For anyone interested a bunch of people on the channels discord server seemed interested in me playing the original Fallout. I'll be streaming on twitch, Saturday the 25th, starting 11am EDT (UTC -4) and going until i get tired some time in the afternoon. Why fallout 1? because I've never played it and know very little about it. So It'll be a blind playthrough. You don't need an account, just click or copy-paste the link below and you can head over and watch. If the turnout is decent I'll consider streaming regularly again every weekend. Link to my twitch account: www.twitch.tv/scienceinsanity

@southcoastinventors6583

Ай бұрын

Easy game really make sure you have luck 7-8 minimum 6 for more random encounters and take the bloody mess trait have fun.

@armoredcore6Roks

11 күн бұрын

So mechwarriors play mechwarrior during their down time ;) awesome I'd be so stoked to be a mechwarrior. Don't care what boring mission it is.

You said Highlander and it didn't play bagpipes and that makes me sad.

@Hybris51129

Ай бұрын

**Disappointed noises from Professor Tex**

@relishcakes4525

Ай бұрын

...now I'm curious about what a sad bagpipe sound would be.

@redheads604

Ай бұрын

no steve

@StarCommanderStelios

Ай бұрын

Highlander IIC represent :)

@derekburge5294

Ай бұрын

Slow, deflating hooooooonk.

"Get in the fucking robot" seems a bit more literal after that.

@LS1056

Ай бұрын

Real Shinji moment

Wolf's Dragoons are one of the few mercenary companies with "second generation" pilots since they have an entire planet on which to raise and train their kids. Natural, adopted, and Trueborn.

@MM22966

Ай бұрын

I'd think that would be true of any of the older/larger merc companies, such as ELH, Star Guards, Big Mac, etc.

@joelkreissman6342

Ай бұрын

@@MM22966 Yeah, but those other companies don't have Clan Iron Wombs.

@MM22966

Ай бұрын

@@joelkreissman6342 The Eridani moved their families with them, and I imagine most of the established merc groups did the same. Kids tend to grow up following their parents occupations.

@eddapultstab2078

Ай бұрын

Alot of the older, and argumentative better, units have multiple generations pilots by virtue of surviving multiple wars. Macarrons armored cavalry was around 40 years old I believe around 3025, eridani light horse has been around since the first succession war and 6 more wars have failed to put them and their traditions down. They pretty much survive through either careful planning, proper welfare for their troops, luck, the sheer obstinacy to not die or pure charisma or some mix in between really sets them away from the rest. A merc who lives past his 30s through war is by default someone special in the battletech setting.

@jakeg3733

Ай бұрын

@@joelkreissman6342 I wonder how extensive that was, because I've only been able to find oblique references to the Dragoons using that tech in the lore. How many sibkos were they raising at any given time? Most importantly, did they have access to the full range of tools available to a Clan geneticist (tweaking the genome of each sibko), or were they simply used as cloning vats by the Dragoons to artificially replenish losses more quickly? You might be able to pass off a batch of Mechwarrior phenotypes as war orphans, but Elementals and especially ASF pilots are going to raise some eyebrows from friend and foe alike

Life changed significantly for innersphere and periphery mechwarriors during the 4th Succession War. Comstar was no longer able to stop star nations from retooling, rebuilding production facilities and not only new mechs but new cooling suits and neuro-helmets were becoming much more common place. It made life "easier" for new mechwarriors, but also killed a lot more new mechwarriors. Then their are the even fewer arena mech jocks, even fewer of which become famous and rich on Solaris.

