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This game had some of the most immersive hardware controls and interfaces. It supported a Thrustmaster Mark 2flight stick for your right hand control to aim your weapons:
...a Thrustmaster Mark 2 throttle control for walking speed:
... Thrustmaster pedals for torso twist:
...and even i-glasses VR headset (with head motion tracking that would turn the Mech pilots head inside the cockpit!)
Woah, whhaaa?! That game came out in like 1995. I played it and thought it was great but had no idea it had all the hardware compatibility you're pointing out!
Yeah, me either. I just played it with a keyboard.
Seriously?? How is THIS the first I'm hearing about all this??
How was this all possible in 1995 but we had to wait for modders to make the latest MW have those features?
This game was the shit when it came out. All the force feedback controls were just perfect.
Fuck me, I want to experience the game with all that hardware!
This and Descent are the reasons I play with an inverted Y axis to this day.
Oh my. I remember playing Descent on my Compaq Pentium 486dx. Good times.
I had this on the 486dx2 66MHz. It ran smooth.
Stop bragging, not all of us can splash out the cash to upgrade from 386. :(
Reactor online...
Sensors online...
Weapons online...
...
All systems nominal.
I need this to play when my computer starts up..does Linux have a way to do this??..questions for later.
Yes, I've been messing with it lately, can't remember the details, but i'll go look I'm a while.
Edit: the dos version works fine in dosbox, the only thing I see is a note in my startup conf reminding me to stop my kvm, barrier. have not succeeded in running any of the better graphics build.
Dang, that brings back memories!
When I was in my teens I played Mechwarrior, a LOT, with my friend Dan. I don't remember what version it was at the time, but it was early on. One of us would build a Flea and try to take down the other in an ultra-heavy mech.
Dan died about 2 years ago. I just went on an emotional roller coaster for a few minutes. Hug your friends.
Sorry to hear about your friend, it sounds like you meant a lot to each other. I second that our friends all deserve to know how much we love them.
One of my favorite gaming memories is playing MW4: Mercenaries with roommates circa 2002, where I won the grand championship piloting a Cougar.
EDIT: Just remembered my "Daishi Pepperbox": assault-class Daishi fitted with nothing but machine guns and as much frontal armor as it could carry. My strat was to charge straight at opponents, let the armor soak up incoming fire, then drop an alpha strike as soon as I got into machine gun range. Watching their mech turn from green to red to black on my HUD in just a handful of seconds was glorious.
E R P P C
Everybody must at least once try the loadout that racks your heat up to near-detonation but dumps enough PPC into an enemy to nuke them in one shot.
I remember tweaking the config and I think blowing my arm off by firing
Is that an Awesome? I think they have a tabletop loadout with 3 PPCs
There wasn't an Awesome in the game, it's set during the Wolf/Falcon refusal war so it's all Clan mechs. Nothing's stopping you from from loading like five of them on a Dire Wolf though.
Mass jump jets and machine guns was my go to... fly into close range really fast and gun then brrrrrrr. You could win most battles using the smallest mech this way.
CRITICAL HIT
OVERHEATING
SHUTTING DOWN
Mine came with a sidewinder joystick. Thank you Tiger Express. Had to spend $200+ for 4mb more of ram(8 total) just to run it.
I bought the sidewinder joystick because of it!
I should play games that use a joystick again. Or, you know, games in general.
That game came out in 94 or 95. I use to play it on a 486 DX2 50
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How long has it been since you've cleaned your car, kimosabe? 🤣
With TURBO MODE ON babyyyy
#BringBackTurboButtons, but now so we can underclock our PCs to save power and heat
loved the music in this game!!! still listen to it from time to time
Love it! Still play through single player for both clans at least once a year.
Pop that disc into a CD player and listen to all the level background music!
How long was it there? Some years, i think
release date: 1995
That is some true lostech there, quiaff?
Intro video upscaled: https://youtu.be/o1a18jETT-g
Yep, I still remember it like yesterday.
Oh I so loved that game, is it on Steam?
Gog I think has it.
Edit: it’s abandonware and is on internet archive.
Awesome, I'm all over this. Such a great game!
Edit: it’s abandonware and is on internet archive.
https://archive.org/details/mech-warrior-2-mr-abandonware
BOOYA! Thanks!
is on internet archive
Are you looking at the one called MechWarriorQuadrology?
I'd also found https://www.myabandonware.com/game/mechwarrior-2-31st-century-combat-34i and also a portable MW2 that some redditor put together.
You should just retire that ford pinto.
1ea Nova + 8ea synch fire medium lasers + all the heatsinks you can shoehorn in there = Can Opener.
The ambient soundtrack on this game fucking rips.