PlagueOfGripes Wasn't it kind of a thing in WWII? I thought Shermans would troll the heck out of Panzers by circling around them in groups, since they needed to be really close to have a chance of penetrating armor.
But yeah, wouldn't really work today. Turret tech 2 gud.
Hoobastomp Tanks are designed for long range deployment, and especially not in urban areas, if possible. What you're likely thinking of is when America began deploying shit tons of Shermans onto the front as Germany began rolling Tigers into urban areas. Shermans would usually have no way of dealing with them due to only having 76mm cannons to work with. They'd have to try to blow off their tracks, or use HE rounds to make the German crews believe their engine had caught fire. The general rule of any sort of armored combat is to ensure your primary plate is forward and angled to the trajectory of your opponent's cone of vision. There's never any strafing involved, only during the war, Tigers proved less effective than shit tons of Shermans that could use the open land of rural Europe to overwhelm them.
Look at the intro to Mech 2 Mercenaries. And the mechwarrior 5 trailer. And then watch all of the Celestial videos: Specifically Mechwarrior Online - Ascend to Glory. Enjoy !!!
Coming back to this video years later I think my favourite part is still at the very start at 2:05 when Woolie goes Jade Falcon and both Matt and Pat seem incredulous at his decision. Pat especially seems legitimately vexed at learning his friend was a falcon all along.
"I dunno, I think the 30th Century combat was way better than the 31st." What's funny about that is that I know there are people that agree with you, because that's when the 3rd Succession war was happening! XD
When I imagine baby Woolie playing Mechwarrior 2, I imagine him using the mouse and keyboard with the same exact face he has when he begins to use the fight stick in the Scrublords intro video.
I like to think all three of them are inside the mech and taking care of different things. Woolie: movement, main gunner Pat: Navigation and systems monitoring Matt: Emotional support
I imagine Matt just franticly running around trying to keep Zack under control and he's just mashing the buttons and they Mr. Maggo to victory. And on an unrelated note wasn't there a kinect mech game where you were captain of a crew of fourish?
Oh and movement and guns really should be two different people. Managing rotation while you try to circle strafe someone circle strafing you is the worst. Perfect opportunity for Liam!
Background Character I love when a Mech is much more like a tank in that it has a crew that does all the stuff you have to consider when piloting a Mech. EDIT: reading this old reply made me go 'was I DRUNK when I wrote that or merely sleep deprived?'
OHOHOHOHH you just made me remember, me and my brother used to do the coolest thing, we builded a pillow cabine, plug the racing wheel into the ps1 and play this game together... that was the closest we ever got to doing a megas XLR... and it was hype as shit
I have to come back to this Mechaweeks playlist from time to time to remind me of the hype this channel can achieve. We need a third week. Hell, a MONTH.
Funny watching this after learning the lore of Battletech/mechwarrior. Because all the jokes are 100% lore accurate. It's all real and 80s edgy dark future goofy shit. Pat choosing clan wolf and woolie choosing clan jade falcon makes sense
Man, I wish you guys still being Super Best Friends Plays Forever in this current year, especially Armroed Core VI just around the corner and was hoping to see both of you play Mechwarrior 5 coop that would be a blast from the past brother..
Nothing makes me cringe harder than when people fail to specify the type of engineering they do. There's a massive difference between say, a mechanical engineer and a chemical engineer. Not trying to be a dick, it's just that _everyone_ does it
***** In a world where everyone asks for your resume before picking you for a job, I don't think titles affect your chances as much as your experience. Your manager should know what you're capable of and will assign you as it's appropriate.
34:50 Yes, the dH/dt meter is a real-world concept of Thermodynamics: it's a measurement of how fast you're saturating the coolant. dH/dt in the red zone indicates "flash boil" danger. "Heat sink" is just another term for the radiator.
Ahh...Mechwarrior...maybe we'll see you again some day. And if that day comes, I'm gonna make my mech as much like the Little Aloha from Space Dandy as I can. Because that's the dandy way to do mech combat.
Mitch Gitelman, who's most recently worked as the project lead on the Shadowrun Returns games and produced the MechCommander games, has expressed strong interest in doing a new MechWarrior game in recent interviews - he works with Harebrained Schemes who are owned by Jordan Weisman, the creator of BattleTech and MechWarrior. HBS have three successful Kickstarters under their belts. So... there's a sliver of hope there.
"dh/dt" is referring to calculus. It's the derivative of your heat over time, which is why whenever you fire your weapons it spikes; the "dh/dt" bar indicates the immediate change in value of your heat magnitude, The amount of total absolute heat value that your 'mech possesses is indicated by the first bar, and the speed by which it is changing is indicated by the second bar. Yes, MW2 is a game that came out in 1995 and presumes you understand calculus in order to play it. Games are very different today... sadly.
I mean, you can play the game just fine without knowing what it means; what matters most is your total heat, which you can easily see going up, and you can easily and quickly determine in battle if the loadout you came up with can deal with the heat or if you need to slow down on your weapons fire.
Ok, THIS is my shit. I would ask for a full playthrough of Ghost Bear's Legacy except that Woolie can't seem to figure out how to properly group his weapon types or override his shutdowns.
