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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ส.ค. 2022
- Join me as we strap ourselves to walking fusion reactors and fight to take back our throne in Mechwarrior 4!
Watch in horror as this two-decade-old game bearly holds itself together!
Laugh at my stupidity for not disabling the DgVoodoo watermark!
After all - Meat is cheap. Save the metal.
Want to run the game yourself? Check out this guide at: www.reddit.com/r/mechwarrior/comments/7y3twy/how_to_run_all_mechwarrior_4_games_on_windows_10
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I'd more want to tell people to go to Sarna and find it themselves. There is joy in searching. I must encourage it, always.
But then they won't get the experience of sultry tones purring lore at them!
All jokes aside - That's really big of you to say. Bravo.
@@DrWhite Appreciated and kindly sir. Remember, the world is your oyster. Save the mech, leave the meat.
First of all *Glory to the Black Pants Legion!* and all the best to you Tex, your videos alongside Razorfist rekindled my love for all things Battletech. Too bad Catalyst shot a PPC into that.
I got MW4 using the Quadrology set, it is amazing. If only there was a version like that for MechCommander, I've seen online instructions but it is too much of hassle.
Great video all around. All the best to everyone.
@@DrWhite the BPL Auxilia will move in to process the meats later in the day.
Only 3C-bills a serving over at Bobby J's long bacon Emporium, Solaris 7, look for the Alacorn with gold rims, you can't miss it! 🤠🤫
@@theblackpantslegion bold of you good sir to assume I have not already spent hours of my days just staring at paragraph after paragraph on that side of the internet gaining knowledge as useful as an AC/2
_Reactor online._
_Sensors onine._
_Weapons online._
_All systems nominal._
I want my future car to greet me that way.
all systems phenomenal!
What a legend of the game i still love it😱👽👻
"Hello Tractor"
*goofy PNT-3R AAAH*
Mechwarrior 4 Vengenace was one of the games I couldn't play because we only had PCs that could only run games the likes of Battlezone and 2d rts games.
So my mind fantasized about how Mechwarrior 4 Vengenace was this big RTS game with odd but cool looking robots, basing this fantasy entirely around the introductory cinematic.
It would be decades later before I found out that it wasn't an RTS game.
Based StringStorm.
There is always mechcommander...
@@TimberWulfIsHere hey nice to see you here
There was a contemporary Battletech RTS game called MechCommander. MechCommander 2 was out somewhere between Vengeance and Mercenaries.
Mechcommander 2 still slap yo
Love that you're own voiced bits are as crunchy as the FMVs, almost mistook them for actual dialogue.
first the c&c games, now this?
i swear this entire channel appeals directly to my childhood.
Who is going tell him about Mech Commander?
Welcome back doctor white is good to see you again and I guess we'll see you in another half a year XD
Subbed for the C&C, and now you're getting into the Mechwarrior franchise. Just gets better and better!
Holy shit. The intro movie of Mechwarrior 4 is literally burned into the sub-atomic particles of my memory. I will probably be on my death bed and be able to perfectly run that cut-scene through my mind point for point.
I love the characters in this games campaign, especially Elise Rathburn. I could listen to her beautiful voice all day.
I managed to get a 100% definitely legal copy of Mercenaries running on one of my old laptops, complete with the MekTek mod that doubles the number of 'Mechs in the game. Fun times, especially once I unlocked an Annihilator and stuffed four RAC/5s in it; it's like four A10 Thunderbolts on legs!
I loved MW4 mercs back in the old MXC days. It's really telling when a game is easy enough to understand that a 10yr old can beat the game, but it's still entertaining for adults. (Not like Hostile waters Antaeus rising which kicked my ass the whole time.)
God, me too. I even played it with a joystick
damn, Hostile Waters was such an interesting game. never beat the last mission tho. Found it again on Steam but unfortunately I can't get it to work on modern systems without massive lags so I can't try it again.
