This intro cinematic proves, to me at least, that with the right people in charge, a really good MechWarrior show or movie could be made. Probably will never happen, but a man can dream...
@@depholade That's probably the best way to describe MechWarrior/BattleTech to newcomers. Now that I think of it the Clans have pretty much the same role as the White Walkers: a common and powerful enemy for bickering nobles.
I agree with the lord inquisitor. In the right hands this could have been a Promising television series or, otherwise. perhaps maybe we can seek out the aid of of the primarks...
I remember that even as a 10 year old kid, I thought it was chilling that he continued to relay his actions even though he knew his superiors were dead.
It's epic, though to play devil's advocate... He could possibly have gone passive sensors and fled the area, link up with resistance, fight a guerrilla war. Rather than waste himself in a futile last stand. Though easily said than done i suppose.
@@Commodore22345 If i remember right Central Guard was protecting the royal family, the second he lost contact with them it should have been safe to assume the royal family was dead also, however in the heat of battle its extremely tough to think things through.
tho i didn`t knew english back then i had an understanding that something was just wrong... no order no call of any unit (basicly dead comms).. no nothing (something is up) then 3:16 happen Me: oh no they are gone RUN Him: I`ll hold them here has long has i can ME: 3:35 NOOOOOO Also me : 4:23 well fougnt rest in peace.
If you listen to the radio chatter, the perimeter defenses and lances were getting annihilated and fell back. The two surviving pilots didn't catch it because of all the shit going on around them. It's very understandable. There were far more units than shown, this was simply centered around a single lance - that suffered heavy losses before even reaching the main engagement. It was a surprise attack with subterfuge and lies on both sides.
@@holybacontoast9615 Most likely it was one of the fast response lances of the palace guard. Maybe even an infiltration unit, it would fit the lore having fast response lances for quick fielding.
@@phantomechelon3628 most critical part is to not only build it around the battlemechs but make the battle mechs a minor part of it... like tanks in a WWII movie in example
@@tbone9474 I'm in my 30s getting pissed off and ready to jump back in the cockpit. Plinking those little trucks like that. That ain't soldiering. Thats murder.
I remember going in like “if my leader is going out in a blaze so am i” watching him blast at them being the last one alive truly made me want to fight these guys i just wish the story was better but this was the only cutscene i needed to see 🔥
@@Figitman >takes literally 15 years to finally get revenge, assuming you know what you're doing >more like 20 or 30 years if it's your first run it is just so mediocre.
@@goose-stahvegg6608 Why wouldn't it make sense? They're Davion forces, and Davion captured a huge pile of Clan Smoke Jaguar's materiel during Operation Bulldog.
The MW4 games were my intro to the BT universe. Mercenaries was the one that really made me fall in love, but I don't think I would have made it to Mercs if this intro hadn't been so awesome. Also, whenever I'm the last one on my team alive in MWO I also want to say, "Any receiving unit: I have contact with main enemy force. I'll delay them here as long as I can."
So cheesy, yet unironically great. Everything from the radio chatter to launching lrms into hell unfolding in front of them to making his last stand. Good memories.
Idk what people are talking about with the acting and dialogue. They're 'Mech commanders' not some Hollywood drama queens... In fact I think it's actually one of the few games I've played where the real time footage didn't immediately un-immerse me from the gameplay. It was spot on for real time footage in a video game with a serious plot.
I thought the voice acting was great. Really suited the game well. Best voice acting in all the games I have played to date have been, The mechwarrior games except the current mw5 and TBS one, they stunk and instantly forgettable.. even Duncan Fisher in Arena was a nice welcome break that didn't detract from the whole experience. Freespace 2, your wingmen , and when paired with Lt.Sykes "what, do i look Shivan to you?", in the covert missions deep in enemy Shivan space had probably the coolest voice ever in a game.. and Ground control's. Sara Parker had great voice. Better then Lara, Ellie or anyone else I can think of in fact.. although, maybe Quiet..?. Good voices really help to immerse the player and create the atmosphere I think.
The only problem I ever had with this opening video is its violation of canon. The actual invasion by Steiner to remove Dessari's militia lasted 3 days and Kentares put up one hell of a fight because a lot of the pilots were battle hardened against fighting the Clans as well as having access to Clan tech which you can see here. Plus Davion trained pilots are much better in quality than Steiner's.
Still gives me chills. Every time I get a new improved sound system, I crank this up right at the moment the Mad Dog takes that first percussive step. That moment is the moment that defines mechwarrior for me.
@@tastycookiechip "Mad Dog" is the Clan name for the mech people in the Inner Sphere call Vulture. Like what the Inner Sphere people call a Mad Cat is actually called a "Timber Wolf" by the Clans who built it. Most (but not all) Clan mechs have both 'original' names among the Clans, and whatever reporting name Inner Sphere people started calling them during the invasion, before they learned what they were actually called. Both sets of names stuck around afterwards, with different people and organizations in-universe calling them different things. Mechwarrior Online uses Clan names, Mechwarrior 4 used Inner Sphere names, board game players or people from other Battletech products tend to be less consistent about their use.
I love how the old MechWarrior videos have the mechwarriors in sleeveless suits, and how the cockpit looks very warm because of the fusion reactor of those mechs.
According to lore, it was not uncommon for pilots to be wearing almost nothing as they're literally being cooked when the mech overheats. IIRC, when Grayson Carlyle first met his future wife Lori Kalmar (prior to them creating the Gray Death Legion), she was literally just only in her panties when exiting her mech as her mech had insufficient heatsinks.
he's right. UrbanMech is just like its name suggest, built for urban combat. He's built short to hide himself in between building, and armed with AC/10 or AC/20 means he could sneak behind you or hide in the next turn, pop in front of you, shot your cockpit until you die, and then run away into next block.
MW4's pretty limited like that, but there are absolutely ballistic-armed Mad Dog variants in Battletech. Some maniac even fitted out a version with gauss rifles.
@Weirdiocrow: Lol - I'm divided. This spectacular live intro blew my mind when it first came out; the MW3 intro was kind of flat. But the campaign opening, when the Blackhammer is taken out was utterly riveting; it showed the fear and uncertainty of a mission gone horribly wrong. I will say that Sigma 2 - the girl in the Shadowcat - has quite possibly the prettiest eyes I've ever seen!
You have to admit that they did a very good job with the intro quality. I wouldn't mind seeing a movie of that style. It'd be like a BattleTech version of the Starship Troopers movie (the first one). As corney as it was, it was still entertaining.
A Battletech movie with the same budget and production quality of Starship Troopers (there are no others, shush, they dont exist...*cough*) Would be amazing!
