Not gonna lie, when the dust cleared after the first mech went down, I could feel every muscle in my back reactively tighten when I realized the dude just bumped into an atlas. The first mechwarrior game I've ever played was MW3 on my uncle's old PC over 10 years ago. The only Mechwarrior game I've ever owned was a spin off title on the original Xbox, called Mech Assault. For both games, I was always the most tense whenever I knew there was an enemy heavy mech around, especially the atlas.
My dad has some old Battletech books that I read over from time to time, and the entry for the atlas says, that it's guns are made as visible as possible to make the other Mechwarrior question whether or not they're paid well enough to die there. I believe it.
The Atlas here is the old Star League AS7-D variant. This one has no large lasers in the arms, only four meds, an AC-20, an LRM-20 and a SRM-6. It's not the newer AS7-K with large lasers in the arm and med pulses in the torso, not the one which is the popular "default" Atlas config in MW4. Hope it clears things up somewhat ENJOY!
The atlas was probably the old Atlas AS7-D 4 medium lasers (2 to the rear), SRM 6, LRM 20, and AC 20. The LRMs have minimum range and can not be fired close. Which is why you dont see much missile fire. The AC seemed to fired as 4 vollies instead of one volley. The Warhammer is an unseen and should have won, since he was using cover effectively, but he got anxious when the Atlas overheated and did not go near cover and backed off far enough for the LRMs to get the lock and hit.
After playing MWO for a while and coming back to look at this trailer I am slightly upset... In this trailer it shows: >Detailed environment to give a sense of scale -Currently in MWO buildings looks like painted boxes >Warhammer missing shots due to Atlas knocking the mech around -Completely not in current MWO >Destructible buildings -Indestructible buildings in current MWO! =/
Well we lack a Warhammer completely and I do miss shots because of the damn screen shake abuse of LRM spam or dakka dakka. Destructible buildings is a must honestly, or at least stop having a small stone wall or ledge stop a 100 ton Atlas...
I think the issue here is that this trailer was not MWO it was from Mechwarrior 5 that was already in development at that time (2009) but was subsequently scrapped when no publisher would pick it up. Now why PGI reposted it as MWO is a mystery but maybe at the time they had nothing ready to show for MWO but still wanted or had to put something out so they threw this out.
Dirges Smith & Tinker was working with PGI at the time of this trailer's release (look in credits), but left after the legal issues (Robotech lawsuits). That's why it changed from MechWarrior 5 (or Reboot) into MechWarrior Online.
Gamuray the hell does robotech have to do with anything??? I don't get it, the mechs in mechwarrior aren't even remotely close to the mechs in robotech. What kind of hamfisted lawsuit could they pull out of their ass that could even support its own overblown weight???
Neonic634 In the beginning many assets from Battletech were directly lifted from Robotech. Yes, they both look very different now because of that reason.
the interesting thing is that Atlas will still be evolving well into the 3060s even with the introduction of clan tech it still maintains its position and when its fully decked in clan weaponry its even MORE deadly than with standard issue inner sphere... the lesson here is not to confront an atlas if you can help it as it WILL kill you or at the very least maim u even if you take out the majority of weapons, good play by the atlas to cover the jenner while it works on getting up and retreats...
After all this time, you catch little details. Like the fact that you can see the Atlas in the upper-left of the Beagle's camera at 0:39. *"Two* unidentified targets." Or that you can just barely see it rounding the corner as the dust cloud overtakes it at 0:56. Most of all, I want the music that starts off with that "dunnnnn dunnnnn DUNNNNN" at 1:03. What a perfect motif for the Atlas. I felt my hair stand on end.
terminalblue This, exactly this. Slower pace, assault mechs fighting like battleships exchanging heavy fire. No mass pinpoint damage. No high alpha system.
I was already a fan of the Mechwarrior Franchise, having played the original on a 286/88, then MW2 on Mac "Pentium 2 clone", MW3 on my WIndows 98/2000 machine (my favorite in the series), MW 4 Black Knight, MW4 Mercenaries, on my first dual core, so, when MWO was announced, I admit to a tiny touch of joy knowing the franchise was still alive. And I felt this trailer exactly caught the flavor of the series. Great job.
In the lore of the MW universe Mechs had a scaled-down variant of the power cores used in freaking FTL-capable Starships. If they implemented a %chance of total core meltdown "feature" (like in the old, old, original tabletop war game) then pvp would be about suiciding your heavy mechs in the middle of the enemy team rather than trading shots for fifteen to twenty minutes.
The arms are not in use probably because of battle damage. If you observe, the Atlas was down to 80% after a salvo of SRMs and machine-gun fire, with all of the Warhammer's PPC shots missing. The Atlas may have taken battle damage to its arms before engaging the Warhammer in combat Rawr just a theory, but hope it help!
MWO is a good game, but it's much faster than this, and matches usually consist of the two teams hiding behind cover, taking potshots at each other and raining down LRMs, until one of the teams feels confident enough to push. Wish I could play THIS game. A lot slower, more tactical, a nice campaign with all the customization options MWO has to offer.
I know this comment is seven years old, but god damn it I still want MWO to have a SP component. Yes yes, MW5 exists and I could buy a single player Mechwarrior game now for more money than it's seriously worth, but it still sucks massive balls that they never even gave us a mode like that trashy "Practice" mode World Of Tanks has. Fuck, it really doesn't seem /that/ complicated on their end even. All they'd have to make is the interface to set what mechs the game should spawn and a map chooser.
