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TychoCelchuuu
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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.
Additional Info
- Official website
- Preview on IGN with some additional videos and screenshots
I Just CAN'T GET ENOUGH MECH STUFF!
Oookay, well, you've got a few options.
MechCommander
MechCommander 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 Legends
Living 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). Here is the Penny Arcade forum thread for this game.
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 3
MechWarrior3.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
- Steam Penny Arcade MechWarrior Group
- Our MechWarrior Tactics thread
- Our MechWarrior Living Legends thread
- 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.
- Mechwarrior 2 Intro
- Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries Intro
- Mechwarrior 3 Intro
- Mechwarrior 4 Intro
- Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries Intro
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Anyway, a work in progress image for an Assjammers logo:
Additional work in progress for more thumb ups and colors.
At this rate it should be in the game.
This is awesome, but be aware that it's looking very busy for a logo. If you actually want to make something that can be used as a decal or clan insignia or something, it's probably gonna have to be much simpler.
I also want to play this game with you guys.
I do hope they figure out a solution to deal with legging though - It's ok if it's a tactic, but it shouldn't necessarily be the go-to solution.
Should we really be calling Mechwarrior 3 the worst game of the series in the op? I know you say it's still a good game right afterwards but it still paints it in kind of a shitty light.
When it first released from MekTek it was a pain in 5 different asses to get it running. Don't know if that's still the case.
This never stops entertaining me.
If not, then that sweet OP is lacking in some more love...
Steam ID: Obos Vent: Obos
That's good to hear. I would never want to attempt to reinstall it if the situation were the same.
Old PA forum lookalike style for the new forums | My ko-fi donation thing.
I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE HEXES BRO!
Whatever happens, we need to be able to see that thumbs up. That seriously had me in stitches.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/pablocampy
Robot arm giving the thumbs up sticking out of the donkey ass?
PSN : Bolthorn
Well I'm ancient by most Internet yardsticks so I played plenty of the pen and paper versions. I tried to get the original version (when it was called Battledroids before the Lucasfilm hammer came down) when it came out, but being a poor student (high school) I had to settle for the original Battletech boxed set (well before the removal of the 'Harmony Gold' mechs). Ah, memories.
Oo\ Ironsizide
And now MWT so...the Golden Times are upon us.
Steam ID: Obos Vent: Obos
Mercs basically defined my childhood. I read all the Battletech novels around 5th-6th grade. Had a bunch of the cards, but never played the game. I did play the tabletop a bit with my brothers, but it's so deep and we had trouble keeping track of all the little rules.
Then I couldn't get enough of it via PC, and it just kinda stuck.
I like this.
Are you me? We could've been super best friends through most of primary and high school
@Syngyne, that is pure, unbridled genius
Hopefully they have a decal system at least as good as AC:V's or in an ideal world as great as APB's/Forza's.
Doesn't mean we can't adopt of the name of the "101th Assjammers" or whatever
I don't get the legal minefield given the sprays of TF2
Their words, not mine