Are you serious? It looked like some Design major's university project -- acting and all. Yes, this was 15 years ago (when I was in university doing my design degree at that) -- but they _did_ have access to better 3D composition and effects back then. But now that I think of it, even Blizzard's CG was on par with this (think SC BW cinematics) so I guess this was still uber awesome at the time. I know I would have been impressed. Back then : P
The Animaster Ironically enough, 15 years ago, I too was in the middle of my CG animation course. Was there access to better software and quality - undoubtedly. Was this intro still of high quality compared to its peers at the time...remarkably so. With my nostalgia glasses on, it still holds up rather well. I get a chill when I see this play out. Try not to be too hard on this one, unlike most movie houses, this team was probably a lot smaller and had a lot less time to get this done and out the door.
@@theanimaster Compare this CGI with the hobbit and other modern films... Not really much quality going around here in termsof CGI. This was amazing for its time. IF they made them even better, I think it would distract from the gameplay. The in game graphics were not even close to this, so its a bit of a tease.
@@theanimaster Are you serious?? This cgi is absolutely incredible TO THIS DAY it still holds up. Some of the best cgi of the era looks better than any game at the time
That Uziel must have had some pretty nice heatsinks to fire that PPC 6 times in like, 10 seconds... Certainly looks cool though. This made me want a BattleTech series or movie so bad as a kid.
To be fair there are a trio of Nova Cats with that Uziel. With a Nova Cat Prime carrying a pair of PPCs, the Uziel likely only fired twice. The other 4 shots probably came from some of the Nova Cats. The main question I have is, even in MechWarrior 4 the Uziel's MGs were mounted in the shoulder area/side torsos, why is it firing ballistic rounds from its arms in this?
@@ELITESrBAMOFOS945 Clan mechs have two names. One given by clans, another given by Inner Sphere. So the Vulture is the Mad Dog. The Timber Wolf is the Mad Cat, and so on...
Ahh nostalgia. I remember thinking this intro was the coolest thing ever when I was a kid. In retrospect, the acting and dialogue wasnt that great, but the CGI and visual direction is still really well done.
+Alias fakinami I've never seen this before. I was getting hypechills. I wish I could make sense of the story, though. I loved MW4:Mercs, so this is next.
@107981830587541029269 From what I remember, the story was that a large portion of the main character's faction was succeeding and randomly attacked their base all at once, so now the heir to the throne has to take it back, or somthing like that :P
+John Madden (NO SPOILERS) Vengeance is about a coup within a royal family during the start of the much larger FedCom Civil War. Basically the war started because Katrina Steiner I signed a peace agreement with House Davion, but there was a secret clause which married one of Davion's princes to the Steiner successor. So this merged the two nations. Those nobles had children, Katrina II and Victor (plus another), but Victor was going to become the king. The Steiners liked Katrina while the Davions preferred Victor. Katrina became power-hungry and influenced the Steiner lords to support her - she secretly assassinated her mother and framed Victor, then assumed the throne of the Federated Commonwealth. Obviously the Davion lords were outraged and did not trust Katrina, while the Steiners hated and distrusted the Davions. She was a ruthless ruler who favored the Steiner planets while persecuting the Davions. Eventually rebellions started forming and they elected Victor as their leader, while other planets defected to Katrina. This division lead to infighting within many of the smaller families under the FedCom alliance. MW4 is about one of these conflicts when William Dresari takes advantage of the civil war by betraying his Davion-friendly family on behalf of Katrina Steiner. The trailer is the start of the coup and murder of the Dresaris.
Unfortunately, he was in a very weak mech, and so was his companion. Now had they been in real mechs like the Timber Wolf or the Summoner, then he would have been able to do something! His mech just didn't have what it took to win.
Nuckin' Futs Since the Copyright war with those Harmony Gold wankers is over, it's doable. Only question would be where to start. Adaptation or reboot?
I remember as a young teen seeing the shot at 3:52 and thinking about how amazing that shot looked, almost like it really captured from a helicopter camera. Loved this intro.
Damn... If Hollywood could actually be trusted with this stuff, I'd say that this intro PROVES that a good MechWarrior movie could be made. Even after all these years... Still one of the best opening cinematics for a video game I've ever seen.
to be fair, all the mechs left the hangar with not much urgency :/ if the battle is to scale, I count 6 medium mechs vs 8-10 light (scout) mechs. Scouts would of won if they left faster. btw, is the cougar mech the face of the MechWarrior/MechAssault franchise? I wouldn't be surprised if it was; its basic but awesome. just wonderin
эх... ушла эпоха когда в играх использовали ролики с живыми актёрами, святое было время... это интро мотивирует на игру, лучше чем всё что вышло после, во всех играх вселенной battletech
I remember playing this years and years ago. The writing was decent, even by today's standards (which may be lower?), and the game itself was well crafted. Two things that I find vaguely interesting, that I didn't realize as a child, is that the lance we are watching is entirely clan tech. A vulture in lead, a shadow cat (which is strangely just as large), followed by a cougar. The attacking force is also mostly clan tech, nova cats and such, but with a few uziel mechs in tow, which is a bit odd. I think the designers wanted to show off a little bit of their newer designs that weren't in previous games. I remember this fondly.
I loved this game so much. I still remember a random background line when a pilot stepped on an enemy tank "Eugh stepped in some steiner." Freaking had me dieing laughing and I still quote it in Mechwarrior 5 mercenaries on ps4
What an awesome intro, I appreciate even more the cinematic quality as an adult than I did as a kid! Even though I didn't appreciate the arcade-ish mechanics of the game compared to Mech 3.
The cheesyness was what made it fun, like the best b-movie sci fi's. It's so much better than the typical silent protagonist in a """"first person cinematic experience"""" you get these days. Seriously, I miss live actors.
@@Protagonist To be honest, with today's technology, I'm sure we could actually make something really nice looking, like not some B-movie thing (even tho I would still love it >_>), but actually some really high grade big movie levels of quality... I mean look at how many millions there are in those games, I'm sure it's possible...
I got a copy of this game free with my first desktop back in 2001. I remember being scared shitless after watching this intro and didn't touch the game until 2 more years had passed lol
You know, to my recollection, this was the first video game i ever played. i was 4 at the time, mashing buttons on a joystick, no idea what was going on, but i remember loving every second of it.now im 16, and still enjoy playing this game from time to time.
Well, in my case, it reminds me of Dune, but with giant robots and no spice. Even in this game's story you are a duke's son and you have to revenge your family, like Paul Atreides and Duke Leto Atreides. The final confrontation in this game is against Ian's cousin, which also reminds me of the final battle between Feyd Rautha Harkonnen and Paul Muad'dib, who are technically cousins.