@Archangelm127

27 күн бұрын

The Arena is its own, even worse ball of wax. 🤣

Okay. RE:Neurohelmets: As someone who has been in a car accident that gave me whiplash, and has a little experience with SCA Armor, the 'Primitive' helmet is the helmet design you want for your pilot who is in between the shoulders of a quickly moving giant that is prone to hitting the ground under duress. When the Mech shifts from foot to foot, the shoulders shift with it, and you're moving large number of inches. Should it roll with a hard impact, your being twisted at park fun-ride speeds and or being displaced just as much. When the Mech faceplants, your dropping entire stories before your momentum is stopped. Maybe, just maybe, the Mech will help cushion that fall with an outstretched arm or going to a knee first. One of the things I learned from the SCA is that you want your helmet to keep your head centered on your shoulders when you take impacts. Otherwise you're prone to neck injuries, like whiplash. So, when artists show something that looks like modern fighter pilot helmets where you can keep your head on the swivel, they're getting it wrong for a BattleMech for that very reason alone. On a side note, with your head successfully encased and centered on your shoulders, you won't be able to look around. That's where a hud screen right in front of your face, and a compressed panaramic external display inside your field of vision come in. You won't be looking at side screens to your left or right. You can't. You won't even be looking outside that wonderful bubble canopy with a view, like on a Griffin or Catapult. You can't. It all has to be within your field of view. On another side note, the head can get real hot in a helmet real fast, forcing steam buildup on a faceplate or anything like that, so I'm fond of imagining that the large 'Primitive' neurohelmet also has coolant linkages to the Coolant vest so that the pilot's head can equally be liquid cooled by contact exposure. Like putting a cold bottle or glass of water against your scalp.

@jakeg3733

Ай бұрын

That is a very good point about keeping your spine aligned during hard impacts. Especially preventing twisting. I have an EMS background and those "primitive" neurohelmets now look a lot like a fancy c-collar to me. Awkward looking, but they'd effectively hold your head and neck on the same axis as your torso. Now, as for falling 3 stories.... I honestly hadn't considered that in this context (I have some blindspots when it comes to BT, despite typically picking everything apart, because I grew up with it). The your mech going down full-stop could be fatal. I guess it makes sense why that happens sometimes in the games and the lore. Used to laugh at the whole "pilot incapacitated" from a fall, but it'd be a deadly serious situation if you went down the wrong way. That's a _lot_ of momentum and the cockpits are full of shit to smack your face on. Serious trauma potential

@MM22966

Ай бұрын

Holy sh%t, the turtle-silo helmets were best???

@benparker1822

Ай бұрын

@@jakeg3733 Don't worry. Mobile Suits and sharp motions are much worse. Most anime Mecha are.

@benparker1822

Ай бұрын

@@MM22966 That, or something like the 2nd run of MASK toys where the helmets had sections running down over the chest and back. ;D

@MM22966

Ай бұрын

@@benparker1822 HA-HA, yes! Now that I "see" it, I can't unsee it!

This and “Hymn of the MechWarrior” by Goat of the BPL give the most succinct snapshot of what being a MechWarrior is like. Aside from piloting a 35 foot tall death machine, the life of a MechWarrior sounds very similar to any military combat career, particularly tankers+fighter pilots+Spec Ops.

@GreenBlueWalkthrough

Ай бұрын

Honestly it sounds like all of the front line ones combined Even super carrier captins if were are talking Atlases and such.

When someone asks about the mech pilot outfits you know they know nothing about the lore or read any of the books. It goes into considerable detail about how hot the cockpits can get and how small some are. So if you're piloting, say a Black Knight, you're gonna find the pilot shedding clothes quickly, assuming they were even wearing a lot if they knew the mission would be hell. So it's basically 50% fan service and 50% canon.

@awittyusernamepleaselaugh7481

Ай бұрын

I mean it depends on the era. SLDF had fighter pilot looking cooling suits which started to reappear during the clan invasion. Basically what your dude in MWO is wearing.

@fucktheGQP

Ай бұрын

God, the bounty hunter must be soaked all the time because he's always in that PAL suit

@relishcakes4525

Ай бұрын

Jokes on you, I always pilot in my speedo!

@kegorator1

Ай бұрын

Military contractors know exactly how hot that crew compartment can be before the crew can not operate, and not one is gonna pay for anything to drop the mercury one degree further then spec says it has to.

@mrbigglezworth42

Ай бұрын

Some of it is just quirks from the 80's. Like some of the helmets or Mechwarrior suits, especially for the Clanners. It's like they stepped on a land mine in a paint shop.

