New Mechwarrior game revealed

Spear

There were a couple of teaser trailers over the last few days, but here's the reveal trailer.

http://uk.pc.ign.com/dor/objects/18954/mech-warrior-project/videos/mechwarrior_trl_phoenix_70709.html

Krieg

Looks pretty f***in cool

Any info on this?

Spear

Krieg wrote: »

Looks pretty f***in cool

Any info on this?

The videos are pretty much it so far. If you let the one above play out, it'll show the teaser ones that preceded it.

Retr0gamer

That looks excellent. Can't wait for this. I loved Mechwarrior 2 and haven't played a decent sci-fi simulation in ages.

L31mr0d

would of been better if that mech had shouted

"GIGA... DRILL... BREAKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!"

the_syco

Hrrrmmmmm... I'm seeing this, and I'm thinking of the Crysis mod "Mechwarrior Living Legends"... hard to say much from the video, but I'm thinking the mod, esp with the fully customizable mechs, the planes, tanks, etc, will look better.

But that's just me. The timing of the release, compared to the release of the mod... will be interesting.

Retr0gamer

I'm not sure, that terrain deformation looks spectacular

Overheal

New Mechwarrior game

All I ****ing need to know.

Reactor ... Online
Sensors ... Online
Weapons ... Online

All Systems Nominal.

Jazzy

its the Unreal Engine 3 running it btw folks. it looks the part so i hope it plays it too. i really hope they give you the same depth of customization as there was in Mech 2 & 3 and not the so-so stuff in mech 4 and its add ons.
the story seems interesting as its really going allllll the way back to classic battletech. 3015 is 35 years before the clans show up so don't expect any timber wolf's and any other clan favourites. im not sure if this is a good thing tho, i reckon they should have gone balls first in and gone for the initial clan invasion of the inner sphere. perhaps too risky to take on though with a new engine and watnot... but would be incredible if done right.

have high hopes for this game. been wanting it since mech 4 showed up and shat on mech 3's good memory. all the same, ive been wanting a mech game from this era for years and years. very excited by it and hopefully they do a good job

Spear

Mechwarrior 4 is to be released for free

http://catalystgamelabs.com/

Seems they secured a bunch of Battletech rights in late June.

Overheal

Good. Because when you pick up the series where i did, in mech2 merc, theres little way to really get immersed in the world. Its just a robot game to me. ****ed if i knew the difference between a wolf clan and a draconis combine. So im glad they look to be doing a series revamp.

Free mech 4 is good news, as its probably the only thing id be able to monkey-wrench enough to get running in vista.

JCDenton

That's not an in-engine clip, is it?

I'd assumed it was all pre-rendered video...

Spear

JCDenton wrote: »

That's not an in-engine clip, is it?

I'd assumed it was all pre-rendered video...

It's in engine they claim.

Overheal

Its gotta be in engine. When you look at some of the special effects, it kinda feels lackluster to what you would get in a prerendered video. But otherwise, everything rendered on screen looks readily playable. where he presses buttons on the console, I could see them adding/retaining that for extra immersion.

Jazzy

i hope they get the feel for the battletech universe right though and not just make it Mechwarrior featuring 50 cent. i have a funny feeling they may try to add their own "attitude" into the game. if they do, i will hire stone cold steve austin to go to work in their offices

jaggeh

going back to 3015 is a definate plus, theres 10 years till the end of the third succession war, and that still leaves 25 years worth of expansions before we see the clans. there is a lot of story and fighting to take place.

besides classic battletech is a lot more visceral pre-clan.

jazzy what makes you think its the unreal3 engine, ive seen no news about it and none of my own sources have said anything about U3.

