Any MechWarriors Here?

[Krusader]

I really enjoyed the Mech Commander 2 game!!

Recommend it...

[Lehesu]

Bah. I use to be a Mechwarrior PC game junky, but introduction to CBT and Megamek has purged the hobby. The board game, and the PC version Megamek, is infinitely more engaging than Mechwarrior.

[Somebody Else]

I played a whiile - even online for a bit, I had MW4: Mercs - for some reason I always found a perverse pleasure in kitting myself with a tiny, but exceedingly fast machine with one large laser or something, and running around making a nuisance of myself.

I found that a fair few people used purely flame-throwing mechs, which were quite annoyingly effective.

[Demon of Light]

If you ever see Michael Maniakes online, that's me.

[Kraellin]

i played both 3 and 4 mechwarrior, mostly online. 3 was good, but the hackers made it a joke. 4 is also good, especially if you get the add-ons, of which i have two... or is it three? i forget. i quit playing. mech 4 is much more customizable with the add-ons and you get new mech types. i loved playing some of those mega-mechs and yes, i also played flamer mechs. nothing like getting up close and personal and .... FLAME ON with about 6 flame throwers!!! talk about melt-downs :)

i had some very good fun playing multi with mech 4. there are lots of good maps and very good players. street battles in large cities could be a riot. there were also new modes of play in mech 4, one of which was a sort of capture the flag game. quite fun. we'd set up guards at the home flag and scouts and runners to grab the enemy flag. generally, the big bruisers would guard and the smaller but faster mechs would play offense. the jump jets are better in 4, so you had to defend not only at the street level but against all the stuff that would come in from above over the rooftops. it was a hoot :)

i tended to like the bigger, monster mechs, but the game was such that you could also take out the big boys if you knew how to use the smaller, fast mechs, and some knew how very well. more than once i was toppled by some insect running around my legs that i could never quite get a clean shot at ;)

all in all, mech 4 was worth the money, especially if you got some of the add-on packs!

K.

[caspian]

i had some very good fun playing multi with mech 4. there are lots of good maps and very good players. K.

I've played Mechwarrior since the first 256 color one. And Im really interested in playing online with Mechwarrior 4. Could you tell me what I would need to buy (there are three Mech 4 titles I think)? And is the online community still rampaging these days?

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I checked out some Mechwarrior sites and there arent a lot of modders out there. Here in the Total War Universe we have tons of mods in development but over there I could only find one team hoarding the modding tools. Hmm... wonder why....