Hello SCI I am one of those 'old salts'. Ya know, the grey bearded guys that still play the game 40 years later. Yes, I am one of those that played with the fold-over cardboard mechs and thin cardboard counters. I've played every Battletech game there is, excepting Cresent Hawk's Revenge. In the mid-90s, I pined for a computer version of the game, since battles took so damned long doing it paper and pencil style in tabletops. And lo, and behold, Hare Brained Schemes did just that. So, I have quite a long history of playing the game, with all sorts of Mechs, Fighters, Tanks, and other units. I even played the Mechwarrior RPG as well. Neuro-Helmets work pretty much as you've described, and yes, there exists everything from the 'primitive' conehead design, up to and including the ones that look like slightly thicker styled non-powered armor helmets. And then there is the Clans, where they took things even further by implanting circuitry directly into a person's skull. Keep on making videos, yours are fun to watch and listen to. As for Fallout... Why not play FO-4 instead? There was a recent upgrade to the game released by Bethesda, and I am finding it engaging as I play the game again from a fresh start. The only real 'issue' I have is that the new upgrade makes all previous mods unusable. So, I especially miss the 'Scaver's Toolbox', which made rendering items picked up into components so easy. Why an Awesome? Why not... it's... Awesome!

@scienceinsanity6927

Ай бұрын

Because fallout 4 is a bland, empty world where i would just be running around aimlessly in. I've already played the game a bunch. The update broke all my mods and isn't significant. And I've never played fallout 1 before so i want to try it.

@franksmedley8619

Ай бұрын

@@scienceinsanity6927 : Ah, I didn't know that you'd never played the earlier versions. I have. Long ago. I played each one as they became available. Its been a long while since I played FO4 though, and with the new update, even though it breaks all the existing mods, I thought I'd give it a whirl and explore all of the new content. Oh, as fr your video on 'the meat' of Battletech... I'd say you were pretty much on point and correct. Although, I have to add that I played B-Tech since its release in 1984 with a group of friends at a game shop in the Chicago suburbs... well... sort of about a mile outside the city limits, which was still in the 'urbran sprawl' and built up area of Chicago. My friends and I played nearly every weekend... from around 6:30 pm on Friday to around 1 or 1:30 am. Then went home, slept, and returned at 9am to play until around 1 or 1:30am again, repeat the go home and sleep thing, only to return on Sunday at 10am to play until around 10 pm, so we could all get some rest before work on Monday. We did that for years, man. Like around 12 or 13 years. After about a year, we were keeping track of our games and their results. We'd roll up salvage if we won a battle, and kept good records of Mechs, vehicles, and troops, and what it cost to keep everything running. This led to me doing a few things others don't do... like choosing a few select Fusion Engines and designing Mechs to use those engines. My fave was the Vlar 300. 100 tons, 3-5. 75 tons, 4-6. 50 tons, 6-9. etc. This let me 'economize' on costs for replacement Fusion Engines. I also made a LOT of use of available weapons 'on the cheap'... like ACs in Davion space, etc. Mostly, I was a huge fan of multiple Medium Lasers, and 'overkill' (my group's term) use of MGs. For instance. I designed a 50 ton Mech that had 5 Medium Lases and enough heat sinks to cover them, as well as 6 Jump Jets. The remaining tonnage, above nearly maxing out the Armor, was used up by installing 10 MGs and a tone of ammo. Jump up close, preferably behind the foe, and Alpha Strike with the lasers, then 'crit seek' with the MGs. Run up to an Infantry group and dump the MGs into them. Etc. Yeah, they purely hated that Mech... which I named the KTT-3N 'Kitten'. Due to all the record keeping, when the 4th Succession War was happening, and Dark Age was was released in RL, the 'battlemaster' decided to 'put me in my place', by hiring me out to House Liao, and then ordering my Mercs to 'stand and die, or we kill your dependents'. Well, having been a former member of the Davion Heavy Guards before becoming a Merc, I used my contacts to contact the Davion commander for the invasion. Proper shares of salvage, and a written promise to help retrieve my dependents, and I turned over all data on Liao forces on the planet. This led to my unit faking its death in combat and then pulling a 'hail mary' maneuver to outflank Liao forces to attack the space port as Davion rolled over other Liao forces on planet. My Mercs took the space port, and the Liao HQ, and my personal character shot the Mandarin in charge. This left the Mandarin's secure console active. So I wrote myself 'super-user' access with authority equal to the Mandarin. This let me send orders as if I was the Mandarin, himself. Which, let me request reinforcements that were granted, feeding them into pre-prepared Davion strong points. As part of this, I was able capture dozens of Drop Ships and even a few Jump Ships. This was very useful, as my access allowed me to send my troops to the nearby world to retrieve my dependents. Once fully reunited, I got my shares of salvage and looted both worlds. Tearing 3 Mech Factories to the ground, as well as looting all the banks. I sold all the House currencies to the Davion commander for C-Bills, and kept the looted bank's C-Bills. By the time I jumped out of the war theater, I had nearly a dozen Jump Ships, almost 2 dozen Drop Ships, and had returned my force back to Regimental size, with an additional half regiment of Mechs, a full regiment of Vehicles, and several units of Aero-Space Fighters. Since I didn't like Dark Age, I left the game for about 9 years and played Warhammer 40, building up Several companies of forces (all my own Chapter). I returned to Battletech with the Clan Invasion, with a nice 'back story'. One where my Mercs had zig0zagged across the southern Periphery until they reached the 'Staplin nebula' (actually, the Perseus-Cepherus Nebula), where they chose a solar system rich in rare earth elements, but with no habitable planets. Instead, boring into the various moons of the Gas Giant planets and building colonies in the large tunnel complexes. Mining ice to get Deuterium for Fusion Engine fuel, and using most of the drop ships and jump ships to establish trade routes to the various Periphery powers. Especially Canopus and the Taurians. So, when I returned to playing, I had around 90 years of time to build up my society and establish factories, refineries, manufacturing, sealed cavern 'gardens' using 'vertical' hydroponics systems, etc. And thus, by the time of the Battle of Tukayyid, My Mercs had changed their name from the old Star Lions Corps, to the Ghost Lions Legions, and could field roughly 3 Regiments of Mechs and vehicles. As of today, May 25th, 2024, The Ghost Lions can field FIVE Regiments of the most advanced Mechs and vehicles available, as well as dozens and dozens of unique designs they use in combat. I have several dozen 'articles' on the History of the Ghost Lions Legions, their government, which is a Democratic Tyranny... yes, it's possible! Sorry this went so long.

