This is the game that made me fall in love with the Battletech universe. They never topped this one in my opinion. The atmosphere, the mission variety, it's all just perfect.
Did you check the Battletech tabletop boxsets? Battletech a game of armored combat. Battletech beginner box. Also check the "battletech fan" youtube visual guide to play tabletop. These sets have inner sphere mechs.
The most epic bit about this intro is the fact that it plays straight into the game. You start with a single commando mech, a wad of cash, and a pre-recorded message from the person that was left behind (with her telling you that you're in charge now). I just thought this was a movie with random people in it the first time I saw the intro. When I heard that pre-recorded message... my heart sunk.
It still does have the best intro than any of the rest of the games. The only intro that rivals it, would be the MechWarrior trailer (before it turned into that shit arsed MWO).
SoldierGeneral64 All the lines on this intro are incredible... Modern games could learn a thing or 2 from this. "There's still room in hell for your sorry carcass"
This game featured some of the most difficult missions I've played in the MechWarrior 2 era, especially when the Clans showed up in the midst of a new Succession War. Good thing you could hire a full lance of 'Mechs and, if you're rich enough, an aerospace pilot flying a 100-ton "Riever" heavy fighter.
Hardest game to beat because so many bugged missions. Like the escape after the clan drop ship comes in, kill the mechs blow the dropship hit a certain point on the map and boom "fail?" you escape and run around that canyon, and the dropship glitches and circles indefinitely. Could only beat it on a cwrtain patch and from having all the crap blown up super fast or it glitched. Great memories, because back then id try to figure out how to doma hugged mission 8 or 10 times, then have a break and play Daggerfall, because thats SOOO much more stable You know a game is great when they are that glitchy and still that fun and replay them now nearly 30 years later!
@@zacktrever1878welcome to the future - games generally don’t look as good as an early 2000s cutscene and those that do are either a janky mess or borderline rail shooter
Sean Kelly's voice just bleeds pure Narm and hamminess. "So, you daaamn well better be at the dustoff sight when I *get* *there*. You get the stuff?" "You're out of *time*. I'm not getting paid enough to *die*. Secure for orbital burn!" "Look at the bright side, kid: you get to keep *aaallll* the money." Sean Kelly may as well be Captain Kirk.
@@BTG514 Sean Kelly is the Dropship pilot's name, mentioned in a number of briefing texts (notably, if you survive a pirate's trap meant to jack your 'mech).
nothing matches this level of badassery. The voices and theme and graphics depicted as this noble intense mechpilot thing with this stunning eye grabbing visual of this mars like planet and heated battle.
For how little you actually have interaction with this character. Being the intro and the first message of the game. I think that colonel Holly Harris probably had one of the most influential impacts on me as a gamer from the beginning till now.
It's so weird how I forgot this, and yet seeing it again after nearly 20 years everything is so familiar and fresh in my memory to me as if I seen it a dozen times again recently
I was just thinking that as I watched this. It's been _decades_ since I've seen this intro but as soon as it started, all the memories came flooding back.
@@richardmitchell7895 I don't remeber how old I was exactly when I first saw this intro. I'm 41 now and this is one of the fondest memories of my childhood. To this day I pick Awesome over any other mech as I did back then.
Great great game. So much freedom (although not as much as in MW1 tbh) and this awesome intro. Also, what should be mentioned are the beautiful ingame menues and screens. Yeah, there wasn't variety, but the station, the office, these graphics really blew my mind back then.
MW1... I missed so many days of school because of that game, with my friend. I'd jockey the keyboard, he'd use the ancient joystick for my Tandy, and we'd wreck hell on a lance of heavies with our Locust. Ohhh... the memories. But damn, I loved this game! I felt like an actual merc in the universe. MW5 is doing it for me now, when I get time to play.
It's as good a call back as any to MW2 Merc's intro. There hasn't been a more riveting, chilling, brutal and heart pounding intro to a mechwarrior game before or since. The closest is perhaps MechCommander with that exchange "Sir it's real quiet here, I think we can call it clear" - "You think? Don't think, Mechwarrior, find out. Finish your sweep." right before their seemingly pitiful lance stumbles into a Timber Wolf.
