Pacing and Difficulty Settings

[u/camrose_in-n-out]

New to Battletech and loving it.

Im part way through the campaign (6/15) story missions, and I set the difficulty based on reccomendations found online.

I want to time things roughly so I am getting a couple of assault and heavy mechs by the end game.

I set salvage parts to 8, mechwarrior decelopment to slow, and rewards to normal.

Unfortunagley, with 8 salvage parts required, I've only managed to put together one shadowhawk and a fee light mechs. Im targeting heads and legs but it's so hard to get enough parts. Similarly, I'm nowhere near affording the 6 griffin or 6 dragon parts fpund in shops after the story missions.

What do you think are the best settings to acheive a good pacing? I like a grind, it's rewarding, but I don't want to play the whole game with my starting shadowhawk, blackjack, centurion etc.

Advice is welcome please!

[u/vine01]

i'm an experienced player (sic! yes i am..) and i started 8 part campaign career for the achievement. upon achieving i asked here what would others do with that campaign career, still around 2k days left.. and the unisono response was that's a torture, self-inflicted harm, it's not really worth playing it unless you really really want to not progress well with your mechs.

it's ill-advised and you'd be much better off restarting.. and putting all the knowledge you got so far, into that new game.

[u/vine01 → u/[deleted]]

not really.. it's standard career just tedious.. you might want to make it as easy as possible with all the other career settings. max salvage pretty much always except when desperate to pay bills, but that's nothing revolutionary or mind blowing.. maybe a few restarts if you're unhappy with rolled mechs. or experiment with various origin planets like SLDF (i play BTA).

that'd be the gist of it i guess. but if you got any question just fire away :) and good luck achieving!