Imagine game of thrones with mechs instead of dragons.

Robot Jox exists so long as we dont get a mw movie :(

@@depholade That's probably the best way to describe MechWarrior/BattleTech to newcomers. Now that I think of it the Clans have pretty much the same role as the White Walkers: a common and powerful enemy for bickering nobles.

I agree with the lord inquisitor. In the right hands this could have been a Promising television series or, otherwise. perhaps maybe we can seek out the aid of of the primarks...

There is a fan made film going on.

Yea

@@MajorAce_usedtobeMechchad Indeed.

At least he died with his team… if my team went out like that id go in for a sacrifice too

Yet what doesn't make sense is a palace guard would be in more then a single heavy and medium back by lights

@@holybacontoast9615 Most likely it was one of the fast response lances of the palace guard. Maybe even an infiltration unit, it would fit the lore having fast response lances for quick fielding.

If they can put out movies like Pacific Rim, there's no reason they couldn't do a proper Battletech movie (other than legal issues).

@@phantomechelon3628 most critical part is to not only build it around the battlemechs but make the battle mechs a minor part of it... like tanks in a WWII movie in example

you should totally check out the BattleTech cartoon

They'd fuck it up. Heck Battletech is game of thrones in space and they managed to fuck it up hard

just remember no one can get it right Now a day But us mechwarrior of the past (And i don`t count since mw3 was my intro to the serie)

Wish I was a kid again just to feel what I did back then again playing the mechwarrior games

@@tbone9474 I'm in my 30s getting pissed off and ready to jump back in the cockpit. Plinking those little trucks like that. That ain't soldiering. Thats murder.

I remember going in like “if my leader is going out in a blaze so am i” watching him blast at them being the last one alive truly made me want to fight these guys i just wish the story was better but this was the only cutscene i needed to see 🔥

I'm playing through MechWarrior 5 right now. The story isn't quite what I want but it'll do

@@Figitman >takes literally 15 years to finally get revenge, assuming you know what you're doing >more like 20 or 30 years if it's your first run it is just so mediocre.

It's epic, though to play devil's advocate... He could possibly have gone passive sensors and fled the area, link up with resistance, fight a guerrilla war. Rather than waste himself in a futile last stand. Though easily said than done i suppose.

@@Commodore22345 If i remember right Central Guard was protecting the royal family, the second he lost contact with them it should have been safe to assume the royal family was dead also, however in the heat of battle its extremely tough to think things through.

That's what a soldier does, his duty. We salute him!! :)

He's a soldier and honoring his oath to defend his people. Very cool.

tho i didn`t knew english back then i had an understanding that something was just wrong... no order no call of any unit (basicly dead comms).. no nothing (something is up) then 3:16 happen Me: oh no they are gone RUN Him: I`ll hold them here has long has i can ME: 3:35 NOOOOOO Also me : 4:23 well fougnt rest in peace.

Yeah... MW5 is ass

Looks like Raiden from the mk movie

It makes no sense the mad dog/ vulture is a clan mech

@@goose-stahvegg6608 Why wouldn't it make sense? They're Davion forces, and Davion captured a huge pile of Clan Smoke Jaguar's materiel during Operation Bulldog.

Mad Dog

@@goose-stahvegg6608 clan wolf worked with Davion at one point

damn 17 years now...Thats a long time for no new good games from this franchise, I'd say it's dead despite mechwarrior online it doesn't really count.

Jerry C yeah and PGI the king of bastardizing mechwarrior is making it. I’m hoping they do it justice but I’m skeptical.

the cgi used in this movie is still great

you and me both buddy

it's been 20 years now and it's still amazing

i always loved how he became more and more tense as he went on coms, constantly going up the chain of command trying to raise someone, ANYONE.

Honestly, the FMV footage was pretty great for the time.

I thought the voice acting was great. Really suited the game well. Best voice acting in all the games I have played to date have been, The mechwarrior games except the current mw5 and TBS one, they stunk and instantly forgettable.. even Duncan Fisher in Arena was a nice welcome break that didn't detract from the whole experience. Freespace 2, your wingmen , and when paired with Lt.Sykes "what, do i look Shivan to you?", in the covert missions deep in enemy Shivan space had probably the coolest voice ever in a game.. and Ground control's. Sara Parker had great voice. Better then Lara, Ellie or anyone else I can think of in fact.. although, maybe Quiet..?. Good voices really help to immerse the player and create the atmosphere I think.

