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v15.3 (aka the "Man, Y'all Keep Busy, Huh" patch) has been released to the installer. This is moderately chunky so read on, friends, Marians, countrymen!
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v17.4 (aka the "Amaris Fools!" patch) has been released to the installer. It's our annual April Fool's patch so you'll definitely want to see what we've got cookin' this time!
  
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'''UPDATED SUBSYTEM:''' In patch 15.2, BTA introduced the SPAM subsystem that added various mercenary companies in the place of Local Gov or Mercenaries (as the faction). This made the world feel more alive and complex and demonstrated that there were other mercs out and about in the setting. Now, with 15.3, SPAM has been expanded. Now, SPAM has also added subfactions to all the Great Houses, as well as several other major factions. Now, when you drop into a fight against, say, the Draconis Combine you will face one of their various House regiments (in this case, you can face either the 1st Sword of Light, the 3rd Night Stalkers, or the 2nd Legion of Vega). These subcommands have their own distinct unit lists as well as their own dialogue at the start of a mission letting you know who you're facing (all the dialogues are unique to the command in question). A full list of the individual subcommands is available on the wiki (here: https://www.bta3062.com/index.php?title=List_of_Major_Power_Subcommands_For_SPAM). Worth noting however is that all subcommands are roughly "rated" as either elite, regular, or garrison level forces. The better the rating, the better their tech (elites have the cutting edge, the regulars get a spread of stuff, the garrison guys get the crappy tech). All subcommands on the wiki have their rating listed. The "main" factions that have this treatment are as follows: all five Great Houses, ComStar, Word of Blake, Free Rasalhague Republic, Taurian Concordat, Outworlds Alliance, Magistracy of Canopus, Marian Hegemony.
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'''SOMEHOW, AMARIS RETURNED:''' The Inner Sphere once knew true fear as Stefan Amaris, the Usurper of the Star League and conquerer of the Hegemony, crushed those who dared stand before his might and now, after centuries of hiding, he has returned to claim what is rightfully his. His realm, the Rim Worlds Republic, lives again and the worlds of the former Terran Hegemony will be his once more. If you dare, you can stand against his forces and be obliterated by his new superweapons in combat. If you are willing to accept him as your rightful lord though you can aid in his takeover and reap the plentiful rewards that come with such obesiance (put plainly, you can work for the RWR and ally with them; the RWR faction store has some unique mech variants and four new unique superweapons you can buy: the Meatgrinder MG, the Death Ray, the Mercy autocannon, and the Atom Smasher/10).
  
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'''NEW SPAM FACTIONS:''' In addition to the subcommands mentioned above, two new SPAM factions have been added. To the planet of Sarna comes the mercenary company Grim Determination. This unit has a long history and was betrayed by their employers and now hold the fort on Sarna against any attackers. They can also be found in missions against Local Gov or Mercenaries. Additionally, the Solaris VII Mercenary League has been added. This faction can be faced in missions against Local Gov or Mercenaries like most mercenary companies and has two notable features. First, they use the arena-intended designs such as the Juggernaut or the Prometheus in combat (those designs have been removed from all other spawn lists outside the arenas). Second, they actually make use of the unique named hero gladiator mechs in open combat, though those are rare to see on the field. This provides a second way to acquire heroes, so go for it.
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'''THE RATTLER COMETH:''' Ok, you might think this is an April Fool's event but no, this is very real. The Rattler Mobile Fortress has been added to BTA as a unique "monster" fight akin to the Union and Overlord dropships. However, fighting a Rattler is like fighting a mobile mountain. It has no turrets that are easily killed like the dropships, instead the literally hundreds and hundreds of tons of weapons are built right into the body and are active right up until you kill the whole damn thing. Oh, and it has three Barracuda capital-scale missile launchers and a Sub-Capital Naval Laser to boot. Good luck, you are gonna need it. To be honest, I am dubious that you can kill it without extreme cheese but should you manage it, you'll get the ultimate reward (beat it to find out what it is). Finally, in order to fight this monster you must fly to Terra itself and buy the contract in the store, just like the dropship fights.
  
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'''BIG MECHBAY NEWS: ''' I'm pleased to announce that the Mech Bay is expanding! In the old days of BTA, we had other rows in the Mech Bay so you could store more mechs but they had to be removed due to serious stability and bug issues. It has long been asked to bring them back and today is the day. However, they work a little differently than they used to. Now, after you purchase the upgrade, Mech Bay 2 unlocks (it is accessed via a tab on the Mech Bay tab, just like the BA and Vehicle Bays). The odd thing though is that *before* you buy the upgrade, they're still visible they're just not usable. There are also a few oddities to how they work (you can't move mechs between bays, you can't choose what bay a mech goes in [mechs fill Mech Bay first then move to Mech Bay 2 only if Mech Bay is full], and mechs brought out of storage as 1 piece can only go to Mech Bay, not Mech Bay 2 [though assembling a mech from parts works fine with Mech Bay 2]). There is a YouTube video explaining all this in detail that has been posted to the FAQ to explain how Mech Bay 2 functions.
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'''THE HANSEATIC CRUSADE HAS ARRIVED:''' As many of you predicted, the inclusion of the Goliath Scorpions and Nueva Castile was 100% a prelude to the Hanseatic Crusade. Starting in January 3065, Clan Goliath Scorpion will invade and assault the Hanseatic League and, over the course of that year and part of 3066, will eventually conquer it, ending in the foundation of the Scorpion Empire as the Clan unifies itself with Castile and the Hansa. You can participate in either side of the war as you like, the Scorpions will hire you and you can even ally with them (and later the Scorpion Empire) for access to their faction store. Enjoy the sprawling extended war!
  
