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00:00Hello backers, this is Jordan and Mitch and Mike, and we're a little punchy because we've been setting up the
00:06booth all day down in a very hot convention center, getting ready for Gen Con.
00:09Gen Con!
00:10Right there, in lovely Indianapolis, Indiana.
00:13It's hot!
00:15So we just got the build that we're going to show here at the show, and of course we wanted
00:19to show it to you first, because you are the people that made this game possible.
00:23And before we do, we of course want to back up a giant truckload of caveats, which is that this
00:29is a super pre-pre-pre-pre-alpha version of the game.
00:35What does that mean?
00:35It means that, well, most of the game ain't done yet, and there are big bugs in this stuff that
00:41is done.
00:42But we're proud of what we've done so far, and we're hopefully that done.
00:46We just couldn't wait any longer to show it up.
00:47Exactly.
00:48So, with that, let's talk about our mission.
00:50This is a short mission for being played at the show.
00:54In it, our lance is going to have to take and hold this small salvage base.
00:59You'll see the little starport there.
01:01Our goal is to come in and take it.
01:03A dropship's going to come in, gets loaded up, and we have to hold the base until it takes off.
01:07So that's our plan.
01:09That's our mission.
01:10And why don't, Mitch, why don't you introduce us to our lance?
01:13Let's meet our lance.
01:14Pull in, Mike.
01:15Let's take a look.
01:16All right.
01:16Piloting the commando is Bullhorn.
01:19He is a veteran scout, correct, Mike?
01:22He is.
01:22And then up to the Shadowhawk, we have Gargoyle, and she is a sniper, correct?
01:29She is a crack shot.
01:31She's kind of going to be our jack of all trades here on the battlefield.
01:35Got an LRM, and then...
01:38Blah, blah, blah.
01:39Show me the PPCs.
01:40Get over to the Marauder.
01:42All right.
01:42On your mark.
01:44Myrmidon.
01:45Myrmidon.
01:45And Myrmidon is also a great shot, too, right?
01:47Yes.
01:48So he's going to be coming in and giving us some long-range cover, hopefully, with his
01:54twin PPCs.
01:55Woo!
01:56Blah, blah, blah.
01:57Show me the atlas!
01:59Found me what to do.
02:00That is Overload, and Overload is going to wipe the board clean with that atlas.
02:07All right, let's move him out.
02:08All right.
02:09All right, mount up now.
02:10So at this point, we have not encountered the enemy yet, which means that we're not in
02:14the initiative system, and we can move our guys, you know, without waiting for enemy
02:19any returns.
02:20One of the things that we intend on doing, for instance, in the future in this phase is
02:24not making you wait until one guy completes his move before you're able to initiate another
02:29person's move.
02:31One of the zillions of things that will be worked on between here and the ship.
02:36Moving out.
02:38All right, so we move him up.
02:41At your command.
02:42All right.
02:43I'm actually going to break for this forest over here.
02:47Executing orders.
02:49There's our one jump jet capable mech in the lance here, by the way.
02:53Yummy.
02:53And I should add that this is...
02:55I've got hostile contacts on radar.
02:57Let's zoom over there.
02:58Maracunas.
02:59They must...
03:00Oh, they don't move them.
03:01Come on.
03:01Take them out.
03:03Ready when you are.
03:04So, one of the things that we really wanted to do is to make scouting an important part
03:09of the game.
03:10So, one of the things I can see, like, that contact, we know it's a mech.
03:14We know at this point because it's moved close enough that it's roughly a 25-ton mech, but
03:17we don't know anything more about it.
03:19There's different levels of information you get based upon how far away they are.
03:24So, getting your guys out and scouting is important.
03:25Also, establishing a line of sight allows you to, you know, remotely target.
03:32All right.
03:32So, we're in interleaved teams now.
03:34Here we go.
03:36We are.
03:37I'm going to head for this forest.
03:39Now, let's talk about that a little bit.
03:40You saw when we got into combat that the five phases of initiative showed up at the top
03:44of the screen.
