Mechwarrior 3 Remake when?

[Proxy]

Since we have almost all the assets for it why hasn't anyone remade mechwarrior 3 in this game?

[pete]

Cause its old - the story was stupid - and there were the Hams

[Wayz]

Also ...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipper_Interactive
developers are no more. Hasbro, the publisher don't own the rights, that would be Microsoft who have leased said rights to ....PGI who made the game you currently own.
Short of a time machine or some very sassy legal wizardry......keep dreaming.

[Bovril Brigadier]

Originally posted by Proxy:

Since we have almost all the assets for it why hasn't anyone remade mechwarrior 3 in this game?

Because it'd take a lot of work and we're missing a lot of key assets like IS Omnis, navpoint commands, working Arrow IV System, Mobile Field Bases etc

[Ry0K3N]

You need competent developers first, and piggi is not one of them. And microsoft does not care.

[Jack left town]

When you blow up tonks in MW3 they sometimes crater t' earth itself
Graphics tech has regressed since 1999

[Commisar Jon Fuklaw]

Originally posted by pete:

Cause its old - the story was stupid - and there were the Hams

Obligatory:
ORDO DRAIGO, REPRESENT!
WE WILL PROVIDE THE HAMS!

Anyways, the answer is - unsurprisingly - never. Microsquish hasn't cared about the MechWarrior rights since they acquired them. Worse, the only thing PIG's ever done competently is forcibly shutting down the only good licensed MechWarrior title released in this century.

[infinitiverse]

I would argue MechWarrior 3's story is one of the best in the series, and by far the best executed storyline ever in any of the mech games in terms of voice acting alone - the music while not a lot of variety with just being 2 audio tracks it makes up for in quality that carries the game well.

That being said there actually is a "remake" that uses all the games assets and even adds some new stuff called UnMech 3 where all of the games assets have been made to work under the Unity game engine.

The idea initially was to make 1:1 version of MechWarrior 3 under Unity so it could run stability and easier on modern systems without doing a bunch of things that is needed on the original MechWarrior 3 game.

The dev teamed up with someone who is exceptionally well informed on all official BattleTech anything, the man has a literal library of books on everything that he seems to know by heart but always references them.
With that knowledge they have been working diligently for a long time now adding all sorts of BattleTech weapons, other mechs from BattleTech, various equipment's, making sure all the ammo, fire rates, etc. match canonical BattleTech by spec through confirmed official BattleTech books / references and do it in a well balanced way that makes sense so that its still a fun game and not just 100% canonical for the sake of it.

So far Instant Action & Multiplayer works great on UnMech3.
Multiplayer works even better actually than the original because he redid the network code to be server/client based vs how original MechWarrior 3 handled multiplayer with peer to peer (having to lag shoot people differently based on their lag.

With UnMech 3 being all server and client based multiplayer and the way he redid how the game registers damage locally 1st and then sends to the server the result is 0 lag /lag shooting not being a thing anymore - wherever you shoot and see your shot hitting is exactly how it always registers online in multiplayer now.

He's also has had some success getting multiplayer co-op for the offline campaign to work where teams of people can collectively player co-op missions together but he's still working on getting all the offline campaign missions to work.

Outside that he added very fun new modes to multiplayer such as Seismic Radar mode any nearby mechs moving around heavily show up on radar, and he also turned a map from day into night which works great with the added powerful headlights to all the mechs we can toggle on/off (giving away your position) makes for some very fun interesting matches.

He updates a lot so I'm excited to see where else this project goes but I'm very happy with it so far.

[Hykril Tynyx]

Nice necro, dude.

[Kenshi]

I'd rather a MW4 remake. But a mechwarrior remake in general would be nice. So long as it's not using UE5.

[Mochan]

Originally posted by Wayz:

Also ...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipper_Interactive
developers are no more. Hasbro, the publisher don't own the rights, that would be Microsoft who have leased said rights to ....PGI who made the game you currently own.
Short of a time machine or some very sassy legal wizardry......keep dreaming.

Modders don't care about that.

The real answer is that, although the Battletech modding community is very dedicated, nobody is dedicated enough to do what the crazy people in the Skyrim modding community are doing recreating Morrowind in Skyrim.

[Proxy]

Originally posted by Kenshi †:

I'd rather a MW4 remake. But a mechwarrior remake in general would be nice. So long as it's not using UE5.

MW4 is far more playable than MW3 which is right inbewteen dos and windows 2k thus very hard to get running correctly (aka AMS usually dont work when emulating)

[Bryo]

Originally posted by Proxy:

Originally posted by Kenshi †:

I'd rather a MW4 remake. But a mechwarrior remake in general would be nice. So long as it's not using UE5.

MW4 is far more playable than MW3 which is right inbewteen dos and windows 2k thus very hard to get running correctly (aka AMS usually dont work when emulating)

With dgvodoo and the "timing fix" available on mw3 community project discord, it actually runs quite well.

[Proxy]

Originally posted by Bryo:

Originally posted by Proxy:

MW4 is far more playable than MW3 which is right inbewteen dos and windows 2k thus very hard to get running correctly (aka AMS usually dont work when emulating)

With dgvodoo and the "timing fix" available on mw3 community project discord, it actually runs quite well.

links plox

[infinitiverse]

Yes it does seem like it was a lot of work and hard to get MechWarrior 3 to run correctly with the assets extracted and repackaged to run under the Unity engine but they did a great job thus far with UnMech3 on that.
The other day when I was playing UnMech3 and I actually forgot I was playing the remake and not the original because its that 1:1 the same (+ some extra weapons & mechs) so for a minute I started using different controls that I use only in the original until I realized - But I do still play the original too with some friends every weekend and the timing fix with dgvoodoo has worked flawlessly for me on modern systems, we switch between the original & the new UnMech3 unity remake regularly. Here's a discord invite link to the MechWarrior 3 Community Project discord where all this can be found https://discord.gg/YDG9rJeCuE

[Valen]

I wish Mechwarrior 3 remake because Mech 5 and Mech clans went total potty mouth

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