I want a Battletech show that takes place in the second or third succession war and have a veteran mech pilot throw some jiffy pop or a poptart in the MC's cockpit saying "when it starts smelling good it's time to back off the heat"

@Executioner9000

Ай бұрын

😂😂 A Mechwarrior just keeps some popcorn in the cockpit, when they hear the popping its time to back off

@kieranadamson3224

23 күн бұрын

​@@Executioner9000hilarious thing is... there's definitely SOMEONE out there who uses that exact method to train rookies on heat management.

@jakeg3733

4 күн бұрын

@@pantherace1000 The danger is real though and I've only recently begun to understand the problems with heat despite having grown up with Battletech/MechWarrior. Now I drive a big metal box around all day in the desert. Gets up to 140F in the summer. You get woozy and disoriented, then your body starts to shut down. Piloting a mech that isn't heat neutral would be absolutely miserable in combat, and the heat alone could get you killed even without enemy fire

If you want, you could make this a three part: the next being the normal tank crews, infantry, etc in a world of mechs, and maybe the third being BattleTech's space front. Or maybe those together since it would be more compatible to IRL stuff. Would also be interested in those other options you mentioned near the end.

@scienceinsanity6927

Ай бұрын

This is actually a pretty good idea.

@dragonturtle2703

Ай бұрын

@@scienceinsanity6927 Thanks.

@nibblitman

Ай бұрын

Got to respect the PBI

@dragonturtle2703

Ай бұрын

@@nibblitman PBI?

@nibblitman

Ай бұрын

@@dragonturtle2703 Poor Bloody Infantry is what most Mech Warriors call the folks without a mech.

In my tabletop rpg merc company, there are several pilots that are fans of the thousand-year-old series Star Trek, use Klingon as code on comms, and collect and play Warhammer. It's glorious. One of the players trolls the others leaving purring Tribble plushes in unexpected places... including cockpits and locked quarters. I love my friends!

@BigSeth1090

Ай бұрын

My A Time of War character has an interest in "Classical Music." He recently went into battle against the clans blasting Guns 'N Roses. It's great.

@spartanblast9189

Ай бұрын

I love it when a group has a sense of character xD

@Fer-De-Lance

Ай бұрын

Seyla!