Jazzy

jaggeh wrote: »

besides classic battletech is a lot more visceral pre-clan.

jazzy what makes you think its the unreal3 engine, ive seen no news about it and none of my own sources have said anything about U3.

yeah i want that visceral side of battletech too. i read it on.... gimme a sec. http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/59467

The PC and Xbox 360 game titled simply 'MechWarrior' is being developed by Piranha Games in Unreal Engine 3, in collaboration with Weisman's company Smith & Tinker.

id love if the wolfs dragoon of old made an appearance. natasha & jamie havent been in a game yet

Ivan

but I love the clans

Venom

Been far to long since last Mechwarrior game but have to say this one is looking sweet

CiDeRmAn

Not sure that another game of a slow moving clump stomping about trying to broadside another slow moving clump is really going to float my boat.
I really liked the earlier PC games and felt quite let down by the Xbox titles.
This one looks like a return to a sim type game, but while the trailer looks really nice, it does seem a tad short on exciting combat, just standing in front of your opponent and trying every weapon in turn until they reload and you start again, until one of you has to eject.


Everyone knows to kill a mech effectively you just go for the knees, don't they?
Worked in Mecharrior 3!
An AC20 to the patella!

I also already have Steel Batallion, do I need any more Mech games after that?

Overheal

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I also already have Steel Batallion, do I need any more Mech games after that?

I hate you.

Pugsley

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Not sure that another game of a slow moving clump stomping about trying to broadside another slow moving clump is really going to float my boat.
I really liked the earlier PC games and felt quite let down by the Xbox titles.
This one looks like a return to a sim type game, but while the trailer looks really nice, it does seem a tad short on exciting combat, just standing in front of your opponent and trying every weapon in turn until they reload and you start again, until one of you has to eject.


Everyone knows to kill a mech effectively you just go for the knees, don't they?
Worked in Mecharrior 3!
An AC20 to the patella!

Most of the fun is the mechlab, spending ages fiddling with your mechs until you can get the best balance between speed, firepower, and all the rest of it. Used to have a NovaCat in MW4 that had 24 medium lasers that he could fire indefinately, he was awesome, huge engines too! (The energizer bunny! :cool:) Or the AC60 thor with near max engines, a 360 degree torso twist, and jump jets! Jump over the enemy and AC60 to the back, 1 hit kill usually, if not you can start taking off limbs/legs. In MW2 and 3 you could do some mad ones, but it's been so long since I played it I can't remember any, you could also get mechs that killed an Atlas in 1 shot to the torso if you fiddled with it in mechlab enough (mass LRM20 racks in MW2 worked well for it).

Taking out the legs was reduced in MW4 significantly when it now required BOTH legs be destroyed to kill the target, 1 leg down only slows you down (a LOT) and stops them reversing. The combat is one element in MW4 they improved, but the mechbay was so simplified it hurts.

Overheal

Its true. If you want an armored core style flyaroundyourgranny mother****er, you can build it. Mechs can be built to be stupidly agile.

Retr0gamer

I still prefer the slow moving minister of death mechs

Jazzy

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I also already have Steel Batallion, do I need any more Mech games after that?

aye, so does my mate. it f**kin rocks... sh1t hard though.

and where did you get this magic AC/60 Pugsley ? the 2/5/10/20 after the autocannon is the millimetre of the shell. an AC/60 would fire a two foot wide shell. such a thing does not exist in any mech game ever.

in mech 3 the best mechs for a good while where the 45 ton shadowcat (lovingly called a 'scat' online) and the 55 ton bushwhacker. they were completely able to outmanoeuvre everything else and if equipped right would take things out in seconds (namely high speed, jets and a mix of small and medium lasers.. not pulse). me and the same mate who had steel battalion used to count the amount of Daishi's and Annihilators on the field as it was teh n00bs so more kills for us. that was in mech 3 mind.
mech 4 was different as you were able to twist and move a lot faster and more of the weapons were hitscan so the heavier ones (70 tons +) tended to win out. the novacat was quite common as it could hold a stupid amount of energy weapons... but then in my eyes mech 4 + expansions was the bastard child of a great series.

hopefully they get things right here and allow full customization of the mechs and not this limited method we saw in mech 4. i hope they also dont go the armoured core route of only having specific body parts. but with the average brain size of gamers dwindling i fully expect a lego kit to come with the game and the main 'star' of the game to be will.i.am and simon cowell will give him missions. they'll also wrangle H from steps in there somehow. naw im being pessimistic. i just have such high hopes for this game.. me mechs 4 eva

Azza

I don't really know much about the Mechwarrior games at all. I think I have played some of them at some stage but I can't be sure.

