MechWarrior 5: What's the Scoop?
MechWarrior 5 is a reboot of the classic MechWarrior franchise. It's NOT a MechAssault game, it's a MechWarrior game, which means simulation, customization, blowing off limbs, heatsinks, and a robot female voice playing while you sit inside your mech cockpit furiously pressing buttons to stop your ammunition from exploding while your lancemates fire volleys of 20 missiles into an unending stream of giant enemy robots that are trying to kill you with lasers.
MechWarrior 5 is actually MechWarrior Online, though. It's a free to play MMO that will follow (in real time) the Clan invasion of the Inner Sphere, which is a thing. We don't know much yet but
here is the website.
I Played MechAssault on my XBOX and It Was Boring. Why do I Care About This?
Yo
fuck MechAssault. MechWarrior is a venerable franchise that, as far as videogames go, dates back to MechWarrior, which was fun but was made before graphics were invented, MechWarrior 2, which was sweet but mostly just a prelude to
MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries, which is one of the best games ever made. MechWarrior 3 was by all accounts sort of fun and MechWarrior 4 was mostly just a prelude to MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries, which was also pretty sweet and which is
FREE TO DOWNLOAD FOR EVERYONE! The MechWarrior games are simulations and damn good ones, too. There aren't too many complicated buttons but there are enough, and the HUD ends up looking a bit like an F-14's HUD looks like if the F-14 was designed to blow off the legs of an enemy F-14. With lasers.
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I Just CAN'T GET ENOUGH MECH STUFF!
Oookay, well, you've got a few options.
MechCommanderMechCommander and
MechCommander 2 are
free. They're pretty fun; you basically load out your 'mechs and command them in battle. They're pretty good recreations of the MechWarrior games, actually. Certainly worth a look if you enjoy strategy and mechs.
MechWarrior 4
MechWarrior 4 is free too.
MekTek, which released tons of awesome mech "paks" and stuff for the game, has been given the rights to release it because god loves MechWarrior and is smiling on us fans or something. The free version comes with MekPak 3.1 which adds even more stuff and adds the new 'mechs into single player. This is probably the best MechWarrior single player experience right now.
MechWarrior: Living LegendsLiving Legends is a kickass Crysis Wars MechWarrior mod. It's almost professional quality. The graphics are stupendous and they've done more than just add 'mechs: you get a bunch of the air vehicles and ground vehicles, too, plus Elementals if you're silly enough NOT to want to pilot a giant walking tank. The mod is multiplayer only and it even has Solaris arena matches in there. Definitely check this out if you have Crysis Wars, because it's free (as long as you own Crysis Wars, duh).
MechWarrior 2
MechWarrior 2 is not free but if you own a copy already (like, say, MW2: Mercenaries woooo) you can get it running on Windows XP (and Vista and 7?) with
MechVM. Install MechVM, put your CD in, and tell MechVM to install from the CD. Bada-bing, it runs fine. I'm playing Mercenaries right now and I'm stuck on an early level where I have to escort some people to a prison that the AI keeps blowing up in order to make me lose. An alternative is to use
MW2hook which works pretty well but is a bit of work to figure out.
MechWarrior 3MechWarrior3.org should have everything you need to get up and running with the worst game in the series since MechWarrior 1. That said, it's still a pretty good game. I don't think there's ever been a
bad MechWarrior game really.
Odds Und Ends
- Almost every MechWarrior 2 computer sound file, so that you can make your computer say "Shutting Down" when you shut down
- The all important REACTOR, ONLINE, SENSORS, ONLINE, WEAPONS, ONLINE, ALL SYSTEMS NOMINAL *purr* *beep* sound to complete the collection. You might actually want to rip that last one from this YouTube video because the direct download I've linked has a tiny bit of music at the end.
- MekTek.net, your net source for Mek Tek. This is where MechWarrior 4 is free to download
- Mech2.org forums that tell you how to run Mechwarrior 2, if you're nostalgic
- Ducan Fisher (Solaris VII announcer) outtakes. Hilarious. He does a great Homer Simpson voice. Part two.
- MechWarrior3.org, to make MechWarrior 3 work.
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edit: where exactly are the MW3 forums?
Goddamn, that is awesome. And I seem to remember some people making fun of MW3's intro's "surprise Atlas"....looks like Atlases are the gigantic, skull-faced Ninjas of the BT universe.
Beware their missile-jutsu
Also words fail to indicate just how pleased I am to see MechWarrior getting a reboot. I was just bemoaning the lack of such a thing a month or two ago. Gleeeee.
