Thread 2031903

Post rts mechs and armored suits

>>2031913
I didn't even know that game have mechs.

>>2031915
they dont show up until mission 13 out of 19 for the main campaign then don't really show up in the DLC campaigns as far as i can remember.

I HAVE AWOKEN.

Azazel my beloved…

>>2031939
ironclad dreadnaught from FoK <3

>>2031931
Weird they're here in the first place since neither movie nor book have them. Soldiers in the book wear advanced battle suits but I believe they're more akin to Master Chief's or Crysis' suits with added jetpack than mech. I think the anime adaptation had mechs so maybe this is where the inspiration come from.

>>2034091
The anime uses bulky power armor.

>>2034091
The third movie had mechs i believe

>sequel/remake/spiritual successor never ever
;_;

>>2034169
>letting your enemies reverse-engineer your combot parts

What I would give if FromSoftware made an Armored Core strategy game where you control one of the corporations

>>2034217
Reverse engineering was one of the coolest aspects of the game. If you just steal the leftovers from your enemies and glue them onto your own combots, you ruin the aesthetics. If you take them back to your base and reverse engineer them, you can build the same part with the correct aesthetics.

I'd always go out of my way to reverse engineer everything even if I could use the part as-is.

>>2034132
shame that terrans are not playable

>>2034220
>If you take them back to your base and reverse engineer them, you can build the same part with the correct aesthetics.
But they're usually worse in this case. But you'll have them available in the next mission of the campaign. Unless it's the proper Hedoth bits. Meeting their combot for the first time was something else.

>>2034295
Ye the Hedoth stuff is bananas. I always loved that one multiplayer map where there's a fully intact Hedoth bot in the center of the map.

>>2034132
Ground Control 2 is such rare kino.

>>2034167
It checks out. I didn't expect anyone caring about the straight-to-dvd sequels.

>>2034132
Beat me to it

>>2034416
Yeah, i only remember it because i remember watching it at my grandma's house when i was around 12 to 14 at 1 am

>>2034451
What a wonderful clusterfuck of a game.

>>2034416
the third movie is called marauder which is what the mechs are called in the game. also, i only watched the first movie, but i heard the sequel had these weird cheesy flashlight rifles which was integrated really well in the game as e-pulse troopers.
the game is really well made.

>>2034808
Third movie had a lot of religious themes in it, the Marauders themselves have angelic figures at the end and it's revealed some humans (at least the one psychic one) have started worshipping the brain bugs as gods.

>>2034857
>Third movie had a lot of religious themes in it
It also had one of the best themes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB6Xq-jjzeE

>>2034927
i always love cheesy songs, but i prefer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PphvPX-YtCA.

>>2031931
>>2031915
>>2031913
Is this the new Starship Troopers rts?

>>2035422
starship troopers: terran command which is 3 years old.

is it cheating posting supreme commander

>playing Battletech 2018
>doing Flashpoint missions
>somehow the Capellans are the least dicks towards my mercs
Fucking what

>>2035827
Don't care. ACU deployed.

>>2034416
The RTS borrows from pretty much all of Starship Troopers as a whole. One of the last troopers you can get uses power armor, in fact. The game overall is okay but it lacks a lot of that passionate 90's charm from the two main VAs so the campaign kind of falls a bit flat. Except the psi-officer he is the only one who gets it.

Thread theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5oEVJ7ru2E

>>2036021
Cappellans use so many mercs they industrialized the process of integrating them into their own military.

What's the best front mission of I was only to play one of them?

>>2037368
1 or 3. They're by far the most accessible for new players and they're good games in their own right.

Anyone ever play this hidden gem? i play bootleg disk back in PS2 day since it never release outside japan

>>2034218
Front mission

>>2031903 (OP)
>rts mechs and armored suits
the artwork for Mechcommander 1 and 2 really isn't as good as the Mechwarrior games....

>>2031939
>AWOKEN.
you mean undead terminators.

>>2039749
rise from the already dead.

>>2038329
3 is also the last game in chronological order.
2 is more "tactical" but i found it too tedious and slow.

>>2037342
wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYmwe5Y5xjo&
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m--1052RtY4

>>2039751
2 is fine unless you play it on a higher difficulty. Or mod away the level cap.

>>2039759
>mod away the level cap.
didn't even know it had mods.

>>2039760
Neither do I. I've been modding games since Dune II so.

