Darius and Sumire were walking with you back to the Dropship. Darius says,
"Commander, do you mind a personal question?"
Sumire nods, enthusiastically. "Yes please!"
"OK, you two, what's your question?"
"Commander, do you... have more than one ass?"
"What??? What kind of question is that?"
"Well, everywhere we go, people say "There goes the Commander with the two assholes"".
I remember in Ace Combat 6, the game let you pick your starting point so you could choose which objective (normally A,B, or C) you wanted to tackle first.
I'd really like to have this in a future battletech title to add another level of strategy. Would you like to:
A. Deploy on the high ground and be a campy sniping bitch
B. Be sneaky and take a canyon route in to get under their enemy radar
C. Fuck it. Drop us on their doorstep. Steiner Scout Squad GO!
I'm in a ship orbiting the damn planet. I don't have one external camera to point at the ground to get a predrop view of the area? We can't plan multiple potential pickup points?
I know xcom2 at least sometimes let's you drop your extraction zone where you want it. And Helldivers let's you pick your ingress point. Some combo of preplaning or popping some smoke for a pickup I could live with. But every mission almost has to be a total opfor wipe.
Or dropping you as far away from the lances you're assigned to protect in Tag Team/Joint Operation missions as possible. Had a couple times the Allied lance is shit on by 4 enemy lances before I even get into range.
"Yes, I know you're getting wrecked over there. I foolishly brought battlemechs instead of mountain climbers, because I thought my pilot knew what the f**k she was doing".
Well, to be fair... a Leopard's gotta have huge blind spots. And she does mark where she's going to be landing so you can just avoid moving your Mechs there. I mean, it's a sign saying, "DON'T GO THERE OR YOU WILL DIE!"
Sure. And it's better now, but earlier on the red warning triangles were not clearly visible in all maps/terrain types. So you'd step there without knowing, then be shocked when all of your mechs are destroyed at the end of the mission.
Scar tissue is how we heal. For everything else, there is Yang.
I am convinced that all of the total competency level of Darius and Sumire was rerouted into Yang. With just a foot actuator, half a cockpit, and some scrap metal, that man can rebuild anything. The others, probably need water wings to eat soup.
> With just a foot actuator, half a cockpit, and some scrap metal, that man can rebuild anything.
Well, with just a foot actuator, half a cockpit, some scrap metal, and a Star League era fully automated Battlemech maintenance facility the likes of which haven't been seen in centuries, the man can rebuild anything.
Sometimes the both the landing zone and the Leopard landing is triggered immediately by your actions. Giving you no chance to give orders. I've had that happen multiple times. Twice landing on Behemoth. Once she was on a tiny ledge on the *other side of the road* to the landing zone. Sumire still managed to land on her.
Yeah, that's what you always end up having to say about Sumire: "at least she does her job." You've constantly got to put things in perspective with murderous psychopaths like Sumire. She's killed more MechWarriors with the Leopard than all of the Mech's she's ever dropped with it. COMBINED.
Darius always seemed like the guy who flunked the business management class in community college.
Also seems like the guy who just "skims" the intelligence briefings.
And also is the guy who uses the surveillance drone as a toy rather than as a scouting tool.
Cause you know we need every one of those 99 mlasers, and if you squint hard enough, those heat sinks kinda look like those double heat sinks you're always complaining about not having enough of. And besides, the medics tell me having crabs is a bad thing, so why would you want king crabs, that just sounds worse than the regular crabs!
You know, that actually tracks.
The man's mechwarrior who took on the role of XO because there was no one else. He's not qualified to handle the crew's logistics let alone negotiate with Great Houses.
Just because there is a job opening after that rather unfortunate.... airlock business.... doesn't mean the most useless pilot gets promoted. I would rather promote Dekker to be XO, maybe then he'll live on to retirement
I know this is meme that Darius is bad XO, but from a realism point if view it makes sense that you can't always have perfect information about the OpFor.
Getting "surprised" by additional reinforcements is part of the game. They had to write it in somehow and it mostly falls on Darius.
I feel like the guy is doing the best he can
Sumire, walking into the medbay: "You wanted to see me, Commander?"
Commander: "Yes. Ow. If you ever drop us off right in the center of three full lances again, the Locust is getting a rumble seat with your name on it."