Dh/Dt is literally a ghetto as way of writing it. It's a derivative. It's change in heat over time. Showing the relative input of heat the different weapon systems you have contribute when you shoot.
By the way, the thing you read out for dH/dt is very confusing. dH/dt is just the rate of gain of heat. It's based off calculus, as in: H = heat dH/dt = rate of gain of heat, as in: change in heat/change in time. The formula you read out means "The rate of heat flow is equal to the amount of heat energy needed to raise it's temperature by one degree multiplied by the rate of change of temperature." For those of you wondering, I am currently doing heat and temperature in my physics course and that is actually pretty legit. The equation is: Energy change = mass x heat capacity x temperature change
Also I just noticed, the armour of your mech is a ferrofluid. That is a liquid with iron particles suspended in it so that it can react to electric and magnetic fields. This shit has smart armour, that reacts to incoming fire by strengthening by concentrating the iron in one spot. I think.
A huge part of my Childhood was the Mechassault series. I did not know that the OG Mechwarrior series existed until after i started playing the Mechassault games.
Let me think here. Matt "The Punisher" McMuscles, captain of the Zaibatsu, pilots the All-Rounder Mech, "American Dream". Pat "Furious Red", close-combat specialist, pilots the "Ginger Apocalypse" Woolie "The Pie Thief", stealth expert, pilots the "Green Liar" And Liam "Full Metal Senpai", offers long range support on board the "Steel Waifu". Those are my guesses anyways. What are yours?
I'm barely a junior in HS and I've found them more entertaining than say pewdiepie and those other people . I know they'll reach their goal it's only a matter of time I guess
Because little kids and dudebros (wich is a huge part of the demographic that consumes gaming media)don't have the atention span (or the time) to watch a 1 hour (sort of) video about a game that came out in 1993.
The Pickles Back in the late 80's/early 90's, video games weren't that popular and were enjoyed mostly by nerds. By the mid 2000's, they became mainstream. The Zaibatsu were definitely the nerdy gamer kids back then, so they appreciate Street Sharks and 20 year old games. Shit kids and dudebros just want the same old derivative bullshit like Pewdiepie, slenderman, and goddamn bullshit asshole minecraft.
exiledPostman I have no problem with these "popular" channels, but one thing i can not stand is when a fuck ton of people literally shout and scream for their YT'ber of choice to play shitty horror games which are somehow insanely popuular. E.g, FNaF, Slender...Ok, their my only examples but fuuuuck me, ive seen about 2000000 comments about them games.
Just so no one else is left a bit disappointed by Woolie The Liar’s lies here, there’s actually only 16 mission for both campaigns rather than 30. Regardless, this game is a true PC classic and STILL KICKS ASS.
This game was seriously the whole reason I have been hooked on giant robots my whole life. I first saw and played it at a friend's house when I was kid, and I was hooked from the CG intro. So awesome to see this game again! ROBOT ON ROBOT VIOLENCE
Woolie was joking about the chalkboard but this old arcade with the VR version of firestorm I went to had a no shit, laminated spreadsheets on EVERY MECH!!! If you wanted to see an indecipherable combination of numbers and letters then boy were those the place to go.
jason marrone When I went to a Virtual World in Atlanta the room near the pods was all done up like a Edwardian explorer's lounge, but all little touches in the decor suggested time travels to the Battletech universe. Above one table was a framed reproduction of the Truce of Tukayyid. This was some next-level Disney World theming shit going on.
Sounds nice. The arcade had a few propaganda posters. I only remember one about joining the inner circle fire bats. There were also some magic posters, but those were unrelated.
Love the small details on the outro. They're a nice touch, really gives it a nice edge of personality to the mech. Can't wait to see what the other ones for the rest of the zaibatsu are like.
*MECHWEEK - NOW I CAN DEFINITELY SUPPORT THIS* The first PC games I ever bought were ... Alien Odyssey, Descent FreeSpace and MechWarrior 2. Good times.
This is like the argument from saints row 4. That was a suit in Vanquish, not a giant robot. But they probablly already have a full walkthrough done already that they keep on the back burners.
Part of the appeal of mechs are simply the "coolness" factor. You probably could make more efficient tracked or wheeled vehicles, but they wouldn't be anywhere near as rad.
Qwazzy idk you can make some really cool tanks. like the apocalypse tank from command and conquer. Or just have a hover vehicle. Those are always cool.
Some stuff tries to explain it, like how in Gundam melee weapons became important again due to Minovsky particles wrecking long range sensor-based weaponry, and you can't exactly have a tank swinging a giant heat hawk around. But mostly it's just because bipedal robots are awesome.
FIREMOTH KITFOX JENNER NOVA STORMCROW MAD DOG HELLBRINGER RIFLEMAN SUMMONER TIMBERWOLF GARGOYLE WARHAMMER MARAUDER WARHAWK DIRE WOLF--INGRAINED IN MY BRAIN
Woolie strikes me as the type of guy to watch "Legend of the Galactic Heros" and goes: "Yeah, the Empire might be straight up space nazis.........But look at these slick uniforms, thooo!"
oh man, this is some nostalgia right here, I used to have a demo disk with this on it (as well as hexen, dogz, pitfall:the mayan adventure, and star wars: yoda stories) it's amazing how good this is, I live the music, the skyboxes, the controls, the damage indicators I wish hawken had been more like this tbh
I hope they play the Dynasty warrior Gundam games. Sure the game is flawed at some points (Your partners are shit useless and dumb as rock, and you get a game over if one of them dies), but you get some real hype moments.
this game was my life when i was 8-10. i was sooo upset when i lost the disc when we moved. i eventually found it again like 4 years later in a box, but by then my newer pc refused to run it. i'm very glad to see this in a mechaweek episode.
