Clans - Is there REALLY a difference.....

[AgentX_[IBT]]

Howdy.

New player to the game here.

SO, is there REALLY a difference between the Clans, that effects Game-play?

I tried a few goolge sites, but did not find a clear-cut answer.

[ResistanceRB]

do you mean, for example, a difference between clan jade falcon and clan wolf? if so, each clan has it's own traditions and beliefs, etc.

[Chaon]

Head on out to sarna.net to look at the clans and what they have going for them.

Basically their technology is much more advanced compared to the Inner Sphere houses.

Their mechs can be better armored, better armed and capable of doing much more damage at greater ranges and less heat compared to the people they were fighting.

If (when) we see the clans in the game, their mechs can spend less time being refit, their weapons will do much more damage, less heat, longer range and not as much problems with minimum ranges as we have now.

[voxdei20]

The clan's don't exist yet in known space. They won't enter the known systems for another 25 years or so.

[wendigo211]

Basically:

• Their equipment does more damage than the IS version. A Clan ER PPC does 15 points of damage and an IS ER PPC does 10 points of damage.
  
• Their equipment weighs less than the IS version. A Clan SRM 6 weighs 1.5 tons, an IS SRM 6 weighs 3 tons.
  
• Their equipment takes up fewer critical slots. Clan Endo-steel takes up 7 slots and IS Endo-Steel takes up 14 slots.

Put all of this together and the Clan mechs are carrying twice the weaponry or more, relative to their IS counterparts and that weaponry does more damage. This is relative to TL-2 IS mechs, which are about twice as powerful as the TL-1 mechs in this game.

To summarize: Clan mechs do around 5 times the damage of the TL-1 mechs in this game.

[BoydofZINJ]

Do not forget their lore and Zellbrigen which is their ritualistic form of honor dueling practiced by the Warrior Caste of the Clans - they bid on how few mechs they need to actually win, 1 vs 1 combat in large scale fights.... hard to enforce in a video game.

[wainiodavid]

In the BattleTech computer gme that just came out and the forum is about, the Clans are not part of the game. If you mean in MechWarrior Online, there is no game difference between being one clan or another and you can buy any mech from either IS or Clan tech. If you mean the BattleTech minitures/board game that the computer game is based off of, then nothing stops you from using any Clan mech regardless of whichever Clan it is usually found in. In the pen and paper version of the game the Clan mechs are superior to the Inner Sphere ones and special battle point rules were created to try to cretae somewhat even encounters.

[Procrastinating Gamer]

BoydofZINJ님이 먼저 게시:

Do not forget their lore and Zellbrigen which is their ritualistic form of honor dueling practiced by the Warrior Caste of the Clans - they bid on how few mechs they need to actually win, 1 vs 1 combat in large scale fights.... hard to enforce in a video game.

In the lore, Zellbrigen and its effects on their society was both one of their greatest strengths and ended up being one of their greater weaknesses. The benefits of it was that Clan MechWarriors trained extensively in one-on-one combat - individually, a Clan MechWarrior would be better than an IS one of comparable veterancy. But the drawback was that this emphasis on individual skill and the whole bidding system crippled their strategic capabilities and even their lower-level teamwork skills suffered. And once the Inner Sphere learnt how Clanners thought - how zellbrigen works, their sense of honour, etc - they exploited it to hell and back. Got to the point where the Clans agreed that zellbrigen only applied when fighting other Clans and could be freely ignored when fighting the Inner Sphere.

[clockworklemon]

Is the OP possibly refering to the factions you pick from at the start? Your origin etc? Because the actual clans arent in the game aside from a mention of the wolfs dragoons and ingame lore no one knows they are clanners for a good 25 years yet

[monsterfurby]

I think OP means the various houses. Just to explain for OP: the Clans are a specific group of factions in Battletech lore that doesn't appear in the game - however, what anyone not as familiar with the lore would call "clans" (lower-case c) are called houses.

So far, no, it doesn't seem like there is any gameplay difference other than the stats you get by selecting them as a background and the missions they give out. Which is a shame, but not really a fault of the game itself. Battletech itself is not very big on distinguishing the factions too much beyond fluff.

[clockworklemon]

Yeah you get some unique flavour texts occasionally but thats it aside from the starting stats

[Callyste]

Pretty sure the OP is indeed referring to the houses you pick at the beginning of the campaign.
Man, I so wish for some Clan Mechs and equipment...

[AgentX_[IBT]]

Thanks for the replys.

Yes, I meant this current game on steam for about $40.

When you first start your character, you are given some clans to choose from and some back ground options to choose.... "Did you get exile?? Did you join the _____ ?

Job choices seem to give you different bonuses. +1 guts, gunner.

Not seeing any differencs in Clans ( Houses?? ) at this moment.

[Cutlass Jack]

He means where your parents are from. He's misusing the word 'Clans' which has an entirely different meaning in Battletech.

To answer the question best I can, that choice mostly affects conversations you have with people. There's no material benefit to the choice. For Roleplay reasons you might want to go for the one that sounds like it has a personality like you want your main character to be. But nothing says you have to play according to type.