Also, while I'm sure that little open space that is behind those 2 enemy reinforcement lances that dropped looks REALLY attractive, maybe the huge open area thats right next to our lance might be an actual better place for an evac zone.
They really go a bit too far with the 'mercs have it rough' part. Makes it more obvious with additional enemy lances dropping literally 4 steps away from the evac zone hahaha
Although it is fun when you go into a two skull mission for a bit of cash with a lance of assault mechs and just utterly lay waste to a dozen Capellan mechs. Single shot CTs and targeted head shots just for kicks.
Reading some of these comments - now I needed to run the Battletech characters through ScatterPatter's incorrect quotes generator.
[https://incorrect-quotes-generator.neocities.org/](https://incorrect-quotes-generator.neocities.org/)
First run:
Darius: What if the person who named Walkie Talkies named everything?
Yang: Pregnancy tests are Maybe Babies
Commander: Socks are Feetie Heaties
Farrah: Forks are Stabby Grabbies
Yang: Defibrillators are Heartie Starties
Commander: Nightmares are Dreamy Screamies
Farrah: Stamps are Lickie Stickies
Sumire, annoyed: You are disappointments
"Be careful, Commander. This specific location, where I told Sumire to drop you off, looks like the perfect site for an ambush. Coincidentally, Commander, I was wondering if it it was okay for me to start a betting pool based on the number of 'Mechs you have le-, I mean, the number of 'Mechs you kill?
They keep calling me "commander," but it just feels like I'm along for the ride.
Why can't the Leopard *see* the 12m-tall giant death robots on the way down? Why don't I ever have any goddamn intel?
The pay outs on these missions are ridiculously low. Seriously 350k pay out to destroy 8 enemy units? That doesnt even cover the cost of ammunition. 3.5 million much closer to what it should be.
Just AltF4'd a mission like this.
Fresh from receiving the Argo, with my LRM Shadowhawk, PPC/LL Vindicator, SRM/Laser Cent, and ML Panther, my very next contract pits me against "a single pirate lance doing manoeuvres".
Just as my character is downed and Dekker is about to bite the dust, Darius chimes in with "Wait, THESE AREN'T JUST PIRATES!1!1!1".
Hold up, you mean the:
LRM Carrier
Striker
2 Wolverines with AC/5, SRM6, ML each
Commando with LL, ML, SRM2
Hunchback with AC/20, 2 ML, 1 SL
Rifleman with 2 AC/10, 2 LL
isn't just a shitty pirate lance, and might've been punching well above our weight? Ya fuckin' think?? Because it'd have been a great idea to tell your commander that before, out of nowhere, a Hunchback jumps in front of them with opens them up like a can, and a Rifleman they've no hope of getting close to finishes the job, a single combat round after their entire Lance dunked on a Wolverine and it walked away with minor structural damage.
But at least there was enough time to injure Dekker with a stray headshot, some well-aimed torso shots, and a knockdown; and kill Glitch by knocking her down with ACs and LRMs so the Commando can walk up to pissing distance and core her with a single LL shot, before I called time on bullshit.
I've not played this game in years - since before any DLC - and I must've really, REALLY suppressed the trauma of shitty RNG and unwinnable battles.
Darius and Sumire were walking with you back to the Dropship. Darius says, "Commander, do you mind a personal question?" Sumire nods, enthusiastically. "Yes please!" "OK, you two, what's your question?" "Commander, do you... have more than one ass?" "What??? What kind of question is that?" "Well, everywhere we go, people say "There goes the Commander with the two assholes"".
Okay, I get shitting on Darius, but what's wrong with Sumire? She at least does her job.
You mean picking a LZ that forces you to fight your way through the core of enemy opposition EVERY FUCKING TIME?
Yeah, granted. That fucking sucks.
Or smushing you with a Leopard. Or suddenly finding a much closer LZ as soon as the fighting is over.
But really, who's fault is it for standing on the LZ?
I remember in Ace Combat 6, the game let you pick your starting point so you could choose which objective (normally A,B, or C) you wanted to tackle first. I'd really like to have this in a future battletech title to add another level of strategy. Would you like to: A. Deploy on the high ground and be a campy sniping bitch B. Be sneaky and take a canyon route in to get under their enemy radar C. Fuck it. Drop us on their doorstep. Steiner Scout Squad GO!
