What pillars? More option to buy games outside of Steam platform is a win-win for consumer. It's not like you can get the game totally DRM-free without having to login to 3rd party account anywhere else either.

If the game can't be DRM-free (or atleast come with GOG Galaxy support for multiplayer without a 3rd party platform), it should not be sold on GOG. Exactly like Overwatch or PUBG will never be available here.

So I backed this on Kickstarter and I gotta say...first impressions aren't great.

First time playing - Mech would only go in a straight line, making it impossible to complete the first mission.
Second time playing - Game crashed to desktop on loading the second mission.,

Add to this clunky camera controls and long loading times that end in a crash? Not the best of starts.

And requires a permanent net connection or you lose unlocked functionality? That's just....disappointing.

Well, here's hoping some patches can at least resolve the stability issue.

You all seem too preoccupied with talking about DRM and pro-nouns to comment on how shit this game is... "like X-com" my ass. I believe Paladin181 said it best when he said "Glad I didn't spend my money on this shitstain." Well Paladin, unfortunately I did and I can confirm you were wise to avoid it...

Now don't be so harsh on GOG :D..... they are not the bad guys, they are the good guys ....and sometimes people , parties , companies change from one 'mode' to another 'mode'.

Its like politicians, at start they promise a lot and many things they promise they fullfill... but after a while ( 2 or 3 terms of 4 or 5 years) it gets common and boring and then hides are shed .... they turn bad...

As for external accounts needed: i hate that , assuming you have a few dozen of games that have online multiplayer imagine all those extra accounts you need to keep track off.... yuck

Ow, almost forgot, maybe the Paradox account is a test, to find out how many gamers really mind having to create many extra accounts for online multiplayer, if there is little 'resistance' is they will make it common soon, and before you can blink your eyes, it is common to have dozens of extra accounts , and even extra DRM....

I never play online multiplayer so i usually disable the internet after i'm done with online transactions, so nothing can go out or come in just right click and disable and voila no connection.

If you are thinking about getting a new graphics card but can't convice yourself to buy one, this game seems in some cases to take this hard decision on itself and make it for you. The game has already fried several cards.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/batteltech-100-gpu-utilization.1091398/

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Wow. That is so incredibly bad.

LOL anyone who gets hardware problems by software utilizing 100% of the hardware has either got a mickey mouse PC or is itself the mickey mouse who built its own PC.
That said, utilizing a GFX card by 100% even if you only look at low poly or a menu is just bad programming, I remember Unity engine did that in the past (at Expedition Conquistador times a few years back), but playing Escape From Tarkov (also Unity game) and such now does not do this anymore.

Really sorry to hear the negative reactions. I do hope there will be more games from the universe.
I really liked the Mechwarrior 4 and Mechcommander who had good campaigns and also used live action videos to make the stories more enjoyable so hopefully that trend will resume any time soon.

This might actually be a requirement for localhost loopback to hook into things like Microsoft's Visual libraries or whatnot. A lot of games use that (though personally I think it's a lazy and dangerous "solution"), so if your firewall allows it, create rules that allow access to 127.0.0.1 and block the rest. That might fix it (can't check since Paradox' name around this release made me extremely wary, and it seems to my benefit).

Doesn't mean localhost loopback can't be used for smuggling telemetry out of your machine, either, but at least that's more "underhanded" of a method than direct connection and presumably easier for somebody interested to detect.

Well, going by the forums we're a minority. Far more people are interested in waving their digital dicks around with no regard for the damage such continuous privacy invasion practices are causing.

Poland has already been demanding special treatment in that regard, and in ways that make circumventing the whole directive laughably easy.

While I certainly appreciate EU politicians not always just looking after their own pockets (unlike our own for the most part), I'm rather skeptical to the degree of impact GDPR will have on data-mining. It's too huge of a business (backed by the best American politicians money can buy) to fold without a prolonged fight.

I did some data processing for an "independent" infosec study into torrents, and the conclusion was that you were almost guaranteed to run into some payload in any of them - with the caveat that the focus was on the most popular files (that still made up more than 70% of the traffic, from what I recall). This was years ago, too, and I strongly doubt that the practice diminished. If anything, there is an even greater demand for undetected access to individual machines nowadays than before.

Interesting. I just got a brand new computer. Decided that the first game I would play should be Battletech.
Enjoy the game for about four hours, then the screen goes dark and the fans start screaming like banshees.

Second attempt, get to the Campaign/Skirmish menu then darkness and banshees.

Third attempt, sitting at desktop wondering how to fix this, then more darkness and banshees.

Fourth attempt, enter bios to maybe tweak fans but get interrupted by darkness WITHOUT banshees.

When starting my computer from this point on, my monitor quickly goes into sleep mode since i guess it gets no signal from the graphics card.

Rest In Peace, GTX1080
(10:00pm-02:00am)

Gives new meaning to the game's name.

You just stress-tested your graphics card and the results came out bad.
Sorry for the dead on arrival card. Nvidia seems to not build great cards anymore.
Still believe this has nothing to do with the game. Would have equally happened by e.g. http://freestone-group.com/video-card-stability-test.htm

Good news indeed.

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