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Posted April 24, 2018
MechWarriors, assemble!

BATTLETECH is now available, DRM-free on GOG.com.
**Buy it until May 8 to get Shadowrun Returns for FREE.**

If you own FTL or Into the Breach on GOG.com, BATTLETECH is 10% off until April 26, 4pm UTC.
If you're eligible for these offers but didn't get them, please reach out to Support.

It's 3025 and the world is being torn apart by conflict while an interstellar civil war is a-brewing. The only way to survive is by leading your own mercenary outfit of MechWarriors through this brutal power struggle between corrupt rulers and ambitious aristocrats. Customize your giant BattleMechs and pilots, keep them upgraded and fit for battle, then unleash them upon your enemies in turn-based skirmishes that might as well decide the future of this war-ravaged world.

Go for the Deluxe Edition to also get the digital Art Book, OST, 4K Wallpapers, and more.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Arundir: Do progressives have to fuck up every pop culture relevant universe which emerged like 30+ years ago? "They" as a pronoun choice for a character? You do not choose a gender but a pronoun?
Noticed that too. Also of course the default character is a woman.
I bet 90% of the player base are males.
Better to just ignore this kind of desperate pandering.
Posted April 24, 2018
With that 16 gig recommended hurdle, I'm beginning to think that Frostpunk, with its lower requirement and cheaper price, is the way to go for me.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Arundir: Do progressives have to fuck up every pop culture relevant universe which emerged like 30+ years ago? "They" as a pronoun choice for a character? You do not choose a gender but a pronoun?

I'll stick to the table top, MWO and Mechwarrior as a table top rpg. I am done with Harebrained.

And this is apart from the fact that you need a Paradox account for playing the DLC.
Well, a percentage of people on this planet is sexually confused. Let them have their "i don't know which of the two sexes I am" pronoun. Be glad you are not one of them (as this has psychological and physiological.. lets say.. strain) and leave it at that.
Post edited April 24, 2018 by AlienMind
Posted April 24, 2018
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I don't know how GOG can bill this as "DRM-Free" when you have to register with Paradox. Furthermore, I cannot even start the game without logging a callsign on Paradox servers. I don't have anything against Paradox but this aggravation is specifically why I bought the game on GOG. Oh well, live and learn.....
Posted April 24, 2018
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Kakarot96: Ok, more news about this.

FYI, that free DLC they offered with a Shadowhawk and an Atlas variant? It has DRM. You need to be logged on your Paradox account (in game) in order for the game to show the variants to you. As soon as you log out or block the game in your firewall, the extra content disappears.

It is not as the rest of games here on GOG where you have a little patch to add the extra content to your game. It is active just while you are online logged to Paradox :S

So that new note at the bottom of the requirements in the store page that says you need an account to redeem your codes for the extra content? Well, it's just half the truth, because you also need the account to play with the content. I can understand this for Steam but, for the GOG's classic installers?

Finally, i would like to make clear that those variants are usable single-player, it's not something for MP. You just need to enter a SP skirmish game and select them in your Mechbay to use them...if you are logged on a Paradox account.

I am very sad to discover that HBS let Paradox force this kind of things into a DRM-free game. A shame.

Edit: this things didn't happen when HBS was it's own publisher (see Shadowrun games). A real shame.
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i_hope_you_rot: https://segmentnext.com/2018/04/25/battletech-atidxx64-dll-access-violation/
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Arundir: Do progressives have to fuck up every pop culture relevant universe which emerged like 30+ years ago? "They" as a pronoun choice for a character? You do not choose a gender but a pronoun?

I'll stick to the table top, MWO and Mechwarrior as a table top rpg. I am done with Harebrained.

And this is apart from the fact that you need a Paradox account for playing the DLC.
..Fuck!