03:45Every mech, based upon its weight class, has an initiative value.
03:50So, our lightest, the commander, is initiative four.
03:52Our heaviest, the atlas, in initiative one.
03:55And, of course, we move to five, four, three, four.
04:02All right.
04:02So, moving up through the trees, they do provide cover, as they should.
04:05You'll notice when we zoom in occasionally, the trees are swaying with a very heavy wind
04:09at the moment.
04:10Something, you know, we're working on.
04:12But we do want things like, you know, our goal is to have trees fall down when we walk
04:16through them, things like that.
04:18We've got some sort of tank coming in here, too.
04:21I think we should flank right, right, along that ridge behind it.
04:28I'll bring the heavies up.
04:30Move the heavies up, right, exactly.
04:32All right, good.
04:32You played before.
04:34A couple times.
04:34I got checks.
04:41Sorry, I'm having this weird flashback still.
04:43I still don't have visual contact on anyone, but it looks like we're getting closer.
04:47We've got something over here, too.
04:49I don't know if I see it.
04:50Yeah, and let's go back to that last one, that last contact.
04:53Oh, okay, it's close enough now that we can see exactly.
04:56Right, so now we can identify it.
04:57Right.
04:59Let's talk about movement for a second.
05:01Why don't you raise the camera up a little bit and see on your next move.
05:03Yeah.
05:06As you can tell from the Merrick logo, this is a Merrick base that we're coming into attack.
05:11And I should add that even though we didn't see anything happen on the enemy turn, that's
05:15just because we don't have a sensor or line of sight to any of their units.
05:19Yeah, so they move something off in the fog of war that we weren't aware of.
05:23Exactly.
05:24So you can see, like with the Atlas here, there's a line that's being drawn out based upon where
05:31Mike wants to move.
05:32After he clicks a position to move the mech to that, he can then rotate the orientation
05:38to be able to get different firing arcs.
05:41The amount of rotation that he has available to him is based upon both the mech's capabilities
05:45and how far he's moved.
05:47So mechs obviously don't turn on a dime, but if I were to move a shorter distance, see, I
05:52could rotate.
05:53Oh, okay.
05:53Now I can also sprint, which I'm actually going to choose to do here, which will let me get
05:59my Atlas into the fray sooner.
06:03Moving back!
06:04Now the downside of sprinting is that you can't shoot if you execute an all-out sprint, but
06:10since we aren't in shooting range just yet anyways, I'm happy with that trade-off.
06:19Hi there.
06:20Oh.
06:21How about this?
06:22System's holding.
06:23A little bit of damage, not too bad.
06:25Wait, wait, wait.
06:25Can you mouse over the damage there real fast?
06:28I can.
06:31So, just a little bit of...
06:33Uh-huh.
06:33Yeah, a little bit in the head.
06:34Okay.
06:35Oh, just a little in the head.
06:37Yeah, a little bit.
06:37It should be fine.
06:38Yeah, no problem.
06:38Nothing to see here.
06:39It's just a scratch.
06:41All right.
06:42So one of the things that, you know, among the many things that have to be done, for instance,
06:46is like critical hits, which are actually taking place in the system right now, but they're not
06:51being called out in the UI yet the way we want them to.
06:53Arms don't get blown off.
06:55Yeah.
06:55Yeah.
06:56There's a zillion things like that.
06:59I'm just going to sprint my commando around.
07:23That sounds like a feature to me.
07:26Looks like we've got a commando.
07:28We've got a hunchback up on the hill.
07:30Oh.
07:31We've got two strikers.
07:34So we're going to have some LRMs incoming soon.
07:36We've got a mystery mech in the back.
07:39Mystery mech.
07:45So that red line shows that you'll have LOS.
07:50It does.
07:51I'm feeling a little bit saucy.
07:53I'm going to forestall our flanking plan here really quick to get this commanding on the side.
08:03Nice little jump jet action.
08:05You didn't say you were going to jump jet.
08:07I didn't necessarily say I was the smartest.
08:08All right.