@@igorbukovy4313 TBH I always found the rock hugging of MW3 sorta nice even. You had to be careful of what the dimensions of your mech was so you didn't eat a ton of lasers to a side.
ftr when I posted that, I wasn't aware of the metagame stuff they will implement. It won't just be pvp on some different maps. Your battles will have lasting consequences on the world. It's a lot better than I first thought, pretty cool, in fact :) That being said, a lot of us were -- and are -- hungering for storyline. The MWO engine could be developed to create a full on MMORPG type game to go with the pvp, or at least used in a stand-alone, solo play product. That'd be cool.
Also, what was especially appealing abt the original concept was that it was set in an era when mechs were rare, valuable, unique. As opposed to the standard MW video game schtick where mechs are a dime -- well, a few million c-bills -- a dozen.
A pity the Warhammer couldn't make it into Mechwarrior Online; it's a sweet 'mech design. Too bad some companies just can't let stupid legal crap like that go.
ye i bet when you dedicate your life to making an anime series and comic book series wich gets hugly populair in japan and abroad I bet you'd like your designs to be stolen by some murrican company and used to make money for them i bet you'd be like that right
Originally, it was going to be a MechWarrior Reboot, meaning, yes, campaign, but after the legal issues, Smith & Tinker left and PGI changed everything about it and turned it into only MechWarrior Online. Unfortunately
You know what’s funny. When I first saw this I was like “there is. No way I’m ever using the big skull mech. It’s to edgy and I’m sure that it’s not even that good” Well here we are. Not only is the atlas mt favorite mech. I get a consistent 2 to 5 kills every quick play game. But I also painted it like a spooky skeleton with the glowing eye boltons.
@ValentinoDagher Yeah, it happens only if reactor go down in one turn, and chance it blowup is approximately 1/216. Basically on classic BT it happens very rarely.
I assume it is an AS7-D (C) aka "Atlas C" - it is very similar to the "old" AS7-D but with clan components - it also states "Atlas C" at 1:07 in the video
This is the mechwarrior 5, I wanted. One day, the Unseen will be used and without any redesigns. VMI owned the rights and they were cool with it. HG is a lying, corporate greedy bully.
A modified Atlas AS7-D-DC: Sporting ECM, a faster engine, two small lasers, two AC/5, and two SRM 6's fit into both the left and right torso. Left arm easily destroyed due to low armor or ammo explosion.
@MauserK43 The game's timeline is 1:1. 2012 = 3049, 2013 = 3050. If that holds true then the Clans should invade around August but it may be pushed back a month or two depending on the release date.
There was a big post on the MWO site explaining that it wasn't copyright issues that got this game canned - it was the fact that they couldn't find a publisher. Something to do with the restrictions on the license. Can't find the blog post but Bryan Ekman tweeted at one point that there was no legal dispute with Harmony Gold. Look Mechwarrior Online up on Wikipedia for the full story - the tweet is linked in the References, number 10.
Titanfall copied Mechwarrior/commander universe. Go check out Mechcommander game. It was that 1998 game that had eject for Mechs. Titanfall copied, not the other way around. Get your facts right.
David Tay why do you think I put "huehuehue" around the statement. I have seen people on every video with mechs in it saying "titanfall ripoff!" even though they can be almost a decade older, and they say it like they are serious.
SirMadHornet its not even a copyright, I am just saying, ever since titanfall came out, people think that titanfall did mechs first, calling every mech game, that can be even 10-20 years older, a ripoff of titanfall. Its sad really.
***** Ahh so it is. This is from the original trailer when they tried making it the first time, nearly a decade ago I think, Yes I know it says it was uploaded back in 2011, that's when they uploaded it to this channel
it IS in-game footage. Of MW5, which was never released. I do not get why this is labeled as "Mech warrior Online Reveal". This footage has nothing to do with MWO. Seriously... bad/false advertising.
I'd like to see it on certain things. Bridges and structures housing volatile materials for example. The disregard for physics bothers me when a mech stomps on a car and it's perfectly fine afterwards. Seriously, who builds a car that can handle 80+ tons?
MW5 got, in a way "scrapped", but at the same time they changed it into MWO. The reason is they got sued do to using an "unreleased" (I believe) Mech in the trailer. So they got the license and resumed production as MWO. The site is mwomercs(dot)com if you want to check for yourself, and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
As said by the developers, there never was a MechWarrior 5. The same company that's working on MechWarrior Online (Piranha Games Incorporated, or PGI) is the company that produced this trailer. Notice that the trailer itself never puts a "5" anywhere in there. I think this was more or less a proof of concept to try and bring the franchise back in a big way and get the fans excited! I know I am.
Here we are in 2022, 11 years after this reveal, and the game does not look or play remotely like this reveal video. Hell, an entire single player game, MW5, was created and isn't remotely as good looking as this.
Mechwarrior was originally released for the the SNES so being on Consoles is another similarity, on and as for Arcade based, when I played them they definitely were NOT resembling Galaga or a rail shooter which leaves the final kind of Arcade game out there, which is SIM. Changing the angle in which you see something does NOT change the kind of game it is.