A guy that my mom was dating would occassionally send me games that he pirated in the mail. This was one of those games. I remember him vidly telling me about it and his love for it When I popped that thing into my Windows 98 computer, I ejected a load from my pants so fierce that........... Well, anyway, great game Loved it when I was 9, still love it today The disc it came on unforuntately is unresponsive, but I can't bring myself to part with it
YOU ARE AWESOME FOR POSTING THIS!!!!! this game is still my most favorite, even though i cant play it. oh and thanks for posting the ending cinematic, i never beat this game.
Man, I remember I finished a mission in this game by squirming across the ground with one leg back to the dropship. I definitely haven't played something like this in a long time.
omg this was like my fav game ever. thanks for the upload. good memories. i use to like to camp on buildings and use those super long range missles and go into missle camera view to take out mechs.
I first played this in 1996, the soundtrack still holds up! Best part is when she dropped an Atlas with an autocannon armour shot, that is boss marksmanship right there!
this was the first game I played seriously online. Clan matches were amazing, a series of 2vs2 matches between different members of each clan. I was a young nerd back then. There was actually a smoking hot chick in my clan (or unit, the 328th, we played Inner Sphere) who I always partnered with in the game. She actually became my GF in real life for a while. Hellbringer was my fav mech, MPLAS config with maxed out heat sinks, JJ and AMS, Never forget this game, never forget you Firefly (Jessica)
@mrhunam I'm pretty sure she fires an entire salvo of LRM 15s at the Atlas to blow it up (though she might have swapped them for SRMs considering how close they were). The AC 5 is in the Zeus' left arm which is what gets blow off.
This is the first game in the Battletech universe that my brother and I have ever played. It came with our dad's first computer. My brother and I played this game a ton and at the time thought that the Battletech cartoon and tabletop games were unrelated. Love this game! 😁
The K2 which is the base PPC varient was around for quite some time. The K3 was a prototype ERPPC varient it was introduced just in time for the war of 3039. It was probly droped or turnd into the K2K. The K4 is a Heavy PPC config baised off the K3, with the K5 changing out the PPCs for Plasma Rifles (post 3067 varient).
@tripdefect87 The Commando is a light/Scout 'mech, so while it does not have the weapons or armour for a prolonged fight, it is useful for scouting missions and recon patrols especially to get classified enemy data.
@stevesan The dropship captain is talking to the pilot of the smaller mech that made it to the dropship. Instead of a two way split between the Commando mech pilot and the Zeus mech pilot, the kid keeps all the money. And the other pilot gets nothing cause she was left for dead.
WOOOOOOOOOO. I had mostly forgotten about this game. Somehow remembered it and stumbled upon these videos here on UA-cam. Ran out to the garage and found the old original Microsoft Sidewinder joystick in a cardboard box out there, covered in dust. My PC didn't have a compatible port to plug it into (no USB plug on the Sidewinder). That didn't stop me! I salvaged an old soundcard from a junked computer in the garage and got it all working beautifully. Going to install and play now. xD
@tripdefect87 It is a light scout 'mech and fast at that, so while not really being a full on combat 'mech, the Commando relies more on information gathering than anything else.
god this brings back so much nostalgia. i used to play this game as a kid. i decided to look it up after i saw mechwarrior mercenaries on the epic games store
@best360gamer I think that the sprinting one was a Commando. As you can see from the commentary... there has been some debate about what the other one is.
Just imagine being there in that mech, watching that ship lift off without you, and realizing that absolutely nothing is going to save you from death...
@@timothymccormick5208 At least on the Amiga 500 I played it on, you could fire jump jets... horizontally. I remember my Atlas whizzing along the ground like it had rocket powered roller skates. Good times man. Good times. Can't even remember if that was a cheat or just how the game was. It was hilarious though.
Watched that intro as a kid. Didn’t speak English so had no idea what they were talking about or the lore of the game. I can imagine the kid getting some « lone survivor » guilt and having become hardened over the years he kills the Starship Command that left her behind through some ruse to avenge his former commander.
