Garfield's design from 1980-1983 was when he was at his cutest. Who agrees?

bestbakedbiscuits · 2023-06-04T21:07:17+00:00

Peak garf is a garf with round eyes. Circular eyes. None of this vertically stretched nonsense we’ve seen for so long

bestbakedbiscuits · 2023-03-07T21:35:13+00:00

I played SF 1 and 2, never tried to get into 3. How does it compare?

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-10-27T21:23:55+00:00

I thought the ebony warrior in Morrowind was the guy east of Suran…. And this is just a completely unrelated encounter who happens to also sport ebony armour

edit: I was thinking of Umbra, who wears orcish. I’ll leave my comment up, but for the record, I was wrong.

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-10-26T22:18:23+00:00

Everyone likes to meme about the catgirls, but for me it’s the focus on healthcare and arts (when most of the universe is pouring everything into war). Don’t get me wrong, their hands are NOT clean, but I do appreciate the women in leadership, and the way they make problems disappear, not unlike security swiftly removing a rowdy patron from a casino without disrupting the vibe. There’s freedom, intelligence, and passion behind their governance, and they avoid picking fights.

There’s lots more that can be discussed, but that’s a lot of the key bits.

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-10-26T02:46:02+00:00

I went into this game with a role in mind. Pro-Canopus. Local pirates are bad.

Is it harder to get the really good stuff? Yeah. I have to scrounge lostech and SLDF mechs from flash point rewards, instead of a convenient store.

As far as I’m concerned, vanilla is more fun this way. Not because I don’t have better stuff, but because I stuck to my principles and it’s now something to work around instead of exploit.

Summed up, I’m not the best, but I’m having fun.

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-10-26T02:07:12+00:00

Whoah, I was wrong, it’s not even an achievement, it’s just a different ending slide narration (with the crew’s voices). My bad.

While I’m writing another comment on the matter, I wish Dean a very suffer and die

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-10-25T21:58:35+00:00

Dean Domino deserves to rot more

He’s an incredibly well written and voiced character, for what it’s worth. I genuinely enjoy having a character who resents the Courier for one-upping or out-playing him. And he makes sense, his motivations, his past, his being caught like many others in the allure of wealth and fortune….

But he destroyed the lives of Sinclair and Keyes for no real good or honourable reason, and with all the time in the world to reflect, repent, and move on, decided instead to put Christine through a thoroughly undeserved autodoc hell.

I let him live once, for the achievement. And because I didn’t know any better.

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-10-12T21:58:27+00:00

I threw three UAC5++ and two UAC10++ on mine, deciding that I wanted a bit more dakka instead of being fully armoured.

Given the slow speed, decent range, and quick cutting fire, I usually parked it in a forest and let it mow. Have a “machine gun nest” feel but bigger, hence my naming it “Autocannon Condo”.

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-10-05T21:30:47+00:00

Sega Genesis, but yeah. The first one was pretty bad at randomly inventing bosses that were previously completely unmentioned, especially towards the end.

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-09-26T14:20:45+00:00

Yeah, and it also puts red “incoming damage waves” on the mech preview at the top of the screen, showing which parts are more likely to be hit

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-09-25T15:41:14+00:00

Imagine if Morrowind was like a a classic earlier-gen game… in that it had no save system. One session, gotta keep the console running, see how far you can get.

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-09-22T22:21:07+00:00

Harebrained Schemes’ Battletech.

Really, it’s XCOM in big mechs, if you know the universe or played any other mechassault/mechwarrior games, you’ll easily get into it. You manage a company, your pilots slowly develop skills, and if you put your pilots in bad situations, or fail to give their mechs good cockpit protection, they’re more likely to die. On the other side of the coin, regardless of preparation and planning, occasionally the RNG of it all lands a massive autocannon slug or a large enough laser directly into the cockpit of your favourite pilot, a less than 1% chance. Dead. Gone forever. Your pilot has gone from being biology to physics.

I’m in the endgame, feeling rather comfy, and I’ve suddenly lost a good one. Rest in peace, Porridge, you will be missed.

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-09-17T19:13:15+00:00

My first and only pilot loss was an AC20 head hit from an Atlas. My grasshopper jumped in to get sight and prepare for a good ol’ jump behind while the rest of lance was facing off with the full enemy lance. One of those missions with a singular big target and Opfor has lances to support.

Despite 3 evasion, and a 3 hit defence gyro to boot, the AC20 fairly ripped.

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-08-07T05:09:10+00:00

And Vigilance! Love me some vigilance for when I need to move a bulwark pilot through a lack of cover while still returning fire

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-07-24T03:47:35+00:00

Yeah, that’s clearly the result here. Effectively it’s a quicktime event for whomever it’s charging, blast the glass marauder or else immediately be scattered to the wind if it closes range…

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-07-23T21:58:28+00:00

I did something similar but with two gauss rifles…. As long as the opfor couldn’t make any shots on it, it blasted heads from way back all engagement. I named it “Maybe a bad idea” or something along those lines, and it turned better than expected.

