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    Default Re: Battletech nerds rejoice? Mechwarrior 5 being worked on?

    OH MY GOD.

    http://pc.ign.com/articles/100/1002275p1.html

    Here's the interview: http://pc.ign.com/articles/100/1002164p1.html

    New video! It's confirmed, takes place in 3015, based on a Kurita invasion.

    Positives: It LOOKS beautiful. I was right, it was a Warhammer! HAH! It LOOKS like a sim! Things are big and clunky and don't move like friggin' gundams.

    Negatives: It's going to be a stupid multiplatform game. The interfaces looks decidedly consoleish and horribly oversimplified. I hope to god they fix that. Bad interfaces and controls can ruin a game completely.

    Against all better judgment I am getting pretty excited now!

    Edit - And I just had a LOT of the wind taken out of my sails.

    "Russ Bullock: First and foremost, in this day and age and this time, we've all played the PC games in the past and absolutely loved them. But certainly going forward, just out of necessity and because we think we can, we're definitely very focused also on the Xbox 360. So we're very focused on the console standpoint moving forward. Now, we still need to work out a lot with our chosen publishing partner, so some of these questions will become answered, but I think that Jordan and I are in agreement that we want to make a MechWarrior game. "

    Yet again, the PC becomes a simple afterthought.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Whacker View Post
    Yet again, the PC becomes a simple afterthought.
    No surprise there. The 2 joystick console controller should work well for moving the mech and rotating the body, fiddling with weapon cycles and other stuff will probably be kludged up though. The vid looks nice, destructible terrain and all, and I like the bit about making all mechs viable throughout the campaign. Watched the rewind vid, pretty cool that they added visual cues like weapon cooling and such.
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    Yeah, as far as I'm concerned they ****** it up good and proper already by wasting it on a console. This isn't a MW game, it's just the next iteration of MechAssault. Blech. Auto-targetting. Locked hardware controllers. No 3rd party tools or innovation.

    Mark my words, just like the MA series this is another generic bad game profiteering on the MW name.

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    Being a fan of the Mechwarrior games, and having played all the games (still couldn't finish the last mission in Ghost Bear Legacy, the one in the ice cave i think....), this is one welcome news. That is until I read they just did the latest Transformers game(?). Has anyone seen or played this game?

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    In related news, MW4 (and ex-packs) will be free to download from BattleTech.com soon.
    http://www.smithandtinker.com/news/m...letech-com.php
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    Just let me get a bushwacker, please!

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    Quote Originally Posted by drone View Post
    No surprise there. The 2 joystick console controller should work well for moving the mech and rotating the body, fiddling with weapon cycles and other stuff will probably be kludged up though. The vid looks nice, destructible terrain and all, and I like the bit about making all mechs viable throughout the campaign. Watched the rewind vid, pretty cool that they added visual cues like weapon cooling and such.
    Ahh…I remember being able to play the game from a single, huge, joystick. Torso rotation, throttle, and everything.

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    Default Re: Battletech nerds rejoice? Mechwarrior 5 being worked on?

    Hope it's not too off-topic but I wanted to expand on this a little:
    Quote Originally Posted by drone View Post
    In related news, MW4 (and ex-packs) will be free to download from BattleTech.com soon.
    http://www.smithandtinker.com/news/m...letech-com.php
    Here is a Q&A thread from the people who will be releasing MW4. Apparently it's only going to be Mercenaries (fine with me, that was the best one by far, campaign-wise) plus some expansions and MekPak 3.1, with MekPak 4 possibly coming later. (I never even knew those MekPak things existed... sounds fun.) It will be a few weeks until release, so probably August, maybe a little later.

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    Default Re: Battletech nerds rejoice? Mechwarrior 5 being worked on?

    The Mekpaks are excellent, Mektek did great work IMHO. All the usual whining came from all the usual suspects, but loads of added content for free is nothing to sneeze at IMHO.

    There's still a multiplayer league running out there that I used to play in called MechWarrior Leagues:

    http://www.mechwarriorleagues.com/cg...main/index.cgi


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