MechWarrior Online - Animated Fan Trailer
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- This trailer was originally uploaded by Black Plasma Studios as a pitch for a full animated series, but has since been removed by request from Topps and the animated series has been canceled. This trailer now serves solely as a fan-made advertisement for the Online Game created by PGI and is not a part of the official MechWarrior brand.
oh man if only mwo was actually like this. Also the cell shaded graphics are a nice touch!
Hey, I know you!
@@spfirestarter8283 oh?
@@spfirestarter8283 oh it's you, hi
A cell shaded mechwarrior game would be neat.
Ya
Oh man, a Direstar. Prepare to *FACE THE STORM!*
... once...
That’s all it takes.
@@jonathanhammens7703 It's not about the efficacy, you should know this by now...
Armor?....nah!!!!
I wish there was melee in MWO
yea i got a mega ciansaw gues what it dont work
that whas the day when i left the game
They had charge originally; but jenner football kinda put an end to that.
@@dreimann heard dragon boi kept knocking everything over
@@TheKarp - it was before I started playing, but yeah, when you charged another mech, you'd both often fall down. Here's an old video demonstrating:
ua-cam.com/video/XKq5X_OfI8A/v-deo.html
I mean this why I been getting more into the table as of late because of crazy shit you can do in melee.
Most notoriuos build ever, The Direstarrrrrrr!
Allright, where are you? There you are! Face the storm!
It's such a shame that the original video got taken down. I really like this trailer! Great job Nitrox!
I love the Direstar cameo. I just wish that it fired XD
Lovely work though :D
Thanks! If only Topps' lawyers hadn't stopped me from continuing, it would have been awesome to make the firing scene
Still, I'm happy I got to make this much at least, and it's awesome that more people continue to see it for the first time after so many years!
@@RoANitrox Wait are you for real? Somebody threatened legal if you showed the Direstar fire?
@@Shedovv nah, I mean Topps (the owner of the BattleTech trademark) stopped me from making any more animations entirely
@@RoANitrox Oof
@@RoANitrox What? That's a weird way for him to say "you're hired immediately to produce awesome promo material"
This is what stunts the growth of fanbases.
The sound is a little underwhelming, feels like it lacks weight, but otherwise, very impressive
The DireStar was a nice touch. Beef would be proud
We need more people like you who do such amazing animations for such a wonderful universe.
I want punching in MWO so bad.
not just that but melee weapons like in the table top game
Shame on Topps ending production of this, it would have been a great online cartoon. Damn them.
Remember pilot speed is life
Pretty cool actually just the mech steps sounds like they are all wearing sandals or some hard flip flops or something
This deserves its own full on animated tv series!! Love it.. please make a full season..
DireStar :D
B33F nostalgia
This is amazing work. Would be sick if they made a show for Mechwarrior with this animation style.
all those years ago, I would have been happy to be the one to do it. Sadly, main stream business holds too tight a grip on creative freedom. BattleTech/MechWarrior is in the unfortunate position of 'too unprofitable to be worth investing in' but also 'too significant to allow the community to use the franchise to create art freely'
@@RoANitrox That's a truly horrible place to be in, especially given the ample (enormous) community interest and willingness to invest in projects that flesh out the Battletech/Mechwarrior universe.
Imagine the potential of, say, a Star Wars Squadrons or Ace Combat/Project Wingman mod that let people get a taste of Battletech aerospace combat. Or a hybrid between the HBS Battletech and a Jagged Alliance 2 style of turn based infantry combat game, where you can play as a Cassie Suthorn-like character (or they could capitalize on existing material and you play as Cassie Suthorn) where not every action is between mech forces or the player killing swarms of vehicles. Where you may face mechs or tanks the way that they appear in the Jagged Alliance games, as sector-defining challenges that overshadow but also amplify the infantry opposition that fights alongside them.
Nice ! I wish there was melee in MWO, like it is in original battletech ( and the recent strategy too )
I heard there was in its early days but it was ass
@@CaptainPrincess It was more.. running into someone at full speed
@@FoxBotSwords what I heard is that it had knockdown which, in an FPS is already ass, but in a slow lumbering mech fps is ass squared
Shame the Kodiak can't move fast enough to throw a punch due to years of mobility nerfs. I almost forgot they were still IN the game...
YOOOOO this is sick!!!
Glad you think so :)
i wish there was actual melee on the game tho
Very well done and a lot of care went into the lighting. The main issue left is the lack of atmospheric distortions, like dust being thrown up by walking or thermal trails. This would help add "weight" to the movement animations.
I love that the Dire Star is there.
That was great !!! Thanks
Awesome stuff! Loved it! I wonder what happened to the direstar 😂
This is so cool. Would love to see a MechWarrior game with this style.
More than this game deserves, honestly.
