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[Butane9000]

Honestly I can't remember but my fondest mech was the Vulture (Mad Dog) from MW4.

[CyclonerM]

[Grimmrog]

whatever the first one was in



as non english speaking kids, this was amazingly complicated and we didn't even knew what to do at the test where we had to name the Mechs components.

[Karl Streiger]

Hm I believe it was the Marodeur IIC - from the Mechwarrior 2 - Demo....

Or the first game i owned - it was the Hellbringer in Mechwarrior 2

[Joseph Mallan]

THIS was the first Mech I Piloted. From before MW.

[Rasc4l]

I think in the beginning of Mechwarrior you could choose to start the game with locust or jenner. I always took jenner. Later in that game, my favorite was the battlemaster.

[Barantor]

El Bandito, on 27 April 2014 - 07:33 AM, said:

What was the tutorial mech from MW2? Kit Fox? That was my first mech ride.

*edit* It is a Firemoth.

Same here, started with MW2 and did the tutorial in a Firemoth. My copy of MW2 came with the Ghost Bear expansion and it was all bundled for free with a Voodoo video card.

I remember getting my butt completely owned by Ravens in that first mission in Ghost Bear......

Clan Wolf Mad Dog Prime was the first mission mech though.....

Edited by Barantor, 28 April 2014 - 05:44 AM.

[Keeshu]

Considering I was a kid, and didn't know what a tutorial was (I found it after I completed a few jade falcon missions though, Tutorials were basicly unheardof for many more years to come in video games in general too), the first mech I used was a Rifleman IIC in the first Jade Falcon mission. Then one of the Kit Foxes were replaced with a Rifleman and got my arse kicked by the Rifleman and a Kit Fox because I was still having troubles learning the controls.Then after that, I never saw a Rifleman in the mission ever again. Funny thing, something similar to that effect happened in Quake 2 (a dead body was replaced by a shotgun soldier in my first time loading the first mission, then that glitch never happened again there too).


Rifleman IIC was one of my favorites for a long time, I loved those arms and large lasersm and jumpjets. Though after a while when I got better at the game I used it the least out of the mechs I liked because of it being a one trick pony with it's large lasers, and it was too slow for me. After a while I started to prefer Jenner (for being fast, missles, and having jumpjets) and Firemoth (for maximum speed and difficulty) because I loved to outrun the enemies and having a challenging time thinking I was "outsmarting" the enemies.
I had a few honorable mentions for what I'd use a lot, Summoner (good all around with tons of weapons and jumpjets), Mad Dog (LRMs, favorite design in MW2, and decent build), and Direwolf (for those few times where I just wanted to steamroll everything or mess with the mechlab).


Edit:
In MWO i forget my first mech I piloted, one of the trials of course. First one I bought is a Commando though, which I hated at the time, I'll have to go back to it though. I only got it to save up for the catapult. Second mech was the Catapult, which is one of the most fun I've had with a mech, whether it's LRMing, Splatcatting, or some hybrid (or using some lasers). I tend to do a lot of research before I actually do anything in games, so I knew Catapult was going to be one of my favs.

Edited by Keeshu, 28 April 2014 - 08:18 AM.

[AlmightyAeng]

Summoner, Mechwarrior 2.

[DONTOR]

Tahribator, on 27 April 2014 - 07:41 AM, said:

My trusty Bushwacker in MW3.

EXACT SAME.

[MeiSooHaityu]

Barantor, on 28 April 2014 - 05:42 AM, said:

Same here, started with MW2 and did the tutorial in a Firemoth...

Now that I think of it, I think your right. I think the first mission of the tutorial was a Firemoth, I think the last mission of the tutorial (trial of position for the rank of Mechwarrior) was a Maddog.

[Merit Lef]

Started off with these guys.

Edited by Merit Lef, 28 April 2014 - 04:54 PM.

[Dredhawk]

Well what ever mech you could use on the first Mission of the Clan Wolf campaign in MW2 31 Century combat cant remember what it was...Maddog mybe been a while since if play that game...

I skip the tutorial in MW2 only went back and played it after I beat the game LOL

Edited by Dredhawk, 28 April 2014 - 06:30 PM.

[CycKath]

Merit Lef, on 28 April 2014 - 04:54 PM, said:

Started off with these guys.

At least we have half of those 'Mechs...

[Lexx]

For me it was the Chameleon in Crescent Hawk's Inception, on my old Apple //c back in 1988.

I beat the 4 Jenners that ambush you in the Kurita invasion with it, and used it for the rest of the game in my first playthrough.

I didn't realize until replaying the game later that you were supposed to lose your training mech and steal a Locust from an arena match.

I thought it was great having the only medium mech on the planet with my large laser being the only long range weapon. (until it got destroyed and the techs replaced it with a machine gun)

I found out about BattleTech/MechWarrior from that game, then bought some TROs and played tabletop. I have loved the series ever since and played pretty much all of the video games.

https://archive.org/details/004430

Edited by Lexx, 28 April 2014 - 08:10 PM.

[Ninthshadow]

I believe my very first was a Bushwacker in a tutorial.

My favourite was a Cougar though.

[GalaxyBluestar]

Ghost Badger, on 28 April 2014 - 07:55 AM, said:

Summoner, Mechwarrior 2.

default for instant action mode, my first mech.

[Stingray Productions]

Mad Dog from Mechwarrior 2: 31st playing the mission "Pyre Light."

[CarnifexMaximus]

Summoner in the Virtual World Entertainment Pods. Sacramento, CA circa 1994 or 1995. I had my Birthday party there. It was awesome.

Now I feel old.

[Tkhaw]

Jenner in MW2 mercenaries

Fought 1 on 1 with an Awesome and I won!

Old and Happy times...