Olli Thomas under the Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries timeline is around 3046 to 3050 or so so it's a prequel MW2 timeline is 3057 it's the Refusal War Jade Falcon is defeated MW2:Ghost Bear Legacy is after the Refusal War timeline it was hunting down to recover their stolen genetic material from a group from within Clan Wolf it used captured Draconis Combine clan mechs to frame Draconis Combine into war none of these games follow a one clan or cause different points in history of battletech universe
By timeline MW2Mercs = Pre war, the years before the invasion and you being captured by the clan wolf during a mission, you escape gloriously! and watch the fall of the Clans at Tukkayid MW2 = Refusal war, when The Clan wolf Escapes from clan space to IS after converting themselves as Wardens, all of kerensky's bloodline is killed by the clan jade falcon, Phelan Kell become the new Khan of the New Warden Clan Wolf In Exile, The most radicals under Ward's ring still continued as Crusaders and using the name Clan Wolf, they became thew new Smoke Jaguars. MW2GBL = When Ward along with the falcons tried to frame the DC for stealing tseng and jorgensson's DNA, They wanted to force the creation of new clan material to bolster their forces, the Bears Kill the Wolves in a space battle and recovers the DNA material, this makes the bears think more about the Crusader ways, who years later would make the Clan become Wardens and form the Rasalhague Dominion. MW3 = Operation Serpent and Bulldog MW4 and MW4Mercs = FedCom CivilWar MW5 = it would be Word of Blake but this one went to consoles as MechAssault series, which everyone hates it...
Well Mercs take place during 3046-3052, The IS recovered much of the "lost tech" sense the mid 3030s and the Catapult C3 variant was introduced around 3050. Though no catapults carry more than one launcher. Though Interestingly the two missiles that hit came in from a different angle than the first that we see the cat fire off.
The voice acting in this early one is shocking, but the dialogue is *great*. "You're out of time. I'm not getting paid enough to die." "There's still room in hell for your sorry carcass." "Look on the bright side, kid. You get to keep all the money." Bahaha so gold. Yes.
I think what was meant was the dropship's weapons were down regardless, but it doesn't come across that way due to the time of the line. Regardless, awseome video none the less.
His normal transport fee and hazard pay, all of it upfront BEFORE the mission begins. He likely didn't think it high enough to stay long in a very hot landing zone. The Mercs get the the contract fee (if the mission was successful) along with any bounty per enemy mech destroyed (at least, that's how it works in the game).
@Gallowell Eh, that's true to an extent, but I played the game so much back in the day; I had my fill of that certain type of experience. It would be cool to finally get the whole picture dialogue-wise.
Y'know...after all these years I think I got the meaning behind the money line; I think he was telling the panicky pilot (kid) that although they had abandoned his partner to her death, at least he got to keep all the money as a result.
They already mentioned that they are aware of that but the voice actress was not available to rerecord it, since they needed to get it ready for GDC they went ahead with what's available... there are already video of the ACTUAL gameplay of MWO from GDC showcase. i HIGHLY recommend you watch it, glorious return of mechwarrior gameplay the way it should be.
yeah, the conical shape of the lrm15 on left hand was a dead giveaway. Not to mention the 5 shots from the AC5. As for those that claim it would be a modified Thug, no field modification will produce the designed shape of the LRM housing of Zeus. it's build that way so that the pilot can use the left hand as a bludgeon without damaging the ammo feed.
The DS pilot abandoned the CO but she ejected from the mech.. look for the escape pod at 1:30. The Commando that the running MW was using moves really fast and had short range weapons but the film shows it being slow.
To be fair, she's in a Zeus so that's an LRM-15 almost point blank. I can believe that punching thru the Atlas's SRM tubes to detonate the ammo, and the close-up looks like multiple internal explosions.
"What did the dropship guy say at the end after not getting paid enough to die?" He then said "Secure for orbital burn." Which means "everybody inside, hold onto something, we're firing the engines hard enough to go into orbit"
Arrow IVs are lostech but that doesn't mean the Catapult's pilot didn't find some in a lost Star League cache. Also the DC did get some Star League equipment through a deal with Comstar.
Ahhh memories. I remember preordering this back in 96. The last time battletech was associated with its creator Fasa Games. A great followup to Mechwarrior 2
@compman3000 Agreed, I don't see how that can be a Thug, for one it just doesn't look like one, the upper profile, and the fact that Thugs have REVERSE knees, Zeus has human like, which if you look in the video, the mech has HUMANOID knees/legs. Also the fact that NO Thug varient(at least standard by TROs) has A/Cs or missiles in the arms, there all variants of the original THG-11E, PPCs, SRMs and so further.
I always thought he was saying,"Secure for orbital (or orbit) burn.". The assumption being that he's talking to the Mech pilot who just entered the hangar deck. Of course, he may be saying something else altogether. Of all of the intros in the Mechwarrior series, the dialogue in this one is probably the most difficult to understand.
