Usually there are a couple folks around who have a decent pulse on new games,so I was wondering if anybody knows about Mechwarrior.
I have always thought it sounds like a great format for a game. Some times you just have a need to blow stuff up. It sounds like it is getting closer to release then I figured, and that has me a bit wary, When things pass under the radar it’s often because they just aren’t worthy of notice.
I used to love that franchise and have been amazed at the lack of attention in the last decade or more for this franchise. No idea why. Seems like easy money to anyone who produces more of them.
That said the devil is in the details…giant, heavily armored, massively weaponed, city stomping mechs has fun written all over it but like anything it can be done poorly.
http://mwomercs.com/
It sounds like founder/open beta stuff may start aug 7, which is much sooner than I had expected.
Unfortunately I know nothing that is not on that site
I think it might be because the intellectual property rights to Battletech (the board & video games) got sold a couple times, and financial interest seems to have petered out a little. (The paperback fiction is still going, I think.)
Looking at the wiki page, FASA had fights with other companys over copywrited images.
A few years ago I played the hell out of Mechwarrior 3, got to where I could finish the game in a 50 ton Mech easily. Online sounds like a challenge! (Got 4 for Christmas, but was never able to get the software to work).
Neat, my buddy Nick Smith is on the wikipedia page for owning the rights to VWE’s Battletech centers. BattleTech Centers - Wikipedia
If anyone is near Kalamazoo, MI, I highly recommended going and playing these in his cockpit pods. Nothing more fun than you and 15 of your friends getting together and blowing each other up in enclosed cockpits. Makes you feel like you are really driving a Mech.
I almost downloaded this, but the FAQ states that you will not be able to customize your mech’s weapons and will only have access to 4 basic mechs. I wonder if that is how they will monetize this.
There are 4 basic “trial mechs” you can use for free that are not customizable.
You get in game money for fighting in those, mechs purchased with those C-bills are customizable.
My only grouse is that weapon hardpoints are style specific. If you have room or tonnage you can replace a laser with a different laser, but not an AC or missle launcher. Same thing the other way around, no replacing the missle launcher with a laser array. So if you wanted to try and make a specialized mech you most likely cannot at least at this point.
Otherwise you get things like the old Solaris mech with 16 machine guns.
Granted, takes a while to sand off all the armor, but they crit the hell out of things once armor breaches.