.. fight me” Love it Tex. :)
There is only one possible answer we can give when faced with clanners… “Go back where you came from! Inner sphere don’t want you!”
Van zandt company D being an unpainted meme lance makes me think about unloved tabletop miniatures
The grey legion is eternal
You say unloved, I say blank canvas
Maybe first time I say this, but I genuinely love how wholesome the BPL is. Thanks Tex.
Edited comment as i was too early: Carcharodon, that's ME!
I was part of the wiki team briefly during covid lockdown, and as a lil thank you a bunch of us got to add our own likeness and pilot to the random roster.
That's actually a photo of me edited by the BTA art guy, it is BEYOND cool to be a tiny tiny part of such an awesome mod and game. I'm from UK so the brit voice is perfect.
As for Carcharodon's backstory, he's gonna be VERY happy about your plan to travel through Steiner space and start kicking clanners. This is too perfect ^_^
(hope i don't die)
WOO survived the first ep, that was hairy at the beginning.
Well, this has singlehandedly convinced me to try out 3062.
And that Urbanmech squad is...about as effective as expected. 10/10, they're doing their best.
"Their color scheme is primer" - comedy gold, served dry. Looking forward to the rambles.
Yeah, that medical ability has to be triggered every other turn to keep a pilot like that up and running... otherwise they just bleed out in the cockpit. So it's heal, move, heal, move. Not your fault, it's not exactly an explained thing that the medical ability doesn't completely patch up a pilot unless you read every little description the game offers.
Best of luck in this playthrough Tex, looking forward to watching this.
6:30 Isn't it a common theory that that why the Argo is not taken away from us by Comstar is because Dr Murad is a ROM agent and already has de-facto control of the ship.
Pretty much.
Nice, also nice to see the glorious lore of the Free State of Van Zant.
Duct tape for a collapsed lung seems to be periphery lore friendly.
Sadly they use that during the Vietnam war duct tape was common I don't know my neighbor was telling me about it I thought he was making this up you know they they carry the duct tape for bleeding wounds.
@@mikecampos1193 what you actually do is tape the wound over with clear plastic wrap so when you jab them with the valve needle the air in the lung cavity can escape and the lung can reinflate.
Once again thanks Mr Tex for introducing me to the battletech lore / universe.
As a side note since the Hunchback video dropped in my latest run i am aiming for at least one lance of only hunchback variants. Of course this run i barely found any while before i was tripping over them every other mission :)).
Doctor gives you a fun side mission. You end up fighting a ton of Raptor omni mechs.
I got to say your comment on call signs really hits home. And I got to say that’s usually true. You can always tell who gave themselves a callsign versus who earned enough respect or did something memorable enough to get a callsign.
Old Man, reporting.
Talking to combat pilots has shown me that all their calls callsigns are inside jokes pointed at embarrassing moments in training. Lite-brite would be a pilot who killed their battery in their car by leaving the lights on. None of them sound particularly embarrassing, but are never a cool as Maverick or Ice Man. Unless Maverick drives a rusted P.O.S. Ford Maverick and Ice Man flew into a mountain top all by himself in the sim.
You guys are keeping the community alive! Keep up the content!
Thank you to everyone who made this series possible, that made me laugh after a shift of work.
Tex: Thanks for the message to HBS. It is certainly sad news. Thank goodness for the great modding community. I have months sunk into this game and don't regret any of it.
We are here for you and to support the legion. We like listening to your voice bassing out our headphones and your cool stories.
Don't be afraid of the person who gave themselves a scary callsign, be afraid of the person who gave themselves a silly callsign. Dont be afraid of the person given a silly callsign by the opposition, BE VERY AFRAID of the person given a scary callsign by the opposition.
I have a pilot who's callsign is Akuma. He did not give this title to himself. He earned it when his merc squad of 4 mechs went up against a squad of 4 Draconis mechs. It turned into 3 Draconis mechs, 2 assualt 1 med vs his lone Catapult and he was out of ammo. That was the halfway point. He DFA killed the med, dfa and immobilized and knocked down one assault, dfa and killed the second assualt and ONLY THEN fell down and couldnt get back up. The Combine's recovery team only found a headless Awesome with the one legged and one armed (lrm tubed?) skeleton of the Catapult planted squarly on top. All of its armor having been slagged off, revealing nothing but mech's skeletal internal structure behind. The pilot nowhere to be seen in the half melted cockpit. The Draconis pilot still inside his own mech's cockpit, when they cracked it open he was as white as a ghost and could only say "Akuma" over and over
That catapult pilot now rides a charger and that Draconis pilot quit and retired to a farm.
This was thoroughly enjoyable to watch, and a cool preview of the BTA 3062 mod (I’ve been playing the BEX Commander’s Edition mod, myself)
I’m playing through BEX too. I’m only in 3028 right now, but I’m planning to switch over to BTA once I get to 3062.