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I remember working so hard to honor her memory ... after all these years, I still miss her.
*stirs martini on my yacht*
She said draconis scumbag therfore she is based
Forget that b
it's what she wanted for you
look at the bright side, kid. you get to keep all your money.
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This is the game that made me fall in love with the Battletech universe. They never topped this one in my opinion. The atmosphere, the mission variety, it's all just perfect.
Thats because when you are a Merc you have no Permenant Alignment to any faction ...
You get to see the Universe ...
Did you check the Battletech tabletop boxsets? Battletech a game of armored combat. Battletech beginner box. Also check the "battletech fan" youtube visual guide to play tabletop. These sets have inner sphere mechs.
What about MW5 coop sometimes ? ;)
This is my opinion too. There are good Battletech games, but none really compare.
Chrstopher Blair did you havd this for windows 95 CD rom as kid
The most epic bit about this intro is the fact that it plays straight into the game.
You start with a single commando mech, a wad of cash, and a pre-recorded message from the person that was left behind (with her telling you that you're in charge now).
I just thought this was a movie with random people in it the first time I saw the intro. When I heard that pre-recorded message... my heart sunk.
You gotta admit Activsion was at their best before the Blizz merger.
11 people didn't look at the bright side.
15 clanners smashed that dislike button like it was made of urban mech
@@ColonelMetus 16, now.... bunch of test-tube ubers...
@@timothymccormick5208 17 LRM spammers accidentally smashed that instead of the Alpha Strike button
Now those people have been paid enough to die.
Looked like deadeye killed her.
“Heheh, poor bastard, didn’t even have time to eject.”
My memories of this game are that it had the best damn intro ever, it had a great soundtrack, and that I got to keep all the money!
Agreed.
But the Commander sounded hot :(
Lt Col Holly Harris
It still does have the best intro than any of the rest of the games. The only intro that rivals it, would be the MechWarrior trailer (before it turned into that shit arsed MWO).
True! I tried to play it for my channel but it wouldn't run on my computer :(
Love that line. "I don't get paid enough to die".
SoldierGeneral64 All the lines on this intro are incredible... Modern games could learn a thing or 2 from this.
"There's still room in hell for your sorry carcass"
SoldierGeneral64 Look on the bright side kid, you get to keep ALL the money.
Funny thing - mercenaries here are really look like mercenaries. Not like that shit in most BT books.
This game featured some of the most difficult missions I've played in the MechWarrior 2 era, especially when the Clans showed up in the midst of a new Succession War. Good thing you could hire a full lance of 'Mechs and, if you're rich enough, an aerospace pilot flying a 100-ton "Riever" heavy fighter.
Bro I was a stupid kid and thought you had to solo all the missions! don't even get me started...
@@LEWTSPEC Every fuckin aerospace fighter I hired would spawn 60 kilometers outside of mission bounds and just twirl around and do loops forever
My favorite was the ice astroid escort. Sliding around.
Hardest game to beat because so many bugged missions. Like the escape after the clan drop ship comes in, kill the mechs blow the dropship hit a certain point on the map and boom "fail?" you escape and run around that canyon, and the dropship glitches and circles indefinitely. Could only beat it on a cwrtain patch and from having all the crap blown up super fast or it glitched.
Great memories, because back then id try to figure out how to doma hugged mission 8 or 10 times, then have a break and play Daggerfall, because thats SOOO much more stable
You know a game is great when they are that glitchy and still that fun and replay them now nearly 30 years later!
I loved this game. All new pc's should be able to run all old games. No excuses.
This can easily be run on DOSBox... Just need to get MechWarrior 3 patched to modern systems.
My laptop can run them, atleast Mechwarrior 4.
The first PC game I played, at the age of 5. I will never forget this intro "Look at the bright side kid, you get to keep all the money."
I remember watching this intro and wondering if one day video games would actually look as good as this intro
Welcome 2 da future - Phone games look as good or better
@@zacktrever1878 yeah but mercs 2 is more fun than all of them combined
@@zacktrever1878welcome to the future - games generally don’t look as good as an early 2000s cutscene and those that do are either a janky mess or borderline rail shooter
In 2023 games look amazing but don’t have half as much heart
basically no - we have more pixels but pixels are no substitute for art direction.
Sean Kelly's voice just bleeds pure Narm and hamminess.
