Whisper is a quiet person? We're talking military call signs here. Can see his interview now.. Tex: "Nice to meet you Whisper." Whisper: "NICE TO MEET YOU SIR." Tex *blinks* "Let me guess...former Artilleryman?"

@sessy01

8 ай бұрын

whisper: SAY AGAIN, SIR?

@toobin8r

8 ай бұрын

“The enemy can’t hear you sneaking up on them if you can’t hear, either”

@David_Fellner

8 ай бұрын

@@toobin8r Sun-tzu is boundlessly wise in all things.

@graywolfalphaone

8 ай бұрын

Helepolis pilot sir!

@graetestfanever1

8 ай бұрын

That, or a tanker

"Go poke the clanners" Sounds like someone's getting a Clan wife again, or however they do it over there.

@mikecampos1193

8 ай бұрын

Professor Tex needs to make money cuz if he had any kids with that Clanner wife he needs to pay the child support or else she's going to rip off the other arm.

@miniondaechir

8 ай бұрын

@@mikecampos1193 The implication that you have to pay child support to your clanner wife while you're STILL MARRIED TO HER for fear of physical violence is very funny.

I will never get tired of Tex enthusiastically talking about robits

My first Mechwarrior character was awarded the callsign "Cannonball" after inadvertently landing on the CT of a heavy that had fallen down on the battlefield. It was his first kill, and looked amazingly badass. Especially considering it was a complete accident.

@warlynx5644

7 ай бұрын

“Holy shit! Awesome kill man.” “Oh I uh…” *Looks down at the mangled wreckage they caused* “…y-yeah that’s as completely intentional. Totally didn’t just fumble the controls, yup.”

@michaelman957

6 ай бұрын

Solid callsign and reason for it.

I’m so glad you’re back to playing battle tech. As a gamer who doesn’t own a computer, I live vicariously through you and others like you 😁👍

@eddapultstab2078

8 ай бұрын

I hope you get a computer some day bruh

@aaronbowen205

8 ай бұрын

@@eddapultstab2078 Hopefully soon. I’ve been saying ‘It’ll be this year’ for the last 3 years but it’ll definitely be next year 😂 Well as long as my kids are fed and I’ve got a roof over my head, a computer can wait 👍

@DarkRavenhaft

8 ай бұрын

Don't want to assume what your financial situation is like but if you don't need a full power desktop the SteamDeck can reliably run HBS Battletech (mods are possible but tricky to get working). Refurbed base model is 270usd, new is 350, there'll likely be a 20% off sale soon for black Friday.

@aaronbowen205

8 ай бұрын

@@DarkRavenhaft cheers dude, had completely forgotten those were a thing. I’ll have to have a serious look into them as the whole computer thing was on the back burner. 🙂

@chuckbuck5002

8 ай бұрын

I remember those days ❤

The Clans making The Great Father into their Spongebob Squarepants is something I never knew I wanted to see once in my life. I'd probably die of cringe if I saw it twice, but I'd die smiling.

@andorfedra

8 ай бұрын

I want ALL the LYRICS to this SONG! 🤣

@ThatSlowTypingGuy

8 ай бұрын

3:48

The Great Father as the Clan's Spongebob doesn't seem so outlandish when one recalls the Clans do canonically have a kid show of anthropomorphic characters teaching Clan values to the sibkids.

@BeesechurgerProductions

5 ай бұрын

Good ole Clan Spaniel

Playing BTA with Tex's voice while listening to Tex play BTA is my favorite Inception moment.

@Digiarcstudio

8 ай бұрын

Texception if you will

@the4ambiance

8 ай бұрын

@@Digiarcstudio Spot on!

@AndrewJoyceCA

8 ай бұрын

Makes me want to go back and listen to the Scrombles episodes.

@TargetPractice76

8 ай бұрын

@@AndrewJoyceCA Scrombles smash play on playlist. Hate scorp'n. But scrombles like playthrough. Had own special bed in hospital. Much comfy.

at about 20:00 when your pilot fell over - she bled out. The First Aid thing only stops the bleeding for a couple of turns, and needs to be reapplied repeatedly.

@djbiscuit1818

8 ай бұрын

Ngl I would've made the same mistake. 183 turns to 0? Tf?