@danielvandersall6756

Ай бұрын

I'm still trying to recruit this guy. kzread.info/dash/bejne/lHmp1smknaTOoso.html

That thumbnail is fantastic. And, to be fair, the burning out your brain thing is mostly relegated to either the early days of neurohelmet technology where they hadn't worked out all the bugs yet, or far into the latter days of that technology when crazy people started just stapling those circuits into their heads.

@gronthgronth2628

20 күн бұрын

Oooor when mechs have some features that your brain cant comprehend. Some mechs have 360* torso turn ability. If pilot does this too fast, or doesnt know that his mech can do it, his brain can go haywire and go into schock as it will think/panuc that spine is going to break or that the pilot lost his body from waist down

Didn’t think the life a mech warrior warrior was this taxing on the pilot. But in a bleak setting like BattleTech it’s fitting nonetheless. Once again amazing from you SCI and as for some jokes about mech warriors “getting it on” I have a couple. Want to see my cockpit? And Now that you are in my cockpit mind if I eject? lol XD

I remember one MechWarrior campaign that we were playing because we had a lot of downtime. He said everybody had to develop some sort of hobby or side hustle. I was doing two things believe it or not. I was running a dungeons and dragons campaign in the midst of it, and also I was, making my own questionable alcohol and cocktails

@patrickglaser1560

Ай бұрын

Battletech*

@GreenBlueWalkthrough

Ай бұрын

@@patrickglaser1560 Mech warrior is what you can call the TTRPGs like the vehicle based shooters.

Love the random Next Generation reference :) "Fleshy bags of mostly water". I couldn't tell you what season or episode, but I suspect it was later in the series. I just remember Picard's reaction and confusion at the comment.

these sort of ground level of the day to day is always my favorite sort of lore video. Books, shows, movies, and games usually focus on extreme or at least unusual circumstances so it's always nice to hear about what is "normal" in the setting to give better contrast.

Units like the Gray Death Legion and the Northwind Highlanders and the Kell Hounds (and the infamous Wolf's Dragoons) always get all the fame and glory. They are always the popular, mindless, hyped-up, followed, hallowed favourites of every juvenile in the Inner Sphere. But the 21st Centauri Lancers and the Eridani Light Horse are the true elites.

@Raider0075

Ай бұрын

Those last two you mentioned....their roots go all the way back to the Star League, right?

@dutchvanderlinde248

Ай бұрын

All of those units you listed definitely did things that earned them their fame. Gray Death Legion fought Comstar for the Helm Memory Core and won, Northwind Highlanders go back to the Star League just like the final two, Kell Hounds fought Clanners during the initial invasion, and the Dragoons were in fact hyper elite Freeborn Clanners who decided they hated being discriminated against by Clan Trueborn and fought for the Inner Sphere when the Clan Invasion came around. Insisting that only those last two are the only "true elites" is just favoritism.

@eddapultstab2078

Ай бұрын

​@@dutchvanderlinde248Northwind highlanders may be the longest running mercenary unit in the setting since they were in existence before starleague fell. That is a good reason alone for fame.

THESE are the kinds of topics I want to see. I recently saw Caboose's videos about things like structure and cooling systems. Those things that don't really take center stage but are so important to the function of the Battlemechs (or any other equipment/armor/buildings/etc) fascinate me. How a Battlemech is built and never really "turned off" after the tethers are removed. Got to get that world building detail in! Nice work on this one!

A side effect of the Neurohelmets is that it isn't just sensation, it's full proprioception. The 'Mech IS your body. Your eyes can see a butterfly flap its wings from a mile away, your ears can hear a pin drop from across a city, and your arms can move the world. In short, you're a god of war stomping through a world of cardboard. And that feeling is addictive. MechWarriors essentially develop self-induced species dysmorphia. They see themselves as their 'Mech just as much as their meat-body, if not more. They start to have trouble empathizing with mortal men, because their "true form" is so much greater. So keep that in mind, and then realize that every House Lord is, by necessity, a seasoned MechWarrior, and you start to understand why they act so crazy. It isn't 80s camp, they're just all literal sociopaths.

I can summarize the life of a mechwarrior in one word: sweaty. Shorts and a cooling vest are quite often the order of the day for mechwarriors because they're literally sitting a few feet above a fusion reactor that dumps desert sauna levels of heat every time a weapon fires, let alone a group of weapons. God help your hydration levels if someone pulls out a few flamers on you.