"So, you daaamn well better be at the dustoff sight when I *get* *there*. You get the stuff?"
"You're out of *time*. I'm not getting paid enough to *die*. Secure for orbital burn!"
"Look at the bright side, kid: you get to keep *aaallll* the money."
Sean Kelly may as well be Captain Kirk.
Sean Kelly is the actor's name? Sounds like Phil Lamar
@@BTG514 Sean Kelly is the Dropship pilot's name, mentioned in a number of briefing texts (notably, if you survive a pirate's trap meant to jack your 'mech).
@@NewTypeDilemma01 Thanks!
I always thought it was "You're out of time. I'm not getting paid enough to die. Securing orbit is your own worry."
Considering the shit-hot zone he dropped into, I can't imagine any mercenary pilot being less crass in tone.
easily the best video game intro ive seen. Seriously can't think of a better one
+steve122288 NO, COS GIRLY DIES!!!! WORST INTRO EVER!!!
+steve122288 Warcraft 2?
eta on planet is 40 seconds, you damned better be on the dustoff site when i get there; you got the stuff?
+steve122288 quake 2 c:
nothing matches this level of badassery. The voices and theme and graphics depicted as this noble intense mechpilot thing with this stunning eye grabbing visual of this mars like planet and heated battle.
For how little you actually have interaction with this character. Being the intro and the first message of the game. I think that colonel Holly Harris probably had one of the most influential impacts on me as a gamer from the beginning till now.
Jeehun Hwang did an amazing job on these soundtracks!
I got the recon data and ONE PISSED OFF ATLAS ON MY TAIL!
Gotta love that...
"Look on the right side kid, you get to keep ALL the money"
great line
It's so weird how I forgot this, and yet seeing it again after nearly 20 years everything is so familiar and fresh in my memory to me as if I seen it a dozen times again recently
I was just thinking that as I watched this. It's been _decades_ since I've seen this intro but as soon as it started, all the memories came flooding back.
I was 12 now I'm 46 it was the best game introduction.
@@richardmitchell7895 I don't remeber how old I was exactly when I first saw this intro. I'm 41 now and this is one of the fondest memories of my childhood. To this day I pick Awesome over any other mech as I did back then.
Great great game. So much freedom (although not as much as in MW1 tbh) and this awesome intro.
Also, what should be mentioned are the beautiful ingame menues and screens. Yeah, there wasn't variety, but the station, the office, these graphics really blew my mind back then.
MW1... I missed so many days of school because of that game, with my friend. I'd jockey the keyboard, he'd use the ancient joystick for my Tandy, and we'd wreck hell on a lance of heavies with our Locust. Ohhh... the memories.
But damn, I loved this game! I felt like an actual merc in the universe. MW5 is doing it for me now, when I get time to play.
This was the one I played as a kid back in the 90´s thinking if only the gameplay looked like in those intros. Now I´m playing MW5 :)
Just saw a bit of MW Mercenaries 5 that they unveiled at MechCon. It got me nostalgic for the old games. Merc 5 looks awesome.
Cannibal713 look at the bright side, we just got a pay raise
It's as good a call back as any to MW2 Merc's intro. There hasn't been a more riveting, chilling, brutal and heart pounding intro to a mechwarrior game before or since.
The closest is perhaps MechCommander with that exchange "Sir it's real quiet here, I think we can call it clear" - "You think? Don't think, Mechwarrior, find out. Finish your sweep." right before their seemingly pitiful lance stumbles into a Timber Wolf.
A guy that my mom was dating would occassionally send me games that he pirated in the mail.
This was one of those games. I remember him vidly telling me about it and his love for it
When I popped that thing into my Windows 98 computer, I ejected a load from my pants so fierce that...........
Well, anyway, great game
Loved it when I was 9, still love it today
The disc it came on unforuntately is unresponsive, but I can't bring myself to part with it
loved decking out a nova with medium pulse lasers and mowing anything down in my path since you can out run the missles short range or long range.
YOU ARE AWESOME FOR POSTING THIS!!!!! this game is still my most favorite, even though i cant play it. oh and thanks for posting the ending cinematic, i never beat this game.
Man, I remember I finished a mission in this game by squirming across the ground with one leg back to the dropship. I definitely haven't played something like this in a long time.
F3nyx, you win at life for posting this!
omg this was like my fav game ever. thanks for the upload. good memories. i use to like to camp on buildings and use those super long range missles and go into missle camera view to take out mechs.
