

It tanks your rep with their enemy factions and the store offerings are pretty mediocre compared to just regular salvage. At the very least it would offer something other than ammo to crit in that side torso.Īs for the faction flashpoints, not only are they pretty tough but allying with a faction is usually a mistake. Honestly, a Marauder that downgrades the PPCs to LLs and adds JJs would probably be superior at the end of the day. It's actually a bit weird that the Marauder doesn't mount JJs since the source material (the Officer Pod) is usually flying around in the art.

There are canonical Marauder variants with Jump Jets. Everything can mount as many jump jets as its walking speed in the unmodded game. That'd be consistent with lore, but yeah, that's not in the vanilla game. No JJ on Stalker, Atlas, King Crab, Crab, Hunchback, Dragon to name a few. at least, for me, maybe that is indeed a mod thing. Only certain mechs have JJ hardpoints in this game. I mean, these missions are hard already but adding mods into the mix just takes it to the next level. Eg I suspect the target acquisition missions are kicking your butt because your mods are upping the difficulty (a lot of these mod developers reckon the base game is too easy). Hence my specifying that it works without ModtekĪlso dude, you need to keep track of what's coming from mods and what's in the base game. Only a handful of mods now truly *require* Modtek - mostly those that alter how stores work or add things to them. ModTech and core HBS Mod Support are now exactly the same, other than modtek adding a few things that modtek mods require. Ignore the Modtek requirement I just put it in the regular BT mods folder and it's working fine. You can also get the mod that lets you take contracts with anyone regardless of rep. Might involve a lot of flying around to find contracts that don't involve fighting pirates though. You just have to make someone else your gimp, usually another faction that's an enemy of your ally. It's quite doable to ally with (one) faction and also not tank your reputation with the pirates. All the factions have stuff in their stores that is worthwhile.
