Mech Commander 3?

[Tok]

Could the makers of this game make another Mech Commander game?

[Bovril Brigadier]

necro55 の投稿を引用：

hmm didnt see anything mechcommanderish searching for hard-light on steam. Got a link?

https://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php#c90
Not sure why would search steam for Mechcommander?

[Tok]

Is the "myabandonware" mech commander 2 legal to download?

[Bovril Brigadier]

Tok の投稿を引用：

Is the "myabandonware" mech commander 2 legal to download?

Microsoft gave away the Sourcecode for MC2 a while back so yeah, it's legal.

[Tok]

oh, cool. Thanks.

[Horrid]

ಠ_ಠ の投稿を引用：

I mean... why not Battletech? Not exactly the same, but it scratches the same itch.

Cause battletech is garbage. Sacrilege comparing that to Mech Commander.

[T-Bone Biggins]

Tok の投稿を引用：

Perhaps even more offtopic, but where can you get Mechcommander 2 now? I have the old cd, but have lost the cdkey..

I have my CD and CD-key, but definitely save it and

Tok の投稿を引用：

Is the "myabandonware" mech commander 2 legal to download?

I wouldn't say 100% legal but no one is doing anything about it and you cannot buy it anywhere. Moment it hits GOG with the ability to run well on modern OS's without any issues it's full-price insto-buy, I played MC2 way too much back in the day and it's the reason I love Bushwhackers so much. Those mechs could last you a long time without needing to be replaced.

I remember the Fire Ant variant of the Flea, a surprisingly nasty little mech if you add armor to it. And the missions were based on tonnage, so a light mech swarm was possible if you had enough pilots alive and wanted to troll the AI a bit with say PPC spam.

[Bovril Brigadier]

T-Bone Biggins の投稿を引用：

I wouldn't say 100% legal but no one is doing anything about it and you cannot buy it anywhere.

https://archive.ph/KFvE
It's been open source for 17 years.

[Valen]

Problem with Mechcommander 2 (And yes I wrote microsoft about it when the game was released). The default AI brain for the game is horridly bad. For example: Enemy mechs would lock onto the first mech it encountered and never disengage regardless of the situation. Modders made a great AI brain - but trying to find the good AI brain for the base game is near impossible now. All the current modded version by players - have a upgraded AI brain - but most do not work with just the base game.

This of course is what I learned when I started modding the game myself - many years ago.

The orignal mechcommander (and Gold) had a far better AI.

[T-Bone Biggins]

Strayed の投稿を引用：

T-Bone Biggins の投稿を引用：

I wouldn't say 100% legal but no one is doing anything about it and you cannot buy it anywhere.

https://archive.ph/KFvE
It's been open source for 17 years.

We're not talking about that release, the one on the website is the actual game release with the videos. Those videos were taken out of the opensource release and briefings were just text in that version.

[Lord-Knight Fandragon]

Tok の投稿を引用：

Could the makers of this game make another Mech Commander game?

I wish we got Mechcommander 3. Basically everything Mechcommander 1 was, but maybe with a modern mech lab, more like MWO, and it plays like MC1 with the top down view, voiced pilots, etc, etc, but we could also direct control a mech like the old Men of War games, fighting with our mech from the 3pv. Men of War has some amazing direct control.

[Tok]

T-Bone Biggins, would you be willing to share your cdkey? Iv tried google..

[Chinese Tito]

Horrid の投稿を引用：

ಠ_ಠ の投稿を引用：

I mean... why not Battletech? Not exactly the same, but it scratches the same itch.

Cause battletech is garbage. Sacrilege comparing that to Mech Commander.

HBS is by all means a better a game. Its just not an RTS. But its mech selection is larger and better, as is mission variety. I won't judge graphics because of their time periods; I think MC2 looks good for its day and seeing iconic Clan mechs rendered in 2D in MC1 is really neat. Also, MC's mechlab is hot garbage. That isn't to say HBS is stellar in that regard, especially as a tabletop player. But HBS is way closer than MC1 or 2. Although I do prefer MC1's over 2. The only other gripe I have immediately with HBS is that it takes place in the often tired Succession Wars.

[Chinese Tito]

Webby の投稿を引用：

Tok の投稿を引用：

Perhaps even more offtopic, but where can you get Mechcommander 2 now? I have the old cd, but have lost the cdkey..

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/mechcommander-2-7pf

or the like... there are so many gems that are now abandonware.

Just to warn anyone who is attempting to re-live the nostalgia or find a new memory with MechCommander 2: The game is basically a nigh lost cause on anything Windows 8 or newer. Your Mileage May Vary and such depending on hardware and what guide you follow to get it to work, but in general the game is considered a super hot mess to get to work, let alone work *well*.

Some mods, like OmniTech do work because they are basically modern takes on the source-code they released eons ago; but none of them have the capability of playing any of the videos. Such as the pilot ones or the story stuff. But if you want just gameplay, and then some; its your best bet. Although it still can be really finicky FPS wise.

I've tried to get MechCommander 2 to work, using numerous guides and numerous hardware over the last few years and never got it to work. Here's to ComStar's blessing to anyone else trying though.

On the brighter note, the drastically underrated MechCommander Gold runs absolutely flawlessly even on a modern Win10 system. With mod-support to get you to even run it on higher-resolution monitors. But the UI doesn't scale so running the game out-of-box suits me just fine. It works without any hardware hiccups or issues.

[Tok]

Anyone know if Mech commander omnitech is safe? No virus or the like?

[Bovril Brigadier]

Sour Apple Sniper の投稿を引用：

Just to warn anyone who is attempting to re-live the nostalgia or find a new memory with MechCommander 2: The game is basically a nigh lost cause on anything Windows 8 or newer. Your Mileage May Vary and such depending on hardware and what guide you follow to get it to work, but in general the game is considered a super hot mess to get to work, let alone work *well*.

Some mods, like OmniTech do work because they are basically modern takes on the source-code they released eons ago; but none of them have the capability of playing any of the videos. Such as the pilot ones or the story stuff. But if you want just gameplay, and then some; its your best bet. Although it still can be really finicky FPS wise.

I've tried to get MechCommander 2 to work, using numerous guides and numerous hardware over the last few years and never got it to work. Here's to ComStar's blessing to anyone else trying though.

On the brighter note, the drastically underrated MechCommander Gold runs absolutely flawlessly even on a modern Win10 system. With mod-support to get you to even run it on higher-resolution monitors. But the UI doesn't scale so running the game out-of-box suits me just fine. It works without any hardware hiccups or issues.

I legit just added /gosnojoystick to the command line on shortcut for the original MC2 and it played fine? I'm talking both Source Code and Disc version, not MCO?
As for getting campaign vids to work that someone else mentioned, not sure what it is but on Windows 10 I can only get them to play during missions. Briefing vids just dont' seem to want to load. I'll have to have another look why this is. I think it has something to do with the way it plays with resolutions.

Tok の投稿を引用：

Anyone know if Mech commander omnitech is safe? No virus or the like?

Anything hosted on Hard-Light and moddb is generally fine.