The CD case was all warped due to heat, the CD didn’t survive either :/
How long was it there? Some years, i think
loved the music in this game!!! still listen to it from time to time
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
And keys. Physical keys.
Yeah! And power supplies that could power our monitors too!
When you press that button, everyone knows you mean business.
Love it! Still play through single player for both clans at least once a year.
That goddamned dome mission once a year? You masochist.
I think I have the game disk within the CD stacks
Intro video upscaled: https://youtu.be/o1a18jETT-g
Yep, I still remember it like yesterday.
Thank you for this.
Watched this so many times back in the day, it was sooo cool
Absolute classic. Great find! (Or re-find)
The ambient soundtrack on this game fucking rips.
E R P P C
CRITICAL HIT
OVERHEATING
SHUTTING DOWN
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.
My exact strat. It’s fine if your mech shuts down after each shot, so long as you don’t miss… Just gotta pick em off one by one
Is that an Awesome? I think they have a tabletop loadout with 3 PPCs
Mad Cat / Timber Wolf
Feh, Clan bs ;)
i think he was talking about the Dashi, which was stock—-(my memory is wrong, MY Dashi had 6 er ppcs)—-.
but the mech that LOVED to over commit to laser violence was the Nova, my beloved
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.
I played Mercenaries a bunch and had a blast loading up as many machine guns as I could on a relatively agile mech and just fully unloading on some big ass Atlas’ cockpit in order to salvage it.
It wasn’t exactly a fantastic strategy, but a great way to get a beast of a mech.
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.
I thought this was standard practice, especially once you have the C-bills and/or chassis to pull it off. Glass cannon builds are tons of fun.
Then you read the mission specs and see that you’re landing on an ice planet this time…
I remember tweaking the config and I think blowing my arm off by firing
I had the demo or something, it was good times
This and Descent are the reasons I play with an inverted Y axis to this day.
Hey, those were the first two games I got to emulate - but including Descent 2.
When I was in 8th grade taking Computer Applications, on Fridays the teacher would let us have free time and we would have 8-player LAN matches of Descent. That game was the shit.
Oh my. I remember playing Descent on my Compaq Pentium 486dx. Good times.
Pentium ≠ 486
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. :(
Well, to be fair, you wouldn’t need as much ram as you do now a days…
Not the same person you replied to, but I first played Descent on my 386 too, but it didn’t run truly smooth unless two upgrades and years later on a dx266. Same with Doom too, really,
We played it on a Mac Performa with like 24mb ram and maybe a 75 MHz PPC processor.
That and a starter’s Jedi game were the first FPV 3D games we’d ever played at home. (Someone had installed doom on the auto as compys at highschool).
I remember my first laptop, a b+w PowerBook 520 with 4MB RAM. I bought an 8MB upgrade for it that was $410. You think RAM is expensive today…
I always played with a keyboard and years later I saw someone playing it using a fancy joystick and inverted Y axis and I was shocked at how much more effective it was.
Oh I so loved that game, is it on Steam?
Gog I think has it.
No, it’s just on their “dreamlist”: https://www.gog.com/dreamlist/game/mech-warrior-2-1999
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!
Well… Thats saved for later.
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.
It’s been a while since I downloaded it, not sure. I just know it’s out there for $0 in various corners of the web.
No worries, I’m sure one of these will work. The myabandonware.com link includes the manual and I believe the DOS version was the best so I’ll give that a go once I’ve dug out my joystick.
Yeah dos joy + keyboard worked best for me but that was like a decade ago. I really liked the ghost bear dlc.
Reactor online…
Sensors online…
Weapons online…
…
All systems nominal.
Klingon phaser SFX
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.
Just add a service that plays a sound on system startup
In KDE, YES!
Crap, I can’t remember 100% how I did it but they support sound themes now.
But my OpenSUSE Tumbleweed system running KDE6 starts up with this startup sound, I think I pulled the MechWarrior Online startup sound off YouTube or something. :)
…Now if only I could make my car do this… 😂
Oh…my gosh…I didn’t even think about having this in a car! I don’t need to go down this rabbit hole but this is risking it lol
Autopilot: Engaged.
Autopilot: dIsAbLeD.
The incoming LRM warning sound is forever stuck in my head.
Dang, that brings back memories!
I can still hear that asshole instructor taunting me.
First, how old is your car? Second, do you still have the video card?
Oh I didn’t notice that! The diamond monster 3d was a voodoo card wasn’t it?
Diamond was its own company with a similar fate as 3DFX. Their cards would have been right next to the Voodoo cards on the shelf though!
Well it did have the voodoo chipset and now iirc you could even use the exact same drivers on that card as the voodoo.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/3d-accelerator-card-reviews,42-7.html
The car is 21, bought it used 9 years ago. No, sadly i never had that video card
Whoomf - one look at that and I’m transported to my Sony Vaio PC with Juno Mail and Geocities