I first played this in 1996, the soundtrack still holds up! Best part is when she dropped an Atlas with an autocannon armour shot, that is boss marksmanship right there!
Mechwarrior belongs to Battletech franchise. Check "battletech fan" for a catalog of new stuff. Battletech started as a tabletop game.
@@aquarius5719 cool story, bro
this was the first game I played seriously online. Clan matches were amazing, a series of 2vs2 matches between different members of each clan. I was a young nerd back then. There was actually a smoking hot chick in my clan (or unit, the 328th, we played Inner Sphere) who I always partnered with in the game. She actually became my GF in real life for a while. Hellbringer was my fav mech, MPLAS config with maxed out heat sinks, JJ and AMS, Never forget this game, never forget you Firefly (Jessica)
@mrhunam I'm pretty sure she fires an entire salvo of LRM 15s at the Atlas to blow it up (though she might have swapped them for SRMs considering how close they were). The AC 5 is in the Zeus' left arm which is what gets blow off.
Thanks for re-adding this vid and the GBL vid. You rock.
This is the first game in the Battletech universe that my brother and I have ever played. It came with our dad's first computer. My brother and I played this game a ton and at the time thought that the Battletech cartoon and tabletop games were unrelated. Love this game! 😁
The K2 which is the base PPC varient was around for quite some time. The K3 was a prototype ERPPC varient it was introduced just in time for the war of 3039. It was probly droped or turnd into the K2K. The K4 is a Heavy PPC config baised off the K3, with the K5 changing out the PPCs for Plasma Rifles (post 3067 varient).
The memories this brings is unrivaled
@tripdefect87 The Commando is a light/Scout 'mech, so while it does not have the weapons or armour for a prolonged fight, it is useful for scouting missions and recon patrols especially to get classified enemy data.
Such a FANTASTIC intro scene and great game. Even inter-mission fluff and mech-equipping parts were great.
@stevesan The dropship captain is talking to the pilot of the smaller mech that made it to the dropship. Instead of a two way split between the Commando mech pilot and the Zeus mech pilot, the kid keeps all the money.
And the other pilot gets nothing cause she was left for dead.
Great introduction video for an excellent game. Thanks for making this available to watch on UA-cam.
this was the first video game I ever played. It came before Pokemon, halo, Runescape or WOW. My life as a gamer started here. ALL PPC.
WOOOOOOOOOO. I had mostly forgotten about this game. Somehow remembered it and stumbled upon these videos here on UA-cam. Ran out to the garage and found the old original Microsoft Sidewinder joystick in a cardboard box out there, covered in dust. My PC didn't have a compatible port to plug it into (no USB plug on the Sidewinder). That didn't stop me! I salvaged an old soundcard from a junked computer in the garage and got it all working beautifully. Going to install and play now. xD
Based on the newest rules by Catalyst Game Labs. They publish the new rulebooks for "Classic Battletech" now.
@tripdefect87 It is a light scout 'mech and fast at that, so while not really being a full on combat 'mech, the Commando relies more on information gathering than anything else.
Arm it with 4 medium lasers and use group fire and you will see what it is capable of. One shot will hit harder than a PPC.
Man, these were the days, this was my favorite game as a kid
I always wondered where a missile that long could have been stored inside that Catapult.
In its pants.
god this brings back so much nostalgia. i used to play this game as a kid. i decided to look it up after i saw mechwarrior mercenaries on the epic games store
My first ever mechwarrior game. This intro and the game itself were so good and fun to play.
"Watch it dropship command! I've got the recon data and ONE PISSED OFF ATLAS ON MY TAIL!"
Love it =P This game will always be a close one for me.
Brings back memories... :)
I've been playing it on XP recently and it's still awesome.
COM-7X Commando I believe it sports 3 medium lasers and a srm6 rack on the center torso
Finally! I found out! Memories from 1st grade, where we would watch the big kids play this after school, this cutscene has been burned into my brain!
quite possibly the best one of the series
awesome soundtrack
@best360gamer I think that the sprinting one was a Commando. As you can see from the commentary... there has been some debate about what the other one is.
Just imagine being there in that mech, watching that ship lift off without you, and realizing that absolutely nothing is going to save you from death...
@Homeomackus From what I've been able to gather, she's (Colonel Holly Harris) is piloting a Thug, as opposed to a Zeus most people think.
