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[TimberWolfz]

NephyrisX, on 04 July 2012 - 01:49 AM, said:

Still remembering how much fun MC2 was, and thank god I still have the disk to play it.


One really neat feature about MC2 was its vast encyclopedia. I swear, I could get lost in it.
So guys, what pilots do you otfen utlilise? I always bring out Hammer, Longshot, Twitch and Palerider with me.

i use Twitch, Flash, Claymore, Steel

[MrMasakari]

Haha I've Just finished both of them. Mech Commander Gold and Mech Commander 2. The first one imo is better, its just so much more of a challenge. Mech commander 2 I just headshotted all the mechs I wanted, salvage them on field and instarepair to full hp, had 16 mechs in my lance once lol

Both fun games though. Mech commander gold though really really made me have to think twice about everything. Espescially the expansion on cermac, Long tom turrets and turkinas. Lucky hit and you just lost your madcat lol.

Edited by Artaire, 04 July 2012 - 02:42 AM.

[Artesian]

One can also use Virtual PC to play a lot of different old games. I have Windows 98 installed on a VPC to play MC, Stars!, and some of the Close Combat games.

I too liked MC1 a lot more than MC2. The repair facilities made things much too easy, in my opinion (not to mention the lack of AI)

When will someone make a Grand Strategy Mechwarrior/Battletech game where I get to control resources, research new techs, plan invasions, etc? It could start just after the fall of the Star League before the 5 house have consolidated power.

[Co Starring]

Kiyoshi101, on 04 July 2012 - 01:09 AM, said:

Wish there was a MC3...

This, more or less.
One of the best quality games (MC 1 + 2) I have ever played.

[bunny fu fu]

actually, I have it on my computer now, was thinking of replaying it

[minty]

I've not played MechCommander 2 much, I play to do one of my "Let's Pwn!" series on MC2 in the coming months. But MC1 is a brilliant game and is one of my all time favourites, I only wish there were more MC games.

[Weapon X]

Has no one here heard of MechWarrior Tactics?

They're in friends and family beta atm http://mwtactics.com

Pretty much MechCommander f2p online and its gonna run on the browser.

Edited by Weapon X, 04 July 2012 - 03:01 AM.

[The Monk2]

I wish they would also make a Mechcommander 3 because lets face it MC1 was a hell of a lot of fun in multiplayer and I used to remember plaing in the starleague ladders on mplayer.

Great memories.

Weapon X, on 04 July 2012 - 02:59 AM, said:

Has no one here heard of MechWarrior Tactics?

They're in friends and family beta atm http://mwtactics.com

Pretty much MechCommander f2p online and its gonna run on the browser.

From what I can tell MWtactics is turn based so not quite the same.

Edited by The Monk2, 04 July 2012 - 03:01 AM.

[zirkonflex]

I think we should invade someones teamspeak, create some wierd-*** mechs and battle it out in MC Omnitech multiplayer, it's free and should work for everyone ...

[Erich Arnold]

i played both of them , but the second part never reached the class of the first one. last week, 10 years after the 1st mechcommander, i installed it again and all i can say is, it was alot of fun........f*** diablo 3, cod and other mainstream crap, games like mechcommander where real games with depth wich really kept the faszination of the battletech universe.

Edited by Krcke, 04 July 2012 - 03:07 AM.

[Danial Wolf]

Look this one up Battletech: Crescent Hawks Revenge now that is the original awesome mechcommander title. Hard as nails and very good story line

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleTech:_The_Crescent_Hawk's_Revenge

Still love MC:G and MC2 though

[Latriam]

MC3 will be mechcommander tactics it looks really good they are still in development and has not entered closed beta yet even.
http://mwtactics.com/

and by far MCG was the best I just played through 2 again and the AI is stupid it gets boring.

[TimberWolfz]

Latriam, on 04 July 2012 - 03:20 AM, said:

MC3 will be mechcommander tactics it looks really good they are still in development and has not entered closed beta yet even.
http://mwtactics.com/

and by far MCG was the best I just played through 2 again and the AI is stupid it gets boring.

Nah MW:T is an entirely difernt game compared to mech commander

zirkonflex, on 04 July 2012 - 03:02 AM, said:

I think we should invade someones teamspeak, create some wierd-*** mechs and battle it out in MC Omnitech multiplayer, it's free and should work for everyone ...

Skype works just as well

[Wolfiee]

Playing Mechcommander 1 on Mplayer was my first online exp. loved it was very disappointed with MC 2

[Buttlord]

MC2 was a really good game that was completely ruined by one awful flaw: Enemies would target the first of your units that came into range, and walk towards it slowly, firing when able, never ever changing targets. They never even ran. This meant that you could use a scout copter or a light mech to draw them in, and then just kite them around the map whilst the rest of your mechs slaughtered them without them ever firing a shot.

MC1 though, now that was a good-*** game.

Edited by Buttlord, 04 July 2012 - 03:30 AM.

[Thorn Hallis]

I played Mechcommander 1 a lot. Awesome game it was and quite challenging (though never unfair). Used female 'Mechwarriors only.

Mechwarrior 2 on the other hand...not so great. The graphics were pretty ugly (MW4 style), the videos were quite ok (though Katherine Steiner-Davion was not as beautiful as expected and the Liaos looked rather goofy), the number of 'Mechs was good. But what really made me laugh were the homing-shots of Gaussrifles and Autocannons.

[Deblin Thrake]

gavin darkskies, on 03 July 2012 - 11:56 PM, said:

loved that game unfortunately it wont run on my system cause it is 32bit and my system is 64....sure would help to stave off the withdrawls i have had for ten years from waiting for MWO to finally come out.... oh well

Get it form GOG and it will run Ok... i'm doing it right now... I really loved MC 1 and 2... my hour count on those games is well above the hundreds... man loved them... MC1>Mc2

[TimberWolfz]

I'm supprised i acutally got this much of a response from this topic i really didnt expect a lot of people would of even heard of it, i'm glad to see they plenty of people play it and "still" play it

[Comguard]

To be honest, I didn't like Mech Commander 2. I also didn't like Mechwarrio 4. In my opinion the Microsoft-Incarnations stayed less true to the BT-origins and made more concessions to create a faster game with more action.

But I liked Mech Commander 1 and Mechwarrior 3. I think Microprose was the better place for the franchise.

But this is just my opinion. Remember the time when we played MC1 on LANs.

[Baalzammon]

Hah, good old Mech Commander, I'm totally going to fish that baby out of the back of my disc collection now