08:09It's all that way before you hit fire.
08:10Yeah, yeah.
08:10So let's be clear.
08:11Show a little bit of the UI here.
08:12So we showed damage over on the left-hand side.
08:14Yeah.
08:14Our mech warriors on the right.
08:15In the center.
08:16On the right-hand side is our weapons.
08:17Right?
08:18And they're going to show you for that mech what weapons are on line and off.
08:22He's clicking them on and off depending on what he wants to do.
08:24Or can and can't fire.
08:25You can see on the far right column there is the percentage you hit.
08:27Yep.
08:28And so he's going to fire the AC-5 and the LRM with about 55% each on those.
08:35Better than Vegas.
08:36Yeah.
08:36I'm actually just going to Alpha Strike it.
08:38Just Alpha Strike it.
08:38The Shadowhawk's pretty good on heat management.
08:40Yeah, he's got a 78% on the other ones.
08:41Make him pay for coming back.
08:45All right.
08:46You see a little damage float is there.
08:48That was all right.
08:49You see some damage on him.
08:50That's nice.
08:54And that's why it may not have been the smartest move.
08:57Yeah, because a little indirect LRM fire with the hunchy.
09:03Yeah.
09:03So let's talk about that.
09:04Right?
09:04So they've got line of sight because they've got a unit up front who's got us in line of
09:09sight, which means those strikers with the LRMs don't need to be in line of sight.
09:13They can take advantage of that.
09:14And yes, we know that, you know, this is what we're trying to play with here is a little
09:18bit to make that scouting that much more powerful.
09:23Oh, yeah, that's great.
09:24So here I'm debating whether to just take a shot at the commando now or move Mermodon
09:30a little bit closer so that he can get more targets in range of his PPCs.
09:34I think I am going to move closer just because I don't want to be moving in future turns.
09:40Just like tabletop, you know, anytime I choose to move, I am going to take a hit penalty.
09:45But the further I move, my unit will also be harder to pick.
09:48Move it out.
09:53Footsteps.
09:54Yay.
09:55Saving foot man.
09:55So I've got a good number of targets here.
09:58Here we go.
09:58I could try to finish off the commando.
10:01Uh-huh.
10:01But I know that I'm going to be able to move my atlas in before he gets to act again.
10:06So I may save him for that.
10:09You see, he was a four initiative and it's grayed out, so we know he's already moving.
10:13Okay.
10:17You could also just toast one of the strikers.
10:19Good.
10:20It's a little bit of overkill.
10:22I'll turn off a couple of things.
10:24Yeah, you can save some heat, too.
10:28Oh.
10:29Huh?
10:29You missed him.
10:30Missed him.
10:31Yeah, the rockets hit the missile.
10:33The strategy was sound.
10:34Missed him, yeah.
10:35You should blame the mech warrior.
10:37That's what we did.
10:37Oh, yeah.
10:38That's the finish.
10:40All right.
10:42A little toasty there.
10:43PPC misses.
10:45So those red lines you're seeing are showing you that from the position that you're planning
10:49to end your move in, who will you have LOS to?
10:53And vice versa.
10:54The direct lines are direct LOS.
10:56You can see that arc line means that I'll be able to fire, or Mike will be able to fire,
11:00the LRMs, because of one of the other spotting units.
11:05Affirmative.
11:07It's going to continue overloads.
11:10Slow, inexorable march towards the enemy.
11:12One of the nice things with the big assaults is that if you're zoomed in enough on it, you
11:19actually see the ground shape and the camera shape.
11:22I really want to outpice the commando right now.
11:25The order is given.
11:27It's not a smart move.
11:29Look at your heat.
11:30The far left arc there shows the heat.
11:32You can turn off a couple.
11:33Okay.
11:34Well, okay.
11:34I just have to say to Kevin, though, I could play better than this.
11:38I'm opting to optimize my play pattern for audience drama.
11:43That's another way of saying, I want an alpha strike!
11:47Make him pay for coming anywhere near a...
11:49Oh my god.