>>2034091
The anime was like the first real depiction of ST power armor that's kinda sorta accurate

>>2034416
The CGI movies actually aren't bad

>>2039751
>3 is also the last game in chronological order.
5 starts before the events of any of the others, but it also ends after 3. It's a massive story that ties together bits from every game before it and you don't really appreciate it without having played 1-4

>>2039746
>MechCommander
For those not in the know you can get the entire game + expansions for free:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/mechcommander-gold-hi-res/downloads/mcg-darkest-hours-fullversion

>>2035827
sucks that planetary annihilation has decent mech designs that are dragged back by a mediocre game

>>2040275
that time when Sony anime movies were still good...

>>2031939
dark crusade gives me error and i can't acess commander upgrades for some reason
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecB6Eh7f3l8

>>2041935
oh i hate this trashcan. medCannons suck too.
>>2041794
try reinstalling. or play it in a WinXP virtual machine?

the shit bricks from iron harvest

>>2042198
>try reinstalling. or play it in a WinXP virtual machine?
it worked before but i think i set compatbility for windows 7
i will try this next time dark crusade is great

>>2042198
leave him alone :(

>>2035827
kino unit designs

>>2042219
I love the Iron Harvest vibe

any game with mechs is instantly improved

>>2052414
Total Annhilation still looks very "generic" to me.... and 2hard.

>>2042219
hmmm... right mech looks like a Fafnir from Battletech but smaller.
https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Fafnir

>>2052414
I agree but I hate the "tank with legs" notion western games often have.

Tiberian Sun's mammoth tank is just absolute trash, plus you can only build one

I like the one in C&C3 with railguns. Cheap and anti-everything (infantry, vehicles, air...)

I usually fill the map with them and displace 200 of them to the enemy base

>>2055628
C&C3 had very good mechanical designs. tibsun, not so much.

but the actual mech was one of the weakest in the game

>>2055657
>tibsun, not so much.
i mean look at this shit

>>2055628
>Tiberian Sun's mammoth tank is just absolute trash
Literally best unit in the game if you don't just send it somewhere and forget about it. Its only real flaw is lack of the chin machinegun because they didn't manage to get the engine to have more than 2 weapons per unit.
>the one in C&C3 with railguns. Cheap and anti-everything (infantry, vehicles, air...)
Retconned GDI doctrine, jobs to a few squads of missile troopers.

>>2055657
>C&C3 had very good mechanical designs. tibsun, not so much.
Seriously? Avatars look good to you?

>>2055659
>but the actual mech was one of the weakest in the game
Nigga you fucking what? It can crush all non-epic vehicles, which means nearly anything in the game, and Nod has cloak support power. Add the rage generator into equation and it becomes so broken it's not even funny. And it still can upgrade its laser gun, as well as get either 2 self-repair upgrades or 2 flamers. Or one of each.

>>2055660
What's wrong with them?

>>2055712
I think we have encountered a classical case of TWat

>>2055657
>Says C&C3 had good designs
>Posts concept art
>Not the abomination that's the in-game Predator

>>2055785
Don't forget the C&C 3 mammoth with huge doors on sides asking for HEAT rounds, or the supposed upgrade, Titan Mk2 that has pilots cockpit as a separate moving part upfront of the mech

>>2055785
>GDI: Predator tank
>Nod: Scorpion tank
>Soviet: Hammer tank
Triangle of dogshit tank design in both third entry.

>>2055712
weakest design, not weakest performance, retard

>>2042219
>load Zółw with unit of flamethrowers
>crabwalk into enemy infantry
>they melt instantly
>crabwalk away before enemy mechs or field guns show up
I love them so much

>>2055938
i think it looks cool.

>>2055248
That's true, if anything Mechs should be "infantry with wheels" or stilts

>>2034451
>putting a mortar and Firewall on a repair bot
>using basic legs with an obvious surplus of resources
absolutely disgusting

>>2034132
Oh shit that's a blast from the past.

>>2055785
What's wrong with the predator?
>Apart from the exposed tracks

>>2040545
Last time I tried to download this game from Sarna.net along with MC2 about 12 years ago, it kept freezing on the main menu screen immediately after the into cutscene either finished playing or got skipped by me on my old WinXP toaster for some reason.

>>2056439
I actually find that 3 gunners and an MG actually works better no matter how impressive 4 flamethrowers are.