Hey guys, lets shit all over katanas and talk about how dumb Japanese military culture was. No seriously, katanas were terrible swords. They had to be folded hundreds of times during the forging process to even be usable, but that made them super brittle. I love how in anime katanas cut through everything but in real life a katana would just SHATTER if you tried to chop a tree with it. Yes, we're bringing this over from Plague's channel. Every video should be accompanied by a long discussion that shits on katanas.
Well, usually they only had to be folded over a maximum of 15 times, anything more and it's kinda pointless. But the process they used was outdated centuries ago when the Europeans started using alloy steels that had the ability to flex and still retain an edge. Not a fan of the katana myself, though, way too short to be useful. I prefer the rapier or longsword as I just like the martial forms used in both weapons over the martial forms used with the katana. Perfectly fine if anyone else likes the weapon, but I'm not convinced of its utility. However, if it came to a non-duel situation I prefer my halberd.
The fact that the katana was a useable thing shows how skilled japanese swordsmiths were, vs european and middle eastern ones who had great metal to work with and any old shit could make a decent plade.
At this point katana haters are more annoying than katana fanboys. We've heard the same arguments over and over. Yes, the katana itself has a huge bunch of flaws, but over all it's still really well designed. It's lightweight, sharp as fuck and can be used in a whole bunch of martial styles. The materials were shit, yeah, but if you make a katana with modern european steel, then it's still a pretty excellent cutting weapon. Not nearly as versatile as the typical European sword design, mind, but that was mainly because of the lack of proper armour for foot soldiers in Japan which meant slashing was often the way to go. Yes, people who praise the sword endlessly and buy into the Japanese hyperboles that it cuts through tables by merely being dropped on them are really friggin gullible, but it doesn't change the facts that it's still a great design with what the Japanese had to work with at the time. That said, I don't really care much for them at all. As a whole, I find Japanese history reeeaaally boring.
kalmahcarl Like I said, it's not my kind of thing, but it's fine if other people like it. I'm just not a fan of the footwork and the reach. I did a fun spar thing with a kendo friend against my rapier (Sánchez de Carranza mixed with some little tricks I got from Cappo Ferro and Agrippa) and the main two things I found out are two things I already knew: the thrust is a very fast attack but its major flaw is that it's linear, so stringering is a must or you will be parried. And two hands give more leverage than one hand, but having an offhand free for a main gauche opens up a lot of possibilities. Not saying ths is a definitive scientific test, but it was interesting. I mostly took home the notion that you just have to play it smarter than the other guy. Limit his options, maintain your spacing and try to make him predictable before he figures out what you're doing and you can safely land the strike no matter what he's holding, but above all else DON'T GET HIT.
Man 3 is were it is at! that game just got the feel of Battle-tech down! Looks gorgeous and sounds amazing, and feels amazing! The sound of pulse lasers is freaking orgasmic!
The reason it tells you the temperature at the start of missions is because it factors into how quickly your mech overheats. They use this to balance things or determine the difficulty, such that mission on the cold planet; You can go guns blazing and not have to worry about shutting down, which justifies them sending so many enemy mechs at you all at once.
I just wanna take a moment to apreciate that the gun of the Dread-Nought (Woolie's Mecha) says "Welcome to the Woolie hole" wich is a fucking superb detail
If I remember correctly, the stealth part about the Normandy wasn't her _appearance_, it was the heat dispersion system that allowed her not to be detected by sensors. Then again, I'm not a pro on the subject, so I may not be 100% right, but either way, space is pretty damn big. You'd need to squint a bit to see a ship, especially if that ship isn't in your immediate vicinity, and especially if it doesn't appear in your sensors, and therefore gives you no reasons to expect it. People tend to trust these more than their eyes in space, I'd wager. ^^
Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries was probably one of the few games that I can say without hesistation that made a significant impact on my life. I loved everything about it, and even though my 10-11 year old brain couldn't make heads or tails of the micro-mangement of the main campaign, I loved the utter shit out of instant action. The lore from it's boardgame counterpart is "eyes rolling back into head" osgasmic for me as well and I'm so thankful that there's a shit ton of novels and suplementary materials to expound upon the series' universe
Oooooooh the nostalgia. Mechwarrior 2 was one of the favorite games of my brother and I. Unfortunately, we didn't have the privilege of owning the PC version, just the watered down PS1 version. Still, even that was very fun and holds a special place in my heart. What matters is that Mechwarrior is awesome! =)
45:25 The idea of Harry Mason, and James Sutherland fighting in Mecha Suits In Silent Hill astounds me, and then in the end Pyramid Head shows up in his own super mecha with Joshua on his shoulder demanding for his Bunny XD
"I'd love to ask a tank guy, is circle strafing a thing?" NOOOOOOOOOOO
PlagueOfGripes Wasn't it kind of a thing in WWII? I thought Shermans would troll the heck out of Panzers by circling around them in groups, since they needed to be really close to have a chance of penetrating armor.