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My joystick is dead, so I'm not going to be enjoy MW4 (probably go back to MW3 with a mouse and keyboard), but waiting for this is going to be damned exciting.
I'm a little worried about the "health percentage" factor though. Still, this is just a teaser.
My guess is that they didn't want to bother designing and animating the whole UI and stuff for all three mechs when that's probably not even the final UI. I mean, the Atlas loses an arm in the video and I can't imagine they'd even consider making a mech game without full locational damage.
Mechwarrior3.org
They have the patch and such for being able to play without crashing when you use command mode or touch a enemy
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Oh, I'm sure locational damage will be in there.
I'm hoping information like that, speed, heat, will for once be on console display screen. Seriously, this could be the first MW game with actual useful instrumentation and displays, instead of everything crammed on a HUD. The HUD option should remain, but it would definitely be possible with the sort of resolutions we use nowadays.
Isn't that the point of Agromechs?
This is some crazy shit. Like... there are at least 6 firing arcs and you have to cycle through something like 5 weapons each or more.
MW4:Mercs? Yeah, I'd say so.
The original game.....I'd say not so much, but that's just me. It's not quite as strong as MW3 or the different MW2 games.
Those were the best briefings I've heard yet in a MW game, and among the very best briefings in any game. It was a shame that the expansion pack had the lance leader narrating instead the MFB commander.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qZvYwmgCHc
Also, can MW 4 be played with keyboard/mouse fairly well or is it joystick or bust? I have some cheap ancient stick that may still work from X-wing vs Tie Fighter, but it has like a grand total of 2 buttons on it. So hopefully keyboard/mouse works well.
But holy sweet jumping jesus on a cracker jack crutch I want this game.
Mouse and Board works very well with MW4 as long as you take the time to remap a few keys.
WS for throttle, AD to turn, Mouse for torso control. Make sure to check the button that allows you to look up and down as well as side to side. The rest of the stuff is easy enough to modify to taste.
I played it fine KB&M only for 3 years, so I'd say so
The funny thing is he's supposed to be in charge of salvaging and repairs. He ends up being in charge of directing tactics, strategy, communications, escape routes, linking up, and everything else. He's just that awesome.
To be fair, MW3 was the only MW game that I remember salvaging for ammo really being important in. The others made it easy enough to sell random crap and buy the ammo you needed, if they bothered assigning a cost to rearm in the first place
Heack yeah boi! It's the best since MW2: Mercs imho.
In MW2:Mercs it should have mattered, once you started salvaging Clan weapons, but you never found ammo (unless you managed to take it off a Mech you took mostly intact). You couldn't buy Clan ammunition, obviously, and there weren't any ammo caches to be salvaged.
Basically rendered all non-energy Clan weapons useless really fast.
For some reason ever since I played MW3 and after just watching that vid up above again I always picture Michael McKean doing the voice...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnYj9lhhvkI&feature=related
God, why did I get that instead of any of the Mechwarrior games?
There may be a way to get a wheeled vehicle over any terrain type we've encountered, but show me a wheeled vehicle that can efficiently navigate ALL terrain types without modification. That is the appeal of a walker versus a tracked/wheeled vehicle, the versatility proven by humanity itself that two feet are more versatile than wheels or tracks.
Anyway this is what I posted on that topic of discussion.
If you could build some kind of legged mobile weapons platform it would be incredibly useful in an area like Afghanistan. There are some places along the mountains were we ride freaking horses because you just can't get anything else in there.
I was worried it wouldn't be able to run on Vista, but I have had no problems. Installed the official patch and the HD pack. Runs like a charm, except for a very long start up, because of some stupid CD protection.
Legs just have a lot of problems to overcome. Vulnerable joints, weight distribution, complexity, difficulty of replacement and repair, etc. Also, 4 feet are more versatile than 2. Go spider mechs! I also hope to see some of those in MW5.
Legs have problems. But they look so much damn cooler.
Not that a 'mech would be much use in those conditions; a few BigDogs with a 300Kg payload of C4 and a remote detonator would be infinitely superior as a weapon against a cave.
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Also the capture your own planet finale mission for the Steiner path in Mechwarrior 4 has got to be one of my favourite moments in gaming. Its just crazy awesome fun seeing the amount of units deployed and it really gave the sense of this being a full scale battle as opposed to just a mission in a game or a minor skirmish, the amount of crap going on at once actually does a good job of showing why they still use crap like helicopters that get 1-shotted by mechs, when you're engaging with armour and a couple of heavy lances at the same time the harassment factor from those things really does work.