Might give Mechwarrior 4 ago when it goes free. They hardly released any of the other previous versions for free?

the_syco

Overheal wrote: »

Its true. If you want an armored core style flyaroundyourgranny mother****er, you can build it. Mechs can be built to be stupidly agile.

Aye, nothing better than getting a light mech, putting in boosters, and some decent laser gun. Run like hell, overheat, ignore overheat, ignore overheat, ignore shutdown warnings, and go nuclear when you "bump into" the enemy

Pugsley

Jazzy wrote: »

and where did you get this magic AC/60 Pugsley ? the 2/5/10/20 after the autocannon is the millimetre of the shell. an AC/60 would fire a two foot wide shell. such a thing does not exist in any mech game ever.

3 AC 20's = AC60, give or take Although not as literally as an LRM 160 (As AC weapons vary widely with size, used to love mass AC2/AC5 banks). I'm pretty sure there was an AC15 too, but I only used 2/5/20's. Large caliber for small light mechs and lower caliber for the 80+ ton monsters. For medium mechs (always loved the vultures, such a sexy looking mech!) I tended to favour Medium lasers or missile banks.

noodler

Mech 3 came with the first ever family PC. Great game alright.

Is Mech 2 worth revisiting?

Pugsley

noodler wrote: »

Mech 3 came with the first ever family PC. Great game alright.

Is Mech 2 worth revisiting?

MW2: Mercenaries works with XP, MW2: Battle Pack doesn't work at all. Not sure about with Vista.

If you get Mercenaries you can get it to work here:
http://ntcompatible.com/Mechwarrior_2_Mercenaries_c7414.html
(Great website for getting old games to work)

Frankiestylee

Oh looking forward to this!

Picked up some yoke of a thing for the xbox years back... it had mechs in it, but was pretty much a Burn Out to someone's Gran Turismo.

Overheal

Overheal wrote: »

All I ****ing need to know.

Added awesome sound clip in quote.

MW2 on Vista: not a flying snowballs chance in hell. Running on DOSbox: maybe. Resolution would be fair **** though. But then why do you want to run 1920x1680 when all the textures are 24x24 pixels anyway

Jazzy

Pugsley wrote: »

MW2: Mercenaries works with XP, MW2: Battle Pack doesn't work at all. Not sure about with Vista.

If you get Mercenaries you can get it to work here:
http://ntcompatible.com/Mechwarrior_2_Mercenaries_c7414.html
(Great website for getting old games to work)

ace of base. thats tomorow afternoon sorted for me

SeantheMan

Says ingame footage in the bottom corner

jaggeh

i got mw2 mercs to work yesterday, so much for cleaning the house.

Overheal

jaggeh wrote: »

i got mw2 mercs to work yesterday, so much for cleaning the house.

Enlighten me: im having trouble

Jazzy

Overheal wrote: »

Enlighten me: im having trouble

same

Burgo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGGmmI4QGDA

new trailer for Living Legends.

jaggeh

im using vista 64

titanium pack install, xp patch AND the prep patch, running mercwin in win98 compatability

its unstable and tends to crash after a few missions and i cant figure out how to change the res from 640x480 but by god it works, last night i headshotted a flashman with two ER large and gota clean salvage w00t.