The only problem I ever had with this opening video is its violation of canon. The actual invasion by Steiner to remove Dessari's militia lasted 3 days and Kentares put up one hell of a fight because a lot of the pilots were battle hardened against fighting the Clans as well as having access to Clan tech which you can see here. Plus Davion trained pilots are much better in quality than Steiner's.

@@Seriona1 So where is the violation exactly? Davion usually have quantity over quality. Hence the term steiner scout lance....

Yeah, they even timed the modulation in that song when he did the first step. Little details that make this intro great. So much effort put into this.

It's a vulture not a mad cat

@@tastycookiechip "Mad Dog" is the Clan name for the mech people in the Inner Sphere call Vulture. Like what the Inner Sphere people call a Mad Cat is actually called a "Timber Wolf" by the Clans who built it. Most (but not all) Clan mechs have both 'original' names among the Clans, and whatever reporting name Inner Sphere people started calling them during the invasion, before they learned what they were actually called. Both sets of names stuck around afterwards, with different people and organizations in-universe calling them different things. Mechwarrior Online uses Clan names, Mechwarrior 4 used Inner Sphere names, board game players or people from other Battletech products tend to be less consistent about their use.

@@05Matz in this instance we can call it a vulture because it's being fielded by davion

According to lore, it was not uncommon for pilots to be wearing almost nothing as they're literally being cooked when the mech overheats. IIRC, when Grayson Carlyle first met his future wife Lori Kalmar (prior to them creating the Gray Death Legion), she was literally just only in her panties when exiting her mech as her mech had insufficient heatsinks.

MW4's pretty limited like that, but there are absolutely ballistic-armed Mad Dog variants in Battletech. Some maniac even fitted out a version with gauss rifles.

But in his arms there are large pulse lasers. In fact, they have recoil too.

A Battletech movie with the same budget and production quality of Starship Troopers (there are no others, shush, they dont exist...*cough*) Would be amazing!

Are you serious? It looked like some Design major's university project -- acting and all. Yes, this was 15 years ago (when I was in university doing my design degree at that) -- but they _did_ have access to better 3D composition and effects back then. But now that I think of it, even Blizzard's CG was on par with this (think SC BW cinematics) so I guess this was still uber awesome at the time. I know I would have been impressed. Back then : P

The Animaster Ironically enough, 15 years ago, I too was in the middle of my CG animation course. Was there access to better software and quality - undoubtedly. Was this intro still of high quality compared to its peers at the time...remarkably so. With my nostalgia glasses on, it still holds up rather well. I get a chill when I see this play out. Try not to be too hard on this one, unlike most movie houses, this team was probably a lot smaller and had a lot less time to get this done and out the door.

@@theanimaster Compare this CGI with the hobbit and other modern films... Not really much quality going around here in termsof CGI. This was amazing for its time. IF they made them even better, I think it would distract from the gameplay. The in game graphics were not even close to this, so its a bit of a tease.

@@theanimaster Are you serious?? This cgi is absolutely incredible TO THIS DAY it still holds up. Some of the best cgi of the era looks better than any game at the time

To be fair there are a trio of Nova Cats with that Uziel. With a Nova Cat Prime carrying a pair of PPCs, the Uziel likely only fired twice. The other 4 shots probably came from some of the Nova Cats. The main question I have is, even in MechWarrior 4 the Uziel's MGs were mounted in the shoulder area/side torsos, why is it firing ballistic rounds from its arms in this?

Live action movie done right.

@Weirdiocrow: Lol - I'm divided. This spectacular live intro blew my mind when it first came out; the MW3 intro was kind of flat. But the campaign opening, when the Blackhammer is taken out was utterly riveting; it showed the fear and uncertainty of a mission gone horribly wrong. I will say that Sigma 2 - the girl in the Shadowcat - has quite possibly the prettiest eyes I've ever seen!

oh yeah bby

It's good, but Mechcommander's intro is great.

Like Michael Bay please make a movie!!!!

+Alias fakinami I've never seen this before. I was getting hypechills. I wish I could make sense of the story, though. I loved MW4:Mercs, so this is next.