@HalIOfFamer

8 ай бұрын

​@@djbiscuit1818well the ridiculous amount is probably to make it essentially infinite. Tho imo the bleed out is too fast. And it gets really op when you build an lrm 10(clan for even less weight) and get a pilot to 10 gunnery so he can aim for parts when precision firing. Almost always triggers a bleed and you can effectively ignore a mech and get all 4 parts, because AI never applies 1st aid. It only ever stops working on 4+skull missions when AI gets ridiculous lostech mechs every time and they have all the lifesaving cockpit mods.

Vanzam militia gots a good thing going. Send out a handful of expendable meat. A somewhat competent commander (he can write his name) and a lance of urbies. If they complete their tour they got some money and new better mechs. And if they die … well they lost some urbies

@razorburn645

Ай бұрын

Hey Discount Dan vouched for those urban mechs.

Played a bit of co-op with a buddy of mine through steam's remote play. One particular mission had us interrupt a scuffle between The Bounty Hunter and Black Widow. My buddy brought a Davy Crockett. The two of them were reduced to slinging foul language at each other as their mechs shut down and their lance mates exploded from the several rounds of heat produced by a localized fission event.

Flea as the only enemy mission is the best ending for a video. Excellent video. Glory to Marik.

Van zandt company D being an unpainted meme lance makes me think about unloved tabletop miniatures

@Khaine666

4 ай бұрын

The grey legion is eternal

I like the idea of expanding the pilot injuries. But at the same time, the way RNGesus in this game deals out pilot injuries, this is also a terrifying mechanic.

@VeritasEtAequitas

7 ай бұрын

It could use some mitigation as an option. It's a bit insane to bleed out every time a mech falls.

I look forward to the debut of "spongebob kerensky" in the iTunes charts.

Recruitment checklist; 1. Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy? 2. Have you any idea which end of that thing should be pointing at the enemy? 3. Are you, or have you ever been indebted to Discount Dan?

@mikecampos1193

8 ай бұрын

Imagine how many drunks and murder hobo are in the Van Zandt Milita door

I can’t think of Urbies anymore without thinking of the utterly absurd variant of a UM-R60 that I created in MW5 with the YAML mod. The weapons loadout wasn’t too out there - Two Medium Lasers & an AC/5 - but I also equipped it with a *comically,* stupidly overpowered (for an UrbanMech) XL engine. The result? An Urbie that was *rocketing* around the battlefield at just north of 100 km/h.

@jamesdejager4938

7 ай бұрын

Oh, if you want an absurd variant....Rocketpod Urban mechs UM-R25 have SO much rocketspam. Fortunately the AI is prone to firing them early before they have a good target...but not always. Often Supported by the scariest mech weapon in the game(For AI. it's not so good for you.). The COIL. A weapon that's damage and heat production (especially heat) is proportional to how much evasion charges you have. The mech has basically nothing onboard except engine. It can run like a jenner on meth and when it gets close enough will potentially dump 300damage into a single location of your mech Oh....and then the urbie immediately explode. It's kinda suicidal from the heat. You WILL lose a mech the first time you encounter one.

@WavveBoi

5 ай бұрын

@@jamesdejager4938 Lmao. That's incredible

@MisterHalt

4 ай бұрын

Try the 'Super Royal Urbanmech'. XL 150 engine, Double Heat Sinks, Ferro Fibrous armour, ER PPC, M Pulse, Guardian ECM, Supercharger. Solve all your problems with Urbanmech until your only remaining problem is Urbanmech!

"Oh this is a promising start". master of understatement Tex, as ever great line. thanks. 😆

Hearing "Good enough" in that voice, followed by some great BT gameplay made my morning.

Duct tape for a collapsed lung seems to be periphery lore friendly.

@mikecampos1193

8 ай бұрын

Sadly they use that during the Vietnam war duct tape was common I don't know my neighbor was telling me about it I thought he was making this up you know they they carry the duct tape for bleeding wounds.

@michaelbaker8284

8 ай бұрын

@@mikecampos1193 what you actually do is tape the wound over with clear plastic wrap so when you jab them with the valve needle the air in the lung cavity can escape and the lung can reinflate.

Well Tex, been waiting for this, and yes Deleting Grid squares is the best way to deal with Enemy lite mechs. Only issue i have with BTA at all is that if you get a Clan mech the AI will target that thing to the exclusion of all others. I had a Kitfox that was running away they tried to destroy but ignored the Atlas that walked over to them and showed the real meaning of the Stiener fist.

