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[Tahribator]

As a mechanical engineer, I like the semi-realistic approach Battletech has. It's machine **** to me

[Kelpaz]

I like Battletech for the pure fact that the mechs walk using their legs and feet.
While I like Japanese mecha, finding an anime were mechs just plainly walk is somewhat near impossible, and those that have it mostly have excellent designs but bad stories.

What frustrates me with many mech genres is when I just see mechs skating across flat ground, or flying all the time, I a however ok with jumpjets because it is more alike an assisted jump.

Other facts why I like Battletech is that it includes more than just the mechs with a large variety of other types of high tech vehicles filling out all kinds of roles.
There are plenty of more examples about why I like it, but having mechs actually walk/run using their legs is great.

[CyclonerM]

Shar Wolf, on 20 November 2013 - 07:16 PM, said:

Mercs?
Ghost Bear?
Cause there wasn't any Commando in Mech:2 non-expac
Mech:2 was my introduction to the series, missed the Xpacs though.

(Personal irritation when people label the xpacs as simply Mech:2 )

X wut?

Btw, i got MW2 Dos version working.. try this http://dfendreloaded.sourceforge.net/ & dosbox. A friend helped me with the setup so do not ask me

Edited by CyclonerM, 27 November 2013 - 08:25 AM.

[Alaskan Nobody]

CyclonerM, on 27 November 2013 - 08:22 AM, said:

X wut?

X-pac, its a slang term for an expansion pack.

Thanks for the link, still trying to get my copy running.

[Tyrnea Smurf]

My first brush with battletech was with the original MechWarrior game on my uncles pc back in the late 80's. I was 11 or 12 at the time.

Then about a week after playing MechWarrior for the first time, I spyed the first Grey Death Legion book at a used bookstore my mother liked to shop at. (Decision at Thunder Rift)

As mom slowly shopped/gossiped with the lady who owned the shop, I started reading, and didn't put the book down until I finished. (iirc I literally kept my nose in that book through leaving the shop, walking to the car, going home, and walking to my bedroom and just kept reading.)

I was totally hooked from that point on, on the lore side of the game if anything else. It was a couple of years later that I found out that MechWarrior was based off the TT Battletech game.

I was always a big Sci-Fi fan, but I think my passion for Battletech/MechWarrior was the way its stories/technology were presented seamed like a plausible future (at least to a ignorant teenager), and I kinda liked the lack of aliens in the lore (Far Country's Dodo Bird people not withstanding), humans were both the good, and bad guys, not some implacable alien foe.

And big stompy robots.

[CyclonerM]

Shar Wolf, on 27 November 2013 - 09:27 AM, said:

X-pac, its a slang term for an expansion pack.

Thanks for the link, still trying to get my copy running.

Oh thanks, i am young and used to "DLCs"

Sadly i totally forgot how to setup D-Fend. I will ask my friend to write down again how to do it

Be strong, warrior, and you will get to see this:

Edited by CyclonerM, 27 November 2013 - 10:39 AM.

[Alaskan Nobody]

CyclonerM, on 27 November 2013 - 10:39 AM, said:

Oh thanks, i am young and used to "DLCs"

Sadly i totally forgot how to setup D-Fend. I will ask my friend to write down again how to do it

Be strong, warrior, and you will get to see this:

Couldn't remember DLC (and it doesn't quite fit the old disk base additions )

I can get to that screen... sometimes.

[CyclonerM]

Shar Wolf, on 27 November 2013 - 10:44 AM, said:

Couldn't remember DLC (and it doesn't quite fit the old disk base additions )

I can get to that screen... sometimes.

That is why i said that i am young and had only a few disk based addons

Then you would love to see this screen, quiaff?



This is quite hard, i never managed to accomplish it, there are just too many 'Mechs around me each time.

But hmm, i think this thread has a bit derailed. Maybe we should go back on topic?

Edited by CyclonerM, 27 November 2013 - 01:15 PM.