But yeah, wouldn't really work today. Turret tech 2 gud.
Isn't shoot-n-scoot at least present in artillery?
Plague = supa kawaii panzer girl, confirmed!
Griffin1171 Sure, but not in the same sense at all.
Hoobastomp
Tanks are designed for long range deployment, and especially not in urban areas, if possible. What you're likely thinking of is when America began deploying shit tons of Shermans onto the front as Germany began rolling Tigers into urban areas. Shermans would usually have no way of dealing with them due to only having 76mm cannons to work with. They'd have to try to blow off their tracks, or use HE rounds to make the German crews believe their engine had caught fire. The general rule of any sort of armored combat is to ensure your primary plate is forward and angled to the trajectory of your opponent's cone of vision. There's never any strafing involved, only during the war, Tigers proved less effective than shit tons of Shermans that could use the open land of rural Europe to overwhelm them.
That intro made me sad at the fact that I'll never get an intro that cool...
Sorry Rick, ya gotta get your grade 10 first
Look at the intro to Mech 2 Mercenaries. And the mechwarrior 5 trailer. And then watch all of the Celestial videos: Specifically Mechwarrior Online - Ascend to Glory. Enjoy !!!
Fuck off ricky
Coming back to this video years later I think my favourite part is still at the very start at 2:05 when Woolie goes Jade Falcon and both Matt and Pat seem incredulous at his decision. Pat especially seems legitimately vexed at learning his friend was a falcon all along.
"I dunno, I think the 30th Century combat was way better than the 31st."
What's funny about that is that I know there are people that agree with you, because that's when the 3rd Succession war was happening! XD
When I imagine baby Woolie playing Mechwarrior 2, I imagine him using the mouse and keyboard with the same exact face he has when he begins to use the fight stick in the Scrublords intro video.
Nagittchi ...except Mecharrior 2 was ALL keyboard.
I will make this picture soon.
Jacket If you do you better link us to that shit!
@@ZUNIGA357 7 years later, made it yet?
I like to think all three of them are inside the mech and taking care of different things.
Woolie: movement, main gunner
Pat: Navigation and systems monitoring
Matt: Emotional support
I imagine Matt just franticly running around trying to keep Zack under control and he's just mashing the buttons and they Mr. Maggo to victory. And on an unrelated note wasn't there a kinect mech game where you were captain of a crew of fourish?
Oh and movement and guns really should be two different people. Managing rotation while you try to circle strafe someone circle strafing you is the worst. Perfect opportunity for Liam!
Background Character I love when a Mech is much more like a tank in that it has a crew that does all the stuff you have to consider when piloting a Mech.
EDIT: reading this old reply made me go 'was I DRUNK when I wrote that or merely sleep deprived?'
i dig giant robots, you dig giant robots, we dig giant robots, chicks dig giant robots. Nice
ALL I WANTED WAS ONE MEGA SLUSH!
***** THE R.E.G.I.S. WILL SUCK UPON YOUR VERY ATOMS
When in doubt, duck it.
Megas XLR ... them early 2000s CartoonNetwork childhood FEELZ !!!!
OHOHOHOHH you just made me remember, me and my brother used to do the coolest thing, we builded a pillow cabine, plug the racing wheel into the ps1 and play this game together... that was the closest we ever got to doing a megas XLR... and it was hype as shit
I have to come back to this Mechaweeks playlist from time to time to remind me of the hype this channel can achieve. We need a third week. Hell, a MONTH.
*_YOU'RE MAKING A MECHA WEEK?!_*
**explodes like a battlemech out of sheer hype hype**
Funny watching this after learning the lore of Battletech/mechwarrior. Because all the jokes are 100% lore accurate. It's all real and 80s edgy dark future goofy shit.
Pat choosing clan wolf and woolie choosing clan jade falcon makes sense
Yup. Woolie would totally be the kind to go with those damn Jade Falcons lol
I would gladly watch a full series of Woolie nerding out on Mechwarrior.
Man, I wish you guys still being Super Best Friends Plays Forever in this current year, especially Armroed Core VI just around the corner and was hoping to see both of you play Mechwarrior 5 coop that would be a blast from the past brother..
Having experience with this game and being an engineer, made the part where Pat finds out what dH/DT is as a formula made me laugh so hard.
I have tons of respect for you guys dealing with that bullshit.
When he started reading out the units as variables in the equation was when I lost it.
Nothing makes me cringe harder than when people fail to specify the type of engineering they do.
There's a massive difference between say, a mechanical engineer and a chemical engineer.
Not trying to be a dick, it's just that _everyone_ does it
***** In a world where everyone asks for your resume before picking you for a job, I don't think titles affect your chances as much as your experience. Your manager should know what you're capable of and will assign you as it's appropriate.
Joseph Ikuta Haha I know. The things people take for granted, especially if you're redlining your engine speed.
MECHAWEEK?! HOLY SHIT BALLZ
Shit Damn!
