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Game News Alpha Strike: BattleTech Kickstarter is Live

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Tags: BattleTech; Harebrained Schemes; Jordan Weisman; Mike McCain; Mitch Gitelman

Harebrained Schemes' BattleTech Kickstarter just went live, and it's off to a very strong start. The funding goal is $250,000 and the minimum pledge to get a copy of the game is $25, with beta access available at the $50 tier. On top of the basic four stage funding plan we learned about yesterday, this campaign will include a variety of mini-stretch goals for each stage as it unlocks. Since we already know all the basic information about the game, I'll quote the stretch goals for its initial Skirmish Game stage, which Harebrained are funding with their own cash. After the video, of course:



STAGE 1+ ADDITIONAL FUNDING GOALS

$250,000 - Combined Arms:
We'll add a healthy roster of non-'Mech AI opponents to the Base Skirmish Game including tanks, hovercraft, support vehicles and more. But be careful - even the lightest of combat vehicles can still wreck your 'Mechs under the right conditions.

$400,000 - Expanded Mission Objectives:
We'll add a variety of mission types to the Base Skirmish Game including Escort, Capture, Defend, and more.

$500,000 - Expanded Environments:
We'll add a wider variety of battlefield environments to the game, including time-of-day and atmospheric conditions that affect both movement and combat. Confront enemy forces in the low-visibility conditions of a blizzard on a frigid ice world, or carefully manage your heat in a battle across volcanic fields.

In addition to these, the campaign has a bunch of Bard's Tale IV-style social media stretch goals, with their own unique rewards. I assume there'll be a Kickstarter update about that later, after the game funds, as it surely will. This is definitely no leisurely Shadowrun: Hong Kong-style campaign. I guess they want to be able to get it right the first time with BattleTech.

Update: The campaign has made its initial funding goal and all the Stage 1 stretch goals in just over 4 hours, making Jordan Weisman a very happy man. This is gonna be a big one.
 

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Heheh, neat. The mechs in
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Are the Dougram and Soltic.
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Can't be arsed to find out their western name.


Anywho, will probably back sometime since big robots are cool.
 

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Looks very good.
Concept art is great and the idea for the extended campaign are very interesting, i especially appreciate salaries for your mercenaries as he reminds me JA2.
 

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Isn't there some sort of kickstarter rule against self-funding? And also, aren't they losing on kickstarter fees (and taxes?) through this circular transaction?

The rule is against backing your own Kickstarter. There's no problem with having your own separate funds to make the game with.
 

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Was turn based mentioned in the kickstarter pitch video? :) Because I've missed it

oh, at 0:33 it seems
 

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Jordan Weisman just seems like the doofiest, nicest man there is. Utterly likeable in that supernerdy way.
:love:
Anyways, I'm in for 35 bucks.
 

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I like these dudes, but I've only ever played Mechwarrior 2 way back when.:S I'd be all for it, if the thing was like a double sawbuck. No fan of these 25$ tiers being the lowest to get the game at. SR:HK was only 15 bucks!
 

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It's not Front Mission, but whatever. They got my 50 bucks.
 

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Dick move to put the single player campaign behind a million dollar funding goal, especially after talking up, pre kickstarter, the non linear mercenaries style campaign they were planning.

Luckily it will get funded due to the fast pace of money coming in, still a dick move.
 

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This is a really odd campaign. Only 3 tiers below $125, most expensive being $50. Then only 1 at $275 and the next is $1000.
5,938 backers and 4,828 pledged $50 or less. They're going to have a hard time reaching 2.5 million if they don't add more tiers.
 

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Possibly after we finish the DOS fundraiser first. And if we have enough interest in this, I certainly am willing to donate to a codex fund.

Do it please!
 

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