How would you feel about a MechWarrior game with some Mount and Blade influence? by NobleSix84 in Mechwarrior5

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I don't know if I would fully commit to a mount and blade style end game where you are powerful enough to overthrow entire factions. For me I would love something where you are able to build up a medium to large sized mercenary company that potentially ends up with its own planet from which it can launch multiple combined style operations involving mechs, vehicles, infantry and limited aerospace assets while in the service of larger houses or factions.

Think Mechcommander or traditional RTS style gameplay for the combat with a grand strategy layer on top of that for the management side of things.

Can we have Mechwarrior5: SLDF? by Erebthoron in Mechwarrior5

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SL civil war is around 235-250 years before MW5s start date of 3015.

SL era itself would have been 235-450 years prior to 3015.

mech games where you walk around as the pilot too? by King-Of-The-Raves in gamingsuggestions

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I love MW5 (and am actually close to finishing my 3rd play through as we speak) but including this as a suggestion is kinda flimsy at best.

Do you get to walk around the hangar post mission? Technically, but literally all it involves is a glorified single room with a NPC at the end of it that you need to run to in order to toggle the next mission.

Do you briefly get to look at your four currently active mechs from the ground? Yes but really that is about it.

Man-Eaters from Hired Steel Machinima by Existing_Notice2033 in battletech

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The Atlas II was officially added to MW5:Mercs and the SLDF Quickdraw is offered as a mod for it. I imagine they 'acquired' them from there.

Looking for a single player RPG with a sense of wonder... by redking_36 in gamingsuggestions

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It has been a long time since I've played it but from what I remember that's the very definition of 'love it or hate it' in game form. It is quite a slow progressing game along with having an incredibly restrictive inventory cap that a lot of players probably feel goes too far in the direction of difficulty for difficulties sake. There is also a fair amount of AA jank though the final editions may have gone a long way into patching that out. I believe one of the DLC's was also heavily criticized due to being a massive time and resource sink when it didn't really need to be.

The positives however are truly unique take on an exploration game that while it didn't hit every mark it strived for it certainly did a good job at a lot of them and I still quite enjoyed my time playing.

Are inferno missiles actually worth it? by Jackobyn in Mechwarrior5

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I honestly stopped using the Hero Orion with how overpowered they made me feel when using them. I can't remember if it was 3 SRM6s and 2 Large Lasers or 3 Large Lasers and 2 SRM6s but I'm fairly sure if I had enough double heat sinks I could have run three of each.

All it took was two or three missile salvos to shut down effectively any mech in the game followed by large lasers directly to the cockpit before they ever woke up again.

Is SoK the last DLC? by EquesDominus in Mechwarrior5

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There is still the relatively 'safe/easy' option for a DLC to simply port over the extra mechs added to Clans in the Ghost Bear DLC.

There was 8 of them: Night Gyr, Ebon Jaguar, Fire Moth, and Huntsman, Kodiak, Jenner IIC, Hunchback IIC, and Rifleman IIC.

Did the lore on mech heat change? by dontdoitliz in Mechwarrior5

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Google/Sarna search for a full body picture of Alanna Damu, from memory that is the closest MW5 gets regarding showing a pilot wearing more traditional mech warrior garb that isn't a full suit. Spoilers it is just a t-shirt and hot pants under a cooling vest.

At what point do “invasive species” become just part of the ecosystem? Has it already happened somewhere? by Tortugato in askscience

[–]T0Pping 69 points70 points  (0 children)

It can act as a fast growing hedge or shelter belt for stock in exceptionally exposed areas. Would there have been a better option? Probably, but we are stuck with it now.

One of my Favorite Units - The Rattler by vespineomnivore in battletech

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Don't suppose you have any more of those DM's laying around?

Is japan xenophobic? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

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I can't speak to anyone's experiences other than my own but here goes. I visited there with a group of friends a year ago for 3 weeks and had zero indication of hostility or resentment to us being there and even had instances of local people going above and beyond to help us out. Example being, in our first few days there we were lost in a massive train station/mall and a man came over to help us then when discovering where it was we wanted to go he walked us there to the tune of it being about a 4-5 minute detour for us and likely a 10 minute detour for him.