HBO, If you're wondering what to do after Game of Thrones . . . Battletech. It's exactly like Game of Thrones, but in SPAAAAACE and with BIG STOMPY ROBOTS!
enemy forces: (6 visually @ 3:22, 8 on radar @ 0:27) - Uziel (3:22) - Nova Cat/Wendigo (3:22) - Nova Cat/Wendigo (3:22) - Nova Cat/Wendigo (3:22) - Nova Cat/Wendigo (3:22) - Hellbringer/Loki? (3:24) - unknown (probably Nova Cat/Wendigo, might've died off screen?) - unknown (probably Nova Cat/Wendigo, might've died off screen?) hero forces: (5 visually, 10 based on hangar size) Left Side of Hangar (closest to furthest from exit): - Corvus/Raven (0:45) - Corvus/Raven (0:45) - Owens/Hackman/Shadow Cat (1:50) - unknown (probably Corvus/Raven, if not empty section) - unknown (probably Corvus/Raven, if not empty section) Right Side of Hangar (closest to furthest from exit): - Mad Dog/Vulture (0:49) - Owens/Hackman/Shadow Cat (0:49) - Corvus/Raven (0:49) - Corvus/Raven (1:36) - Cougar/Puma (1:50) this breakdown comes from a person whos really just a fan of the mechassault games; i dont really like the mechwarrior games but this live action intro cinematic is my favorite cutscene, not only in the mechwarrior games but also mechassault and any battletech stuff that I've ever seen. With this breakdown being made, I do wanna say that if the hangar had not been blown up (or the mechs made it out before the explosion), I think the Lance unit would of won, if not taken out all but maybe one or two Nova Cats.
I like your breakdown but I don't agree. The two lances of attacking forces we see have 1 medium, 5 heavy, 2 unknown, while the defenders have 5 light, 2 medium, 1 heavy, 2 unknowns. Even if you set the unknowns to be entirely in the defenders favor (attacker unknowns are light mechs, defender unknowns are heavy), it's still not a battle in the defender's favor. The defenders might have a numbers advantage but by tonnage they are way outclassed here. Those ravens do not have the firepower to handle equal numbers of nova cats....especially once you get inside the palace area where it's going to favor mid to close range brawls over the long range maneuver warfare the raven/vulture mix is suited for. The only way I see if being an even fight is if the two defender unknowns are assault mechs...and then you would easily spot their bulk poking out of their places in the hangar and they wouldn't be unknown.
This is some derp non-canonical Vulture Mk II. No spec sheet i can find has this weapons configuration. Were i too guess though, those would be clan ultra 5s in the arms, with clan rotary mgs underneath them. Pulse laser turret and lrm 15s.
example "best mech gets damaged from last mission... cant use your best mech for even harder level, not to mention lost mechs from ejecting allies. also HARDEST DIFFICULTY OR GTFO, lol makes the game more awesome.
TheRumChum Thats coz it's a real military campaign with consequences :P. Not some space pirate gallavanting around the galaxy working for the highest bidder ;P.
This game actually was the first one that made me realize the importance of context. A LOT of the mission objectives are "go to the nav point and kill everything," but when i did the first mission in the capital city. My brother asked what was going on, and i said, "We're preparing an attack on the capital city. So I'm sent in under the cover of night to take out enemy patrols in order to thin their numbers, to prepare for my sisters assault at dawn. At that point, this simple set of objectives had frigen scale
If the Vulture pilot would've just escaped rather than commit to a Final Stand there would've been plenty of units on Kentares who would've loved to have a good Heavy Clan Support Omni-Mech in their ranks.
You mean retreat when you don't know if the people you're sworn to defend got out safely? For all we know this guy might be the reason anyone survived at all.
satannstuff Perhaps but if Command was gone then it would've been safe to assume the Palace has completely fallen. Steiner may be idiots but they know how to pull off a surprise assault.
***** appeals to a small group PRECISELY because it isn't put on film."Decision at Thunder Rift" would be a excellent introductory movie.alot of people are tired of robots who shoot a laser and annihilates a entire army in one blow,plus the teen whining and teen drama,and hoh,they happen to be students at some school.(sigh)but yeah,people don't want to strain their brains too much nowadays.
I so agree. They made Pacific Rim, which was fine in its own way, to best Transformers when they should have just let Mechwarrior stand on its own like it always has in the face of other competitors like Robotech and even Gaint Robot.
Fear is what rules Hollywood. The logic the executives follow is the more expensive the movie, the higher the return if it succeeds. Failure can kill a studio. We were lucky to get Pacific Rim as it is, because the studios do not like taking chances. That's why most blockbusters follow the same tropes and story structure. The paying audiences liked it, surely they'll like it again and again. The Battletech universe had that nonsense legal problem from those hacks at Harmony Gold and it made touching franchise risky. Now that's it's over, we might see something in the future.
I'd say it's subjective as I will always hold the Mechwarrior 2 intro (despite it's age) to be a timeless introduction to mechwarrior. 4 is definitely well made though, just not imo the best.
Bill Hamilton Ahem, it seems my dog hijacked my youtube there (multi accounts, yes my dog has a channel now... dont judge me) Anyway, yeah I can recall the day I was about 5 or so years old, We'd just got a new graphics card for the family computer, a 'Matrox' 3Dfx which came with a free 'enhanced' version of mechwarrior 2 , basically detailed textures. The intro was the greatest thing my tiny 5 year old brain had ever seen. Was blown away and probably became instantly obsessed with the franchise. Go youtube it up :P. It's still great.
The live acting in this intro is a nice touch... but the directing (or the script) is meh. This intro pales in comparison to the Mechcommander Intro IMO. If you've never seen it, watch it, because that's how a freaking intro movie is done :)
Haha I just watched an old one and a new one and I gotta say the old one was way better for sure. The new one didn't get that right emotion from the environment. My favorite intro has always been Command and Conquer Red Alert 1 Intro. But I ended up joining the Marines at 18 so I might be biased. If there was a place to enlist into a Mech Corps like Mechwarrior even as a mercenary I'd go right back into enlisted life haha.
MMBNMalternateaccoun I mean against armor they kind of are. Unless its a big group of lasers they don't do a whole lot against armor. Especially against clan mechs. Unless the armor is stripped away then they can use whatever on the internals.
