Mechwarrior Online: PGI is on a roll and May is gonna rock. CTD hotfix is out!
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Welcome pilot to the new Mechwarrior Online OP. I understand that while some of you are seasoned veterans who know better, a decent lot of you think a futuristic, sci-fi, guided missile should be able to go further than a kilometer. Well rookie, I'm glad you're here because in this thread, common sense is lostech.
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Welcome pilot to the new Mechwarrior Online OP. I understand that while some of you are seasoned veterans who know better, a decent lot of you think a futuristic, sci-fi, guided missile should be able to go further than a kilometer. Well rookie, I'm glad you're here because in this thread, common sense is lostech.
What is Mechwarrior Online?
Mechwarrior Online is a free to play, PC based, online shooter produced by Piranha Games Interactive. MWO places you in the command seat of a heavily armed and armored walking battle machine that you pilot in team based matches against other Mechwarriors. At the end of each match you earn C-Bills, the in game currency that is used to buy more items and mechs, and experience that is used to enhance your piloting abilities of your mech. Between matches, you can customize your mech with a variety of engines, weapons, subsystem modules, and chassis enancements until you have your chosen mech tailored to your liking.
There are two game modes currently; Assault and Conquest. In Assault, you and your team attempt to either capture the enemy team's base without losing your own base, or eliminate the enemy team. Conquest is a traditional domination mode where you and your team are attempting to reach the point total first or eliminate the enemy team. Later in the year, Community Warfare will be introduced that will pit player based Merc Corps and PGI operated houses against each other for control of entire planets. We don't have much information about the Warfare mode yet, but the op will be updated with it as we find out more.
What about that old Mechwarrior Reboot trailer?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzge4Wc3zfwBasically this:
If you'd like to know more, Shacknews has the whole story: http://www.shacknews.com/article/70879/mechwarrior-reboot-was-derailed-by-microsoft-blocking-ps3The initial incarnation of Piranha Games' MechWarrior reboot, which was revealed yesterday to have become the free-to-play PC exclusive MechWarrior Online, was stymied by "a Microsoft restriction" blocking a PlayStation 3 edition. This, according to Piranha, played a big part in publishers not wanting to pick the game up.
I played MechAssault for the Xbox and it was boring. Why should I care about this?
Yo fuck MechAssault. No, really. That game was a bastardization of Mechwarrior that turned a quality series into a trashy arcade experience that changed a lot about the setting's mechanics for the worse. MechWarrior is a venerable PC franchise that dates back to 1989's Mechwarrior 1 which was based on the even older pen and paper wargame Battletech. Each game in the series was at the cutting edge of technology when it was released and each game has received massive amounts of praise for having fantastic gameplay and surprisingly quality plots. If you'd like to try out one of the older games Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries is FREE TO DOWNLOAD FOR EVERYONE! It's not a bad idea to play it at least a little bit before jumping into MWO so that you can get the hang of things against an AI before throwing down against real people.
1.) Download the client at http://www.mwomercs.com and install it.
2.) Before launching the game, click the "Visit Training Grounds" butting in the top right corner of the launcher. Watch those videos to get at least an initial grasp of what to expect. This game has a bit of a learning curve to it and while it's not super steep, it's definitely not just a jump in and click things until you win sort game. Be sure to watch the Weapon Grouping video as it'll do the most to help keep you alive. Chain fire is god.
2a.) http://mwomercs.com/pennyarcade Penny Arcade also did some Pilot Safety Posters and while they're humorous, they do have some good information in them.
3.) When you start the game you will have access to four trial mechs that rotate out for new mechs every couple of weeks or so. These are non-customizable mechs with set loadouts based on their canon setups. After twentyfive matches you will have earned an extra 8 million C-Bills on top of your winnings and will easily be able to afford a proper mech of your own. When choosing a trial mech to start with, you will want to avoid the assault mechs at first because of the four, they're the hardest to drive. Their slow speed and tendency to get primaried instantly by the enemy team means tactics are paramount and for a rookie player they're kind of a death trap despite being the most heavily armed and armored.
4.) After each match you will earn some C-Bills, pilot xp, and general xp. C-Bills are the in game currency used to buy everything except cosmetic items. Pilot XP is specific to the mech you earned it on and is used to by piloting enhancements like faster torso rotation or faster turning. To unlock elite skills you will need to get all of the basic skills for at least three variants of a specific chassis. General XP can be used on any mech and is also used to unlock modules. Pilot XP can be converted into General XP by spending Mech Credits.
5.) Mech Credits (MC) are the in game currency that you purchase with real money in order to shortcut your way to a new mech. MC is also used to purchase premium account status and cosmetic items for your mech like new paint jobs and items to put in your cockpit like bobblehead dolls. MC CANNOT be converted into C-Bills or XP meaning everyone has to earn their arms and armor equally the same.
How much is Premium time and what do you get for it?
Premium accounts get an additional 50% of earned XP and 50% of earned C-Bills. In the future, Premium accounts may get bonuses and features in Community Warfare that free accounts don't but nothing firm has been actually said.
Premium time costs are as follows:
1 Day - 250 MC
3 Days - 650 MC
7 Days - 1,250 MC
30 Days - 2,500 MC
180 Days - 13,500 MC
360 - 24,000 MC
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MWOOSK! The official Oosik Irregulars Online Mechlab!
Submit your mech builds here and browse other people's creations!
http://mwowiki.org/wiki/Main_Page - Tons of useful information about most of the game's assets.
