Where's the Eject Button, and other questions

[Jaeghan]

After watching for a long time, I finally have purchased the game. Started a campaign, thought I was doing alright, really scratched my original MW itch, and boom! bankrupt. So, I started hunting around for tips, play thru vids, guides, etc. After all that, I still have some questions. (Note: on vanilla. I want to understand the base game before getting into mods and such).

1. Where is the eject button? I hear / read all the time to eject to avoid pilot damage, racking up bigger repair bills on mechs in trouble, etc, but I cannot find the darn thing or any key bind for it. I'm sure it'll be a derp moment when someone points it out, so let's get it over with.

2. How do you get access to the black market that many posters reference? I have not progressed far in the campaign, so maybe I haven't unlocked? Or do you need to do jobs for a specific faction?

3. Lance composition - It feels like having 1 pilot with scan lock and adv piloting to scout / jump in and out of combat, 2 mid-range / brawler tanks with bulwark and piloting, and a long range with bulwark and gunnery. Am I overlooking something?

4. How soon do you start to refit your mechs? I'm thinking more armor to cut down on repair costs early on, to maybe avoid bankruptcy this time.

Thanks for reading, and any answers!

[Harukage]

https://i.imgur.com/ScDtGcZ.jpg
Here is your Eject button.

[HurtfulPlayer97]

Access to the Black Market is one of those Events that pops up when you are travelling. You just have to wait for it to happen. It will cost you (if I remember right) 1 million if you are Indifferent. 500K if your are Liked and 2 million if you are Disliked.

[wesnef]

I think it's from 50k to 1mil, depending on Pirate rep.

Also, if you tank your Pirate rep down to Loathed, prices in the Black Market will be too high to reasonably buy anything.


How soon do I refit my mechs? Immediately. First thing I do when starting a new Campaign or Career is to rip something off the starting mechs and increase their armor, ideally to max on the front. Because removing equipment, and adjusting armor, takes 0 repair time.
Like, with the Campaign mechs:
Spider - remove some/all jump jets
Vindicator - remove LRM+ammo
Shadowhawk - remove either LRM or SRM + ammo (depending on if you want it to be short or long range)
Blackjack - remove one AC2.
Locust - sell. :D

Beyond that, I'll start to upgrade them into better builds while traveling between planets.
Blackjack - rip out the other AC2, add an AC5.
Vindicator - replace the PPC with a Large Laser & more Mediums.
Whatever you decide you want, but working at it constantly while traveling (and in between needed repairs. But I've got enough practice that I don't need to do major repairs in the beginning.)

3. Lance composition - It feels like having 1 pilot with scan lock and adv piloting to scout / jump in and out of combat, 2 mid-range / brawler tanks with bulwark and piloting, and a long range with bulwark and gunnery. Am I overlooking something?

Figure out which skills you like the most, then build your pilots & mechs to take advantage. Everyone on this board has their own personal favorite setups. My generic lance is two pilots with Bulwark / Sensor Lock / Master Tactician, one pilot with Bulwark / Multishot / Breaching Shot; and one pilot with Bulwark / Sure Footing / Coolant Vent. But I've got backups of all of them, so I can mix it up if a mission calls for it.
(Master Tac pilots are all-arounders, the Multi/Breaching pilot goes on my rear-support long-range mech, and the Sure Footing pilot gets the fast jumpy mech.)

[HurtfulPlayer97]

Well, I just did it a few days ago and it cost me 500K and I was 'Liked'.

[wesnef]

Opprinnelig skrevet av HurtfulPlayer97:

Well, I just did it a few days ago and it cost me 500K and I was 'Liked'.

Ok. /shrug

[Jaeghan]

Thank you, everyone, this was great. And yep, it was a derp moment for the eject button :-).

[HurtfulPlayer97]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Jaeghan:

Thank you, everyone, this was great. And yep, it was a derp moment for the eject button :-).

They don't make where it is obvious, that is for sure.

[sum1els]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Harukage:

https://i.imgur.com/ScDtGcZ.jpg
Here is your Eject button.

I've been playing this game a lot, and I finally had to look this up, thanks! Why do they make this so hard to find? [WITHDRAW] is huge at the top of the screen, but I could not figure out how to eject.
They even make you eject in the campaign tutorial, but rather than have you find and push the button, they just stick a big button in the center of the screen and disable everything else; seems like a missed opportunity.