11:51And he's down!
11:52I think we got him.
11:53Oh, and the quarterback is toast!
11:55He literally had no armor anywhere left.
11:59Wow.
12:01Sorry.
12:02Good times.
12:03Alright.
12:04Back to more tactically sound choices.
12:08I'm going to continue my flanking maneuver with another sprint.
12:12Kick it in the high game.
12:14Yo.
12:17I sure hope that pays off.
12:19Get that nice thin rear armor.
12:21Uh-huh.
12:23Alright, there's our friend.
12:25Uh-huh.
12:26Last time I played this, he was no friend of mine.
12:30Oh, man.
12:31He wasted me.
12:32And you know what?
12:33I think Shadowhawk's going to join in on this.
12:36Oh, really?
12:36Interesting.
12:39I can still shoot one of them with her...
12:43LRM, I believe.
12:47I guess I can't.
12:48Oh, no.
12:49Because he was the spotter.
12:49Yeah, she was the only spotter.
12:51Yeah.
12:51So be it.
12:56Just say the word.
12:59Let's go soak some damage.
13:02Oh, yeah.
13:03See, I screwed up.
13:04I shouldn't have moved my spotter out.
13:06Yeah, because no, you can't use the LRM.
13:07If she'd stayed there, I would be able to hammer them with my PPCs.
13:10Well, how close can Mermadon get?
13:12Yeah, I think he can get close enough to get...
13:15Yeah, I just didn't want to have to suffer the BATTLETE.
13:18Yeah.
13:19Oh, I see.
13:20Oh, you're actually playing BATTLETE.
13:22Let's try.
13:22I just try and shoot everything.
13:24Alright.
13:25I think I'm going to...
13:30There we go.
13:31Oh, that's more like it.
13:32That's a nice PPC hit.
13:36Oh, it's like when I one-shot...
13:38Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what's that?
13:39That was a striker, I think.
13:41No, that's not a striker.
13:42That's something else coming up.
13:43Back.
13:44Oh, we're on it.
13:45Oh, shit.
13:45Oh, good.
13:46Alright.
13:46Alright.
13:48Well, now our flanking action has a purpose.
14:03I think I need to finish off one of these strikers.
14:14That'll do it.
14:15Nope.
14:15There you go.
14:16There you go.
14:17That's more like it.
14:20Now, I'm actually going to reserve Bullhorn's action here
14:25because I want to be able to flank around
14:27and then deliver a one-two punch.
14:29And if you reserve a unit all the way down to the last phase,
14:33you'll be able to go twice in a row
14:35because you'll act in phase one
14:36and then you'll act again in phase four.
14:38And this is one of the flexibilities of this initiative system, right?
14:40That the...
14:46The commander, who's a four, could...
14:48would reserve themselves
14:49and try to act in phase three
14:51or in phase two
14:51or in phase one.
14:54It shows that lighter units
14:55have a lot more flexibility of movement.
14:56They're actually going to pull
14:57the same trick with Gargoyle.
15:00Well, that's good
15:00because the enemy will have also moved too
15:02so they can return fire.
15:04Well, I guess I'm pointing at a screen
15:05nobody can see.
15:08Help, help, help, help.
15:10Help, help.
15:18Oh, you're going to have trouble finishing this one now.
15:22Tyler, I think the crits are still tuned too high.
15:25All right, well...
15:26Sure, blame the designer.
15:31Okay, I can't wait to see...
15:32This is where I really get to show my skills, right?
15:36As a commander.
15:37All right.
15:38All right.
15:39That hurt.
15:40That was a classic.
15:41Do you want to reserve now?
15:42It was.
15:43Yeah, I'm going to go for another one.
15:45Yeah, yeah.
15:46Stay on the plan.
15:49Hmm.
15:50All right.
15:52All right.
15:53So those are little setbacks.
15:54Clearly, this is an unscripted demo.
15:59Oh, this is not looking good, guys.
16:02Actually, can you get the marauder
16:04out of the line of fire
16:05and around that ridge or not?
