Another classic gets added to Steam

[StoneCold]

Thank you so much, keep the golden oldies coming :D

[Seb]

How are the chances to get those hitbox glitches the GOG version has fixed?

[[Vile Titans] Staple[]

I remember this being on the disc for free with the original Tribes! Shattered Steel was a fun Mech Warrior style game.

[Bad_Conduct]

Originally posted by Staple:

I remember this being on the disc for free with the original Tribes! Shattered Steel was a fun Mech Warrior style game.

Are you sure you are not talking about Earthsiege or Starsiege?

[CaoLex]

Originally posted by Staple:

I remember this being on the disc for free with the original Tribes! Shattered Steel was a fun Mech Warrior style game.

Wrong game, dude. Or it is Yo-ho-ho anthology?
And this is basically IS MechWarrior. Just in other universe.

[Morty2989]

Mechwarrior minus all the light sim elements, sure. So really just another game with mechs.

[CaoLex]

Originally posted by Palmer_Eldritch:

Mechwarrior minus all the light sim elements, sure. So really just another game with mechs.

What you mean "light sim elements"? Money managing?

And Shattered steel is the game where you can destroy whole mountains. And, basically, all buildings. And this is guest from 1996.

[Alexandros]

Does this play well with a joystick and anything like MechWarrior 4: Mercs (that one is my favorite mech game in terms of controls and the feel of each mech, though I find the insanely numerous customization options convoluted and hard to grasp)? And totally unlike MechWarrior Online and other mech games that pretend to support joystick but really don't feel so good with one. Also, is there a windowed mode, or does it support something like dgVoodoo to pretend-run it in high resolution (or force the windowed mode) without affecting desktop composition (I have to re-arrange all my windows and icons when running some really low resolution games at times)?

[StoneCold]

Originally posted by Alexandros:

Does this play well with a joystick and anything like MechWarrior 4: Mercs (that one is my favorite mech game in terms of controls and the feel of each mech, though I find the insanely numerous customization options convoluted and hard to grasp)? And totally unlike MechWarrior Online and other mech games that pretend to support joystick but really don't feel so good with one. Also, is there a windowed mode, or does it support something like dgVoodoo to pretend-run it in high resolution (or force the windowed mode) without affecting desktop composition (I have to re-arrange all my windows and icons when running some really low resolution games at times)?

Seeing that you bought the game, does it run well or do you have any issues?

I'm contemplating buying it, still undecided if I should pull the trigger or not. Are you running Win 10?

[Alexandros]

Yes I just bought it, I didn't play it yet. I'm on Windows 10, yes.

I just run it right now for the first time to let you know.

It's a DOSBOX release after all so what applies for you in others should apply here.

I'm a little disappointed, I hoped for native support, but oh well, it's an older game.

It still seems to have very good control configuration options (but you'll need to identify your axis and buttons and select them rather than have it wait for what you'll push next to assign it) with various presets and custom settings but for me DOSBOX games are always a little fiddly to get calibrated right with my joystick (for example there's constant drifting in this, but I'll need to delve into the options tomorrow to see what I can do).

The first mission's start seems to perform better than, for example, Strike Commander or other 3D DOSBOX games that I have trouble to get working smoothly.

[markzwaan]

Originally posted by Seb:

How are the chances to get those hitbox glitches the GOG version has fixed?

According to the one review currently on the shop page this hasn't been fixed. Would've been the first time a Steam version of an old game was actually technically superior to the Gog.com release. I own a bunch of old games on both Steam and Gog.com and there are several cases were the Gog.com version runs just fine and I couldn't get the Steam version to start. Ususally because of an outdated version of Dosbox or something similar.

[carnagetheclown]

the game is running fine but there are some problems I'm having, when I go to the arming bay I can't arm my Mech with a different weapon with the drag and drop and is the an alternative to this, and another problem I'm having is I have to keep tapping mouse button to fire my weapons, I cant hold down mouse button and my weapons continue to fire, is there a way to resolve this because I really want to use my gatling guns, if you guys have any thoughts that will help me I would appreciate it.

[SurvivorX]

Haven't found out how to fix not being able to hold down the mouse button yet, but the workaround I've used for shooting weapons is to change the fire button in settings to E. If anyone can find a more direct fix, that'd be awesome!

[carnagetheclown]

I found a way to fix it.

[SurvivorX]

Please do tell! :)

[carnagetheclown]

Switch the mouse buttons, swith the Primary to alternate fire and switch the alternate fire to primary fire on the mouse.