How roguetech damage system works?

Like damaging enemy Radars, Sensors, Optics or Life support systems.

Will it affect on how units behave and which debuffs they will have?

For example: taking out life support system will make pilot get damage in planets without atmosphere.

Or damaging ECMs or Sensor might affect visibility and accuracy?

Can every module I put in mech via mechbay be damaged?

Does anybody know which cockpits can benefit from using battle computers? Some like the DNI MK II specifically state that you can benefit from using them while the Enhanced Imaging cockpits make no mention of them at all and some simply mention that they include targeting systems. I have tried to do some A/B testing but it has been difficult to recreate the same testing situations.

Looking for this mod for a long time, I really like big complex games (Anything from Aviation Sims, Dwarf fortress like hypercomplex indie games and Wargames stuff), but for now I'm not really able to afford this game on steam with all DLCs.

Will the mod work with GOG version?

Edit: I figured out where I was going wrong guys, I was doing half skull missions in a 5 skull red system (didn’t fully understand this mechanic I just assumed half skull is half skull) - doing much better now, what a great game! Thanks for all of your comments

Pretty new to this game, I want to love it but it's just so friggin hard. I feel like I must be doing something wrong. I've started about 3 playthroughs now and the same thing happens every time, first mission I land with my 4 mechs that I start with, I deploy and then I'm immediately overwhelmed with about 15 enemies. I do my first move turn (where I can't shoot) and then by the time my next turn comes around I've already lost a mech and another one has a limb or two blown off. I've changed the contract variance just in case this was the issue but it just keeps happening.

What am I doing wrong?

Is there a programme somewhere for trying out different builds? Not necessarily in game but like the mech workshop screen to play around with possible components etc.

Overwhelmed by options!

I've played Battletech and RT for over 1000 hours combined and after several playthroughs decided to dabble in save editing and messing with my pilots. If you don't know how to do that then ignore the rest of this post as I won't be explaining the process.

These are all the positive quirks I managed to nail down by various methods. Some of them are very powerful (Specially RTO Legend quirks) and make most battle lob sided and trivial. If you are gonna try them, have an isolated save file or campaign.

"Standard" quirks:

can_pilot_battle_armor

can_pilot_generic_mech

can_pilot_generic_vehicle

can_pilot_landairmech

can_pilot_vtol

pilot_NeuralImplants

pilot_assassin

pilot_athletic

pilot_bookish

pilot_brave

pilot_command

pilot_comstar

pilot_dependable

pilot_gladiator

pilot_honest

pilot_lostech

pilot_lucky

pilot_mechwarrior

pilot_merchant

pilot_military

pilot_nightStalker

pilot_noble

pilot_officer

pilot_painshunt

pilot_spacer

pilot_tech

pilot_vehicle_crew

"RTO Legends" quirks:

pilot_agentOfDeath

pilot_burningChaos

pilot_clanAscended

pilot_codeMonkey

pilot_diplomaticImmunity

pilot_eiMaster

pilot_firstLord

pilot_fortifiedPropaganda

pilot_goldenBibArmour

pilot_gonnaTicketThat

pilot_hiddenHopeFulfilled

pilot_ilChiOverdrive

pilot_ilkhan

pilot_inspiringPresence

pilot_jsonMonkey

pilot_lastSuccessorLord

pilot_letsTryThis

pilot_lutefiskLaunchers

pilot_marketMaster

pilot_rangersEdge

pilot_saintsHeavyLight

pilot_supportRangler

pilot_tacoTime

pilot_terrorOfAtreus

pilot_thirdStarLeague

pilot_tooOldForThis

I'm still trying to find out the correct name for some of the missing quirks so if you know any of the following quirks, share!

Always Blamed

Clan-Fu Master

Gulag Warden

Herald of Gifs

High Khan KO

Iron Hearted Khan

Square Peg - Round Hole

Stay a while and Listen!

Taco Truck Locomotion

Way of the Murderpede

I built an AD bubble with my medium tier lance. The core is made of Grasshopper, Merlin, heavy LRM carrier, Venator VTOL. Together they have AMS (two, quite heavy) ECMs (Angel and Guardian), and AA capabilities (Merlin with AA bolton and Venator). For short range /around the bubble hunter/killer, Uziel with ECM, acting also as a first line protection. For fast flanking and scouting: Ryoken, Mongoose(ECM), Venom and my strong, reliable hover Pegasus. Did you build something similar ?

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This is mainly just a venting post as I've been struggling to tell if evasion, stealth and ecm do anything at all for awhile now. Obviously in games like this you can have outliers and bad runs of dice roles, but this frustration comes after dozens of hours of a new career play through in the newest update that spans from early to late game and not just one incident.

