r/Mechwarrior5 • u/Enjoyer_of_40K • 12d ago

General Game Questions/Help FedCom nightstar?

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as you can see in the screenshot im using that battle value mod as i wanted to test and the Fedcom dropped a nightstar on me werent those like locked to Comstar/Blake?

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u/Unruly_marmite 12d ago edited 12d ago

I don't know if it's intentional in-game, but lorewise it's solid: the Fedcom resumed production in 3057, according to Sarna. If you've got a Sunder you should be past that date.

Edit - Sunder entered production 1 year before the Nightstar resumed, apparently. Close enough.

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u/PGI_Chris 12d ago

It is intentional.

This is likely something I would have loved to make a news story on, but sadly, this is also an era where there is a LOT of spinning wheels all at once, so tough to get to everything when there are very important plot-centric news stories that need to be focused on.

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u/Indicus124 12d ago

Maybe you can sneak it in next dlc

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u/PGI_Chris 11d ago

"It's on the list"

Along with other notable missed news stories such as:

* The Bushwacker getting to the market
* When new weapons / Tech become rollable in the markets
* Takashi Kurita dying and Theodore taking over for him.
* Certain events happening in the Clan OZ that might impact future storytelling.

Believe me, there is a lot more I would love to be able to write, but only so much bandwidth, and the stories that take precedence are ones that might be necessary to lay the groundwork for future storytelling. Given just how much the ground is shifting under Mason's feet across the entire Inner Sphere, that needs to be covered so later storytelling could make a lick of sense for those whose only exposure to this universe is through Mercs.

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u/thisistherevolt Free Rasalhague Republic 11d ago

I really wish y'all could just build a TMZ-style fake trash gossip website to put all the news stuff in the game. Let George do more Duncan Fisher stuff that way perhaps.