definitely. it was a shame that fasa shut down, the shadowrun game on 360 was crap.
i used to love all the books and models, and activision's mechwarrior 2 and mechcommander games were brilliant. mech 2 was the first game i ever bought for a pc, and i remember playing netmech over kali all those years ago. to think that a ten meg download took hours, the joys of 28.8k modems. how things have changed
Something else for the mech fans to check out. It's a free to play browser game... but it is really high quality for being either of those. it's definitely worth checking out if you are a mech fan. it isn't Battletech 'Mechs, but it is pretty decent western style mecha.
I've seen a few Mech games, but to me the Battletech universe really is what would draw me to play that MMO. I love the combined arms idea. I was thinking along the same lines. Whoever mentioned Planetside. IMHO it proved that it CAN be done. The reason the servers are getting empty is that it is now dated and no significantly new content has been added for quite a while.
Dang it would be so cool. House allegiances, famous regiments, fighting the clans, dueling it out on Solaris... Gotta stop. I'm drooling.
It has lore, from the empire to 5 houses to outer clans and the side stories like the mercs.
It has armed forced combo, not just Mechs, but jump ships, LAMs, tanks, infantry, and yes infantry matters, if you overheat a mech after it fires its twin PPC, by a flame throwing infantry, you got to shut down then mech, and capture it.
It has the basis for RvR, say the 5 houses, with wild cards such as merc, or a 2 sided conflict, inner sphere vs outer clans.
So much potential and yet nothing coming out at all.
I've been playing Mechwarrior4: merc's demo all day, I've re-installed MW3, MW3-PM, MW4 demo and I've also installed them on my 2nd PC, then I went on eBay looking for the full versions MW4-V&BK aswell as MW4:Merc's, I coundn't help it, I've held out for so long, I'm gonna overdose myself on the old versions, till the Crysis MW5:LL comes out or Force of Arms open's.
@salvatoris, Instantaction.com is a great site, I also luv the WW1 dogfight game they got and Fallen legion just rock's, there are some very cool games on that site. Link for anyone who wants to see; http://www.instantaction.com/#
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I've been playing Mechwarrior4: merc's demo all day, I've re-installed MW3, MW3-PM, MW4 demo and I've also installed them on my 2nd PC, then I went on eBay looking for the full versions MW4-V&BK aswell as MW4:Merc's, I coundn't help it, I've held out for so long, I'm gonna overdose myself on the old versions, till the Crysis MW5:LL comes out or Force of Arms open's. DEATH FROM ABOVE! @hidden1, that's an even better link,cheers! -seen this one? http://www.mechwarrior3.org/wordpress/?page_id=2 @salvatoris, Instantaction.com is a great site, I also luv the WW1 dogfight game they got and Fallen legion just rock's, there are some very cool games on that site. Link for anyone who wants to see; http://www.instantaction.com/#
There was a Mechwarrior 4 compliation released a few years ago by Atari. I bought a bunch of copies when it was 20 bucks, but I don't have any of them left laying around. You can probably still find copies of it on ebay. Since Microsoft and Mythic stopped work on the game, Mektek has added a ton of content. There MechPaks are pretty much required for online play... They added like 50 new mechs, including the lost mechs that FASA can't show any more. They also added power armor and infantry, and a ton of new weapons and equipment to the game. they are also working on a couple of different stand-alone mech games. Check them out @ ;www.mektek.net
I have a Mechwarrior team that i founded in 2000. We have a relatively small group still playing Mech, but we are still a close team ane we get togeether for a week of LAN gaming every summer. We were pretty big in our heyday, winning first place in the BattleZone league for 13 straight months starting the month Mech4 released. If anyone is looking for someone to play Mech4 with, or if you have any questions about the game, check us out. I haven't been playing for a long time time, but we do still have some active guys and we keep a server running. www.DeathDealerMercenaries.com
I was in the beta for that game and it was pretty tight and very close to completion when MS forced EA to pull the plug on it. Rather a bizarre situation, MS licensed out the IP to Kesmai (the developers of MPBT 3035 and Solaris) with EA publishing and running the MMO (EA had just purchased Kesmai at the time). This was at the same time MS had "The Zone" for their games which had a matchmaking service for the MechWarrior games. For some reason, literally a few weeks away before MPBT 3025 went final, MS came to the conclusion that having a MMO Mechwarrior game would take away profits from The Zone and potential box sales of Mechwarrior as well and forced EA to pull the plug.
