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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: WYOKIDIII on November 02, 2011, 10:51:43 PM
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A new Mechwarrior Online FTP MMO announced , due late 2012 . Very interesting stuff .
http://mwomercs.com/ (http://mwomercs.com/)
I have played some version of this game off and on since I was kid , starting with the table top version "BattleDroids" . Just wondering if there are any others interested .
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Indeed, but I am interested in their being more information. They haven't released much.
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Look's very cool, Can't wait to see how the game play is, Even tho i am younger but i love mechs.
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I miss Chromehounds :cry
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There has been a bunch of discussion about this over on the SimHQ BBS and apparently the developers are headed toward the Mech Assault setup instead of the good old Mechwarrior side.
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3422551/New_Mechwarrior_title_Mechwarr.html#Post3422551
http://mwomercs.com/news/2011/10/2-dev-blog-0
Hopefully they stay true to the old school course and continue building or rebuild the original to modern day graphics and all other associated content. I really enjoyed and still remember playing the first ones on the PC and put them right up there with X-Wing and Tie Fighter as games that need a rework and reboot.
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anyone find out if MW5 ever got out of that lawsuit and back on the road? :headscratch:
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MW5 is dead; from what I heard the lawsuit effectively killed any chance of it ever appearing before us.
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anyone find out if MW5 ever got out of that lawsuit and back on the road? :headscratch:
I'm reading the associated developers blog and it appears that this game may be the same group that was working on MW5?
http://mwomercs.com/news/2011/10/2-dev-blog-0 (http://mwomercs.com/news/2011/10/2-dev-blog-0)
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"Free to Play"
This concerns me.
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"Free to Play"
This concerns me.
Just google mechwarrior living legends. It's MW5 for those who got screwed out of MW5.
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Just google mechwarrior living legends. It's MW5 for those who got screwed out of MW5.
Living Legends is from a different group isn't it? Or are these the same people?
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for xbox they had a Mechassault, very fun brought me and my step bro a bit closer while were adjusting to the new situation. :P
Also they have a mech arcade game for 360 called Trenched it takes place in 1927 or something. :salute
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for xbox they had a Mechassault, very fun brought me and my step bro a bit closer while were adjusting to the new situation. :P
Was that the game that cost like $200 and came with its own pimped out controller? I always wanted to try that, looked pretty sweet.
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Was that the game that cost like $200 and came with its own pimped out controller? I always wanted to try that, looked pretty sweet.
Steel battalion
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Living Legends is from a different group isn't it? Or are these the same people?
This isva very old video I took
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y0vL-YG0ck&feature=youtube_gdata_player (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y0vL-YG0ck&feature=youtube_gdata_player)
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I'm looking forward to this one for sure. Makes me wanna find my MechCommander CD. I played the original Mechwarrior along with the vastly more popular (and very good) MW2 (great soundtrack btw), but to me MechCommander 1 was the most fun.
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Piranha Games and Smith & Tinker were behind the MW5 promo back in 2009. They tried in vain to get a publisher to fund it, but after two years they've managed to sell it as a online multiplayer "free to play" game. Hopefully this will be successful and revitalize the franchise. Who knows, maybe it will justify a grandiose MW5 single player campaign style game in the future.
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To those who are worried they'll do something horrible and unholy to the Battletech universe: Jordan Weisman is the founder of Smith & Tinker, and was also the founder of FASA Corporation. Battletech is his baby. MechAssault was Microsoft's abomination.
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I can still remember the days of placing huge maps on the bar and having an all night Battletech brawl till the wee hours of the morning. I still have some of the miniatures. If it was a war game I wanted to play it :lol.
This one was my favorite
(http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af288/BigRatphotos/002.jpg)
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BigRat
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This one was my favorite
(http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af288/BigRatphotos/002.jpg)
:salute
BigRat
But I remember that one from this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDaw-crfbiY :lol
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Yup. Battletech started out using licensed Robotech models. They are now called "unseen" mechs since they lost the rights to use them.
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Yup. Battletech started out using licensed Robotech models. They are now called "unseen" mechs since they lost the rights to use them.
Yea, that bit the big one, The Marauder series was always my favorite.
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BigRat
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Marauder
Warhammer
Jenner
Archer
I remember them all fondly . I know there is an online table top game out there (or was ) don' t remember the site name though . As I was checking out this new game , I found myself reminicing about the old days of pencil and paper wars , and how fun it was to tweak a mech or design a totally new one , and drop them on the board and let your opponant try and figure it out . I hope that Mech design is a strong feature of this new game . Also I hope they bring effective long range nonmech threats to the heavies (Arty , heavy armor ) to give the lights and mediums something real to do , or it's just going to be Heavy's everywhere slugging it out in the middle of the map , with a light sprinkling of smaller mech parts scattered around them . Oh and PPC's!!!!!......god i miss PPC's .