FU
@@amh007dude
are you offering to?
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Can we please get a new animated series or live action from this 'verse.
wow that looks so good.
The Marauder is not in Glaug colors I'm disappointed.
Dang just imagine a full season animation like this.
i like the shader texture like a cartoon... Mechwarrior online look like to old game graphically... A cartoon design is look never old.
Thanks, I love it
Nice. If the stomps were pitched down a lot more with a little reverb the size of the mech would come through in the sound design. 50 to 100 tons of metal doesn't tip toe around.
I wish that the mechs could punch in close range like that
Super cool! How did you create the animations?! Would love to see Fleas in action xD
Great job!
Beautiful
Loving the animation style but I felt the sounds of movement and walking didn't fit it.
I would love to have you draw some mechs
Nice!
That was pretty cool
*sees direstar*
"This is theB33f speaking"
It's nice, it just has no focus. It's absolutely all over the place. As someone else mentioned, too, the audio lacks oomph. A little bit of a 'story' might make this fit a ton better.
There actually was a full 5 minute short with a cohesive story that was supposed to be made from this, but unfortunately legalities stopped me from making it
@@RoANitrox Legalities? Hmn. Shame. The fair use act should have protected you.
@@voxthesergal in theory, but I've worked in entertainment long enough to know that Fair Use on paper and Fair Use in effect are two different things sadly. Here's an article about what was going on at the time we released this:
www.sarna.net/news/animated-mechwarrior-teaser-back-up-after-being-hit-with-cease-and-desist/
@@RoANitrox Ah, so the original plan was a series.
It's a shame that those with money and lawyers would win cases like these, even when you're not gaining funding from it and not harming the IP in any way. Kinda like how Games Workshop took a back seat to all the fan made stuff.
Atlas
King crab
Marauder
Catapult
Centurion
Cicada
Raven
VS
Direwolf
Kodiak
2-3 Timberwolves
Hunchback(IIC probably)
Firemoth
1 unidentified
Yeah... Those IS mechs are screwed XD
I'd take just two Timberwolves up against that entire force... The potential third and the kodiak+direwolf pretty much seals the deal.
Even numbers(possibly one more for the clans) and i think they outweigh the IS force
Firemoth is going to eat that Raven Alive
Kodiak and direwolf are gonna maul the kingcrab and Atlas
That centurion is gonna find out why he shouldn't have sandwiched himself between two timberwolves
The marauder is gonna lose that shootout against the timberwolf
Cicada is gonna get chewed up by the hunchback, might get finished off by something else later
Not sure what the last clan mech was, but whether the catapult could survive it or not isn't gonna matter
You should do an updated trailer for 2020-2021 where PGI promises garbage for almost a year but never does anything until they lose half their high paying players.
My question is why don't you make a series of short films? I've seen those all over YT and yours is infinitely better!
This originally was meant to be an actual multi-episode series, but 3 years ago when this trailer launched, we were hit with a Cease and Desist by Topps. Unfortunately they own the Animation rights to BattleTech/MechWarrior and PGI was unable to cover us with their license because it only covers game production rights. You can read more about the whole story here.
www.sarna.net/news/animated-mechwarrior-teaser-back-up-after-being-hit-with-cease-and-desist/
Put simply, the only way we could ever get an 'animated series' is if it were portrayed as 'marketing content' for MechWarrior Online, which would be a tough pitch for PGI to take on since it's a sizable investment
IT'S THE DIRE STAAAR-ERR-EERR!!!
Old, but gold. Still, hope we get some new anime from Battletech or Mechwarrior officially or otherwise in the future now that all the spats and turf wars are now officially over. Let's have the mechs be seen!!!!!
Epic!
ay wat button I push to punch a mech?
Friggin awesome
Well done! This is really cool!
How I'd wish we have MELEE combat in MWO/MW5...
There needs to be a battletech anime show similar to attack on Titan
,, if you mean has that LARGE Scale feeling and setting where defending against giants works its way in to the civil building code. lol guh that attack on titan anime was neat until i realized its actually more some sick vore porn.. no thanks gives me the willys now thinking of it .. gross anime. ick..
but yes indeed should be made into a show.
Don't think I don't see that fucking Direstar buddy.
? your missing the comic releif as it slow pans to an atlas being circle straffed by a pirana with machine guns screaming ahh Ahh! get it off me Geet it off me!! . then a phoenix hawk steps in to help but just ends up laser burning the atlas more as the pirana is comically humping the back side of the atlas.. but then the urban mech shows up.. and Ac20;s the pirana
What is it with Centurions and getting ganked?
Damn, I wanted to see that Direstar cook itself.
I''d happily watch this animation series. The game is crap but this, I would watch.
great video only one problem there isnt a melee attack button in MWO lol i wish there was lol
I'd love a full MW series animated in this style.