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'''NEW VOICEPACK:''' A friend of BTA and a personal friend of mine, FrostRaptor, is a big fan of Morrowind and of Heavy Gear. To celebrate his many, many, *many* contributions to the community, a modeler by the name of LtShade and myself collaborated on a surprise gift for him: a new mech named the Dagoth and a new pilot and voicepack themed after Dagoth Ur from Morrowind. This voicepack is now a part of BTA and available to all commanders if they wish to use it. It was AI generated out of necessity which I know is not to everyone's liking but if that bothers you simply do not use it. This also comes with a unique Dagoth Ur pilot, callsign Sharmat, who can join your crew via an event once you have a certain MRB reputation. He comes with his own mech, the Akulakhan (a unique variant of the Dagoth).
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'''NEW VOICEPACKS:''' At RogueTech's request, we have incorporated five new voicepacks from RT into BTA. These voicepacks include the Das, JellyRoll, MIG, Pagan, and Svelte voicepacks. I've given them a very cursory listen and they seem nice to me. BTA is still not super interested in further voicepacks but since RT asked nicely we decided to incorporate them as a favor to RT. Thanks, RT, for the extra content! <3
  
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'''UPDATED FINANCES:''' BTA's economy has been a thorn in my side for awhile. The Argo has long been very cheap as have mechs while pilots have been unusually expensive to pay for in upkeep. This has been adjusted. Now, the Argo is more expensive by default and mechs are significantly more expensive to maintain (as they should be) while pilots are significantly cheaper. The very very early game may be slightly trickier to navigate but players can compensate by taking a little extra starting cash at first if they find it necessary so it should work out.
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'''DFA PENALTIES IMPLEMENTED:''' In order to attempt to curb the AI's extreme overuse of Death-From-Above attacks, we have implemented a DFA penalty setting. Right now, the DFA penalty is +7, which is pretty steep. We'll see if it helps curb the AI's bad behavior or not.
  
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'''NEW MECH:''' The Buccaneer, a 55 ton Word of Blake medium BattleMech with a hatchet, has sprinted into play. You can find it with all of the Word of Blake subcommands as well as the elite and regular-rated Marik subcommands.
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'''DROP SLOT ADJUSTMENT:''' The UI has improved for putting Battle Armor onto BA carrier units. Now, in the deployment screen you'll see that each unit has a pop-up slot that you can put a BA suit + pilot into (assuming the unit can *carry* BA in the first place; if it can't carry BA you'll still see the slot but you can't put anything in the slot). For now, the four dedicated BA slots remain in Lance 3 but they may be getting removed as it's not clear what they're really useful for anymore, we'll see.
  
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'''NEW MECH:''' The Nyx Prototype, a 30 ton super-fast Word of Blake scout design, has dashed into combat. This ultra-fast scout can be found exclusively with the Word of Blake elite subcommand, the 40th Shadow Division.
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'''NEW PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT:''' Thanks to the work of community member, friend, and team member of BTA, Jamie Wolf, it has been discovered that HBS BT has a large amount of internal telemetry that HBS intended to use for data collection. However, that telemetry is no longer being used by HBS but *is* still running, causing noticeable performance slowdowns. In order to help performance, Jamie developed a mod that disables the telemetry from running and thus claws back some small performance gains. They're small but every bit counts! Thanks Jamie!
  
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'''NEW MECH:''' The Jackrabbit, a 25 ton Amaris Civil War-era design, has arrived. Originally intended for the SLDF but co-opted by Amaris's forces, the Jackrabbit can now be found with the Rim Collection, ComStar and WoB's garrison-rated subcommands, and a rare variant with the WoB elite and regular subcommands.
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'''UPDATED OMNIMECH LOADOUT:''' The Preta (the Word of Blake Celestial OmniMech) has had its loadouts adjusted. Now, they all have a Retractable Blade in the left arm. Your Pretas will need to be stored and re-readied to receive the updated blade and to fix any errors introduced in your loadouts. This was done because the Preta is unusual. While it does not have the blade model in the *mechbay*, it does have it *in battle*. This produces odd dissonance and we decided to make it properly reflect the in-combat visuals with the addition of the blade.
  