Yeah, everyone seems to have played Mechwarrior 4: Mercs, but nobody except me and White here liked Vengance more
@@RazorsharpLT I loved MW4 Vengeance, even played in the competitive MW4 Vengeance League back then
These two were so good! Still play hostile waters every now and again. Currently playing through mw4 again with mektek.
Oh my god, that FRIENDS gag....
MW4 was an amazing gem. I skipped it as a younger kid but came back to it as a teenager sometimes around 2009 or so. While Mechwarrior 3 is probably still the best in the series (once one overlooks the incredibly arduous task that is getting that one running)- and while Mechwarrior 2 holds a special place in my heart- Mechwarrior 4 is still an unforgettable treat that I would recommend to anyone interested in mechsims today.
Mechwarrior 3 and 4, plus the expansions for both games, were actually a few of my very first gaming experiences as a child. My uncle was big into gaming in the late 90s to mid 2000s, so almost all of his games he passed along to me. Unreal Tournament, OG CoD, Delta Force, etc. So I grew up playing those. 3 and 4 were very memorable games, and I'll never forget hearing the installation music kick in for the first time as well. Similarly with Armored Core, I didnt expect another game to be made.
This was one of the earlier games I tested at Microsoft. Surprised at no mention of how awful the AI was at navigating cities. Also not surprised that most of your loadouts were tons of ER LLs since those were definitely overpowered for that release. Basically my playtest group was in charge of balance feedback, but for the vast majority of our balance testing heat wasn't in so we couldn't really get lasers in a good spot. By the end we were so busy with actual normal testing (non-balance stuff) that we didn't really get feedback to the designers that ER LLs were too good. (And man we did get busy...several weeks of 80+ hour work weeks.)
Fond memories of sitting shoulder-to-shoulder 8-people-wide in the multiplayer lab which was just a giant row of computers (and another row behind you) as we had to test many different hardware configurations back then to track down various config-specific issues. (I'm pretty sure this used DirectX, but back then it was still not a perfect way of handling various hardware-specific issues. Well, I suppose it still isn't perfect but it's way better than it was.)
The soundtrack was probably my favorite of Decker's work, but I feel like the instrumentation was off and it sounded a bit too "MIDI". Also there were just other FPSes with really fantastic soundtracks out there like NOLF, UT, and Perfect Dark, and I think they kinda eclipsed this.
As for Mechwarrior 5, I think in most ways it's outright better. I especially love the sandbox direction (It's what I want out of a 'mech game personally). I do think they could _dramatically_ improve mission variety. The main objectives don't need to change, but the way those combat situations evolve should change where sometimes you're facing a small force of assault 'mechs, other times it's Lights scouting for Artillery, other times it's helis or tanks. Changing the rules to how those enemies work would help too, like how artillery shouldn't fire _unless you're actively being spotted by something._ Battletech definitely carries some cruft that's hard to design away from: for example one "type of enemy force" that might exist is an LRM-focused force that tries to engage from long range, but having that actually play out in a satisfying way is really difficult in a MW game (since either they're total pushovers that you rush, or you're crushed by a morale-sapping endless salvo of missiles that shreds you without being able to fight back). Anyway, enough about MW5. It's a good game overall but I just wish the missions themselves felt as sandbox as the salvage/mechbay systems feel, as I think that's what would turn it from a ~30 hour game to a 500+ hour game. And well...also Coop Matchmaking would probably be awesome (queue in your weight class and complete missions with randos for good rewards; I'd totally play that like I'm currently 600+ hours into Vermintide 2!)
Wow, thank you for taking the time to watch and comment! I know how soul draining testing can be, so I hope you didn't lose too much sanity polishing this gem.
I never noticed the AI struggling with cities any more than they did with steep cliffs and the like (The Palace was easily the peak of 'where the hell is my lance') and it sounds energy weapons have been a tricky balancing act since forever - IIRC, MWO had to introduce wacky phantom heat just to prevent PPC boating.