No, it was a pitch for a new Mechwarrior title that no one wanted to fund since Microsoft still held the rights to it (no PS3). Mechwarrior Online is PGI's game that was put into development several years after this trailer was released. Hence it being titled Mechwarrior: Reboot, and not Mechwarrior: Online. Also, this game was supposed to be set in the year 3015 and include a single-player campaign, whereas Mechwarrior: Online is set in 3050 and has no single-player announced.
FASA DID in fact get a license for the "unseen" designs. They licensed it from a Japanese company, Big West I think. However, they might not have had the authority to issue that license, depending on how you look at it.. Harmony Gold owns the US merchandising rights. They argue this includes RPGs and computer games. FASA and company of course argue they are separate business sectors and thus HG's rights don't apply. So we have years of legal tussles as a result.
Keep in mind this was VERY early in development. It wasn't even CryEngine 3 at the time, I believe this was a scripted sequence in Unreal. Though, if you think about it, the actual gameplay in MWO is still quite similar to this, if only a bit faster. That Jenner was stupid to sit in one place like that. :P
@paketep that depends since first they did say the progect was scraped but that dosnt mean that they jest distroyed all of it. they may have saved it and used it as a starting point. second the people who are curently making it are actual fans of the game and are influensed by the people on the forums that say what may be a good idia to put in or what isnt a good idia. i would rather have a game made by them with the fan support then a corporate game like skyrim or cod.
Was this really in game footage though? The dev videos show some concepts that look exactly like this. plus, the new mwo looks a bit different. not knocking it, just curious.
I don't suppose we'll ever get another PVE MechWarrior game with a storyline and whatnot. its like theres a void in my being that will never truly be filled without a modern game like this. (MWO is fun, yes, but its an arcade version of the verse with no story. heck, you never even hear your pilot say anything.)
If everything goes well Russ said that next step will be singlplayer so fingers crossed but this information is little bit old and i do not have updates.
Hearing your own pilot would suck major ass and would break immersion immensely, YOU are the pilot, unless you really prefer an AI voice that can speak 2-3 lines over yourself in the cockpit lol.
Nah dude, this is footage from a version of MechWarrior that I don't think is being made anymore. The whole project is now, what you're playing- Mech Warrior Online. Would be awesome if they continued this one though, looks amazing.
This is a trailer of MW 5, which was cancelled due to some patent dispute, just like its movie did. And after all these, things turned into MWO. So this trailer had and has nothing to do with MWO.
well the Atlas pilot may have swapped out the lasers for AC 20s for example, or maybe the arms took enough previous battle dmg to render the weapons offline?
this may be online and both players were fighting like the Atlas and the other....thing but the Atlas looked like a GOD DAM BOSS when they started fighting
Iknorite! I took a 2 month vacation from MWO so I wouldn't get completely burnt on it, and to give PGI time to normalize missile damage and to do something to nerf the ERPPC sniper-meta, and when I came back, I didn't read any patch notes or nuffin, and when the game starts SURPRISE! it's in 3rd person by default and I'm just like "OMFG you have GOT to be kidding me. Seriously?"
SIM is not arcade it is the exact opposite, and yes if you have a random disembodied camera floating behind your mech then it does change it. At least in they could do something like what eve online did and explain why you have a 3rd person view in the way of camera drones. So if they added little drones floating behind the mech then that I could shoot (albeit hard to hit because of size), then I would be ok with there being a third person view.
+Evang Neiiel -- All of which started out as Macross in 1982. Robotech was the American version/adaptation of it. Many of the original mechs in Battletech (Battledroids) are taken form Japanese Anime such as Macross, Crusher Joe, Gundam etc.
Some were found(their was a lawsuit) to be "infringing" on the macross license. MWO had to remake the mechs to look different, and they didn't do to bad of a job. I just wish "Russ" had stayed true to the plan (he has been deviating from the tabletop/older game which he promised to be faithful to).
The thing to remember is that Piranha games got wasted by copyright nonsense and publisher pressure. I'm fairly confident they fully intended to make the game shown here, but outside forces pushed them to make what we got instead. Granted, it's still a fun game to play, but it's definitely not got the grand sense of scale, focus on strategy, and slow pacing we'd hoped for. If I had to describe MW:O to someone, I'd say "World of Tanks, but more enjoyable."
If you had an Atlas, ANY atlas pop out in front of you, you too would back away too ^.^ Atlases are scary and thats no lie they can carry a massive arsenal and you KNOW its ALL being aimed at you if the enemy atlas sees you cause he/she aint gonna stop atking til his/her reactor either goes nova, he/she overheats, or runs out of ammo for the majority of ballistics and missiles, and even then will continue atking with beam weapons, or the weapons are ALL destroyed...
basicly, the developers of mechwarrior 5 couldn't get permission to actually create the game, so abandoned it in 2009, but now some modders have got together to make mech Warrior online, but its gunna be unofficial
well we have to ask, was the atlas previously battling? I'd assume so seeing how fast its arms got blasted off, we all know the armor on a atlas is thick as hell, so it may be hes/shes out of ammo for the avail weapons left, also like I said earlier every pilot uses different weapons they are rated for and able to use effectively, SO he/she might not have every weapon available and may be set up differently...
Because this is the video they released before they actually started developing the game. I doubt destructable terrain would be useful in a MW game anyway. Personally I'd just flatten the city with LRMs so the rest of my team could have good LOS every game.
