Battletech

No1newts · 20 Apr 2018 at 16:41

http://battletechgame.com

Apologies if I missed a thread but anyone seen this and looking forward to it?

I used to love mech commander as a kid, adored it and this sounds like the sequel that never was with large parts of the same Dev team.

Anyone getting it?

Datamonkey · 20 Apr 2018 at 17:01

Yep, cant wait for it,

Cohh i think his name is on YouTube has early access and is doing some excellent streams on gameplay.

jimjam81 · 20 Apr 2018 at 17:12

Looking forward to this too. Will prob buy in the first week of release.

No1newts · 20 Apr 2018 at 17:26

I always used to replay the first mission loads as there was a secret path and if you took it you found a base and fought a Mad Cat, defeat that for salvage was a huge boost.

I hope they keep the pilots with some character as well, that added a real sense to want to save your mechs to the game

theone8181 · 20 Apr 2018 at 18:28

No1newts said:
I always used to replay the first mission loads as there was a secret path and if you took it you found a base and fought a Mad Cat, defeat that for salvage was a huge boost.

I hope they keep the pilots with some character as well, that added a real sense to want to save your mechs to the game

I remember when the pilots died, it felt like a high loss. TBH they could re-release mechcommander 1 it 2 with better textures and I'd be happy.

Draeger · 20 Apr 2018 at 18:34

theone8181 said:
I remember when the pilots died, it felt like a high loss. TBH they could re-release mechcommander 1 it 2 with better textures and I'd be happy.

Too right!!! Picked up a copy of Mechcommander Gold years ago when I was running a Pentium III 500 system and I couldn't stop playing it.

bakes0310 · 20 Apr 2018 at 18:34

Backed it on Kickstarter, look forward to playing after I get through my huge backlog.

Draeger · 20 Apr 2018 at 18:42

Just watched the vid clip. Looks old school. Which is awesome! Yep, having some of this for sure. :cool:

No1newts · 20 Apr 2018 at 19:34

theone8181 said:
I remember when the pilots died, it felt like a high loss. TBH they could re-release mechcommander 1 it 2 with better textures and I'd be happy.

Amen. I always hoped GoG would pick it up but they never did

Bounce · 20 Apr 2018 at 20:25

I'm defo looking forward to this

bayo000 · 20 Apr 2018 at 22:01

No1newts said:
Amen. I always hoped GoG would pick it up but they never did

I think you can download the source files for free but it was pain to get it to run

Edit: I mean legally from Microsoft, no dodgy copy.

bakes0310 · 21 Apr 2018 at 06:49

Key arrived, will download and play in about 6 months haha.

No1newts · 21 Apr 2018 at 06:57

Sadly I'm skint so I'll have to wait until payday.

bakes0310 · 21 Apr 2018 at 08:26

I could play it right now but I'm not going to hehe, sorry no1newts.

No1newts · 21 Apr 2018 at 10:14

Damn you!!

If you buy it today can you get EA? If so might just punish my overdraft a little more

bakes0310 · 21 Apr 2018 at 14:13

Nope can't even DL at the moment, so the wait for payday ain't that bad really.

Werewolf · 21 Apr 2018 at 20:07

This is a game I've been waiting for for years

Mechwarror 2, and before that Battle Tech Crescent Hawks Revenge were huge time sinks for me (as was Mech 2 mercs), the later MW games never quite got the feel of setting up your mech and heading out.
Possible partly because they lacked the authentic feel you got from having to go through the start up sequence and have to juggle everything on the fly

I'm hoping now the nonsense with Harmony Gold *spits* seems to be finally sorted we'll get a lot more mechwarrior and battle tech stuff.

masterk · 21 Apr 2018 at 23:35

Anyone got their GMG key yet?

masterk · 23 Apr 2018 at 21:34

Preload appears to be here!

Space Monkey · 24 Apr 2018 at 00:10

Would you guys say this is an easy-ish game to pick up and play if you're new to the series?

Always preferred turn based games so I'm interested to see how this plays out?