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[Hugehead]

Black with gold trim since it will looks awesome.

[Boksi]

-5 MV? Ouch. Couldn't you get the Heavyfoot? It's got -4 MV and a DC 24 rapegun.

Also, if we're going with black and gold, the tertiary color must be red. And then we rename our mech Trombe.

[Jack A T]

So, you wanted to join the privateers.  I guess this means EPIC EXPLODEY ACTION soon.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Our robot.


The plot thickens.  We have a new lancemate: Ablle.  His mecha is fast and has a big baseball bat (in a game where melee weapons tend to one-shot, this one's about triple the damage of the average one).  Sadly, we can't rename lancemates, though. I don't like doing plot missions without preparing.  Cue the other stuff!


...HELL YEAH.  For those of you who have never played GH2, I just found one of those missions that gets you a lancemate.  Prepare for awesome.  Time to unsteal a Crystal Skull.


Umlbih Xoh...shall pay.  Now, the way we catch people like Umlbih is by searching for rumors.


...didn't you just say you had no more information to tell me about this?


This is just because I must show the usual standard pointless rumor.  Well, time to investigate Dyyvibp through the PHONE!


Well, that was easy.


One hideout.  The boxes do nothing.  Well, we tell Xoh that we're here to collect for his boss, and get a skull made of crystal.


Our success has brought Ubnaw to Ally status, meaning she can join our (currently full) lance.  (Not shown: giving her her skull through the PHONE!)  However, we'd have to get rid of Ablle first.  Also...what did she just say?

I found pretty much nothing of use to us while searching for shops this time.  Mostly mecha shops, that one shop with the lack of selection, and a single general store with no weapons.  Found duct tape, though.


Bounty hunting!  Yay!  Well, we get rumors, find a guy who knows the location, and go off to win.


That was easy (Conversation and Intimidation: Because sometimes combat sucks).  We get our cash (paid through the PHONE!) and go off in search of adventure or something.

Well.  Colors for Ablle's mecha?  Also, we can rename mecha, so...names?  Should we steal Ablle's mecha and give him ours?

[Boksi]

Ablle is a pretty sane name, all things considered.

Anyway, Ablle has better Perception, so he'd do better with a ranged mech. Steal his. Unless his skills are underwhelming in that area? Or are we no good at close-quarters combat?

As for colors, I like olive+orange. It looks rather good. Although we could just go with black+whatever, but that's a tad uncreative.

[Creamcorn]

What the hell did Revy say to that pirate?

As for colors, I'd go with something like a dark blue (or some other darkish color) and I don't know, something bordering magenta or purple. We should totally rename Ablle's mech the Deep Shark! Just look at that hair of his!

Also, a firefighter!? Is that best person you could find!? The best I see her doing is putting out the fires in the mechs Revy and Ablle completely destroy.

[Jack A T]

What the hell did Revy say to that pirate?

As for colors, I'd go with something like a dark blue (or some other darkish color) and I don't know, something bordering magenta or purple. We should totally rename Ablle's mech the Deep Shark! Just look at that hair of his!

Also, a firefighter!? Is that best person you could find!? The best I see her doing is putting out the fires in the mechs Revy and Ablle completely destroy.

Revy basically just said to come with her or die.  Yes, a weaponless Revy is that intimidating.  Then again, Ablle has a shotgun.

As I said, the firefighter won't fit in our lance at the moment, and we can only convince people who give certain missions to join us without the right talents.  Be happy I didn't find us a singer, though.  Besides, almost everyone in this world is a mecha pilot with big guns, so she's useful enough.

[rickvoid]

So I decided to download the game and try it out.

I's pretty awesome, but so very different from the first game that I'm in way over my head.

Better read through all the documentation, I suppose.

[Jack A T]

Welcome back to Let's Play GearHead 2.

I'll go with Creamcorn's name and color suggestion this time, as well as stealing Ablle's mecha.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Deep Shark!

Now, Revy needs a weapon.  Nobody in this layer of Theles is selling a weapon, and we can't go to other layers.  Solution: Raid Hovel Manor's dungeon.  Hovel Manor's mostly an ordinary building, but you can go up to a little, simple dungeon in it.