I've only ever played Mechwarrior 4:Vengance and the Black Knight expansion pack, so I don't know too much about the time frames or storylines other than what was in those games. Is there a MW story website?
So going back to when FASA existed.. The thing about the Warhammer was that it was never FASA's design, it was a Tomahawk destroid from Robotech/Macross FASA borred a lot of designs from Robotech and at some point, they had to issue re-sculpts of those borrowed designs (explaining why no warhammer model outside of the original starter set looks like the one in the trailer) Piranha Games doesn't have the permission to use those battletech designs. I believe that's why there was a lawsuit
I'm glad this is going to be free to play on the PC, but part of me wishes that the company wouldn't get sued for the use of the Warhammer mech, if that was the case then the game could have released on consoles in addition to the PC (which I think was the original intent) I can't say how much it would have been for my friends and I to play this on our Xbox's with headsets. But alas, I'm the only friend with a decent gaming computer so that means I'll have to make more friends online
Ico light Wut? I played a single match and got a million C-Bills. That means that after 14 matches, or about an hour or two of play, you can buy the most expensive 'mech in the game, and after two matches you can buy a 'Mech to start with. It hardly requires giving up on life.
Ico light I hate to disagree, but I'm still playing and well out of the newbie bonuses. Depending on how things go I can get anywhere from 100-200k C-bills per match. (losing notwithstanding) most matches take 4-10 minutes, (and keep in mind, I'm probably below average) so if I wanted to buy a new mech for 4 million C-bills, (like my current Phoenix Hawk) I would only need to sink 4-5 hours. It isn't a no-life grind.
Well, I'm glad to inform you that the game has been beaten into a shape which is barely recognizable by the new masters. They even want to implement mechs under different names now. The new "flea" looks exactly like a locust. (guess which "name mech") was more popular (all that micro transaction money.)
It's still an Unseen, so it's doubtful its image will ever appear in a Battletech game. I think that the reason there was such a long silence after this trailer was released was because they got into some legal trouble over the Warhammer.
Amazing how quickly the ability to improve things vanished with the original coders.
Almost like lostech or something.
Not gonna lie, when the dust cleared after the first mech went down, I could feel every muscle in my back reactively tighten when I realized the dude just bumped into an atlas. The first mechwarrior game I've ever played was MW3 on my uncle's old PC over 10 years ago. The only Mechwarrior game I've ever owned was a spin off title on the original Xbox, called Mech Assault. For both games, I was always the most tense whenever I knew there was an enemy heavy mech around, especially the atlas.
Or the blood aps
My dad has some old Battletech books that I read over from time to time, and the entry for the atlas says, that it's guns are made as visible as possible to make the other Mechwarrior question whether or not they're paid well enough to die there. I believe it.
@@STINKERMCGEE But from logic standpoint, exposed weapons are much more prone to damage.
@@STINKERMCGEE Dude Atlas are no fucking joke and I always freak out when I run into a good one on MWO.
still the same feeling in MWO modern day. you see an Atlas, you shit your pants and kill it.
The Atlas here is the old Star League AS7-D variant. This one has no large lasers in the arms, only four meds, an AC-20, an LRM-20 and a SRM-6. It's not the newer AS7-K with large lasers in the arm and med pulses in the torso, not the one which is the popular "default" Atlas config in MW4.
Hope it clears things up somewhat ENJOY!
@@Adam._ Seventeen?
The atlas was probably the old Atlas AS7-D 4 medium lasers (2 to the rear), SRM 6, LRM 20, and AC 20. The LRMs have minimum range and can not be fired close. Which is why you dont see much missile fire. The AC seemed to fired as 4 vollies instead of one volley.
The Warhammer is an unseen and should have won, since he was using cover effectively, but he got anxious when the Atlas overheated and did not go near cover and backed off far enough for the LRMs to get the lock and hit.
After playing MWO for a while and coming back to look at this trailer I am slightly upset...
In this trailer it shows:
>Detailed environment to give a sense of scale
-Currently in MWO buildings looks like painted boxes
>Warhammer missing shots due to Atlas knocking the mech around
-Completely not in current MWO
>Destructible buildings
-Indestructible buildings in current MWO!
=/
Well we lack a Warhammer completely and I do miss shots because of the damn screen shake abuse of LRM spam or dakka dakka. Destructible buildings is a must honestly, or at least stop having a small stone wall or ledge stop a 100 ton Atlas...
I think the issue here is that this trailer was not MWO it was from Mechwarrior 5 that was already in development at that time (2009) but was subsequently scrapped when no publisher would pick it up.
Now why PGI reposted it as MWO is a mystery but maybe at the time they had nothing ready to show for MWO but still wanted or had to put something out so they threw this out.
Dirges Smith & Tinker was working with PGI at the time of this trailer's release (look in credits), but left after the legal issues (Robotech lawsuits). That's why it changed from MechWarrior 5 (or Reboot) into MechWarrior Online.
Gamuray the hell does robotech have to do with anything??? I don't get it, the mechs in mechwarrior aren't even remotely close to the mechs in robotech. What kind of hamfisted lawsuit could they pull out of their ass that could even support its own overblown weight???
