hey mate, I went through all of your tutorial videos today and first of all let me say thank you, youre a blessing. secondly excellent content explained in an easy to understand way. The only thing I would really say you kind of have forgotten it is the "electronic" part of the mech loadouts. to be precise, sensors, cockpits, targetting computers, battle computers, watchdog, nova cews, i3, beagle, etc. If you could add that to your list, that would be super great. Either way, thanks a lot for all the content and get back on track with your health as soon as you can. cheers mate!!!!

@MangaMaD

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the support! Im glad its helped you. And yes I am aware I missed out on the sensors and such. They will be getting their own dedicated videos along with the different weapon systems etc.

This Tutorial/Tips series is brilliant! It is going to 'make my life a lot easier'. :-)

@MangaMaD

3 жыл бұрын

Glad its helping!

Thanks for the tip on high ground. I hadn't realized how important that was until I was on the receiving end of it. Once I understood how powerful it was and started using high ground, it was incredibly helpful. My two lances once held a ridge from an assault by a full Clan trinary, and sustained little damage in the process.

Another 2 key points about weapon spamming are: 1. You can't fire half a gun if your heat is high but you have a critical opportunity. You can scale an array as needed. 2. If one weapon or arm gets critted, its better to have a few left than none. Of course this has to be balanced with everything else As for target lines, note you cannot target anything but torso from the rear, and from the sides you may not be able to hit the more damaged leg or the big gun you need take out, or ammo in torso

I like the hints for previous videos to go into more detail. Making my life much easier. Thank you.

@MangaMaD

3 жыл бұрын

thanks, i plan on doing more indepth strategy videos, once i figure out how im going to approach it

This is a great video, thanks

Another useful tip is: Know when to reserve. In the first turn, when enemies have the default 8 evasion, delay until they've started moving, or else they will be nearly impossible to hit. In subsequent turns, using sensor lock won't do as much good if the enemy unit hasn't moved yet (they'll refresh their evasion based on the move, keeping only the sensor debuff). The only time I wouldn't reserve is when my unit and/or the enemy target is in an ideal position for an immediate attack, or when I've got a unit in a very precarious position that I need to get out of safely.

Good advice - though for early game I am always a fan of more flamers on my fastest mechs. A pair of mechs with four flamers each will take out a mech a turn (and it does more damage to vehicles, which are a real threat in the early game). Assuming they all hit (which they should, as support weapons), that's 80 heat - which virtually no early game mech can handle. If it's something with ammo you basically guarantee an ammo cookoff, and if not, it gives you a chance to get into melee with the slower mechs while it's shutdown.

@MangaMaD

3 жыл бұрын

Solid tactic also, i had to try and not go to deep into it otherwise the video would be hours long

Tyvm man made my day with this was having a struggle

@MangaMaD

3 жыл бұрын

No worries glad it helped!

@Ocyress87

3 жыл бұрын

@@MangaMaD big time very well done video now started watching S1 well I play nice to see another point of veiw

Has "Don't use moral" changed now? I can see that every pilot seems to now have their own individual moral, and you can usually use a 30 cost morale ability and still have 30+ moral for the accuracy bonus.

The tip about not using resolve points for abilities is super weird and counter-logical. First off, there are a lot of occasions when you are able to choose which particular component you want to take down in enemy mech while using the precise shot (and ONLY by using it, there is no other ability to target specific components) and in some occasions you can even destroy enemy head or kill pilot with some small laser headshots, which would get you to maximum mech salvage. And second, if we are chasing maximum overall accuracy and don't want to take precise shots, there is an amazing and very useful ability called target calculation. It is level 4 ability in tactics skill tree, and what it does is that it gives all your lance mates (with exception of lance mate who casts this ability) +2 accuracy bonus. Not +1, like high morale (resolve is the second name for it, don't be confused), but +2, for every other lance mate. And it can stack with itself multiple times, so if you have 4 men in lance, and 3 of them will use that ability, your final mechwarrior will get +6 accuracy bonus, which will probably surpass the precise shot on accuracy, or at least counter enemy evasion points pretty good. And also there are abilities like defensive stance, which is a whopping 50% damage reduction for 2 (!!!) Rounds, and when you have severely damaged mech that still has to fight, this is very strong ability. And there are much more active abilities that make game more interesting and that were taken in consideration while game was still getting balanced out, so not using them for 1 accuracy is just pointless.

At least 4 things I have been doing wrong!!! Thank you for all your information!

@MangaMaD

3 жыл бұрын

No problem, you've peaked my curiosity, which 4?

@cubicfee

3 жыл бұрын

@@MangaMaD Accuracy +1 in the arms as well as Medium lasers having a +1, Simple missions, and, lastly using sensor lock a lot more.

@MangaMaD

3 жыл бұрын

@@cubicfee well hopefully now things will be a bit easier for you!

I noticed in my campaign that I can't see pilot/mech affinities while hovering over in the barracks. Is this a mod or only unlocked at some point? Thanks for the videos, they're super helpful and in depth.

@MangaMaD

3 жыл бұрын

should be just a case of hovering over the pilots portrait. I find it can be finicky and if you want to check multiple pilots once you have looked at one, click somewhere blank on the screen before the next one!

What do all the other parts in the mech do/change gameplay-wise? Hip, Upper leg, Lower leg, Foot, etc what are they for? Did I miss it covered in an earlier video?

@MangaMaD

3 жыл бұрын

The stuff for the legs do things like increase kick damage, reduce / increase death from above damage etc. Melee equipment hasn't had its own video yet, its on the list! I have done an episode on melee mechanics just not the equipment. Its trying to find the right time to do it as stuff is always changing.

@Vipre-

3 жыл бұрын

@@MangaMaD Oh, I get it. Can't remember the name in vanilla but it's an expanded version of those things you buy that increase punching damage and such.

@MangaMaD

3 жыл бұрын

@@Vipre- thats it exactly. Theres various add ons you get for the arms for increased damage/stability etc same for the legs

Hi, sorry to bother you but did you have such a bug, that In precision strike you cannot choose mech parts you only get hit chance upgrade ? The screen in which you normally choose maech part does not appear at all.... ? this happened when I installed BT ADV 3062 on my new computer and copied saved games.. :(

@MangaMaD

3 жыл бұрын

havent come across that bug personally. Best bet is if possible screen shot and logs and head to the BTA discord tech support channel

@Galenthor

3 жыл бұрын

@@MangaMaD I have been wondering about that as well, doesn't matter what I do, it will not let me do called shots at all

@MangaMaD

3 жыл бұрын

@@Galenthor The called shot was recently re worked. If your experiencing issues head to the bta discord for more help. Try asking in player advice first if not then head to the error reporting channel. Im not personally aware of any bugs but that doesnt mean there arent any

@MangaMaD

3 жыл бұрын

Actually I just remembered the original way of using called shot has been removed. In order to use it the way you did before you need a dedicated targeting computer or you need the gunnery 8 skill. You need to reset your skill points to gain it as it is an unlockable skill like breaching shot etc

@ELgorz

3 жыл бұрын

@@MangaMaD so

When I melee I don't get those options to kick, punch etc

@stragul

2 жыл бұрын

Do you have the Advanced 3062 installed or just basic game? in basic its not there.

@GDUBMX

2 жыл бұрын

@@stragul thank you