At the time MPBT 3025 was going through it's closed beta process, it was the #1 game on EA.com, despite the fact it was not an open beta. It had more players logged in during prime time hours than any other EA online game at the time.
I've been playing Mechwarrior4: merc's demo all day, I've re-installed MW3, MW3-PM, MW4 demo and I've also installed them on my 2nd PC, then I went on eBay looking for the full versions MW4-V&BK aswell as MW4:Merc's, I coundn't help it, I've held out for so long, I'm gonna overdose myself on the old versions, till the Crysis MW5:LL comes out or Force of Arms open's. DEATH FROM ABOVE! @hidden1, that's an even better link,cheers! -seen this one? http://www.mechwarrior3.org/wordpress/?page_id=2 @salvatoris, Instantaction.com is a great site, I also luv the WW1 dogfight game they got and Fallen legion just rock's, there are some very cool games on that site. Link for anyone who wants to see; http://www.instantaction.com/#
There was a Mechwarrior 4 compliation released a few years ago by Atari. I bought a bunch of copies when it was 20 bucks, but I don't have any of them left laying around. You can probably still find copies of it on ebay. Since Microsoft and Mythic stopped work on the game, Mektek has added a ton of content. There MechPaks are pretty much required for online play... They added like 50 new mechs, including the lost mechs that FASA can't show any more. They also added power armor and infantry, and a ton of new weapons and equipment to the game. they are also working on a couple of different stand-alone mech games. Check them out @ ;www.mektek.net
I have a Mechwarrior team that i founded in 2000. We have a relatively small group still playing Mech, but we are still a close team ane we get togeether for a week of LAN gaming every summer. We were pretty big in our heyday, winning first place in the BattleZone league for 13 straight months starting the month Mech4 released. If anyone is looking for someone to play Mech4 with, or if you have any questions about the game, check us out. I haven't been playing for a long time time, but we do still have some active guys and we keep a server running. www.DeathDealerMercenaries.com
Hopefully I will be able to buy the MW4-V&BK games next week, Mektek.net looks great, thank's for the info & link's, you can find me on Lore aftermath on instantaction.com, or in the Ace of Ace's game,( just got my Fokker Dr1 tri-plane), cheers again Salvatoris.
I was in the beta for that game and it was pretty tight and very close to completion when MS forced EA to pull the plug on it. Rather a bizarre situation, MS licensed out the IP to Kesmai (the developers of MPBT 3035 and Solaris) with EA publishing and running the MMO (EA had just purchased Kesmai at the time). This was at the same time MS had "The Zone" for their games which had a matchmaking service for the MechWarrior games. For some reason, literally a few weeks away before MPBT 3025 went final, MS came to the conclusion that having a MMO Mechwarrior game would take away profits from The Zone and potential box sales of Mechwarrior as well and forced EA to pull the plug.
At the time MPBT 3025 was going through it's closed beta process, it was the #1 game on EA.com, despite the fact it was not an open beta. It had more players logged in during prime time hours than any other EA online game at the time.
Fuhyo
Pity if they had gone ahead, it most likely would have been the king of mmorpg's and we most likely would never have heard of WoW, they really did put a lot of work into this, http://www.mpbt3025.com/ if you look under images in the side bar menu, you can see they had very exstensive list of mech's to offer, maybe we should all just start hassling EA to re-release it now,( it can't hurt The Zone or the MW franchise any more now!), man what a waste, just make's me want to cry, specially when you look at the current stock of mmorpg's we got to play.
There are 2 MMO's I have been patiently waiting for for many years now. A Star Trek MMO (Which is finally coming) and a Battletech/Mechwarrior MMO, which I agree, would make for a fantastic setting.
I was in the beta for that game and it was pretty tight and very close to completion when MS forced EA to pull the plug on it. Rather a bizarre situation, MS licensed out the IP to Kesmai (the developers of MPBT 3035 and Solaris) with EA publishing and running the MMO (EA had just purchased Kesmai at the time). This was at the same time MS had "The Zone" for their games which had a matchmaking service for the MechWarrior games. For some reason, literally a few weeks away before MPBT 3025 went final, MS came to the conclusion that having a MMO Mechwarrior game would take away profits from The Zone and potential box sales of Mechwarrior as well and forced EA to pull the plug.
