The best thing about this game was the narrator at the start of the game; the voice acting was superb, unlike every other game, completely believeable. The officer who gave your briefings and so on, completely believable. No MW title has matched 3, and it's been 13 years. How sad is that?
Both other weapons are ammunition fed, the energy weapon is the logical choice for a non priority target. Still, absolute overkill... so perfectly reasonable to a Jaguar Warrior
If I understand correctly they were one of if not the most brutal clan. Even the canon books and games mention they were hard and brutal to those they occupied, especially to civilians. That's why they were target by the IS for total annihilation. Even Clan Wolf didn't like them not to mention the Nova cats
+cv .echeveste A number of the Clan sourcebooks, including ones that speak about the origins of the Clans, explain the Smoke Jaguars in detail -- they were harsh to everyone, even themselves, believing in "survival of the fittest". Their training regimen was even more harsh than the Jade Falcon one (already considered one of the most difficult in the Clans). Only Clan Blood Spirit had a tougher warrior training program (by far, the toughest out of all of the Clans, hands down).
The part of this game I remember the most apart from the intro was the mission briefings. The fly-by of the mission area using recon drones and the voice acting gave it a kind of authenticity that I didn't feel with other games in the series.
"Without a TAG laser, that artillery will be about as accurate as Command is at predicting Clanner movement... No offence!" "None taken, thanks for the vote of confidence"
The Draconis Combine Avatar is based on the Vulture chassis. It was developed because using salvaged Clan OmniMechs led to too many field breakdowns from the lack of proper parts to repair and maintain them.
Though the CGI looks weak by today's standards, the script, direction, voice acting and music are really well done. Makes you want to see the larger movie this scene could have come from.
This cinematic got me hyped to pilot an Atlas, which we didn't get until the expansion pack. Dominic even says "We could sure use an Atlas about now" in one of the briefings. I played through this game so many times.
This atlas was so fucking cool i decided to recreate it as much as possible for multiplay 4 IS large pulse lasers a Heavygaus and Bap ecm is a good mech to deal with fanmade mary sue BS hitboxes in the Mw4 mektek mod.
@@rasiabsgamingcorner2258 Too bad he could only fire ER Small Lasers(blue in MW3) and machinegun, since he built up too much heat firing his ER Large Lasers on infantry while running at top speed. ;) Reflexes - Very good (For reasons already stated) Aim/Targeting - Exceptional (Hitting multiple infantry soldiers on opposite sides of the Mech while in a full run... with a Large Laser.) Weapon and Heat Management - Average to below average (Didn't waste ammo on infantry, but ignored the 4 dedicated anti-infantry weapons on his Mech, the machineguns!) Tactical - He/she is dead (He/she spiked her/his heat on non-priority targets while having no information about - but every reason to believe - Inner Sphere Mech forces supporting the tanks and infantry, a perfect ambush enviroment being right behind the conventional forces.) Yep, that's a young Smoke Jaguar Mechwarrior piloting the best all-around OmniMech in the Clan's arsenal. Skilled, overconfident to a fault, scream + leap + smash face first into an IS ambush. ^^
Im a Clanner (leaning towards Clan Wolf out of all of them) and even I wouldn't respect the Jaguars if I had to deal with them. I never liked the Jaguars. Neither did most of my fellow Wolves.
I've made some research and realized that all mechs has correct equipment that will work ingame, like both Mad dog, Summoner has Prime configuration, firefly most likely "3SLE" configuration, Atlas visually has 1 machine gun, 3 M-Lasers, 2 LRM10, 1 SRM6, 1 AC-10. Timberwolf is most likely Prime configuration too, but visible 2 M-Lasers 4 machine guns, and 2 LRM20
Formula for Mech Warrior Movie... Writers set up and play elaborate battle tech campaign... then write story based on the results... and make kick ass movie.
Michael Bay directing this movie can allow for lots of explosions. Then again, the movie would have to include a bunch of teenagers that get more camera time than the battlemechs.
Rocko's Modern Warfare If Michael Bay directed a Mech Warrior Movie, he would no doubt butcher the plot with his moronic bull shit, focus entirely on a bunch of pubescent fuck wits (as you've stated), and just all around ruin the franchise for millions of fans. Still the chances of him making this movie are next to none, as he cant cram U.S flags into every scene considering that the U.S no longer exists in Battle Tech lore. If he DID direct a Mech Warrior movie, I would have to hunt him down and personally castrate him.
I feel more sorry for the poor bastard the Thor felt deserved to die to a PPC blast. using that on a battlearmor i can understand...but an unarmored trooper?
This intro never stops amazing me. It does an excellent job selling you this game and the universe. Who can look at this and say, _"Nope, don't want it."_ If this came out now people would have difficulty hiding theirs boners. My favorite part is when the Summoner turns to look at the nuclear explosion of his lance-mate's Mech, then he just as easily turns away and continues on his original duties. He's like, _"Huh. Well, we both knew what we signed up for."_ That is so hardcore.
