Comments on: In Praise Of: MechCommander.

By: Petrow

Petrow — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 11:19:05 +0000

Wow, can’t believe, I found your article! I can hardly write about MW unbiased, it was my gateway drug into the Battletech universe, and I pretty much enjoyed it.

As for the weapons; somewhere, in the devs’ diary I read, that weapons already include heat-sinks in their total tonnage, and their ROF was calculated accordingly. Sadly, C ER-PPC still rules above all, but weaker weapons still have their place, if you want to reliably salvage a mech, rather than flat-out destroying it.

What I found ridiculous, is the loadout capacity of the clan mechs. The W version Cougar could carry 34 tons of weaponry for its 35 ton frame, while a 50 tons Hunchback IIC W had like 45,5 tons of weaponry on itself…

A shame, that the second part could not replicate neither the atmosphere, nor the visuals of this game.

By: Thoughts: MechWarrior Online. » The Scientific Gamer The Scientific Gamer

Thoughts: MechWarrior Online. » The Scientific Gamer The Scientific Gamer — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:01:08 +0000

[...] definitely encouraging. Part of that assessment is doubtless going to be influenced by my latent MechCommander fanboyism ; however, as the first proper MechWarrior game in a decade — if you don’t count the Living [...]

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:09:17 +0000

Mechcommander was a fantastic game. It’s a bit of a dark horse but I did enjoy Mechwarrior 3 as well. It was genuinely upsetting to see mechs you had spent hours scrounging and outfitting get shot to pieces. It marked the first time I emotionally invested in particle-based weaponry.

By: hentzau

hentzau — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:43:45 +0000

It’s free! And you will, no joke, spend more time in the mechlab outfitting your shit than you will actually in the missions. It’s very RPG like that.

By: innokenti

innokenti — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:06:37 +0000

I am slightly more interested in MechCommander, but I might give Mercenaries a go I guess…

By: hentzau

hentzau — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 07:29:15 +0000

Yes, you are a bad person. But they’re free! (Free! free) and if you don’t at least try Mercenaries I’ll have to hurt you.

By: innokenti

innokenti — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:53:00 +0000

Yeah, looks very good – will definitely pick these up to have a go. Never really got on with the MechWarrior games. This apparently makes me a bad person, but there you go. MechCommander looks interesting, shame to have missed it back then.