TheListener
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So many great memories of playing Mech 4 online. I loved my fast locust with artillery beacons.
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MechWarrior Online Announced, F2P Mech Sim, First Person, Releasing Summer 2012
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Should I make a new thread?
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/02/28/exclusive-first-mechwarrior-online-trailer/
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/02/28/exclusive-first-mechwarrior-online-trailer/
Yeah, I think we should. Call it "MechWarrior Online: First Trailer" maybe?
Yep put the screenshots in aswell.
TONS of new info about controls, HUD, and general gameplay.
Controls
The controls for a BattleMech are going to be the biggest learning curve in the game. It may take a few matches to get used to fluidly controlling how a BattleMech is able to traverse the terrain.
While we’re not going to lay out every control in the game, we do want to give you the basic mechanics involved.
Forward/Backward Movement
This movement is achieved by the use of throttle. Throttle controls the forward and backward movement of a BattleMech. To make the BattleMech move forward, throttle must be set at a positive value on the throttle indicator. If throttle is set to neutral or 0, the BattleMech will come to a halt. If throttle is set to a negative value, the BattleMech starts walking backwards.
The player presses W to throttle up; making the BattleMech walk forward. The player presses S to throttle down; making the BattleMech slow down or reverse.
Turning Left and Right
This movement is achieved by pressing A or D on the keyboard.
Pressing the A key turns the entire BattleMech to the left.
Pressing the D key turns the entire BattleMech to the right.
Torso Twist Left and Right
This is done by sliding the mouse left or right respectively.
Sliding the mouse to the left twists the BattleMech torso to the left.
Sliding the mouse to the right twists the BattleMech torso to the right.
Pitch Up and Down
To change the pitch of the BattleMech torso, the player moves the mouse up and down respectively.
Sliding the mouse forward makes the BattleMech pitch downward.
Sliding the mouse backward makes the BattleMech pitch upward.
The pitch direction can be inverted in the control options layout and mapping menu found in the Options screen.
Pressing the T key will make a BattleMech target the nearest enemy within line of sight. Pressing T repeatedly will make the BattleMech cycle between any targets that are visible.
Two specialized keys provide a convenient way of helping to keep a BattleMech under control. The X key will bring a BattleMech to a complete stop whether it is travelling forward or backward. It essentially zeros the current throttle level.
Pressing the C key will auto center the torso to the leg rotation. This is a convenient way to re-center the player’s view if they become disoriented.
The 1-6 keys are used for weapon groups. Weapon groups or clusters of weapons can be assigned to each key so not all weapons fire at once. Properly setting up weapon groups is paramount to maintaining the BattleMech’s heat management operations.
Once the player has assigned weapon groups, they can cycle which weapons are fired when each key is pressed. Imagine if you will, a series of Medium Lasers assigned to keys 1-3. Tapping each key in succession with a slight pause between each will allow a player to continuously fire Medium Lasers while keeping heat levels at a manageable level.
Yeah, I'm having a bit of a hard time wrapping my head around how we're going to control them. Maybe by using the mouse while holding down a modifier key? Point of view hat on a joystick?
The way the post written, it sounds like your arms are always aimed centerline unless you manually point them somewhere else.
Arms move first, with torso following a bit slower IE if you aim somewhere and fire right away, weapons mounted on torso will not fire where you intended.
Holding down "pilot look" allows you aim without rotating torso.
This is how it sounded to me.
Oh and it also sounds like one should group arm and torso mounted weapons to different groups to avoid wasted shots.
EDIT other than arms being independent from torso, the control scheme is pretty much what i used in MW4 (jump jets on spacebar).
Oh, so the X from your arms moves directly with your mouse, with your torso and the rest of the your HUD catching up after it? Makes sense, and also leads to a neat hierarchy of aiming/turning speeds. It even effectively gives you a movable reticle like Steel Battalion or MechWarrior 3!
PistolPete
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Still waiting on the Locust, Battlemaster and the Warhammer. Don't let me down...
Some new screens have been posted here: http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/03/08/gdc-2012-locking-on-to-mechwarrior-online/
Do far it looks and sound great! Cannot wait to get to try this out.
Do far it looks and sound great! Cannot wait to get to try this out.
NemesisPrime
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Looks awesome. Very happy it is set before the clan invasion. I used to play the tabletop game a lot.
Awesome! We need to see this in action soon!
The lasers reminded me of MW4 pulse lasers.. i dearly hope the pulse lasers work and look correctly this time, ie many short beams in quick succession (think it as laser machine gun) instead of that stupid "beam made from Star Wars laser bolts" in MW4...
The lasers reminded me of MW4 pulse lasers.. i dearly hope the pulse lasers work and look correctly this time, ie many short beams in quick succession (think it as laser machine gun) instead of that stupid "beam made from Star Wars laser bolts" in MW4...
We've got some demo impressions from The Escapist!
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/art...ews/previews/9466-GDC-2012-MechWarrior-Online
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/art...ews/previews/9466-GDC-2012-MechWarrior-Online
Sounds good.
Odd but i'm not sure i like MechLab. The problem is that it allows min-maxing... which in MW4 ended up in jump sniping and alpha striking with maximum number of heaviest possible weapons. Now i know that Piranha is taking steps to avoid this but still...
I'd rather see people taking a mech and making the best possible use of its weapons and sticking more to team playing and role warfare. Besides, that way people would use stuff like small lasers and machine guns, with MechLab people remove those and add the leftover weight to armor or something like that.
If Mechlab must be in, please, please make customization cost enough so that you cannot afford tweaking stuff for every single match. Would be closer to canon anyway that way, non-Omnis are not simple to modify. Of course, once Omnis are in (in a couple of years, once the clans invade), customization becomes simpler, this is off-set by the fact Omnis are expensive.
Alternatively smaller weapons should be more efficient, ie small laser generates far less heat compared to its damage than medium laser and medium laser should be more efficient than large laser, et cetera.
Escapist magazine clearly indicates the MechLab is in.
Oh. I have managed to miss that somehow.
Maybe this will work out well. And of course this game's nature as pseudo-MMO and F2P means it will be patched relatively often (right? Hopefully it will be) so...
PistolPete
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Teknopathetic
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New thread that ish.
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