I did a megamek campaign for my merc unit about 15-13 years ago and they went from a combined arms company to a combined arms battalion of very rational killers.

Clanners are indeed weird. The image shown when this was talked about had 2 Elementals in their Battle Armor. I can promise they are screaming like an excited baboon on crack as they're jumping at an aware King Crab's open arm. An IS Mech Warrior is already a weirdo and they think the Clanners are weird. That's, like, Turbo Weird.

Being a Mac warrior is brave and foolish and cool. You have a three story or sometimes four story robot act your command, and you get to go blow things up. It’s every little boy’s dream and every man’s desire and as long as there’s not bagpipes playing in the background constantly because of the mech driving, you’ll be OK with the Highlanders

Being a mercenary mechwarrior is the epitome of "get rich or die trying." for every one who actually lives long enough to actually own more than one mech, there is atleast a dozen who died trying to do the same. For those that actually managed to fight your way to be rich or earned a peerage, as in a noble title, theres easily hundreds if not thousands who fail.

Two points I wish to make: 1) When the Olympics are held, one item in the gift bag every competitor receives is a 24-pack of condoms. Usually, they are attending for less than two weeks. In other words, people in prime mental and physical condition are expected to make out like rabbits. 2) Taken on average, women have better hand-to-eye coordination than men. This is why you often hear about female sniper teams (Russia used LOTS of these in WWII), pilots (as it happens, the baby-making parts are really good at resisting high-gee maneuvers), and so on. Since Mech piloting is all about skill and reflexes, it's no wonder that many are women. A very good video IMHO. No holds barred on the real life of a Merc or even a junior member of a household. Well done!

Brilliant video, more of this! Please keep rambeling, you are brilliant at it!

Great video man. Thanks

Well done SCI! This video represents the absolute most I've ever cared about the lore of this setting. I've been aware of BT/MW since the early 90s I reckon, and aside from a few video games that have captured my attention, but for a large number of boring reasons I've never dived in hard. To be fair, I'm still not going to (now that death is closer than birth, I'm being way more picky about my hobbies) - but a cool interesting video and I'm adding it to my world-building resources for my fiction work as it tackles angles I'd not considered before.

One detail I love in HBS's Battletech game is that the Argo has both a Boxing ring and a bunch of simpods. Both get used by MechWarriors to deal with stress by smacking around each other under the guise of competition and training. Got a minor noble and an ex-Solaris gladiator that are the top two in the merc group's little boxing league.

I've just got home from work too be pleasantly surprised with an upload.

My week just got better. Thanks,.

I wanna see a video about mech controls in details. It's kinda weird - on one hand you have helmets that apparently allow you to control a mech like your own body but at the same time there are joysticks and buttons. Why both?

@Hybris51129

Ай бұрын

Just off the top of my head but redundancy and for things like weapons aiming it might be more natural feeling to use your hands to aim a weapon rather than feeling your mech aim a weapon or something along those lines.

@averywhitaker3513

Ай бұрын

Neurohelmets control the balance of a mech, using a gigantic gyro, by hijacking the biological sensors in the pilots head. Namely and explicitly, the equilibrium of the inner ear. I have no idea if that science is right, but thats what's in at least some of the books. But that's all that they do as far as I can tell.

@mk6315

Ай бұрын

I think you would use your neurohelmet for fine control or individual limb movements, e.g. spinning and aiming with one arm like the Thor from the MW2 intro

@WilliamSlayer

Ай бұрын

Neurohelmet for Balance and fine motor control. The 'stick and throttle ' for gross movement and shooting. 👍

"I'm a peacock captain! You got to let me fly!" - Mechwarrior with one working jump jet and one not so working jump jet.

Great high! Long and depressing end possible. Thanks for the video.

Great topic!

The MW3 and MW4 footage has me feeling nostalgic! What I'd give for a round or two in a machinegun boat Strider or some capture the flag again.

"So get played, idiots..." Earned you a like :D

I love mechs, especially walking tank and battletech style. So much so that in the scifi novel im writing...I have small/proto mechs. I have a race of overly genetically enhanced rabbits that use human power armor as mechs. They replace arms and heads with heavy weapons...limbs are filled with ammo belts or even extra fission batteries.

