As Catalyst Game Labs continues to upset longtime BattleTech and Mech Warrior fans, they’ve announced they’re redoing the core rules for a rebooted edition coming soon through a package sent out to playtesters.
I gave up on Catalyst after they failed to give me a promised refund on the first Kickstarter. They basically stole ~$400 from me. I'd bought one of the Star Colonel pledges, and then added more to buy about 25 of the older digital books plus additional mechs on the CrowdOx post-KS site.. When they sent the keys, it would have been 25 separate check-outs I would had to do. Utterly ridiculous. I reached out to them to find a different way and they first tried to claim it would be 15 minutes (to check out a set of ebooks?!?), but I timed most of the way through the first transaction (without completing) and it would have been far more than that.
Then they tried to mollify me in one of the most tone-deaf customer service interactions I've ever experienced by offering a digital coupon for a free book that would have meant a 26th transaction. At that point I was insulted and demanded a refund. After about 10 months of chasing them up, including reaching out to Loren, I finally got refunded the CrowdOx money, but never got the larger amount of KS funds back. Loren and company once again went silent and I gave up after another 8 months of following up to complete silence. I considered attempting to sue them, but ultimately the small amount vs the high costs and difficulties in interstate lawsuits convinced me otherwise.
Wasting more money on crap no one asked for, rather than focusing on backed up kickstarter goals. And I was just getting all the books I could get my hands on, especially the older stuff. I ain't buying a new "edition" or rendition, or whatever reskin theyre doing with this. I'll betcha theyre also gonna make it cross compatible with their various Alt Universe setting crap too, so you can have them breech the gap of the realities canonically.
They didn't use typical woke language describing the rebooted content. No "reimagining, journey, maximizing, exploring" and other idiotic telltale signs.
Some of my earliest gaming memories were of playing Battletech back in the day with my older brother. I was 4 or 5, and he just wanted someone to annihilate. But even though I didn't understand the rules, the whole experience was just unbelievably cool to me. I will never completely forget those games. For a frame of reference, I am 40 now.
So far I see the controversy as being way overblown. The facing rules now apply more logically and now there are hard limits to how much damage ammo explosions can cause with CASE. I have my issues with CGL but nothing has given me cause for concern yet. The rest of the proposals might change that when they are released.
I gave up on Catalyst after they failed to give me a promised refund on the first Kickstarter. They basically stole ~$400 from me. I'd bought one of the Star Colonel pledges, and then added more to buy about 25 of the older digital books plus additional mechs on the CrowdOx post-KS site.. When they sent the keys, it would have been 25 separate check-outs I would had to do. Utterly ridiculous. I reached out to them to find a different way and they first tried to claim it would be 15 minutes (to check out a set of ebooks?!?), but I timed most of the way through the first transaction (without completing) and it would have been far more than that.
Then they tried to mollify me in one of the most tone-deaf customer service interactions I've ever experienced by offering a digital coupon for a free book that would have meant a 26th transaction. At that point I was insulted and demanded a refund. After about 10 months of chasing them up, including reaching out to Loren, I finally got refunded the CrowdOx money, but never got the larger amount of KS funds back. Loren and company once again went silent and I gave up after another 8 months of following up to complete silence. I considered attempting to sue them, but ultimately the small amount vs the high costs and difficulties in interstate lawsuits convinced me otherwise.
If they don’t include wheelchair rocket launchers I’m out!
Wasting more money on crap no one asked for, rather than focusing on backed up kickstarter goals. And I was just getting all the books I could get my hands on, especially the older stuff. I ain't buying a new "edition" or rendition, or whatever reskin theyre doing with this. I'll betcha theyre also gonna make it cross compatible with their various Alt Universe setting crap too, so you can have them breech the gap of the realities canonically.
Wish they would license another video game. The last one was great..
The clans got some weird things going on behind closed doors. The woke can have their faction. Taurian till I die.
They didn't use typical woke language describing the rebooted content. No "reimagining, journey, maximizing, exploring" and other idiotic telltale signs.
Hmm.
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment. I'm going to wait and see.
Some of my earliest gaming memories were of playing Battletech back in the day with my older brother. I was 4 or 5, and he just wanted someone to annihilate. But even though I didn't understand the rules, the whole experience was just unbelievably cool to me. I will never completely forget those games. For a frame of reference, I am 40 now.
So far I see the controversy as being way overblown. The facing rules now apply more logically and now there are hard limits to how much damage ammo explosions can cause with CASE. I have my issues with CGL but nothing has given me cause for concern yet. The rest of the proposals might change that when they are released.