At the time MPBT 3025 was going through it's closed beta process, it was the #1 game on EA.com, despite the fact it was not an open beta. It had more players logged in during prime time hours than any other EA online game at the time.
Fuhyo
Pity if they had gone ahead, it most likely would have been the king of mmorpg's and we most likely would never have heard of WoW, they really did put a lot of work into this, http://www.mpbt3025.com/ if you look under images in the side bar menu, you can see they had very exstensive list of mech's to offer, maybe we should all just start hassling EA to re-release it now,( it can't hurt The Zone or the MW franchise any more now!), man what a waste, just make's me want to cry, specially when you look at the current stock of mmorpg's we got to play.
I think we are looking back at MPBT with rose colored glasses. I played it heavily, and enjoyed some aspects of it. Unfortunately game-play wasn't one of them. The matches took place on small featureless maps and were generally over within a few seconds of the two sides coming in to contact with each other. The biggest issue that game has was trying to compare to Mechwarrior 4 in terms of gameplay.
I believe that a battletech MMO would be fantastic. Hope someone makes one. Unf most ppl with be mech pilots instead any other classes. Pleanty of star league and Clans would be great to choose from.
Played : WOW, LOTRO, COH/COV, EQ2, SWG, and WAR. Playing EVE Online and AOC. Wtg for SW:TOR and WOD
I was in the beta for that game and it was pretty tight and very close to completion when MS forced EA to pull the plug on it. Rather a bizarre situation, MS licensed out the IP to Kesmai (the developers of MPBT 3035 and Solaris) with EA publishing and running the MMO (EA had just purchased Kesmai at the time). This was at the same time MS had "The Zone" for their games which had a matchmaking service for the MechWarrior games. For some reason, literally a few weeks away before MPBT 3025 went final, MS came to the conclusion that having a MMO Mechwarrior game would take away profits from The Zone and potential box sales of Mechwarrior as well and forced EA to pull the plug.
At the time MPBT 3025 was going through it's closed beta process, it was the #1 game on EA.com, despite the fact it was not an open beta. It had more players logged in during prime time hours than any other EA online game at the time.
Fuhyo
Pity if they had gone ahead, it most likely would have been the king of mmorpg's and we most likely would never have heard of WoW, they really did put a lot of work into this, http://www.mpbt3025.com/ if you look under images in the side bar menu, you can see they had very exstensive list of mech's to offer, maybe we should all just start hassling EA to re-release it now,( it can't hurt The Zone or the MW franchise any more now!), man what a waste, just make's me want to cry, specially when you look at the current stock of mmorpg's we got to play.
I think we are looking back at MPBT with rose colored glasses. I played it heavily, and enjoyed some aspects of it. Unfortunately game-play wasn't one of them. The matches took place on small featureless maps and were generally over within a few seconds of the two sides coming in to contact with each other. The biggest issue that game has was trying to compare to Mechwarrior 4 in terms of gameplay.
Sorry never got to play it myself, so really I was just looking thru the wishful thinking glasses, just started playing MW4: merc's for the first time a couple of days ago, I was a big fan of MW3, but was one of those who wouldn't play MW4 becuase it took away our weapons placement choices, for were we can put what weapons we like in our mech's, silly I know, but least now,( a fews years latter) I got something good mech-wise to play now, also getting MW4 and extra mech paks to really give it a good go agian.
It's a pity they don't try and re-vamp it and release it, with today's tech and programing abilites, Hmm.. where did I put those glasses again, it looked so good with them on.
I was in the beta for that game and it was pretty tight and very close to completion when MS forced EA to pull the plug on it. Rather a bizarre situation, MS licensed out the IP to Kesmai (the developers of MPBT 3035 and Solaris) with EA publishing and running the MMO (EA had just purchased Kesmai at the time). This was at the same time MS had "The Zone" for their games which had a matchmaking service for the MechWarrior games. For some reason, literally a few weeks away before MPBT 3025 went final, MS came to the conclusion that having a MMO Mechwarrior game would take away profits from The Zone and potential box sales of Mechwarrior as well and forced EA to pull the plug.