Burgo

In honor of BattleTech’s 25th anniversary, Smith & Tinker has authorized MekTek.net and MekTek Studios to distribute MechWarrior 4 (along with its expansion packs) completely free. For years, MekTek.net has been the central point for online distribution of MechWarrior 4 expansion packs. Now they can provide the core game free to the fans as well. Keep an eye on BattleTech.com—the free download will be available soon!

http://battletech.catalystgamelabs.com/2009/07/09/mechwarrior-to-be-distributed-free-on-battletech-com/

Overheal

jaggeh wrote: »

im using vista 64

titanium pack install, xp patch AND the prep patch, running mercwin in win98 compatability

its unstable and tends to crash after a few missions and i cant figure out how to change the res from 640x480 but by god it works, last night i headshotted a flashman with two ER large and gota clean salvage w00t.

ill have to dig out the patches but i have the rest ready. ill give it a lash later on 32 bit

jaggeh

salvaged a fire moth meep meep!

oooooooooh check it out

i got bum raped by two kodiaks two dashers and a grizzly shortly after that, managed to escape with my torso intact but the rest of the mech is a right off

Jazzy

thats the robbing the kodiak mission innit? toughest mission in the game probably. that or the one where you land on walcott for the first time.. ya know, the first big contract against the jaguars. pain in the titties. i didnt use the kodiak when i got it tho as u could fit more on one of the XL engine atlas's
i so despirately want to get this game to work
need lots of stuff tho. first i need the dos version of the game (according to other forums anyway) and then i need to re-jig things. im very jealous of u atm jaggeh

Overheal

I remember the kodiak mission, only for how absolutely interesting and painful it was to pull off. The Mechs being held together by paint by the time you make it to your drop point.

Overheal

I have mechwarrior working, but not mercenaries. Titanium edition. Its nothing without mercenaries. The MW2Hook doesnt find any executables and I dont know what it means by creating a shortcut to the inject app and then "Setting the arguments to point to the game executable" <-- where do I do that?

edit: Tried this using the zip file here. Works good when set to Win95 compatibility except that the sounds are messed up - they dont play most of the time, and more importantly, there is no music. Missions are playable, but without that classic soundtrack, whats the point

jaggeh

Overheal wrote: »

I have mechwarrior working, but not mercenaries. Titanium edition. Its nothing without mercenaries. The MW2Hook doesnt find any executables and I dont know what it means by creating a shortcut to the inject app and then "Setting the arguments to point to the game executable" <-- where do I do that?

edit: Tried this using the zip file here. Works good when set to Win95 compatibility except that the sounds are messed up - they dont play most of the time, and more importantly, there is no music. Missions are playable, but without that classic soundtrack, whats the point

winamp

the trick to the kodiak mission is to not attack the draconis combine too early, if you head off and ping the first kodiak/grizzly team with your large laser
you can bait them back and the drac's start fighting them. then you just mop up. its the last bit with the two dashers and kodiak team that mess me up.

you can either focus on the kodiak or try to take down the dashers, my advice is to save some uac20 ammo and one shot the dashers, if you take out the kodiaks arms
from range then you can hold him off at long range where is AC wont hit.

after retrying the mission i salvaged two dashers and a grizzly aswell as keeping the kodiak for myself.

Overheal

jaggeh wrote: »

winamp

eww! Seriously? No man. There has to be a fix here. I will find it.

edit: the fix, is not pretty:

http://strategywiki.org/wiki/MechWarrior_2:_31st_Century_Combat/Windows_XP

oh wait, that just means disable the optical drives. I was thinking Id have to rename my D drive partition which would have been a huge headache. Easy peasy. Ill try it when I get off work.

jaggeh

the benefit of winamp is i can have MW2:3050, MW2:GBL AND mercenaries playing

Overheal

Pfft. Do it right or not at all! :[

B00MSTICK

Dunno how I missed this thread.

Delighted. I've promised myself a new desktop once its released.

Anyone one up for some MW4 when it becomes available for DL?

mechwarrior