Battletech Advanced 3062, VZFSM CO.D - EPISODE 1 

Whisper is a quiet person? We're talking military call signs here. Can see his interview now.. Tex: "Nice to meet you Whisper." Whisper: "NICE TO MEET YOU SIR." Tex *blinks* "Let me guess...former Artilleryman?"

"Go poke the clanners" Sounds like someone's getting a Clan wife again, or however they do it over there.

My first Mechwarrior character was awarded the callsign "Cannonball" after inadvertently landing on the CT of a heavy that had fallen down on the battlefield. It was his first kill, and looked amazingly badass. Especially considering it was a complete accident.

I will never get tired of Tex enthusiastically talking about robits

I’m so glad you’re back to playing battle tech. As a gamer who doesn’t own a computer, I live vicariously through you and others like you 😁👍

The Clans making The Great Father into their Spongebob Squarepants is something I never knew I wanted to see once in my life. I'd probably die of cringe if I saw it twice, but I'd die smiling.

The Great Father as the Clan's Spongebob doesn't seem so outlandish when one recalls the Clans do canonically have a kid show of anthropomorphic characters teaching Clan values to the sibkids.

at about 20:00 when your pilot fell over - she bled out. The First Aid thing only stops the bleeding for a couple of turns, and needs to be reapplied repeatedly.

Vanzam militia gots a good thing going. Send out a handful of expendable meat. A somewhat competent commander (he can write his name) and a lance of urbies. If they complete their tour they got some money and new better mechs. And if they die … well they lost some urbies

Recruitment checklist; 1. Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy? 2. Have you any idea which end of that thing should be pointing at the enemy? 3. Are you, or have you ever been indebted to Discount Dan?

Playing BTA with Tex's voice while listening to Tex play BTA is my favorite Inception moment.

I can’t think of Urbies anymore without thinking of the utterly absurd variant of a UM-R60 that I created in MW5 with the YAML mod. The weapons loadout wasn’t too out there - Two Medium Lasers & an AC/5 - but I also equipped it with a *comically,* stupidly overpowered (for an UrbanMech) XL engine. The result? An Urbie that was *rocketing* around the battlefield at just north of 100 km/h.

Commander-It's time CHARGE. Uban mech 1- Sir we're Urbies we don't charge we MEANDER WITH PURPOSE.

Played a bit of co-op with a buddy of mine through steam's remote play. One particular mission had us interrupt a scuffle between The Bounty Hunter and Black Widow. My buddy brought a Davy Crockett. The two of them were reduced to slinging foul language at each other as their mechs shut down and their lance mates exploded from the several rounds of heat produced by a localized fission event.

Duct tape for a collapsed lung seems to be periphery lore friendly.

I like the idea of expanding the pilot injuries. But at the same time, the way RNGesus in this game deals out pilot injuries, this is also a terrifying mechanic.

Flea as the only enemy mission is the best ending for a video. Excellent video. Glory to Marik.

Van zandt company D being an unpainted meme lance makes me think about unloved tabletop miniatures

Well Tex, been waiting for this, and yes Deleting Grid squares is the best way to deal with Enemy lite mechs. Only issue i have with BTA at all is that if you get a Clan mech the AI will target that thing to the exclusion of all others. I had a Kitfox that was running away they tried to destroy but ignored the Atlas that walked over to them and showed the real meaning of the Stiener fist.

I look forward to the debut of "spongebob kerensky" in the iTunes charts.

Ah yes, Artillery. The King of the Battlefield Where aiming is more a suggestion than a requirement

"Oh this is a promising start". master of understatement Tex, as ever great line. thanks. 😆

I love that you said “my main objective is to roll over to clanner space and be belligerent” that’s literally the only thing I do in this game 😂😂 make my way to clanner space and be belligerent.

Doctor gives you a fun side mission. You end up fighting a ton of Raptor omni mechs.

“Macho man was- Hunchback Pilot.. fight me” Love it Tex. :)

Hearing "Good enough" in that voice, followed by some great BT gameplay made my morning.

Yeah, that medical ability has to be triggered every other turn to keep a pilot like that up and running... otherwise they just bleed out in the cockpit. So it's heal, move, heal, move. Not your fault, it's not exactly an explained thing that the medical ability doesn't completely patch up a pilot unless you read every little description the game offers. Best of luck in this playthrough Tex, looking forward to watching this.

There is only one possible answer we can give when faced with clanners… “Go back where you came from! Inner sphere don’t want you!”

Nice, also nice to see the glorious lore of the Free State of Van Zant.

Maybe first time I say this, but I genuinely love how wholesome the BPL is. Thanks Tex.

6:30 Isn't it a common theory that that why the Argo is not taken away from us by Comstar is because Dr Murad is a ROM agent and already has de-facto control of the ship.

HBS Battletech reminds me of Cyberpunk 2077 in that it was a labor of love for the artists that has beautiful assets behind a janky game engine.