At the time MPBT 3025 was going through it's closed beta process, it was the #1 game on EA.com, despite the fact it was not an open beta. It had more players logged in during prime time hours than any other EA online game at the time.
Fuhyo
Pity if they had gone ahead, it most likely would have been the king of mmorpg's and we most likely would never have heard of WoW, they really did put a lot of work into this, http://www.mpbt3025.com/ if you look under images in the side bar menu, you can see they had very exstensive list of mech's to offer, maybe we should all just start hassling EA to re-release it now,( it can't hurt The Zone or the MW franchise any more now!), man what a waste, just make's me want to cry, specially when you look at the current stock of mmorpg's we got to play.
I think we are looking back at MPBT with rose colored glasses. I played it heavily, and enjoyed some aspects of it. Unfortunately game-play wasn't one of them. The matches took place on small featureless maps and were generally over within a few seconds of the two sides coming in to contact with each other. The biggest issue that game has was trying to compare to Mechwarrior 4 in terms of gameplay.
Sorry never got to play it myself, so really I was just looking thru the wishful thinking glasses, just started playing MW4: merc's for the first time a couple of days ago, I was a big fan of MW3, but was one of those who wouldn't play MW4 becuase it took away our weapons placement choices, for were we can put what weapons we like in our mech's, silly I know, but least now,( a fews years latter) I got something good mech-wise to play now, also getting MW4 and extra mech paks to really give it a good go agian.
It's a pity they don't try and re-vamp it and release it, with today's tech and programing abilites, Hmm.. where did I put those glasses again, it looked so good with them on.
The clan and inner sphere mech packs are really hard to find. I have seen them go on ebay for a hundred bucks each. You can download the mektek packs and get like 50 new mechs though. They also added a bunch of omni slots to existing mechs to open your weapon choices back up a bit. The limited slots didn't ever bother me when mech4 launched. I was ready to see something other than 12 ER small Striders. Who knew they would be replaced by 7 ERL Novas in Vengeance.
EDIT: Check out these guys www.mektek.net they are doing a new Battle Tech. Very cool imo
EDIT Deux: Looks like someone already added the mektek infoZ
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Originally posted by Khalathwyr
Smith and Tinker have the IP, as well as the Shadowrun IP (this company was founded by one of the original creators of both IPs at FASA) and they haven't shown any interest in making computer/video games out of either. They formed in 2007 and that was the last time they made a news update to their site. They used to have an employee bio section and job posting page but those are both gone now. Course, their site only ever really talked about "toy making" so it's likely they were not going to make computer/video games at all. Which is a total waste of what the IPs they're holding and they might as well sell those IPs to someone like CCP who'll make good games from them.
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Awesome links Redcap!
Thought I'd add a news article for your living legends link.
http://www.mechlivinglegends.net/newsletter_archive/October_News_Letter.html
definitely. it was a shame that fasa shut down, the shadowrun game on 360 was crap.
i used to love all the books and models, and activision's mechwarrior 2 and mechcommander games were brilliant. mech 2 was the first game i ever bought for a pc, and i remember playing netmech over kali all those years ago. to think that a ten meg download took hours, the joys of 28.8k modems. how things have changed
Something else for the mech fans to check out. It's a free to play browser game... but it is really high quality for being either of those. it's definitely worth checking out if you are a mech fan. it isn't Battletech 'Mechs, but it is pretty decent western style mecha.
http://www.loreaftermath.com/
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I've seen a few Mech games, but to me the Battletech universe really is what would draw me to play that MMO. I love the combined arms idea. I was thinking along the same lines. Whoever mentioned Planetside. IMHO it proved that it CAN be done. The reason the servers are getting empty is that it is now dated and no significantly new content has been added for quite a while.
Dang it would be so cool. House allegiances, famous regiments, fighting the clans, dueling it out on Solaris... Gotta stop. I'm drooling.
It has lore, from the empire to 5 houses to outer clans and the side stories like the mercs.
It has armed forced combo, not just Mechs, but jump ships, LAMs, tanks, infantry, and yes infantry matters, if you overheat a mech after it fires its twin PPC, by a flame throwing infantry, you got to shut down then mech, and capture it.
It has the basis for RvR, say the 5 houses, with wild cards such as merc, or a 2 sided conflict, inner sphere vs outer clans.
So much potential and yet nothing coming out at all.