@patrickkenyon2326

8 ай бұрын

The AI likes to target the thinnest armor. That usually means Clan mechs.

@Ozymandias2x

8 ай бұрын

@@patrickkenyon2326 Which is weird because Clanners can actually afford to max out the armor on their mechs.

@patrickkenyon2326

8 ай бұрын

@@Ozymandias2x But " Max" is still paper. Look at the back armor on a Mad Cat.

@Ozymandias2x

8 ай бұрын

@@patrickkenyon2326 That's a deliberate design decision, not a limitation of their armor capacity.

@patrickkenyon2326

8 ай бұрын

@@Ozymandias2x Yeah, I get it. But designs optimized for one on one duelling do not work in a furball. Sure, strip back armor to add more weapons. But don't be surprised when you lose a heavy to a Flea running behind you.

Commander-It's time CHARGE. Uban mech 1- Sir we're Urbies we don't charge we MEANDER WITH PURPOSE.

I love that you said “my main objective is to roll over to clanner space and be belligerent” that’s literally the only thing I do in this game 😂😂 make my way to clanner space and be belligerent.

Ah yes, Artillery. The King of the Battlefield Where aiming is more a suggestion than a requirement

Doctor gives you a fun side mission. You end up fighting a ton of Raptor omni mechs.

Yeah, that medical ability has to be triggered every other turn to keep a pilot like that up and running... otherwise they just bleed out in the cockpit. So it's heal, move, heal, move. Not your fault, it's not exactly an explained thing that the medical ability doesn't completely patch up a pilot unless you read every little description the game offers. Best of luck in this playthrough Tex, looking forward to watching this.

There is only one possible answer we can give when faced with clanners… “Go back where you came from! Inner sphere don’t want you!”

“Macho man was- Hunchback Pilot.. fight me” Love it Tex. :)

Maybe first time I say this, but I genuinely love how wholesome the BPL is. Thanks Tex.

Once again thanks Mr Tex for introducing me to the battletech lore / universe. As a side note since the Hunchback video dropped in my latest run i am aiming for at least one lance of only hunchback variants. Of course this run i barely found any while before i was tripping over them every other mission :)).

Nice, also nice to see the glorious lore of the Free State of Van Zant.

Well, this has singlehandedly convinced me to try out 3062. And that Urbanmech squad is...about as effective as expected. 10/10, they're doing their best.

You guys are keeping the community alive! Keep up the content!

Thank you to everyone who made this series possible, that made me laugh after a shift of work.

finally back with BTA, i was so sad when you stopped. Glad its going again.

Edited comment as i was too early: Carcharodon, that's ME! I was part of the wiki team briefly during covid lockdown, and as a lil thank you a bunch of us got to add our own likeness and pilot to the random roster. That's actually a photo of me edited by the BTA art guy, it is BEYOND cool to be a tiny tiny part of such an awesome mod and game. I'm from UK so the brit voice is perfect. As for Carcharodon's backstory, he's gonna be VERY happy about your plan to travel through Steiner space and start kicking clanners. This is too perfect ^_^ (hope i don't die)

@Musabre

8 ай бұрын

WOO survived the first ep, that was hairy at the beginning.

I got to say your comment on call signs really hits home. And I got to say that’s usually true. You can always tell who gave themselves a callsign versus who earned enough respect or did something memorable enough to get a callsign.

@gmradio2436

8 ай бұрын

Old Man, reporting.

@craigwinter3792

7 ай бұрын

Talking to combat pilots has shown me that all their calls callsigns are inside jokes pointed at embarrassing moments in training. Lite-brite would be a pilot who killed their battery in their car by leaving the lights on. None of them sound particularly embarrassing, but are never a cool as Maverick or Ice Man. Unless Maverick drives a rusted P.O.S. Ford Maverick and Ice Man flew into a mountain top all by himself in the sim.

I had a Slapdash with that character icon, too. She died, but she was in a Wraith at the time. AC20 to the cockpit. RIP.

This was thoroughly enjoyable to watch, and a cool preview of the BTA 3062 mod (I’ve been playing the BEX Commander’s Edition mod, myself)

@Logan912

6 ай бұрын

I’m playing through BEX too. I’m only in 3028 right now, but I’m planning to switch over to BTA once I get to 3062.

