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@DeSantis 2024 same here, used to love getting depth charged and then jettison debris to fool the destroyers.

I could never figure out what the objective was or how to play it. Just a dumb kid I guess.🤷‍♂️

​@samuelquintanilla6338 Deploying debris and oil never seemed to fool the destroyers for me. Even if I cut power and went deep far away they still seemed to always find me and get me with depth charges.

Hey, Karus Daedlyn here. This channel was put together by my husband and I to do out Let's Plays, but sorta fell outta use after awhile. Planning on making a separate channel later for exclusively speedrun/MechWarrior stuff. I got this version from abandonware, I used to have all these MW games as a kid but it's not easy to get working physical copies now. For this recording I used straight OBS, although I've been shifting to Streamlabs OBS recently to integrate some stuff for my Twitch channel. I have finally gotten around to reading your notes, and that helps out a lot. I knew about the difference between rich planets and poor, but I didn't know about the tier system and how it worked. I was sort of just guessing which planets were poor based on their in-game description. -Didn't know about the letter, thought it was a requirement. -I was assuming if the profit margin wasn't high enough, it wouldn't be worth the time spent traveling, but I saw you broke down the math, and that would drop time considerably. -I actually was figuring out the targeting system on the fly, I didn't remember how it worked when I was a kid. -Number key switching would be important to remember, heh, I actually had the manual out and reading some as I was playing. My ultimate goal is to run every game in the MW series. Not sure if I'll get to the 'Crescent Hawks' games or not, as they're technically not 'MechWarrior' games, and I never even owned them before. I started with MW2: Mercenaries as part of a charity stream, which took a bit over 4 hours. Then I ran MW1, then MW2, and plan is to run MW3 and 4 next. For every game that's been run before, I'm nowhere near WR, but that's okay :) Just want to complete them all first, then go back and try to optimize. Plus wanna try to garner attention to the series, MechWarrior and BattleTech have been one of my favorite franchises for as long as I can remember, right up there with Star Wars or LotR.

Yeah, I spent days figuring out the economy and the trade tiers to try and optimise that part of the run. The downside to the trading is that it's so RNG dependent - even a really optimised speedrun could vary by ten minutes depending on how many battlemasters you find. It must be possible to finish the game with other mechs - in the first final battle there's only three BMs and the warhammer, so maybe there's room to switch to a couple of warhammers or marauders. I see you also spend a bit of time on extra missions to try and train your AI guys up a bit; I've tested with a full lance of battlemasters, and even three complete novice AI lancemates didn't flee in fear, so I'm not convinced that's required for a good run either. You do have to be smart about the battle itself, I've had the best results with carefully ordering my lancemates to concentrate fire on one target at a time and backing them up when I was in range. I think the ending planet matters as well, because they all have different but preprogrammed battle scenarios. Kirchbach seems easiest, because more enemies start behind mountains and basically come at you one at a time. On Albiero, only the warhammer starts visible, but the three BMs quickly appear and swarm you, and on Radstadt all four enemies are in view and come at you simultaneously. Fortunately for a speedrun you know which planet you'll end on when you finish the story, and that only takes a couple of minutes, so resetting to try and get Kirchbach doesn't hurt too much. I think there's a perfect, random 1/3 chance to get each planet. This game is so tough to figure out how it thinks behind the scenes. Weapons stats are hard enough to find (although I've built an almost complete table over time), but stuff like what triggers the AI to do X or Y like pick a certain target or decide to flee is still buried deep in the black box. I wish we had someone interested in the game who could disassemble the executable and figure out what leads where. I've actually asked the original authors about the source code but they're pretty sure it's been lost to time. The letter feels important but it's really a red herring in the story - you can see in my any% run that I skip it. At that point in the story it's the news that gives you the next planet to fly to anyway. It would be interesting to see an experienced Let's Play of the Crescent Hawk games, but they're very different as you say, and from what I've seen the gameplay is very stilted and limited due to the low tech and relatively awful user interface they came up with at the time. so IMHO it'd be a curiousity at best, and a massive effort to figure out the game to the extent I've done with MW1 at worst. I'd love to see your MW2 Mercenaries run, would you upload it to UA-cam? I tried to view it on Twitch and it said the content was unavailable.

@@timix_au , I should be getting my MW2 video cut/edited into the Jade Falcon/Wolf halves shortly, and once that's done I'll upload all three videos. (Both clans, and MW2: Mercs) I figure most times I get in these games will get beaten rather quickly, especially by people experienced in each game. That's why my initial goal is really just to run them all, get some firsts, and build up experience in all of them. My MW2:Mercs run is the WR by default right now, but I had lots of mistakes. Got blown up several times, missed essential objectives requiring reloads, etc. Since I'm just trying to get the runs completed, I still submit, even if full of mistakes. I'd like to examine the footage, determine what worked or not, and slowly improve. Like, my MW2 clan runs are over 2 hours each, and WR is around 40 minutes. Not really worried about being number 1 yet, just want to say I did it. I know there's still some interest in MechWarrior, especially with MWO and MW5, I'd like it if a bigger channel noticed, and perhaps tried to get their viewers interested in attempting the older series for speedruns. There's not much competition now, and I'd rather be a much lower ranking but have more people playing the older games. Sort of spark interest in the mech simulator again.

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