+extragirth64 You mean his Star-mate ;) And, given that they were both Smoke Jaguars, he probably felt that his fellow warrior came from an inferior sibko, no doubt.
Mechwarrior 3 for all of its many faults got the Campaign/feel of the world right, simply put between the scaled down "Fighting Lance to Lance" battles, the Campaign that basically encompassed little more then a botched raid that was part of a much larger operation, and a worn out Tactical operations officer who sounds just as overworked and exhausted as you expect someone to feel after being in a combat zone constantly for days on end, I loved this game and hope it can be recaptured in another someday.
Among a pair of Smoke Jaguar Mechwarriors, even among sibmates, the sentiment was probably closer to "Well more for me, then" or a sarcastic "I take it we are no longer sharing the glory then, quiaff?" followed by possible chuckling as he resumed his infantry hunt.
@@kevshabunas523 I remember watching the campaign intro and carefully listening to the plans thinking "well that sounds like a fun game", then one of the ships gets blown up, teams are scattered and things just generally go tits up all around and just sit through the following loading screen (I did not have the best machine back then, shut up) thinking "well... crap, now what?"
MW4's intro was very good but the 'acting' ruined it. Except for the main guy in that intro the rest of the, ah hem, 'actors' were absolutely awful. I still think Ghost Bear's Legacy had the best intro.
This cinematic opens to one of my favorite games of all time, MW3. It really opened up to display the awesome might of one of these mechs on the battlefield and the music added the battlefield terror to the menacing firepower and size of the behemoths. One of the greatest games ever, in my opinion
Mad Cat: Yeah, rampaging through the countryside, blowing up Fireflies, this is the life! Whoops, almost ran into a wall there. Could have sworn that building wasn't there a second ag -- _oh. Ohhhhhhh. Oh dear._
Comparing it to today standard is a waste of time, just admire the high level of quality it brought back in old computers... hell this was animation for videogames at it's height.
man i use to play this when i was a kid and i loved it! i couldn't remember the name of it until now, I'm going to download this game and play it again like good old times xD
Jack Traveller What was he supposed to use? He only has the PPC, an LRM launcher and an autocannon. out of the three, only one doesn't use ammo and all have comparable firepower.
Did they really? The defenders had an Atlas, Mad Dog and two Fireflies. The Atlas was destroyed fighting the Timberwolf and it's a small miracle that he even won that duel as the Timberwolf is an all around better mech. The Fireflies are effectively useless against the Summoner and the Mad Dog isn't armored well enough to beat it either. Had the stupid clanner not acted like a stupid clanner and chased the last Firefly straight into an obvious ambush he'd have wiped the floor with both remaining mechs.
If he'd fought more intelligently he would have, but clan tactics being what they are, it probably didn't even occur to him that he might be walking into an ambush.
Wait what, a madcat isn't better than an atlas, the atlas is the second most armored mech in lore and has enough fire power to destroy an entire Garrison. Madcats are great mechs, but even they get scared when they see an atlas.
MechAssault games usually aren't considered canon to the original series' storyline. MechAssault was actually seen in the eyes of many old BattleTech fans as a bastardization of what the series is about. All the MechWarrior games take place before the events of MechAssault. Also; BattleTech takes place in the "Inner Sphere", which is a collection of thousands of planets that humans have colonized. If one world blows up- there's many, many more to live on.
God i love this intro the best especially when the madcat gets scared of the Atlas and starts shooting him and gets three lasers to the face and when it goes critical lol
It wouldn't "go critical", but it might explode depending on how the energy required to sustain fusion is maintained. If whatever magic they're using to keep the atoms going into each others' coulomb barriers is taken away and all the potential energy stored by the repulsion between them is unleashed all at once, that would be pretty explosive. Or, it could be the energy of fusion itself suddenly causing the material to expand outward when containment is suddenly lost. This is how stars go supernova: they run out of mass until there isn't enough gravity to hold them together. There aren't any small-scale (smaller than a star) self-sufficient fusion reactors in real life so we can't really know how they behave.
@harkeill I said to do it if you want to take the 'mech intact. It's an alternative to shooting the cockpit, from both an honorable and objective standpoint (for the latter, the legs are simply easier to replace than the cockpit).
I think the whole Battletech universe is awesome, having played both my first match of the table top game which this was inspired and the MechWarrior games themselves.
@armoredplacoderm Clan Warriors, most notably Clan trueborn Warriors never gave freebirths much credit and for them, the Inner Sphere, being all freebirths and barbarians meant they were nothing but ants in their eyes. So of course, they could use over-kill if they felt the mood.
For 20 years I wondered how the fuck it was possible for an Atlas to just sneak up to a Madcat like that. And then I played Mechwarrior Online. Some players just get so tunnel visioned that a coordinated group on the other team could say "hey dude there's a Madcat headed towards you" "oh yeah? okay lemme turn around real quick... lol he's looking the other way, imma wait till he looks at me then cockpit him"
Watch TheBEEF’s videos on the stealth Atlas. Powering down and remaining still while powered on…you’d be surprised how many people’s eyes pass right over you. And that’s without being a bloodthirsty smoke jaguar warrior.
