Does background matter?

[LordBlade]

Just sitting here at character creation for the campaign, and wondering how much your choices actually matter. The game's not really showing me anything other that story fluff, so I don't know if there's any significance to it.

[Arsene Lupin]

It has a minor affect on your mechwarrior's stats. AFAIK that's it.

[IllCaesar]

Story fluff and some side effects in missions, nothing drastic.

[ImHelping]

Flavor text primarily. Low stats are cheap enough that backgrounds will not be a factor for stat builds.

[LordBlade]

Yeah, it's showing things like Piloting and Tactics, but hasn't explained what any of those do.

[Kel'Ithra]

I has affect on events mostly like the random events that happen within the dropship/Argo.

[Aristocratic Cthulhu]

Originally posted by LordBlade:

Yeah, it's showing things like Piloting and Tactics, but hasn't explained what any of those do.

Move the cursor over them to get a tooltip.

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by LordBlade:

Yeah, it's showing things like Piloting and Tactics, but hasn't explained what any of those do.

Here is a link to a chart the devs put up. Because "LOL tooltips!" doesn't get into their overall passive effects line up. Except Gunnery, which is always "Shoot gooder"

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/lesser-known-effects-of-skill-points-i-e-other-than-the-big-8-abilities.1086290/page-3#post-24086028

If you want to have stats that matter in the two tutorial missions. Guts doesn't do anything until 4 points (+1 HP). Tactics doesn't do anything untli 4 points (-1 indirect fire penalty).

But for char creation, just pick what sounds cool and don't worry about point placement until you've even got access to the level up screens.

[LordBlade]

Thanks ImHelping.

@Cthulhu, the tooltips weren't working until I alt-tabbed back and forth a couple of times. So I'm guessing alt-tabbing might cause some glitches with the game.

[Blowfeld]

Originally posted by Aristocratic Cthulhu:

Originally posted by LordBlade:

Yeah, it's showing things like Piloting and Tactics, but hasn't explained what any of those do.

Move the cursor over them to get a tooltip.

I did that, the game does not show tooltips. Seems like another bug.

[LordBlade]

Originally posted by oO:

I did that, the game does not show tooltips. Seems like another bug.

Try alt-tabbing a couple of times. I did that and they started working.