SO HEY MECHWARRIOR

Artreus

I'm just really excited to be able to play as the mechs I read about in the books. So many mechs

CorporateLogo

Play an Urbanmech

Hobnail

Play a Loki with a couple speed upgrades, couple LBX's, couple flamers.

Where's your gunsn now, Atlas-boy?!

Ruckus

CorporateLogo wrote: »

Play an Urbanmech

I have a 55 Gallon drum, a sledgehammer, and a propane torch if you'd like a reasonable approximation of the Urbanmech experience.

MagicPrime

Can't get much more "Urban" than a walking trashcan.

Ruckus

*BAM* and now you're on the ground, burning.

A Dabble Of Thelonius

In unrelated old game news. I found my Wizardry 8 discs and am now installing it. I never actually played it because when I bough it my old rig died, then I lost my discs. Hurray finding stuff while packing.

Darmak

A Dabble Of Thelonius wrote: »

In unrelated old game news. I found my Wizardry 8 discs and am now installing it. I never actually played it because when I bough it my old rig died, then I lost my discs. Hurray finding stuff while packing.

Such a good game.

Also, MW4 is hard as shit to play online. I mean, getting into a game is easy, but killing anybody? Yeah right, fat fucking chance. I understand that a lot of those guys have been playing since the game was released but it never really occurred to me that they would stomp all over me until they actually did. I'm still trying out different mechs and weapon combos, seeing what I like and what I dislike.

Artreus

I just love the urbanmech because I am preettty sure it was the first mech and I remember reading a story in one of the books about how when they were doing a test run of it for the first time against a bunch of either decommissioned or remote controlled tanks, one of the observers shat himself with fear.

And it amused me.

edit: Actually since this game probably has Hatchet/Axe-men mechs.. they didnt add arm-swinging did they? Because it would suck that there are mechs that are designed to pulverize other mechs with melee weapons but you cant use them

CorporateLogo

The Mackie was the first mech

There is a neat little story in the latest edition of the Battletech rulebook about a few farmers on a remote planet thinking an Urbanmech that has been raiding the countryside is an Imp

Artreus

Oh. Nevermind. I guess I was just looking for any reason for it to suck so bad

CorporateLogo

I like the background material for the Urbanmechs in 3025

About how once Kerensky left and took most of the Star League with him basically all that was left to defend civil authority were Urbanmechs

If you want to play a trashcan looking mech and at least have the potential to be useful try a Jagermech or Jagermech III

Der Waffle Mous

CorporateLogo wrote: »

The Mackie was the first mech

There is a neat little story in the latest edition of the Battletech rulebook about a few farmers on a remote planet thinking an Urbanmech that has been raiding the countryside is an Imp

My favorite is the one where this poor spy keeps getting caught, brainwashed, and sent to the next state over as a decoy.

Dead Legend

Artreus wrote: »

edit: Actually since this game probably has Hatchet/Axe-men mechs.. they didnt add arm-swinging did they? Because it would suck that there are mechs that are designed to pulverize other mechs with melee weapons but you cant use them

no melee mechs

except for death from above

Artreus

Also I can't imagine talking about torrenting this would be bad. It is an entirely legal torrent. Torrenting is just a method of transmitting things. And the company that has the rights is 100% legally and freely distributing this game.

Dead Legend

whats your point

Artreus

That some people are going "oh shit uh I can't talk about torrenting this game" which is silly.

Because there is no legal grey area whatsoever. It is completely and entirely legal and above board.

Zombies Tossed My Salad!

So how do I get past it asking me for the disc?

SirToasty

Zombies Tossed My Salad! wrote: »

So how do I get past it asking me for the disc?

Update the the game. Patches are a number of pages back.

Fort1tude

Artreus wrote: »

That some people are going "oh shit uh I can't talk about torrenting this game" which is silly.

Because there is no legal grey area whatsoever. It is completely and entirely legal and above board.

i dont know, the company only has their tracker in the official torrent file

and since they own the rights it is probably illegal to download the torrent using other trackers, which is what i do to make it download faster

Weaver

How about Pandorum is now streaming on Netflix and I had fun watching it.

Zombies Tossed My Salad!

Hey I got it working.

Woo Shootin dudes

VALVEjunkie

hey I got it to download!

what control config should I use?

VALVEjunkie

and how do I get to the advanced video setup thing I closed it on accident before I finished setting it up

Artreus

Man. I get a crash every time I try playing this now, even before the menu pops up and everything.

STOP : Only 256 color palletized, 24 or 32 bit TGA files supported 'Content\MercsShellScripts\Graphics\MT01-Title.tga' Depth=0, MapLen=0, EntrySize=0, Type=0

edit: okay weird, I guess the one I downloaded didnt need to be patched because I extracted it to another folder and didnt patch this time and it worked.

Also the behemoth 2 is a fuckin awesome mech

VALVEjunkie

VALVEjunkie wrote: »

and how do I get to the advanced video setup thing I closed it on accident before I finished setting it up

Artreus

It should be in the main folder.

Autoconfig_MERCS

VALVEjunkie

coo