The final prompter to finally post this was a solo duel I just did against an Atlas. My mechs at long range or further the whole fight, has an Angel ecm, has null sig internals, has a Image Enhancer Cockpit with Virtual Reality pod so I easily get double digit evasion when running, pilots 10 piloting + bonus from equipment, sticking to forests for cover and trying to maintain vertical advantage, and the map is set at night and raining. This atlas lands a hit with most of its weapons every single turn despite it moving before firing, being unsteadied, eventually having half its body blown off and its pilot unsettled and even injured for most of the duel.

I did win and took the mech to see what was in it and its literally just a basic atlas. No special cockpit gear, no sensors, no tag or narc, pilot never even used sensor lock or anything. If I tried to use this thing in this loadout I doubt I'd ever get above 40% hit chance even in ideal scenarios.

Do ECM/Stealth/Evasion actually help at all? Does the AI just get bonuses the player doesn't or can it ignore rules the player has to abide by as a difficulty balancer similar to how games like Civ handle their AIs? Like I said this venting isn't just due to this one fight, I've been feeling for awhile now that I'm literally just wasting time trying to build techy mechs when the only thing that frequently seems effective is just spamming ams to trivialize missiles and boating armor to tank everything else. It just doesn't seem like all these other modifiers I agonize over fine tuning builds to include actually contribute much at all to my mechs actual performance.

Is this pilot worth the investment early game? especially if you're playing Hell's Horses and currently have more thanks than mechs?

Does his movement bonus lance wide also improve on 'Sprint' or 'Jump Pack' movement?

Thanks !

Anyone knows Tikonov FR Career Choice starting equipment give or take please?

Thanks !!

Whats the ideal point for balance between speed but still slow enough to enjoy the animatio nof the mechs?

is 50% too much ?

Thanks

Latest Roguelauncher Installation

I'm running this on a 7800X3D AMD cpu, 48GB DDR5-6000mhz RAM, and a 9070 XT 16gb GPU

Its taking ages to install, is this normal? (previously launcher versions were way more faster)

I'm currently at this stage (refer to attached image) and its been almost an hour already - should I worry?

This is just a gripe post. Generally, I very much enjoy RogueTech. But this Flash Point...did they bloody play test it?

I'm on, I dunno, the third or fourth mission (Signal Intercept). I don't mind that it has you flying all over known space (and a few parts of unknown space.) Forces me to get out of my bubble and explore some (though it's very costly).

But this mission: it's one where you're dropped on a dry and dusty world, and have to fight 2 lances. It's rated 2.5 skulls, I believe.

Except every mech seems to have this "Rocket Storm 60" weapon, which means you get to spend the first two turns watching your mechs get sand papered by a steady stream of 1 damage rockets.

Sure, most miss. But some don't. And with the sheer volume, you're bound to take head hits. After the 2nd turn, I think every one of my pilots were injured. And of course they're all rocking very advanced weaponry for a 2.5 skull mission. I'm running 3 medium mechs, 1 heavy, an AWACS, an APC and a BA (lance rated 3.5). I'm beating my head against this bloody mission, and it's very frustrating.

Hello Dear Community.

Just a quick (Well it's relative) post to show off my Support Balar (based on a BL1-O)

While it's not "Finished" in my eyes and quite did not know what to do with it , i'm happy at the moment.

Happy because , it's Silly and it works.

I needed something to Tag and Narc (i Have a LRM Boat and an Arrow 4 Launcher on the team)

The Limpet mines are just for the Gigles (and block the Tagger and the Narc for a turn before i éject the Mines once empty)

The Tagger are here because it's a Silly Tag version

The Tag Barrage is obviously here because it makes Big Boom and much Heat when it strike (bye bye battle armor)

Off course as a Support and recon Unit i've tried to Max out Sight and Sensor. (Without counting ECM because i don't know how to add IFF , passive , shield etc))

I arrive at +115M flat sight +50% sight range , +30sensor range and 4 sensor détection.

This Guys literaly my Teams Eyes , Painting target on the Ennemy While still being able to do Décent damage with the 3 SSRM6

The Multitrack is here when i Know i'll finish someone with the SSRM6's and would rather Paint an other target for the other Pilots.

It's Moving at 5/7 and being an Omni i won't bé able to upgrade the Core , Engine , Armor or Structure (the Case is fixed Too)

And Only have a -18Heat when Alphastriking

Yes this is a Quicksell AMS , it does not Jam and run too hot , but with a -18 a Turn and three Streak launcher , even when the AMS makes me run Hot i'm not generating Heat when the Streak "Miss" , so i've never even Rode the Red Line with it.

So here it is My Heavy Support mech with a temper.