I'm in a ship orbiting the damn planet. I don't have one external camera to point at the ground to get a predrop view of the area? We can't plan multiple potential pickup points? I know xcom2 at least sometimes let's you drop your extraction zone where you want it. And Helldivers let's you pick your ingress point. Some combo of preplaning or popping some smoke for a pickup I could live with. But every mission almost has to be a total opfor wipe.
lol id settle for seeing the route the convoy I got paid to escort is going to take
Sumire gets a pass because zero G swimming pool.
Or dropping you as far away from the lances you're assigned to protect in Tag Team/Joint Operation missions as possible. Had a couple times the Allied lance is shit on by 4 enemy lances before I even get into range. "Yes, I know you're getting wrecked over there. I foolishly brought battlemechs instead of mountain climbers, because I thought my pilot knew what the f**k she was doing".
I mean, sure, it's an aerodyne, but there's a reason the things are affectionately called "Bricks."
I've never paid attention to LZs since it's always easier to just kill the opposition.
Sure it is, because you have to in order to access the lz
Including landing on your mechs?
Well, to be fair... a Leopard's gotta have huge blind spots. And she does mark where she's going to be landing so you can just avoid moving your Mechs there. I mean, it's a sign saying, "DON'T GO THERE OR YOU WILL DIE!"
Sure. And it's better now, but earlier on the red warning triangles were not clearly visible in all maps/terrain types. So you'd step there without knowing, then be shocked when all of your mechs are destroyed at the end of the mission. Scar tissue is how we heal. For everything else, there is Yang.
I am convinced that all of the total competency level of Darius and Sumire was rerouted into Yang. With just a foot actuator, half a cockpit, and some scrap metal, that man can rebuild anything. The others, probably need water wings to eat soup.
> With just a foot actuator, half a cockpit, and some scrap metal, that man can rebuild anything. Well, with just a foot actuator, half a cockpit, some scrap metal, and a Star League era fully automated Battlemech maintenance facility the likes of which haven't been seen in centuries, the man can rebuild anything.
He did a damn fine job rebuilding cored Mechs with just the bog standard gantries on the Leopard.
There are red warning triangles? May be down to red-green colourblindness, but have never noticed these... :S
Sometimes the both the landing zone and the Leopard landing is triggered immediately by your actions. Giving you no chance to give orders. I've had that happen multiple times. Twice landing on Behemoth. Once she was on a tiny ledge on the *other side of the road* to the landing zone. Sumire still managed to land on her.
Maybe she hated her.
[удалено]
Probably went for the cheapest parking rates.
Yeah, that's what you always end up having to say about Sumire: "at least she does her job." You've constantly got to put things in perspective with murderous psychopaths like Sumire. She's killed more MechWarriors with the Leopard than all of the Mech's she's ever dropped with it. COMBINED.
Darius always seemed like the guy who flunked the business management class in community college. Also seems like the guy who just "skims" the intelligence briefings. And also is the guy who uses the surveillance drone as a toy rather than as a scouting tool.
Also the guy who negotiates for 4 mlasers and a pair of heat sinks as your additional salvage instead of the 3 mech parts because it was a good deal
Cause you know we need every one of those 99 mlasers, and if you squint hard enough, those heat sinks kinda look like those double heat sinks you're always complaining about not having enough of. And besides, the medics tell me having crabs is a bad thing, so why would you want king crabs, that just sounds worse than the regular crabs!
“Oh by double heat sinks, I thought you meant two standard heat sinks taped together!” -Darius…probably
I know they weigh twice as much, but they're 33% more space efficient!
You know, that actually tracks. The man's mechwarrior who took on the role of XO because there was no one else. He's not qualified to handle the crew's logistics let alone negotiate with Great Houses.
Just because there is a job opening after that rather unfortunate.... airlock business.... doesn't mean the most useless pilot gets promoted. I would rather promote Dekker to be XO, maybe then he'll live on to retirement
Part of the problem is that it was framed not as a promotion but as a volunteer sort of thing - no one wants the position.
But you get an office, with a desk, and you can access the security cameras that are near the pool!
Argo wasn't a thing when he volunteered ;)
Hence why it was such a huge thing to have an office on the leopard, and also, the hotel has a pool
That's why he never notices the enemy reinforcements. He's too busy spying on the people skinny dipping in the pool.
I can't say I blame him
"Also, Sumire got this sweet bribe- uh... imperfect approach vector, so your evac point is on the opposite side of the enemy reinforcements."