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'''NEW MECH:''' The Dragoon, a 70 ton Amaris Empire design, has been put back into production. This incredible line combat design has been resurrected by the Rim Collection for their military after being discovered in a bunker in the Periphery.
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'''CLAN QUIRK MODIFIED:''' The Clan quirk now provides 10% decreased heat generation. This was done in order to help the Clans remain dangerous, help Clan chassis remain competitive, and to help the Clans manage their increased weapon heat in hot biomes.
  
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'''NEW MECH:''' The Malak, a 30 ton Word of Blake omnimech, has snuck into play. This is the final Word of Blake "Celestial" series omnimech and completes the series in BTA. It can be found exclusively with the Word of Blake elite subcommand, the 40th Shadow Division.
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'''NEW MECH CHASSIS:''' The Tolson, a 60 ton non-canon Star League e-war chassis, has snuck into battle. This mech is focused heavily on command and control functions and serves as an excellent e-war platform thanks to its integrated Command Console. Find it wherever old Star League mechs are found, as well as in the factory at Tukayyid where ComStar produces it.
  
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'''NEW MECH:''' The Rampage, a 85 ton fast assault mech from the Amaris Empire, has stomped into play. It serves the Rim Collection with dignity after having been rediscovered in a Periphery depot.
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'''NEW MECH VARIANTS:''' There are a handful of new mech variants in this release, including: 10 new variants for the RWR's forces; a new Shadow Hawk-style Periphery mech named the Skadi; there's a pair of new Wyvern variants (including one with a new weapon, the Vehicular Grenade Launcher); there are a lot of new gladiator heroes, all of which are also on the hero reward lists (included are heroes for the following chassis: Argus, Cephalus, Dragon Fire, Dragoon, Great Turtle, Icarus II, Lancelot, Medusa, Phoenix, Rifleman III, Sirocco, Talos, Tarantula, Valkyrie II, Vision Quest, Wawkalak, Yeoman, Cyclone, Ironclad, Lao Hu, Osteon, Pulverizer, Scorpion, and Verfolger); a large batch of new introtech and 3050-tech Commandos have been released, including the Blazing Inferno II (also, the Blazing Inferno I has had its designation updated to match the newly assigned canon one).
  
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'''NEW MECH:''' The Great Turtle, a 100 ton gladiatorial quad mech that is officially indestructible, has slowly lumbered into the arenas. This mech can be found in the arenas, for sale on Solaris VII, and in service to the Solaris VII Mercenary League.
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'''COMMUNITY CONTENT NO MORE:''' In a new first for BTA, a piece of Community Content has graduated from CC into BTA proper. The Surtur, a Hanseatic League original chassis, has been moved into BTA proper and has received two more variants. It has also had its model changed from the Wolverine to the Valkyrie II to better represent the sword the Surtur carries.
  
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'''NEW MECH:''' The Dagoth, a 65 ton gladiatorial mech that is mentioned above, has arrived. It is available in the arenas, for sale on Solaris VII, and in service to the Solaris VII Mercenary League.  
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'''BREAKING NEWS IS BROKEN:''' This is a bit of a sad announcement but the flashpoint Breaking News has... some issues. We discovered this after last patch when it was discovered that Breaking News still wasn't spawning properly. It also turns out that Breaking News isn't actually *done* and while technically playable does not meet the standards we like to keep BTA to. For now, it remains unavailable to play through until such time as we can manage to fix it. Sorry folks.
  
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'''NEW MECH:''' The Naginata, a 95 ton Kuritan force command mech, has rained missiles onto the battlefield. The Naginata is armed for ranged combat and to command a C3 lance with its C3 Master. It can be found exclusively with the Draconis Combine's elite and regular-rated regiments. You can also buy one on Quentin.
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'''COMMUNITY CONTENT:''' There's some new CC here today, hurrah! First we have a new pilot, Warper Jawa; there's a Hunchback with a Bombast PPC; the LBX-RAC5 got a further nerf (I don't want to hear any complaints, it needed it and you know it); the Blackjack BJ-1M was updated slightly; and there's a new JagerMech, the JM6-1M!
  
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'''NEW MECH:''' The Stag/Stag II, a 45 ton mech from the Not-Named Clan, has blasted into combat. The Stag is a fast striker design and is available exclusively from the Dark Caste.
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* Fixed Gambier's allowed biomes such that you can actually get duels there as intended.
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* There was some file consolidation on the backend that changed some filepaths. Most users should see no effect but submodders might need to look around for a few things.
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* Knight at the Omni was properly fixed, again.
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* Fixed some RepMes for the Goliath Scorpions.
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* Lots of fixed typos and such.
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* A few mechs got expanded factionality (mostly pertaining to the Hanseatic League).
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* The Mech Taser got a small buff, it was rather underwhelming.
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* The Dire Wolf and the Kit Fox had incorrect structure values, that has been corrected.
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* A bug with the Black Python BP-3 and BP-4 was corrected.
  
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'''UPDATED MECHS:''' The three "Society" Clan Omnis, the Septicemia, the Osteon, and the Cephalus, have had full-scale production omnimechs produced for their respective Clans front-line forces. You can find the Septicemia with Jade Falcon, the Osteon with Ghost Bear, and the Cephalus with Wolf. The original "prototype" variants of these mechs have been restricted to second-line galaxies and all have some weirdness about them such as only partial omni hardpoints or gear that wasn't suitable for use on the main omnis.
 