>>2066007
MGs are better at slowing enemy infantry down and have much better range, but flamethrowers absolutely melt them I found
and the Zółw heavily mitigates their range disadvantage by crabwalking directly into people

>>2031939
IT'S BETTER TO DIE FOR THE EMPEROR, THAN TO LIVE FOR YOURSELF.

>>2072993
for me it's the Monkeylord

>>2062383
>Exposed tracks
>Tracks are way too fucking wide
>Quad tracks
>Rear pair are barely touching the ground, negating their entire purpose
>Only 1 discernible hatch
>Barely any space for an engine
>Gun is offset
>Half of the breech is sticking out of the turret, which is tiny
>The shape of said turret makes no sense and is probably a nightmare to work in

Anyone playing Mechabellum?

>>2072993
>big gun
>little target

>>2072993
GALACTIC COLOSSUS

real shame the cyberstorm system was never used to make a Siege era tactics game

for me, it's mechcommander 2 with a side of mechwarrior 2 lone wolf

>>2055660
This is one of the best mech designs I have ever seen

>>2055660
TibSun titans were so fucking sexy, it's a shame KW titans looked like shit

I always loved these niggas and Atreides walkers in Battle for Dune
>Radiation? Heh, whatever.

I like the "legs with a tank turret on top" look. Not an RTS, though.

>>2031973
>Mech Platoon
I really need a game just like this but for PC

>>2084175
Is Metal Fatigue not enough for you?

>>2084167
holy shit that looks awesome what game is that from

>>2084167
>dozer blade mounted that high and perpendicular to the torso
For what purpose?

>>2084231
Dead Hand, a largely unknown, a bit janky, and a bit too hard, but ultimately pretty cool tactics/roguelike game

>>2084268
It's the first melee weapon you can get, it's used as a shield, for digging, and for bonking other vehicles. But yeah, an excavator blade would make more sense.

>>2084277
>excavator blade
I mean a hydraulic arm with an excavator bucket, or whatever it's called (backhoe?).

>>2084277
>>2084280
Makes perfect sense aside from the position it ended up in. Although being used as a shield wouldn't work if it was at the bottom too. So yeah, the thing on the hydraulic arms would have been best. Otherwise the leg joints would be getting all that strain from digging if it bent its legs to position the dozer.

>>2083181
The siege timeline got real weird with Stasiege and tribes. Almost makes the Cyberstorm games feel like alternate timelines. Anywho the Malignus is a cool cybrid.

>>2031903 (OP)
I know they aren't mechs but TA is and always has been and likely always will be my personal childhood favourite

>>2086502
PeeWees in your image Are definitely mechs IMHO, as are lots of other units in TA
>>2083181
Could've been the mech commander / mech commander 2 style RTT
>>2076497
Wish it had a little more unit control
>>2055660
These have always looked great.

Stand back, hi-yech chuds.
It's VinciGods' turn to play.

>>2040931
Still surprised no one has modded them into a worthier game yet. Those guys would be amazing as BattleMechs or their own faction in SupCom.

>>2073222
Cybran commanders can turn into one-man-army map-clearers.

>>2040545
Jesus how do you manage to shill your garbage repack literally everywhere MCG gets mentioned?

Somebody please give me a list of videogames where the mechs can just stomp on infantry and smaller vechicles instead of needing to shoot at them individually with anti-mech/tank weaponry.

>>2089472
Mechwarrior 3 and 4? but that is not VST.
i think you're more likely to find those in Kaiju/monster games, which are mostly action games.

>>2031939
cutest metal box

GOLIATH ONLINE.

>>2093088
The goliath is amazing but also I am quite partial to the Juggernaut from CNC3. You know shit is about to go down when this guy comes out.

>>2093097
>triple barrels
based.

Is there a modern (like last 5-10 years) game that is about sending customizable mech squads on random tactical battles? No story or plotline or ending, just running a merc company or something, with the emphasis on being able to customize the mechs and squad management.

>>2097428
MetalMercs is what you need, it started as a remake of Crescent Hawks’ Inception and has grown into its own thing.
https://metalmercs.com/

Here's the older shareware demo that's steam-free and has linux/mac builds if that's your thing:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/metalmercs-demo-97121112

>>2097462
I meant to say turn based, but since you can pause it's good, thanks.

>>2034277
True, would have been interesting

>>2055660
But they look amazing?

>>2089472
Brigador