Neonic634 In the beginning many assets from Battletech were directly lifted from Robotech. Yes, they both look very different now because of that reason.
the interesting thing is that Atlas will still be evolving well into the 3060s even with the introduction of clan tech it still maintains its position and when its fully decked in clan weaponry its even MORE deadly than with standard issue inner sphere... the lesson here is not to confront an atlas if you can help it as it WILL kill you or at the very least maim u even if you take out the majority of weapons, good play by the atlas to cover the jenner while it works on getting up and retreats...
After all this time, you catch little details.
Like the fact that you can see the Atlas in the upper-left of the Beagle's camera at 0:39. *"Two* unidentified targets."
Or that you can just barely see it rounding the corner as the dust cloud overtakes it at 0:56.
Most of all, I want the music that starts off with that "dunnnnn dunnnnn DUNNNNN" at 1:03. What a perfect motif for the Atlas. I felt my hair stand on end.
"My GOD-!!"
lel "in-game footage"
It's changed quite a bit...
Oh what could have been.
terminalblue This, exactly this. Slower pace, assault mechs fighting like battleships exchanging heavy fire. No mass pinpoint damage. No high alpha system.
Yeah, they could've made the Warhammer look like it needed to eat a cheeseburger...
I was already a fan of the Mechwarrior Franchise, having played the original on a 286/88, then MW2 on Mac "Pentium 2 clone", MW3 on my WIndows 98/2000 machine (my favorite in the series), MW 4 Black Knight, MW4 Mercenaries, on my first dual core, so, when MWO was announced, I admit to a tiny touch of joy knowing the franchise was still alive.
And I felt this trailer exactly caught the flavor of the series. Great job.
In the lore of the MW universe Mechs had a scaled-down variant of the power cores used in freaking FTL-capable Starships. If they implemented a %chance of total core meltdown "feature" (like in the old, old, original tabletop war game) then pvp would be about suiciding your heavy mechs in the middle of the enemy team rather than trading shots for fifteen to twenty minutes.
The arms are not in use probably because of battle damage. If you observe, the Atlas was down to 80% after a salvo of SRMs and machine-gun fire, with all of the Warhammer's PPC shots missing.
The Atlas may have taken battle damage to its arms before engaging the Warhammer in combat
Rawr just a theory, but hope it help!
not mechwarrior online!!!!!, was supposed to be mechwarrior 5, it didn't happen sadly cause of copyright bullshiz
But it did now.
But it did happen now.
@@Hittorito you said what I said but with a bit of nuance.
@@drgenmo8340 true. For whatever reason, I did not see your comment on mobile. I checked now, still not visible. Dunno why.
@@Hittorito lol
MWO is a good game, but it's much faster than this, and matches usually consist of the two teams hiding behind cover, taking potshots at each other and raining down LRMs, until one of the teams feels confident enough to push.
Wish I could play THIS game. A lot slower, more tactical, a nice campaign with all the customization options MWO has to offer.
How do you feel about it?
I know this comment is seven years old, but god damn it I still want MWO to have a SP component. Yes yes, MW5 exists and I could buy a single player Mechwarrior game now for more money than it's seriously worth, but it still sucks massive balls that they never even gave us a mode like that trashy "Practice" mode World Of Tanks has.
Fuck, it really doesn't seem /that/ complicated on their end even. All they'd have to make is the interface to set what mechs the game should spawn and a map chooser.
And what tactics would you use? Being in cover and then defeating an opponent is quite a slow tactic. What slower tactics would you like?
@@igorbukovy4313 TBH I always found the rock hugging of MW3 sorta nice even. You had to be careful of what the dimensions of your mech was so you didn't eat a ton of lasers to a side.
MW5 came out and is exactly like this. Slower, harder hits, you want to preserve your units since their upkeep and ammo and guns are all expensive.
I'd really like to see a Campaign mode, reminiscent of other MechWarrior games. Or full MMO elements.
Long live the Atlas. Long live the Inner Sphere.
Long live the Steiner Scout Lance! ;-)
ftr when I posted that, I wasn't aware of the metagame stuff they will implement. It won't just be pvp on some different maps. Your battles will have lasting consequences on the world. It's a lot better than I first thought, pretty cool, in fact :)
That being said, a lot of us were -- and are -- hungering for storyline. The MWO engine could be developed to create a full on MMORPG type game to go with the pvp, or at least used in a stand-alone, solo play product. That'd be cool.
There is a separate mod for Crysis Wars called Mechwarrior Living Legends.
The guys behind the mod have done some amazing stuff...
Also, what was especially appealing abt the original concept was that it was set in an era when mechs were rare, valuable, unique. As opposed to the standard MW video game schtick where mechs are a dime -- well, a few million c-bills -- a dozen.
I'd like to know wtf that jenner pilot was thinking. must have been a newbie.
Scouting for the Atlas?
@@toddkes5890 What nonsense is that, no the atlas was scout the Jenner is on point, don't you know anything about tactics man...
this looks better than the mechwarrior 5 that did come out in 2019
3 years later and MW:5 is the best and most detailed iteration of the series, hands down
A pity the Warhammer couldn't make it into Mechwarrior Online; it's a sweet 'mech design. Too bad some companies just can't let stupid legal crap like that go.
+Irondrone4 Warhammer announced this last week if you are still interested.
Joseph Stock Praise Kerensky! Yes, I did hear that more Unseen 'mechs are being added, including the Marauder.
ye i bet when you dedicate your life to making an anime series and comic book series wich gets hugly populair in japan and abroad
I bet you'd like your designs to be stolen by some murrican company and used to make money
for them
i bet you'd be like that
right
@@catnium designs were sold to both sides.
