by HareBrained Schemes is up here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/webeharebrained/battletech

About to back it at one of the starter levels.

Watched a bit of the stream about it yesterday, sounds really good.

You run a Merc unit in a single player campaign. Additional levels will unlock PvP. I am really interested in a well done single player campaign though. Having co-op would be amazing, but didn't here anything about that.

Using the Unity 5 engine, will be in full 3d, not locked isometric view, and there will be melee, so DFA!!!



Hoping this one turns out well, but I have pretty good faith considering how well they did Shadowrun Returns.

Thank f@$k for that

Hey! I loved Mech Commander and it was isometric... well, at least the first one was.

After the fail of MWO and MWT, I'm a bit skeptical about new BattleTech stuff. I've backed both previous projects at Founder level but luckily I was able to back out and get my money after playing the Beta and realizing it wasn't the type of BattleTech I wanted to play.

Met the base goal pretty quickly! The counter keeps going up. That's awesome.

at 1,000,000....SP campaign, not just vs AI skirmish
at 1,850,000....dynamic campaign
at 2,500,000....PvP


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backers
$320,908
pledged of $250,000 goal
35
days to go


New Stackpole stories sounds pretty cool.

I might kick myself later, but I did the $25. If it's getting close to the MP or at least dynamic campaign goal by the end I might go up a level.
I'd really like at least the dynamic campaign.



4,718
backers
$370,268
pledged of $250,000 goal

As much as I loved battletech in my youth the people putting together BT games have pretty much botched everything since MW2 and MW Mercenaries. So, ill pass on funding it and check it out when it is released.

Sounds like this thing is "BLOWING" up. Teehee.

Oh it blows alright! Wait, no, the opposite. Or something.


7,983
backers
$581,996

-Mechwarrior Tactics tricked me into funding and turned out horrible bullcrap...

-But shadowrun returns was a really good game!

-MWO had great potential but turned out a mediocre and boring game...

-But I love Battletech in general!


Such conflicting feelings towards this :O

Wait on it. About 95% of games sound good on paper and end up being mediocre at best. If it turns out this is in the 5% then go buy the kickass game and enjoy.

Or blow money on a "maybe", I don't know how much you make a year or if it matters

18,702
backers
$1,230,877
pledged of $250,000 goal
32
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Well THIS was a nice way to start our day. Since our last update, you’ve unlocked two more funding goals for STAGE 2!
Whoa!
Whoa!

We’re really excited about our next funding goal:

$1,350,000 - Voice Acting: We'll record a cast of talented voice actors to act as your advisers, provide mission briefings, and record battlefield emotes. We’ll also add voice acting to the animatics for important moments in the story.

And while we’re on the subject, did you know that one of the voice actors in MechCommander 2 works at Harebrained Schemes?
#HeyDagger! #BATTLETECH
#HeyDagger! #BATTLETECH

Maybe if enough people tweet at her, #HeyDagger! #BATTLETECH, we can get her to reprise her role during the live streaming Twitch Q&A session that you unlocked by completing Backer Missions.

Be sure to SHARE this with your friends on Facebook and Twitter. Jordan, Mitch, and Mike love talking to our Backers and we’re thinking of more ways to make our live streams fun. If you have ideas, leave a message for us on the MAIN Comments page. You can get our attention by shouting HEY HBS!

The Global BattleTech Community is doing an amazing job on those Backer Missions. You BLEW through Jordan’s first WEEKLY BONUS BACKER MISSION!
BONUS MISSION COMPLETE!
BONUS MISSION COMPLETE!

It's Throwback Thursday!

Jordan loved sharing one of his favorite BattleTech memories and loved hearing your BattleTech memories even more. He was so excited, he went through his old photographs and found some pictures from the GenCon 1988 wedding of Hanse Davion and Melissa Steiner.

Here's the invitation.

And here's the cake!
I have a bad feeling about this.
I have a bad feeling about this.

Although the first Bonus Mission is complete, we still want to hear your BattleTech memories. Folks are tweeting out all sorts of stuff, including their own videos! Remember to use #BTmemory and #BATTLETECH.

Onward to STAGE 3!

- HBS

Slowed down quite a bit, as is to be expected. It got through the voice acting funding goal though, that's good.
I hope it can make it to the 1.85mil mark, but I'm having doubts.

They hit the 1.5M goal now, plenty of time to hit the 1.85mil dynamic campaign goal, at least I hope so.

Remember - this is by Jordan Weisman.

He helped create BattleTech in the first place.
He created Crimson Skies (another awesome game).
He created Shadowrun Returns (which was awesome)

I think this will hopefully be first true BattleTech game.

Closer to the $1.85M goal. Just put in for $25.

1.68 Mio $ so far, and stil 21 days to go. Looking good.

Backed it, too.

$1.778

Gosh, starting to look so damn good I might even...

I wonder if they exceed the top goal, if they will add co-op?

I keep hoping that they will add a co-op stretch goal. Would love to have my SimHQ buddies as my low paid mercs, fighting over what broken down mech I deem them worthy of.

And then Raw can come in and pay me a little bit more to turn on you.