@@Logan912 Same here
Ohhhhh how I have missed these play throughs! My toughest start was 2 locusts, 2 fleas, and I got a cicada from heavy metal lol
The Hunchback is as speedy as a 64 year old overweight Floridian with a pint of Guinness in him and he needs to pee. Faster and with more momentum than ever expected
It’s the meandering, rambling, and story telling that makes it fun. It makes me miss the old school nerds I used to play with.
I love that you said “my main objective is to roll over to clanner space and be belligerent” that’s literally the only thing I do in this game 😂😂 make my way to clanner space and be belligerent.
Callsign: Copycat
"Do you talk a lot?"
-As much as you need me to, sir.
"When you drink the last cup of coffee, do you make more?"
-Yes sir, after cleaning the pot and making sure the coffee grounds are fresh, sir.
"Which way do you fold the toilet paper?"
-Whichever way you do, sir.
"Are you aware of deodorant?"
-Yes sir, love deodorant, sir.
"Do you listen to loud music?"
-Only what you put on the radio, sir.
54:53 "The Steiners said you're a war criminal, and now that I say that out loud, I realize how ridiculous it sounds."
Slapdash is part of a story mission later on, to upgrade the Argo. That she dies .. is the not good
finally back with BTA, i was so sad when you stopped. Glad its going again.
First... YES to the re-lyricism. :D Second... the sound of "I'm not mad, just disappointed" in that "I have most of a flea" was perfect.
I love the Urbie and the fact there's a game start for only Urbies makes me smile.
Watching the Jenner and the three Urbies looked like a nanny taking three cute toddlers for a walk.
22:19
That makes no sense. All a mech needs to arrest its fall during an orbital insertion is a single jump jet. And I'm supposed to believe that a mech with 2 jump jets can't make that tiny little hop?
Love the dedication to HBS in the beginning. I remember when the Kickstarter for shadowrun first started, i stumbled on it by accident, and I've rarely been as pleased with the work of a small studio as i have been with HBS. I didn't actually know, though i assumed, that a sequel to battletech was dead in the water, and it's so disappointing, because like Tex said it was way better than we had a right to. Thankfully, the game is rich enough, and the missing community has put in so much work, that there's no end in sight for battletech replayability. One of my favorites of the last 10 years
I just watched all the Tex Talks battletech episodes and loved them. I then got a hankering to dive back into the game and figured I'd look for gameplay of the big 3 mods and see what I'd like.
I spent 5 minutes watching this video thinking "man I guess battletech just attracts all the people with the whiskey gravel voice" before realizing this is literally the same channel and i'm a moron.
Thanks for all the great content.
Of course Tex takes the Urbie Derby. I'm gonna die laughing here.
I LOVE the Hollander. not saying its a good mech, but I just love how goofy the art for it is and the buddy who got me into BT introduced it to me as the Big Iron mech
Also my Favorite mech. It pops heads and then heads home for pop.
Your meandering, rambling and story telling is what most of us are here for. If we wanted boringly competent there are a lot of other places we can ignore honorably.
Attitude: Avuncular
Coffee: Yes, always make another pot.
Toilet Paper: Always over, 3 piece sections, otherwise 0-g bidet plz
Loud Music: Yes
Mastodon
Clutch
The Sword
Trivium
Manowar
This is pure gold, as always! I've been crying of laughter watching this listening to Tex commenting on playing ^^ Please, keep this series going!
Thanks Tex, now I'm binging Randy Savage interviews and I am not disappointed!
HBS actually asking for a sequel and Paradox saying no has got to be one of the biggest let downs I've had in years. I used to be a big fan of Paradox too and this has turned me right around the other way.
I like when Tex gets all heartfelt and sincere out of nowhere. Dude loves the bejeesus out of some good games.
My brother was playing this and was doing the Bounty Hunter/Natasha Kerinskie throw down and in the first few turns the one of the Clan lance came into view. "Ah, what the hell." Takes a shot and misses. Cockpit destroyed. Pilot killed. The shot had missed the initial target and killed a blood named Clanner in the fog of war. That is a story not going into the Remembrance.
In fairness to the Assassin, if you load it with TAG, maybe some ECM and a Beagle, and squint really hard, it's almost a slightly heavier and shittier stand-in for a Raven, for the 'mech commander on a budget. The fact that you'd get the same effect from a platoon of guys on dirtbikes with man-portable TAG and satchel charges for a significantly lower C-bill investment is neither here nor there...
Paradox not wanting another Battletech is such a braindead move. They must hate money.
I guess Paradox is too busy focusing on releasing a billion DLCs for their other games instead.
Van Zandt standard medical kit : A roll of duct tape, a hacksaw and a bottle of rye ...