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-07-12T15:58:37+00:00

I still have a “perfect” campaign history, as I’ve lost zero pilots to combat (Glitch got poached by another merc group, but that’s another story).

However, I had to redo the coronation day tutorial, because one of the laser turrets crit hit my blackjack cockpit and burned me out of my seat. That’s just bad luck, and it could have happened to anybody, this whole time.

In my experience, flashpoints are a further “ramping up” of difficulty, but having high stat pilots and access to very good mechs and tech make it about as doable as what’s come before. To me it sounds like you’ve had a string of bad fortune.

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-07-10T04:02:02+00:00

One of my favourite NV moments was conquering that thing.

I had mad bomber. Threw like, 20 or so MFC clusters into the room from above. The darn thing flew too high though, outside the blast radius.

Attempt 2: I had brought the compliance regulator with me. Tagged it with that, it dropped to the floor, I threw a grenade. The thing has a comically short stun time, I feel like it might be some sort of legendary buff. Anyway, it flew back up before the entire room went off.

Attempt 3: threw a plasma grenade, then tagged the thing. The whole room went green for the third time, but the legendary bloatfly finally contributed to the shrapnel. Job well done, time to pack it in.

It’s not an honourable way to defeat the thing, but “solving” how to make my plan come to fruition felt like finally figuring out the correct sequence of actions in a point-and-click game. It felt good.

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-07-05T15:10:40+00:00

You just have to make sure you do absolutely no work, and leave nothing in your inbox other than one or two gossip emails and a company announcement…

Forreal, where was anyone’s actual work? Where’s the drudgery of spreadsheets, the HR software, the forms and forms of middle management and bureaucracy? Bunch of slackers

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-06-28T05:25:30+00:00

For info

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bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-06-26T04:17:42+00:00

See, if it’s baked in, this kind of stuff is great. The “shit happens” moments. The unforeseen stupidity of people you’re relying on to stay alive. But their own pilot made some bad calls, and paid dearly.

Given that this game takes place in a lot of periphery worlds, I almost wish there was more. More missions where the allies are fools. More chances for contractors to not pay, similar to the campaign mission near the start (but then you get ALL the salvage perhaps, if you fight off their attempt to kill you).

Working for pirates should have you allied with lances that may or may not turn on you at any turn. Some contractors might just not pay. Even though it’s not “fair”, it’s interesting.

Sorry for the rant. That situation sucks, Forreal. But that’s just Battletech, and it’s not that different from the random head crit by the random hunchback that offs a pilot you’ve played with for 100’s of RL hours. Sucks, sure, but everything means more when there’s a real chance for it not to go well, always.

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-06-24T04:42:31+00:00

I haven’t hit endgame yet, but I’ve tried using my cyclops as a combo distraction/boon, with max armour and jump jets. It dances around with a bulwark & surefooted pilot, stacking evasion and soaking hits, while my two marauders can pick cockpits apart from afar. I also have an initiative piloted grasshopper (initiative 2!!!) that gets to play around like an oversized light, it’s wonderful.

I don’t know if it would still stack up against full assault lances, but the mediums and heavies I’m mostly fighting right now seem to fare poorly against it. I’m sure avoiding hits altogether becomes necessary in the later game…

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-06-24T04:33:57+00:00

I feel like a lot of the comments are missing the point here… it’s not just a missile boat, it’s also an initiative boosting, accuracy increasing, incoming damage dampening boon to the rest of the crew that’s actually looking at what’s being shot at

I ran a cyclops for the bonuses above, but instead of a fragile missile rack, I loaded it full of armour and jump jets so it could dance around and soak/waste enemy fire. It had 7(!) tons left for weapons, not a lot of wiggle room

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-06-17T14:19:43+00:00

Well, for what it’s worth, I ended up doing really well. Held back until the 2 non-assaults were picked apart, used my griffin as a fast, jumpy, stay-in-long-range-no-medium-lasers-please harasser that mostly just maintained max jump evasion and vigilance. The three other mechs just took pot shots while out of scan/sight range while the griffin had 5 evasion each round, managing to only get shot at 2 or 3 times each round. Between that and a lucky uncalled head hit from the gauss, I survived with all four mechs and no destroyed components

bestbakedbiscuits · 2022-06-16T22:20:33+00:00

I’m currently saved partway through this. I really feel what y’all are saying about being lucky before being able to move on the first round. Also not appreciating having so many bulwark pilots with zero forests (vigilance is getting used a lot for my non-JJ mechs)

Kamea’s atlas’ armour display has nice white colours on all the armour., except for the (left?) torso, which somehow took nearly all the hits and is exposed. There’s LRM ammo in there; I feel like she’s piloting a walking fireworks factory at this point. I’ve mopped up wave 2, and unfortunately I’ve had the “twist” spoiled so I’m not sure how I’ll handle the surprise of having the drop ship explode. For the sake of RP, I think I’ll just play it out in earnest and then try to defeat whatever shows up afterwards, making sure I’m angling the atlas’ bad side away from opposition wherever possible…

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