AND ONE PISSED OFF ATLAS ON MY TAIL
LOL.. How the heck does an Atlas keep up with that little Commando?..
@@timothymccormick5208 At least on the Amiga 500 I played it on, you could fire jump jets... horizontally. I remember my Atlas whizzing along the ground like it had rocket powered roller skates. Good times man. Good times. Can't even remember if that was a cheat or just how the game was. It was hilarious though.
@Ironeagle 777 The top speed of a Commando is like 100kph.
I prefer to use a Stalker to escort my Atlas. Stalker may be slow but with a good pilot it will hit clanners hard.
I loved the whole Mechwarrior series. The sattelite overview taught me to read maps. Who says you can't learn from games?
Absolutely! For example, I learned that "scumbag" was a word that made my mother yell at me! 😂
@DreamTraveller1, the first bit sounds like "secure all open..." but the last word just doesn't sound anything like "doors".
I was rly excited about this game in the 90s when it came free with my HP comp :)
I still have this game, I played it once when i was young, when i still didn't understand battletech, i should play this again.
@harkeill No it's most definitely a Zeus, Thugs were armed with a PPC in each arm, not an A/C 5 and LRM 15
Who in their right mind would pilot a Commando in the first place?
me
A dude who thought this was a simple recon mission
Watched that intro as a kid. Didn’t speak English so had no idea what they were talking about or the lore of the game.
I can imagine the kid getting some « lone survivor » guilt and having become hardened over the years he kills the Starship Command that left her behind through some ruse to avenge his former commander.
and this video perfectly sets the tone for what they represent!
the timeline goes in this order
MW2 mercenaries
MW2
MW2 Ghost Bear Legacy
+21boxhead You sure MW2 doesnt came before Mercenaries?
Olli Thomas
under the Mechwarrior 2
Mercenaries timeline is around 3046 to 3050
or so
so it's a prequel
MW2 timeline is 3057 it's the Refusal War
Jade Falcon is defeated
MW2:Ghost Bear Legacy is after the Refusal War timeline
it was hunting down to recover their stolen genetic material from a group from within Clan Wolf it used captured Draconis Combine clan mechs to frame Draconis Combine into war
none of these games follow a one clan or cause
different points in history of battletech universe
Oh, im sorry. I thought you mean the release from the games! Thank you!
Olli Thomas
oh the release of the game
MW2
MW2 GBL
MW2 Merc
By timeline
MW2Mercs = Pre war, the years before the invasion and you being captured by the clan wolf during a mission, you escape gloriously! and watch the fall of the Clans at Tukkayid
MW2 = Refusal war, when The Clan wolf Escapes from clan space to IS after converting themselves as Wardens, all of kerensky's bloodline is killed by the clan jade falcon, Phelan Kell become the new Khan of the New Warden Clan Wolf In Exile, The most radicals under Ward's ring still continued as Crusaders and using the name Clan Wolf, they became thew new Smoke Jaguars.
MW2GBL = When Ward along with the falcons tried to frame the DC for stealing tseng and jorgensson's DNA, They wanted to force the creation of new clan material to bolster their forces, the Bears Kill the Wolves in a space battle and recovers the DNA material, this makes the bears think more about the Crusader ways, who years later would make the Clan become Wardens and form the Rasalhague Dominion.
MW3 = Operation Serpent and Bulldog
MW4 and MW4Mercs = FedCom CivilWar
MW5 = it would be Word of Blake but this one went to consoles as MechAssault series, which everyone hates it...
Well Mercs take place during 3046-3052, The IS recovered much of the "lost tech" sense the mid 3030s and the Catapult C3 variant was introduced around 3050. Though no catapults carry more than one launcher. Though Interestingly the two missiles that hit came in from a different angle than the first that we see the cat fire off.
The voice acting in this early one is shocking, but the dialogue is *great*.
"You're out of time. I'm not getting paid enough to die."
"There's still room in hell for your sorry carcass."
"Look on the bright side, kid. You get to keep all the money."
Bahaha so gold. Yes.
This is hands down one of the greatest games ever made
This intro rocks. I just covered the games on my channel and this was probably the best of the three.
one of the best Mech intros ever =)
"Look at the bright side kid, you get to keep all the money."
Its clearly a Zeus, it has an autocannon and the thug doesn't have a protruding head with antennae. Yes, so its what I think.
