BattleTech - Dropship Home Base

In Kickstarter update #25 Harebrained Schemes goes into detail on the Argos-Class Dropship lore and areas of the ship which will function as a customisable home-base for the player. Lots of details here which I recommend you to check out and a video.

COMMAND CENTER - This is where you and your command staff operate the ship. It's a combination of a communications center, briefing room, and CIC. It's located amidships, along the spine of the ship, where it's quickly and easily accessed from anywhere on the ship while also being protected by the bulk of the Main Hold. In the Command Center, you'll talk to your Executive Officer, review and negotiate contracts, and determine lance deployments.

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Harebrained will also be doing a livestreamed Q&A session from here on out once a month.

BATTLETECH Q&A This Wednesday, March 9!

As we mentioned in the last update, we really enjoyed doing the BATTLETECH Q&A's during the Kickstarter so we're going to continue this tradition with a monthly livestream.

Beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, March 9 at 2pm PST, and then regularly on the 2nd Wednesday of the month, Hyper RPG will host us during their regularly scheduled show, Rabbit Stew.

Each month, we'll solicit your burning questions on a specific topic over on the BATTLETECH Forum in a thread like this one. In the Q&A session, we'll split our time between answering questions from the forum thread and questions from the livestream chat. We know not everyone will be able to be there live so they'll also be archived and available afterwards on Hyper RPGs profile page.

More information.

Why nobody commented on this really nice concept video? Lots of design and 3D work was done already!

Originally Posted by mercy
Why nobody commented on this really nice concept video? Lots of design and 3D work was done already!

I expected this news to be popular but oh well. Frankly I find the Dropship cool as hell but I guess not so many like science fiction based settings like I do.

All I got to say about this game: Please be good!

It's a battle tech game. I care not about the drops ships, only mechs.

Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries. 2nd best game ever made,

Mechs are shown in the video including some customisation options. Through I can't name them because I'm new to Battletech. Anyone want to help me out?

I missed this one. I'd like to see some gameplay, but it's early days, and it's good to see things taking shape.

I'll bite. Over on the board game forums people are arguing about the existence of the dropship at all. Some are really bothered by it because it appears to violate a combination of game rules (there's no way to finesse them to construct a record sheet without using optional "traits" like "illegal" as a bludgeon) and fluff (you cannot daisy chain dropships; every dropship has to dock directly to a jumpship or the warp field won't form correctly). I haven't participated, but have been laughing at them quietly and at how stupid fanboyism can make us. It's not like writers can't accommodate these new things by fluff or rules.

I swear that sometimes I just want to hit these people upside the head and yell at them that it's not real. Not of it is.