What an amazing upload. Brings back crazy memories. I graduated to this from MechCommander 2 and does anyone remember Lynx and the other members of the "game" from that game?
+Mark Balcombe Yeah, MC 2 was great, much better than this heap of junk. All you do is run and shoot their legs off. If you're the slightest bit careless you get blasted to oblivion by a larger mech with high ac. In mechcommander you could at least use some strategy and tactics.
If u ever get a chance read the TechManual for the classic battletech, it explains very well why the engine wouldnt explode. Basicly there isnt enough plasma in the engine to create critical mass and if the magnetic containment was damaged or desroyed the plasma would just cool as it hit the reactor walls.
To add to to your comment, the mad cat was likely running high on his heat curve and/or intentionally over loaded the reactor. Fusion reactors in battletech 99 times out of 100 will just sputter out when busted up cause as you said, there is not enough plasma to go boom. There is always the possibility though that some one could set the reactor to explode like the mad cat did via killing the auto shutdown safety measure or being blasted by enough flamers.
Critical mass? But it's fusion, you don't really need critical mass.... The sun is constantly exploding all the time. Meaning that in effect a fusion reactor is a controlled explosion, so if you lose control of the reaction, it goes boom, but if it gets breached, it'll probably just cool, rapidly, destroying the salvage value.
Ugh, I hated seeing the Atlas fall so quickly. The planning for this lance could of been much better, excusing the light ambush. But still, it was a very gritty opening. Loved it.
MW3 level 18 (all ice and snow), don't need any heatsinks ! Load out eight Clan particle cannons with link fire... almost 1 shot a second non stop. Good times.
This has given me goosebumps since I was a small child. When the guy got crushed by the Thor, I welled up like "oh my god this is war" for some reason it was so real to me in this trailer
They did a good job with this intro. The atmosphere is distinctive, but I don't really think the pilots were very smart..... Well the Vulture pilot and Atlas pilot were. MW3 was the first computer game I bought with my own money.... never finished the campaign, though.
Can’t blame ‘em. 500 years of constant warfare means most people don’t have more than a fourth-grade education and whatever practical experience they manage to scrape up.
Correction, It has been used for that purpose from 1951-2015 in well over 200 movies, TV shows and games. It is credited to Ben Burtt for making it popular by using it in every star wars and indiana jones movie.
The video game franchise is called MechWarrior because you use mechs. It takes place in the battletech franchise and universe, which is one of my favorites, but if it was a true Battletech video game, you would be able to fight as infantry, a tank crew, fighter pilot, etc. It's MechWarrior because you use mechs.
I first learned about it as MechWarrior 2. After playing MW3 I ended reading almost every single BattleTech novel that came out. There are some really epic, political, war stories among them.
Yep, I knew it as MechWarrior. After I watched this I went on a huge MW/BT Lore binge through .. I cant remember the site.. Didnt realise how huge it was. Epic story line!
I don't know about MWO, but the Thor was only decent at mid to long range in the tabletop game, similar to the medium Griffin. Close up, the PPC and LRMs are outmatched by medium lasers and SRMs. The Mad Cat was a beast though.
I love how the infantry death cries are all from Command & Conquer, which is ironic since Westwood Studios did make 2 of the first Battletech video games.
+TymeTwyster Last Looking back on this though...they're kind of asking us to presume clan-borns are pretty dumb. Two mech pilots charged alone into enemy territory where they were clearly outnumbered and didn't even cover each other when both were still alive, nor retreat when one was slagged? That's pretty boneheaded... ...the line is still pretty badass though. :3
Clanners are warriors, not soldiers. They don't fight wars, they fight a series of single combat engagements for the most part. They likely underbid this one anyways, and they might've been dishonored pilots looking for an opportunity to get some honor back (by going on a suicide mission).
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The best thing about this game was the narrator at the start of the game; the voice acting was superb, unlike every other game, completely believeable. The officer who gave your briefings and so on, completely believable. No MW title has matched 3, and it's been 13 years. How sad is that?
This game had the BEST immersion
just passing by 12 years later :)
you're right, still unmatched 25 years after release
@@Arastat1 nah , i do enjoy 5 and 5 clans
Actually it's been like 25 years
How typical of the Smoke Jaguars to waste a PPC blast on a single soldier.
Both other weapons are ammunition fed, the energy weapon is the logical choice for a non priority target. Still, absolute overkill... so perfectly reasonable to a Jaguar Warrior
If I understand correctly they were one of if not the most brutal clan. Even the canon books and games mention they were hard and brutal to those they occupied, especially to civilians. That's why they were target by the IS for total annihilation. Even Clan Wolf didn't like them not to mention the Nova cats
+cv .echeveste A number of the Clan sourcebooks, including ones that speak about the origins of the Clans, explain the Smoke Jaguars in detail -- they were harsh to everyone, even themselves, believing in "survival of the fittest". Their training regimen was even more harsh than the Jade Falcon one (already considered one of the most difficult in the Clans). Only Clan Blood Spirit had a tougher warrior training program (by far, the toughest out of all of the Clans, hands down).
