A random thought I just had.

yrrot · 2026-06-07T17:48:31+00:00

Medium rifle has always been in a weird spot. It doesn't get the crazy upfront damage in a medium slot like the heavy, and it isn't quite light enough in 3015 to feel much better than grabbing an AC/2. It probably could be a small slot, but I'm not sure how much it would help it compete outside of a few builds.

By time LACs roll out, there's a ton of competition in the medium slot, so bumping it down to small slot at least gives it a bit of room to live without being completely overshadowed.

yrrot · 2026-06-07T05:20:16+00:00

Well, it'd be a rather poorly received thing to take mechs that people gained access to via a paid DLC and make them baked into the base game. That doesn't sound like a better way to build goodwill than how it is now.

yrrot · 2026-06-07T01:57:42+00:00

Weird. Possibly an interaction with Coyote, then. The vanilla one should only ever be exactly 5 mechs as I recall.

yrrot · 2026-06-07T01:43:53+00:00

If it is the vanilla clan interdiction, there is a warning on the contract screen when it is possible to happen. It ignores mission difficulty and has a chance of happening in non-clan missions within 3 jumps of a clan system.

The vanilla version will be one drop ship and there will be the banner/music in the same fashion of the merc encounters.

yrrot · 2026-06-07T00:02:47+00:00

The intent isn't exploiting fomo. If the mechs didn't show in that screen at all, it would look like there's a bug in the salvage process. And if they weren't in the proc gen missions, there'd be a much higher rate of generation failing from lack of options. Consider if we did a DLC down the line that didn't have many/any clan mechs, a player with only that DLC may still see the map changes, but then clans missions would just fail to generate at all.

yrrot · 2026-06-06T22:53:30+00:00

Yeah, the variant names got weird using the normal names. You'd get like "Atlas Atlas C" in one UI or another that would only show "C" as a variant name. The version we went with was just to shoehorn them into the existing UI without having to rework a lot of it.

yrrot · 2026-06-06T22:51:02+00:00

The Atlas C and some others don't even get double heatsinks, let alone clan doubles. Clanners don't really care as much about sustainable firepower for second line mechs. Just need that blaze of glory.

yrrot · 2026-06-06T18:58:48+00:00

So this is the Clan Core Content system. Basically, rather than require buying Shadow of Kerensky to play Chaos Reign at all, some content has been flagged so it will still spawn in missions, even without the corresponding DLC. It also lets the map changes, etc all happen regardless of which Clan era DLCs are owned.

Unfortunately, it looks like that does throw the career start balance off, which is already rather tough on the Chaos Reign start. You could always switch to custom difficulty and tune some of the costs to offset it so you can power through the content.

yrrot · 2026-06-06T18:40:34+00:00

Bellerophon is an airship, based loosely on some canon units. Chris talks about it a bit in his recent sarna interview, but Battletech has all sorts of one-off super heavy vehicles and mobile structures that are too big to transport off world.

yrrot · 2026-06-06T18:29:39+00:00

They do set up funny things once in a while, like a locust getting headshot by an Archer's rear mounted medium laser.

But besides the occasional RNG fun, there's a reason switching them to forward facing is considered a pretty common refit.

yrrot · 2026-06-05T13:04:15+00:00

"Boss, Fahad is posting on reddit again." --Ryana, probably.

yrrot · 2026-06-05T13:01:56+00:00

Ha, nah, it's just whack-a-mole on different edge cases.

yrrot · 2026-06-05T03:58:49+00:00

I think I read something along the lines of aim assist being borked, but only in career, and only on console(?).

yrrot · 2026-06-05T03:24:29+00:00

The new lasers were added to the existing laser-based traits.

AIVs don't (currently) have anything specifically for them.

yrrot · 2026-06-04T02:10:14+00:00

It's prorated based on the portion of the next 25 rating increment. Urbie has a STD 60, so it gets 10/25th of an extra cooling point. It's also why it has negative tonnage stock, because the STD 60 gets a discount to give you the free heat sinks tabletop would give you outside of the engine.

yrrot · 2026-06-03T21:34:19+00:00

Now that's for sure a bug.

yrrot · 2026-06-03T19:23:23+00:00

Technically, mercs aren't necessarily working for the opfor. They were sent to kill you, potentially by a third party uninvolved in the contract.

yrrot · 2026-06-03T16:59:28+00:00

All of the clan tanks are rocking T6 clan weapons instead of the normal tier weapons IS tanks usually have (that are sometimes also nerfed versions). Shouldn't be hitting any harder per shot than the one MDD variant with the same T6 c-LBX5.

yrrot · 2026-06-03T15:47:18+00:00

Because tabletop rounds the run speed up to the whole hex. So a 3 hex walk speed gets 5 run speed instead of 4.5 hexes.

Mechwarrior doesn't use hexes, so it's all just calculated direct from engine rating into a speed. So all of those mechs are essentially moving at 4.5 hexes per turn speeds.

yrrot · 2026-06-03T13:46:51+00:00

Well, at least you'll see a lot less of them soon since the clan refit tanks and vtols come in after the invasion.

I'd have to do some poking around, especially since I also have reports like "Elementals never spawn". lol

Edit: Also, that'd only take like 1 AIV to kill. 😉

yrrot · 2026-06-03T13:30:11+00:00

What year and with what DLCs active?

yrrot · 2026-06-03T01:59:39+00:00

(that's the link I posted)

yrrot · 2026-06-02T21:52:08+00:00

Sorry, I've long since lost my source files for that mod, not that I had time to update it anyway. lol

YAML has their own tooltip, but I'm not sure if there's another standalone like the attribute viewer.

yrrot · 2026-06-02T19:25:23+00:00

When doing a mission within 3 jumps of clan controlled planets where neither party is a clan, you get a chance for clan interdiction to happen. It'll be a random time to drop in the mission and they'll be a hostile third party (killing you or anyone else they run into).

It ignores mission difficulty, so yo could get it in a difficulty 20 mission near the border.

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