I've been playing Mechwarrior4: merc's demo all day, I've re-installed MW3, MW3-PM, MW4 demo and I've also installed them on my 2nd PC, then I went on eBay looking for the full versions MW4-V&BK aswell as MW4:Merc's, I coundn't help it, I've held out for so long, I'm gonna overdose myself on the old versions, till the Crysis MW5:LL comes out or Force of Arms open's.
DEATH FROM ABOVE!
@hidden1, that's an even better link,cheers! -seen this one? http://www.mechwarrior3.org/wordpress/?page_id=2
@salvatoris, Instantaction.com is a great site, I also luv the WW1 dogfight game they got and Fallen legion just rock's, there are some very cool games on that site. Link for anyone who wants to see; http://www.instantaction.com/#
apparently Square Enix's next MMO is going to be based around mechs.
http://superrobotwar.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/srwhotnews_newfmx360.jpg
ask and you shalt recieve!
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There was a Mechwarrior 4 compliation released a few years ago by Atari. I bought a bunch of copies when it was 20 bucks, but I don't have any of them left laying around. You can probably still find copies of it on ebay. Since Microsoft and Mythic stopped work on the game, Mektek has added a ton of content. There MechPaks are pretty much required for online play... They added like 50 new mechs, including the lost mechs that FASA can't show any more. They also added power armor and infantry, and a ton of new weapons and equipment to the game. they are also working on a couple of different stand-alone mech games. Check them out @ ;www.mektek.net
I have a Mechwarrior team that i founded in 2000. We have a relatively small group still playing Mech, but we are still a close team ane we get togeether for a week of LAN gaming every summer. We were pretty big in our heyday, winning first place in the BattleZone league for 13 straight months starting the month Mech4 released. If anyone is looking for someone to play Mech4 with, or if you have any questions about the game, check us out. I haven't been playing for a long time time, but we do still have some active guys and we keep a server running. www.DeathDealerMercenaries.com
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Multiplayer Battletech 3025
Sadly this one never made it out of Beta.
I was in the beta for that game and it was pretty tight and very close to completion when MS forced EA to pull the plug on it. Rather a bizarre situation, MS licensed out the IP to Kesmai (the developers of MPBT 3035 and Solaris) with EA publishing and running the MMO (EA had just purchased Kesmai at the time). This was at the same time MS had "The Zone" for their games which had a matchmaking service for the MechWarrior games. For some reason, literally a few weeks away before MPBT 3025 went final, MS came to the conclusion that having a MMO Mechwarrior game would take away profits from The Zone and potential box sales of Mechwarrior as well and forced EA to pull the plug.
At the time MPBT 3025 was going through it's closed beta process, it was the #1 game on EA.com, despite the fact it was not an open beta. It had more players logged in during prime time hours than any other EA online game at the time.
Fuhyo
There was a Mechwarrior 4 compliation released a few years ago by Atari. I bought a bunch of copies when it was 20 bucks, but I don't have any of them left laying around. You can probably still find copies of it on ebay. Since Microsoft and Mythic stopped work on the game, Mektek has added a ton of content. There MechPaks are pretty much required for online play... They added like 50 new mechs, including the lost mechs that FASA can't show any more. They also added power armor and infantry, and a ton of new weapons and equipment to the game. they are also working on a couple of different stand-alone mech games. Check them out @ ;www.mektek.net
I have a Mechwarrior team that i founded in 2000. We have a relatively small group still playing Mech, but we are still a close team ane we get togeether for a week of LAN gaming every summer. We were pretty big in our heyday, winning first place in the BattleZone league for 13 straight months starting the month Mech4 released. If anyone is looking for someone to play Mech4 with, or if you have any questions about the game, check us out. I haven't been playing for a long time time, but we do still have some active guys and we keep a server running. www.DeathDealerMercenaries.com
Hopefully I will be able to buy the MW4-V&BK games next week, Mektek.net looks great, thank's for the info & link's, you can find me on Lore aftermath on instantaction.com, or in the Ace of Ace's game,( just got my Fokker Dr1 tri-plane), cheers again Salvatoris.
