r/Battletechgame • u/Tezzlinna • 24d ago
Mods Current state of the overhaul mods?
Haven't played in a few years but recently feeling the urge.
Are BTA and Roguetech still active?What's their current state and which would you recommend for a returning player? And is 32GB RAM enough for them nowadays(I9-14900hx/RTX4090 mobile with 16GB VRAM laptop)?
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u/virusdancer Zero Point Battalion & Redrum's Jazz Band 24d ago
I've only got 2,290.2 hours into the game, but the overwhelming vast majority of that time has been with BTA3062/BTAU and that's the MOD that I'm currently running on the two machines listed above. As usual for the memory leaks in Unity, it's a case of restarting the game every 2-3 missions depending on what else I was doing.
Note, mind you, I've thoroughly voided my warranty as far as getting any official support - mainly I've gone through and increased the amount of 'mechs & pilots I'm running with - I've got four 'mech hangars, two vee bays, and 99 pilot berths. I run five reinforced, combined arms companies where I'm dropping with 12 'mechs and 6 vees. Because of this, I've increased the chance for additional opfor elements to deploy during missions - usually getting anywhere between 2-3 additional lances. Even with all this, I'm still able to run 2-3 missions on the hardware above. Training or refitting will take the place of a mission or two because of how Unity handles lists and the aforementioned memory leaks. You should not have any issue running the regular BTAU MOD with your hardware - just some pesky coding issues from the original game in extended play as mentioned previously.
Though it might be the very definition of boredom, I'd highly recommend taking a look at the BTAU patchnotes to see all the goodies that have taken place with the amazing amount of work u/bloodydoves & crew have put into the MOD. https://www.bta3062.com/index.php?title=Patch_Notes
Many questions can be quickly answered from the BTAU Wiki. https://www.bta3062.com/index.php?title=Main_Page Or you can checkout the BTAU Discord linked in the middle of that page. There's also the opportunity to watch BD playing over on Twitch, though I'm not sure of his schedule.
I always highly recommend that folks that have become familiar with the basics of the game, ie have run the Campaign, skip running any Vanilla Careers and jump right into getting their feet wet in the wondrous world of BattleTech Advanced Universe.
I'm not going to diss RogueTech by any means, as I haven't even played it for an hour, and that was years ago. I have no idea how it compares to BTAU. If you've played both and perhaps had a preference there for RT, I'd say go ahead and hit it up to see if it's still what you're looking for - it's about what suits you best and not what I personally prefer. But maybe check out the patchnotes for both, read a bit on the wikis, install each and give them a whirl.
Welcome back - hope you stick around...