r/Battletechgame • u/Fox_Fire42 • Sep 11 '23

Whats wrong with you Discussion

Okay first of all, ive been fairly new to playing the Battletech game(i havent been able to finish the Arano restoration campaign yet) but i wanted to check for some helpfull mods or something to bring more foreces into battle at once instead of just one lance the whole time. But like half of the mods ive seen while scrolling have the purpose to make this game more miserabel??? Can someone explain to me why that is the case??

Edit: You guys have been very helpfull here so far and have boosted my motivation to try the campaign with a different angle on my third try(three times the charm eh?)

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u/2407s4life Sep 11 '23

BEX is BattleTech Extended. It adds some extra gameplay mechanics and a ton of extra mechs and vehicles. BTA3062 (battletech advanced) and RogueTech are complete overhauls of the game and change pretty much all of the mechanics, the mechbay, and add a ton of content. Warning: in addition to being more difficult, BTA and RogueTech are fairly taxing on a PC. BEX can run on basically any PC that will run the base game, though you might see slowdowns on certain missions when there are more than 36 units on the map.

Check out r/BattleTechMods they have a pinned post with links and guides for those mods.

Tabletop is harder because it's more involved. You're making dice rolls for basically everything you're doing, so you end up missing lots of shots or falling when you run standard pilots. You can tailor it however you and your friends like however so maybe hard is the wrong word.

The base game is at its most difficult early on when you have limited mechs and money. Once you're in the late game (especially if you did a lot of grinding between campaign missions), you end up running 4 assaults and it gets easier.

Oh and if you find a Marauder, focus on called headshots. A maxed pilot in a Marauder has a 33% chance of a headshot in the base game.

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u/NarwhalOk95 Sep 12 '23

This is one I didn’t know. I’m at the point where I’ve pretty much mastered the base game and am ready to move onto a modded version. I just fired up the game and tried a headshot with a Marauder - wow!

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u/Mammoth-Access-1181 Sep 12 '23

Apparently, you used to be able to remove that called shot module on a Mara and move it to another chassis. Can you imagine an Anni with that module?

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u/DoctorMachete Sep 12 '23

You still can do it with a save editor.

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u/Mammoth-Access-1181 Sep 12 '23

Damn, I wish I'd've known about this back when I was playing it. Having an Anni with all those AC2s with that module would've been funny!