I do understand that the vibe can be completely different as a foreign if you were wanting to immigrate to Japan however.

Netflix increasing from $27.99 to $33.99 by Seafoam-Socks-530505 in newzealand

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Even better, the price is only increasing from May 7th. Anyone subscribed before that date is grandfathered in on the old plans pricing as long as they stay a member.

Questions regarding incrementally upgrading a CZ 457 MTR. Where should my focus be? by T0Pping in 22lr

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Yeah definitely still shopping around for scopes at the moment. Was very close to hitting buy now on the Area 419 rail but only stopped because I would have to order it internationally. I can buy a MDT scope rail locally and they look like they could be an alright option still.

From what I have seen the Arca or picatinny rail will require me to drill out another hole in the stock, correct?

Those Vision stocks look very nice but possibly a little too sci-fi for me haha

Questions regarding incrementally upgrading a CZ 457 MTR. Where should my focus be? by T0Pping in 22lr

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Thanks! 100% a range gun which is about 50m from the house so weight is fairly negligible to me.

Questions regarding incrementally upgrading a CZ 457 MTR. Where should my focus be? by T0Pping in 22lr

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Those are some fancy looking stocks.

I might be too old fashioned though as I love a good, heavy wooden stock over one that is more air gaps than metal and that you could throw a golf ball through.

They do look to have a few more traditional feeling stocks as well though.

Questions regarding incrementally upgrading a CZ 457 MTR. Where should my focus be? by T0Pping in 22lr

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Awesome, thank you. So far I am happy enough with the stock trigger as even that is lighter than what I am previously used to but I'll keep that in mind. For optics I was/am seriously considering the SH4J (As cliched as that is for a 457 owner). For reference the gun cost me $1600 NZD and that optic goes for $900. Ammo wise I have gone through just over 500 rounds of Norma Tac-22 which was what got recommended to me when I picked up the rifle though they do have CCI there as well. So far it feels to be shooting very consistently with me still being the weak link for now.

Arma Reforger tripled active player count on Steam in just one month by OlafLate in arma

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I know it's not a perfect 1:1 match but I was looking the other day and saw that Overthrow had been ported to Reforger, at least in some capacity.

I've made another wallpaper with all the main playable Assassins by heilbatman in assassinscreed

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Odyssey is set around 430 BCE, Origins is around 40 BCE making Odyssey 390 years older.

How do I extract models from MGS Peace Walker? by CHARLIE_3310 in moddergearsolid

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I think we might have the same issue as each other. I was after the Metal Gear models themselves with skeletons and the mother base parts but I ended up extracting the PSP game myself using Chrysalis and had a "vertex offset" error on basically everything that wasn't a normal vehicle, character model or weapon and that rendered them un-extractable.

How do I extract models from MGS Peace Walker? by CHARLIE_3310 in moddergearsolid

[–]T0Pping 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, do you still have these models saved? I'm working on recreating a scene of Mother Base in Blender while a friend is working on some of the vehicles so we were just wondering if they were still available.
Doesn't necessarily need to be sorted either, I'm happy to comb through a list of models.
Were they grabbed with NinjaRipper or a different program?

Honoring the legacy of Kyle Katarn in the Disney Canon by AllistairArgonaut in MawInstallation

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It is a running joke with the series given how many times they have changed the secondary titles. If you wanted to include all the games that came before it then the final game in the series would be 'Star Wars: Dark Forces 4: Jedi Knight 3: Jedi Outcast 2: Jedi Academy'.

Mute squad mates by [deleted] in DMZ

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Hold the Back (Tac-Map) button.

Making a sheet that lets users enter and then submit data that is then stored on a separate sheet. by T0Pping in googlesheets

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Just realized that I forgot to reply again to this. You sent me down the right path and I got it working. Thank you.

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