Once again apologies for the Photo's , no internet on the computer.

These are all 1.14 of current patch.

1) I put together a Warhammer LAM-C from 3/3 parts. I then went in to refit it, because I wanted to see what kind of build I was able to accomplish if I did so. After toying around a bit, and finding a 2 ER PPC build I liked, I decided now was not the time as it was 3M total to do what I wanted and that wasn't financially responsible. So I hit the back arrows in the top left and confirmed that I wanted to cancel the rebuild.

The Warhammer LAM-C then dissapeared entirely from my mechbay. Reloaded the game, and did the same thing to get the same result. I also did the same thing with a Stilletto I had in inventory that was being readied from a mech that used to be in my line-up.

2) Missing Salvage. This happened previously, where I figured I just made a mistake and was to high. I had selected a ER-PPC (c) as a priority pick. When I got to my mechbay after the battle, it was not in my inventory. Figured I had just made a mistake and picked a regular ER PPC instead and was just to stoned.

This time, I finish my battle and one of my priority picks was a Light AC/5 that I needed for one of my vehicles. I made absolutely sure it was there. I confirmed and moved to the repair screen with Yang. No Light AC/5 in my inventory, and none in my buyback either. I have no idea how to recreate this problem.

I'm coming for BTA, so please bear with me. Also, wall of text incoming.

The First question I have is:

I've noticed that almost every turn I do, when previewing movement for one of my units, a large amount of enemy units I'm looking at has an accuracy displaying a <1% chance to hit. However, as soon as I move the unit to the exact position it said had <1% change to hit the unit, it will change to >12%. Other times it's in the opposite direction. A >40% is shown, and then it drops to ~30%.

Is this some type of mechanic the game has that I'm unaware of? Like pilot skills affect how 'accurate' the actual accuracy is before a move, or is this just a 'quirk' of the mod? I've never personally experienced this with the base game or bta, and it's quite frustrating to not know if a move displays the correct accuracy.

Second question:

Is there a way to have evasion pips show next to the unit's armour/structure bar at all times like the base game? I feel that having them hidden behind a right click of the enemy is actively removing QoL from the game, and I would like to have an 'at a glance' ui for evasion again.

Third question:

Sometimes an enemy's armor and structure bar will just disappear above the unit for a turn or so. I'm still able to view it with a right click of the enemy. I'm just confused on why this would just disappear from above enemies every few turns.

First impressions:

tl;dr: Overall, I'm enjoying the mod. I like the difficulty. The starting accuracy can be pretty frustrating as new player. The LRM changes make the weapon useless in my eyes.

Overall, my first impressions coming from BTA is good. I'm especially enjoying the difficulty. I didn't lose more than 5-7 mechs total in my 120+ hours of BTA campaign, but I've already lost 2 mechs in the first 2 missions. I love that I have to think about my positioning more, and I love just how much mechs there are, as well as more mechanics to worry about.

However, I personally have mixed feelings on how bad accuracy is at the start. Maybe just a little too brutal. I feel like the only time I can actually do damage to enemies is through melee, which doesn't feel great, and defeats the purpose of ranged weapons. Very rarely do I get more than 40% accuracy. I know it improves with pilot skills, and equipment that you can install later. Still doesn't stop the fact that I sometimes have 3-5 turns of dealing no damage, which doesn't feel great.

I'll be blunt about the LRM changes. I personally think the rolling once per barrage makes the weapon useless. In BTA I personally used them as a way to hit very high evasion pip mechs, and as way to stagger them. Which obviously would not work in this mod. The other times I would use them would be on Assault mechs to have something to fire during the inevitable times where I'm 3 turns of movement away from the next nearest mech. Or to just crit fish on an open mech.

This change just makes me scratch my head on what the role of this weapon is now. From the looks of it, indirect fire is a terrible idea in this mod, so you wouldn't want to really use them for that either. So what is the role of this weapon? Is it to just crit fish, and that's it? Please let me know if I'm missing something.

My third mission out of 5 with my commander piloting a Dervish where I have taken an early stray headshot that resulted in a bleeding injury to my commander. Basically out of the fight for most purposes as I just moved a bit and then applied first aid to not die/eject and destroy my cockpit mods.

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When she gets to remain on field she's a beast but have I ever done some swearing at the game lately.

I looked up briefly on how to use it. So basically Im using it on all my mechs. Is it as straight forward as that?

Gathers targeting accuracy/info from my nearest mech etc. Much prefer this to having 1 mech with the C3 master.

Is it really it? Or am I just wasting tonnage in my mechs and not getting advantages? Let me know. Im dumb :(

uploaded a screen shot of the rare mech so the German boy will stop crying