How to eject?

[colmanspig]

Any ideas?

[voxdei20]

Beside your pilots name when you select them it has 2 red chevrons.

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https://pcgamesn.com/sites/default/files/image4_1.png

this button ^^

[colmanspig]

tar!

[MAD]

Is there such a thing as AutoEject?

[mit]

Is THERE an eject option??? I didn't even know that... Boy, the tutorial of this game really bad.

[Aldodrem]

Opfor does not eject cuz the AI is coded to be kamikazes who don't value their lives. blow a leg off and both side torsos/arms and the AI will still try to fight you be charging in for a headbutt...

[Sword_of_Light]

Originally posted by mit:

Is THERE an eject option??? I didn't even know that... Boy, the tutorial of this game really bad.

There is - manual - and you have to be upright. Unlike the tabletop there is no auto-eject, however, so you have to conciously choose meat over metal.

Once you've punched out that mech is considered out of the battle - but will be back in your bay for (extensive, expensive) repairs. Any cockpit modifications will be destroyed by the ejection.

[DasaKamov]

Originally posted by Sword_of_Light:

Originally posted by mit:

Is THERE an eject option??? I didn't even know that... Boy, the tutorial of this game really bad.

There is - manual - and you have to be upright.

I'm fairly certain you don't, actually -- I had Glitch punch out of her knocked-down Shadowhawk at one point with only one health remaining. It's possible the mech automatically stood back up when I pushed the "Eject" button and I didn't notice, though.

[Sword_of_Light]

Originally posted by Aldodrem:

Opfor does not eject cuz the AI is coded to be kamikazes who don't value their lives. blow a leg off and both side torsos/arms and the AI will still try to fight you be charging in for a headbutt...

OpFor can be surprisingly smart, using human tactics like "everyone shoot that mech!" and "I'll jump in the middle of these mechs and Multi-target three with my 3 flamers", and it can also be remarkably stupid. Not quite wall-humping CounterStrike stupid, but "I am being shot, but do not know from where, so I will stay still" stupid.

AI needs improvement in heat management (I will shoot until I shut down) and morale (I am a Cicada, I will happily fight that Altas because I hate my life and wish to shorten it considerably) - but I suspect those will take a backburner to problems like "my mech has spawned inside a rock, and cannot move"

And humans are always better, no matter how good the decision tree is for the AI - a friend of mine learned to play Battletech on MegaMek - but when I was OpFor I did things like break line of sight if I didnt have a viable attack vector - which MegaMek never did.

[Sword_of_Light]

Originally posted by DasaKamov:

Originally posted by Sword_of_Light:

There is - manual - and you have to be upright.

I'm fairly certain you don't, actually -- I had Glitch punch out of her knocked-down Shadowhawk at one point with only one health remaining. It's possible the mech automatically stood back up when I pushed the "Eject" button and I didn't notice, though.

You could be right. I may be making a tabletop mistake - again. I've never tried punching out while prone - I'll take a look next time one of my mechs is being held together with duct tape and wishful thinking.

[Sword_of_Light]

I misspoke - DasaKamov is correct. My Banshee - a mech which I am less and less impressed with - took the brunt of enemy fire, and fell over. The eject button is available.

[DasaKamov]

Granted, it *would* be funny if there were consequences to ejecting while prone -- such as rocketing out of your mech horizontally and pancake-ing into the side of a mountain. ;)

[Evol_Prodigy]

SHAMEFUU DISHPRAY

[Ineptus Mechanicus]

Originally posted by Sword_of_Light:

I misspoke - DasaKamov is correct. My Banshee - a mech which I am less and less impressed with - took the brunt of enemy fire, and fell over. The eject button is available.

Yeah, the Banshee kinda sucks. I do think energy weapons need a bit of the buff in either the damage or weight dept. except for medium lasers, because they're short range but good. The banshee sucks because heavy energy weapons kinda suck.

[Konstantin]

So it is not just my feeling, that I am better on with a medium laser instead of a large.