MMBNMalternateaccoun it always depends on the size of the laser... especially if they are small or medium pulse they do nothing unless fired in groups or shot at a single component for an absurd amount of time. Plus they are used as support weapons to primary autocannons, lrms, gauss rifles etc
autocannons and lasers are good at stripping light mechs of their armour....not so much medium/heavy/assault mechs, you need something with a bit more "oompf" as it were and all the mechs that the Mad-dog/Vulture/Vulture III? (can't tell really due it using what looks like the original torso from the Mad-dog, the arms from the Mad-dog II that was in the MekTek pak and the legs from the Vulture III) took on were Uzeils and Novacats, the former being a medium and the latter being an assault and you saw what his missles did to the Novacat, blew its right arm cluster straight off...his lasers and autocannons in the arms had no hope of putting ANY of those mechs down quickly.
whenever my friends and i play MW5 we make it a point where if you die you mute your mic just to sort of hype up the realism...there's nothing scarier than being surrounded by a cataphract 2 battlemasters and 2 marauders and when you call out to your clan mates all you can hear is silence
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This intro cinematic proves, to me at least, that with the right people in charge, a really good MechWarrior show or movie could be made. Probably will never happen, but a man can dream...
Imagine game of thrones with mechs instead of dragons.
Robot Jox exists so long as we dont get a mw movie :(
@@depholade That's probably the best way to describe MechWarrior/BattleTech to newcomers. Now that I think of it the Clans have pretty much the same role as the White Walkers: a common and powerful enemy for bickering nobles.
I agree with the lord inquisitor. In the right hands this could have been a Promising television
series or, otherwise. perhaps maybe we can seek out the aid of of the primarks...
There is a fan made film going on.
I remember that even as a 10 year old kid, I thought it was chilling that he continued to relay his actions even though he knew his superiors were dead.
It's epic, though to play devil's advocate... He could possibly have gone passive sensors and fled the area, link up with resistance, fight a guerrilla war. Rather than waste himself in a futile last stand. Though easily said than done i suppose.
@@Commodore22345 If i remember right Central Guard was protecting the royal family, the second he lost contact with them it should have been safe to assume the royal family was dead also, however in the heat of battle its extremely tough to think things through.
That's what a soldier does, his duty. We salute him!! :)
He's a soldier and honoring his oath to defend his people. Very cool.
tho i didn`t knew english back then i had an understanding that something was just wrong... no order no call of any unit (basicly dead comms).. no nothing (something is up)
then 3:16 happen
Me: oh no they are gone RUN
Him: I`ll hold them here has long has i can
ME: 3:35 NOOOOOO
Also me : 4:23 well fougnt rest in peace.
If you listen to the radio chatter, the perimeter defenses and lances were getting annihilated and fell back. The two surviving pilots didn't catch it because of all the shit going on around them. It's very understandable. There were far more units than shown, this was simply centered around a single lance - that suffered heavy losses before even reaching the main engagement. It was a surprise attack with subterfuge and lies on both sides.
Yea
@@MajorAce_usedtobeMechchad Indeed.
At least he died with his team… if my team went out like that id go in for a sacrifice too
Yet what doesn't make sense is a palace guard would be in more then a single heavy and medium back by lights
@@holybacontoast9615 Most likely it was one of the fast response lances of the palace guard. Maybe even an infiltration unit, it would fit the lore having fast response lances for quick fielding.
Man, I wish they made a Mechwarrior movie.
If they can put out movies like Pacific Rim, there's no reason they couldn't do a proper Battletech movie (other than legal issues).
@@phantomechelon3628 most critical part is to not only build it around the battlemechs but make the battle mechs a minor part of it... like tanks in a WWII movie in example
you should totally check out the BattleTech cartoon
They'd fuck it up. Heck Battletech is game of thrones in space and they managed to fuck it up hard
just remember no one can get it right Now a day But us mechwarrior of the past (And i don`t count since mw3 was my intro to the serie)
amazing intro. Gets you pissed, gets you sad, fills you with a righteous anger by the end. It gets the player into the right mind set perfectly
Wish I was a kid again just to feel what I did back then again playing the mechwarrior games
@@tbone9474 I'm in my 30s getting pissed off and ready to jump back in the cockpit.
Plinking those little trucks like that. That ain't soldiering. Thats murder.
I remember going in like “if my leader is going out in a blaze so am i” watching him blast at them being the last one alive truly made me want to fight these guys i just wish the story was better but this was the only cutscene i needed to see 🔥
I'm playing through MechWarrior 5 right now. The story isn't quite what I want but it'll do
@@Figitman >takes literally 15 years to finally get revenge, assuming you know what you're doing
>more like 20 or 30 years if it's your first run
it is just so mediocre.
that vulture pilot was frikin bad ass
Looks like Raiden from the mk movie
It makes no sense the mad dog/ vulture is a clan mech
@@goose-stahvegg6608 Why wouldn't it make sense? They're Davion forces, and Davion captured a huge pile of Clan Smoke Jaguar's materiel during Operation Bulldog.
Mad Dog
@@goose-stahvegg6608 clan wolf worked with Davion at one point
Still get goosebumps watching this. Can't believe it's already been 16 years.
damn 17 years now...Thats a long time for no new good games from this franchise, I'd say it's dead despite mechwarrior online it doesn't really count.
Jerry C yeah and PGI the king of bastardizing mechwarrior is making it. I’m hoping they do it justice but I’m skeptical.
the cgi used in this movie is still great
you and me both buddy
it's been 20 years now and it's still amazing
The MW4 games were my intro to the BT universe. Mercenaries was the one that really made me fall in love, but I don't think I would have made it to Mercs if this intro hadn't been so awesome.
Also, whenever I'm the last one on my team alive in MWO I also want to say, "Any receiving unit: I have contact with main enemy force. I'll delay them here as long as I can."
So cheesy, yet unironically great. Everything from the radio chatter to launching lrms into hell unfolding in front of them to making his last stand. Good memories.
Idk what people are talking about with the acting and dialogue. They're 'Mech commanders' not some Hollywood drama queens... In fact I think it's actually one of the few games I've played where the real time footage didn't immediately un-immerse me from the gameplay. It was spot on for real time footage in a video game with a serious plot.
i always loved how he became more and more tense as he went on coms, constantly going up the chain of command trying to raise someone, ANYONE.
Honestly, the FMV footage was pretty great for the time.
I thought the voice acting was great. Really suited the game well. Best voice acting in all the games I have played to date have been, The mechwarrior games except the current mw5 and TBS one, they stunk and instantly forgettable.. even Duncan Fisher in Arena was a nice welcome break that didn't detract from the whole experience. Freespace 2, your wingmen , and when paired with Lt.Sykes "what, do i look Shivan to you?", in the covert missions deep in enemy Shivan space had probably the coolest voice ever in a game.. and Ground control's. Sara Parker had great voice. Better then Lara, Ellie or anyone else I can think of in fact.. although, maybe Quiet..?. Good voices really help to immerse the player and create the atmosphere I think.