@SteelPhoenix78

6 ай бұрын

@@Logan912 Same here

"I knew a guy that liked the Hollander. He doesn't like it anymore. He blew up." ~ Professor Tex "The Lyrans said you're a war criminal. After saying that out loud, I just realized how ridiculous that sounds."

Of course Tex takes the Urbie Derby. I'm gonna die laughing here.

I just watched all the Tex Talks battletech episodes and loved them. I then got a hankering to dive back into the game and figured I'd look for gameplay of the big 3 mods and see what I'd like. I spent 5 minutes watching this video thinking "man I guess battletech just attracts all the people with the whiskey gravel voice" before realizing this is literally the same channel and i'm a moron. Thanks for all the great content.

This is pure gold, as always! I've been crying of laughter watching this listening to Tex commenting on playing ^^ Please, keep this series going!

Loving the new stream of uploads Tex. Always a treat.

"Their color scheme is primer" - comedy gold, served dry. Looking forward to the rambles.

It’s the meandering, rambling, and story telling that makes it fun. It makes me miss the old school nerds I used to play with.

I LOVE the Hollander. not saying its a good mech, but I just love how goofy the art for it is and the buddy who got me into BT introduced it to me as the Big Iron mech

@luckyomen

8 ай бұрын

Also my Favorite mech. It pops heads and then heads home for pop.

6:30 Isn't it a common theory that that why the Argo is not taken away from us by Comstar is because Dr Murad is a ROM agent and already has de-facto control of the ship.

@theronhatfield8854

7 ай бұрын

Pretty much.

Love the dedication to HBS in the beginning. I remember when the Kickstarter for shadowrun first started, i stumbled on it by accident, and I've rarely been as pleased with the work of a small studio as i have been with HBS. I didn't actually know, though i assumed, that a sequel to battletech was dead in the water, and it's so disappointing, because like Tex said it was way better than we had a right to. Thankfully, the game is rich enough, and the missing community has put in so much work, that there's no end in sight for battletech replayability. One of my favorites of the last 10 years

Tex: Thanks for the message to HBS. It is certainly sad news. Thank goodness for the great modding community. I have months sunk into this game and don't regret any of it. We are here for you and to support the legion. We like listening to your voice bassing out our headphones and your cool stories.

I didn't even notice you were taking jobs in the Rim Collection! That's my favorite non comstar faction, so glad they're in this mod

Really enjoying this, I hope to see more!

Watching the Jenner and the three Urbies looked like a nanny taking three cute toddlers for a walk.

The Hunchback is as speedy as a 64 year old overweight Floridian with a pint of Guinness in him and he needs to pee. Faster and with more momentum than ever expected

Thanks Tex, now I'm binging Randy Savage interviews and I am not disappointed!

Dang, that was the fastest hour long video ive watched. I love the disgust in your voice as you took out the assassin and then the flea. The flea is probably the only mech that is below the urbie in terms of uselessness

Glad to see you playing battletech again!

That first mission cracked me up. Friggin pilot dies out of nowhere.

@swiftdraw

8 ай бұрын

She was bleeding out for a couple of rounds, but I pretty certain Tex couldn't see the red notification.

Rock on mr tex with the early chrimbmass present wow Luv to see it

Oh this is going to be an amazing show! Have fun with your Urbies Tex

"He sees 4 urban mechs and he starts hearing clown music." Yakety Sax begins to play from his headset. "Shit."

HBS actually asking for a sequel and Paradox saying no has got to be one of the biggest let downs I've had in years. I used to be a big fan of Paradox too and this has turned me right around the other way.

I heard you hum the theme song to Bonanza. Well done sir, well done.

Paradox not wanting another Battletech is such a braindead move. They must hate money.

@Logan912

6 ай бұрын

I guess Paradox is too busy focusing on releasing a billion DLCs for their other games instead.

I'll definitely be buying this game now that i have a good PC. HBS sounds an awesome dev, i wouldn't mind supporting them considering the fun y'all have been having

Van Zandt standard medical kit : A roll of duct tape, a hacksaw and a bottle of rye ...

Fantastic start. It has no right to be so endearing but the more I play the more I love a good Urbie and what could be greater than five of them.

First... YES to the re-lyricism. :D Second... the sound of "I'm not mad, just disappointed" in that "I have most of a flea" was perfect.

