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Mechwarrior Thread? Anonymous Wed May 10 19:59:21 2023 No.9893457 [Reply] [Original]

Mechwarrior Thread!

>>	Anonymous Wed May 10 20:07:53 2023 No.9893478 >>9893457 MW2 and 3 are my jam, shame MW2 Mercs is so buggy, it has some awesome missions.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 10 20:16:21 2023 No.9893501 >X thread >OP provides no discussion points whatsoever What are you trying to slide off the board?

Anonymous Wed May 10 20:35:52 2023 No.9893554
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God damn I'm actually playing Battletech right now. Just beat the snow level and eating shit in the jungle level in which there are bigger mechs that are fast and lob nuclear blasts. This game is a bit difficult and you really need to route a lot more than the Strike games, but it does tickle the Strike hunger. At least I don't need to worry about fuel but you're so huge that it can be hard to avoid things, especially if a mine pops up and your mech model obscures it. Still fun as fuck. I like the option of selecting your load out in three categories with three weapons each. Wish more of the map was visible when you pressed pause, but what can you do?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 10 21:02:38 2023 No.9893624 >>9893457 It's shame this game scales so badly on modern displays due to running at 1024x768 max in missions and various resolution changes from 320x200 and 640x400 in the menus and FMVs.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 10 21:52:12 2023 No.9893719 >>9893478 I remember Activision released a glide patch (3dfx) that fixes a lot of bugs

>>	Anonymous Wed May 10 23:38:52 2023 No.9893931 Is there a mod or something that adds the MW2 unseen in 2:Mercs? I miss the Warhammer.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 00:13:44 2023 No.9893987 File: 65 KB, 885x1000, 61VNRtvgXoL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9893457 Anyone else play with a joystick? It was pretty fun to set the walking speed with the throttle

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 00:17:02 2023 No.9893994 File: 48 KB, 300x290, never ever.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >walk up behind atlas >drag balls on every missile pod button on the keyboard possible and aim for the legs just call me sun tzu

Anonymous Thu May 11 01:08:41 2023 No.9894086
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Fun fact: Mechwarrior 2 was the only /vr/ MW to get console ports.
Mechwarrior for SNES is based on Mechwarrior 1, but not a port.
For better or worse, Mechwarrior 3 and 4 was never ported to consoles.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 01:12:34 2023 No.9894094 Check out GunGriffon 2.

Anonymous Thu May 11 04:26:54 2023 No.9894478

>>9893931
You probably could do that with a replacer mod, but the problem is modding the prj file since the model data for the missing unseen is not there IIRC. I've seen a youtube video a long time ago of custom mechs from people doing just that. As for adding completely new mechs, probably not possible without modding the exe.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 04:42:01 2023 No.9894498 >>9893478 MW 3 should have been on the Saturn, CD32, and 3DO imho What was Activision afraid of!??

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 05:52:49 2023 No.9894591 >>9894498 You mean MW2? Saturn had it.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 06:02:16 2023 No.9894603 >>9893457 Textured version or gouraud shaded? For me it's the clean groudaud shading.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 08:15:05 2023 No.9894748 How's the MechWarrior Quadrology?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 08:25:50 2023 No.9894770 >>9893987 I rewatched Arino playing Steel Battalion the other day and got an urge to play mechwarrior with a dual joystick setup just for the fuck of it. It's probably a pain to set up though.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 08:34:43 2023 No.9894787 Shoot the Legs: The Game

Anonymous Thu May 11 17:27:50 2023 No.9895609

>>9894498
>>9894591
3DO, Sega CD, and 32X were discontinued in 1996 (same year Mechwarrior 2 was ported to Mac OS). PS1 and Sega Saturn ports of MW2 were released in 1997.

If Hasbro Interactive (publisher of Mechwarrior 3) lost the Battletech license to Microsoft (publisher of Mechwarrior 4), that could explain why MW3 never got ported to consoles.
But then again, if Microsoft published MW4, why wasn't it ported to OG Xbox?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 05:52:12 2023 No.9897320 >>9893457 Played the shit out of III on pc.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 06:10:17 2023 No.9897335 >>9893624 use the dos versione and a version of dosbox that supporta scaling/shaders

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 06:12:49 2023 No.9897337 >>9894603 same here it's much more stylized, reminds me of frontier

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 07:39:10 2023 No.9897424 File: 183 KB, 257x365, MechAssault_Coverart.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9895609 Even though they dumbed down MW4 (compared to MW3), they still thought it was too complex for consoles. Thus they came up with the pic.

