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[Creamcorn]

By now, I'm wondering what the OP is doing right now.

[Jack A T]

Oh, and I heartily recommend downloading and installing JD's mechapack.  It adds lots of variety and surprise to your mecha selections.  It provides real motivation to shop around for your next mecha.

Aye, done so.

Now...seems the overall consensus so far is Revy, a 16-year-old female pirate from a wretched hive of scum and villainy, who plans on getting a lancemate called Creamski?  Sounds awesome to me.

[Creamcorn]

Oh, and I heartily recommend downloading and installing JD's mechapack.  It adds lots of variety and surprise to your mecha selections.  It provides real motivation to shop around for your next mecha.

Aye, done so.

Now...seems the overall consensus so far is Revy, a 16-year-old female pirate from a wretched hive of scum and villainy, who plans on getting a lancemate called Creamski?  Sounds awesome to me.

Wait, this is a mecha game , a rougelike mecha game!?

[Jack A T]

Wait, this is a mecha game , a rougelike mecha game!?

GearHead 2 is a free/open source roguelike game about giant robots blowing each other up.

[Josephus]

Oh, and I heartily recommend downloading and installing JD's mechapack.  It adds lots of variety and surprise to your mecha selections.  It provides real motivation to shop around for your next mecha.

Aye, done so.

Now...seems the overall consensus so far is Revy, a 16-year-old female pirate from a wretched hive of scum and villainy, who plans on getting a lancemate called Creamski?  Sounds awesome to me.

Wait, this is a mecha game , a rougelike mecha game!?

Yeah, it's pretty cool.

[Jack A T]

Woo!  Updating!

So, we have a background: mother was an explorer, father was a pirate, and Revy always wanted to be an adventurer.  We have a talent: Robotics (build robots).  We have a top-secret, mostly unknown X4gs GhostSoldier Buru Buru.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And so it starts...


Closet's quite a mess.  Sadly, there's nothing useful in it.  At all.  Can't even sell any of the junk.


Here's our character, complete with random stats.  Ego is 9 (hooray for overlapping letters).
The very first thing I do in a new game is go shopping.  Spacesuit, weapon, food...


Randomly generated speech is awesomely hilariously stupid sometimes.


...awhat?  Time to chat.


...I am somehow unimpressed.


The plot thickens!


Revy: Hi Ablle.
Ablle: There's been a lot of fighting with the Aegis Space Force recently.  Some people say there's going to be a war... That's why I've decided to sign up with the Privateer Guild.
Revy: Great!  This could be a good opportunity for you.  (I don't want to piss off my friend right now)

So, team, what shall Revy do?  Join the guild?  Work with her friend?  Ignore the plot thread that's dangling right in front of her?

Also, we need colours for Revy's mecha.

[Spartan 117]

Kill him and steal his mech.

[Jack A T]

Kill him and steal his mech.

Sadly, I've never found a way to do that in this game.  Also, we have no weapons.  I did only a short search for equipment, and the weapons/armor salesman I found sold the following:
*A helmet
*A flak jacket
*A spacesuit

Best selection ever.

[Spartan 117]

Buy a helmet and a spacesuit and leave. That way if when our mech gets blown up, we can float over and board the enemy mech. The helmet is for smacking.

[Boksi]

The helmet probably isn't sealed. We can probably just go to other shops, though. I've never heard of a spinner with only a single shop.

Anyway, I think we should join. Privateers are basically state-sponsored pirates, after all.

As for color schemes, looking at our portrait, how about going with red and purple highlights? Either that, or olive with orange highlights.

[Myroc]

Anyway, I think we should join. Privateers are basically state-sponsored pirates, after all.

This. If we're gonna be pirates, we can atleast make sure we're LEGAL pirates. We get to plunder things and still not get jailed!

[Creamcorn]

I'd take the military job, only if there is mucho dinero involved. Also, you forgot to mention which of our stats are advantages and disadvantages, and what about our mech? Is the thing fast? For pirates, speed was a matter of life and death! One more thing, how much does that equipment listed cost? A flak jacket sounds more practical.

As for the colors... any advantages in them? Or are they mostly cosmetic? If so, black with some gold trim!

[Josephus]

Man, what did that guy just say about the fresh fruit?

Also, black and gold sounds good.

[rickvoid]

So, our 16 year old pirate girl has a 24 year old male friend, who wants us to get into his pirate ship with him.

We should at least wait until he offers us candy, I think. It would complete the scene.

Agree to go with him, but look around some more before we go. There's got to be some other vendors around here somewhere.

Anyway, is this seriously Gearhead 2!? I've got GH1, and I didn't have a whole lot of fun with it. Did you mod the game so it had a 2.5D top down interface, or is it like that straight out of the download?

*Runs off to check without awaiting a reply...*

[Jack A T]

I'd take the military job, only if there is mucho dinero involved. Also, you forgot to mention which of our stats are advantages and disadvantages, and what about our mech? Is the thing fast? For pirates, speed was a matter of life and death! One more thing, how much does that equipment listed cost? A flak jacket sounds more practical.

I've bought a spacesuit already.  In this game, spacesuits tend to have, for some reason, a higher AC than real armor, and they happen to be sealed, allowing us to survive in space.

Our stats: All are mediocre to good.  Reflexes and speed are our main combat stats, body determines health and stamina (used in...everything), ego determines mental energy (used in skills) and stamina, perception improves accuracy and lets us see hidden things, craft is used with skills, knowledge is used with skills, and charm makes people like you more.

On the topic of shops: I have not checked the cavalier club's shops yet, for screenshot purposes.

Our mech: It has guns, it has armor, and it's big.  64 tons, -5 maneuverability (MV is pretty much always negative.  The armor doesn't help), targeting is -5 (again, this is usually negative), and it can move.  It's not fast, but it has guns and armor.  Yeah, we have got to get better stuff.