I was in the beta for that game and it was pretty tight and very close to completion when MS forced EA to pull the plug on it. Rather a bizarre situation, MS licensed out the IP to Kesmai (the developers of MPBT 3035 and Solaris) with EA publishing and running the MMO (EA had just purchased Kesmai at the time). This was at the same time MS had "The Zone" for their games which had a matchmaking service for the MechWarrior games. For some reason, literally a few weeks away before MPBT 3025 went final, MS came to the conclusion that having a MMO Mechwarrior game would take away profits from The Zone and potential box sales of Mechwarrior as well and forced EA to pull the plug.
At the time MPBT 3025 was going through it's closed beta process, it was the #1 game on EA.com, despite the fact it was not an open beta. It had more players logged in during prime time hours than any other EA online game at the time.
Fuhyo
Pity if they had gone ahead, it most likely would have been the king of mmorpg's and we most likely would never have heard of WoW, they really did put a lot of work into this, http://www.mpbt3025.com/ if you look under images in the side bar menu, you can see they had very exstensive list of mech's to offer, maybe we should all just start hassling EA to re-release it now,( it can't hurt The Zone or the MW franchise any more now!), man what a waste, just make's me want to cry, specially when you look at the current stock of mmorpg's we got to play.
There are 2 MMO's I have been patiently waiting for for many years now. A Star Trek MMO (Which is finally coming) and a Battletech/Mechwarrior MMO, which I agree, would make for a fantastic setting.
I was in the beta for that game and it was pretty tight and very close to completion when MS forced EA to pull the plug on it. Rather a bizarre situation, MS licensed out the IP to Kesmai (the developers of MPBT 3035 and Solaris) with EA publishing and running the MMO (EA had just purchased Kesmai at the time). This was at the same time MS had "The Zone" for their games which had a matchmaking service for the MechWarrior games. For some reason, literally a few weeks away before MPBT 3025 went final, MS came to the conclusion that having a MMO Mechwarrior game would take away profits from The Zone and potential box sales of Mechwarrior as well and forced EA to pull the plug.
At the time MPBT 3025 was going through it's closed beta process, it was the #1 game on EA.com, despite the fact it was not an open beta. It had more players logged in during prime time hours than any other EA online game at the time.
Fuhyo
Pity if they had gone ahead, it most likely would have been the king of mmorpg's and we most likely would never have heard of WoW, they really did put a lot of work into this, http://www.mpbt3025.com/ if you look under images in the side bar menu, you can see they had very exstensive list of mech's to offer, maybe we should all just start hassling EA to re-release it now,( it can't hurt The Zone or the MW franchise any more now!), man what a waste, just make's me want to cry, specially when you look at the current stock of mmorpg's we got to play.
I think we are looking back at MPBT with rose colored glasses. I played it heavily, and enjoyed some aspects of it. Unfortunately game-play wasn't one of them. The matches took place on small featureless maps and were generally over within a few seconds of the two sides coming in to contact with each other. The biggest issue that game has was trying to compare to Mechwarrior 4 in terms of gameplay.
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actually thats just a new front mission game.
I believe that a battletech MMO would be fantastic. Hope someone makes one. Unf most ppl with be mech pilots instead any other classes. Pleanty of star league and Clans would be great to choose from.
Played : WOW, LOTRO, COH/COV, EQ2, SWG, and WAR.
Playing EVE Online and AOC.
Wtg for SW:TOR and WOD
I was in the beta for that game and it was pretty tight and very close to completion when MS forced EA to pull the plug on it. Rather a bizarre situation, MS licensed out the IP to Kesmai (the developers of MPBT 3035 and Solaris) with EA publishing and running the MMO (EA had just purchased Kesmai at the time). This was at the same time MS had "The Zone" for their games which had a matchmaking service for the MechWarrior games. For some reason, literally a few weeks away before MPBT 3025 went final, MS came to the conclusion that having a MMO Mechwarrior game would take away profits from The Zone and potential box sales of Mechwarrior as well and forced EA to pull the plug.
At the time MPBT 3025 was going through it's closed beta process, it was the #1 game on EA.com, despite the fact it was not an open beta. It had more players logged in during prime time hours than any other EA online game at the time.
Fuhyo
Pity if they had gone ahead, it most likely would have been the king of mmorpg's and we most likely would never have heard of WoW, they really did put a lot of work into this, http://www.mpbt3025.com/ if you look under images in the side bar menu, you can see they had very exstensive list of mech's to offer, maybe we should all just start hassling EA to re-release it now,( it can't hurt The Zone or the MW franchise any more now!), man what a waste, just make's me want to cry, specially when you look at the current stock of mmorpg's we got to play.
