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Author Topic: Let's Play Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries  (Read 20155 times)

Char13magne

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Re: Let's Play Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries
« Reply #15 on: May 02, 2010, 04:05:17 pm »

I'll take a Cougar please, if that's possible :D!

Oh, and do we decide on the personas of our characters, or are they given?
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Re: Let's Play Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries
« Reply #16 on: May 02, 2010, 04:22:19 pm »

Your paint jobs aren't dwarfy enough. Where's the texture files?
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Re: Let's Play Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries
« Reply #17 on: May 02, 2010, 04:36:14 pm »

I'll take the other Cougar if that's quite all right.

And yes, what of our characters?
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Re: Let's Play Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries
« Reply #18 on: May 02, 2010, 05:13:52 pm »

I'm taking one Cougar, so CJ has a choice between Ullers or Fleas.
As for characters, there are currently three available
Rufus-Spartan117-Flea
Gunnery 50
Piloting 40
Sensors 50
Blind fighting 30

Shredder-CJ-Uller
Gunnery 68
Piloting 50
Sensors 60
Blind Fighting 37

Hannibal (lance commander)-Charlie-Cougar
Gunnery 80
Piloting 62
Sensors 70
Blind fighting 45

As for paint jobs... there's about 30 of em. most are just divided into terrain types (Rock, Sand, Woodland, Grassland, Arctic, Taiga, Nightops) and a few specials (Primary colors, parade ground colors for the different Factions)

Also, Available jobs have been posted.
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Re: Let's Play Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries
« Reply #19 on: May 02, 2010, 05:30:28 pm »

I think I'll go with Shredder, because dammit no one can beat someone with that name.

And yeah, Uller for me.
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Re: Let's Play Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries
« Reply #20 on: May 02, 2010, 05:40:56 pm »

I'll take Rufus. Give me a Flea, just because.
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Re: Let's Play Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries
« Reply #21 on: May 02, 2010, 06:28:43 pm »

Does that make me Hannibal with the Cougar then? And, if so, I suppose I'll take one of the parade ground colors.
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Re: Let's Play Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries
« Reply #22 on: May 02, 2010, 06:41:24 pm »

I claim the a missile-focused mech in lance 2, when available.

Let's go to Halloran V.
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Re: Let's Play Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries
« Reply #23 on: May 02, 2010, 08:55:35 pm »

I call Uller; and yes, Halloran V contract please. And if possible, more firepower for my mech.

And thanks for choosing my suggested name. It kinda looks odd in the screenshot though.

As for paintjob, maybe a more camo- gold/dark purple combo. If I'm going a pinkish-shade, I might as well darken it and look like I'm ablaze. Confuse our enemies. Consider it a noble disguise. ;D

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Re: Let's Play Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries
« Reply #24 on: May 02, 2010, 09:26:51 pm »

I claim the a missile-focused mech in lance 2, when available.

Let's go to Halloran V.
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I'll hire another pilot tomorrow then. As for paint jobs, most of them are camoflauge, so I'm not sure about flames.
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Re: Let's Play Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries
« Reply #25 on: May 02, 2010, 09:29:42 pm »

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I call Uller; and yes, Halloran V contract please. And if possible, more firepower for my mech.
I'll hire another pilot tomorrow then. As for paint jobs, most of them are camoflauge, so I'm not sure about flames.
Well, it can be an implied fire paintjob. I have done it before. It may require a bit of messing around with the contrast though to get the right effect.
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Re: Let's Play Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries
« Reply #26 on: May 02, 2010, 10:21:01 pm »

Like I said... if anyone knows where the directories are, I can make that happen. As it stands I can't seem to find them; they might be compressed or something weird. I'm armed only with irfanview, paint and gimp. Dunno if I need some .mw4 opener.
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Re: Let's Play Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries
« Reply #27 on: May 02, 2010, 10:23:00 pm »

Halloran V. And give me a red paintjob, as fiery as possible. And paint sunglasses on my Mech.
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Re: Let's Play Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries
« Reply #28 on: May 03, 2010, 12:04:39 am »

Shouldn't we have some sort of background for the war we're fighting in?  :(

All I remember from the back story is that there are two factions fighting for control over the Star Republic, and basically they're hiring you to keep order in the planets that are already loyal. They'll eventually move onto attacking the other faction later, but right now, they want to protect what they already got.

EDIT: Oh, and ComStar is still owned by the Word of Blake? Man, I hate those fanatics.
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Re: Let's Play Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries
« Reply #29 on: May 03, 2010, 12:24:57 am »

EDIT: Oh, and ComStar is still owned by the Word of Blake? Man, I hate those fanatics.
I remember those guys from MechAssault and a handful of MW2:M missions. They were assholes. But it was nice snagging one of their mechs and using it against them 2 separate times in MA1. Thor and Ragnarok I believe. Gotta love that magma cannon Ragnarok had. Dwarfiest weapon in the series.

Speaking of which, you have no idea how satisfying it is to KO (or cherry tap/slowly deconstruct) or outright obliterate a titanic mech (like the Atlas or Stalker) with an Elemental or Battle Suit. Most fun I've had in MW2:M instant actions. And just as satisfying in MA1 on the XBOX.

It was nearly equivalent to SotC for DOS when I did that kind of stuff. I miss the good ol' days. Being able to take down a 50-60 ft. mech with a 6 ft. battle suit, armed with 2SRM, M-Laser, and a 5-10 rate Mgun. Absolute definition of a cherry tapdance. It really helps when you blast their kneecaps off before they fire off quad-pulse L-lasers, a few PPCs or 25LRMs that are homing in on you. Mind you, this was all done with keyboard alone.
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