16:07I can hit any of them with...
16:11No matter whether you're trying to preserve them
16:12or you want to just go up the front, face to face.
16:15I'm going to try to make them close the distance.
16:18Okay.
16:19See you then.
16:19Take off.
16:21All right.
16:21Well, I got one PPC hit.
16:23Where's my lucky headshot?
16:26Yeah.
16:27You don't know how many years
16:28BattletoClayer has been saying.
16:29Yeah, they're good.
16:30Hmm.
16:31Uh-oh.
16:31All right.
16:32Well, my flank backfired in another way.
16:34Yeah, but so you could sprint
16:35and then be ready for the next turn.
16:37Okay, there we go.
16:39You found a spot.
16:41One thing's nice in the way
16:43that the UI we've really been working on
16:44is to do exactly that.
16:45You know what you're going to have LOS
16:47before you shoot up.
16:49There we go.
16:50That's a nice rear armor shot.
16:52Oh, huh.
16:54He doesn't have any more rear armor.
16:56That's really a shame.
16:57I have an idea.
16:59Jump shots.
17:00Oh, very nice.
17:00Get to the full.
17:01Pum, pum.
17:04Hello, my little.
17:06I think we might as well
17:07pummel that rear armor a little bit more.
17:09Engaging target.
17:12Oh.
17:13Oh, it's still standing.
17:15Oh.
17:15Oh.
17:16Oh, oh, oh, oh.
17:16Oh, no.
17:17You didn't take out a weapon either.
17:20It's a fully capable.
17:21All right.
17:22This is where that one two punch comes in handy.
17:24See, I get to move the commando again.
17:27Right.
17:27Yep.
17:28Yeah.
17:29Beautiful, beautiful.
17:29All right, all right.
17:31I'm feeling good about this.
17:32Really?
17:33You're feeling good about the Atlas soup.
17:35This is going to work.
17:38Yeah, you took out a PPC.
17:39Strat 0-1 Murad.
17:41All right.
17:42Boom.
17:43Bam.
17:43Of that taste.
17:45I can't believe I lost my hands.
17:49All right.
17:49Let's not lose anybody else.
17:51I can't afford to.
17:54We're saving you.
17:55Is it about the metal or the meat?
17:58You know, I think.
18:01Right.
18:02Well, so one of the things, actually, as Mitch brings up, the metal or the meat, both are
18:07valuable, right?
18:08And one of the things we really want to do in this game is to make warrior skills that
18:11you develop them over time.
18:12So losing a pilot, you know, really hurts.
18:15And you're going to want to, you know, where you can, get them off board, get them off the
18:20fire before they go down.
18:21I think I need to take out this striker.
18:25By the way, there's a bug right now where you can have hit chances higher than 100%.
18:29I'm not complaining about it.
18:31I'm really good with it.
18:35It's an overkill, but I didn't want it to get a chance to act.
18:38Yeah, yeah, screw it.
18:40Because it was going to go next.
18:42You can tell when something's going to go based upon the chaperons.
18:48Yeah, the red chaperons are the enemy.
18:50All right, 76.
18:51I'll take that.
18:53Yeah, PPCs?
18:54Yeah, I could try to close the distance.
18:58Well.
19:01You're going to shut down when you do it anyways.
19:03You're going to close it.
19:03Well, you've only hit with one PPC every time anyway.
19:06Yeah, I need to get into laser right now.
19:09Yeah, I gotcha.
19:14The tree's out of the way.
19:16What do you mean?
19:18Turn on the PPC.
19:20All right, I'm going to try to...
19:21Really?
19:22Not quite.
19:24I don't want to lose my next turn.
19:26Okay.
19:27All right, we'll release that.
19:28Let's breathe a little sigh of relief when the PPCs win.
19:31Standing by.
19:33Nice.
19:35Can you charge up the hill and get behind him or no?
19:39I can't.
19:41Yep.
19:41No.
19:42Oh.
19:42By the way, melee didn't quite make it in this demo.
