What will we do without PUBG or Overwatch on GOG?.....*shrug*/bad sarcasm/.Cheers

lol really? That would be a relief! But, anyway, it shows different than when i redeemed the game before release and it showed as owned. For instance, when i looked at the most popular list, the basic version was greyed out for me (when it was the first game sold, just before release and just before it disappeared from that list during almost a whole day or so)

Also, when release, while i was downloading the game, i used the link from my game shelf to the store page and it went to the basic game version. Now, it points at the Deluxe version (although i don't have any extra content apart from the game)

I mean, it's a bit strange anyway, more if you add to that the reset of the reviews.

But thank you!! Maybe it was wrongly assigned on the first time, i don't know.

Sounds like there's more going on with Battletech than most Backer Rewarded games. But yeah, they give those backer reward editions different catalog numbers, so the base games usually don't show as owned (nor do the other editions), and you don't get notifications of updates either. So that's something else to watch for with your copy of Battletech.

Thanks for the info. Not good. I broke my not pre-ordering rule for this game, but that rule was for Steam and other platforms. I should have damned known they`d get to GOG eventually. Now what else will happen?

But that`s it, I shall not pre-order any more on GOG.

Paying for an enjoying games is once again becoming as distasteful as in the early days with Steam.

Hope you get your issues sorted.

Just figured out (but not reading all the posts here) that you can reduce the GPU load quite a bit if you turn on v-sync in the Advanced graphics options.

I will watch for updates on the Paradox forums. thanks for the advice about not getting notifications.

You are welcome. Also, thank you very much for your best wishes, but it seems it is (now) "working as intended" and backers got a hidden different id branch for our copy of the game. I hope we will get someday also the extra content and all the goodies here as all the deluxe edition pre-orders plus the backer skin. But i am not counting with that.

The option is bugged, though. Their are preparing a patch which, among other questions, seems to solve the problem (and also sets by default VSync on in the options) and it is actually on the beta branch if you use GOG Galaxy. If not, maybe this monday will be up, i am not sure.

For now, if you don't use Galaxy, it's better to set the option OFF inside the game and force it on your Card's control panel to be certain you are really using it.

Also, as Ambient Occlusion cannot be set to a mid amount, there are reports of people that disabling it helps a lot, but this also depends on your system.

Good luck!

Have you been on the Paradox forum of the game? I registered there way back in 2009. Decided to find out stuff there again.

Wow, it`s like a Totalitarian State now. Criticise anything about the game such as lack of blonde hair or the ideological politics and its warnings, deleted and temporary ban with the threat of permanent.The game clearly has political ideological overtones, but you must not speak of it.

Don`t even try a tangent small talk, you`ll be warned.

I also suspect that the mods are very, very biased. I don`t see any neutral point of views. You have to keep your mouth shut in general, or speak meekly and very, very nicely(they don`t like your `tone`) about a mech part and that`s it or big brother (or is it big momma?) will come down on you like the Eye of Sauron! You pay MONEY for this game and THIS is how the CUSTOMER is treated?? Mini-Hitlers they are. It`s suffocating.

It`s awful.

Ugh... I waited such a long time for BattleTech, but now we have to have it with this crap attached. Come back late 1990s freedom.

Why only if it's the pre-order bonus or something announced on GOG? If this requirement was not preemptively communicated to backers so they could make an informed decision about supporting them, yet a DRM-free option on GOG was offered, it's equally problematic, and needs to be rectified a.s.a.p.

Don't quite understand why it would have been less secure to get people their backers or pre-order content with and extra code redeemable on the store of their choice. Or do it the way other crowd-funded devs did, confine everything in one's edition; its' not like the title will show as owned here anyway.

It's disingenuous to claim you support a DRM-free release and not trust the ones giving you their money even before your title exists.



Looks like nobody mentioned that the bug that resets all votes on reviews at least since early April; we first noticed when the anniversary editions of Simon the Sorcerer were released, and it's still going strong. If you check the game page now, you'll see that almost all the reviews have zero votes.

Almost every one of the 5-star reviews reads like it was written by the developer. I have a good nose for a sales pitch and these reviews are drenched in inauthenticity.

I now start to wonder how common this phenomenon may be on GOG in general.

seriously? is all this 100% gpu frying stuff just a case of this game cranking hundreds or thousands of frames and people not noticing that?

the DRM situation is an issue that's true, but I'm not gonna touch that right now.

I just want to say that gog isn't the only one being a bit heavyhanded with the review space. too many times I see valid reviews being downvoted by several people but anything even remotely disapproving is catapulted to the top. let people express their opinions of something even if it's positive while some other people are currently having problems, or worse, advancing some kind of agenda. if the reviews are not disingenuous or misleading, leave them alone.

positive reviews aren't there to be casualties to some kind of message you're trying to send.

upvote reviews saying something you think is valid. do not downvote reviews saying something you disagree with on personal terms or that doesn't harmonize with the towline from your agenda or that you don't want people to see. you downvote stuff you think is not valid. be more careful with gog's review space because it's smaller.

if you can't see why this is a bad thing to be doing, think about it more.

I fully agree that developer (or publisher) should work out the DRM-free distribution of all backer rewards. But such a question should be aimed at that developer (or publisher). The store that provides a basic or deluxe edition without backer rewards can't be blamed for anything considering backer rewards that this store doesn't distribute.

For example, let's say that different digital game stores sell basic version of game "X". Then the developer of "X" makes a promotion to add free DLC for all buyers that connect their games from different stores to the account made of the developers site and that DLC will be available only while game has internet connection with the developers servers. While this is rather foul move from the developer there is no fault of the stores that has nothing to do with this promotion.

I'm not a backer of Battletech so I have no questions to the developers regarding backer rewards. I just make a reminder to self to look closely for them (and for the Paradox) in the future. Backer rewards have nothing to do with GOG so I don't ask GOG about them. But a pre-order bonus is something that is under the control of GOG and this is where my question arises.

With a little bit of research I find out that this game is full-bore SJW politics with an all-but-explicitly genocidal attitude towards the very straight white male players who would normally be the vast majority of the player base for a game of this genre, and certainly have comprised almost the entirety of the fans of the franchise to date.

This game has dumpster fire written all over it, and will likely spark a lot of players to make sure there are no social justice freaks on the development staff of any future games they buy. I know that just became a fixed item on my agenda, and I'd wager I'm not alone.

what is all this SJW shit.

what is this crap.

why is this a thing?

it's a fucking videogame about fucking giant ass robots.

it's a robot fighting videogame.

That's what I thought also. Why did this game need to be wrapped in modern-day ideological politics?

It's beyond bizarre that the company chose a developer who would clearly prefer to have the entire existing BattleTech franchise userbase lined up against a wall and shot for the crimes of being too white, too straight, and too male.

Who did they think their customers were?

Why can't we have our robot fighting games free of the relentless encroachments of Cultural Marxism?

I was briefly on a Battletech utube video watching a lets play with the Devs and saw a Dev( I think he was) that was clearly a man, but dressed like a woman. This set alarm bells ringing, but I kept telling myself, "It`s ok, they won`t put sjw crap into the game, I`m sure...It`s just one guy who thinks he`s a woman."

Yea, looks like they did. He was probably the guy who insisted on the `they` pronoun.

And yes, I am now always watching for this and won`t buy if I see it. The only reason they got me was cos I have been waiting for battletech many, many years, but even then I probably not have bought it had I know this crap was going to put itself into trying to brainwash me. But it`ll never brainwash me- It just makes me angry and invigorates me to concentrate in my own work to keep this nonsense out. That`s all.

Y`know these guys will probably just get worse when they hear we don`t want it.