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freakout
07/09/09

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Everytime someone mentions MechWarrior, this plays in my head.
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TetraNitroCubane
07/10/09

@freakout: For me, it's always these two.
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freakout
07/10/09

@TetraNitroCubane: Oho, good one! I want that to play when I turn on my GPS.
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Pezdispenser
07/10/09

@freakout:

I had to deal with this one a lot. http://wavs.unclebubby.com/wav/Mechwarrior/shutingdown.wav

Probably why I mostly just use Ballistic Weapons these days.

*edit* shucks, you used to be able to just paste a link in. Never bothered to learn how to post a link in custom text, and I'm too lazy to learn it right now.
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GohanGVO
07/09/09

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As someone who played MW4 for half a decade, I believe that the gameplay - in its base form - holds up to this day.

Once you start mucking around with the two major mods out there (NBT HC and MekTek MekPak), though, things start getting dicey. Your tastes really have to align with each one's respective changes in order to truly enjoy things.

Still, I would recommend folks to check it out. I had a lot of fun with it over the years, and the customization of 'Mechs is still a strong and enjoyable cornerstone of the experience.
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Xelmon
07/10/09

@GohanGVO:
Do explain! Back in the day I found out about the MekPak, but never got into it - I think because I didn't have Mercs.

What makes it dicey? Unbalance between Clan and IS tech?
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GohanGVO
07/10/09

@Xelmon: It depends on how you play and who you play with. The MekPak's have caught flak over the years for introducing 'Mechs that were non-canon and/or far more durable than the baseline standard.

Eventually, things were changed for the "better," but not before the community splintered into factions of supporters and dissenters. The Great Forum Wars led to a lot of folks giving up on the game due to the bickering and bullheadedness of each side.

Sadly, the community is nothing more than a shell of the game's glory days.
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DrunkAus
07/09/09

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I already have this, but would love it if it was released on Steam and we all know what happens when you release a free game on Steam....
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Mr. Mattican (Puts on Monicle)
07/10/09

@DrunkAus: The servers overload and the game severs glitch out?
Looks at America's Army launch
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DrunkAus
07/10/09

@Mr. Mattican (Puts on Monicle): Yea I was referring to that, but seeing as it doesnt use a authentication server for anything, that wouldnt happen heh.
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StrikerGold
07/09/09

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Squat is good! I haven't played a Battletech game in years! Talk about a brand that works SOOO much better electronically than on paper... filling in all the little heat sink bubbles... ugh. Time to pilot an Atlas again!
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Evdor
07/09/09

@StrikerGold: Hahahaha. Every turn. and tracking al the internal damge, tracking ammo on every Mech, all the rules, calculating the die roll for hit (taking range, amount moved, amount opponent moved LAST TURN, intervening terrain, the amount of heat on the mech...)

A large game could easily take 8 hours+.
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Koztah
07/10/09

@StrikerGold:

You think the heatsinks were bad? Even looking at the Starfleet Battles ship sheets will cause convulsions!
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Atheist Jew
07/09/09

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Amazing, fantastic, awesome, mind blowing. Did you know, fellow Steel Battalion owners, that with an XBOX-USB2 adapter, your Steel Battalion controller can be made to work with MechWarrior 4, Freespace 2, and other games?

Now you know.
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Atheist Jew
07/10/09

@Atheist Jew: I should have included a link to begin with. My apologies! Getting it to work requires drivers and the adapter of course, and some other things!

Here is a hastily cobbled together website of links and instructions on how to get it working.

Additionally, here is a link to an article Kotaku had on the very subject back in 2006, which links to the same site.
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Raziel
07/10/09

@Atheist Jew: Now make it work for 360... go!
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Atheist Jew
07/10/09

@Raziel: Hah! Talk to Capcom. Fat chance of them ever doing something so awesome as releasing a game like Steel Battalion again, and as for supporting it? Hah!
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Archaotic
07/09/09

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Now that, my friends, is a deal. I haven't played a MechWarrior game since MW2, but I might give this a try on my roommate's computer if they launch it before I move out.
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Dangeresque (Kojima-san doesn't have to make Metal Gear any more)
07/09/09

@Archaotic: Whereas I started the series with 4, then went on to Mechassault (inferior, I know). And I lost my copy of 4 long ago. So for me, this was one big "!!!" followed by a big, dopey grin.
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MattB
07/09/09

@Archaotic: From memory the Mechwarrior games were all developed by different companies so do have quite a different feel to one another. MW2 seems to be the favourite of many, although it's hard to say how many stuck with the series to 4.

Interesting to see this and Daggerfall announced as free downloads in the same day too. I wonder what other old gems games companies are planning to release this way?
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Evdor
07/09/09

@Archaotic: 4 is pretty good, and is probably the only MW game that actually gave an advantage to speedier light-and heavy mechs, because they were fast enough to make hitting them at full tilt difficult, especially with single-fire weapons. They also required a bit more 'skill' to play, because they bounced around a lot more and made firing at full speed much harder. It was extremely good, though I have a few complaints (Pulse lasers were useless, headshots were almost worthless because they were in 1,000,000 and had built-in mechanics that required two hits at minimum, meaning that gauss cannon shots were wasted, but UAC rounds could decimate them.

Frankly, if they take MW4, and scale back the whole post-clan mech CRAZINESS, they'll have one hell of a game.
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Evdor
07/09/09

@MattB: Correct. Mechwarrior 4 was developed by FASA interactive, Microsoft's brand (they later went on to make Shadowrun and die). Mechwarrior 3 was by Micropose (and followed the Tabletop game to a literal fault. Targeting computers were *broken*). Activision (yes, THAT Activision) produced 2 and 2: Merc.
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BigWyrm
07/10/09

@Evdor:
Actually, FASA are the ones making the new Mechwarrior.
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korofrog
07/10/09

@Evdor: I still love MW3 as my favorite of the series followed closely by MW2:Merc.
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