B33f!
"OH MY GAAAAAAWD! Who let these random guys pilot the fucking mechs?!"
B33f teach them how to mech.
u woot m8?
Fucking love how Matt and Pat were skeptical about Woolie's hype for this and then they start getting hyped as well after a while.
34:50 Yes, the dH/dt meter is a real-world concept of Thermodynamics: it's a measurement of how fast you're saturating the coolant. dH/dt in the red zone indicates "flash boil" danger. "Heat sink" is just another term for the radiator.
Pat makes it sound confusing and impossible to understand but it's actually really simple
I will never get over how awesome everyone is at making openings for you guys. Cinematic. Transcendent.
Ahh...Mechwarrior...maybe we'll see you again some day.
And if that day comes, I'm gonna make my mech as much like the Little Aloha from Space Dandy as I can.
Because that's the dandy way to do mech combat.
Mechwarrior is alive.
Well, sort of. There's Mechwarrior Online, which actually isn't all that bad.
Lina Ínverse I fucking love Mechwarrior Online. So good.
Ceres Bane its still a enjoyable working mechwarrior game
Mitch Gitelman, who's most recently worked as the project lead on the Shadowrun Returns games and produced the MechCommander games, has expressed strong interest in doing a new MechWarrior game in recent interviews - he works with Harebrained Schemes who are owned by Jordan Weisman, the creator of BattleTech and MechWarrior. HBS have three successful Kickstarters under their belts.
So... there's a sliver of hope there.
S.L.A.I. or Phantom Crash... Please...
"dh/dt" is referring to calculus. It's the derivative of your heat over time, which is why whenever you fire your weapons it spikes; the "dh/dt" bar indicates the immediate change in value of your heat magnitude, The amount of total absolute heat value that your 'mech possesses is indicated by the first bar, and the speed by which it is changing is indicated by the second bar.
Yes, MW2 is a game that came out in 1995 and presumes you understand calculus in order to play it. Games are very different today... sadly.
I mean, you can play the game just fine without knowing what it means; what matters most is your total heat, which you can easily see going up, and you can easily and quickly determine in battle if the loadout you came up with can deal with the heat or if you need to slow down on your weapons fire.
I really like that opening. I love that it didn't go for the obvious joke of giving Liam a Nobel Gundam type mech. Super cool.
The Nobel Gundam is a super robot type, so maybe in Super Robot intro.
Maybe they skipped the Nobel Gundam for now, but they did give him the "Fullmetal Sempai" suit. :P
@@AstralMuffin105 what the heck is a full metal sempai suit
@@LavaDa1shi Watch the intro. It's the callsign on Liam's mech, lol.
Ok, THIS is my shit.
I would ask for a full playthrough of Ghost Bear's Legacy except that Woolie can't seem to figure out how to properly group his weapon types or override his shutdowns.
Dh/Dt is literally a ghetto as way of writing it. It's a derivative. It's change in heat over time. Showing the relative input of heat the different weapon systems you have contribute when you shoot.
By the way, the thing you read out for dH/dt is very confusing. dH/dt is just the rate of gain of heat. It's based off calculus, as in:
H = heat
dH/dt = rate of gain of heat, as in: change in heat/change in time.
The formula you read out means "The rate of heat flow is equal to the amount of heat energy needed to raise it's temperature by one degree multiplied by the rate of change of temperature."
For those of you wondering, I am currently doing heat and temperature in my physics course and that is actually pretty legit.
The equation is: Energy change = mass x heat capacity x temperature change
Also I just noticed, the armour of your mech is a ferrofluid. That is a liquid with iron particles suspended in it so that it can react to electric and magnetic fields. This shit has smart armour, that reacts to incoming fire by strengthening by concentrating the iron in one spot.
I think.
OMG! My family's old IBM desktop came with Mechwarrior 2. This was my very first action game. So many good memories.
HOW the HELL did they even get this game to work?
It's like some kind of ancient runic godmachinery that is too eldritch for modern computers.
DOSBox probably.
I love Liam's helmet during the intro with the lil "u (don't) c me" on it.
Chrome hounds/Armored Core are addition/multiplication. Mechwarrior is applied calculus
dH/dT is the rate at which the mech's heat is increasing. It's for-real calculus. I never realized when I was a kid that this game had calculus in it
Had no idea Woolz was a Mechwarrior bro. He just keeps becoming the better best friend of the group.
SO HAPPY my engineering background helped me follow the description at 34:30.
So... happy
I also want this to end on the start of a Metal wolf chaos LP.
All I need is the intro to know this is going to be amazing.
This week has to end with a Metal Wolf Chaos LP or I my jimmies will be rustled
"Those things on your HUD really help orient you." Yes, Pat, that's the point. It's a direct rip from a fighter jet's HUD
I'm 10 seconds into the video, and I have an overpowering urge to watch Pacific Rim again. Dat theme
It's so HYPE
A huge part of my Childhood was the Mechassault series. I did not know that the OG Mechwarrior series existed until after i started playing the Mechassault games.
Duuuuuude same here!
Let me think here.
Matt "The Punisher" McMuscles, captain of the Zaibatsu, pilots the All-Rounder Mech, "American Dream".