So whatever you're on about, get your facts straight.
@@catnium Of course the clopper is dumb
Its a shame that nobody had any interesting in this as a stand alone PVE instead of the PVP online version
Originally, it was going to be a MechWarrior Reboot, meaning, yes, campaign, but after the legal issues, Smith & Tinker left and PGI changed everything about it and turned it into only MechWarrior Online. Unfortunately
Gamuray yea I hear you, I wouldn't be surprised that the Legal Issues go to be to much for the designers who knows.
You know what’s funny. When I first saw this I was like “there is. No way I’m ever using the big skull mech. It’s to edgy and I’m sure that it’s not even that good”
Well here we are. Not only is the atlas mt favorite mech. I get a consistent 2 to 5 kills every quick play game. But I also painted it like a spooky skeleton with the glowing eye boltons.
From what I recall. The Atlas was originally designed to be both intimidating as hell... and ugly as hell.
@@aickavon basic, every one knows the standards Korensky wanted this mech to be
It’s supposed to look as horrific as it is to fight. They did a pretty damn good job with it.
@@OneBiasedOpinion I think the in game one looks better
@ValentinoDagher
Yeah, it happens only if reactor go down in one turn, and chance it blowup is approximately 1/216.
Basically on classic BT it happens very rarely.
And now we got it. And it's GORGEOUS!
I miss the MechWarrior series. Thank you so much Piranha Games!!
I wish mwo was closer to this with slower attacks and real tactical and strategic movements.
I assume it is an AS7-D (C) aka "Atlas C" - it is very similar to the "old" AS7-D but with clan components - it also states "Atlas C" at 1:07 in the video
This is the mechwarrior 5, I wanted. One day, the Unseen will be used and without any redesigns. VMI owned the rights and they were cool with it. HG is a lying, corporate greedy bully.
A modified Atlas AS7-D-DC: Sporting ECM, a faster engine, two small lasers, two AC/5, and two SRM 6's fit into both the left and right torso. Left arm easily destroyed due to low armor or ammo explosion.
@MauserK43 The game's timeline is 1:1. 2012 = 3049, 2013 = 3050. If that holds true then the Clans should invade around August but it may be pushed back a month or two depending on the release date.
There was a big post on the MWO site explaining that it wasn't copyright issues that got this game canned - it was the fact that they couldn't find a publisher. Something to do with the restrictions on the license. Can't find the blog post but Bryan Ekman tweeted at one point that there was no legal dispute with Harmony Gold. Look Mechwarrior Online up on Wikipedia for the full story - the tweet is linked in the References, number 10.
2:09 surprised nobody said "huehueheu Titanfall ripoff huehuehue"
only freeborns eject
Titanfall copied Mechwarrior/commander universe. Go check out Mechcommander game. It was that 1998 game that had eject for Mechs. Titanfall copied, not the other way around. Get your facts right.
David Tay why do you think I put "huehuehue" around the statement. I have seen people on every video with mechs in it saying "titanfall ripoff!" even though they can be almost a decade older, and they say it like they are serious.
Ejecting from anything shouldn't be something you can copyright.
SirMadHornet its not even a copyright, I am just saying, ever since titanfall came out, people think that titanfall did mechs first, calling every mech game, that can be even 10-20 years older, a ripoff of titanfall. Its sad really.
In-game footage? Yeah, right.
It doesn't say in game anywhere in the video.
*****
Bottom right corner. Tiny, transparent... but it's there.
***** Ahh so it is. This is from the original trailer when they tried making it the first time, nearly a decade ago I think, Yes I know it says it was uploaded back in 2011, that's when they uploaded it to this channel
***** It is technically 'in-game', ie. it's 'filmed' in their engine/Cryengine. Doesn't mean 'gameplay' footage, that's something different.
it IS in-game footage. Of MW5, which was never released.
I do not get why this is labeled as "Mech warrior Online Reveal". This footage has nothing to do with MWO.
Seriously... bad/false advertising.
I'd like to see it on certain things. Bridges and structures housing volatile materials for example. The disregard for physics bothers me when a mech stomps on a car and it's perfectly fine afterwards. Seriously, who builds a car that can handle 80+ tons?
@SOCAdam i know taht some mechs have ejection systems where their whole heads fly off D: like an escape pod
MW5 got, in a way "scrapped", but at the same time they changed it into MWO. The reason is they got sued do to using an "unreleased" (I believe) Mech in the trailer. So they got the license and resumed production as MWO.
The site is mwomercs(dot)com if you want to check for yourself, and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
i love they way the mechs explode but in the beta they just simply do a normal world explosion and then they fall :(
agreed. I like the unseen. and I would have loved to see this as a story based reboot too
1:26 Well that's almost my favourite Warhammer. I guess that'll do.
Mechwarrior franchise pls. Make this a game and take my money!
+Pete Rivera mwomercs.com/
As said by the developers, there never was a MechWarrior 5. The same company that's working on MechWarrior Online (Piranha Games Incorporated, or PGI) is the company that produced this trailer. Notice that the trailer itself never puts a "5" anywhere in there. I think this was more or less a proof of concept to try and bring the franchise back in a big way and get the fans excited! I know I am.
Mechwarrior 4 Vengence ...i love this one the most, top tier.