I thought only Clan Wolf used the Timber Wolf?
@@danieldorn2927 They could be gifted or salvaged.... but well the latter has been more rare then the former.
The part of this game I remember the most apart from the intro was the mission briefings. The fly-by of the mission area using recon drones and the voice acting gave it a kind of authenticity that I didn't feel with other games in the series.
Tremadog102 I adored the fact that mission control sounds more and more tired as the game goes on. Like he’s burning the wick at both ends.
So true, the VA really killed it.
"Without a TAG laser, that artillery will be about as accurate as Command is at predicting Clanner movement... No offence!"
"None taken, thanks for the vote of confidence"
I fucking loved that. It sounded pure military. The briefing wasn't some hyped up guy hamming it up, but some tired dude just trying to do his job.
@@nightwisher02 I don't remember to sign on walking tour on Tranquil. Am I glad to be here? You bet I am.
To this day, this intro still puts me through so many emotions.
Mechwarrior 2 rocked too
Still gets chills at the "Die Clanner" line
+1
its what a decade plus later and I still feel that clanner killing fury at that moment.
me too
Sitting in a probably salvaged or captured ClanMech. That must be sweeeeeet!
You can feel the raw hatred in his voice.
No doubt he lost countless family members and comrades to those savage barbarians.
Vulture pilot saying "die, clanner" :)
It was salvaged mech. Many lance commanders use those mechs to show that clanners can be beaten.
I guess it's even have the IS equipment.
hohmahohma funny thing is the vulture is a clan mech
Mad Dog please :)
Problem... Omnimechs have completely different logistics compared to standard mechs...
The Draconis Combine Avatar is based on the Vulture chassis. It was developed because using salvaged Clan OmniMechs led to too many field breakdowns from the lack of proper parts to repair and maintain them.
My favorite MechWarrior game!
Name 7 of the best games from 1995-2000
GVGavenatore Dark Forces, Duke Nukem 3d, 688(i) Hunter Killer, Unreal, Half-Life, Thief, System Shock 2, Mechwarrior 3, Deus Ex, Fallout, Baldurs Gate 1 & 2.
@@spearPYN + Quake 3 Arena, Millenium Racer Y2K fighter + Fakk II. I think Generalkidd has played at least one of them l.
Fancy seeing you here
Why hello
What you think of 5?
'Once again' at war? It's the Inner Sphere, when AREN'T they at war?
They technically weren't at war for about seven years...
Except Clan Wolf and Jade Falcon were engage in the refusal war.
Bad Beard Bill WOW how did they manage that
Too bad the jaguars lost
assholes deserved it for wiping out Edo on Turtle Bay.
Though the CGI looks weak by today's standards, the script, direction, voice acting and music are really well done. Makes you want to see the larger movie this scene could have come from.
the CGI looks pretty much fine to me!
Cgi was second rate even back then but it didn't matter! It was a great intro and really set the tone!
You haven't seen a lot of late 90's CGI have you... This was lightyears ahead of most of it.
@@ZeeZeeBun Check out Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles. Its about in the same realm of quality.
Hell yea, for its time it was really really good.
Ah, great memories. I remember showing off this opening to friends (even though you could skip it) because I was so blown away by it.
Me too!
I was blown away by the actual graphics way back then....
This Title made us fiel we were part of a Movie : ) !
This cinematic got me hyped to pilot an Atlas, which we didn't get until the expansion pack. Dominic even says "We could sure use an Atlas about now" in one of the briefings. I played through this game so many times.
This atlas was so fucking cool i decided to recreate it as much as possible for multiplay 4 IS large pulse lasers a Heavygaus and Bap ecm is a good mech to deal with fanmade mary sue BS hitboxes in the Mw4 mektek mod.
I remember distinctly the first time I saw a atlas in mech warrior 4 and it startling me a little bit when first seeing it's visage as a teen.
The Mad Cat literally shat in its pants when it saw the Atlas.
he's like.. WHO ARE YOU?
Atlas: h e h
To give him credit he did only hesitate a moment and then he fired where as most pilots wouldnt have even got that far
@@rasiabsgamingcorner2258 Too bad he could only fire ER Small Lasers(blue in MW3) and machinegun, since he built up too much heat firing his ER Large Lasers on infantry while running at top speed. ;)
Reflexes -
Very good
(For reasons already stated)
Aim/Targeting -
Exceptional
(Hitting multiple infantry soldiers on opposite sides of the Mech while in a full run... with a Large Laser.)
Weapon and Heat Management -
Average to below average
(Didn't waste ammo on infantry, but ignored the 4 dedicated anti-infantry weapons on his Mech, the machineguns!)
Tactical - He/she is dead
(He/she spiked her/his heat on non-priority targets while having no information about - but every reason to believe - Inner Sphere Mech forces supporting the tanks and infantry, a perfect ambush enviroment being right behind the conventional forces.)
Yep, that's a young Smoke Jaguar Mechwarrior piloting the best all-around OmniMech in the Clan's arsenal. Skilled, overconfident to a fault, scream + leap + smash face first into an IS ambush. ^^
"...interception complete..."