As for the MW4/5 comparison - Yeah, like I said in the video I feel 4 is better in some ways, but I didn't have enough space on the page to fit in all my opinions or to flesh them out further.
Mainly, I feel 4 has a better delivery, but 5 is honestly the stronger game. Its just a shame how many of 5s story mission objectives are functionally identical to random generated contracts. A midground blend of unique story campaign missions and open world contracts like how HBS's Battletech works would've been the best IMO.
Thanks again for watching!
The main reason LL's were OP in MW4 is that they are long-range hitscan weapons with pinpoint accuracy. They had to be severly nerved when I played in the MBO-Germany competitively. MG, AC, LBX, UAC and all the lasers were also hitscan, but strangely enough not PPC and Gauss.
MW5 has almost the same problem. The lasers do have a discharge time but if you are good, you can land them in one place on a heavy or assault and instantly lose a torso, thats why ghost-heat came in.
Mechanically, MW5 is better. The problem is, having great mechanics doesn't matter, if the content you have to bring those mechanics to is repetitive and bland. The game comes off feeling more like a shooting gallery arcade game that you might find in a 90s arcade cabinet. It's still fun, but what I loved about MW4 was the hand crafted missions with specific enemy spawns, and not just constantly spawning enemies from all directions.
I think the best would have been a mix of both. Do the procedural missions as side content or after-the-campaign content, but maintain a main story line of at least 15 hand crafted, scripted missions. This was what HBS's Battletech did and it was perfect, especially with the additional mini campaigns that DLC added.
@@Puerkl8r Well it depends on whether you must have that hand-crafted story. Because I agree MW5's missions can feel repetitive and bland, but dynamic missions aren't _automatically_ going to feel that way, nor will they automatically _not_ tell a story.
Rimworld is an example of a game where dynamic elements end up telling an emergent story unique to every player's play-through. The main drivers being that the characters you interact with have such randomized attributes that really change who they are and how they play, and also can connect to other randomized elements (ie when a new character is generated who attacks, lands in a pod, visits your settlement, there's a chance that character is related to one of your tribe somehow, and then it's further random what sort of relation that is (hostile, parent/child, friend, etc).) So you could absolutely have much deeper Mechwarrior traits than what we have in MW5 currently. You get that guy with the Pirate tag, and the tag tells you his piracy gave him +2 to beam weapons and +4 to max beam skill. But it turns out sometimes his pirate gang is tracking him down and you have to fight off a defensive mission against rivals that want to see him dead. Or another pilot might generate a quest to save their father who runs a civilian company, and if you succeed they end up paying monthly kickbacks to your merc company for a while out of thanks. But the key with all these things is to really make em random, so maybe that guy's company this time around is a mining company that stumbled on a Star League Cache and rewards you with a sweet 'mech.
Well that's just the _story_ side.
Implementing better dynamic missions would involve some of the same tricks (giving missions "traits" randomly, and randomizing the sets of enemies you fight from lots of little vehicles to only a few assault 'mechs). It can also involve amping up things already there like the item caches you find: sometimes you should just find a really big cache, but your employer asks for that as their rightful ownership and you'd have to pay a giant cost to your reputation (and also your employer might turn around and send mercs after you) if you decide to keep it for yourself. But keeping or not would be a decision, and wouldn't even be a decision every time (because sometimes you just found a cache and nobody knew it was there and ya just get that fancy new 'mech).
Improving mission dynamic should also probably give you the option of choosing a drop zone. Maybe choosing 2 Evac points too, where you can call evac to your choice of the zones while mid-mission. The dropship might come in under fire (risking the ability to evac entirely), or it might spot the enemies in the area and refuse to land there til you clear things, depending on the parameters of the mission (or maybe the traits of your dropship pilot!).
Basically there's an _absolutely huge_ list of ways they could've made dynamic missions feel better, and remain interesting far longer.
@@Axehilt Mods definitely help, but I don't think they will ever be able to replace the scripted hand crafted missions. Like I said, a mix of the two like HBS Battletech would be ideal.