That first mission cracked me up. Friggin pilot dies out of nowhere.
She was bleeding out for a couple of rounds, but I pretty certain Tex couldn't see the red notification.
I can't imagine how heart wrenching it must be for HBS to lose the BT License.
Especially since MW5 is getting a stand alone Clan Invasion game. Yay...more arcade shooter MW. The gaming industry has become so freaking shallow. Crispy graphics, zero depth.
Mark my words here and now, 10 years from now Battletech will have an HBO show.
And will suck because they don't know or care about the lore.
It's crazy that they said no to HBS. I know it didn't sell in the millions, but surely no one expected it to.
Thanks for praising the devs. Dragon fall is one of my favorite rpgs too!
"Delta Squad reporting!"
Unless you refuse the loot crate, you get the Heavy Metal crate after the first day
It might have a more palatable mech than your initial lineup ... But Urby Derby is the destination for this run
Working as intended 😆
Dang, that was the fastest hour long video ive watched. I love the disgust in your voice as you took out the assassin and then the flea. The flea is probably the only mech that is below the urbie in terms of uselessness
Loving the new stream of uploads Tex.
Always a treat.
You're right about HBS. They deserve so much more.
Hong Kong was fantastic, and my personal favourite instalment to the shadowrun series
Give an Assassin an LB-10X with a ton of each ammo type and a pulse laser if you have one. It becomes both a great backstabber and the bane of Locusts the Inner-Sphere over.
>were you terrorized by a flea
I think properly stealth armored, you could do some absolutely terrifying things with a little shit like that.
Fantastic start. It has no right to be so endearing but the more I play the more I love a good Urbie and what could be greater than five of them.
Rock on mr tex with the early chrimbmass present wow
Luv to see it
Slapdash is a hilarious name, mainly because one of my friends recently bought a hamster. They didn't expect it to live long, the last two they got died within a week, so they named it something dumb; it's name is Spindash.
This dumb hamster outlived that pilot and their life expectancy is 5 days.
"He sees 4 urban mechs and he starts hearing clown music."
Yakety Sax begins to play from his headset.
"Shit."
14:46 there’s a battle armor start, so the Urbies definitely aren’t the hardest start out there
Whelp with the med kit joke, Piffany the Cleric now lives in the Deep Periphery
"moves over cliff"
"oh shit"
lovely content.
As a MW5 commander my hiring requirements would be:
1) Everyone has to take the occasional urbie duty.(yes, weight limits are silly, yes, you did well last time in the Atlas. No exceptions.)
2) are you willing to cover me as my mech cools down for the 14th time in the battle. No I don't have an srm problem. The Stalker F was always meant to be a point blank brawler.
3) Your willing to admit *CASE* clearly stands for *Cockpit Ammo Storage Enclosure.* And are willing to sign a waiver about any _completely theoretical_ health problems from using the chemical laser ammo as a seat.
Oh man, this will age me, but I remember my first introduction to Shadowrun being on a BBS turn a day forum and reading through like 90 pages of serious hardcore roleplay. Then i begged my parents to buy the rule book, but nobody would play cuz they said it was too complex. I also devoured the novels back in the day. Such an amazingly well fleshed setting!
HBS Battletech reminds me of Cyberpunk 2077 in that it was a labor of love for the artists that has beautiful assets behind a janky game engine.
The engine is fine. Their code just happens to be spaghetti. Which is, honestly, why it's a good thing they're not getting another shot. I'd rather have another BT game made by people who know what they're doing.
@@maxgehtdnixan4913yeah, I feel the love put into the project, but the memory leaks are rough on my computer. Still glad for the game, though.
@@dynamicworlds1 Yeah, my issue is not the unwillingness to properly patch it up, but the inability to. You really noticed the game was a complexity grade above what the studio could properly handle.
@@maxgehtdnixan4913 They only really managed one patch, to deliberately disable a mod that offended them.
@@DIEGhostfish Which mod was that?
Battletech is a game that keeps on giving.
1:06:07 reminds me of what John F. Kennedy once said: "We choose to drive UrbanMechs and do the other things, not because it is easy, but because it is fucking fun!"
Jurassic Park?
Oh! You mean McEvedy's Folly, yeah... Pretty sure that was one of the guys they found out there.
Sad stuff that, getting stranded at your own science experiment gone awry...
Song, Never Leave Van Zandt Alive:
"In the deep star fields of the far off Periphery,
That's the planet where I trace my bloodline,
And it's there that I found in a hill side gravestone,
You'll never leave Van Zandt alive."
Oh this is going to be an amazing show! Have fun with your Urbies Tex
And then the Hunchback got out his pimpcane.
Ah yes. Delta. Pride (cough cough) of Van Zandt.
Objective? Boop the snoot!
I'm a simple man. I see tex and battletech i hit like and watch. And watch and watch and watch.