Nice to have a break down of the "other" side of the MechWarrior universe. The part that all the action tends to overlook. This explanation makes the world feel more lived in as you're coming to understand the lives of the people who pilot these machines instead of just the machines themselves.

I enjoy all of SCIENCE INSANITY videos

God, i enjoy this lore. How about a few stories about those mercs that own planets?

What i would LOVE to see is a thing i though of during your McKenna Class Starship. "Another commenter mentioned the half-the-ship-in-weight core of the jump drive of this beast and i believe this would be a wonderful new video. Could you do a deep dive on Jump Technology in Battletech and how it is such a monster compared to most other types of drives in science fiction?"

keep the Highlander bagpipes button on at all times, that gets funnier every time

It's been too long since I've played FTL, the soundtrack is so good.

I've been hoping for this video for years. Thanks for covering the details of being a MechWarrior. The only question I have left, how much time is spent planetside vs zero G?

@scienceinsanity6927

Ай бұрын

No idea, i would assume it varies heavily based on contract. A merc outfit doing periphery work is probably going to be bouncing from one planet to another doing odd jobs and spending most of their time in transit. While a merc contracted to a great house will probably be spending most of their time planetside fighting or on garrison.

I'm all for additional videos.

Thanks!

@scienceinsanity6927

Ай бұрын

Holy fuck dude why? The video is free, you people pay by watching ads. Jesus Christ man thanks.

@Loskenne

Ай бұрын

@@scienceinsanity6927 Why not, KZread isn’t always the best for ad revenue and your videos are good quality. Also the Axman would be a cool ‘Mech to showcase, just putting it out there.

not gonna lie, using my mechs senses as my own is enough for me to strongly consider it even with the downsides

love MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries and the BattleTech pc game

Catch me in a 'mech cockpit with one of those suit cooler fans attached to the end of each sleeve and pant leg, blowing cool air up through my clothes lol

lovin the content so far. I'm A MWO kinda guy

Please you have to do the ghost stories episode I'm hooked

finally some info on the Battletech inside of a different kind of the "other" life of a person that is born into this

Clanner for life! (Loved all the clanner tech in MW3)

Would love to hear you prattle on about the ghost and ghost mechs , let alone the ghost ships

Some phantom mech stories would be cool

Patiently waits for the clan version

I would definitely like to hear both the Clan Mechwarriors, and the phantom Mechs

i would absolutely watch a video about the Black Marauder.

+REP for clan bashing.

Well now I want to play Faster Than Light.

@patrickmahoney3172

Ай бұрын

You recognized the music too, eh? :D

I've personally always thought of those old neurohelmets as the Galactus pattern myself. Speaking of, a lot of the "becoming the mech" isn't really a property of neurohelmets. It's more an aspect of later direct brain-machine interface technologies like the Clan's Enhanced Imaging implants or the Word of Blake's VDNI. These systems are rare though, and tend to drive the mechwarrior insane or worse due to gradual neurological degradation caused by the implants themselves..

@eddapultstab2078

Ай бұрын

The vdni system was actually a substitute for a neural helmets where the the system is now apart of you so you don't need a helmet to operate a mech, with compatible system. It was later found useful in protomechs as every inch of headspace saved matters.

Can't wait for mech vehicles and exoskeletons to be used in warfare and domestic use!

@averywhitaker3513

Ай бұрын

They won't. Exoskeletons... maybe in a century or few. Mechs are obsolete tho, and that will remain true regardless of tech

@southcoastinventors6583

Ай бұрын

Real mechs are garbage and exoskeletons would only be used if you don't have swarms of AI robots. Frankly Mechs are Science Fantasy versions of knights. Let face it legs are terrible for mobility.

@AWholeLegionary

Ай бұрын

Mechs for Warfare aren't practical but for society and work, great idea.

I HATE getting drilled hard - federated sun mech pilot

So, being a Marine with a few extra steps. Ok.

Depending on the model of mech, some cockpits can be somewhat spacious and have room for a small yet adequate living space. This is only the case for IS mechs though, clan mechs usually lack any sort of amenities since they were designed for short engagements. At least until they moved into the Inner Sphere and acclimated.