Well, this has singlehandedly convinced me to try out 3062. And that Urbanmech squad is...about as effective as expected. 10/10, they're doing their best.

I had a Slapdash with that character icon, too. She died, but she was in a Wraith at the time. AC20 to the cockpit. RIP.

Once again thanks Mr Tex for introducing me to the battletech lore / universe. As a side note since the Hunchback video dropped in my latest run i am aiming for at least one lance of only hunchback variants. Of course this run i barely found any while before i was tripping over them every other mission :)).

I LOVE the Hollander. not saying its a good mech, but I just love how goofy the art for it is and the buddy who got me into BT introduced it to me as the Big Iron mech

Of course Tex takes the Urbie Derby. I'm gonna die laughing here.

It’s the meandering, rambling, and story telling that makes it fun. It makes me miss the old school nerds I used to play with.

Thank you to everyone who made this series possible, that made me laugh after a shift of work.

The Hunchback is as speedy as a 64 year old overweight Floridian with a pint of Guinness in him and he needs to pee. Faster and with more momentum than ever expected

I got to say your comment on call signs really hits home. And I got to say that’s usually true. You can always tell who gave themselves a callsign versus who earned enough respect or did something memorable enough to get a callsign.

I love the Urbie and the fact there's a game start for only Urbies makes me smile.

Edited comment as i was too early: Carcharodon, that's ME! I was part of the wiki team briefly during covid lockdown, and as a lil thank you a bunch of us got to add our own likeness and pilot to the random roster. That's actually a photo of me edited by the BTA art guy, it is BEYOND cool to be a tiny tiny part of such an awesome mod and game. I'm from UK so the brit voice is perfect. As for Carcharodon's backstory, he's gonna be VERY happy about your plan to travel through Steiner space and start kicking clanners. This is too perfect ^_^ (hope i don't die)

You guys are keeping the community alive! Keep up the content!

Paradox not wanting another Battletech is such a braindead move. They must hate money.

Love the dedication to HBS in the beginning. I remember when the Kickstarter for shadowrun first started, i stumbled on it by accident, and I've rarely been as pleased with the work of a small studio as i have been with HBS. I didn't actually know, though i assumed, that a sequel to battletech was dead in the water, and it's so disappointing, because like Tex said it was way better than we had a right to. Thankfully, the game is rich enough, and the missing community has put in so much work, that there's no end in sight for battletech replayability. One of my favorites of the last 10 years

finally back with BTA, i was so sad when you stopped. Glad its going again.

This was thoroughly enjoyable to watch, and a cool preview of the BTA 3062 mod (I’ve been playing the BEX Commander’s Edition mod, myself)

Is it just me or would anyone else love to c tex go through mechwarrior 3 at some point

I just watched all the Tex Talks battletech episodes and loved them. I then got a hankering to dive back into the game and figured I'd look for gameplay of the big 3 mods and see what I'd like. I spent 5 minutes watching this video thinking "man I guess battletech just attracts all the people with the whiskey gravel voice" before realizing this is literally the same channel and i'm a moron. Thanks for all the great content.

"Their color scheme is primer" - comedy gold, served dry. Looking forward to the rambles.

'already a wounded pilot' this is the reason i rip off jump jets, to slap on more armor

That first mission cracked me up. Friggin pilot dies out of nowhere.

Song, Never Leave Van Zandt Alive: "In the deep star fields of the far off Periphery, That's the planet where I trace my bloodline, And it's there that I found in a hill side gravestone, You'll never leave Van Zandt alive."

Tex: Thanks for the message to HBS. It is certainly sad news. Thank goodness for the great modding community. I have months sunk into this game and don't regret any of it. We are here for you and to support the legion. We like listening to your voice bassing out our headphones and your cool stories.

54:53 "The Steiners said you're a war criminal, and now that I say that out loud, I realize how ridiculous it sounds."

Mark my words here and now, 10 years from now Battletech will have an HBO show.

14:46 there’s a battle armor start, so the Urbies definitely aren’t the hardest start out there

"He sees 4 urban mechs and he starts hearing clown music." Yakety Sax begins to play from his headset. "Shit."

Give an Assassin an LB-10X with a ton of each ammo type and a pulse laser if you have one. It becomes both a great backstabber and the bane of Locusts the Inner-Sphere over.

Attitude: Avuncular Coffee: Yes, always make another pot. Toilet Paper: Always over, 3 piece sections, otherwise 0-g bidet plz Loud Music: Yes Mastodon Clutch The Sword Trivium Manowar

Watching the Jenner and the three Urbies looked like a nanny taking three cute toddlers for a walk.

Van Zandt standard medical kit : A roll of duct tape, a hacksaw and a bottle of rye ...

Your meandering, rambling and story telling is what most of us are here for. If we wanted boringly competent there are a lot of other places we can ignore honorably.

It's crazy that they said no to HBS. I know it didn't sell in the millions, but surely no one expected it to.