The only problem I ever had with this opening video is its violation of canon. The actual invasion by Steiner to remove Dessari's militia lasted 3 days and Kentares put up one hell of a fight because a lot of the pilots were battle hardened against fighting the Clans as well as having access to Clan tech which you can see here. Plus Davion trained pilots are much better in quality than Steiner's.
@@Seriona1 So where is the violation exactly? Davion usually have quantity over quality. Hence the term steiner scout lance....
This opening still a 100 times better than Mech Warrior 5. Wish we had scenes like this, live actors with CG graphics. Epic!
Yeah... MW5 is ass
Still gives me chills. Every time I get a new improved sound system, I crank this up right at the moment the Mad Dog takes that first percussive step. That moment is the moment that defines mechwarrior for me.
Yeah, they even timed the modulation in that song when he did the first step. Little details that make this intro great. So much effort put into this.
It's a vulture not a mad cat
@@tastycookiechip "Mad Dog" is the Clan name for the mech people in the Inner Sphere call Vulture. Like what the Inner Sphere people call a Mad Cat is actually called a "Timber Wolf" by the Clans who built it. Most (but not all) Clan mechs have both 'original' names among the Clans, and whatever reporting name Inner Sphere people started calling them during the invasion, before they learned what they were actually called. Both sets of names stuck around afterwards, with different people and organizations in-universe calling them different things.
Mechwarrior Online uses Clan names, Mechwarrior 4 used Inner Sphere names, board game players or people from other Battletech products tend to be less consistent about their use.
@@05Matz in this instance we can call it a vulture because it's being fielded by davion
This aged pretty pretty well. Awesome intro.
I love how the old MechWarrior videos have the mechwarriors in sleeveless suits, and how the cockpit looks very warm because of the fusion reactor of those mechs.
According to lore, it was not uncommon for pilots to be wearing almost nothing as they're literally being cooked when the mech overheats.
IIRC, when Grayson Carlyle first met his future wife Lori Kalmar (prior to them creating the Gray Death Legion), she was literally just only in her panties when exiting her mech as her mech had insufficient heatsinks.
If he was in an Urbanmech, he would've slaughtered them all
Lmao
I love my timberwolf (mad cat) but the urban mech is scarier than the pursuit atlas
Urbanmech makes all other mechs obsolete. xD
he's right. UrbanMech is just like its name suggest, built for urban combat. He's built short to hide himself in between building, and armed with AC/10 or AC/20 means he could sneak behind you or hide in the next turn, pop in front of you, shot your cockpit until you die, and then run away into next block.
I doubt you'll see this but I was wondering if you could tell me what mech that guy was driving.
I like how the vulture in the intro has auto cannons in the arms, while in the game you can only equip laser systems..
Man I played this game alot.
MW4's pretty limited like that, but there are absolutely ballistic-armed Mad Dog variants in Battletech. Some maniac even fitted out a version with gauss rifles.
But in his arms there are large pulse lasers. In fact, they have recoil too.
I haven’t watched this intro in 10 years and I can still quote every part of it. This game was my childhood
Still the best mechwarrior intro ever.
Live action movie done right.
@Weirdiocrow: Lol - I'm divided. This spectacular live intro blew my mind when it first came out; the MW3 intro was kind of flat. But the campaign opening, when the Blackhammer is taken out was utterly riveting; it showed the fear and uncertainty of a mission gone horribly wrong. I will say that Sigma 2 - the girl in the Shadowcat - has quite possibly the prettiest eyes I've ever seen!
oh yeah bby
It's good, but Mechcommander's intro is great.
Like Michael Bay please make a movie!!!!
Can’t believe it’s been almost 20 years. This is / was such a good video game intro.
still amazes me to this day. I used to live on this game
You have to admit that they did a very good job with the intro quality. I wouldn't mind seeing a movie of that style. It'd be like a BattleTech version of the Starship Troopers movie (the first one). As corney as it was, it was still entertaining.
A Battletech movie with the same budget and production quality of Starship Troopers (there are no others, shush, they dont exist...*cough*)
Would be amazing!
Are you serious? It looked like some Design major's university project -- acting and all. Yes, this was 15 years ago (when I was in university doing my design degree at that) -- but they _did_ have access to better 3D composition and effects back then.
But now that I think of it, even Blizzard's CG was on par with this (think SC BW cinematics) so I guess this was still uber awesome at the time. I know I would have been impressed. Back then : P
The Animaster
Ironically enough, 15 years ago, I too was in the middle of my CG animation course. Was there access to better software and quality - undoubtedly. Was this intro still of high quality compared to its peers at the time...remarkably so. With my nostalgia glasses on, it still holds up rather well. I get a chill when I see this play out. Try not to be too hard on this one, unlike most movie houses, this team was probably a lot smaller and had a lot less time to get this done and out the door.
@@theanimaster Compare this CGI with the hobbit and other modern films... Not really much quality going around here in termsof CGI. This was amazing for its time. IF they made them even better, I think it would distract from the gameplay. The in game graphics were not even close to this, so its a bit of a tease.
@@theanimaster Are you serious?? This cgi is absolutely incredible TO THIS DAY it still holds up. Some of the best cgi of the era looks better than any game at the time
That Uziel must have had some pretty nice heatsinks to fire that PPC 6 times in like, 10 seconds...
Certainly looks cool though. This made me want a BattleTech series or movie so bad as a kid.
To be fair there are a trio of Nova Cats with that Uziel. With a Nova Cat Prime carrying a pair of PPCs, the Uziel likely only fired twice. The other 4 shots probably came from some of the Nova Cats.
The main question I have is, even in MechWarrior 4 the Uziel's MGs were mounted in the shoulder area/side torsos, why is it firing ballistic rounds from its arms in this?
This is my favourite childhood game.
A nice little time-capsule throwback to the days when they used live actors and partial sets mixed in with visual fx animation to tell the story.
When I saw this all I wanted was the vulture and nothing else
Clan invasion expansion for tabletop Battletech will be available in a few months.
@@josepablolunasanchez1283 Second wave? It was already available a year ago on Kickstarter.
@@p_serdiuk Yep. Second wave. That is what kickstarter says.
you mean the Mad Dog
@@ELITESrBAMOFOS945 Clan mechs have two names. One given by clans, another given by Inner Sphere. So the Vulture is the Mad Dog. The Timber Wolf is the Mad Cat, and so on...
manly as fuck. i grew a beard in the 7,5 minutes it took me to watch this.