Pat "Furious Red", close-combat specialist, pilots the "Ginger Apocalypse"
Woolie "The Pie Thief", stealth expert, pilots the "Green Liar"
And Liam "Full Metal Senpai", offers long range support on board the "Steel Waifu".
Those are my guesses anyways. What are yours?
I guess they came up with their own. Woolie "The Storm" Madden piloting the "Dread-Nought"
LittleMountain90 Matt's mech is actually a PT Cruiser
Alonzo Tompkins
That joke HAS to come up some time this week.
american dream is such s cool name for a mech
Personally I'd have gone with Iron Imouto as the name of Liam's mech, but other than that pretty good.
It's awesome you guys are playing this, I love BattleTech!
tht intro was really good tho, props to art and animation dudes... yes including you plague
Why don't you have more subs I swear you guys actually give a shit bout the quality and fans, you all deserve like 1000000+ subs
I'm barely a junior in HS and I've found them more entertaining than say pewdiepie and those other people . I know they'll reach their goal it's only a matter of time I guess
Too hype, if they get too many subs they'll become the four king Kai's of earth
Because little kids and dudebros (wich is a huge part of the demographic that consumes gaming media)don't have the atention span (or the time) to watch a 1 hour (sort of) video about a game that came out in 1993.
The Pickles Back in the late 80's/early 90's, video games weren't that popular and were enjoyed mostly by nerds. By the mid 2000's, they became mainstream. The Zaibatsu were definitely the nerdy gamer kids back then, so they appreciate Street Sharks and 20 year old games. Shit kids and dudebros just want the same old derivative bullshit like Pewdiepie, slenderman, and goddamn bullshit asshole minecraft.
exiledPostman I have no problem with these "popular" channels, but one thing i can not stand is when a fuck ton of people literally shout and scream for their YT'ber of choice to play shitty horror games which are somehow insanely popuular. E.g, FNaF, Slender...Ok, their my only examples but fuuuuck me, ive seen about 2000000 comments about them games.
We got Mechaweek, hopefully Week of Woolz is down the line, somewhere...
whelp, i guess this is where the next 100 episode playthrough comes in
200 hours of Super robot taisen here we come.
I love the intro! :)
Does this mean a return to Metal Wolf Chaos soon?
That overlay map of the USA with the American flag on the inside?
That game Matt paid over $100 for from all the way in Japan?
Nothing beats being the president in a mech suit fighting the vice president in his own mech suit
Mandrid Hugh
*RICHAAAAAAARD!*
They better do an LP.
It's a game that DESERVES one.
I played MW2 at CompUSA in the '90's, it was awesome
"Silent Thunder is a stupid name"
I will name a fucking Battlebot Silent Thunder just to spite you Matt
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I think Matt meant that it's an oxymoron.
Love the details on Liam's helmet
Just so no one else is left a bit disappointed by Woolie The Liar’s lies here, there’s actually only 16 mission for both campaigns rather than 30. Regardless, this game is a true PC classic and STILL KICKS ASS.
This game was seriously the whole reason I have been hooked on giant robots my whole life. I first saw and played it at a friend's house when I was kid, and I was hooked from the CG intro. So awesome to see this game again! ROBOT ON ROBOT VIOLENCE
Shoutout to pat knowing the battle tech lore.
Woolie was joking about the chalkboard but this old arcade with the VR version of firestorm I went to had a no shit, laminated spreadsheets on EVERY MECH!!! If you wanted to see an indecipherable combination of numbers and letters then boy were those the place to go.
jason marrone When I went to a Virtual World in Atlanta the room near the pods was all done up like a Edwardian explorer's lounge, but all little touches in the decor suggested time travels to the Battletech universe. Above one table was a framed reproduction of the Truce of Tukayyid. This was some next-level Disney World theming shit going on.
Sounds nice. The arcade had a few propaganda posters. I only remember one about joining the inner circle fire bats. There were also some magic posters, but those were unrelated.
that's some really great artwork there in the beginning!
So this is what Liam found in Mexico.......A weapon to surpass Metal Gear....
Love the small details on the outro. They're a nice touch, really gives it a nice edge of personality to the mech. Can't wait to see what the other ones for the rest of the zaibatsu are like.
I want mechacondria to be somewhere in this week.
*MECHWEEK - NOW I CAN DEFINITELY SUPPORT THIS*
The first PC games I ever bought were ...
Alien Odyssey, Descent FreeSpace and MechWarrior 2.
Good times.
You are now aware that the Mechwarrior backstory is almost identical to the backstory to Game of Thrones. You're welcome.
them3otherguys I now want an HBO miniseries where Charles Dance plays Hanse Davion more than anything.
TheInflicted oh damn CGI Fafnirs! and a whole lot of merc mechs
MechWarrior show on HBO, just imagine it. JUST IMAGINE IT!
@@badarbiter No. TV producers ruin everything they touch.
From the intro music alone, I can tell this is gonna be good.
Ok I'm just gonna say it
*Vanquish is probably coming in about a week*
That's not really a mech game though. The MC has more like powered armour, like Iron Man and Megaman...
David B Andrews for the amount they've talked about Vanquish alongside other Mecha fiction, you'd almost have to expect it at this point.
