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[Tordin]

I've always wanted to play MC 2, and I got the one you speak of to run. But hud elements are mostly gone, like no character portraits or lance groups, no tutorial either. Its all so weird. And yes its the newest version. It was a hassle to get it to run in win 8.1 and 10 mind you. Hope the new version will solve it all.

[JC Daxion]

Great game, i was playing it on my machine a while back, but for some reason the other day i couldn't get it working.. Maybe i should recheck my settings, or perhaps an update patched me outta working



*edit after trying some other settings, still no go.. Gonna try updating my vid card, and going with win 2k settings.. maybe that will work.. But yea, i finally did a big win 7 update last week, and now it does not work. worked fine a few months ago though, like early winter.. so something screwed that up..

Just another reason to get my Win 2K machine rolling again.. I got a fresh new 80 gig drive ready to pop in and fire it up!.. Just need to clean off my desk and add my Old CRT monitor.. and find another mouse, while i spend 8 hours installing windows and tons of updates and downloading the many driveres i need before it becomes off line machine

Edited by JC Daxion, 12 June 2016 - 03:46 PM.

[LordKnightFandragon]

I liked Mechcommander 1 ALOT more then MC2. Mechcommander 2 seemed to be, all is well and good right up until the AI decides to headshot your mechs. The art in MC1 was honestly better to. MC2 was newer, yet everything was blockier and looked like lego mechs. Some of the soundtracks I liked alot in MC2 though. The one you get on the main menu, the one you hear when you first drop with Steiner and a few others are pretty cool.

Never the less, I played it through alot, and eventually started modding my pilots and mechs I started with. Nothing like Zeus and Blood Asp on mission 2.

Is HBS making Mechcommander 3?

Edited by LordKnightFandragon, 12 June 2016 - 08:23 PM.

[Kotzi]

JC Daxion, on 12 June 2016 - 03:17 PM, said:

Great game, i was playing it on my machine a while back, but for some reason the other day i couldn't get it working.. Maybe i should recheck my settings, or perhaps an update patched me outta working



*edit after trying some other settings, still no go.. Gonna try updating my vid card, and going with win 2k settings.. maybe that will work.. But yea, i finally did a big win 7 update last week, and now it does not work. worked fine a few months ago though, like early winter.. so something screwed that up..

Just another reason to get my Win 2K machine rolling again.. I got a fresh new 80 gig drive ready to pop in and fire it up!.. Just need to clean off my desk and add my Old CRT monitor.. and find another mouse, while i spend 8 hours installing windows and tons of updates and downloading the many driveres i need before it becomes off line machine

Deleted badcard and vidcard file? That helped me get it to run on win7.

LordKnightFandragon, on 12 June 2016 - 08:23 PM, said:

I liked Mechcommander 1 ALOT more then MC2. Mechcommander 2 seemed to be, all is well and good right up until the AI decides to headshot your mechs. The art in MC1 was honestly better to. MC2 was newer, yet everything was blockier and looked like lego mechs. Some of the soundtracks I liked alot in MC2 though. The one you get on the main menu, the one you hear when you first drop with Steiner and a few others are pretty cool.

Never the less, I played it through alot, and eventually started modding my pilots and mechs I started with. Nothing like Zeus and Blood Asp on mission 2.

Is HBS making Mechcommander 3?

Nope, its no RTS they are making. Its a turnbased Battletechgame.

[4b4dd0n]

Click on the link to get high resolution mod for MechCommanderGold and 4 versions each with 2 new campaigns

http://www.moddb.com...der-gold-hi-res

MechCommander beats MC2 everyday.

[Lightfoot]

In the MC2 campaign I made I re-wrote the mech AI's so they behaved more reasonably. They would attempt to retreat, assist, and attack the mech doing the most damage to them rather than chasing one mech. All of which made the battles run differently each time through. Was pretty easy to do, just changed some variables in their scripting. Most amusing was when the AI decided it had taken too many losses or damage and retreated to base because they would just fade away and drop off the radar.

In 2001 was maybe too soon to make MC2 a 3D game though. Lots of really primitive graphics cards to have to make MC2 run on.

Edited by Lightfoot, 13 June 2016 - 01:43 AM.

[ice trey]

Just a few days ago I threw on Crescent Hawks Inception for a bit.

I love replaying the old Battletech franchise single player games. They're everything I wish this game could have been...

The only issue is that after about fifteen years without a new Battletech game, I've kind of played holes into them. I treat games like movies. You watch it, you enjoy it, you put it down, watch something else, and maybe come back to it later.

The way people talk about "Single player gaming" here, they make it sound like they throw movies away after watching it one time.