19:44We really wanted it, but it came online pretty late and it's still kind of buggy, so we opted
19:49to win.
19:52Nice.
19:53Nice.
19:53Nice.
19:54Almost.
19:55All right.
19:56I think we got...
19:56Oh, come on.
19:57Hold together.
19:59Oh, my arm's not looking good.
20:01You got this.
20:02All right.
20:03At your command.
20:04Needed her to stay alive for one more turn.
20:11Roger.
20:12Those jump jets really come in handy, huh?
20:15Nice.
20:17Oh, yeah.
20:18Down to just a couple weapons.
20:19Executing.
20:20Scratch.
20:22You only needed a couple of weapons.
20:24I was kind of holding my breath.
20:26I think my reputation was on the line there for a minute.
20:29It really was, by the way.
20:30All right.
20:30With us, for sure.
20:33Let's move down into the base.
20:34Don't worry.
20:35We would have totally let you forget it.
20:36Yeah.
20:36Oh, yeah.
20:37That's why we were recording.
20:39Yeah.
20:42Moving into position.
20:44They should be a piece of cake.
20:45Man, I miss Overload.
20:46She's my favorite.
20:47I'm leaving you.
20:51Repositioning.
20:52Yeah.
20:54Try to regroup here,
20:56because I don't know what else is out there.
20:57And also, we should point out that
20:59when the net goes down,
21:00it doesn't necessarily mean that the pilot
21:01has lost by only the pilot.
21:03In this case, it was a head hit,
21:05so it probably does mean that she was lost,
21:08but that's not always the case.
21:10It's not looking so good.
21:11Here we go.
21:14Good job.
21:15Hey, there's our popcorn.
21:16Hello, leopard.
21:18You're done.
21:20Receiving you.
21:21All right, so now it's just a piece of cake.
21:24There's the video note,
21:25but we're fine.
21:26Yeah.
21:26No problem.
21:27I just load up.
21:28Oh, wait a minute.
21:29No, no, no.
21:31You mean, that wasn't really good?
21:32You will take nothing, mercenary.
21:34Power down your memory
21:35and surrender yourselves to my justice.
21:38I will order my men.
21:39Okay, yeah, let's point this out.
21:40We're on the left-hand side here.
21:41Eh, he's just making idle threats.
21:43Yeah, so left-hand side,
21:44there was a message from opposing characters,
21:46something to do.
21:47So, again, we have LRS, um, uh...
21:50A heavy vehicle.
21:51Yeah, out here in the Fog of War.
21:55All right, let's see.
21:56Here, a couple...
21:58A couple stri...
21:58I'm guessing it's two strikers.
22:00Actually, I know it's two strikers,
22:02because I've played it before.
22:04This is a good place to leave it,
22:05don't you think?
22:06I think so, because...
22:06It's a cliffhanger.
22:08Exactly.
22:09Oh, I got this.
22:10Yeah, it's a total cliffhanger,
22:11like I said.
22:12I think we're going to preserve your reputation
22:14by not showing the rest of this on film.
22:16Thank you.
22:18All right, well, um,
22:19that's, uh, that's a quick, uh,
22:21intro to, uh, this really, really early version
22:23of the game.
22:24Uh, we have a long way to go,
22:25but, uh, we're excited about where we are so far.
22:27The team's been working really hard
22:28to, uh, to get to this point.
22:30Hi, team.
22:31Yeah, and great work.
22:33Sorry about this.
22:34Yeah.
22:35Uh, and again, we thank you, uh,
22:37you the backers,
22:38because without your help,
22:39um, you know,
22:40this thing wouldn't exist.
22:42And, uh, we...
22:43It's pretty simple.
22:43So excited to be continuing to work on it,
22:45and hopefully this video gives you, uh,
22:47um, some, you know,
22:48sense of where we're going,
22:49and, uh...
22:51Certainly where we are right now.
22:53And lookit, we'll be staying in touch.
22:54So take care,
22:55and thanks again for all your support.
22:56Thanks, guys.
22:57Go Merrick!
22:58Go Merrick!