Here we are in 2022, 11 years after this reveal, and the game does not look or play remotely like this reveal video. Hell, an entire single player game, MW5, was created and isn't remotely as good looking as this.
Mechwarrior was originally released for the the SNES so being on Consoles is another similarity, on and as for Arcade based, when I played them they definitely were NOT resembling Galaga or a rail shooter which leaves the final kind of Arcade game out there, which is SIM. Changing the angle in which you see something does NOT change the kind of game it is.
No, it was a pitch for a new Mechwarrior title that no one wanted to fund since Microsoft still held the rights to it (no PS3).
Mechwarrior Online is PGI's game that was put into development several years after this trailer was released. Hence it being titled Mechwarrior: Reboot, and not Mechwarrior: Online.
Also, this game was supposed to be set in the year 3015 and include a single-player campaign, whereas Mechwarrior: Online is set in 3050 and has no single-player announced.
FASA DID in fact get a license for the "unseen" designs.
They licensed it from a Japanese company, Big West I think. However, they might not have had the authority to issue that license, depending on how you look at it..
Harmony Gold owns the US merchandising rights. They argue this includes RPGs and computer games.
FASA and company of course argue they are separate business sectors and thus HG's rights don't apply.
So we have years of legal tussles as a result.
Too bad that the MechWarrior 5 from this trailer never happened.
Keep in mind this was VERY early in development. It wasn't even CryEngine 3 at the time, I believe this was a scripted sequence in Unreal. Though, if you think about it, the actual gameplay in MWO is still quite similar to this, if only a bit faster. That Jenner was stupid to sit in one place like that. :P
This was the coolest shit I saw as an teen, now I'm playing mech 5, still pretty good.
@paketep that depends since first they did say the progect was scraped but that dosnt mean that they jest distroyed all of it. they may have saved it and used it as a starting point. second the people who are curently making it are actual fans of the game and are influensed by the people on the forums that say what may be a good idia to put in or what isnt a good idia.
i would rather have a game made by them with the fan support then a corporate game like skyrim or cod.
Was this really in game footage though? The dev videos show some concepts that look exactly like this. plus, the new mwo looks a bit different. not knocking it, just curious.
I don't suppose we'll ever get another PVE MechWarrior game with a storyline and whatnot. its like theres a void in my being that will never truly be filled without a modern game like this.
(MWO is fun, yes, but its an arcade version of the verse with no story. heck, you never even hear your pilot say anything.)
this trailer was supposed to be for mech 5 , and that didn't happen for reasons
If everything goes well Russ said that next step will be singlplayer so fingers crossed but this information is little bit old and i do not have updates.
Hearing your own pilot would suck major ass and would break immersion immensely, YOU are the pilot, unless you really prefer an AI voice that can speak 2-3 lines over yourself in the cockpit lol.
That Atlas walking backwards is just like, "Oh this is bullshit".
@YorulmazIhsan i think the story line runs up to the Clan invasion, so no vultures until the clans invade.
honestly if this was the product we recived i wouldn't complain. feels very gritty and "boots on the ground" if that makes sense.
Nah dude, this is footage from a version of MechWarrior that I don't think is being made anymore. The whole project is now, what you're playing- Mech Warrior Online. Would be awesome if they continued this one though, looks amazing.
This is a trailer of MW 5, which was cancelled due to some patent dispute, just like its movie did. And after all these, things turned into MWO. So this trailer had and has nothing to do with MWO.
well the Atlas pilot may have swapped out the lasers for AC 20s for example, or maybe the arms took enough previous battle dmg to render the weapons offline?
this may be online and both players were fighting like the Atlas and the other....thing but the Atlas looked like a GOD DAM BOSS when they started fighting
This is the pre-lawsuit hiatus MW5 trailer.
When are you guys going to post your playtests? I want to see Jenner vs Hunchback!
Iknorite! I took a 2 month vacation from MWO so I wouldn't get completely burnt on it, and to give PGI time to normalize missile damage and to do something to nerf the ERPPC sniper-meta, and when I came back, I didn't read any patch notes or nuffin, and when the game starts SURPRISE! it's in 3rd person by default and I'm just like "OMFG you have GOT to be kidding me. Seriously?"
SIM is not arcade it is the exact opposite, and yes if you have a random disembodied camera floating behind your mech then it does change it. At least in they could do something like what eve online did and explain why you have a 3rd person view in the way of camera drones. So if they added little drones floating behind the mech then that I could shoot (albeit hard to hit because of size), then I would be ok with there being a third person view.
Most anticipated game
Robotech (anime 1985) used the Warhammer but called it the Destroid Tomahawk
Battletech (board game 1984) used the warhammer
+Evang Neiiel -- All of which started out as Macross in 1982. Robotech was the American version/adaptation of it. Many of the original mechs in Battletech (Battledroids) are taken form Japanese Anime such as Macross, Crusher Joe, Gundam etc.
Some were found(their was a lawsuit) to be "infringing" on the macross license. MWO had to remake the mechs to look different, and they didn't do to bad of a job. I just wish "Russ" had stayed true to the plan (he has been deviating from the tabletop/older game which he promised to be faithful to).
Actually, the Locust is the one that is being added to the game next month.
Man if I ever meet a genie I’m wishing far an atlas with unlimited ammo and no overheating.