I think we are looking back at MPBT with rose colored glasses. I played it heavily, and enjoyed some aspects of it. Unfortunately game-play wasn't one of them. The matches took place on small featureless maps and were generally over within a few seconds of the two sides coming in to contact with each other. The biggest issue that game has was trying to compare to Mechwarrior 4 in terms of gameplay.
Sorry never got to play it myself, so really I was just looking thru the wishful thinking glasses, just started playing MW4: merc's for the first time a couple of days ago, I was a big fan of MW3, but was one of those who wouldn't play MW4 becuase it took away our weapons placement choices, for were we can put what weapons we like in our mech's, silly I know, but least now,( a fews years latter) I got something good mech-wise to play now, also getting MW4 and extra mech paks to really give it a good go agian.
It's a pity they don't try and re-vamp it and release it, with today's tech and programing abilites, Hmm.. where did I put those glasses again, it looked so good with them on.
By the way, a Shadowrun MMORPG would be nice. The license has been left in the dust for a while by now.
I was in the beta for that game and it was pretty tight and very close to completion when MS forced EA to pull the plug on it. Rather a bizarre situation, MS licensed out the IP to Kesmai (the developers of MPBT 3035 and Solaris) with EA publishing and running the MMO (EA had just purchased Kesmai at the time). This was at the same time MS had "The Zone" for their games which had a matchmaking service for the MechWarrior games. For some reason, literally a few weeks away before MPBT 3025 went final, MS came to the conclusion that having a MMO Mechwarrior game would take away profits from The Zone and potential box sales of Mechwarrior as well and forced EA to pull the plug.
At the time MPBT 3025 was going through it's closed beta process, it was the #1 game on EA.com, despite the fact it was not an open beta. It had more players logged in during prime time hours than any other EA online game at the time.
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Pity if they had gone ahead, it most likely would have been the king of mmorpg's and we most likely would never have heard of WoW, they really did put a lot of work into this, http://www.mpbt3025.com/ if you look under images in the side bar menu, you can see they had very exstensive list of mech's to offer, maybe we should all just start hassling EA to re-release it now,( it can't hurt The Zone or the MW franchise any more now!), man what a waste, just make's me want to cry, specially when you look at the current stock of mmorpg's we got to play.
I think we are looking back at MPBT with rose colored glasses. I played it heavily, and enjoyed some aspects of it. Unfortunately game-play wasn't one of them. The matches took place on small featureless maps and were generally over within a few seconds of the two sides coming in to contact with each other. The biggest issue that game has was trying to compare to Mechwarrior 4 in terms of gameplay.
Sorry never got to play it myself, so really I was just looking thru the wishful thinking glasses, just started playing MW4: merc's for the first time a couple of days ago, I was a big fan of MW3, but was one of those who wouldn't play MW4 becuase it took away our weapons placement choices, for were we can put what weapons we like in our mech's, silly I know, but least now,( a fews years latter) I got something good mech-wise to play now, also getting MW4 and extra mech paks to really give it a good go agian.
It's a pity they don't try and re-vamp it and release it, with today's tech and programing abilites, Hmm.. where did I put those glasses again, it looked so good with them on.
The clan and inner sphere mech packs are really hard to find. I have seen them go on ebay for a hundred bucks each. You can download the mektek packs and get like 50 new mechs though. They also added a bunch of omni slots to existing mechs to open your weapon choices back up a bit. The limited slots didn't ever bother me when mech4 launched. I was ready to see something other than 12 ER small Striders. Who knew they would be replaced by 7 ERL Novas in Vengeance.
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Skill based system with the ability to craft your own mech upgrades; what a joy that would be.
Please MechWarrior Online!
EDIT: Check out these guys www.mektek.net they are doing a new Battle Tech. Very cool imo
EDIT Deux: Looks like someone already added the mektek infoZ
Not an MMORPG but Smith and Tinker released this teaser trailer a few days ago: pc.ign.com/dor/objects/18954/mech-warrior-project/videos/mechwarrior_trl_phoenix_70709.html
Same as link in sig, there are a couple short teasers out for it.