"I'll hold them here as long as I can...."
scant seconds later: we've lost contact with sigma leader.
Ahh nostalgia. I remember thinking this intro was the coolest thing ever when I was a kid.
In retrospect, the acting and dialogue wasnt that great, but the CGI and visual direction is still really well done.
+Alias fakinami I've never seen this before. I was getting hypechills. I wish I could make sense of the story, though. I loved MW4:Mercs, so this is next.
@107981830587541029269
From what I remember, the story was that a large portion of the main character's faction was succeeding and randomly attacked their base all at once, so now the heir to the throne has to take it back, or somthing like that :P
+John Madden
(NO SPOILERS) Vengeance is about a coup within a royal family during the start of the much larger FedCom Civil War.
Basically the war started because Katrina Steiner I signed a peace agreement with House Davion, but there was a secret clause which married one of Davion's princes to the Steiner successor. So this merged the two nations.
Those nobles had children, Katrina II and Victor (plus another), but Victor was going to become the king. The Steiners liked Katrina while the Davions preferred Victor. Katrina became power-hungry and influenced the Steiner lords to support her - she secretly assassinated her mother and framed Victor, then assumed the throne of the Federated Commonwealth.
Obviously the Davion lords were outraged and did not trust Katrina, while the Steiners hated and distrusted the Davions. She was a ruthless ruler who favored the Steiner planets while persecuting the Davions. Eventually rebellions started forming and they elected Victor as their leader, while other planets defected to Katrina. This division lead to infighting within many of the smaller families under the FedCom alliance.
MW4 is about one of these conflicts when William Dresari takes advantage of the civil war by betraying his Davion-friendly family on behalf of Katrina Steiner. The trailer is the start of the coup and murder of the Dresaris.
*****
lol same
Unfortunately, he was in a very weak mech, and so was his companion. Now had they been in real mechs like the Timber Wolf or the Summoner, then he would have been able to do something! His mech just didn't have what it took to win.
If only MWO could get the walking animations so damn well...
Game of Thrones aint got SHIT on Battletech :D
+Nick Christie that's actually well put.battletech is not only about giant robots;the political background stands on it's own too.
+Nick Christie Eh. Opinions are opinions.
Man it would be badass if we got a battletech series on HBO by the guy that did game of thrones. That would be badass.
House Davion FTW.
Nuckin' Futs Since the Copyright war with those Harmony Gold wankers is over, it's doable.
Only question would be where to start.
Adaptation or reboot?
This is how you do full-motion-video sequences for a triple-A-mech-action-simulation game, not otherwise!
3:36 When you're the last one on your team in MWO and you still have good cover and ammo.
TBH he should've overheated long before death if it was MWO X)
*Powers up mech*
*Overheats, engine destroyed*
I did that in my urbie once, override was on, got two kills then my engine exploded, then I said in the all chat, the only person who kills me is me
Yea that is face of me when am the last one on my team.
@@nuclearmonster6601 GigaChad move. I aprove.
Mechwarrior = Game of Thrones with giant robots!
I read this and all I could process was "Mechwarrior = the dark souls of videogames"
Make a Netflix special with this, and I'd watch it
OMG you're absolutely right
except Mechwarrior CAME FIRST.
do not compare what is inferior to this setting XD
Most fucking epic MW intro evarrrr
I remember as a young teen seeing the shot at 3:52 and thinking about how amazing that shot looked, almost like it really captured from a helicopter camera. Loved this intro.
Damn... If Hollywood could actually be trusted with this stuff, I'd say that this intro PROVES that a good MechWarrior movie could be made. Even after all these years... Still one of the best opening cinematics for a video game I've ever seen.
Oh Ma God My Childhood.....
Still the best video-game intro ever.
You'd think a lance defending the royal family would be made up of heavy and assault mechs, not one vulture and a hanful of scout mechs.
Dark-Architect that shadow cat pilot was an idiot.
They were not royal guards. They were a scout lance in training. The royal guards were already dead and dying.
Vulture cougar shadowcat und raven
There should always atleast be a single jupiter or atlas
to be fair, all the mechs left the hangar with not much urgency :/ if the battle is to scale, I count 6 medium mechs vs 8-10 light (scout) mechs. Scouts would of won if they left faster. btw, is the cougar mech the face of the MechWarrior/MechAssault franchise? I wouldn't be surprised if it was; its basic but awesome. just wonderin
эх... ушла эпоха когда в играх использовали ролики с живыми актёрами, святое было время...
это интро мотивирует на игру, лучше чем всё что вышло после, во всех играх вселенной battletech
Still my favorite variant of the Vulture to this day...With the chin mounted gimballed pulse laser ...to me it was the AH-64 Apache of Battlemechs
I remember playing this years and years ago. The writing was decent, even by today's standards (which may be lower?), and the game itself was well crafted.
Two things that I find vaguely interesting, that I didn't realize as a child, is that the lance we are watching is entirely clan tech. A vulture in lead, a shadow cat (which is strangely just as large), followed by a cougar. The attacking force is also mostly clan tech, nova cats and such, but with a few uziel mechs in tow, which is a bit odd. I think the designers wanted to show off a little bit of their newer designs that weren't in previous games.
I remember this fondly.
Well it made sense that after the Clan wars, the various noble houses had their OmniMech salvage
the game you play effectively davion side avenging this attack so makes sense
I loved this game so much. I still remember a random background line when a pilot stepped on an enemy tank "Eugh stepped in some steiner." Freaking had me dieing laughing and I still quote it in Mechwarrior 5 mercenaries on ps4
Sigma lead is awesome!!!!
Sigma 2 was the MOON MOON of sigma squad
Oh man... I remember this as a kid... I would play Mech Warrior with my dad everyday. I loved using the Vulture!
Vulture is the best for me.
20 years on, had no idea you could see him in the cockpit seconds before his mech goes down. So cool.
i think the guy with the runway lights was the best actor lol
What? Not budget Bruce Willis?
The pilot of the mad dog was ok.
LOL! Good one 😅
Shadow Cat chick... so hot AND a great actress! "WE GOT TRACK!"
That was one of the VFX team crew member.
What an awesome intro, I appreciate even more the cinematic quality as an adult than I did as a kid! Even though I didn't appreciate the arcade-ish mechanics of the game compared to Mech 3.
I wish they would bring back the live actors and green screens. Really cool stuff and it still holds up in this case.
no lol. no it does not.
The cheesyness was what made it fun, like the best b-movie sci fi's. It's so much better than the typical silent protagonist in a """"first person cinematic experience"""" you get these days.