Anonymous Fri May 12 07:56:19 2023 No.9897440

I remember using a glitch in the PC version of 2 to make a mech with PPCs in every possible slot and then linked them to fire together
If the shot hit it would destroy anything in the game, firing them would instantly max out the heat gauge and trigger and auto shutdown, and if you overrode it you had to wait till the mech cooled completely before firing them again or you'd explode

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 08:01:21 2023 No.9897446 >>9897440 Yeah, laser gunboats were prominent until MW3. In MW4 they implemented specified weapon slots (technically, the first BT-videogame that got it was Mechcommander 1 though).

Anonymous Fri May 12 08:05:13 2023 No.9897450

>>9897440
A more useful glitch in 2 is that if you use the numpad to activate jumpjets (don't gain altitude, just use 8 to jet directly forward on the ground) then friction simply stops applying to you and you have no top speed. You can go past mach 1 this way.

I remember there being other restrictions besides being on the ground, but I think it was just literally go max throttle and after your mech gets moving, press 8 to become a race car.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 09:22:38 2023 No.9897539 >>9897450 >just jumpjet forward Finally a game with LAMs and WiGEs as playable vehicles

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 09:29:38 2023 No.9897552 https://youtu.be/rJ0LAs9KiXc

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 17:48:49 2023 No.9898441 >>9894603 >>9897337 patrician taste, anons

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 17:55:15 2023 No.9898467 File: 106 KB, 390x414, sidewinder_3dpro_1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9893987 That's how my dad played MW2. IIRC the joystick was bundled with the game, and sorta the killer app for its digital mode.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 18:37:58 2023 No.9898597 >>9897335 All Dosbox forks use shaders and scalers these days. But I have to settle on one resolution my 1080p supports natively to avoid artefacts or blurriness. Of course it's no problem if I stick to 640x480.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 19:07:12 2023 No.9898659 >>9893987 I did but only due to the immersion silliness (MW4 even allowed using two joysticks, one for mech movement, and the other for torso movement). Mouse and keyboard were much more efficient (especially in MP).

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 19:24:19 2023 No.9898687 >>9898467 Just added a USB cord to one of these things. I've only just ever played flight sims with it. Looks like I got a new purpose for the bastard

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 19:36:46 2023 No.9898717 File: 53 KB, 499x384, s-l600.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9898467 Mmm... Early Sidewinder. Late models (even though out of production since the early 00s) are still very popular among sim fans due to their reliability and precision.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 20:03:22 2023 No.9898759 >>9893478 Mercs is weird, but then again the whole engine is buggy, previous games included.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 21:04:30 2023 No.9898870 >>9893624 Good thing there is a widescreen mod for MW2. https://www.moddb.com/mods/widescreen-mod

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 22:59:21 2023 No.9899132 >>9898870 Oh wow, sweet. There used to be a terrible semi-widescreen hack that required patching the executable, by the same guy apparently.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 23:15:41 2023 No.9899164 >>9898717 Also the fact they're the last force feedback sticks on the market that don't cost close to $1000 because of patent trolling. I have one right behind my monitor right now.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 19:25:47 2023 No.9901105 >>9899164 damn, didn't know a decent, modern, and cheap FF joystick was near unobtanium now. Guess I'll hold on to my sidewinder FF2 for a bit longer.

Anonymous Sat May 13 23:25:10 2023 No.9901583
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Always felt like the SNES Mechwarrior was pretty fun for what it was. Would have been cool if they could have made the game with the Super FX chip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maybwUCI9-4

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 23:58:24 2023 No.9901635 This genre would probably work well in VR, allowing the player to look around the cockpit. Too bad no one cares about VR or mech games.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 00:02:02 2023 No.9901645 File: 328 KB, 1023x548, sunset hunter.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9901635 Mech simulator is a relic of its past.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 00:31:34 2023 No.9901686 >>9901583 I always liked how if you knew what to do and where to go in mech warrior 1 you can pretty much skip all the combat. If you don't know where to go or what not it's a slog and dead end.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 00:56:15 2023 No.9901728 >>9901583 Those "spending time at the HQ" scenes are just like Wing Commander.

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