I belive nural helmet usage is addictive. If it is, it would explain a lot

I want to hear about the numeral helmets and Ghost Mechs.

Now my nerdaas thinks how tank crews use enuralinks, driver and TC+Gunner, would be honestly sick

This setting seems on its way to become 40k in a few millenia 😛

Hmmm BattleTech ghost stories sounds both terrifying and interesting

Answer: Hell Let's put it this way: The universe of Battletech is basically a space version of Game of Thrones that spans our entire Milky Way galaxy.

Seeing the OG 2009 MW5 trailer hit me in the feels, such a shame instead of getting that we got MWO...

You're a mercenary in a neofeudal sci fi future driving a mech. It ranges from dull garrison duty to CONTACT CONT-ACH! followed by aggressive clicking from the radiological sensors and an alarm of something fast coming in an almost vertical drop before.......

17:40 Sounds like they just really need to get cable. Have they thought about ComStar broadcasts?

I'm surprised you didn't bring up the Lorix Order for the Mechwarrior prestige.

Apocalypse Now comes to mind...when the chopper lands and the blonde kid is like "I'M NOT GOING!! I'M NOT GOING!!!" and his buddy yoinks him outta the chopper!!! GET IN THE FUCKING MECH!!! NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! PLEASE NO!!!!!

Brain burning? From what? The neuro helmet? No. TBI or heat stroke, unless something angry enters the cockpit.

It is hillarious to think that improvements in the pilot element of the mech would never change. Simply any mech pilotthat could modify his mech would do so so that they would not simply fall apart on a mission especially an extended one. Even now vehicles are starting to change to offer crew comforts because being rattled apart and melted in 100+ temps. Taking a bio break is needed by a crew of 3/4. So over 1150 years or so it is silly that people did not sort out the tech. I think all these hazards are dated and simply made for game play and not so much advancement into the future.

For the coordinator!!!

There's a reason Mechwarriors are seen as the Knights of the 31st Century

Please tell me you did bot just display a Clint as a shit heep 7:34. One of the most prized battlements battles were fought over. In universe they were known for fantastic accuracy and targeting. Think they had some traits pre quirk system that were extremely good.

i hope you guys will cover the rest of the successor states. So far you've only done capellans and fed suns.

@scienceinsanity6927

Ай бұрын

next week my guy. one is in the works. Maybe, steve is on vacation for a bit so it's most likely going to happen.

08:00 - Where is this music from? I *know* this music, but I can't place it.

My favorite (now fully canonical*, grew up on the Infocom games) mercenary outfit are the Crescent Hawks. What other mad bastards are going to have their CO go into battle in a LAM? In 3130?

Most interesting is the freedom of mercenaries and why they live the life they live. In universe common man will never leave the planet you are born. You are typically on the same planet your entire life or part of interstellar commerce, were you wont live a life on a planet at all likely. Mercenaries are that caveat of warriors with skills and materials enough to try to eak out free living, traveling the galaxy. And often most mercenary units fall into debt, and finally to stay free banditry.

I am only part way through ....But if i had a chance to pilot a mech or get partially trained i would jump at the chance

I mean considering the high possibility of just dying in war anyway in mech warrior universe I could see the appeal of being the one in the mech.

It is my dream to be a mechwarrior some day

Where is the headless destroyed cockpit illustration from?

House Marik was founded by wargamers for an example of cute hobbies.

I'd die so quickly and before that gone Insain because of the neural helmet.

It's also worth noting that the neurohelmet can give you an aneurysm from feedback during ammo explosions or other catastrophic damage. Hurray!

@scienceinsanity6927

Ай бұрын

I was aware you could get migraines and stuff but i didn't know it could blow out your blood vessels.

@derekburge5294

Ай бұрын

@@scienceinsanity6927 Oh yeah, it can straight up kill you. Think it was in one of the Gray Death books; some buddy of Carlyle's bites it from the feedback.

Oh yeah… Koolaid Warrior.

no mention of what it is like to eject and end up behind enemy lines?

Sign me up... My battle armor stays on in the cockpit.

Standard life of a light mech pilot: live fast, die young, get pressure washed out of the cockpit.

So BDI... Brain Direct Imaging.... Like from Macross Plus, where it was used on the YF 21 to control its systems.

... Needs more Bagpipes