@@WindiChilliwack Steiner Scout lance snuck up on him! And by snuck, I mean walked right up and ruined his day. Smoked Jaguar anyone?
I love how that Madcat just kept shooting at that Atlas, and that Atlas didn't even flinch...
"We are here. We need to be... there". In this game was the best mission briefings ever. I really miss it in MW4+
Mechwarrior3,
Ice maps,
Yahoo! Games,
56k modem,
Good old times!
Legging!
>tfw the only reliable weapon in those high lag days was the Ultra AC 20
Atlas is all like: lol, please.
I found it funny that the Atlas wasn't a playable mech until the expansion if I recall.
+Miami Storm Column it did not exist until the expansion.
TheCptnOf Fail
Yeah, that's exactly what I said.
Miami Storm Column
yep... just confirming it
"Die Clanner!" How can I NOT say that whenever I play Mechwarrior games against Clanners?
Everybody gangsta until they run into an Atlas, it happens in almost every MW cinematic.
Until Atlas meets Zeus. Then his mind is blown off.
That ''die, clanner!'' gives me chills everytime I hear it :/
Aiming for the cockpit. The disrespect is real!
typical grubbing IS mechwarriors ;)
typical whiny Clanners who think war is a game.
Mechwarrior ain't no game, you sick clanner!
Im a Clanner (leaning towards Clan Wolf out of all of them) and even I wouldn't respect the Jaguars if I had to deal with them. I never liked the Jaguars. Neither did most of my fellow Wolves.
thats why i always aim for the LEGS ...
I've made some research and realized that all mechs has correct equipment that will work ingame, like both Mad dog, Summoner has Prime configuration, firefly most likely "3SLE" configuration, Atlas visually has 1 machine gun, 3 M-Lasers, 2 LRM10, 1 SRM6, 1 AC-10. Timberwolf is most likely Prime configuration too, but visible 2 M-Lasers 4 machine guns, and 2 LRM20
even tho the thor can’t look straight down like that with the mech when he steps on the dude... it a hilarious scene lol.
Formula for Mech Warrior Movie... Writers set up and play elaborate battle tech campaign... then write story based on the results... and make kick ass movie.
I think thats how the original novels and lore books were written.
Michael Bay directing this movie can allow for lots of explosions. Then again, the movie would have to include a bunch of teenagers that get more camera time than the battlemechs.
Also all the lens flares!
Rocko's Modern Warfare If Michael Bay directed a Mech Warrior Movie, he would no doubt butcher the plot with his moronic bull shit, focus entirely on a bunch of pubescent fuck wits (as you've stated), and just all around ruin the franchise for millions of fans. Still the chances of him making this movie are next to none, as he cant cram U.S flags into every scene considering that the U.S no longer exists in Battle Tech lore. If he DID direct a Mech Warrior movie, I would have to hunt him down and personally castrate him.
I have high hopes for the new warcraft movie!
2:15 R.I.P Unknown soldier
I feel more sorry for the poor bastard the Thor felt deserved to die to a PPC blast. using that on a battlearmor i can understand...but an unarmored trooper?
@@pendraco2000 We're talking Clan Smoke Jaguar here. Don't be shocked by the Jaguars. They were one of the most brutal clans.
@@pendraco2000
The Jags were right bastards. May they burn in hell.
This intro never stops amazing me. It does an excellent job selling you this game and the universe. Who can look at this and say, _"Nope, don't want it."_ If this came out now people would have difficulty hiding theirs boners.
My favorite part is when the Summoner turns to look at the nuclear explosion of his lance-mate's Mech, then he just as easily turns away and continues on his original duties. He's like, _"Huh. Well, we both knew what we signed up for."_ That is so hardcore.
+extragirth64 You mean his Star-mate ;) And, given that they were both Smoke Jaguars, he probably felt that his fellow warrior came from an inferior sibko, no doubt.
Mechwarrior 3 for all of its many faults got the Campaign/feel of the world right, simply put between the scaled down "Fighting Lance to Lance" battles, the Campaign that basically encompassed little more then a botched raid that was part of a much larger operation, and a worn out Tactical operations officer who sounds just as overworked and exhausted as you expect someone to feel after being in a combat zone constantly for days on end, I loved this game and hope it can be recaptured in another someday.
Among a pair of Smoke Jaguar Mechwarriors, even among sibmates, the sentiment was probably closer to "Well more for me, then" or a sarcastic "I take it we are no longer sharing the glory then, quiaff?" followed by possible chuckling as he resumed his infantry hunt.
@@kevshabunas523 I remember watching the campaign intro and carefully listening to the plans thinking "well that sounds like a fun game", then one of the ships gets blown up, teams are scattered and things just generally go tits up all around and just sit through the following loading screen (I did not have the best machine back then, shut up) thinking "well... crap, now what?"
This is the most badass intro trailer of history. Dont argue. Its mechwarrior.
Intro of Mechwarriror 2 was better though :P
Mechwarrior 4 had the best intro.