Unfortunately, it sounds like Piranha is most likely done with MW5 and after they were purchased by another company, I wouldn't be surprised if they don't go back to it, and if I was a betting man, I'd say MWO is on it's last legs as well. I doubt they will renew the license after this current contract period.
Part of the reason why I like the Battletech setting. This game being set on Kentares IV...I had only ever played one other Mechwarrior game before this one, knew basically nothing about the setting, so it could have been any of the many video games that was self-contained, like Half Life was. But the bad guy lady, the fat villain's underling, says "Now you're playing at genocide?! Do you know anything about the history of this planet?!" Sounds like a cool line, but no. There's established lore. That line was really talking to the long time fans who have read some novels. And I love how they made it work on both of those levels, you don't have to have the Steiner family tree memorized to enjoy it, but there's cool details just in case you do.
Yeah. To anyone familiar with the lore, that whole scene hits a lot harder with just how much of a grand political disaster the Steiner guys' idea is.
Aaaah shit, i was waiting sooo long for this review, kinda sad it's only 19 minutes... but oh well, enjoyed every second of it
My God, my first mech game. This game is the reason i'm currently playing and loving Battletech 2018. If anyone gets that game - get Roguetech. You get to control ALL possible vehiclles, including tanks, VTOL's, all the mechs and a fucken BATTLEBUS WITH MG'S STRAPPED ON IT YEAAH
Awesome content dude! I love the humor!!! Keep it up!!! It's really nice, I love these old games
Just discovered your channel, my man. Fantastic work, I love your edits. Fantastic comedic timing.
All the games you cover slap. Keep up the great work, my friend.
I have only gotten recently into Mechwarrior mercenary amd liked it quite a bit. Especially since this is about as close as we get to how a princeps must feel when piloting a titan in Warhammer 40k.
Missed your vids and your humor. Loved the vid and looking forward to what comes next!
The way you introduced this video is exactly how I feel about remembering this game. That beat is a beat I tap on any surface when ever I have a minute. Forever engrained in my mind from a young kid who got a copy of this game from my Dads friend. Using a really cheap arcade joystick to control my mech. My favourite mech was the Awesome because, as an 8yr old kid... ofcourse your favourite mech is the Awesome. Its Awesome! My first ever gamer tag was Dresari, my first WoW character was called Dresari. My whole gaming life has been molded by this game. Love it to pieces, Loved MW3, MW4 Black Knight and Mercenaries and loved the hell out of BattleTech (Video Game)
This game was my childhood. My first was _MechWarrior 2_ for DOS, but this game was a defining moment in my personal history.
I actually didn’t know _BattleTech_ itself existed until sometime within the last 10-15 years. _MechWarrior_ was all I knew, and for years, MW4 was my favorite game ever. But I have dived deep ever since, and I am in love with it.
It really is the best sci-fi universe you’ve never heard of. lol
A golden-content video ❤️
The _'DMCA'_ and the _'rush B'_ parts got me LOL'd too much that I broke my 5-month gaming chair 😂
This is awesome! I was obsessed with MW4. Love you mentioning Tex of the BPL! This was funny as Hell too! XD
I was not ready for the Supply Raid noises, and or all the edits.
Well-done! Got me considering reinstalling MW4 Vengeance (as I already have Mercs set up somewhere)
"A pair of bald dudes fight over Terra" is...not what I expect the Amaris Civil War be described as. You made me spit out my coffee with that.
The reaction to the madcat II was literally perfect. Amazing video White.
I played so much of this game with a force feedback sidewinder joystick. Truly the golden age of gaming.
Dude I loved your video, subscribed!!!!
i just found your channel. your narrating and editing is supreme. S tier , g g g g gg GOD LIKE
Mechwarriors! Todeh we are in Mechs!
I'm loving your videos, there's a lot of shit and giggles but you always give a really nice retrospective.
Never even thought of getting a Mechwarrior game even though I absolutely love the setting, but I might just do it now.