Seriously, I miss live actors.
@@Protagonist To be honest, with today's technology, I'm sure we could actually make something really nice looking, like not some B-movie thing (even tho I would still love it >_>), but actually some really high grade big movie levels of quality... I mean look at how many millions there are in those games, I'm sure it's possible...
Lol like warhawk on PS1? xD
The acting and effects here are still leagues better than any Syfy channel original movie.
The most terrifying trailer, the funnest video game, and sci-fi greatest.
This franchise deserves a big budget movie!
I remember playing this as a kid. And i remember NEVER skipping this opening because it was soooo good.
2020 stil sometimes think of this game.
good times online good times
Then you see MW5’s cutscenes and have to gouge your eyes out,
Indeed. This was the first MW I played, and I was dismayed to find the direction had changed so much in MW5.
When Paradox's Battletech's cutscenes achieve way more with still images.
It has cutscenes?
When I was a kid I would boot up this game just to watch this intro.
I love these old cinematic. I just want to see a movie done in the same manner as this cinematic, would be bloody well amazing.
My nostalgia!!! God damn I played the hell out of this game as a kid
"For the Duke."
I got a copy of this game free with my first desktop back in 2001. I remember being scared shitless after watching this intro and didn't touch the game until 2 more years had passed lol
Oh this bring back good memories...
2023 checking in. I miss this game.
You know, to my recollection, this was the first video game i ever played. i was 4 at the time, mashing buttons on a joystick, no idea what was going on, but i remember loving every second of it.now im 16, and still enjoy playing this game from time to time.
Now, 7 years later, I'm the one who's 16 and enjoy playing this game and MW4 Mercenaries. 4, not 5.
@@icywarhammer5003 god I wish I could get 4 working on my system
@@purplekey9330 I could send u a working google drive file for it
I remember playing this with my dad when I was around 5-6 with a joystick. Good old days of PC gaming :)
ahhh yes, my childhood has returned.
damn i played the demo for such a long time when i was a kid... the intro was so impressive, still today.
you and me both buddy. It was such an awesome time :)
Ah when video games had live action cutscenes to it, some them done pretty well. They need to bring those back.
Does anyone remember when video game intros like these were awesome? I miss the old days.
“Activate AMS!”
do you:
-Activate AMS
-continue pointing out missiles are coming your way
This is easily my favorite game intro/cinamtic trailer ever
I really want to know how much they spent on props in this scene. They are *very* well done from a technical standpoint.
Mechwarrior story about rulling great houses reminds a sci-fi game of thrones.
Well, in my case, it reminds me of Dune, but with giant robots and no spice. Even in this game's story you are a duke's son and you have to revenge your family, like Paul Atreides and Duke Leto Atreides. The final confrontation in this game is against Ian's cousin, which also reminds me of the final battle between Feyd Rautha Harkonnen and Paul Muad'dib, who are technically cousins.
just a lovely intro even in 2022. cya sigma lance
HBO, If you're wondering what to do after Game of Thrones . . . Battletech. It's exactly like Game of Thrones, but in SPAAAAACE and with BIG STOMPY ROBOTS!
Low tonnage for defence guard tho compared to attackers.
BUt this is classical scene one of the best oldies. :)
enemy forces: (6 visually @ 3:22, 8 on radar @ 0:27)
- Uziel (3:22)
- Nova Cat/Wendigo (3:22)
- Nova Cat/Wendigo (3:22)
- Nova Cat/Wendigo (3:22)
- Nova Cat/Wendigo (3:22)
- Hellbringer/Loki? (3:24)
- unknown (probably Nova Cat/Wendigo, might've died off screen?)
- unknown (probably Nova Cat/Wendigo, might've died off screen?)
hero forces: (5 visually, 10 based on hangar size)
Left Side of Hangar (closest to furthest from exit):
- Corvus/Raven (0:45)
- Corvus/Raven (0:45)
- Owens/Hackman/Shadow Cat (1:50)
- unknown (probably Corvus/Raven, if not empty section)
- unknown (probably Corvus/Raven, if not empty section)
Right Side of Hangar (closest to furthest from exit):
- Mad Dog/Vulture (0:49)
- Owens/Hackman/Shadow Cat (0:49)
- Corvus/Raven (0:49)
- Corvus/Raven (1:36)
- Cougar/Puma (1:50)
this breakdown comes from a person whos really just a fan of the mechassault games; i dont really like the mechwarrior games but this live action intro cinematic is my favorite cutscene, not only in the mechwarrior games but also mechassault and any battletech stuff that I've ever seen.
With this breakdown being made, I do wanna say that if the hangar had not been blown up (or the mechs made it out before the explosion), I think the Lance unit would of won, if not taken out all but maybe one or two Nova Cats.
I like your breakdown but I don't agree. The two lances of attacking forces we see have 1 medium, 5 heavy, 2 unknown, while the defenders have 5 light, 2 medium, 1 heavy, 2 unknowns. Even if you set the unknowns to be entirely in the defenders favor (attacker unknowns are light mechs, defender unknowns are heavy), it's still not a battle in the defender's favor. The defenders might have a numbers advantage but by tonnage they are way outclassed here. Those ravens do not have the firepower to handle equal numbers of nova cats....especially once you get inside the palace area where it's going to favor mid to close range brawls over the long range maneuver warfare the raven/vulture mix is suited for. The only way I see if being an even fight is if the two defender unknowns are assault mechs...and then you would easily spot their bulk poking out of their places in the hangar and they wouldn't be unknown.
Great times, GREAT TIMES with both MechWarrior 4 Vengeance and its expansion pack MechWarrior 4: Black Knight. Thank you dear Devs and Microsoft!
This animation is wonderful and gives me hope and shows that the battletech universe and lore have enough material for a TV show.
So who here is curious about his Vulture build.
I'm think AC-2s in the arms, with medium lasers in the chest, and two MRM 20s.
Idk
It has Machine guns in the arms, Medium pulse lasers in the chin turret and LRM 20s
@@JazzJaRa that's such a waste in the arms xD
This is some derp non-canonical Vulture Mk II. No spec sheet i can find has this weapons configuration. Were i too guess though, those would be clan ultra 5s in the arms, with clan rotary mgs underneath them. Pulse laser turret and lrm 15s.
This is c. 1999... Anyone else notice a young Liev Schreiber in Sigma 3 that goes up with the Hangar explosion at 2:14? Start at 1:50, freeze at 1:58!
Is that really him? There are similarities...
Wait... Did they hire an actor?
Still prefer cinematics with real actors instead of CGI ones. Good ol' days. C&C, Mechwarrior, etc.