Mechwarrior 2: Mercs - "Look at it this way, kid, YOU get to keep all the money."
MW4's intro was very good but the 'acting' ruined it. Except for the main guy in that intro the rest of the, ah hem, 'actors' were absolutely awful.
I still think Ghost Bear's Legacy had the best intro.
MechCommander's intro actually had some pretty dope acting. Pretty tight intro as well.
This cinematic opens to one of my favorite games of all time, MW3. It really opened up to display the awesome might of one of these mechs on the battlefield and the music added the battlefield terror to the menacing firepower and size of the behemoths. One of the greatest games ever, in my opinion
haha that moment wen you go face to face against an atlas xD
*backs away slowly*
face mine
LackofAttack naw man......ac20 4med lazers and srms is a beast in face to face close quarters combat
Its too bad he had an arm ripped of he would not need the weapons at all.
And your only weapons not recycling are the anti-infantry machine guns you should have been using in the first place.
I love how Dominic is the lance leader, Big Al is Alan, and Firefly 1 is Epona. Firefly 2, unfortunately, was a redshirt that got filled by you.
care to explain?
No, Firefly 2 was Dominic.
Tell me, when was the last time you _didn't_ use Dominic as bait?
@@crowsbridge Those are your squad mates in the game's single-player campaign.
Whos firefly 3 ? the one in the very start
@@matthewcrocker2479 That is the random red shirt... Just like all the red shirts in the tanks and infantry on the field.
This is one of my all time favourite games..
It's amazing to me how this series always had the best opening FMV.
my god they are crushing people!
Clans: We have superior genetics and technology
Inner sphere:....We have a 300 year old design....Atlas
Mad Cat: Yeah, rampaging through the countryside, blowing up Fireflies, this is the life! Whoops, almost ran into a wall there. Could have sworn that building wasn't there a second ag -- _oh. Ohhhhhhh. Oh dear._
Dear Lord, i once believed the graphics of this intro was amazing.
+litmusing but they are :)
Comparing it to today standard is a waste of time, just admire the high level of quality it brought back in old computers... hell this was animation for videogames at it's height.
Dude, this intro still looks amazing! What's your problem?
Mmm-hmm. Christmas '99 was a good year.
MW4 animation is much better, but mostly with the walking and movement animations, but the cutscenes graphics are still awesome.
My dad had me play this game when I was so young I can barely remember. This intro cutscene really brings be back.
And this is why ALL Mech pilots should fear fighting in a city. Way too many places to hide and ambush from!
I still occasionally mutter "Die, Clanner!" when I'm getting ready to deliver the killing blow in a game.
man i use to play this when i was a kid and i loved it! i couldn't remember the name of it until now, I'm going to download this game and play it again like good old times xD
Still SOOOO good in 2019!
That Summoner pilot is useless. Only a freebirth would waste his PPCs on infantry.
Jack Traveller What was he supposed to use? He only has the PPC, an LRM launcher and an autocannon. out of the three, only one doesn't use ammo and all have comparable firepower.
Did they really? The defenders had an Atlas, Mad Dog and two Fireflies. The Atlas was destroyed fighting the Timberwolf and it's a small miracle that he even won that duel as the Timberwolf is an all around better mech. The Fireflies are effectively useless against the Summoner and the Mad Dog isn't armored well enough to beat it either. Had the stupid clanner not acted like a stupid clanner and chased the last Firefly straight into an obvious ambush he'd have wiped the floor with both remaining mechs.
satannstuff he should have stomped them
If he'd fought more intelligently he would have, but clan tactics being what they are, it probably didn't even occur to him that he might be walking into an ambush.
Wait what, a madcat isn't better than an atlas, the atlas is the second most armored mech in lore and has enough fire power to destroy an entire Garrison. Madcats are great mechs, but even they get scared when they see an atlas.
"Die Clanner"
Salvage. They were on a Clan dominated Planet and stranded without any support.
"Good morning! How's it feel to be strapped to a walking nuke reactor at 6 AM?"
I can watch that vulture take out that mad cat 1000 times and still get pumped up every time he gets that missile lock
My son and I used to race through this game and see who could get through it without dying. I was 42 and he was 12.... he stomped my shit every time!
this is the best intro of the whole series - the elite of the elite - love it!
Mechwarrior always had the best animated cinematics!
It's hard for even newer games to compete with the rush these videos instilled.
oh man this game gives me the feelies
Nostalgia....
Very well put on the Salvage anything that isn't nailed down. And if it is nailed down, they get out the crowbars.
Ah nostalgia, one of the first games I played on PC when I was a kid.
All these years and it still looks awesome. Havent played this game since i was a kid.
MechAssault games usually aren't considered canon to the original series' storyline. MechAssault was actually seen in the eyes of many old BattleTech fans as a bastardization of what the series is about.
All the MechWarrior games take place before the events of MechAssault.
Also; BattleTech takes place in the "Inner Sphere", which is a collection of thousands of planets that humans have colonized. If one world blows up- there's many, many more to live on.