  
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'''UPDATED LAMS:''' LAMs now have been a little updated to be slightly more accurate to TT entries (kind of). They now have Landing Gear equipped (which gives a small speed boost but also further reduces stability during AirMech mode). To do this, they had their side torso engines reduced from 2 crits to 1 crit, making them slightly more durable. Enjoy.
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'''IMPORTANT:''' v17.4 is an "update" update. In this case, read the detailed update notes above to see best practices on how to update to 17.3.
  
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'''NEW HEROES:''' The Blitzkrieg and Septicemia Design Contests have had their winning entries incorporated as gladiator mechs for the game world duels! Hurrah!
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'''IMPORTANT:''' v17.4 is not a save breaking update, your saves are compatible and will work fine.
  
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'''UPDATED FLASHPOINT MISSION:''' Defense: Panzyr has long been the hardest mission in BTA (the one with the god damn APCs). To adjust this somewhat, the APCs have been downgraded to Prowlers and their pilots have been nerfed fairly significantly. Defense: Panzyr should be a little less punishing now.
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'''REMINDER:''' This update, and others like it, are made possible by my Patreon and Ko-Fi supporters. Without their support, updates would come slower and be less impactful. If you feel like being a part of the support for BTA, you can find me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bloodydoves) and on Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/bloodydoves)
  
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'''NEW LATE-GAME EVENTS:''' Starting in late 3064 and running through 3066, we now have some pirate and pirate-adjacent factions that will raid nearby worlds as WartechIIC raids. This includes various SPAM pirate subfactions such as the Tortuga Fusilliers or the New Belt Pirates. This also includes the Circinians and the Tortuga Dominions. Have fun with some pirate funtimes! This feature was brought to you by a community member, Scholomancer, who volunteered his time to make them. All praise to Scholomancer!
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'''REMINDER:''' Custom mod commissions are still available if you're interested. If you'd like to get your own community content added to BTA DM me, bloodydoves, and we can work something out.  
  
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'''UPDATED FACTION:''' ComStar has been very hard to acquire reputation with for awhile due to having a few too many enemies. This has been changed, now ComStar is no longer enemies with Houses Kurita and Davion, as well as the Magistracy of Canopus and the Taurian Concordat. Ally away!
 
  
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'''BATTLE ARMOR BALANCE CHANGE:''' Battle armor weapons have received a significant nerf. BA has been killing things a little too easily and quickly so was nerfed. All BA missile launchers (except the Heavy SRM 4 on the Grenadier and the BA Rocket Launcher 1) now only have 1 shot as they are supposed to (they had two shots as a way to encourage their use but they ended up being super powerful and needed to be scaled back). Most BA weapons also received a significant damage nerf, including most of the missiles, most/all of the gauss-style weapons, and a variety of other weapons such as the Clan lasers and the BA LBX.
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== BTA Light ==
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BTA Light has been updated to v17.2.lite. This is a minor update, with a few minor fixes. However, it also includes the performance update mentioned above for BTA Classic, so it's definitely worth you getting.
  
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'''OMNIMECH CORRECTION:''' OmniMechs can no longer mount MASC or TSM unless they come with it by default. This is tabletop accurate and should have been done literally years ago. There are several OmniMechs (mostly Clan though there's one IS omni in this group) with either MASC or TSM equipped by default. These OmniMechs retain the systems and work as intended. This may not be super popular but it *is* the way Omnis are intended to behave. And before you complain that Omnis are being unfairly nerfed, I *am* monitoring the situation and considering possible adjustments if necessary to buff up Omnis a little.
 
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'''COMMUNITY CONTENT:''' there is a unique shop on Wynn's Roost (it has a selection of Battle Armor as well as every King Crab and UrbanMech normally available); there's a new Marauder II Omni with a LBX-Rotary AC/5; the Matar SAM-3G has been added, a Matar that uses St. Ives 3G technology;
 
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* Retractable Blades got a buff, now they have an extra attack when used. This stacks with Juggernaut's extra attack bonus.
 
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* A *lot* of Clan and Flashpoint-specific Report Me's have been fixed.
 
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* We fixed the Quad 360 twist bug, now all Quads can properly 360 twist.
 
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* Fixed a shit-ton of back-end bugs and updated a lot of dlls.
 
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* The Crabrauder and Shorty's Rifleman can both be encountered, rarely, in the forces of the Circinus Federation and the Snord's Irregulars respectively. Neither can be salvaged, this is mostly a flavor win.
 
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* You can no longer put a BA Handhold onto a Battle Armor squad.
 
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* There's a number of mechs that had missing affinities, these have been corrected.
 
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* Fixed the VIP's special safety ability in the VIP missions. Now it properly lasts a full turn cycle.
 
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* B-Pods are now mountable in any location.
 
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* The Sturdy Affinity should now work.
 
