Mechwarrior Tactics

Discussion in 'Previous BattleTech and MechWarrior Games' started by Dihm, Mar 2, 2012.

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  1. Tuonela

    Tuonela Well Liked Berserker

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    I used to play Poxnora a bit before they streamlined the crap out of it and SoE bought it out, very similar in approach honestly. Random decks, some with higher chances of getting rares, etc. You play on a grid game with turns. I'll just view it as a mechanical incarnation of that rather than a BT game.
     
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    zI think the real decider is how close to the board game they go. I would be willing to deal with the monetization model if it meant getting MM in 3D, but not so much for MtG:Tatics with a battletech shell...
     
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    The videos make it look fairly close to tabletop. I will definitely at least try this, and decide later if its worth dropping money into.
     
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    I plan on playing mechwarrior tactics.
     
    fluffypinkbunny, Aug 11, 2012
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    It will be interesting to see the full game released with the monetary items, or booster packs.
     
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    I was talking to a dev, at the nvidia event, for MWT. and I was pleased to hear about the customizatio like theres going to be a pilot, who likes to run hot, so you want to keep your heat high, while another runs low, and has bonuses, so you run him low. theres some weapons that have longer range, but do less damage. others have more ammo. it'll be fun, you don't know exactly, what you are facing.
     
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    Also from IGP, Mechwarrior Tactics started its founder program. Additionally, MMOBomb gives out beta keys and IGN as well but only to Prime Users.

    It's browser based, turn based, hex-map mechwarrior tactics game :)

    If anyone tries it, look me up as "Maatard". :)
     
    Maatard Jans, Feb 11, 2013
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    Tuonela, Feb 12, 2013
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    Solis Obscuri, Sep 9, 2014
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    Dihm Speaker of the Word Staff Member Gothi SC Thane

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    For 9 months and people find out now?
     
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    Something to do with the fact that PGI bought the IP from IGP!?
     
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    Nope PGI held and still holds the ip usage from Microsoft. IGP was sub leasing the ip from PGI to do tactics with royalties for any profits that IGP made going to pgi along with Microsoft getting royalties from it. IGP had two different developers work on it but released the last one in dec and hasn't done anything more with it since then it would seem.
     
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    And one final kick to the horse....

    If they would have just made this a straight up game I would have bought and played the shit out of. The whole "booster deck" thing was one of the worst F2P implementations I'd seen since......well...MWO. (oh no he didn't!)

    Oh, also the mechs looked more like Killer Klownz from Outer Space than anything from Battletech.

    On the plus side: With the bad game design, bad art design and bad marketing it was destined to fail. And it successfully lived up to that expectation.
     
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    Yep, pretty much. They stopped all work back in December, and there's no sign its going to start up again.
     
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    I don't understand how this isn't outright fraud, like criminal fraud.
     
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    MagnusEffect Administrator Staff Member Jarl SC Huscarl

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    Just for the sake of record keeping, I randomly stumbled upon the guy who was responsible for the terrible art design that was going to be in Mechwarrior Tactics:

    Old blog - http://peterdetina.blogspot.com/2012/04/
    New blog - http://artofpeterdetina.blogspot.com/

    They hired a self-described Macross fan to design the art for the game. What the fuck were they thinking? Especially when PGI already had a far superior art direction. :unamused:

    In hindsight of what we know now, I'm kind of glad this train wreck didn't see the light of day (but it does suck people didn't get their refunds). Not only was art direction a complete miscarriage, the game was clearly destined to include mobile game MTX's and it would have distracted people from the far superior Battletech game that came later by Hairbrained Schemes.

    One of these is not like the fucking other:
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    I mean the tactics one does look cool. But that looks like a destroid from macross. Or something out of the Earth series (earth 2150 and such).
     
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    I am incredibly glad it failed spectacularly with as much of a trainwreck as it was. While I'm sad for those that backed it and lost their money, what we have today is infinitely better with HBS.
     
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