Can't wait to see a trailer with CryEngine3 gameplay
I much prefer the atlas and warhammer designs shown in this trailer rather then what we currently have.
This isn't the MWO reveal. This is the old MW5 game trailer before it was canceled.
The game's been fun but they really need to think about updating/upgrading the game engine. Playing it nowadays feels really rough.
He just wanted hugz. :P
no he has more weapons, however heat and reuse times are a constant factor especially when fighting an atlas >.
The thing to remember is that Piranha games got wasted by copyright nonsense and publisher pressure. I'm fairly confident they fully intended to make the game shown here, but outside forces pushed them to make what we got instead. Granted, it's still a fun game to play, but it's definitely not got the grand sense of scale, focus on strategy, and slow pacing we'd hoped for.
If I had to describe MW:O to someone, I'd say "World of Tanks, but more enjoyable."
If you had an Atlas, ANY atlas pop out in front of you, you too would back away too ^.^ Atlases are scary and thats no lie they can carry a massive arsenal and you KNOW its ALL being aimed at you if the enemy atlas sees you cause he/she aint gonna stop atking til his/her reactor either goes nova, he/she overheats, or runs out of ammo for the majority of ballistics and missiles, and even then will continue atking with beam weapons, or the weapons are ALL destroyed...
It's an MHD reaction, and yes this would actually be ideal since all the rising heat would give you a hot air balloon effect.
basicly, the developers of mechwarrior 5 couldn't get permission to actually create the game, so abandoned it in 2009, but now some modders have got together to make mech Warrior online, but its gunna be unofficial
@ValentinoDagher Yeah, but it's that ONE time that it does that becomes your last time...
@IstasPumaNevada They just announced that they are using CryEngine 3 so it should at least look this good.
looking forward to it
It's lost to time because it doesn't exist
well we have to ask, was the atlas previously battling? I'd assume so seeing how fast its arms got blasted off, we all know the armor on a atlas is thick as hell, so it may be hes/shes out of ammo for the avail weapons left, also like I said earlier every pilot uses different weapons they are rated for and able to use effectively, SO he/she might not have every weapon available and may be set up differently...
Because this is the video they released before they actually started developing the game. I doubt destructable terrain would be useful in a MW game anyway. Personally I'd just flatten the city with LRMs so the rest of my team could have good LOS every game.
they will release a coop as the game goes on but haven't announced when
Tip: Currently SRMs are actually broken in terms of hit registration. You are reasonably better off with streaks.
I wanna play that game!
эхх, такую детализацию окружения и анимацию бы в мво
I've only ever played Mechwarrior 4:Vengance and the Black Knight expansion pack, so I don't know too much about the time frames or storylines other than what was in those games. Is there a MW story website?
So going back to when FASA existed..
The thing about the Warhammer was that it was never FASA's design, it was a Tomahawk destroid from Robotech/Macross
FASA borred a lot of designs from Robotech and at some point, they had to issue re-sculpts of those borrowed designs (explaining why no warhammer model outside of the original starter set looks like the one in the trailer)
Piranha Games doesn't have the permission to use those battletech designs. I believe that's why there was a lawsuit
I'm glad this is going to be free to play on the PC, but part of me wishes that the company wouldn't get sued for the use of the Warhammer mech, if that was the case then the game could have released on consoles in addition to the PC (which I think was the original intent)
I can't say how much it would have been for my friends and I to play this on our Xbox's with headsets.
But alas, I'm the only friend with a decent gaming computer so that means I'll have to make more friends online
Your face when you will never, ever, ever get a real Mechwarrior game - let alone one set during the Succession Wars - ever again.
Instead we get an online game where you have to give up on life or buy all the things. FUCK.
With no cheesy FMVs, no overwrought voice acting, no interesting missions, and no map variety.
Bein' a mechwarrior ain't easy in 2014.
Ico light Wut? I played a single match and got a million C-Bills. That means that after 14 matches, or about an hour or two of play, you can buy the most expensive 'mech in the game, and after two matches you can buy a 'Mech to start with. It hardly requires giving up on life.
BlackFenixGaming Aaaaaaaaaaand you got sucked in by the 'newbie bonus', which adds crazy bonuses to your first few games.
Ico light I hate to disagree, but I'm still playing and well out of the newbie bonuses. Depending on how things go I can get anywhere from 100-200k C-bills per match. (losing notwithstanding) most matches take 4-10 minutes, (and keep in mind, I'm probably below average) so if I wanted to buy a new mech for 4 million C-bills, (like my current Phoenix Hawk) I would only need to sink 4-5 hours. It isn't a no-life grind.
1:03 My gaw!
It's called BETA for a reason, and nice breaking the NDA. And if your in with a good group, its really fun
because pilots tend to gear their mechs with preferred weapons that they are good and comfortable with...
Well, I'm glad to inform you that the game has been beaten into a shape which is barely recognizable by the new masters. They even want to implement mechs under different names now. The new "flea" looks exactly like a locust. (guess which "name mech") was more popular (all that micro transaction money.)
It's still an Unseen, so it's doubtful its image will ever appear in a Battletech game. I think that the reason there was such a long silence after this trailer was released was because they got into some legal trouble over the Warhammer.
@trinex7 It's free to play. google Mechwarrior online.
its like the pilot doesn't know he has more weapons
So my question is...aside from the online multiplayer battles, is there going to be a campaign as well?