Mechwarrior Online

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Pegasus Belgar

Red Bull gives me wings!
I might just make a few people here get a little excited.

I remember I had to purchase Windows 95 just so I could play Earthseige back in 1995. I remember Battletech 3025 hosted by EA back in 1999-2000 before EA cancelled the beta *Shakes fist at EA/Microsoft*. I remember playing Mechcommander 1 and 2 and all the other Mechwarrior series. I remeber playing Mechwarrior Merc which has been tweaked by MekTek to play online as a small mmo, and also the Crysis engine variant Mechwarrior Living Legends.

So it is natural to be overly excited by the fore coming Mechwarrior Online scheduled for 2012 release.

http://mwomercs.com/

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Artanix

Artanix

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technically isn't this another FPS reboot? :p


Love the Mechwarrior games, infact, I remember I used to go round to a friends back in the day (I was like 13) and he'd have a laptop and PC linked together via a printer cable (lol) we'd play Mechwarrior 2 and Doom 2 all day and never get bored.

Although I want to call this MW2, I have a feeling I'll just get moaned at for playing Call of Duty -.-
 
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Pegasus Belgar

Red Bull gives me wings!
I played quite abit of Mektek MW4 Mercs online as per original post, great community and the battles are good fun. Very similar to World of Tanks where you start with a team on each side and your mission is to destroy the opponent within a given time limit. You can respawn once killed.
Its not bad though slightly old dating graphics but its great piloting a Blood Asp and others.
Mechwarrior: Living Legends using the Crysis engine is also not bad if you got the machine to run it.

I would be guessing Mechwarrior Online while shifting through the information will be very much like Battletech 3025/MekTek/World of Tanks but with updated graphics and alot more features.
 
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Aciiid

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I did find a computer conversion of the board game (if you can call it that).

http://megamek.info/

Obveously you'll need a real life person to play with, I've not played for ages and never played the board game, just the computer game but if someone fancied a go I'd be up for giving it a go. I remember seeing another one ages ago too but can't seem to find it, maybe Vassle does a conversion too.

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Cadfiel

Cadfiel

Not grumpy
Is it sad that i could identify the mechs before id even scrolled down enough to see their names at the bottom. Battletech is and has always been my favourite miniatures game. Mechwarrior 2 was my favorite FPS.
 
Artanix

Artanix

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yeah, it brings back memories of cancelling automatic shutdowns and flushing coolant while frantically trying to shoot another mechs legs off. Think I was like 11 at the time lol!
 
Cadfiel

Cadfiel

Not grumpy
In MW2 was Lethal in a Black Hawk / Nova in a medium laser configuration.

In the BT miniatures game the Phoenix Hawk was my weapon of choice.

Hmm, wonder if i can drag Gottaa kicking and screaming into a game.

I guess my biggest regret about Battletech was that they ripped off the designs for all of the 1st generation of mechs, the now so called "Unseen" mechs so i grew fond of them before i realized where they had come from and why they had to be pulled.

Its also a shame that they have never managed to fully re-license those images so those mechs can return to the light of day.
 
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Gottaa

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Considering I bought the original Steel Battallion controller it won't be a hard sell at all, is there a cheaper 40k type game we could play ? or is it back to graphing paper like when I used to play Mech Wars and Carwars ?

Oh Carwars, how I miss you

 
Sorontar

Sorontar

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Gottaa said:
Considering I bought the original Steel Battallion controller it won't be a hard sell at all, is there a cheaper 40k type game we could play ? or is it back to graphing paper like when I used to play Mech Wars and Carwars ?

Oh Carwars, how I miss you

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Got that box set on it's re-release the other month and it's lovely. Also bought the new RPG and that's very nice as well.
 
Zeus

Zeus

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battletech is an ace game, yeah. mostly use a freind of mines models (as he has hundreds) but i do have a Black Widow Company assault star, that i use when someone needs some serious stomping on :p
 
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