New MechWarrior trailer...

[lensman]

And in anticipation of the new version of MechWarrior. Smith & Tinker has granted the online dev team at MekTek.net permission to release MechWarrior 4 entirely for free.

MechWarrior at IGN.com

Comments

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

NO!!! Not another frakking reboot!

This is set at the end of the 3rd, and beginning of the 4th, Succession War.

No MadCats, no Elementals, no clan streak missiles ...

If I wanted to play classic Battle Tech, I would have bought in on BT 3025.

I'm sure it's going to be a great game, visually and gameplay wise, especially if they got input from the guys at BattleTech.Com and MekTek, but I'm going to miss all the Clan technology and lostech.
Hopefully they will make it a full armored combat simulation, not another FPS.
Hopefully these guys will make the game moddable, so MektTek can rip it apart and rebuild it like they did with MW4 Mercs.

[lensman.livejournal.com]

Yeah I'm kind of wishing it'll either be modable or at least user extensible, especially into a MMO for team v team play...

[thanos73.livejournal.com]

My inner mechwarrior fan boy just came!

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

I was in my bunk when I read the announcement.

Now if only they can make a good simulation MMO of MW.

[lensman.livejournal.com]

Heh I can "almost" picture you squee-ing... ;-)

There a more in depth interview and analysis over at IGN.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

I read the interview.

I WANT a MMO for team battles.

[lensman.livejournal.com]

Yeah I was thinking about this on my drive home and I think it could be built/scripted as a set of vehicles in SecondLife, or one of it's open-source alternatives, such that when the Avi "sits" in the cockpit; movement controls transfer to "Mech". Team voice or Text chat can be a private group chat session. This could also mean the Mechs could even possibly end up being user customizable (Easily for paint jobs), but I think it could also work for armor/weapon systems. Further customizations could even be done on Avi helmet/HUD interfaces....

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

Well, keeping in canon, it's unlikely that HUD would be all THAT customizable, as ROM burning was practically lostech to average mercs in 3059, let alone 3015.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

you need to start off with a cross between Flight Simulator, UT3, and WoW.

[roaming.livejournal.com]

I get all hot and bothered when you guys talk geek. I have NO CLUE what you're talking about, but it's H-O-T!