That looks like a Zues. My favorite mech.
"Look at the bright side kid, you get to keep all the money" :D A stand out quote, it really set the tone for the game. Dammit I miss this franchise.
I think what was meant was the dropship's weapons were down regardless, but it doesn't come across that way due to the time of the line. Regardless, awseome video none the less.
His normal transport fee and hazard pay, all of it upfront BEFORE the mission begins. He likely didn't think it high enough to stay long in a very hot landing zone.
The Mercs get the the contract fee (if the mission was successful) along with any bounty per enemy mech destroyed (at least, that's how it works in the game).
i'd like to see this one processed with an AI to upscale quality and resolution :O
The graphics in this felt fucking insane back in the mid 90s. I've seen an attempted modernization of this and it loses something.
@Gallowell Eh, that's true to an extent, but I played the game so much back in the day; I had my fill of that certain type of experience. It would be cool to finally get the whole picture dialogue-wise.
Y'know...after all these years I think I got the meaning behind the money line; I think he was telling the panicky pilot (kid) that although they had abandoned his partner to her death, at least he got to keep all the money as a result.
They already mentioned that they are aware of that but the voice actress was not available to rerecord it, since they needed to get it ready for GDC they went ahead with what's available... there are already video of the ACTUAL gameplay of MWO from GDC showcase.
i HIGHLY recommend you watch it, glorious return of mechwarrior gameplay the way it should be.
Thanks a lot guys !! Finally I get the gist of it !!
yeah, the conical shape of the lrm15 on left hand was a dead giveaway. Not to mention the 5 shots from the AC5. As for those that claim it would be a modified Thug, no field modification will produce the designed shape of the LRM housing of Zeus. it's build that way so that the pilot can use the left hand as a bludgeon without damaging the ammo feed.
The DS pilot abandoned the CO but she ejected from the mech.. look for the escape pod at 1:30.
The Commando that the running MW was using moves really fast and had short range weapons but the film shows it being slow.
This opening always gave me nightmares when I was little.
This is just..so good...
thats awesome, my brother took up architecture, part of the reason was that he was really inspired by video game interiors like Thief 1 and 2.
How does this look better than the brand new trailer?
I love how she one-shots the Atlas.
To be fair, she's in a Zeus so that's an LRM-15 almost point blank.
I can believe that punching thru the Atlas's SRM tubes to detonate the ammo, and the close-up looks like multiple internal explosions.
@@saeyabor Floating TACs to ammo. Best way to ruin someone's day in 3025.
"What did the dropship guy say at the end after not getting paid enough to die?"
He then said "Secure for orbital burn." Which means "everybody inside, hold onto something, we're firing the engines hard enough to go into orbit"
Arrow IVs are lostech but that doesn't mean the Catapult's pilot didn't find some in a lost Star League cache. Also the DC did get some Star League equipment through a deal with Comstar.
So it is! Cheers.
Best game ever, wished they still made em like this.
Just a Catapult belonging to the Draconis Combine, the faction they were fighting against in the intro video.
i still think that out of all the mechwarriors this is the best intro :)
Ahhh memories. I remember preordering this back in 96. The last time battletech was associated with its creator Fasa Games. A great followup to Mechwarrior 2
Old comment, but MW4 lists Fasa as well since they were just bought by Microsoft. MW3 was under Fasa too.
I miss this game so much..Something about games today are too real. This was just perfect.
@compman3000 Agreed, I don't see how that can be a Thug, for one it just doesn't look like one, the upper profile, and the fact that Thugs have REVERSE knees, Zeus has human like, which if you look in the video, the mech has HUMANOID knees/legs. Also the fact that NO Thug varient(at least standard by TROs) has A/Cs or missiles in the arms, there all variants of the original THG-11E, PPCs, SRMs and so further.
i remember during the summer when i was a kid, i stayed up late playing this game
I always thought he was saying,"Secure for orbital (or orbit) burn.". The assumption being that he's talking to the Mech pilot who just entered the hangar deck.
Of course, he may be saying something else altogether. Of all of the intros in the Mechwarrior series, the dialogue in this one is probably the most difficult to understand.
Despite its outdated graphics, this intro is more intense than most game intros today. Now why is that? I miss this shit bigtime.
I'm amazed you could make out what that pilot said. I never could.
during the summer time late at night, i would play this game the time! back in the 90's that is