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Community => Other Games => Topic started by: Gustav Kuriga on December 04, 2012, 12:34:01 AM
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Anyone familiar with Battletech or the games based in the Battletech universe? By this I mean Mechwarrior, Mechassault, Megamek, etc.?
Right now I'm playing a campaign of Megamek as part of a Inner Sphere military unit, in which we are fighting the Clans.
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I played BattleTech and MechWarrior many years ago. I remember the Clan Invasionas it was first introduced. I still have the Michael Stackpole trilogy about it around here somewhere.
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I fought Daishi and Hetland, does that count?
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No, that doesn't count, Chenier. And Daishi in BM gave a bad reputation for what is otherwise an awesome mech. v-v
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I love the Mechwarrior 2 video game, definitely on my top 20 of all-time. Soundtrack here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C42xCauM9jU)
I didn't much like the MW3/4 style, it was too console-ish, with rapid cool rates, mechs flying all over the place. In MW2 your mech was hot and it actually felt like you were walking 75 tons of steel around.
And, Daishi = Dire Wolf, and I like Dire Wolf better as a name. Daishi is the IC name for a Clan mech.
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No, that doesn't count, Chenier. And Daishi in BM gave a bad reputation for what is otherwise an awesome mech. v-v
Damn right.
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I like the name Daishi. I like the mech even better, whatever you decide to call it. Last Megamek game I was in, my allies were trying to take out a Dasher for salvage. I looked, saw that my mech had a 100% chance to hit on all weapons, and decided to take it out. *boom* Not a piece left of the Dasher to be found, much to the annoyance of my friends. ^_^
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When playing BattleTech, we found that we had the most fun playing mechs in the Medium to Heavy range. About 50-75 ton range. Big enough to be versatile, but still small enough that you had to make choices. Also, this was original tech, before all that ridiculously overpowered clan tech got added. The game seemed to have a lot more strategy when you had to make a lot of decisions about how to manage your weapon fire and heat load.
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I only played like twice, when I snuck into a war games convention. I had an Urban Mech, which was supposed to suck but I got three kills with it. Then when I died, I got something far better.
It wasn't a campaign, but it was fun as hell.
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I love Timber Wolf, 75 tons of lasers and long-range missiles. Clan mechs didn't seem overpowered in MW2 because you were fighting clanmechs--and elementals on one mission, those are impossible to hit.
Urban Mech, 35 tons I think? I think they are decent at urban combat.
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Elementals you say? Autocannon!
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Elementals you say? Autocannon!
+1
Motion seconded.
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I love Timber Wolf, 75 tons of lasers and long-range missiles. Clan mechs didn't seem overpowered in MW2 because you were fighting clanmechs--and elementals on one mission, those are impossible to hit.
Urban Mech, 35 tons I think? I think they are decent at urban combat.
It didn't have many guns, didn't have much armor, couldn't shoot that far, and couldn't run that far. Still, I managed to evade and shoot intelligently. When I thought I was going to die I rammed a mech off a cliff, survived, and killed him. And then I got sniped, fell over, did some damage, and finally died.
My next one was a medium mech, and much, much better. I can't remember what the 'game mode' was, but it was fun as hell and I really am considering getting into it.
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Elementals you say? Autocannon!
If I had had pedals to go with my joystick, then maybe I could have rotated quickly enough. using joystick+keyboard just isn't good enough. I think I just ignored them.
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Try piloting one >.<
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Sure! Love to! 8)
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I've just been told that we have a couple of positions open in the campaign, if anyone wants to join. It would probably be best to wait until the space battle that is coming up is finished, so that we know what units are still alive. ^_^