Very cool. You should redo the animated sequences from the battletech cartoon!
I would love to have this color theme mod for my mwo
I don't know mech can use fist to fight !!
Awesome !
only in other battle tech games and tabletop
Love it, but what's with all the melee..?
I wish the game had this comic style.
15 secs in and this is great
I'm fairly new to the franchise but man would I give anything for a Red vs Blue-ish Mechwarrior/BattleTech series.
firstly, welcome to the BT/MW universe! Sadly, the trademark owners aren't as friendly to fan creations as Microsoft was with Halo and RVB. I would have loved to make a full web series out or MWO, but Topps' lawyers weren't too happy with the idea...
Did I just see a sneaky direstar?
I wanted to see kodiak vs atlas😭😭😭
...was that th3b33f at 0:50?
if only we actually had melee
If cell shaded MWO is wrong, I don't want to be rigt!
How can you make a MechWarrior video and not have a single Urban Mech in an urban environment.
Insert dislike here
Great now i want gen:lock back
meh, personally I feel like I could produce a better show given the exact same budget and resources. Far too much money was wasted on unnecessary expenses like 'high profile' voice actors and such. If I'm lucky, maybe I'll have a chance to prove it in the distant future
I’d take cell shaded graphics if it meant Mwo ran better and was more of a walking tank sim than a deathmatch robot FPs.
Haruko?
Can definitely tell it's fan made. IS would never do that good against clan lol
Clan tech is just better than IS but the clan fights stupidly
This is not a criticism of this video (which is really cool btw), but MWO just... ruined the look of the Timberwolf and Maurader. At least the Catapult looks decent.
Kodiak spirit bear on the maul!
wow nice
so this is war robots the mobile game for pc it was made around the same time
I wish I could punch the shit out of an Atlas just like the Kodiak in the video but sadly, MWO does not have that mechanic.
can someone please make an animated series out of the Mechwarrior universe
It's going to be up to PGI to reach out to myself or someone else to work out an arrangement to produce animated content under the notion that it functions as 'marketing content' for the game. Unfortunately Topps won't allow the production of an independent animated series using the BattleTech brand
A Kodiak takes on an Atlas in melee,....bad move buddy,
WOW
The mechs and environment look great but you seriously need to work on your SFX game. This took the trailer down by about 100%.
makes sense why I quit working in animation to go work in government then, lol
Ah, the 1 alpha dire...
nice
That was an incredibly stupid centurion to jump between an ebon jag and a mad cat...
It looked cool tho didnt it? XD
He's a brave little soldier, don't be mean to him.
Need a version with just urban mechs
Clans don't melee. Unless it's done to them first
It looks like a war robots
No war robots looks like this. MechWarrior was here long before that p2w mobile game was around.
This really should be a thing now, shame Battletech is largely ignored by the entertainment industry. That super lame, poorly animated cartoon from the '90s put a long-lasting bad taste in peoples mouths, I guess.
Real shit. Why cant we punch other mechs?
good effort, but the mechs “inertia” is too smooth, i imagine atlas assault 100 ton mech shud be slower. the mechs here are like squaresoft front mission tho
Battlemechs are known in the btech universe for being as nimble as a human body, thanks to the myomer muscle under the armor. It's also directly interfaced with your neural inputs, the stick and rudder pedals in a battlemech are just supplements to what your brain is essentially sending synthetic muscle and nerves directly.
@@Mavairo i wouldnt call atlas, 100tonne assault mech with armor as “nimble” man, no matter how many myomer they got in there. even the old battletech animation depict the clan heavy mech thor more realistic in its movement. light mech with jumpjet like jenner? it is fast, but not nimble
@@Mavairo example of nimble: dream pod9 heavy gear depicted by activision game, inline skating whilst dodging bullet. armored votom is definately its inspiration. squaresoft front mission. armored core, robotech veritechs, those are nimble. battlemech take a ppc blast aor LRM to the torso like a boss
Is that a direstar 😂
I just realized,you kinda used war robot maps.
Switch to enhanced imaging
Did I just see a KDK melee? I'm totally confused... This is a pisstake not a lore inspired thing? Like red and blue?
This trailer was an early piece for a series that was planned to be made on Black Plasma Studios; unfortunately, the original upload on the BPS Channel received a Cease and Desist from Topps and we are no longer able to create any further MechWarrior/BattleTech Animations.
In the event that we 'were' able to continue with the project, we would have pulled all the stops with characters, universe, lore elements, etc. along with a healthy mix of MWO Community jokes and references in the hopes that we'd have been able to make a well rounded series BattleTech/MWO fans of all kinds could enjoy.
Thanks for explaining, but for my question I'm guessing it was the rule of cool for that specific instance?
yup, rule of cool definitely had its' place in the decision making for this
Clan Invasion?