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Battletech |KS| Turn-based tactical mech combat, Harebrained Schemes, Summer 2017
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It sounds like the dropship will really add to the choices you have to make for merc management. Ran out of repair bays? Tough! Bring your damaged mechs into battle, or sit them out while they wait on a queue. The upgrade bay also seems interesting in that you won't be systematically upgrading your mechs all the time, but rather have to plan out when you have to do it
Hmmm. I can totally see myself having 4 fleas or some other trashy light mech just sitting in my stock just in case all my other mechs are in a repair queue. Would make things interesting.
Would mind running four Fleas with PPCs.
Robottiimu2000
Member
It think we might go over 3 mil with this one. It's 11 days and just over 2 mil already, and HBS probably knows by now how to pull the last days stretch with kickstarter..
And when the PVP gets confirmed we will see a rush of people.
I think it's gonna be 3.4mil
And when the PVP gets confirmed we will see a rush of people.
I think it's gonna be 3.4mil
No lie, I am not that excited for the PvP. I am super pumped that it hit the expanded story campaign, but have no real interest in player vs player. I am happy if they make it it only because it will push the balance to the next level, but I doubt I will personally play much online.
MrCunningham
Member
30,067 backers . They finally hit 30k.
8 X 11 Printer Paper
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Updated Chart. (KS Money only no Paypal for any of them)
Jordan on getting Mechcommander and Mechwarrior on Steam/GOG:
Sounds like Microsoft simply does not care or has forgotten about the games.
Sounds like Microsoft simply does not care or has forgotten about the games.
Eh, at least they did release Mechcommander 1+2 for free, and later gave the tmeporary greenlight to release Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries for free as well.
The games and their data packages are right there for the taking - it's just a matter of will and effort to get it on GOG and/or Steam.
Updated stats:
(This is from my post earlier in the thread, back in the campaign's 3rd day)
This is what it looks like now:
Notable changes:
The shipping costs (or pure money addons) were ~4.06% of the total funding. The difference between the sum of all base pledges and total funding is now 6.31%.
Assuming the shipping cost ratio remains the same, the difference in this percentage can be considered the purchase of add-ons.
That difference amounts to $45,644 spent on add-ons. A great result, if you ask me.
Only 4 new $2000 backers, from 46 to 50. This is because it's a limited tier and it's gone now. The total number of backers increased ~51%, and this increase can be seen in most tiers, including the $1000+ ones, except $2000.
$1000: +45%
$4000: +66%
$10,000: +100%
$2000: +8.69%
I think they might've missed an opportunity here, but it's still insane number, as I'll explain below. If the $2000 had the same average increase, that would amount to an extra $38,000. On the other hand, it is possible that the number of $2k backers was frontloaded and wouldn't be much higher regardless, but the tier is gone, so they can't buy it.
It's still a tremendous success for the $2000 tier. Just to put this into perspective:
Shenmue III, the most successful KS game to date, had just 28 backers in the $1800-$2500 range. Bloodstained had 20.
This means Battletech, despite the fact it's currently at less than half the funding of these games, has more backers in the $2000 range than the two most successful KS combined.
After Shenmue III and Bloodstained, the most successful KS campaigns had:
Battletech has $100,000 from 50 $2k backers.
Here's the rest of the changes in backers:
The $275 increase was above average and remains roughly 1/4 of the campaign's total funding, a remarkable result that's keeping the average pledge at $67.
Looking back, this may not be a nice thing to say from a consumer perspective, but I think giving away the soundtrack and the artbook at $35 might have been a bit too generous.
Overall the campaign is doing really well, and I still believe they should add other HBS games as add-ons, rewards or whatever, but it's doing great. The only thing holding it back is the fact it's very much a limited audience.
However, it's a very passionate fanbase, and the numbers speak for themselves. D:OS2 needed 42,713 backers (BT has 30,262) to reach the level of funding Battletech has at the moment, for instance.
(This is from my post earlier in the thread, back in the campaign's 3rd day)
This is what it looks like now:
Notable changes:
The shipping costs (or pure money addons) were ~4.06% of the total funding. The difference between the sum of all base pledges and total funding is now 6.31%.
Assuming the shipping cost ratio remains the same, the difference in this percentage can be considered the purchase of add-ons.
That difference amounts to $45,644 spent on add-ons. A great result, if you ask me.
Only 4 new $2000 backers, from 46 to 50. This is because it's a limited tier and it's gone now. The total number of backers increased ~51%, and this increase can be seen in most tiers, including the $1000+ ones, except $2000.
$1000: +45%
$4000: +66%
$10,000: +100%
$2000: +8.69%
I think they might've missed an opportunity here, but it's still insane number, as I'll explain below. If the $2000 had the same average increase, that would amount to an extra $38,000. On the other hand, it is possible that the number of $2k backers was frontloaded and wouldn't be much higher regardless, but the tier is gone, so they can't buy it.