This looked really good in 2002. I played this a lot with a rumble seat and 2 control sticks.
one of the greatest game openings
Huh... Same narrator as Falcon 4, another Microprose title. Oh the memories of my late teenage years, early 20s.
the smoke jaguars are getting fucked in MWO right now xD
if you read the books the jags do get smoked
+TheRumChum They are still getting fucked a year later. :D
+El Bandito I'm a Smoke Jaguar, I've noticed XD
Of course the Smokes would get fucked, there is a reason why the SLDF destroyed them first.
God i love this intro the best especially when the madcat gets scared of the Atlas and starts shooting him and gets three lasers to the face
and when it goes critical lol
Superior clan tech means jack when you're running into an Atlas... just for the fact... it's an Atlas.
the mechs are powered by a fusion reactor, which wouldn't explode. the explosion could be the LRM and Machine gun ammo going off.
The worst sort of explosion is akin to a steam explosion... but we in Battletech have a term for this sort of thing: Stackpooling. ;)
Pretty sure it was a self destruct.
It wouldn't "go critical", but it might explode depending on how the energy required to sustain fusion is maintained. If whatever magic they're using to keep the atoms going into each others' coulomb barriers is taken away and all the potential energy stored by the repulsion between them is unleashed all at once, that would be pretty explosive. Or, it could be the energy of fusion itself suddenly causing the material to expand outward when containment is suddenly lost. This is how stars go supernova: they run out of mass until there isn't enough gravity to hold them together. There aren't any small-scale (smaller than a star) self-sufficient fusion reactors in real life so we can't really know how they behave.
uh, reactor meltdown is totally a thing in this universe.
@harkeill I said to do it if you want to take the 'mech intact. It's an alternative to shooting the cockpit, from both an honorable and objective standpoint (for the latter, the legs are simply easier to replace than the cockpit).
I think the whole Battletech universe is awesome, having played both my first match of the table top game which this was inspired and the MechWarrior games themselves.
I was hooked up to this game, sounds of lasers were in my head all the day
i dont even want to think about the number of hours i spent playing this game, loved it!!!
One of my favorite games!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 👍 Also best ever Mechwarrior video! Should get a HD REMAKE/REMASTER for the full game or a MOVIE!!! 👏
@armoredplacoderm Clan Warriors, most notably Clan trueborn Warriors never gave freebirths much credit and for them, the Inner Sphere, being all freebirths and barbarians meant they were nothing but ants in their eyes. So of course, they could use over-kill if they felt the mood.
For 20 years I wondered how the fuck it was possible for an Atlas to just sneak up to a Madcat like that.
And then I played Mechwarrior Online.
Some players just get so tunnel visioned that a coordinated group on the other team could say
"hey dude there's a Madcat headed towards you"
"oh yeah? okay lemme turn around real quick... lol he's looking the other way, imma wait till he looks at me then cockpit him"
Watch TheBEEF’s videos on the stealth Atlas. Powering down and remaining still while powered on…you’d be surprised how many people’s eyes pass right over you. And that’s without being a bloodthirsty smoke jaguar warrior.
What an amazing upload. Brings back crazy memories. I graduated to this from MechCommander 2 and does anyone remember Lynx and the other members of the "game" from that game?
by lynx are you referring to the armored core series?
+Mark Balcombe Yeah, MC 2 was great, much better than this heap of junk. All you do is run and shoot their legs off. If you're the slightest bit careless you get blasted to oblivion by a larger mech with high ac. In mechcommander you could at least use some strategy and tactics.
hell yes.... especially Hitman, Siren and Paingod.
MC1 was my favorite
I've had it since it's release. It's lasted that long.
Leave it to Smoke Jaguars to slaughter infantry and legged scouts rather then looking for true prey.
If u ever get a chance read the TechManual for the classic battletech, it explains very well why the engine wouldnt explode. Basicly there isnt enough plasma in the engine to create critical mass and if the magnetic containment was damaged or desroyed the plasma would just cool as it hit the reactor walls.
To add to to your comment, the mad cat was likely running high on his heat curve and/or intentionally over loaded the reactor. Fusion reactors in battletech 99 times out of 100 will just sputter out when busted up cause as you said, there is not enough plasma to go boom. There is always the possibility though that some one could set the reactor to explode like the mad cat did via killing the auto shutdown safety measure or being blasted by enough flamers.
Critical mass?
But it's fusion, you don't really need critical mass....
The sun is constantly exploding all the time.
Meaning that in effect a fusion reactor is a controlled explosion, so if you lose control of the reaction, it goes boom, but if it gets breached, it'll probably just cool, rapidly, destroying the salvage value.
That also could have been the ammunition cooking off. Who knows if that Mad Cat had CASE?
I think some people forget that these Jaguars are cadets and did not fully understand how capable and powerful their mechs were in comparison
Just to point out at 2:16 it would be IMPOSSIBLE for the mech to look all the way down like that... BUT it made a funny moment so ill ignore it.
Still one of my favorite intros
Playing this over and over and watching Gundam Wing was basically all I did between Pokemon games.
