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[Chuckie]

CoffiNail, on 14 February 2012 - 10:37 PM, said:

CoffiNail will be there too... IF this is anything like MechCommander I am damn excited. Freraking played that to death and back. I remember upgrading my parents PC from something like 4 gigs or ram to 8 to play the game. They had no 4 stick, so they had to switch out the 4 stick and pop in four 2 gig sticks. I get home and the game does not let me zoom. I only had a 1 mb video card when the game needed 2. Fiddled with my driver settings and presto. Ran like hell, but holy founders it was amazing,

Not to go and geek out on ya.. but I am sure you were probably going from one 32MG stick to 64MG.. etc.. ( yea its been that long )

Machines with 4-8 GB of RAM are only recently the norm (WIthin the last 5 years recently) and came with the advent of 64 Bit Win7 OS.

Mechcommander 2 Minimum specs were pretty light compared to todays machines:

Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/XP
PC with a 266 MHz equivalent or higher processor
64 MB of SDRAM
400 MB of available hard disk space for a typical install, 200 MB of hard disk space for swap file
Quad-speed or higher CD-ROM drive
DirectX 8.0 or later API
SVGA 2D video card with 8 MB of video RAM
16-bit Sound card compatible with DirectX 8.0 or later
Speakers or headphones required for audio
Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
56.6 Kbps or better modem for online play
......................

Seeing these specs reminds me just how long its been since we had a good Mechwarrior game and what a huge leap in hardware has been made in a decade.

Heck I could almost run this thing on a smartphone..

Exilyth, on 15 February 2012 - 02:49 AM, said:

Yepp, iOs is apples operating system for mobile devices.

Mhh... makes me wonder... will that other game (the iOs one) get ported to android later?

and hopefully WindowsPhone

as for the guy asking about what iPad.. probably doesnt matter

nano, on 15 February 2012 - 04:13 AM, said:

MechWarrior:Tactical Command is being made by Personae Studios out of Singapore, not MekTek. Studio MekTek is working on Solaris Assault Tech.

BTW MekTek IS working on the iOS Mechwarrior : Tactical Command

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Personae Studios is proud to partner with organizations such as Catalyst Game Labs, Studio MekTek and Virtual World Entertainment for the development of MechWarrior Tactical Command.

Edited by Chuckie, 15 February 2012 - 04:33 AM.

[Cattra Kell]

nano, on 15 February 2012 - 04:13 AM, said:

MechWarrior:Tactical Command is being made by Personae Studios out of Singapore, not MekTek. Studio MekTek is working on Solaris Assault Tech.

That is who is making the game, MekTek are the publishers for it
(off site link: http://www.mektek.ne...ctical-command/ and the press release http://www.mektekdev.com/?p=101)

Side note; Why have I not raided MekTek HQ yet? Its like a 2 hour drive from me...

Edited by Cattra Kell, 15 February 2012 - 04:36 AM.

[CoffiNail]

@Chuckie, Yes you are right, but it was 4 MB to 8 MB i meant to put that... but apparently put Gb

[GreenEyed]

Cattra Kell, on 15 February 2012 - 04:32 AM, said:

That is who is making the game, MekTek are the publishers for it
(off site link: http://www.mektek.ne...ctical-command/ and the press release http://www.mektekdev.com/?p=101)

From the press release:

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MekTek Studios (LEGAL: Studio MekTek, Inc.), is proud to announce their partnership with Singapore-based game developer, Personae Studio, on the development of content and community promotion of the new iOS based MechWarrior: Tactical Command.

"development of content and community promotion": That's not being the publisher .

Edited by GreenEyed, 15 February 2012 - 05:13 AM.

[Cattra Kell]

CoffiNail, on 15 February 2012 - 05:04 AM, said:

@Chuckie, Yes you are right, but it was 4 MB to 8 MB i meant to put that... but apparently put Gb

GB at that time frame... let alone 4GB and 8GB... ARE YOU A WIZARD!

GreenEyed, on 15 February 2012 - 05:12 AM, said:

From the press release:

"development of content and community promotion": That's not being the publisher .

True, though they have said they are sending a lot of it to the other Singapore studio, but that could just be for the transition of code to apples computing machine cult language...

[BoyarKnight]

Cattra I'm with you for the raid It's only a half hour drive for me.

[GreenEyed]

Cattra Kell, on 15 February 2012 - 05:38 AM, said:

True, though they have said they are sending a lot of it to the other Singapore studio, but that could just be for the transition of code to apples computing machine cult language...

No, MT is not developing the code for MW:TC and sending it to Personae Studios. Personae Studios is the one developing the game and MT "just" contributes with content and help promoting it. Not trying to be picky, but merit should be attributed where it is due and just to clarify it.

As Nano said, the game MT is developing is a different one.

[Jack Gallows]

CoffiNail, on 14 February 2012 - 10:37 PM, said:

CoffiNail will be there too... IF this is anything like MechCommander I am damn excited. Freraking played that to death and back. I remember upgrading my parents PC from something like 4 gigs or ram to 8 to play the game. They had no 4 stick, so they had to switch out the 4 stick and pop in four 2 gig sticks. I get home and the game does not let me zoom. I only had a 1 mb video card when the game needed 2. Fiddled with my driver settings and presto. Ran like hell, but holy founders it was amazing,

If it's going to be like Mechcommander, I hope it's a bit more like 1 then 2 in most aspects, but keep the pilot skills from 2. The difficulty in 1 was great on all settings (hard was....well, hard but oh sooo sweet,) and just enjoyed how it played over 2...two was easy and didn't require as much strategy or tactics.