I can only hope.
Vanquish didn't happen.
Instead we saw the most complicated controller ever for a game that can *only be played on a system from almost 15 years ago.*
This is like the argument from saints row 4.
That was a suit in Vanquish, not a giant robot. But they probablly already have a full walkthrough done already that they keep on the back burners.
I had to re watch that intro three times! Love this week!
nice intro except not only are none of these four drift compatible, woolie is only drift compatible with an approximately human-sized mass of sludge
Either that or fucking plague
Nathan Olney that's what i said, yeah
What the fuck is going on in this comment thread
wow, what a beautiful into sequence!! mad props to the artist.
Woolie sure thinks he's cool guy for say "Alpha Beta Epsilon" instead of just A B C
Aw yeah, The Summoner! I remember that thing from Mechassault. What a cool mech.
They better sure as fuck play at least ONE Gundam game.
just from this alone I already know I want a double week. I'm now thinking of all the mech games i've seen way back up to now. Still praying for zoe 3
So never understood the premise of a mech. You could just put the same weapons on a faster wheeled or tracked vehicle and give it more armor.
Part of the appeal of mechs are simply the "coolness" factor. You probably could make more efficient tracked or wheeled vehicles, but they wouldn't be anywhere near as rad.
Qwazzy idk you can make some really cool tanks. like the apocalypse tank from command and conquer. Or just have a hover vehicle. Those are always cool.
I guess it's a matter of personal preference then.
Some stuff tries to explain it, like how in Gundam melee weapons became important again due to Minovsky particles wrecking long range sensor-based weaponry, and you can't exactly have a tank swinging a giant heat hawk around. But mostly it's just because bipedal robots are awesome.
TroopperFoFo Better handling over broken ground? That's the impetus behind Boston Dynamics "BigDog" robotics program.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO POST HERE BUT I CAN'T STOP BEING HYPE ABOUT MECHWARRIOR
Saw the thumbnail and FUCKING CAME ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS FUCK YES
I'M AT THE INTRO AND I'VE RUN OUT OF SPARE PANTS
I'M AT THE TITLE SCREEN AND I'VE GIVEN UP ON PANTS
I'M AT THE JADE FALCON INTRO AND I'VE TURNED WOOLIESEXUAL
MY DICK HURTS
FIREMOTH KITFOX JENNER NOVA STORMCROW MAD DOG HELLBRINGER RIFLEMAN SUMMONER TIMBERWOLF GARGOYLE WARHAMMER MARAUDER WARHAWK DIRE WOLF--INGRAINED IN MY BRAIN
The HYPEST INTRO IN TH-cam!
Woolie strikes me as the type of guy to watch "Legend of the Galactic Heros" and goes: "Yeah, the Empire might be straight up space nazis.........But look at these slick uniforms, thooo!"
I believe he literally said that in Podcast a few times... he also thinks zeon was the good guys
that intro! that's sick I love the pacific rim theme!!
OH MY FUCKING GOD
MECHWARRIOR 2! OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD
NEVER IN MY WILDEST DREAMS DID I EVER THINK THEY WOULD DO THE BEST MECH GAME EVER MADE
oh man, this is some nostalgia right here, I used to have a demo disk with this on it (as well as hexen, dogz, pitfall:the mayan adventure, and star wars: yoda stories)
it's amazing how good this is, I live the music, the skyboxes, the controls, the damage indicators
I wish hawken had been more like this tbh
I hope they play the Dynasty warrior Gundam games.
Sure the game is flawed at some points (Your partners are shit useless and dumb as rock, and you get a game over if one of them dies), but you get some real hype moments.
it could happen. Hyrule Warriors has opened a lot of eyes to just how hype musou can be.
From what I've picked up they don't like Dynasty Warriors very much, damn shame.
badarbiter
that was amended when hyrule warriors came out. I'm pretty sure liam is STILL playing it.
badarbiter Hey, they did play David Cage games and Drake of the 99 Dragons. Anything possible after that.
this game was my life when i was 8-10. i was sooo upset when i lost the disc when we moved. i eventually found it again like 4 years later in a box, but by then my newer pc refused to run it. i'm very glad to see this in a mechaweek episode.
Hey guys, lets shit all over katanas and talk about how dumb Japanese military culture was.
No seriously, katanas were terrible swords. They had to be folded hundreds of times during the forging process to even be usable, but that made them super brittle. I love how in anime katanas cut through everything but in real life a katana would just SHATTER if you tried to chop a tree with it.
Yes, we're bringing this over from Plague's channel. Every video should be accompanied by a long discussion that shits on katanas.
Well, usually they only had to be folded over a maximum of 15 times, anything more and it's kinda pointless. But the process they used was outdated centuries ago when the Europeans started using alloy steels that had the ability to flex and still retain an edge. Not a fan of the katana myself, though, way too short to be useful. I prefer the rapier or longsword as I just like the martial forms used in both weapons over the martial forms used with the katana. Perfectly fine if anyone else likes the weapon, but I'm not convinced of its utility. However, if it came to a non-duel situation I prefer my halberd.
The fact that the katana was a useable thing shows how skilled japanese swordsmiths were, vs european and middle eastern ones who had great metal to work with and any old shit could make a decent plade.