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* X-Pulse Lasers have been buffed with a heat reduction. Their heat was way too high and has been brought down to manageable levels.
 
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* LRM ArtemisIV ammo has been mildly nerfed with the removal of its general accuracy bonus, instead only having the direct-fire accuracy bonus.
 
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* Tandem SRM should *finally* be fixed.
 
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* There's a new Wasp LAM, the WSP-100. This one comes with bomb bays!
 
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* There's also a new Champion, the CHP C, a Clantech Champion refit. This one can be found with the Clan second-line forces.
 
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* Fixed some weird behavior in a few Blackout contracts involving the player's Commander.
 
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'''IMPORTANT:''' v15.3 is an "update" update. In this case, clear your Mods folder manually and then run the installer, it'll do the work for you.
 
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'''IMPORTANT:''' v15.3 is not a save breaking update, your saves are compatible and will work fine.
 
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'''REMINDER:''' This update, and others like it, are made possible by my Patreon supporters. Without their support, updates would come slower and be less impactful. If you feel like being a part of the support for BTA, you can find me here: https://www.patreon.com/bloodydoves
 
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'''REMINDER:''' Custom mod commissions are still available if you're interested. If you'd like to get your own community content added to BTA DM me, bloodydoves, and we can work something out.
 
 
= Older Patch Notes =
 
= Older Patch Notes =
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[[2024/4/1 - Patch v17.4]] - The Amaris Fools patch.<br>
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[[2024/3/1 - Patch v17.3]] - The CAB Reorganization patch.<br>
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[[2024/2/23 - Patch v17.2]] - The Artillery Again patch.<br>
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[[2024/1/26 - Patch v17.1]] - The Welcome to 2024 patch.<br>
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[[2023/12/22 - Patch v17.0]] - The Christmas 2023 patch.<br>
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[[2023/11/24 - Patch v16.7]] - The Grab Bag patch.<br>
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[[2023/10/20 - Patch v16.6]] - The Fancy Gear patch.<br>
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[[2023/09/15 - Patch v16.5]] - The Sanctuary Expansion patch.<br>
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[[2023/08/05 - Patch v16.4]] - The Quirk-ttachment patch.<br>
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[[2023/07/07 - Patch v16.3]] - The Aurigan Directorate patch.<br>
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[[2023/05/29 - Patch v16.2]] - The 331st Division patch.<br>
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[[2023/04/24 - Patch v16.1]] - The stand-in patch.<br>
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[[2023/04/14 - Patch v16.0]] - The MechLab overhaul patch.<br>
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[[2023/04/01 - Patch v15.3.1]] - The 2023 April Fool's patch.<br>
 
[[2023/03/10 - Patch v15.3]] - The SPAM expansion patch.<br>
 
[[2023/03/10 - Patch v15.3]] - The SPAM expansion patch.<br>
 
[[2022/02/07 - Patch v15.2]] - The SPAM introduction patch. (this patch took place in 2023, the link is just wrong)<br>
 
[[2022/02/07 - Patch v15.2]] - The SPAM introduction patch. (this patch took place in 2023, the link is just wrong)<br>

Revision as of 19:46, 1 April 2024

v17.4 (aka the "Amaris Fools!" patch) has been released to the installer. It's our annual April Fool's patch so you'll definitely want to see what we've got cookin' this time!

SOMEHOW, AMARIS RETURNED: The Inner Sphere once knew true fear as Stefan Amaris, the Usurper of the Star League and conquerer of the Hegemony, crushed those who dared stand before his might and now, after centuries of hiding, he has returned to claim what is rightfully his. His realm, the Rim Worlds Republic, lives again and the worlds of the former Terran Hegemony will be his once more. If you dare, you can stand against his forces and be obliterated by his new superweapons in combat. If you are willing to accept him as your rightful lord though you can aid in his takeover and reap the plentiful rewards that come with such obesiance (put plainly, you can work for the RWR and ally with them; the RWR faction store has some unique mech variants and four new unique superweapons you can buy: the Meatgrinder MG, the Death Ray, the Mercy autocannon, and the Atom Smasher/10).

THE RATTLER COMETH: Ok, you might think this is an April Fool's event but no, this is very real. The Rattler Mobile Fortress has been added to BTA as a unique "monster" fight akin to the Union and Overlord dropships. However, fighting a Rattler is like fighting a mobile mountain. It has no turrets that are easily killed like the dropships, instead the literally hundreds and hundreds of tons of weapons are built right into the body and are active right up until you kill the whole damn thing. Oh, and it has three Barracuda capital-scale missile launchers and a Sub-Capital Naval Laser to boot. Good luck, you are gonna need it. To be honest, I am dubious that you can kill it without extreme cheese but should you manage it, you'll get the ultimate reward (beat it to find out what it is). Finally, in order to fight this monster you must fly to Terra itself and buy the contract in the store, just like the dropship fights.

