Pilots can panic and eject! Continue pounding someone until they bail out or watch in horror as your legged ace gunner punches out after a barrage from the other side! Panic levels also have an effect on accuracy!.The more consecutive turns you spend overheated, the higher the penalties and chance of shutting down or exploding. Overheating incurs an escalating penalty to accuracy and movement as well as escalating chances to shutdown or having your ammo explode.Increased maximum heat combined with reduced overheat thresholds.Indirect fire has a +8 to hit penalty and incurs a -20% damage penalty.Obstructed targets are harder to hit and incur a -10% damage penalty.Elevation grants an escalating accuracy bonus and to hit penalty by 1 per 35 units.Accuracy and stability penalties for sustaining damage.Evasion is more powerful, and is no longer removed when being shot at.Sprinting and jumping incur cumulative accuracy penalties (the more you move, the less accurate you are). Moving incurs a flat accuracy penalty.Your target will also move back 1 initiative phase. Precision Strike is now Called Shot, allowing you to spend 10 Morale to do a called shot at higher (+6) difficulty.Vigilance is more expensive, up to 35 morale points per pilot.Morale is also capped at 150 in combat, max starting cap in combat is 100. Morale is now affected by everything that happens during combat, even negatively, and Inspired grants a +2 accuracy at 75 morale.They will also push their heat hard, and try to spike your own heat. Expect a lot of back shots into your 'Mechs if you give them the chance. AI is now more aggressive and will try to outmaneuver you as a lance.Melee has been buffed but Melee and DFA now have variable penalties for missing.You either hit or you miss, the game doesn't hold your hand. TRUE RNG! Unlike in the base game, where hit chances are manipulated, no aim correction will occur.Poor behavior will be met with equal grumpiness.Īs the team always gets a million suggestions and ideas, some of the more common ones that the team receives are Not Likely to happen as the team have already decided against it. Light mechs have many CBT rules brought in to buff their strengths, while operating slow, weapon-heavy Assault mechs can become a large economic burden and bait for airstrikes.Ĭivil discussion is always welcome on our, but understand that the dev team is building the balanced experience that it sees, and is not your personal game studio. The dev team will always be attacking imbalances from all sorts of angles, in both Combat Game and Sim Game.įrom a high-level overview, in order to achieve the varied experience, the vast gulf in tech levels in CBT has been squashed down, so not only is clan-tech not overpowering, even primitive weapons remain viable options in the end-game. Our current guiding principle is to provide a balanced experience with UNLIMITED diversity: this means that players should never feel compelled to play one style of mech because it is the 'meta'. While Classic BattleTech (CBT) and other TableTop (TT) Lore accuracy is preferred and initiates many of our balance decisions, it is not the goal. 3.6 Complete Overhaul of the Shops System.3.4.1 Company Difficulty Special Challenge.2.6 How do targeting, visuals, and sensors work? My brain hurts.2.1 Fire Modes, Ammo Switching & Custom Ammo Components.

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