This mod looks fantastic, going to have a swing today.

your callsign-theory reminds me of that snl scetch with the fighterpilots

... Good to see BattleTech being played through once more! 😎

I hate my brain, but as you were talking about the assassin, my brain came up with the one of those jokes made between drunk mech warriors. "The assassin mech is so bad it puts the ass in assassin, twice."

I want to argue that a collection of urbies should be called a ‘dump’ as a collection of walking trash can-shaped friends.

Ohhhhh how I have missed these play throughs! My toughest start was 2 locusts, 2 fleas, and I got a cicada from heavy metal lol

'already a wounded pilot' this is the reason i rip off jump jets, to slap on more armor

Your meandering, rambling and story telling is what most of us are here for. If we wanted boringly competent there are a lot of other places we can ignore honorably.

Mark my words here and now, 10 years from now Battletech will have an HBO show.

@mikecampos1193

8 ай бұрын

And will suck because they don't know or care about the lore.

HBS Battletech reminds me of Cyberpunk 2077 in that it was a labor of love for the artists that has beautiful assets behind a janky game engine.

@maxgehtdnixan4913

7 ай бұрын

The engine is fine. Their code just happens to be spaghetti. Which is, honestly, why it's a good thing they're not getting another shot. I'd rather have another BT game made by people who know what they're doing.

@dynamicworlds1

7 ай бұрын

​@@maxgehtdnixan4913yeah, I feel the love put into the project, but the memory leaks are rough on my computer. Still glad for the game, though.

@maxgehtdnixan4913

7 ай бұрын

@@dynamicworlds1 Yeah, my issue is not the unwillingness to properly patch it up, but the inability to. You really noticed the game was a complexity grade above what the studio could properly handle.

@DIEGhostfish

7 ай бұрын

@@maxgehtdnixan4913 They only really managed one patch, to deliberately disable a mod that offended them.

@maxgehtdnixan4913

7 ай бұрын

@@DIEGhostfish Which mod was that?

Whelp with the med kit joke, Piffany the Cleric now lives in the Deep Periphery

"moves over cliff" "oh shit" lovely content.

Please keep this going!

I love the Urbie and the fact there's a game start for only Urbies makes me smile.

In fairness to the Assassin, if you load it with TAG, maybe some ECM and a Beagle, and squint really hard, it's almost a slightly heavier and shittier stand-in for a Raven, for the 'mech commander on a budget. The fact that you'd get the same effect from a platoon of guys on dirtbikes with man-portable TAG and satchel charges for a significantly lower C-bill investment is neither here nor there...

54:53 "The Steiners said you're a war criminal, and now that I say that out loud, I realize how ridiculous it sounds."

Ubie Derby... I did not know about this Glorious!!

Slapdash is a hilarious name, mainly because one of my friends recently bought a hamster. They didn't expect it to live long, the last two they got died within a week, so they named it something dumb; it's name is Spindash. This dumb hamster outlived that pilot and their life expectancy is 5 days.

I pretty much am avoiding this game for some time now for fear of locking myself up in my office and just playing the sh*t out of it. 😂

@joelaugustin6407

7 ай бұрын

This is wise

"I got your back" no you Don't! Curmudgeon intensifies

That speech to HBS had me in tears Tex.

Give an Assassin an LB-10X with a ton of each ammo type and a pulse laser if you have one. It becomes both a great backstabber and the bane of Locusts the Inner-Sphere over.

As soon as I saw Urbie Derby as an option I knew how this run would go, and it is gonna be fun. Also Timbukto Flea the followup to the Solaris Piranha movie?

I see this, I hear the voiceover "This is Duncan Fisher, Welcoming you to the Urbie Derby!"

I like when Tex gets all heartfelt and sincere out of nowhere. Dude loves the bejeesus out of some good games.

Is it just me or would anyone else love to c tex go through mechwarrior 3 at some point

I can proudly say I'm not here for the competent play-through of BT. Story time with Tex is why I'm here. Thanks as always.

Jurassic Park? Oh! You mean McEvedy's Folly, yeah... Pretty sure that was one of the guys they found out there. Sad stuff that, getting stranded at your own science experiment gone awry...

It's crazy that they said no to HBS. I know it didn't sell in the millions, but surely no one expected it to.

Battletech is a game that keeps on giving.

>were you terrorized by a flea I think properly stealth armored, you could do some absolutely terrifying things with a little shit like that.

How in the Nine-Hells did I miss this when it came out? Ah well... Onward to Glory!