I'll wait for Mechwarrior 5 then...
Posted April 24, 2018
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"Please Note: BATTLETECH uses Paradox Accounts. You don't need an account to play the campaign or single-player skirmish modes. However, you do need a Paradox Account to challenge other players in 1v1 multiplayer matches and to redeem unlock codes for Kickstarter Backer or Pre-Order DLC "

Not surprised. Anyone who uses Paradox as a publisher (and i thought KS were supposed to eliminate the middle man)..
Post edited April 24, 2018 by Niggles
Posted April 24, 2018
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wirdWirt: Backer eligible for the Valhalla extras here too, and while it would have been nice to play with the special paint jobs and all I'll just go on without them I guess (it's just cosmetic after all). At least for the time being, until possibly-maybe there's enough backlash from other backers as well so that HBS has to come up with something to deliver the backer extras independently from that Paradox account-bound bullshit.
Yes, i also hope there is enough backlash to make them think a bit about this decision. Problem is, most of the people have the game on Steam, and they are used to this things. But, even that, there are already people on Steam forums, on the reviews and also on Paradox forum that are complaining about this.

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Alexim: This is a serious problem, it means that when their dirty servers shut down, or if a person plays offline, you can't even play the full version of the single player. I hope that people will complain out loud against this mess.
Yup, and while yes, it is cosmetic, having to be connected to be able to use it in a SP skirmish, for instance, is horrible.

And more on this. I have been looking at this and i have noticed that game writes 3 files in a folder at Appdata\Local when you log in into Paradox account.

In one of those files, game writes the responses from Paradox server to activate or not the extra content while game is running. Ok, that's how it works, it seems.

But the problem is that the file also contains, in plain text:

-The code i used to redeem the content
-My email :S
-My backer level (that's it, how much money i paid)

Those files are NOT deleted when you exit the game and thus remain in your hard drive in plain text. I had to delete them manually after i noticed.

We don't have here any of the Paradox guys and girls that are in this very moment on the Steam forum answering threads and bad reviews, so probably no one of them will ever answer or even read this. But if you are playing the game and don't like that info to be left there, go to:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp\Harebrained Schemes\Battletech\streamingWebResponses\

...and delete all the files in the folder (3 for each session you played, also, and seem to accumulate)
Posted April 24, 2018
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KillerBee69: man did i fall for the preorder trap... i paid full price when preordering a week before launch and would have gotten 10% off + a free game if i would have waited till release day... a good way to say f u to someone who gives you money upfront.
If you contact support the will give you a refund in Wallet funds. You can then rebuy the game with the discount. They will also give you a key to get the pre-order bonus.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Arundir: Do progressives have to fuck up every pop culture relevant universe which emerged like 30+ years ago? "They" as a pronoun choice for a character? You do not choose a gender but a pronoun?

I'll stick to the table top, MWO and Mechwarrior as a table top rpg. I am done with Harebrained.

And this is apart from the fact that you need a Paradox account for playing the DLC.
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AlienMind: Well, a percentage of people on this planet is sexually confused. Let them have their "i don't know which of the two sexes I am" pronoun. Be glad you are not one of them (as this has psychological and physiological.. lets say.. strain) and leave it at that.
People are free to invent new fictional universes, stories and characters and from my point of view can use thousands of pronouns if they like to and who knows some of those new universes/stories might be a big success. Perhaps I might even like those too, but do not inject fictional pronouns, political agendas into established pop culture relevant universes that already exist for ages.
Post edited April 25, 2018 by Arundir
Posted April 24, 2018
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Niggles: "Please Note: BATTLETECH uses Paradox Accounts. You don't need an account to play the campaign or single-player skirmish modes. However, you do need a Paradox Account to challenge other players in 1v1 multiplayer matches and to redeem unlock codes for Kickstarter Backer or Pre-Order DLC "
Yes, but "to redeem unlock codes" means "to redeem unlock codes and be able to use them" which it's not the same.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Niggles: "Please Note: BATTLETECH uses Paradox Accounts. You don't need an account to play the campaign or single-player skirmish modes. However, you do need a Paradox Account to challenge other players in 1v1 multiplayer matches and to redeem unlock codes for Kickstarter Backer or Pre-Order DLC "

Not surprised. Anyone who uses Paradox as a publisher (and i thought KS were supposed to eliminate the middle man)..
It is time that GOG announces such restrictions in their release announcement and preferably in the games preorder description on the games page.
Post edited April 25, 2018 by Arundir
Posted April 25, 2018
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wirdWirt: Backer eligible for the Valhalla extras here too, and while it would have been nice to play with the special paint jobs and all I'll just go on without them I guess (it's just cosmetic after all). At least for the time being, until possibly-maybe there's enough backlash from other backers as well so that HBS has to come up with something to deliver the backer extras independently from that Paradox account-bound bullshit.
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Kakarot96: Yes, i also hope there is enough backlash to make them think a bit about this decision. Problem is, most of the people have the game on Steam, and they are used to this things. But, even that, there are already people on Steam forums, on the reviews and also on Paradox forum that are complaining about this.