[Mystere]

Kotzi, on 12 June 2016 - 11:08 PM, said:

Nope, its no RTS they are making. Its a turnbased Battletechgame.

This decision by HBS made me scratch my head. They could have partnered with Creative Assembly and created:

Total War: BattleTech

It has a really nice ring to it.

[Herr Vorragend]

mgto and I did a mc2 mod with a five map campaign. New structures and other additions like HD textures. The missions aren't easy but I think you will like it

http://blog.maginot...._Borderworlds&/

It's a stand alone application. You don't need the original mc2 for playing borderworlds
Comments are welcome.

Edited by Herr Vorragend, 13 June 2016 - 07:33 AM.

[Tordin]

Mystere, on 13 June 2016 - 07:03 AM, said:

This decision by HBS made me scratch my head. They could have partnered with Creative Assembly and created:

Total War: BattleTech

It has a really nice ring to it.

Not that I have played Total War games, though they seems very well made. But that would be interesting. A RTS with Creative Assembly alongside HBS would be just awesome!

Edited by Tordin, 13 June 2016 - 07:32 AM.

[Metus regem]

Bishop Steiner, on 12 June 2016 - 07:27 AM, said:

cant get it to load on my system at all. You use the free mechcommander gold download, or the physical discs? (I've tried both)

Did you get rid of the Vidcard.CSV and the BadCard.CSV? I've pulled them out of the main directory and it plays on my Win10 machine just fine... well sometimes it is a little temperamental, but works 80% of the time no problem.

[LordKnightFandragon]

Kotzi, on 12 June 2016 - 11:08 PM, said:

Nope, its no RTS they are making. Its a turnbased Battletechgame.

Will it have campaign style elements to it? A turn based campaign of sorts that is more then 4 mechs on 16x16 hex board shooting each other? I look forward to it, but do hope it becomes a little more then a TDM style turn based mech game.

[Ryllen Kriel]

I have MechCommander 1, but I was too busy playing other games when MechCommander 2 came out, so I never got around to playing it.

[xVLFBERHxT]

Ryllen Kriel, on 13 June 2016 - 11:20 AM, said:

I have MechCommander 1, but I was too busy playing other games when MechCommander 2 came out, so I never got around to playing it.

Do it, its cool

[Metus regem]

Ryllen Kriel, on 13 June 2016 - 11:20 AM, said:

I have MechCommander 1, but I was too busy playing other games when MechCommander 2 came out, so I never got around to playing it.

Only down side to it, is taking place during the FedCom civil war... but hey, Jumping Atlas!

[JC Daxion]

Kotzi, on 12 June 2016 - 11:08 PM, said:

Deleted badcard and vidcard file? That helped me get it to run on win7.

Nope, its no RTS they are making. Its a turnbased Battletechgame.

Metus regem, on 13 June 2016 - 10:17 AM, said:

Did you get rid of the Vidcard.CSV and the BadCard.CSV? I've pulled them out of the main directory and it plays on my Win10 machine just fine... well sometimes it is a little temperamental, but works 80% of the time no problem.

Did not work... I also reinstalled the game in a new C:/ directory and that didn't work... Was something in my latest windows patches that F'd it all up... damn!!!

Please who ever i have to pray too... Get Mechcommander 1&2 and Mechwarrior 1-4 on gog!!!!!!!!

[LordKnightFandragon]

Metus regem, on 13 June 2016 - 12:18 PM, said:

Only down side to it, is taking place during the FedCom civil war... but hey, Jumping Atlas!

I was waiting for him to fire 5 Gauss Rifles and 6 ERPPCs at once, since ****, he is the boss...

[Moldur]

I assume it'll come up at some point, so here is the free MW4 download with everything. Not sure how if it will work with Win10

shady download link: https://docs.google....export=download

not so shady source + testimonials: https://www.reddit.c...4_mercs/cch2fxh

[Lightfoot]

4b4dd0n, on 12 June 2016 - 11:15 PM, said:

Click on the link to get high resolution mod for MechCommanderGold and 4 versions each with 2 new campaigns

http://www.moddb.com...der-gold-hi-res

MechCommander beats MC2 everyday.

Really enjoying this. The way to use the hi-res is click the Zoom button, then you get close to the default view at much higher res. I needed to use my MechCommander Gold CD for the CD check, but you can get the ISO file (freeware) and by right-clicking on it, burn the ISO file to a CD for the CD check.

[Ryllen Kriel]

Metus regem, on 13 June 2016 - 12:18 PM, said:

Only down side to it, is taking place during the FedCom civil war... but hey, Jumping Atlas!

Whaaaaaaaaa......? (Head explodes) The perfect Lyran scout!!!!!!!!