Wow, when you least expect it, here he is! Glad to see you around again!
Love the humor, subscribed.
"Murder Furries descended from the navy that fucked off" is the best description of clanners yet.
didn't expect a mech 4 video to pop up
this video was great man
Love it man. Please keep it up!
Fun little story just to illustrate how happy I am to see one of my favorite MW games getting a fair shake:
Christmas Eve, 2003 or 2004.
I had off from school and nobody could babysit me that day, so my mom brought me to the holiday Bring Your Kid to Work Day at the health insurance company she worked for. With us, we had a retired work laptop.
An IBM ThinkPad.
My mom told me I could install one game only.
Now, I could’ve installed anything that would’ve worked best with a touchpad and keyboard, but I knew what I wanted.
MechWarrior 4: Vengeance.
That day, by the time my mom was done for the day and we were packing up to head home, my 11 or 12 year old autistic self was walking out of there ready to brag to my dad that I’d blown that snowy bridge with SRM ammo to spare and empty coolant dump tanks.
I just wanna say
0:44 This is probably the best ever "in a nutshell" of the events of BattleTech I've ever heard
Love this intro 😂 same exact reaction I had when I played this game for the first time. This game actually game with a series of games with my gateway desktop computer 😅
Love your vids, subbed! Also, hope there'll be mechwarrior 3 in the future!
Damn! I remember playing those Mechwarrior games since Mechwarrior 2 to 4. I really hope you will talk about the Expansions Mercenaries and Black Knight! Keep it up!
Ayooooo, doc white popping back up in my recommended after almost 10 years! Loved the Alfa legion warhammer content back then, and glad to see you with some Mech Warrior content! Lobcorp bgm, Tex is in the comments, this is damn early christmas!😊
It's good to see the Battletech franchise going through a bit of a modern renaissance. Hyped for your MW4 Mercs review.
Keep up these videos about retro games. They are great !
I was 5yo when this released, I member playing this on an XP machine with a Sidewinder. I used to be able to quote that intro too. My dad didn't really mention it alot but he had a pretty decent dell tower with some manner of GPU. Had Unreal 2/3, Mechwarrior, Quake 3.. sooooo many hours on Vengeance, Black Knight, and Mercs.
It was the first game i beat a dozen times, loved it. The intro video I showed to my battletech group as a start of a campaign
The centered third person view was AWESOME and something MW5 sadly ignored. Easily my favorite mechwarrior game by FAR. The free Mekpack mods added dozens anddozens of mechs. It even eventually included elemental and tanks as playable by the end.
i like the fact you brought up that you really don't need to do the dark ending because you pretty much are more then equipped for the final mission one way or another. Unless you've having a terrible string of loss weapons and mechs you usually have plenty of assault mechs by the time you reach that point and should just rescue your sister.
I only ever used the vulture support mech until the last mission where I used the heaviest clan mech
I love this so much, the comedy is gold!
The soundtrack is just the best thing ever
I had a computer in a tiny closet, just big enough for me and the computer. I built a 'pod' in the closet out of cardboard and used colored seran wrap to make glowy buttons when i turned on the closet light. To 14 Year old me it was like being in a real mech cockpit! I played in my underwear because it got so hot. I could have left the door open but the heat was immersive! Did the same thing a few Years before with MechWarrior 3, minus the cardboard part. Those were good times, nothing in life is enjoyable like it was when I was an ignorant Kid (now I'm just an ignorant adult- I have no excuse anymore!). Grand Video!
this was great, you know what be even greater would have been a lets play
this also was my 1st multiplayer game, and i meet the 1st "internet gaming friend" there before steam.
Muse i hope you doing great in life! you were a pro in this game
Wow, that "stepped in some Steiner" line unlocked a part of my memory I didn't know I had.
I will be honest, the first minute 1:00 of raw lore is perhaps the most concise summary I've found anywhere to give a crash course on the mammoth background of the franchise. Thank you.
Wonderful to see a member of the Alfa Legion still around and putting up stuff!