At this point katana haters are more annoying than katana fanboys. We've heard the same arguments over and over.
Yes, the katana itself has a huge bunch of flaws, but over all it's still really well designed. It's lightweight, sharp as fuck and can be used in a whole bunch of martial styles. The materials were shit, yeah, but if you make a katana with modern european steel, then it's still a pretty excellent cutting weapon. Not nearly as versatile as the typical European sword design, mind, but that was mainly because of the lack of proper armour for foot soldiers in Japan which meant slashing was often the way to go.
Yes, people who praise the sword endlessly and buy into the Japanese hyperboles that it cuts through tables by merely being dropped on them are really friggin gullible, but it doesn't change the facts that it's still a great design with what the Japanese had to work with at the time.
That said, I don't really care much for them at all. As a whole, I find Japanese history reeeaaally boring.
kalmahcarl
Like I said, it's not my kind of thing, but it's fine if other people like it. I'm just not a fan of the footwork and the reach. I did a fun spar thing with a kendo friend against my rapier (Sánchez de Carranza mixed with some little tricks I got from Cappo Ferro and Agrippa) and the main two things I found out are two things I already knew: the thrust is a very fast attack but its major flaw is that it's linear, so stringering is a must or you will be parried. And two hands give more leverage than one hand, but having an offhand free for a main gauche opens up a lot of possibilities. Not saying ths is a definitive scientific test, but it was interesting. I mostly took home the notion that you just have to play it smarter than the other guy. Limit his options, maintain your spacing and try to make him predictable before he figures out what you're doing and you can safely land the strike no matter what he's holding, but above all else DON'T GET HIT.
Man 3 is were it is at! that game just got the feel of Battle-tech down! Looks gorgeous and sounds amazing, and feels amazing!
The sound of pulse lasers is freaking orgasmic!
The reason it tells you the temperature at the start of missions is because it factors into how quickly your mech overheats.
They use this to balance things or determine the difficulty, such that mission on the cold planet; You can go guns blazing and not have to worry about shutting down, which justifies them sending so many enemy mechs at you all at once.
You gotta love these intros
I just wanna take a moment to apreciate that the gun of the Dread-Nought (Woolie's Mecha) says "Welcome to the Woolie hole" wich is a fucking superb detail
Everytime I think you guys have had the hypest intros you go and get another more badass intro then the last.
This intro is so awesome!
I remember playing the demo of the this over and over again on a 486 dx/2 with 8mb of RAM. That intro sequence brings back a lot of memories.
Oh my god, Plague you outdid yourself for these intros and outros. It's all about those little details on the mech. Awesome.
That intro was legendary.
If I remember correctly, the stealth part about the Normandy wasn't her _appearance_, it was the heat dispersion system that allowed her not to be detected by sensors. Then again, I'm not a pro on the subject, so I may not be 100% right, but either way, space is pretty damn big. You'd need to squint a bit to see a ship, especially if that ship isn't in your immediate vicinity, and especially if it doesn't appear in your sensors, and therefore gives you no reasons to expect it. People tend to trust these more than their eyes in space, I'd wager. ^^
omg 13:14, "ur mocking the 3d models of the time when doom 2 was coming out" ..rofl, that line kills me every time xD
dH/dt is first linear derivative of 'heat' aka change of heat with respect to time. Probably for fire effects mainly.
Mechaweek?! Now we're talking! Gundam Full Boost for Fisticuffs!
Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries was probably one of the few games that I can say without hesistation that made a significant impact on my life. I loved everything about it, and even though my 10-11 year old brain couldn't make heads or tails of the micro-mangement of the main campaign, I loved the utter shit out of instant action.
The lore from it's boardgame counterpart is "eyes rolling back into head" osgasmic for me as well and I'm so thankful that there's a shit ton of novels and suplementary materials to expound upon the series' universe
MechaWeek? So does this mean we will get a episode sometime this week where Matt and Woolie spend the entire time shouting out MEGAS XLR quotes?
Oh man! they did it! JADE FALCON! I waited so long for this channel to talk about mechwarrior, the staple of my childhood as well!
This was THE formative game from my childhood. I can't believe you're covering it. This is awesome.
WHY IS THIS INTRO SO AWESOME!?! T.T
Oooooooh the nostalgia.
Mechwarrior 2 was one of the favorite games of my brother and I. Unfortunately, we didn't have the privilege of owning the PC version, just the watered down PS1 version. Still, even that was very fun and holds a special place in my heart. What matters is that Mechwarrior is awesome! =)
OMG this game, I haven't played this game in such a long time. The memories
SHIT-DAMNN! THAT INTRO WAS TWELVE KINDS OF COOL. and that artist made you look twelve times more awesome too!
Modern main battle tanks at very long ranges with advanced stabilization and FCS. Yes. On open exposed areas kilometres apart.
I'd love to see Mechwarrior 3 or 4 from you guys. 3 was my absolute favorite.
45:25 The idea of Harry Mason, and James Sutherland fighting in Mecha Suits In Silent Hill astounds me, and then in the end Pyramid Head shows up in his own super mecha with Joshua on his shoulder demanding for his Bunny XD