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MechWarrior Tactics | Open Beta or Whatever, Game's Still Shit I Guess
TychoCelchuuu
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Join the Steam Penny Arcade MechWarriors Group for hot 'Mech wang action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo3Qo_xFwYY
What is MechWarrior Tactics?
MechWarrior Tactics is a turn based strategy game set in the MechWarrior universe. It will be an online free to play game. Each player commands a lance of MechWarriors in tactical battles in the style of the classic BattleTech game. Turns can be time limited if you're looking for a quick fight, or they can be more leisurely if you want to play over a period of days or weeks or whatever. You can have multiple games going on at once, and although each player starts out with a basic set of 'Mechs, you can use either in-game currency earned from playing or out-of-game currency earned from selling yourself on the street to buy different 'Mechs and so on to customize your strategic loadout.
You even get to watch the battles back after you finish, so you can see all your pretty little 'Mechs blowing the crap out of the enemy.
There is no release date yet. It runs on the Unity engine, which means you should be able to run it in your browser, even if you're on a Macintosh.
What toys can I play with?
Confirmed 'Mechs include:
Atlas
Awesome
Catapult
Dragon
Grasshopper
Hunchback
Jenner
Orion
Spider
Stalker
Trebuchet
Tell Me More!
Join the Steam Penny Arcade MechWarriors Group for hot 'Mech wang action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo3Qo_xFwYY
What is MechWarrior Tactics?
MechWarrior Tactics is a turn based strategy game set in the MechWarrior universe. It will be an online free to play game. Each player commands a lance of MechWarriors in tactical battles in the style of the classic BattleTech game. Turns can be time limited if you're looking for a quick fight, or they can be more leisurely if you want to play over a period of days or weeks or whatever. You can have multiple games going on at once, and although each player starts out with a basic set of 'Mechs, you can use either in-game currency earned from playing or out-of-game currency earned from selling yourself on the street to buy different 'Mechs and so on to customize your strategic loadout.
You even get to watch the battles back after you finish, so you can see all your pretty little 'Mechs blowing the crap out of the enemy.
There is no release date yet. It runs on the Unity engine, which means you should be able to run it in your browser, even if you're on a Macintosh.
What toys can I play with?
Confirmed 'Mechs include:
Atlas
Awesome
Catapult
Dragon
Grasshopper
Hunchback
Jenner
Orion
Spider
Stalker
Trebuchet
Tell Me More!
- Official website with a form to fill out if you want to reserve your nickname. You can't take TychoCelchuuu. I already reserved it.
- IGN page for the game with links to screenshots and a gameplay trailer
- Broken link to a trailer over at Rock Paper Shotgun.
- 1up preview.
- "What we know so far" thread on the official forums.
- Short video interview from GDC.
- Same as above
- Early preview at the PA Report
- Early Rock Paper Shotgun preview.
- MegaMek, basically this game without the fancy graphics.
- Our Mechwarrior: Online thread
- Our MechWarrior: Living Legends thread
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Fucking man up and spend 400 dollars on a PC. Fucking fuck.
Yeah, that's exactly what they made it sound like but they're calling it Friends and Family so..uhh..wut?
Currently playing: GW2 and TSW
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Your name and avatar have left me with "You turn the page, you wash your hands, you turn the page, you wash your hands. Then you turn the page, and then you wash your hands" looping in my head.
Noticed the Orion was a listed mech. I always did have a soft spot for that guy, mostly because he's the first heavy you can get your hands on in MW3 and that was the first MW game that got me into the series.
Really hope that old beast is in MWO as well.
This is what has ruined me this year on backlog, too. Super Monday Night Combat alone...UGH!
Steam ID: Obos Vent: Obos
That's the nice thing about this game is that it plays out like Frozen Synapse so you can just start a match without worrying about having to just sit there for the whole thing.
What now? Please explain.
What makes you think it would?
You should really go play Frozen Synapse, since its amazing.
But to actually answer your question, its simultaneously turn based. So no action plays out until both players have input their moves, and the other player doesn't have to be there for me to take my turn.
Hmm. So games are often going to take days to play out as one person only occasionally checks in?
They could, yes. But, at least what was usually the case in FS, once started it would usually play out. Though the plus side of the system is that you can have more than one game going at once. So, even if you were really deep into a close game and you and the other person are taking a long time to plot out your moves and strategy, you could still bounce out to another game to keep playing while waiting. The fact that you could really take your time and be strategic with it made it very satisfying.
But, this is all based on another game, as I obviously haven't played MW Tactics, and don't know just how similar the systems will be between the two.
Looks fantastic for a Unity engine game, but they're certainly taking some liberties in terms of mech design. The Hunchback doesn't even look close
That looks terrible.
All of the original drawing look terrible. It's best they all get tuneups.
Gotta say I prefer that to the new MW:T design
Actually it sort of looks like a Hellspawn.
I mean, the big gun is on the wrong shoulder, and it's glowy. I've never associated glowy with the autocannon. A PPC maybe, or possibly a gauss rifle, sure. But not an AC/20.
To be honest I was really confused initially, thought I had clicked on the other Battletech thread.
Do you realize how cool it is to me that we have two battletech threads in the games forum? Man, I'm nerd, but this makes me a happy nerd.