I'm a Vulture main on MWO because of this intro :)
They couldn't have known this intro would stand the test of time. Great vision. Sigma 2 is fucking hot.
This would have been a great Syfy channel movie. to bad we cant have nice things.
The first and thus far only Mechwarrior game I ever played, and that was waaay back in the day
That movie made me love the Vulture, damn, I miss that awesome game
I get some Babylon 5 vibes from this :)
honestly for whatever reason i played mercs before this.... and vengeance is 1000 times more difficult, i am not even exaggerating that one bit.
example "best mech gets damaged from last mission... cant use your best mech for even harder level, not to mention lost mechs from ejecting allies. also HARDEST DIFFICULTY OR GTFO, lol makes the game more awesome.
TheRumChum
Thats coz it's a real military campaign with consequences :P. Not some space pirate gallavanting around the galaxy working for the highest bidder ;P.
EllieThePug exactly
+Jerry
try playing it on elite lol
This game actually was the first one that made me realize the importance of context. A LOT of the mission objectives are "go to the nav point and kill everything," but when i did the first mission in the capital city. My brother asked what was going on, and i said, "We're preparing an attack on the capital city. So I'm sent in under the cover of night to take out enemy patrols in order to thin their numbers, to prepare for my sisters assault at dawn.
At that point, this simple set of objectives had frigen scale
really miss these intro vids in the new game. They really set the mood for me for what was to come ahead. :(
If the Vulture pilot would've just escaped rather than commit to a Final Stand there would've been plenty of units on Kentares who would've loved to have a good Heavy Clan Support Omni-Mech in their ranks.
You mean retreat when you don't know if the people you're sworn to defend got out safely? For all we know this guy might be the reason anyone survived at all.
satannstuff Perhaps but if Command was gone then it would've been safe to assume the Palace has completely fallen. Steiner may be idiots but they know how to pull off a surprise assault.
2019....anyone??
Yep, this showed up on the homepage and I got my nostalgia on.
Yea..Im here. Still love this game!
2021
I loved the intro to 4..set the mood for the game. Awesome upload!!
Makes me feel nostalgic... and old....
the universe of battletech is rife with stories...but noo...they made pacific rim instead.
***** appeals to a small group PRECISELY because it isn't put on film."Decision at Thunder Rift" would be a excellent introductory movie.alot of people are tired of robots who shoot a laser and annihilates a entire army in one blow,plus the teen whining and teen drama,and hoh,they happen to be students at some school.(sigh)but yeah,people don't want to strain their brains too much nowadays.
they really should make a battletech film theres so much material
I so agree. They made Pacific Rim, which was fine in its own way, to best Transformers when they should have just let Mechwarrior stand on its own like it always has in the face of other competitors like Robotech and even Gaint Robot.
INDEED!!! Battletech has GREAT stories.
Fear is what rules Hollywood. The logic the executives follow is the more expensive the movie, the higher the return if it succeeds. Failure can kill a studio.
We were lucky to get Pacific Rim as it is, because the studios do not like taking chances.
That's why most blockbusters follow the same tropes and story structure. The paying audiences liked it, surely they'll like it again and again.
The Battletech universe had that nonsense legal problem from those hacks at Harmony Gold and it made touching franchise risky.
Now that's it's over, we might see something in the future.
Who here tried to recreate this battle in the Instant Action? One Vulture vs an Uziel and 3 Nova Cats?
I did, I was the Uziel for 2 reasons, 1) The Uziel is one of my favorite mechs, and 2) Because I refuse to pilot a filthy vat-born Clan mech.
I remember thinking this was very impressive CGI back in the day. Man how much things have changed...
If they made this like a real war movie like black hawk down...this would be a bomb movie 😲
Objectively the best MechWarrior intro
I'd say it's subjective as I will always hold the Mechwarrior 2 intro (despite it's age) to be a timeless introduction to mechwarrior. 4 is definitely well made though, just not imo the best.
Lol cant imagine the greatness of seeing Mechwarrior 2 intro at its release. I was around for Mechwarrior 3 & 4
Bill Hamilton
Ahem, it seems my dog hijacked my youtube there (multi accounts, yes my dog has a channel now... dont judge me)
Anyway, yeah I can recall the day I was about 5 or so years old, We'd just got a new graphics card for the family computer, a 'Matrox' 3Dfx which came with a free 'enhanced' version of mechwarrior 2 , basically detailed textures.
The intro was the greatest thing my tiny 5 year old brain had ever seen. Was blown away and probably became instantly obsessed with the franchise. Go youtube it up :P. It's still great.
The live acting in this intro is a nice touch... but the directing (or the script) is meh. This intro pales in comparison to the Mechcommander Intro IMO. If you've never seen it, watch it, because that's how a freaking intro movie is done :)
Haha I just watched an old one and a new one and I gotta say the old one was way better for sure. The new one didn't get that right emotion from the environment. My favorite intro has always been Command and Conquer Red Alert 1 Intro. But I ended up joining the Marines at 18 so I might be biased. If there was a place to enlist into a Mech Corps like Mechwarrior even as a mercenary I'd go right back into enlisted life haha.
I kinda think its dumb how in these mechwarrior intros the missles and the ppcs seem to be the ONLY things ever doing damage ._.
MMBNMalternateaccoun I mean against armor they kind of are. Unless its a big group of lasers they don't do a whole lot against armor. Especially against clan mechs.
Unless the armor is stripped away then they can use whatever on the internals.
MMBNMalternateaccoun it always depends on the size of the laser... especially if they are small or medium pulse they do nothing unless fired in groups or shot at a single component for an absurd amount of time. Plus they are used as support weapons to primary autocannons, lrms, gauss rifles etc
autocannons and lasers are good at stripping light mechs of their armour....not so much medium/heavy/assault mechs, you need something with a bit more "oompf" as it were and all the mechs that the Mad-dog/Vulture/Vulture III? (can't tell really due it using what looks like the original torso from the Mad-dog, the arms from the Mad-dog II that was in the MekTek pak and the legs from the Vulture III) took on were Uzeils and Novacats, the former being a medium and the latter being an assault and you saw what his missles did to the Novacat, blew its right arm cluster straight off...his lasers and autocannons in the arms had no hope of putting ANY of those mechs down quickly.
PPCs are heavy energy weapons like N THEMs in Mechassault
Still chokes me up to this day.
whenever my friends and i play MW5 we make it a point where if you die you mute your mic just to sort of hype up the realism...there's nothing scarier than being surrounded by a cataphract 2 battlemasters and 2 marauders and when you call out to your clan mates all you can hear is silence