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Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: Unknown Target on March 12, 2005, 01:44:08 pm
Does anyone still paly this, or has everyone moved to Mercs?
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: Unknown Target on March 12, 2005, 01:53:29 pm
And also on that note, can anyone point me to a plugin for Mozilla Firefox that will let me run the MS Gaming Zone in Firefox, rather than IE?
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: MicroPsycho on March 12, 2005, 05:24:37 pm
I think everyone's gone to mercs. If you get it, which I recommend if you like MechWarrior, let me know and I'll play a game.
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: ShadowWolf_IH on March 12, 2005, 05:33:11 pm
i have mech 4......didn't like how it became so different from the btech series and then from mech 2 and 3.   But i do still have it, and maybe one of these days we can get together and do some multi player stuff UT.

Also..... UT if you would PM me if you are interested in some other ideas that i have concerning mechwarrior, you may enjoy it.
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: Nuke on March 12, 2005, 11:20:14 pm
i play mercs online from time to time. but i perfer clan hardware/rules myself. ive never played vengance only because i cant find it.
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: demon442 on March 13, 2005, 10:28:23 pm
I own it, along with BK.  Though I never play it due to my becoming bored with it.  I'd love to get Mercs, but I have not the funds.
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: Inquisitor on March 14, 2005, 12:52:14 pm
We moved off MW4/Mercs to Lore when it became playable.
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: aldo_14 on March 14, 2005, 12:48:16 pm
Dagnabbit.........damn timewarps.
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: Unknown Target on March 14, 2005, 12:56:47 pm
I can't get Mercs cause no place down here sells it, and I don't want to ship it from the states.
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: Roanoke on March 14, 2005, 01:46:21 pm
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Originally posted by Unknown Target
I can't get Mercs cause no place down here sells it, and I don't want to ship it from the states.


dude, ebay.


I've got mercs and vengence. And MW3.
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: redsniper on March 14, 2005, 04:13:14 pm
mw3 = best :nod:
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: Flaser on March 14, 2005, 04:42:53 pm
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Originally posted by redsniper
mw3 = best :nod:


Seconded - it's a pitty Zipper wasn't given a second chance.
There was so much potential in that game that could have been exploited in a new release...not to mention sensible briefings. That was the only game where the briefings had some semblance to what you'd see in real life™.
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: redsniper on March 14, 2005, 04:55:37 pm
yeah, that MFB driver dude gave good briefings. I liked the lack of intelligence. "Alright, lance leader. There might be some mechs here, or maybe not, and there's some sort of building here and our probe got shot down here. Have fun."
EDIT: intelligence as in info, not smartness.
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: Unknown Target on March 14, 2005, 04:59:12 pm
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Originally posted by Roanoke


dude, ebay.


I've got mercs and vengence. And MW3.



I don't want to ship it from the states :p

And anyway, yes, Mech3 was the shiznit, but that's in the past now :(
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: WMCoolmon on March 14, 2005, 05:44:42 pm
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Originally posted by redsniper
yeah, that MFB driver dude gave good briefings. I liked the lack of intelligence. "Alright, lance leader. There might be some mechs here, or maybe not, and there's some sort of building here and our probe got shot down here. Have fun."
EDIT: intelligence as in info, not smartness.


The bad intel was interesting, too.
Him on Mission 3 or so: "This is an Annihilator, an Assault mech."
Me: "...go Bushwacker?"
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: ShadowWolf_IH on March 14, 2005, 06:32:02 pm
mech 3 was the ****.  the mechs looked like the do in classic btech, not like the farce that M$ created.  one of these days we should instal mech3 and play it over IP.  That would be a blast.  I bet that we would all be labrats configuring our mechs.
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: FireCrack on March 14, 2005, 07:19:20 pm
I dont play mercs, and yes, mech3>mech4

Though the fact that ou could load a MadCat MK 2 with dual longtoms....
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: Unknown Target on March 14, 2005, 07:26:16 pm
I had a Vulture in Mech 3 that could go +100 KpH, had a full compliment of lasers, missiles, and guns, had jump jets, and rarely had heat problems.

Only problem with mech 3 was that the lag was impossible. Aiming 50 feet BEHIND the enemy is too much.
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: Ace on March 14, 2005, 07:30:54 pm
The one thing I didn't like about MW3 was that everything happened on one planet. It didn't have the creative maps that MW2 or Ghost Bear's Legacy had.

MW4 was the same, limited to one planet and its moon. MW4 Mercs though had some nice variation here and there.
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: ShadowWolf_IH on March 14, 2005, 07:37:00 pm
if you were aiming behind your enemy it's no wonder you missed.....come on, we'll get in some scats and i will teach you how to lag shoot.  

by the way...scat with 5 ams, jump jets, full armor, 6 er meds grouped 4 and 2, targetting comp.  the rest went into engines and heat sinks.

Your vulture must have been running small lasers, which don't get me wrong, most of the c1 players preferred to have a bunch of smalls...very effective.  10 smalls would whip ass.
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: Drew on March 14, 2005, 08:06:27 pm
3 and 4 sucked, 2 is the only way to go

4 had a better online play but for some reason, the game became a direwolf shoot. i liked to have fun, pick a raven, drop its armor to nill jack up the engine and load smalls on the sucker, with ECM and run passive.  once i teamed up with a couger at night and had a hell of a time raping dashis
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: NGTM-1R on March 14, 2005, 08:40:55 pm
Mercs and MekTek mechpacks are the way to go.

W00tness for the Urbie.
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: Grug on March 14, 2005, 09:11:31 pm
Atlas... :D
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: Drew on March 14, 2005, 09:21:00 pm
dire wolfs eat atlases for breakfast
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: Grey Wolf on March 14, 2005, 09:40:10 pm
I enjoyed using the Hellhound in MW4: Mercs, especially in the Solaris arenas. Rotary autocannon goodness :)
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: Nuke on March 15, 2005, 12:37:20 am
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Originally posted by Drew
dire wolfs eat atlases for breakfast


i could kill either one, in a flea :D
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: WMCoolmon on March 15, 2005, 12:50:43 am
Maybe with a tag laser and a McKenna-class Battlecruiser...
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: ShadowWolf_IH on March 15, 2005, 12:55:58 am
mech 3 i would eat either one alive with my scat.
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: NGTM-1R on March 15, 2005, 03:02:58 am
Maybe. But I doubt it. I'll take your leg off at 650 meters. I used to do it all the time with my Daishi and four ER-PPCs...
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: Zarax on March 15, 2005, 10:04:25 am
Dual Gauss cannons in linked fire...
As long as you got ammo and can stay at long range you would own everything...
Almost finished the game with that configuration, only i had to switch to 4 ERPPC in the last mission as i ran out of ammo...
And yes, MW2+Mercs and MW3 are much better than MW4... One of the reasons why i hate consoles.
Title: Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Post by: Flaser on March 15, 2005, 01:24:21 pm
Not against a human opponent Zarax - those actually know how to use the terrain. :devil:

I go for heavy weapons combos
-PPC /+ Ultra Canon /+ Medium Pulse Lasers
-LRM20 + Large Pulse Lasers/Medium Pulse Lasers.

Some of you may wonder why I use pulse lasers - they do more damage, and though their range is lesser they are more of an intermediate "harrasing" weapons while my main guns recharge/reload.