THE HANSEATIC CRUSADE HAS ARRIVED: As many of you predicted, the inclusion of the Goliath Scorpions and Nueva Castile was 100% a prelude to the Hanseatic Crusade. Starting in January 3065, Clan Goliath Scorpion will invade and assault the Hanseatic League and, over the course of that year and part of 3066, will eventually conquer it, ending in the foundation of the Scorpion Empire as the Clan unifies itself with Castile and the Hansa. You can participate in either side of the war as you like, the Scorpions will hire you and you can even ally with them (and later the Scorpion Empire) for access to their faction store. Enjoy the sprawling extended war!

NEW VOICEPACKS: At RogueTech's request, we have incorporated five new voicepacks from RT into BTA. These voicepacks include the Das, JellyRoll, MIG, Pagan, and Svelte voicepacks. I've given them a very cursory listen and they seem nice to me. BTA is still not super interested in further voicepacks but since RT asked nicely we decided to incorporate them as a favor to RT. Thanks, RT, for the extra content! <3

DFA PENALTIES IMPLEMENTED: In order to attempt to curb the AI's extreme overuse of Death-From-Above attacks, we have implemented a DFA penalty setting. Right now, the DFA penalty is +7, which is pretty steep. We'll see if it helps curb the AI's bad behavior or not.

DROP SLOT ADJUSTMENT: The UI has improved for putting Battle Armor onto BA carrier units. Now, in the deployment screen you'll see that each unit has a pop-up slot that you can put a BA suit + pilot into (assuming the unit can *carry* BA in the first place; if it can't carry BA you'll still see the slot but you can't put anything in the slot). For now, the four dedicated BA slots remain in Lance 3 but they may be getting removed as it's not clear what they're really useful for anymore, we'll see.

NEW PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT: Thanks to the work of community member, friend, and team member of BTA, Jamie Wolf, it has been discovered that HBS BT has a large amount of internal telemetry that HBS intended to use for data collection. However, that telemetry is no longer being used by HBS but *is* still running, causing noticeable performance slowdowns. In order to help performance, Jamie developed a mod that disables the telemetry from running and thus claws back some small performance gains. They're small but every bit counts! Thanks Jamie!

UPDATED OMNIMECH LOADOUT: The Preta (the Word of Blake Celestial OmniMech) has had its loadouts adjusted. Now, they all have a Retractable Blade in the left arm. Your Pretas will need to be stored and re-readied to receive the updated blade and to fix any errors introduced in your loadouts. This was done because the Preta is unusual. While it does not have the blade model in the *mechbay*, it does have it *in battle*. This produces odd dissonance and we decided to make it properly reflect the in-combat visuals with the addition of the blade.

CLAN QUIRK MODIFIED: The Clan quirk now provides 10% decreased heat generation. This was done in order to help the Clans remain dangerous, help Clan chassis remain competitive, and to help the Clans manage their increased weapon heat in hot biomes.

NEW MECH CHASSIS: The Tolson, a 60 ton non-canon Star League e-war chassis, has snuck into battle. This mech is focused heavily on command and control functions and serves as an excellent e-war platform thanks to its integrated Command Console. Find it wherever old Star League mechs are found, as well as in the factory at Tukayyid where ComStar produces it.

NEW MECH VARIANTS: There are a handful of new mech variants in this release, including: 10 new variants for the RWR's forces; a new Shadow Hawk-style Periphery mech named the Skadi; there's a pair of new Wyvern variants (including one with a new weapon, the Vehicular Grenade Launcher); there are a lot of new gladiator heroes, all of which are also on the hero reward lists (included are heroes for the following chassis: Argus, Cephalus, Dragon Fire, Dragoon, Great Turtle, Icarus II, Lancelot, Medusa, Phoenix, Rifleman III, Sirocco, Talos, Tarantula, Valkyrie II, Vision Quest, Wawkalak, Yeoman, Cyclone, Ironclad, Lao Hu, Osteon, Pulverizer, Scorpion, and Verfolger); a large batch of new introtech and 3050-tech Commandos have been released, including the Blazing Inferno II (also, the Blazing Inferno I has had its designation updated to match the newly assigned canon one).

COMMUNITY CONTENT NO MORE: In a new first for BTA, a piece of Community Content has graduated from CC into BTA proper. The Surtur, a Hanseatic League original chassis, has been moved into BTA proper and has received two more variants. It has also had its model changed from the Wolverine to the Valkyrie II to better represent the sword the Surtur carries.

BREAKING NEWS IS BROKEN: This is a bit of a sad announcement but the flashpoint Breaking News has... some issues. We discovered this after last patch when it was discovered that Breaking News still wasn't spawning properly. It also turns out that Breaking News isn't actually *done* and while technically playable does not meet the standards we like to keep BTA to. For now, it remains unavailable to play through until such time as we can manage to fix it. Sorry folks.

COMMUNITY CONTENT: There's some new CC here today, hurrah! First we have a new pilot, Warper Jawa; there's a Hunchback with a Bombast PPC; the LBX-RAC5 got a further nerf (I don't want to hear any complaints, it needed it and you know it); the Blackjack BJ-1M was updated slightly; and there's a new JagerMech, the JM6-1M!