[Alaskan Nobody]

CyclonerM, on 27 November 2013 - 01:14 PM, said:

That is why i said that i am young and had only a few disk based addons

Then you would love to see this screen, quiaff?



This is quite hard, i never managed to accomplish it, there are just too many 'Mechs around me each time.

But hmm, i think this thread has a bit derailed. Maybe we should go back on topic?

We can continue that via PM if you like.

...If that is the mission I am thinking it is...... /shudder

[Chocolater]

Kelpaz, on 27 November 2013 - 06:46 AM, said:

I like Battletech for the pure fact that the mechs walk using their legs and feet.
While I like Japanese mecha, finding an anime were mechs just plainly walk is somewhat near impossible, and those that have it mostly have excellent designs but bad stories.

What frustrates me with many mech genres is when I just see mechs skating across flat ground, or flying all the time, I a however ok with jumpjets because it is more alike an assisted jump.

Other facts why I like Battletech is that it includes more than just the mechs with a large variety of other types of high tech vehicles filling out all kinds of roles.
There are plenty of more examples about why I like it, but having mechs actually walk/run using their legs is great.

I really agree with this. The Japanese mecha are usually just too outlandish for me to get into. Transforming and skating around is very cool, but not my style. The way that mechwarrior handles jumpjets is also much more believable. While I have never played with it (in video game form), I guess melee is used from time to time, I have read of it in the books. I have like 6 of them coming from ebay (warrior trilogy and blood of Kerensky, thanks ) So maybe I will have more of a grasp on the concept after doing some more reading. I wonder if it would be any fun to have in game.

P.S. Dang you guys getting me all excited, I got my MW2 battlepack and MW2 mercs coming in the mail. I am pretty good with computers but we will see how much cussing/gin and tonics it takes to get it running.

Edited by Chocolater, 29 November 2013 - 01:01 PM.

[Devillin]

I've always been a mecha guy, starting with Robotech and Voltron. I fell in love with the box set, but couldn't afford to buy one until I graduated from middle school. Over the course of a long summer train trip to Colorado, I fell in love with the mechanics of building your own mech and fighting your battles on the map. As far as the computer games are concerned, the first game I played was a bootleg Mechwarrior I I copied from a friend. The first game I bought was The Crescent Hawks' Revenge. Since it was one of the first games I had with sound, I loved hearing that "Hawk Leader this is Hawk ..." in the middle of missions. My parents on the other hand hated it, especially when I got stuck on the Kurita Jail Break mission ... for 2 months. I kept trying to do it with the vehicles, and got slaughtered. Then in one marathon sitting, I completed the mission with the tanks. Imagine how pissed I was when I found out years later that there was mech depot in the upper corner of the map where you were supposed to get 4 assault mechs that made the mission so much easier. But here it is 25 years later, and I still love this universe as much as the day I first spied the boxed set at a comic book store.

[Thom Frankfurt]

Big stompy robots. What's there not to love?

[Artifice]

I got introduced to Mechwarrior 1 and Crescent Hawks Inception at the same time around '89. It was the first sci-fi setting I got into, but nowhere near the last.

Those two games were fantastic. In MW1 you could hop around the inner sphere for schnitzengiggles. CH:I saw you building your characters, upgrading your mechs, and playing the stock market. There was a lot to love at the time.

Now that times have changed, we expect a much more epic experience. My ultimate Battletech experience would involve running a battleship, yardship, or recharge station. It would make for a boring game so I can't realistically expect it, but whatever.

Battletech built a universe that I just want to chill in. Another setting I'm into is Warhammer 40k, but I don't want to chill out with those wackjobs! The other setting I'd want to just experience is Shadowrun, and it's a very close second.

Edited by Artifice, 03 December 2013 - 07:00 AM.

[Chocolater]

Warhammer 40k is a pretty fun universe to get into as well. I enjoy the books and the videogames, I actually quite liked the last one, RIP THQ. The titans are a pretty crazy part of warhammer that reminds me of mechwarrior.