MW:O user Ohmwrecker's master list of all the information you're curious about (this will probably answer 99% of your questions once you understand how to read it)
Not happy with your framerate or graphics quality? Here are some tweaks and work-arounds you can try
List of confirmed battlemechs, with hardpoint layouts for each variant (Updated to include all playable variants)
Having technical issues? Try these things out!
1. A reinstall can do wonders if you're having problems with the bootstrap launcher (the patcher thing that pops up before you get the login window). Sometimes the uninstall goes wrong (because of course), so go here if it won't reinstall.
2. Try manually deleting the shader cache (MWO should do this automatically, but sometimes fails and it gets corrupted). The post in the link also gives steps to set up a batch script to force the deletion each time MWO loads.
3. This is a weird fix, but some people found that moving the install directory to another physical drive solves crashes. Literally cut/paste the directory and update shortcuts manually. Not sure if moving to another partition on the same drive helps.
4. Force your video card to stop power-save throttling and disable ambient occlusion. If ambient occlusion is listed "unsupported" for Nvidia cards, try this sub-post to import a fixed game profile for the control panel.
5. Force multi-threading, in case the game isn't using all available cores.
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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.
By popular request:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8mOiRLQB6EMechWarrior: 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.
UPDATE: This mod is no longer being developed but is still available to play.
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. 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.
- 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
Some of this OP was shamelessly copied from the old one @TychoCelchuuu wrote.
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Dakka.
Sorry. Can't smell the dakka over all the ozone:
Button 1: UACs+AC2s
Button 2: Lasers (I use 1xLLAS)
Button 3: AC2s
Click 1 in time for jamming/no jamming as you prefer, mash the hell out of 3, flavor in 2 as necessary or as heat allows.
It has been apparently "Frowned" upon by the devs, however, there is no official word that it is exploiting. Is it technically exploiting? Probably not, realistically? I'd have to say yes. I suspect when we get a serious competitive community they will lock down these kind of modifications.
I should clarify that two of those kills were pristine 'mechs--I went through the tunnel and cut down an LRM boat and a PPC Stalker. My team's assists came solely from a Jenner that I blapped before dying to the remaining 5 guys.
Now that I don't feel like I have a powerdrill being run through my face I can do things! Things like this!
WIP:
Yes, I realize he currently has a frowny face. I'm just working on getting a good shape and size for the eyes/nose first. After that will be the mouth redo. Finally will be a recolour that takes into account the new features along with the one colour version for everyone to make stickers/shirts/etc. with.
Feedback, as always, is appreciated.
EDIT:
3 cap modules as well
We did very mean things.
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Hunt the enemy lights, scatter if too many heavies, approach from another angle. The only games we lost on were Forest, 1 with a brain dead call, 1 with the enemy team literally not moving 200m from their base and our team walking in practically 1 at a time (and you can't siege like this), and 1 with the team not picking up the slack and us almost pulling it out.
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Javoll!
And Stockholm syndrome has ALREADY set in? Oh dear. Call the therapists!
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solution... buy the Heavy Metal. or buy an atlas with MC. best of both worlds!e
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I have 10 million C-Bills though. So I could buy one assault chassis.
Then I sold my old CPLT-C4 (which I won't be using again anyhow - the C1 is good for laser/srm or laser/lrm I figure), and bought an XL-350 engine.
Now I have a medium mech that runs around at 120kph or so with masses and masses of SRM6w/artemis and MLs.
Or I can switch the SRM6s for SSRM2s and put a couple of MPLs and an LPL on there. Sweeeet.
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No, just having the line in user.cfg should do it.
Between large maps being pretty heavily favored by the matchmaker, the ease of slapping 2-3 PPCs on just about anything, and the huge upswing in builds using double-gauss/double-AC20, people are a lot more reluctant to move and engage than they used to be.
I can understand the reluctance, personally. I'm getting really tired of poking my head out and immediately having a torso section stripped of armor and dropped into orange-red internals from a single hit, or coming over a ridgeline/around a corner and having the same thing happen with a single hit from a Jagerbomb. Making lasers be damage-over-time weapons was a great step in taking the game away from massive-damage pinpoint alphas, but now we've got the same issue again with heavy energy and ballistic weapons.
I HATE the Atlas when I'm the only assault and the rest of the team charges off and leaves me to get eaten by 3 lights while they die filing one at a time into the other team's line. I've gotten used to the AC20 on the Hunchback, aiming and snapping quick shots off at lights in an Atlas is a whole different ballgame. Lights love the Atlas, it has a big juicy backside.
Incidentally, my Founder's Atlas is lookin' real attractive this weekend...
There is no better feeling in this game than clipping a Light's hip and watching him come to a screeching halt as the Atlas lines up on it.
I had a match where I ran around through the cave (on Frozen City) alone, and popped in behind another Jager and a 'phract. I shot them once each, then ran back into the cave--they followed and I just manhandled them. Neither was fit for alpha, and two or three shots on one section just crunched them.
Then I CTD'd, of course, so maybe that's the balancing factor.
I'll be buying the D and RS variants now.
Edit: Just ran into a HBk-4G without an AC20. he had only two large lasers. Looks like someone got fed up with losing their boombox too many times. Or forgot ammo?
The weapon shows up even if you forgot ammo; I don't think it gets "redded out" either, like when the UAC/5 jams. You're probably right they were just tired of losing the the side torso - or maybe they forgot to switch the gun back after borrowing it? Never done that, no sir...
Hunchback Rule 1: PROTECT THE HUNCH
http://goo.gl/q7L7z
...and it actually works really well. You pound the crap out of stuff at around 600-700 meters, easy.
Think it would be in trouble up-close, though, simply because you have to keep those AC2s on-target too long.