Ugh, I hated seeing the Atlas fall so quickly. The planning for this lance could of been much better, excusing the light ambush. But still, it was a very gritty opening. Loved it.
Dude that scream and body sqush is still my favorite
MW3 level 18 (all ice and snow), don't need any heatsinks !
Load out eight Clan particle cannons with link fire... almost 1 shot a second non stop.
Good times.
This has given me goosebumps since I was a small child. When the guy got crushed by the Thor, I welled up like "oh my god this is war" for some reason it was so real to me in this trailer
That particular infantryman was especially freeborn and had to be dealt with accordingly.
I still have the CDs for this game and the expansion, Pirate's Moon. I wish I had an optical drive on my modern computer to RUN the game.
I played so much mechwarrior when I was 5/6 years old I wanted to join the army just to become a mech pilot...
Really takes me back. Thanks for the upload!
wait a sec... is that InnerSphere mechwarrior piloting a Vulture a.k.a Mad Dog mech?
"Die Clanner..." love it :-)
This was a great MW game, great map and briefing concepts and you could step on people.
They did a good job with this intro. The atmosphere is distinctive, but I don't really think the pilots were very smart..... Well the Vulture pilot and Atlas pilot were.
MW3 was the first computer game I bought with my own money.... never finished the campaign, though.
ShadowCatGambit same here. Got to the Geothermal plant and got wrecked
Can’t blame ‘em. 500 years of constant warfare means most people don’t have more than a fourth-grade education and whatever practical experience they manage to scrape up.
2:15 This is the typical recycled sound bite used for dying men in games ranging from 1994-1999
Correction, It has been used for that purpose from 1951-2015 in well over 200 movies, TV shows and games. It is credited to Ben Burtt for making it popular by using it in every star wars and indiana jones movie.
EmptyPsychosis That's not the Wilhelm Scream
p1zzaman I feel like I remember hearing that same scream in the original Command and Conquer
It is the same scream in command and conquer.
Hahaha yeeesss, dune 2 used too
I wonder how many people know it as mechwarrior instead of "Battletech"
The video game franchise is called MechWarrior because you use mechs. It takes place in the battletech franchise and universe, which is one of my favorites, but if it was a true Battletech video game, you would be able to fight as infantry, a tank crew, fighter pilot, etc. It's MechWarrior because you use mechs.
I first learned about it as MechWarrior 2. After playing MW3 I ended reading almost every single BattleTech novel that came out. There are some really epic, political, war stories among them.
Yep, I knew it as MechWarrior.
After I watched this I went on a huge MW/BT Lore binge through .. I cant remember the site..
Didnt realise how huge it was. Epic story line!
sarna.net
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Bad Beard Bill there's always Living Legends for that
The last Mech Warrior game I played for the longest time was MWII: Lone Wolf. Then I learned of Mech Warrior Online. Nothing between, until you.
I'm dancing with an Annihilator here!
2019, and I still remember how terrifying that fight was
Those quad LB-10x 😱🔥
This opening makes the Thor look like a unstoppable monster but really they are kind of squishy
In MWO, yes, but in the lore, they were pretty scary pieces of machinery. Fast, agile, a lot of armor and powerful weaponry to boot.
***** Because it has a very loose basis in the lore.
It was quite nice in that game.
My loadout was a thor with 4 PPC's, AMS and heat sinks
Nikolai Malthus' Thor was OP.
I don't know about MWO, but the Thor was only decent at mid to long range in the tabletop game, similar to the medium Griffin. Close up, the PPC and LRMs are outmatched by medium lasers and SRMs. The Mad Cat was a beast though.
The best intro to any game. I honestly get chills whenever I watch it! :D
I remember that my disk was scratched and sometimes this would glitch out and repeat "But I can't-" indefinitely.
1:38 that same turret sound must have been reused for Halo
I love how the infantry death cries are all from Command & Conquer, which is ironic since Westwood Studios did make 2 of the first Battletech video games.
I thought it sounded familiar, thanks
No. The screams are from the Sound Ideas Sound Library which Westwood (and everybody else) used throughout the 90s.
I still remember my maxed loadout for the Annihilator: 6 AC20, 6 medium lasers and plenty of heat sinks
"Die Clanner..."
Good stuff.
+TymeTwyster Last Looking back on this though...they're kind of asking us to presume clan-borns are pretty dumb. Two mech pilots charged alone into enemy territory where they were clearly outnumbered and didn't even cover each other when both were still alive, nor retreat when one was slagged?
That's pretty boneheaded...
...the line is still pretty badass though.
:3
Clanners are warriors, not soldiers. They don't fight wars, they fight a series of single combat engagements for the most part. They likely underbid this one anyways, and they might've been dishonored pilots looking for an opportunity to get some honor back (by going on a suicide mission).
1:23 - isn't that a Mad Dog? Why is it fighting with the IS?
Salvaged battlemech maybe
Salvaged most likely. That's how the IS reverse engineered their Omnimechs
Clanners know much about battle, but little about war. Inner Sphere know both.