  • Fixed Gambier's allowed biomes such that you can actually get duels there as intended.
  • There was some file consolidation on the backend that changed some filepaths. Most users should see no effect but submodders might need to look around for a few things.
  • Knight at the Omni was properly fixed, again.
  • Fixed some RepMes for the Goliath Scorpions.
  • Lots of fixed typos and such.
  • A few mechs got expanded factionality (mostly pertaining to the Hanseatic League).
  • The Mech Taser got a small buff, it was rather underwhelming.
  • The Dire Wolf and the Kit Fox had incorrect structure values, that has been corrected.
  • A bug with the Black Python BP-3 and BP-4 was corrected.


IMPORTANT: v17.4 is an "update" update. In this case, read the detailed update notes above to see best practices on how to update to 17.3.

IMPORTANT: v17.4 is not a save breaking update, your saves are compatible and will work fine.

REMINDER: This update, and others like it, are made possible by my Patreon and Ko-Fi supporters. Without their support, updates would come slower and be less impactful. If you feel like being a part of the support for BTA, you can find me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bloodydoves) and on Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/bloodydoves)

REMINDER: Custom mod commissions are still available if you're interested. If you'd like to get your own community content added to BTA DM me, bloodydoves, and we can work something out.


BTA Light

BTA Light has been updated to v17.2.lite. This is a minor update, with a few minor fixes. However, it also includes the performance update mentioned above for BTA Classic, so it's definitely worth you getting.