This is the first floor of Dark Hovel, a dungeon with street punks and rats.  The blue/green square in the top left room is the stairs down.  I have to use Ablle to fight enemies, as he has a shotgun and Revy has nothing of worth.

Here we have a mostly harmless rat.

Ablle got a street punk behind Revy, and managed to leave the punk's steel pipe intact.  Revy has a WEAPON!  Now, I leave the dungeon and go off to find small jobs to prepare for the plot.

One standard random mission.  Yes, it's painful to see a nice pirate working for the police, but we need experience.  And salvage.

Space.  The mecha is Revy.  The green thing is a permanent location.  In this case, it's an abandoned warship.  The orange thing is a mission location, which will disappear after completion.  The satellite-like thing is Theles Spinner.

(note that after this point, FRAPS stopped working, had to be reinstalled. CURSES.)

Actual combat.  Revy isn't exactly fast, even in the slugger.  However, Ablle and our target are fighting.  Not well, but they're fighting.  This would be much better with an image, will get one next update.

The power of melee weapons: 681 damage, 4 full parts destroyed.  YEAH!

Victory.  Notice that at the bottom (or not, no image), it says that the enemy died.  Enemies can either eject pre-destruction (usually giving you a free mecha), eject during destruction, or die.  This one was not lucky.  Well, Revy returns, sells salvage (not much of a profit), and repairs her mecha.  Sadly, duct tape can only fix so much damage, and the mecha needs professional repair.  Yes, you can fix mecha with duct tape in this game.  Not well, but you can.

In a much better moment, Revy manages to get two pilots to eject from their mecha.  I've taken the liberty of removing a station defense rifle from the Clydesdale to give it to the under equipped Revy.  The Clydesdale, in terrible condition, is being sold, while the Condor is being kept as...Revy's new mecha.  You see, the Slugger was way too slow, and this is faster.  Ablle's getting his Slugger back.

And now, the plot mission Ablle tried to get us to go on.  We want a datachip.  We'll get money.

Woo.  So, I plan on building a ball-type robot (weak, pretty much worthless, but we have lots of money) next update, to show Robotics in action.  Is there any name any of you particularly want it to have?

EDIT: Found method to rename lancemates.  Suggestions for Ablle and Ubnaw?

[Creamcorn]

In all honesty, I'd would name that mech Voltorb and it's fairly obvious what colors it would be. Anyway, if no one else posts up on a name, then I'll leave that up to you. Also, we need more dialogue and money! You can never have enough money!

Also, our lance mate Creamski should be either well endowed or ambiguously gendered. It's a mech game, we gotta keep up with the animu tendencies! If not then, whatever doesn't matter that much. Another thing, you've never heard of print screen?

[Josephus]

Yeah, Voltorb.

If you want Creamski to be well-endowed, you could always snag that firefighter lady.

[Jack A T]

Also, our lance mate Creamski should be either well endowed or ambiguously gendered. It's a mech game, we gotta keep up with the animu tendencies! If not then, whatever doesn't matter that much. Another thing, you've never heard of print screen?

I used FRAPS because print screen is tedious.  I didn't use print screen when FRAPS failed because it failed without notifying me.

[Creamcorn]

Yeah, Voltorb.

If you want Creamski to be well-endowed, you could always snag that firefighter lady.

Yeah... but she looks a tad too matronly for our group. And she's a firefighter.

Also, our lance mate Creamski should be either well endowed or ambiguously gendered. It's a mech game, we gotta keep up with the animu tendencies! If not then, whatever doesn't matter that much. Another thing, you've never heard of print screen?

I used FRAPS because print screen is tedious.  I didn't use print screen when FRAPS failed because it failed without notifying me.

Now that I think about, that was a pretty stupid question. Also, what's the ascii interface like?

[Jack A T]

Also, what's the ascii interface like?

Simple, once you figure out how to get to the help section.  (h)

[EuchreJack]

Since you can build limitless robots (currently), I'd suggest naming robots after forumites.  Starting with me, for coming up with the idea. 

[Josephus]

You know, EuchreJack is actually a pretty good name for a Mecha.