This and the TibSun videos tickled my nostalgia bone and also made me purchase Mechwarrior 5
Vengeance is what got me into Battletech in the first place. It has a very special place in my heart, much like the Shadowcat which was the very first battlemech I ever piloted
I really hope you keep posting! Please please please i am hooked on your video bro! You truly are going to be TH-cam gold one day. People will talk about you next to ggmanlives!
I am happy you have returned
Your lore synopsis is on point.
Love the use of the "Slap-Up!" theme from Alien Soldier at 7:46. Fits MW quite well.
Ohh man this content is golden! 🔥🙌💯
Yeah when i was just a kid learning how a computer works Mechwarrior 4 was my first enterduction to big stompy robots and total war, I've been hooked ever since
I'm just here to say you are SO underrated and have inspired me to play Tiberian Sun again.
(pls do Tiberium Wars
So he lives glad to have you back
wait what the fuck? A Dr. White video? Oh my god I didn't think I would get to see another.
really though, I am happy to see more video's from you.
*SWEEEEERVE*
Boii, is this a treat. Super fucking hyped for this one bruv. Hope you and yours are good.
EDIT: Super dope vid mang. You sounded tired or worn out in your VO though.. not that I mind really--the fake constant enthusiasm vidya essayists instinctually put on is creepy at best, and existential nightmare at worst.
Amazing video
I first played MW4 on a family friend's PC when I was like 5 years old, right about when it came out. It is such an important game to me and this review was really fantastic. Nearly shit myself at 10:48 too, cheers.
This game was life changing for me, I had played MW2 and MW3 before I got it and already loved the series, but Vengeance completely knocked it out of the park. I got a joystick specifically for it and Jane's USAF, it was _so_ damn enjoyable playing that way, having it completely changes the game, with a throttle lever to control speed and walking direction, thumb buttons to torso twist left and right and change weapon groups, and a trigger to do the Lord's work. The campaign was extremely fun, and I put in some serious time on it, but the online play was what really changed my life, I've never had more fun than the three years I played it (after mercs came out the servers were empty😞), especially with the customizations to gameplay that could be set in the servers like turning heat off, it made for some frantic fights. I had a particular setup I loved using in pretty much all situations, I ran a Mad Cat Mk2 autocannon boat, it was strictly for 450 meter and under engagements for the three LBX-AC10's, but preferably within 200 to make use of the two LBX-AC20's _and_ the three 10's, it was just about impossible to win a head-on fight with me which literally everyone in their Daishi or Atlas or other heavy mech tried to do lol, it was the king of brawlers. One alpha strike in the chest, maybe a second pop with the fast-cycling 10's to finish them off and I was off to my next target. It didn't do well in giant open maps but I usually tried anyways🤣. God I miss this game, I wish there were still active servers to play on and that it was easier to get running on modern machines, I would play the shit out of this if I could. I really miss the community, back then we would set up clans when they weren't douchy AF and set up friendly tournaments and discussions through MSM messenger on our 56k dial-up modems (back then you could scrape by in online games with a 56k, it's unthinkable these days lol) and I ended up making a lot of friends throughout the years doing so, I haven't played a game since then that gave me that feeling. But that's probably because that was my first foray into online gaming and meeting so many people with the same common interests was a new thing, like the first and best hit of a drug that you'll never be able to feel again I suppose lol.
The bit about heat, gravity and objectives *-THATS GOOD GAME DESIGN* i ... cant say i seen elsewhere
Loved playing this game on my saitek x45 flight controls in 2000, good times.
One of the most beloved games of my childhood.
never has a channel triggered my nostalgia quite like docs
so when do we get an mw mercs (4 not 5) video complete with George Ledoux as duncan fisher cameo
Please make a video for the Black Knight expansion as well, this one is fantastic. After watching I got the game and played it for the first time since I was like 8 or something, the nostalgia is so real.
