Yeah, I'm reminded of every time I've had to fight Jeanne d'Arc in FGO.
She pops her Noble Phantasm every opportunity she gets... which is great if she has allies, because it makes her entire party invulnerable for a turn.

The problem is, it stuns -her- for -two- turns. So if she doesn't have any adds, she gets nothing done, and I get a) a free turn to raise my own NP meters, and b) a free turn of beating on her.

Needless to say, this tends to end with an unhappy Jeanne.

The AI MechWarriors in BattleTech like to do things like Sensor Lock one of your doodz when it's their side's last go of the round, which similarly does nothing (because it's the only action that NPC can take besides moving, and it expires at the end of the round).

On the other hand, they also occasionally get the red mist and keep attacking one of your doodz long after there ceases to be any tactical advantage in doing so, as if they know that you only get XP for kills no matter how pointless they were in the context of the battle. Which is simultaneously very annoying and kind of useful if you have anyone in a position to capitalize on it.

--G.
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Yeah, I see peepz in FGO do this all the time, like popping healing skills when they're unwounded, or a one-turn Evade or +ATK as the last action of the turn.
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>On the other hand, they also occasionally get the red mist and keep
>attacking one of your doodz long after there ceases to be any tactical
>advantage in doing so, as if they know that you only get XP for kills
>no matter how pointless they were in the context of the battle. Which
>is simultaneously very annoying and kind of useful if you have anyone
>in a position to capitalize on it.
>

Hmm, yeah, this can be useful. FGO actually has a specific skill to make them do this, it's called "Focus" or "Taunt" depending on who's translating it.
The primary support Servant that you start off with, Mash Kyrielight, gets a skill that makes someone invulnerable for a turn (and ups their NP Meter)... and later picks up a Taunt skill that makes enemies focus on her, and gives a boost to her NP Gain. So you can make them focus on a character they can't hurt, and every attack builds her up to being able to pop her NP which gives a massive defense boost to your party.

'Any battle you walk away from is a victory.' Does it count when Yang has to drag you out of the cockpit and down to the infirmary? Why do we keep paying you again?

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

He's also pulled a few risky moves. He's taken 1.33 average injuries a deployment, which means he's been 2/3 dead on a couple of occasions at least, but only has one punch-out.

One of those was on the very first mission, and was the dumbest possible thing. He did quite well in that run-through—spotted stuff, used his Spider's mobility well, killed some vehicles and harassed the enemy Shadow Hawk very effectively... and then, in the phase of the "employer heel turn" bit where their vehicles get to rock up and shoot at you for free, they ganged up and shot off the whole right side of his 'Mech before any of us could do a single thing.

The second time he was driving a proper 'Mech (a Panther), but fumbled the called shot on the fallen-down pirate Quickdraw's remaining leg. When Phase 2 came along, it got up and shot the living shit out of him, and he'd already taken a random LRM to the face earlier in the mission, because of course he had.

>but only has one punch-out.

To be completely fair to Mr. Kowalski, that's largely because I, um, had no idea they could do that (it happens automatically in the tutorial mission), and even after I saw the loading-screen tip about it, I couldn't find the control to do it for ages.

--G.
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This totally happened to my Spider the first mission too (the first time I played it.) He arrived at the heel turn missing both arms and one side torso because I had miss-judged how far forward my mediums would have to be to hit the generator and the LRM turrets really, really, wanted to hit that poor Spider, resulting in a few extra rounds of fire on the him. Then the second batch of turrets and vehicles popped and focused him down. He ended up losing every component, both arms, torsos, legs and head.

I just belatedly realized that I should have repaired that 'Mech and named it Tharok instead of scrapping it.

--G.
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Here's the funny part: all four of those 'Mech kills, and I promise you I haven't deliberately arranged this, have been Spiders. Dekks just really seems to hate those dang things now that he's got himself a Panther. He's killed so many of them that, adding in the occasional kill someone else manages to get on one, we've been able to rebuild and sell two complete chassis since his crusade began, which is a nice little side income.

--G.
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Isn't that what an OmniMech is? :P
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"OK, somebody get me the phone. There are supposed to be four jump jet ports and three heat sinks and I only have two heat sinks and three jump jets for the wrong size 'mech. Plus, they included two left arms and no right...."

Michael C. Fortner
"Maxim 37: There is no such thing as "overkill".
There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload".

"Well sir, many 'mech pilots were complaining about the lack of rear firing weapons. We found that two left arms allowed your 'mech to fire forward and backwards at the same time."

I saw a loading screen tip once that said it doesn't always, but I can't recall ever seeing a case where it didn't (except for the player character, who I believe can only end up mostly dead no matter what happens).

--G.
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"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

After one mission.

--sofaspud
--I might not save-scum so hard later on but come the fuck on, FIRST MISSION

In the first campaign I played past the initial story mission (the one where you salvage but don't get to keep the Argo), I came out of the first job I took after that one with a commander who needed two hundred and some days to be fighting fit again.

In my current campaign (I didn't restart because of the above, I'm not playing Faux Ironman or anything, I just like to do that for some reason), I was initially disappointed that we didn't get to keep the Quickdraw after the Argo mission, until I remembered how poorly I did with it in the above instance. Maybe it was just as well. :)

(I'm really annoyed that we didn't get enough Jägermech parts to rebuild a whole one after the prison-camp mission, though. I mean we literally only damaged the legs, I've had three parts kits come up on the salvage list for 'Mechs that were way more wrecked than that. But no, we only got two, and who the hell knows where or when we'll ever find a third? Sigh. JMs aren't great in the tabletop game, but the way ACs perform in the HBS one, I was really looking forward to trying that out.)

--G.
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Which may explain why he took over from Darius - he could at least do the paperwork.

If you get Glitch killed though that makes the Universe cry :(

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Yesssss. Nasty fat 'Unchback, we hates it, my preciousssss.

--G.
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Did you see Cohn’s Let’s Play, where he gets Glitch killed by an AC/20 headshot from a Victor, and a few minutes later the game crashes to save her?

Unity engine knows what's up.

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Now, did the game crash or did the game "crash"?

I know that W4astedspace has Alt-F4ed Space Engineers a few times on stream because of Clang¹ wrecking his stuff and at least one time due to a beer spill related surface impact².

1: The SE term for physics glitches in the game engine.

2: He didn't have quite enough velocity to reach space and he was kind of busy protecting electronics.

I put Medusa in the Spider instead of Dekker and it's Medusa who keeps getting blown away instead. The Spider is just too damn fragile in a turn-based universe where it has to 'stand still' between turns.