Mechwarrior Servers :)

[ECA]

Please could you put up a Mechwarrior 4 Dedicated server.

http://www.mechwarrior4.com/Win32DedicatedServer.html

I would be more than willing to help set it up and work on a map cycle.

With Mechwarrior: Mercenaries coming out in november wouldnt it be good to be the only UK GSP with mech servers

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

You should prolly stick this in the GameServers forum, since you'll prolly just get insulted for your choice of game here.

 

[Summo]

I despise you for your choice of game.

 

[granny]

MW4's great fun multiplayer. Was always impossible to find decent servers though.

Edit: Apart from american ones full of american fucktards.

 

[whipped]

I was always of the impression that you couldn't just jump into MechWarrior matches. You had to set everyone up in a lobby and then launch.

Is this still the case?

Oh, and the lobby that BarrysWorld provides actually works quite well.

 

[Sir Frizz]

OOH! Look, other people play this beauty aswell. After months of searching i have finally found someone...ahahaahaa

Do what ECA says or i will stick a needle in yer eye!

edit:// blast, forgot about the subscription fees to BW

 

[stu]

Originally posted by whipped
I was always of the impression that you couldn't just jump into MechWarrior matches. You had to set everyone up in a lobby and then launch.

Out of interest (and a bit o/t), you're gonna have to do that in Doom3/Quake4 as well. Way to step back into the early 90s id!

 

[ECA]

Originally posted by whipped
I was always of the impression that you couldn't just jump into MechWarrior matches. You had to set everyone up in a lobby and then launch.

Is this still the case?

Oh, and the lobby that BarrysWorld provides actually works quite well.

nope, whilst their is a lobby kinda thing, unless the server admin has set it so you cant join when the game is in progress you can join whenever you like.

The point of the MW lobby is so you can see what rules the server has on and adjust your config accordingly - ie if theres no heat on, you strip out all the heatsinks and load up with counter-measures or bigger guns :/

 

[ECA]

Originally posted by Scooba Da Bass
You should prolly stick this in the GameServers forum, since you'll prolly just get insulted for your choice of game here.

How many people regularly look in the Game Server forum
If I + others are to convince BW to put up a few servers, then it needs positive feedback from other players

 

[ECA]

Originally posted by granny
MW4's great fun multiplayer. Was always impossible to find decent servers though.

Edit: Apart from american ones full of american fucktards.

I've found that most servers are ok, but yeah you do get a proportion of the typical teenage american that we love to hate :/

 

[stu]

you realise you could just reply to everyone at once, right?

 

[ECA]

stu - yes but that would be boring :/

and heres a preview for all those uninitated heathen scum, or inner sphere as i like to call them :/


http://pc.ign.com/articles/367/367529p1.html

 

[whipped]

I've been trying to Pimp MW4 : Mercs if and when I can on the BW News page. I shall continue to do so.

I have to admit that I'm a little bit of a multiplayer virgin when it comes to MW. I have played all versions of the MW series except the black knight expansion and I suppose 2-3 years of playing the tabletop version may qualify me for on-line play.

btw, if you a fan of the tabeltop version of MW then please, for the love of god, check this out. Networkable and great fun.

 

[ECA]

I've played megamek the odd time
not too my tastes too much, odd considing i like turn based stuff like xcom as well.


Btw you ought to get BK - its great, you get to kill ian dresari and casey nolan and all the other fucktards from vengeance

I also have the innersphere add on pack, I have to say the heavy gauss rifle on a highlander is a sweet combo, I just need the clan pack now.

The sweet thing is the addon packs for MW4: will work on MW:Mercs

 

[whipped]

Nice. I may pick them up next week.

 

[.Cask]

Mechwarrior was much better in my youth. I used to play Netmech (Mechwarrior 2) over Kali on my 14.4 modem. I thought I was amazing and got high up in Clan Wolf on the Grand Council league but in retrospect I was probably lagging so much that none of the yanks could hit me.

I enjoyed Mech 4 single player but it seemed a bit pointless in deathmatch mode. There either needs to be an objective mode or someone should resurrect the Grand Council league 'cos that was one of the best run leagues I've been a part of.

The matches in GC weren't just clan vs clan but you'd also arrange ToP's (trial of position) against members of your own clan to get yourself up the ranks. You'd also have clan wars (can't remember seeing any tbh) and trials of grievance - which all made a very rich combat system in what was a very dodgy multiplayer game.

It all seemed to go downhill when Microsoft got hold of it though :/

 

[ECA]

you rarely find purely DM mw4 servers though.

You will find team attrititon and CTF are the most played.

Attrition is similar to destruction ( pure dm ), but the total damage inflicted ranks the players, and in team attrition the total damage a team has inflicted on the other team counts, with players being ranked by damage also.