It's still a tremendous success for the $2000 tier. Just to put this into perspective:
Shenmue III, the most successful KS game to date, had just 28 backers in the $1800-$2500 range. Bloodstained had 20.
This means Battletech, despite the fact it's currently at less than half the funding of these games, has more backers in the $2000 range than the two most successful KS combined.
After Shenmue III and Bloodstained, the most successful KS campaigns had:
- Torment: 9
- Eternity: 0 (no $2k tier, but 7 at $3k)
- WL2: 2
- MN9: 0 (14 at $2500)
Battletech has $100,000 from 50 $2k backers.
Here's the rest of the changes in backers:
- $1: +51.4%
- $25: +56.8%
- $35: +45.2%
- $50: +35.4%
- $125: +45.1%
- $275: +56.6%
The $275 increase was above average and remains roughly 1/4 of the campaign's total funding, a remarkable result that's keeping the average pledge at $67.
Looking back, this may not be a nice thing to say from a consumer perspective, but I think giving away the soundtrack and the artbook at $35 might have been a bit too generous.
Overall the campaign is doing really well, and I still believe they should add other HBS games as add-ons, rewards or whatever, but it's doing great. The only thing holding it back is the fact it's very much a limited audience.
However, it's a very passionate fanbase, and the numbers speak for themselves. D:OS2 needed 42,713 backers (BT has 30,262) to reach the level of funding Battletech has at the moment, for instance.
Not the first time I have ever heard this, Night Dive Studios comes to mind.
YEAAAHHHH FUCKING B A C K E D ! !
Had a ton of fun with various Mech games, from MechForce on AMIGA up to Front Mission IV :-D
I think I will love this
Speaking of, there's been rumors that Square has been working on a new front mission game. Who knows, it may come out at the same time as battletech. Never played the Battletech tabletop, so I don't know how it'd compare to Front Mission.
Don't fuck with my heart man.
Wait did Night Dive try to get MechWarrior or are you talking about their attempt to free NOLF from copyright hell?
NOLF. Dunno if they ever tried to get FASA stuff.
Banderdash
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I've often wondered why the ESA doesn't just hire on a team of 3 lawyers to go through every abandoned IP, work out who owns it, & then try and trade around the partial IPs until everything is owned outright.
Shake Appeal
Member
I agree with this, especially if they're going to make more Shadowrun games. It can't hurt to seed those titles with people who may not yet have played them, especially if they can gift the keys on to others.
Unfortunately new Shadowrun games are put on hold while they are developing Battletech. Maybe they'll expand the studio to have a side-team that does prototyping or something, but as of now, there's only Battletech.
I could imagine the Necropolis and/or the Golem Arcana people might have their hands free though (or is it the same team?)
I could imagine the Necropolis and/or the Golem Arcana people might have their hands free though (or is it the same team?)
You can see why the Mechwarrior stuff is such an adventure.
MrCunningham
Member
That would be a great final day (or days) incentive. Maybe add an "upgrade tier" option for each tier from $20 and above. Spend an extra dollar at 20 dollar to get either Returns or Dragonfall. Spend an extra $2 at the 35 dollar tier to get Reurns and Dragonfall together or Hong Kong on its own. Spend an extra $4-5 at $50 to $125 to get Returns, Dragonfall and Hong Kong together. If you pledges above $125 dollars just get codes for all three games free. But then again, they would have to create duplicate tiers just to add the extra games, and people would have to upgrade to them.
I think offering an upgrade through a small price bump would be a much fairer thing than just giving away these games for free to last week backers. You wouldn't get complaints from early day one backers and new pledges can just add the extra games if they want them for only a couple of bucks more. It might also add some extra impulse for final day pledgers to pull the trigger.
Well, Necropolis people don't have their hands free because they are still developing the game, right?
Anyway, i absolutely loved Dragonfall and am really enjoying Hong Kong. Hope they come back to the series with a better engine, sometime.
I unfortunately expect that Mechwarrior 2 and 3 will suffer the same fate as NOLF. Dealing with three different major corporations and non-existing developers sounds like a legal nightmare and I could imagine that Activision or Hasbro would go against any new distribution of the legacy games.
Well, Necropolis people don't have their hands free because they are still developing the game, right?
I meant when they finish the development of Necropolis.
It'll blow past 2.5 in the end-of-campaign funding rush.
Robottiimu2000
Member
<3
FrontalMonk
Banned
By the way, this recent interview with Tyler Carpenter (writer+designer) in the latest update makes me happy:
Living the dream, I see
I love that he's the "walking encyclopedia" on battletech lore. Like, when that's your unofficial title, that's how you know you don't just have some folks trying to make lightning strike twice with old FASA properties, you have real grognards who love the material.
MrCunningham
Member
2,150,000 stretch goal has been passed when you add up the PayPal pledges.
A Raven. It kinda fits after all these years using it on MWO, but I wanted to be a Jenner
I wanted to be a Jenner too and all I got was a Commando.
Also a centurion. I was hoping for a Hellspawn.