In fairness to the Assassin, if you load it with TAG, maybe some ECM and a Beagle, and squint really hard, it's almost a slightly heavier and shittier stand-in for a Raven, for the 'mech commander on a budget. The fact that you'd get the same effect from a platoon of guys on dirtbikes with man-portable TAG and satchel charges for a significantly lower C-bill investment is neither here nor there...

"Delta Squad reporting!"

I can't imagine how heart wrenching it must be for HBS to lose the BT License.

your callsign-theory reminds me of that snl scetch with the fighterpilots

Slapdash is a hilarious name, mainly because one of my friends recently bought a hamster. They didn't expect it to live long, the last two they got died within a week, so they named it something dumb; it's name is Spindash. This dumb hamster outlived that pilot and their life expectancy is 5 days.

Ah yes. Delta. Pride (cough cough) of Van Zandt. Objective? Boop the snoot!

Rock on mr tex with the early chrimbmass present wow Luv to see it

Loving the new stream of uploads Tex. Always a treat.

Whelp with the med kit joke, Piffany the Cleric now lives in the Deep Periphery

I want to argue that a collection of urbies should be called a ‘dump’ as a collection of walking trash can-shaped friends.

>were you terrorized by a flea I think properly stealth armored, you could do some absolutely terrifying things with a little shit like that.

Dang, that was the fastest hour long video ive watched. I love the disgust in your voice as you took out the assassin and then the flea. The flea is probably the only mech that is below the urbie in terms of uselessness

First... YES to the re-lyricism. :D Second... the sound of "I'm not mad, just disappointed" in that "I have most of a flea" was perfect.

Tex, the Legion, Razörfist and Mage Leader have been a great help in getting into Battletech.

I like when Tex gets all heartfelt and sincere out of nowhere. Dude loves the bejeesus out of some good games.

A squad of Urbie-driving space hillbillies show up in Clan space, shooting random things without declaring batchall and speaking almost entirely in contractions! There could be no greater insult to Clanner honor. Fuck yeah.

I do kinda wish Tex would do a run on Battletech Extended, Commander's Edition. That's my preferred mod 😉

Unless you refuse the loot crate, you get the Heavy Metal crate after the first day It might have a more palatable mech than your initial lineup ... But Urby Derby is the destination for this run Working as intended 😆

That speech to HBS had me in tears Tex.

"I got your back" no you Don't! Curmudgeon intensifies

Don't be afraid of the person who gave themselves a scary callsign, be afraid of the person who gave themselves a silly callsign. Dont be afraid of the person given a silly callsign by the opposition, BE VERY AFRAID of the person given a scary callsign by the opposition. I have a pilot who's callsign is Akuma. He did not give this title to himself. He earned it when his merc squad of 4 mechs went up against a squad of 4 Draconis mechs. It turned into 3 Draconis mechs, 2 assualt 1 med vs his lone Catapult and he was out of ammo. That was the halfway point. He DFA killed the med, dfa and immobilized and knocked down one assault, dfa and killed the second assualt and ONLY THEN fell down and couldnt get back up. The Combine's recovery team only found a headless Awesome with the one legged and one armed (lrm tubed?) skeleton of the Catapult planted squarly on top. All of its armor having been slagged off, revealing nothing but mech's skeletal internal structure behind. The pilot nowhere to be seen in the half melted cockpit. The Draconis pilot still inside his own mech's cockpit, when they cracked it open he was as white as a ghost and could only say "Akuma" over and over That catapult pilot now rides a charger and that Draconis pilot quit and retired to a farm.

38:37 now I need to see a hunchback elbow dropping on some poor soul

This is pure gold, as always! I've been crying of laughter watching this listening to Tex commenting on playing ^^ Please, keep this series going!

Bro, this mod is nuts just the way you just nonchalantly like there goes a pilot when the mech just fell over and killed his own pilot?! Like suddenly that one mech hiding in the shadows seems a lot more dangerous when you can just trip and die! Holy crap

"moves over cliff" "oh shit" lovely content.

I see this, I hear the voiceover "This is Duncan Fisher, Welcoming you to the Urbie Derby!"

Assassins are why I always make sure to bring lasers. No ammo expenditure

HBS actually asking for a sequel and Paradox saying no has got to be one of the biggest let downs I've had in years. I used to be a big fan of Paradox too and this has turned me right around the other way.

Thanks Tex, now I'm binging Randy Savage interviews and I am not disappointed!

I'm a simple man. I see tex and battletech i hit like and watch. And watch and watch and watch.

My callsign would be Napalm. Because when I was 16, I had a run-in with a little concoction one can make using basic components you can get anywhere.

How often do you shower? Can you Cook? If I told you, you may have to work on your own mech, which wrench on your wrench would be the most commonly required? How do you feel about melee combat and what would you classify your mech fu style?

Please keep this going!

1:06:07 reminds me of what John F. Kennedy once said: "We choose to drive UrbanMechs and do the other things, not because it is easy, but because it is fucking fun!"

this is like 30 minutes of gameplay and 30 mins walking simulator. god bless urbies