Bruh why hasn't our boi blown up yet
I grew up with this game, somehow got it to work on my 2080Ti. Made alot of memories with this game. glad to see someone still cares about it😁😁
I need more friends to play with
I hope the player base keeps growing. been playing since 2004
now try MECHWARRIOR 3
This might be my singular favorite video game of all time. The music, the customization, the camp, the plot, it was perfection.
That single weapon group setup hurt to see though
man i loved that series of games
Loved it!!!
Oh good, this can actually be run in the modern day. I have a new task to get into tomorrow. Missed these games.
Love the ThunderPsyker "ON THE MOON" reference!
I love this game I did a full play through starting last year. I'm almost done with MW4 Mercs. 4 will always be my favorite MW, and it was my introduction to the Battletech universe
Great Game, great Video! Thx!^^
Great video ! I love playing Mechwarrior 4, the best Mechwarrior game ever in my opinion.
We have been running some games as large as 4v4s on MW4, Mercinaries real fun title and the multiplayer gameplay holds up to this day.
It anyone wants to give Vengeance or Mercinaries a shot, I will happily send out some pointers on the common problems people have with this game.
I've been wanting to play but gave up after days of troubleshooting. I use Windows 10 on an nVidia GPU, the game does not make it to the title screen with or without dgVoodoo unless I use a launch argument to disable joystick support, which isn't an option because that's my input device.
Nice video!
Amazing vid.
I got this for christmas when it came out, I still have the cds for the games, Biiiiiiiig part of my life then
i like it that one of the battleships names is the thunder-child, good reference to war of the worlds
very nice video... MW4 is one of the main reasons why i decided to make BT dioramas. Loved the visuals. BTW. TARGET DESTROYED
My first mech game was 3, but I loved the hell out of 4.
7:41 caught me off guard. I laughed for a solid minute.
Same lol.
YES, EXPAND THE FANBASE, SPREAD THE WORD!, GLORY TO CLAN WOLF!
In multiplayer, I used to love taking a Catapult with LRM 20's, sit back and chain fire at somebody. Each hit knocked them down basically keeping them pinned to the ground. Oh the chat was hilarious! Besides that, Madcat's were the shit!
My first Mechwarrior game, so many fond memories, now I've gotta try to get it running on my Ryzen 9 5900x rtx 3080 system when it was ment to run like Intel core duo's with Radeon graphics... 🤣 I got Mechwarrior 4 mercenaries running through some sort of open software program.
Regardless, great job as always, look forward to your review of my second favorite game in the series, Black Knight. Also the game that spawned my love for that gorgeous 75 ton piece of beauty.
Unfortunally it seems to be extremely hard to run that old gold game on modern machines :(
Oh shit, you're alive!
Actually, the salvage mechanic doesn't work like that in MW4. Each mission has a pre-defined salvage list, filled with either guaranteed items (sometimes you'll just find a random shutdown mech tagged neutral in a mission, and you'll just get said mech no matter what happens to it) and/or a chance at items.
This was found out when someone (before the MW4:Mercs 'free release' ever happened) went through the MW4 Mercs missions to change the salvage they found that the escort mission on Haloran V you can only salvage Chimera mechs from that mission despite there also being 3 Owens, 2 Hellhound (+1 on Veteran or higher difficulty), and a Argus on Elite difficulty on that mission.
How you described the salvage working is how Mechwarrior 2: Mercs and Mechwarrior 3's salvage mechanics work.
And this is without getting into the Inner Sphere Mech Pack, and Clan Mech Pack that were made for MW4
Good video that I clicked cos the algo recommended it and I have fond memories of the Mechwarrior 3 demo. Never did get the full game but boy did I play the shit outta that demo back in the day. To the point I to this day have a homebrew mechwarrior based off of an image of a mechwarrior something or another official Knex model. Yeah well i was poor but figured out how to replicate it with the Knex I had and am proud enough of it I still have it some 14 years later. I don;t know much of the universe but I do know enough via Razorfist that Mechwarrior/Battletech rocks.