Oh. Yes. Looks so good. More importantly, looks so right. Sounds so right, too. In game footage, Unreal 3 engine, reused art assets from previous games in the video, but looks like the basic feel is already in there.
Deforming buildings. Fog of war. Fog of weapons fire…
Watch the video. Trust me. Just watch the video.
We! Dig! Giant Robots!
Ayieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
(ahem)
Ayieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I’ve waited since Mech Warrior 4 Mercs, IIRC. Unless they totally fuck this one up I’ll be getting my copy.
Oh awesome! I’ve been longing for an updated Mechwarrior game for a long time now. Definitely going on the watch list!
I have wood for warriors of the mechanized kind.
I loved Mechwarriors 2, and that was the last time I played with the franchise. The new trailer looks, … Okay.
It didn’t blow me away or anything, is all I’m saying.
Historically I’ve always been disappointed by MW games because they came with just 20 or so packaged missions in a really, really lame storyline.
“Mercenaries” was cool because it offered many missions and some freedom (though there was, eventually, a story involved.)
If this game has more missions I’m in.
I’m sorry. I messed up. I just posted the video.
How about an article, a multi-page interview, and a bunch of screenshots?
Four. Player. Co-op.
I don’t mean to inject negativity here but I really didn’t like the screenshots. Or, at least, I don’t like their choices. Like a lot of such games it looks like the only colors are, as the old saying goes, “Brown, grey and muzzle flash.”
I DO like the talk about making different mechs worthwhile. In previous games, you pretty much just wanted bigger and bigger mechs; almost all combat was a toe-to-toe slugfest, so in single combat a 40-ton mech was going to get blown to smithereens by a 75-ton mech 99 times in 100. Actually making it an interesting combined arms process, with surveillance and EW emphasized, is a great idea.
I’m personally looking forward to this: http://mechlivinglegends.net/
So we’ll see whether or not MW5 actually comes out - personally I hope it does 
Actually single combat a small mech usually wasn’t too bad. Run around and pop the big boy in the kneecaps till he fall down, but he can’t follow effectively, usually worked. The big problems came in multiple enemy engagements where there just wasn’t enough survivability to last during two or three firing sources in a small mech.
I metaphorically skidded in my tracks when I saw this thread. I’ll watch the vids at home. Oooo, I hope it’s good - my computer will not be able to run it, but his will!
My god
3015 storyline
The unseen are back!
Is the dreams of all old Btech players made true!
I think i just had a geekgasm
Yay! I’ve actually been idly wondering if it’d be worthwhile to try to get Mechwarrior 3 running under 64-bit Vista. (I never did finish the campaign, but had a lot of fun with LAN play.)
I think I can wait for this! (Has it really been ten years?)
But wait! There’s more!
http://www.smithandtinker.com/news/mechwarrior-to-be-distributed-free-on-battletech-com.php
Mechwarrior 4. All of it. Free.
I’m hopeful - the video looks like ingame CGI - I just hope the cockpit looks as awesome ingame 
It does say ‘in-game video’ on the vid. It’s also clearly scripted.
In the interview it is said that they want to capture the feel of original Battletech, where 'mechs are expensive, ancient machines that are kept going through salvage and repair.
The idea of class specialisation for single and multi-player sounds cool. Marauder FTW!
And if I look down in cockpit view I better see bare legs.
They might be hairy.
Hell yeah!
Water raids!
Mechs working thanks to duct tape and bubblegum
(A friend of mine used to have a possum family living in the back of his Battlemaster in our RPG campaign)
No stinkin’ clans!
Cool cool cool
Marauders!, Griffins!, wolverines.
Gosh.
They’re talking about “four player co-op Play”. I wonder if that means “up to four players?” Cause every game is better when I can play it with my SO.
Hell, I might need a new computer. I’ve been resisting buying one, but between this and Diablo III…
A co-op campaign would be awesome. I’ve got two people I know who played with me twenty years ago that would jump at it in a heartbeat…