Battletech

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 02 Oct 2006, 02:50

Why would he have light lasers on his arms??! IT DEFIES ALL REASONING!!!!!!

esteroth12 · Post by **esteroth12** » 02 Oct 2006, 02:55

beautiful... you going to use the new laser bitmap? (it takes the first half and applies it to where the laser is fired, and takes the second half and puts it at the end of the laser)

Caydr wrote:Why would he have light lasers on his arms??! IT DEFIES ALL REASONING!!!!!!

put MPLs there!

what do you think it should have? machine guns?

bobthedinosaur · Post by **bobthedinosaur** » 02 Oct 2006, 03:50

Caydr wrote:Why would he have light lasers on his arms??! IT DEFIES ALL REASONING!!!!!!

its actually heavy and medium ERs

its the primary config
http://www.solaris7.com/TRO/HTMLBattleM ... asp?ID=595

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 02 Oct 2006, 04:21

For those not familiar with Battletech, ER lasers are "Extended Range" - they have higher damage, longer range, and generate more heat per use than their normal counterparts.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 02 Oct 2006, 04:50

I was always a fan of LRPPC'S, but I just thought their coolio 'ball of energy' thing was really neat.

Then I got MechWarrior Four and played it...and then the PPC fired beams! I was: "I don't remember this in my old Battltech game for the Sega Genisis..."

Pxtl · Post by **Pxtl** » 02 Oct 2006, 04:56

Zoombie wrote:I was always a fan of LRPPC'S, but I just thought their coolio 'ball of energy' thing was really neat.

Then I got MechWarrior Four and played it...and then the PPC fired beams! I was: "I don't remember this in my old Battltech game for the Sega Genisis..."

Well, as much as I loved the MW2 plasmaball PPCs, the beams they introduced in MW3 made more sense from a classic battletech perspective - I mean after all, the PPC was a long-ranged weapon. Longer ranged than the Large Laser even. Just from it's stats it was obviously mean to be "really big laser" but with a fun name and a minimum range. So making it into a lightning gun made much more sense than a weapon that a locust could outrun at top speed.

MW2 had lots of fun/silly features (like the ground-strafing with jump jets) but most of those were departures from classic BattleTech.

bobthedinosaur · Post by **bobthedinosaur** » 02 Oct 2006, 04:59

ground straffing was awesome..
about ppc right now i have a laser/ lighnting weapon but i really need to bee it up it just doesnt look so particle cannonish, maybe with .73 release i can use some custom weapons bmps to make something interesting

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 02 Oct 2006, 07:58

bobthedinosaur wrote:ground straffing was awesome..
about ppc right now i have a laser/ lighnting weapon but i really need to bee it up it just doesnt look so particle cannonish, maybe with .73 release i can use some custom weapons bmps to make something interesting

Given the effort, I believe you'll be able to pull it off with .73 - now, I have a query... do all of the missiles home? In that case, would they not be Streak SRM/MRM/LRMs?

Archangel of Death · Post by **Archangel of Death** » 02 Oct 2006, 08:20

Only homing missiles home of course! That would be barely home for LRM's. Regular MRM's and SRM's of course won't.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 02 Oct 2006, 08:31

Cool. Will we get Streaks for some of the units? Cause those were my favoret wepaons in the Mechcommander game.

Archangel of Death · Post by **Archangel of Death** » 02 Oct 2006, 08:34

Of course.

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 02 Oct 2006, 19:59

I thought he had either ERPPCs or ER Heavy lasers on his arms... that's why the gun's so big. No?

I'm so mad that Mechwarrior 3 doesn't work on XP, I loved that game. Best one, IMO.

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 02 Oct 2006, 21:39

the arm being big is just a stylistic thing. The Timberwolf does carry ER Large Lasers in its arms in the primary configuration, and it does have a configuration where it carries ER PPCs in the arms instead. Omni-mech weapon swapping ftw.

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 02 Oct 2006, 21:54

Caydr wrote:I'm so mad that Mechwarrior 3 doesn't work on XP, I loved that game. Best one, IMO.

Windows 95 compatibility mode - and lower your resolution.

centurion-1 · Post by **centurion-1** » 02 Oct 2006, 22:22

I must say that Madcat is teh sex...

Fanger · Post by **Fanger** » 02 Oct 2006, 22:23

Hows the walk animation, and who did it...

bobthedinosaur · Post by **bobthedinosaur** » 03 Oct 2006, 02:55

walk is a modified version of protoforms old mechwars walk scrpt how ever i need to modify it abit for the extra toe peices and to make it less ota ish amnd more realistic witht he spring engine. will try and perfect that this week so maybe people can use the unit for what ever they want.

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 03 Oct 2006, 04:04

Upspring 1.4 has a fancy new animation thingie that's beyond my simple comprehension, maybe it would be of use?

bobthedinosaur · Post by **bobthedinosaur** » 03 Oct 2006, 08:41

it does? havent tried it yet maybe ill give it a whirl, but if it takes some learning maybe ill stick with scripter and spring trial error

Wolf-In-Exile · Post by **Wolf-In-Exile** » 04 Oct 2006, 10:18

Teamcolored!

And more importantly, complete. Well.... hopefully.

I didn't like the florescent teamcolor look on the units, so I made it a little more subdued.

Thoughts on this?

Spring RTS Engine

Battletech

What weapon stat system should we base it on?