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Reboot are really abundant in this millennium arent they?
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Reboot implies that there was a continuity between various battletech games in the first place.
edited 29th Sep '11 2:22:35 PM by stevebat
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Yay. Hope they throw in the Ares 
Gunpla is amazing!
Inb4 Harmony Gold sues them into another Development Hell and this game never sees the light of day again.
edited 29th Sep '11 3:07:50 PM by Thorn14
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Nah. Harmony Gold can't touch them this time since they've put out their own (better in some cases) versions of the contested elements. Besides, MW (not Btech) has done well enough without Macross/etc. ripoffs or at least they didn't lose anything by not having them.
The Unseen ban only applies to slightly over a dozen Mechs now anyway.
@Stevebat; well all the other games (sort of) followed the timeline set up by the tabletop games/novel series.
@Carbon You don't mean this abomination do you?
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Ares_%28BattleMech%29
That thing won't be invented for over a century and its from the Dark Age spin off and might not even be truly canon anyway.
edited 29th Sep '11 7:45:57 PM by Rationalinsanity
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Reboot? There was a line of canon in Mechwarrior? Huh...
The Mech Warrior series followed (in a rather liberal sense) the Battle Tech canon.
Well, the 1st game took place during the 3rd Succession War, the second during the Clan Invasion (with expansions taking place slightly before and after), the 3rd during the end of the Clan Invasion, and the 4th (and its expansions) took place during the Fed Com Civil War.
This game is reverting back to the 3rd Succession War; thus a reboot of sorts.
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I used to like Harmony Gold when I was a kid. Mostly because their name appeared in front of my Robotech "Cartoons" and I thought the name was neat.
Seriously though, <BLEEP!> them with a <BLEEP!>ing <BLEEP!>
Considering how badly Front Mission Evolved hurt me, I don't know if I can get excited about a new Third person mech game... Then again, it's <BLEEP!>ing mechwarrior.
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I think it has more to do with the fact that they're apparently dropping the numeral, so it'll be the 'first Mechwarrior' for newbies.
Speaking of FME, I'm currently playing it after getting it cheap and while it's not a classic in any sense it only burns in its butchering of everything FM. It's pretty decent on its own especially since the cutscenes can all be skipped, and installing it is why I now have Steam on my PC- which is good.
(By the way, I played MW 4 mostly in Third Person mode and I'm a former AC nut so a view change isn't that big a deal for me.)
edited 29th Sep '11 7:59:13 PM by Recon5
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Another source for the same information.
Here's hoping!
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The HG issue was settled about fifteen years ago.
Here's hoping it sticks to the CBT, pre Twilight of the Clans timeline. Battletech post Twilight of the Clans is dead to me.
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Reboot meaning this is MechWarrior 1, not MechWarrior 5.
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Das kann doch nicht sein!
So it will have a ridiculously low polygon count?
Dumb joke is dumb, I know...
edited 1st Oct '11 9:15:43 AM by Nyarly
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New MechWarrior game? Cool. No PS 3 version? Lame.
Somehow you know that the time is right.
Well its not like they can have a game set during the first two Succession Wars or the Jihad anyway....
No fun designing an awesome Mech and then getting an orbital strike dropped on your head, a nuke wiping out your objective and your HQ getting struck by nerve gas.
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I'm cautiously optimistic about this one, but fearing I'll end up losing the following things:
Area specific mech health, with the potential to ruin subsystems, and ammo detonation. Heat / coolant management Mech customization and scavenging, a market, or mercenary contract system
Because those things were kind of hard to wrap your mind around at first, and descision making, thinking, and losing badly because you failed at any of those, are no longer considered contemporary.
What I'm afraid we'll see:
Unreal 3 engine Regenerating mech health Simplified mech setup, possibly none
Well, I doubt we'll see a mercenary system (unless it's you doing the hiring) because the PC apparently works for a Successor State.
I really don't thing we have to fear about regenerating health (these are the same guys who came up with Battle Tech); unless there are in field repairs available.
edited 1st Oct '11 2:18:36 PM by Rationalinsanity
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Get ready for BattleTech, folks.
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