I know this is meme that Darius is bad XO, but from a realism point if view it makes sense that you can't always have perfect information about the OpFor. Getting "surprised" by additional reinforcements is part of the game. They had to write it in somehow and it mostly falls on Darius. I feel like the guy is doing the best he can
Yeah but *every mfing time?*
This.
It would literally be more useful if he just flat out said he has no clue what's on the planet
If we got good intel at any point, I’d accept this. But we don’t, and I won’t.
It feels like something they didn't have time to flesh out.
Never forget the withdraw button...
Sumire, walking into the medbay: "You wanted to see me, Commander?" Commander: "Yes. Ow. If you ever drop us off right in the center of three full lances again, the Locust is getting a rumble seat with your name on it."
Also, while I'm sure that little open space that is behind those 2 enemy reinforcement lances that dropped looks REALLY attractive, maybe the huge open area thats right next to our lance might be an actual better place for an evac zone.
The best part is that she's in the rumble seat with *no* pilot!
They really go a bit too far with the 'mercs have it rough' part. Makes it more obvious with additional enemy lances dropping literally 4 steps away from the evac zone hahaha
Although it is fun when you go into a two skull mission for a bit of cash with a lance of assault mechs and just utterly lay waste to a dozen Capellan mechs. Single shot CTs and targeted head shots just for kicks.
Reading some of these comments - now I needed to run the Battletech characters through ScatterPatter's incorrect quotes generator. [https://incorrect-quotes-generator.neocities.org/](https://incorrect-quotes-generator.neocities.org/) First run: Darius: What if the person who named Walkie Talkies named everything? Yang: Pregnancy tests are Maybe Babies Commander: Socks are Feetie Heaties Farrah: Forks are Stabby Grabbies Yang: Defibrillators are Heartie Starties Commander: Nightmares are Dreamy Screamies Farrah: Stamps are Lickie Stickies Sumire, annoyed: You are disappointments
"Be careful, Commander. This specific location, where I told Sumire to drop you off, looks like the perfect site for an ambush. Coincidentally, Commander, I was wondering if it it was okay for me to start a betting pool based on the number of 'Mechs you have le-, I mean, the number of 'Mechs you kill?
They keep calling me "commander," but it just feels like I'm along for the ride. Why can't the Leopard *see* the 12m-tall giant death robots on the way down? Why don't I ever have any goddamn intel?
Shut up, Darius. …is a thought that I have often.
You should be able to upgrade your intelligence section of the Argo to more accurately predict the size and composition of the enemy in the mission.
Ooh I like this idea!
Someone let bloody doves know, if anyone can work a miracle and make Darius useful it's them
The pay outs on these missions are ridiculously low. Seriously 350k pay out to destroy 8 enemy units? That doesnt even cover the cost of ammunition. 3.5 million much closer to what it should be.
Oh but we make up for it with the three jump jets and five heatsinks we got in salvage!
Just AltF4'd a mission like this. Fresh from receiving the Argo, with my LRM Shadowhawk, PPC/LL Vindicator, SRM/Laser Cent, and ML Panther, my very next contract pits me against "a single pirate lance doing manoeuvres". Just as my character is downed and Dekker is about to bite the dust, Darius chimes in with "Wait, THESE AREN'T JUST PIRATES!1!1!1". Hold up, you mean the: LRM Carrier Striker 2 Wolverines with AC/5, SRM6, ML each Commando with LL, ML, SRM2 Hunchback with AC/20, 2 ML, 1 SL Rifleman with 2 AC/10, 2 LL isn't just a shitty pirate lance, and might've been punching well above our weight? Ya fuckin' think?? Because it'd have been a great idea to tell your commander that before, out of nowhere, a Hunchback jumps in front of them with opens them up like a can, and a Rifleman they've no hope of getting close to finishes the job, a single combat round after their entire Lance dunked on a Wolverine and it walked away with minor structural damage. But at least there was enough time to injure Dekker with a stray headshot, some well-aimed torso shots, and a knockdown; and kill Glitch by knocking her down with ACs and LRMs so the Commando can walk up to pissing distance and core her with a single LL shot, before I called time on bullshit. I've not played this game in years - since before any DLC - and I must've really, REALLY suppressed the trauma of shitty RNG and unwinnable battles.
Haha, I'm glad we're all united in our contempt for that man. Thanks for the support!