Older Patch Notes

2024/4/1 - Patch v17.4 - The Amaris Fools patch.
2024/3/1 - Patch v17.3 - The CAB Reorganization patch.
2024/2/23 - Patch v17.2 - The Artillery Again patch.
2024/1/26 - Patch v17.1 - The Welcome to 2024 patch.
2023/12/22 - Patch v17.0 - The Christmas 2023 patch.
2023/11/24 - Patch v16.7 - The Grab Bag patch.
2023/10/20 - Patch v16.6 - The Fancy Gear patch.
2023/09/15 - Patch v16.5 - The Sanctuary Expansion patch.
2023/08/05 - Patch v16.4 - The Quirk-ttachment patch.
2023/07/07 - Patch v16.3 - The Aurigan Directorate patch.
2023/05/29 - Patch v16.2 - The 331st Division patch.
2023/04/24 - Patch v16.1 - The stand-in patch.
2023/04/14 - Patch v16.0 - The MechLab overhaul patch.
2023/04/01 - Patch v15.3.1 - The 2023 April Fool's patch.
2023/03/10 - Patch v15.3 - The SPAM expansion patch.
2022/02/07 - Patch v15.2 - The SPAM introduction patch. (this patch took place in 2023, the link is just wrong)
2022/01/05 - Patch v15.1.2 - The Fixes and a Spider patch. (this patch took place in 2023, the link is just wrong)
2022/12/27 - Patch v15.1.1 - The BD Forgot To Put Stuff in 15.1 patch.
2022/12/26 - Patch v15.1 - The Minor New Mechs patch.
2022/12/12 Patch v15.0 - The Sanctuary Worlds patch.
2022/10/5 Patch v14.4 - The Station Keeping patch.
2022/8/31 Patch v14.3.1 - Hotfix
2022/8/30 Patch v14.3 - The Electronic Warfare patch.
2022/8/18 Patch v14.2 - The C3 patch.
2022/8/1 Patch v14.1.1 - The Albatross/Koschei/Mercury II hotfix/patch.
2022/7/22 Patch v14.1 - The X-Quads Are REALLY Cool patch.
2022/6/24 Patch v14.0 - The 3-Year Anniversary patch.
2022/5/19 Patch v13.4.1 - The Quads Are Still Cool patch.
2022/5/12 Patch v13.4 - The Mech-Pocalypse and SAD patch.
2022/4/14 Patch v13.3 - The weather, airlifting, resupplying, and damage reduction patch.
2022/3/13 Patch v13.2.1 - The fistful of c-bills patch
2022/3/10 Patch v13.2 - The salvage rebalance patch
2022/2/11 Patch v13.1 - Bug fixins
2022/2/7 Patch v13.0 - Lots of BA, lots of other stuff. Save breaking patch
2022/1/1 Patch v12.1.2 - Hotfix
2021/12/31 Patch v12.1.1 - Hotfix
2021/12/30 Patch v12.1 - The drone and tank update
2021/12/25 Patch v.12.0.1 - Hotfix
2021/12/14 Patch v12.0 - The Christmas event update
2021/11/16 - Patch v11.4.3 - Hotfix
2021/11/16 - Patch v11.4.2 - Hotfix
2021/11/16 - Patch v11.4.1 - The Solaris update update
2021/11/3 - Patch v11.4 - The Solaris/BA update
2021/10/8 - Patch v11.3 - The artillery update
2021/9/26 - Patch v11.2 - Strafing runs and heat balances
2021/9/5 - Patch v11.1.1 - Hotfix
2021/9/5 - Patch v11.1 - The vehicle crew skill tree update
2021/8/9 - Patch v11.0.3 - Hotfix
2021/8/9 - Patch v11.0.2 - Hotfix
2021/8/9 - Patch v11.0.1 - Hotfix
2021/8/8 - Patch v11.0 - The Airdrop Beacon patch
2021/7/10 - Patch v10.5.1 - Hotfix
2021/7/10 - Patch v10.5 - The Resolve rework patch
2021/6/24 - Patch v10.4 - The Hoplite/Dig King/Ostscout/Toyama + new installer patch
2021/6/2 - Patch v10.3 - The WoB patch
2021/5/18 - Patch v10.2 - The Minsk patch
2021/5/3 - Patch v10.1 - The Von Rohrs patch
2021/4/24 - Patch v10 - The playable tanks + save breaking patch
2021/4/2 - Patch v9.4.1 - Hotfix
2021/3/31 - Patch v9.4 - The House Arano invades Terra/Community Content patch
2021/3/13 - Patch v9.3 - The WarTech IIC patch
2021/3/7 - Patch v9.2 - The bug fix patch
2021/2/27 - Patch v9.1 - Hotfix
2021/2/27 - Patch v9.0 - The Quad 'Mech patch
2021/2/13 - Patch v8.5.2 - Hotfix
2021/2/13 - Patch v8.5.1 - Hotfix
2021/2/13 - Patch v8.5 - The Zeppelin patch
2021/1/30 - Patch v8.4 - The Pilot Specializations patch
2021/1/17 - Patch v8.3 - The Clan Nova Cat/Diamond Shark + LAM AirMech mode patch
2021/1/2 - Patch v8.2 - The shop fix + ExcavatorMech patch
2020/12/21 - Patch v8.1 - Hotfix
2020/12/21 - Patch v8.0 - The Battle Armor patch
2020/11/25 - Patch v7.7.1 - Hotfix
2020/11/25 - Patch v7.7 - The Brigand/Mantis/Sha Yu/Enfield/Bombardier patch
2020/11/8 - Patch v7.6 - The new variants for lots of mechs patch
2020/11/2 - Patch v7.5.1 - Hotfix
2020/10/30 - Patch v7.5 - The TisButAScratch patch
2020/10/18 - Patch v7.4.1
2020/10/17 - Patch v7.4
2020/10/6 - Patch v7.3.3
2020/10/4 - Patch v7.3.2
2020/10/3 - Patch v7.3
2020/9/23 - Patch v7.2.1
2020/9/21 - Patch v7.2
2020/9/6 - Patch v7.1
2020/8/21 - Patch v7.0
2020/8/11 - Patch v6.4.1
2020/8/9 - Patch v6.4
2020/7/26 - Patch v6.3
2020/7/19 - Patch v6.2
2020/7/6 - Patch v6.1
2020/6/25 - Patch v6.0.1
2020/6/24 - Patch v6.0
2020/6/6 - Patch v5.5.2
2020/6/2 - Patch v5.5.1
2020/6/2 - Patch v5.5
2020/5/19 - Patch v5.4
2020/5/4 - Patch v5.3
2020/4/23 - Patch v5.2
2020/4/19 - Patch v5.1
2020/4/15 - Patch v5.0
2020/4/8 - Patch v4.6
2020/4/2 - Patch v4.5.1
2020/4/3 - Patch v4.5
2020/3/11 - Patch v4.4
2020/2/20 - Patch v4.3
2020/2/9 - Patch v4.2.2
2020/2/9 - Patch v4.2.1
2020/2/9 - Patch v4.2
2020/1/25 - Patch v4.1
2020/1/18 - Patch v4.0
2020/1/8 - Patch v3.9.5
2020/1/2 - Patch v3.9.4
2020/1/1 - Patch v3.9.3
2020/1/1 - Patch v3.9
2019/12/22 - Patch v3.8
2019/12/14 - Patch v3.7.4
2019/11/17 - Patch v3.6.1
2019/11/17 - Patch v3.6
2019/11/9 - Patch v3.5.1
2019/11/9 - Patch v3.5
2019/11/1 - Patch v3.4
2019/10/27 - Patch v3.3
2019/10/23 - Patch v3.2.1
2019/10/20 - Patch v3.2
2019/10/11 - Patch v3.1.2
2019/10/6 - Patch v3.1.1
2019/10/6 - Patch v3.1
2019/9/29 - Patch v3.0.2
2019/9/20 - Patch v3.0
2019/9/9 - Patch v2.9.2
2019/8/28 - Patch v2.9
2019/8/12 - Patch v2.8
2019/8/4 - Patch v2.7
2019/8/4 - Patch v2.6.2
2019/7/29 - Patch v2.6
2019/7/20 - Patch v2.5
2019/7/14 - Patch v2.4
2019/7/10 - Patch v2.3
2019/7/3 - Patch v2.2
2019/7/3 - Patch v2.1
2019/6/29 - Patch v2.0
2019/6/29 - Patch v1.4
2019/6/26 - Patch v1.3
2019/6/25 - Patch v1.2

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