[Dihm]

zomg more MechWarrior!!!

Did anyone else get a sudden desire for a Final Fantasy Tactics like game when they saw the title, or was that just me?

[metro]

GreenEyed....DO I know you from another MW/BT venture?

[Cattra Kell]

GreenEyed, on 15 February 2012 - 05:52 AM, said:

No, MT is not developing the code for MW:TC and sending it to Personae Studios. Personae Studios is the one developing the game and MT "just" contributes with content and help promoting it. Not trying to be picky, but merit should be attributed where it is due and just to clarify it.

As Nano said, the game MT is developing is a different one.

Again: http://www.mektekdev.com/?p=101

MekTek has currently two projects. The first one we knew of was MW:Tactical Command. We found out later about MW: Solaris, which we found out from Propwash is going to be used for the Tesla pods by VirtualWorld.

but to be sure there is one way to find out:

BoyarKnight, on 15 February 2012 - 05:50 AM, said:

Cattra I'm with you for the raid It's only a half hour drive for me.

Quickly BoyarKnight, rush to the office and challenge them to a Trial of Possession for information!

[GreenEyed]

Cattra Kell, on 15 February 2012 - 06:14 AM, said:

Again: http://www.mektekdev.com/?p=101

MekTek has currently two projects. The first one we knew of was MW:Tactical Command. We found out later about MW: Solaris, which we found out from Propwash is going to be used for the Tesla pods by VirtualWorld.

but to be sure there is one way to find out:

Again, the page you reference just reads content and community, and for a reason .

No need to raid any office for information, Nano and I should know about that . We are not trying to hide anything.

[Cattra Kell]

GreenEyed, on 15 February 2012 - 06:22 AM, said:

Again, the page you reference just reads content and community, and for a reason .

No need to raid any office for information, Nano and I should know about that . We are not trying to hide anything.

Ah alright. It was just the whole section "MekTek Studios (LEGAL: Studio MekTek, Inc.), is proud to announce their partnership with Singapore-based game developer, Personae Studio, on the development of content and community promotion of the new iOS based MechWarrior: Tactical Command" makes it sound like they are both working on the project not just the single developer. My mistake haha.

A trail would be fun though

Edited by Cattra Kell, 15 February 2012 - 06:26 AM.

[Alan Grant]

Well Mechcommander was called an RTT (real time tactics) game rather than your usual RTS. So I'm guessing it'll be something like Mechcommander. As long as they give me a campaign mode with a story I'll be over the moon, but another game set in BTU which doesn't require anything from apple is a plus for me anyday.

Edit: I'd even go for a full on remake of the first mechcommander game. That would be sweet! [And then make more ofcourse]

Edited by alan grant, 15 February 2012 - 06:34 AM.

[GaussDragon]

The PC Gamer article:

"Giant robots are officially a trend in 2012"

Music to my ears.

[Akundis]

I'm in agreement with what some others have said, it looks like it could be a remake of mechcommander, or perhaps a more "hex-based" version of it. I don't think the companies involved with the production of this game have an engine capable of creating something more complicated than that, as they mainly create browser based social media games (like on facebook). But don't worry, their twitter said it's NOT a facebook game.

TL:DR My money is on a browser based MC remake or a hex-based variant.

[Cattra Kell]

Akundis, on 15 February 2012 - 07:01 AM, said:

I'm in agreement with what some others have said, it looks like it could be a remake of mechcommander, or perhaps a more "hex-based" version of it. I don't think the companies involved with the production of this game have an engine capable of creating something more complicated than that, as they mainly create browser based social media games (like on facebook). But don't worry, their twitter said it's NOT a facebook game.

TL:DR My money is on a browser based MC remake or a hex-based variant.

They are using the same engine that was, if I remember correctly, help make Battlestar Galactica Online, which looked AMAZING. Example: note that this is all inside a browser.

[Karyudo ds]

Yeah the engine was mentioned to be Unity 3D specifically Cattra. Cartoon Network's Fusion Fall uses it as well. Doesn't look as good but the engine is certainly capable.


Oh and about te Final Fantasy Tactics comment.. Screw that, FFT was just a fantasy version of Front Misdion (also Square). Wouldn't mind that one bit.a hex game that looked good and was basically a digital version of the board game would be cool...though I think a square grid makes more sense in a game but who knows. Real time would be great because Mechcommander 2 killed what could have been a good series. First one was great, second one was just so ugly. 3D graphics weren't ready for the level of detail the first one had in its prerendered graphics. Today though it shouldn't be hard.

[Stahlseele]

If they are smart, they will make a browser based version of megamek with a bit better graphics . . .
Would be bad for the poor guys doing megamek though ._.

Whoa, Unity 3D?
Jagged Alliance Online uses it too.
And Shadowrun Online.

@DOW II Egine:
Have you played DOW II? Play it.
Tell me it does not look and feel kinda Battletech if you walz through levels with 3 Termiator-Armored Spess Mehreens!

Edited by Stahlseele, 15 February 2012 - 09:17 AM.

[CobraFive]

What I actually think is more crazy is they've got a deal with Ironclad Games, a name I actually recognize (Devs of Sins of a Solar Empire). I guess Infinite are a bit bigger then I thought they were! They now have at least 3 games in development.

I'm not getting excited yet- every time I hear the word "social" mixed with "game" I have panic attacks ("Click to collect salvage!!" augh)- but hey, I'd be into another mechcommander.