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In the games I played the Marauder always seemed to have a glass jaw. I can regale you with many accounts of Marauders going out far, far earlier than their armor and tonnage says they should have. Warhammers, despite having less armor, always took a lot more pounding to go down for me.
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Long live the Federated Suns and the Northwind Highlanders!!!! :aok
I played in NBT's online Mechwarrior 4/Mercs league for 4 years. Loved it. Ive been waiting for MW5 since 2006!!!
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Long live the Federated Suns and the Northwind Highlanders!!!! :aok
I played in NBT's online Mechwarrior 4/Mercs league for 4 years. Loved it. Ive been waiting for MW5 since 2006!!!
The Dragon is unbowed and shall not be broken. The Draconis Combine and House Kurita shall have the day.
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The Dragon is unbowed and shall not be broken. The Draconis Combine and House Kurita shall have the day.
..Freedom shall be our Steadfast Sword and Hope our Strongest Shield, for We are the Federated Suns! **From The Covenant of New Avalon, 2239**
The link below is the website of the NBT (NetBattleTech) leage. They had taken MW4/Mercs down to the bone and were able to build mechs even without M$'s blessing. We had over 100 mechs at 1 point in the league. It lost a lot of players when Guild Wars came out, many players went off to chase fairies and left their MW teams hanging in teh breeze. If you look of the Fed Suns, you will see =FS= Benn, that was me. :) When my ability to be the CO of the FedSuns diminished because I didnt have the time, I helped with the Northwind Highlanders and played with them for quite some time. That was a lot of fun. I hope the league restarts again if MW5 does in fact go live.
http://www.netbattletech.com/nbt-mercs/index.html
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mech warriors leauge is still up and running im a rules and dispute moderator. Check out www.mektek.com
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In the games I played the Marauder always seemed to have a glass jaw. I can regale you with many accounts of Marauders going out far, far earlier than their armor and tonnage says they should have. Warhammers, despite having less armor, always took a lot more pounding to go down for me.
Partly because, if your games were like mine, the Marauder drivers thought they were invincible and charged forward while everyone on the other side was targeting them because of their reputation- I had the same experiences with them. Warhammers usually seemed to last longer for the simple reason that they were usually played (at least in my games) as snipers or line-anchors, using their PPCs until the fight got close enough to finish them off with the SRMs and other little stuff, depending on the configuration. They also made great support for command 'Mechs.
Since theres a few old-timers around, did anyone ever have anything good to say about LAMs? AFAIK, they were universally loathed, at least in my experience.
Oh, and Lyran Commonwealth Forever!
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Nah, I mean true glass jaw luck. I recall one fight in which my lance, Marauder, Warhammer, Hatchetman and Vindicator, were advancing towards what was to be a messy three sided fight. First shots at my lance had rounds fired at both the Marauder and Warhammer. An enemy Blackjack hit the Marauder in the head with an AC2, knocking it out. The pilot then failed to regain consciousness for five rounds and when he did he immediately took a PPC to the head from a Battlemaster and died.
In another case I had a Warhammer in a close quarters fight with a Marauder, got an average hit on it with my SRM6, four missiles hit. Head, Center Torso (Critical), Head, Center Torso (Critical).
I know it was just RNG, but we just had the things go down way too easy too often.
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I still have this packed away in a box somewhere, unfortunately the Saturn doesn't work anymore.
(http://www.satakore.com/satengine/photos/photosmodif/T/T-13004H-50_1,,Sega-Saturn-Photo-1-MechWarrior-2-EUR.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jdmgaMf_uU
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Funny, the Warhammers always seemed to have their heads shot off when I was using them :lol. In fact it kinda got bad enough that we called the warhammer's head a PPC magnet :furious
I remember LAM's, I think we used them through one battle, and they were so annoying we decided not to use them ever again. Darn things jumping across half the board and all :furious
:salute
BigRat
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mech warriors leauge is still up and running im a rules and dispute moderator. Check out www.mektek.com
That would be dotnet. :D
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thanks for the correction im bouncing around here at work
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due late 2012
We may not be around for this to happen. :lol
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IMO, MechWarrior 3 is still the best of the video game versions. I LOVED that game.
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If you choose the gauss gun, make sure your network opponent cannot overhear your speakers.
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IMO, MechWarrior 3 is still the best of the video game versions. I LOVED that game.
+1
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IMO, MechWarrior 3 is still the best of the video game versions. I LOVED that game.
MW2 Mercs... sorry :aok
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Another link. http://mwomercs.com/news/2011/11/15-you-want-mechwarrior-online-to-be-freetoplay My old merc outfit is starting to log on and get lined up.
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Get in and get your names locked up now folks, this should be pretty sweet.
While you're at it, download MW4 and come give a noob like me some tips in multi-player.
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