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Alexim: This is a serious problem, it means that when their dirty servers shut down, or if a person plays offline, you can't even play the full version of the single player. I hope that people will complain out loud against this mess.
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Kakarot96: Yup, and while yes, it is cosmetic, having to be connected to be able to use it in a SP skirmish, for instance, is horrible.

And more on this. I have been looking at this and i have noticed that game writes 3 files in a folder at Appdata\Local when you log in into Paradox account.

In one of those files, game writes the responses from Paradox server to activate or not the extra content while game is running. Ok, that's how it works, it seems.

But the problem is that the file also contains, in plain text:

-The code i used to redeem the content
-My email :S
-My backer level (that's it, how much money i paid)

Those files are NOT deleted when you exit the game and thus remain in your hard drive in plain text. I had to delete them manually after i noticed.

We don't have here any of the Paradox guys and girls that are in this very moment on the Steam forum answering threads and bad reviews, so probably no one of them will ever answer or even read this. But if you are playing the game and don't like that info to be left there, go to:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp\Harebrained Schemes\Battletech\streamingWebResponses\

...and delete all the files in the folder (3 for each session you played, also, and seem to accumulate)
This is unacceptable, it seems a job done by novices. By the way for a couple of skins they have put on a level of protection that even Fort Knox hasn't... nonsense.

In addition, have you also found what Scutty says? If I understood correctly this would prove that the game definitely has an integrated DRM even for just start the game.

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Scutty: I don't know how GOG can bill this as "DRM-Free" when you have to register with Paradox. Furthermore, I cannot even start the game without logging a callsign on Paradox servers. I don't have anything against Paradox but this aggravation is specifically why I bought the game on GOG. Oh well, live and learn.....
Posted April 25, 2018
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Alexim: This is unacceptable, it seems a job done by novices. By the way for a couple of skins they have put on a level of protection that even Fort Knox hasn't... nonsense.

In addition, have you also found what Scutty says? If I understood correctly this would prove that the game definitely has an integrated DRM even for just start the game.

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Scutty: I don't know how GOG can bill this as "DRM-Free" when you have to register with Paradox. Furthermore, I cannot even start the game without logging a callsign on Paradox servers. I don't have anything against Paradox but this aggravation is specifically why I bought the game on GOG. Oh well, live and learn.....
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Alexim:
Yes, i think he means to activate the extra content. To do that, you first need to create a profile on Paradox Server (callsign, colors, an emblem) and only then you are able to redeem a code. But you can start and play the game totally offline, it only will lack that extra content.
Posted April 25, 2018
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Kakarot96: Yes, i think he means to activate the extra content. To do that, you first need to create a profile on Paradox Server (callsign, colors, an emblem) and only then you are able to redeem a code. But you can start and play the game totally offline, it only will lack that extra content.
I paid for the extra content with the assumption that I can download the game and play it "with" the extra conent, without registering to a third party. Normally when you are buying games on GOG you did not have to consider such limitations of available content you paid for.
Post edited April 25, 2018 by Arundir
Posted April 25, 2018
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GOG.com: BATTLETECH is now available, DRM-free on GOG.com.
Is the DLC that is talked below a pre-order bonus or the backer reward?
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Kakarot96: FYI, that free DLC they offered with a Shadowhawk and an Atlas variant? It has DRM. You need to be logged on your Paradox account (in game) in order for the game to show the variants to you. As soon as you log out or block the game in your firewall, the extra content disappears.

It is not as the rest of games here on GOG where you have a little patch to add the extra content to your game. It is active just while you are online logged to Paradox :S
If it is the former (the pre-order bonus or something announced on GOG-page), this should be fixed to be available regardless of logging in any account.
Post edited April 25, 2018 by Olauron
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