@107981830587541029269 From what I remember, the story was that a large portion of the main character's faction was succeeding and randomly attacked their base all at once, so now the heir to the throne has to take it back, or somthing like that :P

+John Madden (NO SPOILERS) Vengeance is about a coup within a royal family during the start of the much larger FedCom Civil War. Basically the war started because Katrina Steiner I signed a peace agreement with House Davion, but there was a secret clause which married one of Davion's princes to the Steiner successor. So this merged the two nations. Those nobles had children, Katrina II and Victor (plus another), but Victor was going to become the king. The Steiners liked Katrina while the Davions preferred Victor. Katrina became power-hungry and influenced the Steiner lords to support her - she secretly assassinated her mother and framed Victor, then assumed the throne of the Federated Commonwealth. Obviously the Davion lords were outraged and did not trust Katrina, while the Steiners hated and distrusted the Davions. She was a ruthless ruler who favored the Steiner planets while persecuting the Davions. Eventually rebellions started forming and they elected Victor as their leader, while other planets defected to Katrina. This division lead to infighting within many of the smaller families under the FedCom alliance. MW4 is about one of these conflicts when William Dresari takes advantage of the civil war by betraying his Davion-friendly family on behalf of Katrina Steiner. The trailer is the start of the coup and murder of the Dresaris.

***** lol same

Unfortunately, he was in a very weak mech, and so was his companion. Now had they been in real mechs like the Timber Wolf or the Summoner, then he would have been able to do something! His mech just didn't have what it took to win.

Lmao

I love my timberwolf (mad cat) but the urban mech is scarier than the pursuit atlas

Urbanmech makes all other mechs obsolete. xD

he's right. UrbanMech is just like its name suggest, built for urban combat. He's built short to hide himself in between building, and armed with AC/10 or AC/20 means he could sneak behind you or hide in the next turn, pop in front of you, shot your cockpit until you die, and then run away into next block.

I doubt you'll see this but I was wondering if you could tell me what mech that guy was driving.

still amazes me to this day. I used to live on this game

+Nick Christie that's actually well put.battletech is not only about giant robots;the political background stands on it's own too.

+Nick Christie Eh. Opinions are opinions.

Man it would be badass if we got a battletech series on HBO by the guy that did game of thrones. That would be badass.

House Davion FTW.

Nuckin' Futs Since the Copyright war with those Harmony Gold wankers is over, it's doable. Only question would be where to start. Adaptation or reboot?

I read this and all I could process was "Mechwarrior = the dark souls of videogames"

Make a Netflix special with this, and I'd watch it

OMG you're absolutely right

except Mechwarrior CAME FIRST.

do not compare what is inferior to this setting XD

Clan invasion expansion for tabletop Battletech will be available in a few months.

@@josepablolunasanchez1283 Second wave? It was already available a year ago on Kickstarter.

@@p_serdiuk Yep. Second wave. That is what kickstarter says.

you mean the Mad Dog

@@ELITESrBAMOFOS945 Clan mechs have two names. One given by clans, another given by Inner Sphere. So the Vulture is the Mad Dog. The Timber Wolf is the Mad Cat, and so on...

Well it made sense that after the Clan wars, the various noble houses had their OmniMech salvage

the game you play effectively davion side avenging this attack so makes sense

I loved this game so much. I still remember a random background line when a pilot stepped on an enemy tank "Eugh stepped in some steiner." Freaking had me dieing laughing and I still quote it in Mechwarrior 5 mercenaries on ps4

Vulture is the best for me.

no lol. no it does not.

The cheesyness was what made it fun, like the best b-movie sci fi's. It's so much better than the typical silent protagonist in a """"first person cinematic experience"""" you get these days. Seriously, I miss live actors.

@@Protagonist To be honest, with today's technology, I'm sure we could actually make something really nice looking, like not some B-movie thing (even tho I would still love it >_>), but actually some really high grade big movie levels of quality... I mean look at how many millions there are in those games, I'm sure it's possible...

Lol like warhawk on PS1? xD

The acting and effects here are still leagues better than any Syfy channel original movie.

TBH he should've overheated long before death if it was MWO X)

*Powers up mech* *Overheats, engine destroyed*

I did that in my urbie once, override was on, got two kills then my engine exploded, then I said in the all chat, the only person who kills me is me

Yea that is face of me when am the last one on my team.

@@nuclearmonster6601 GigaChad move. I aprove.

What? Not budget Bruce Willis?

The pilot of the mad dog was ok.

LOL! Good one 😅

Shadow Cat chick... so hot AND a great actress! "WE GOT TRACK!"

That was one of the VFX team crew member.

Dark-Architect that shadow cat pilot was an idiot.

They were not royal guards. They were a scout lance in training. The royal guards were already dead and dying.

Vulture cougar shadowcat und raven

There should always atleast be a single jupiter or atlas

to be fair, all the mechs left the hangar with not much urgency :/ if the battle is to scale, I count 6 medium mechs vs 8-10 light (scout) mechs. Scouts would of won if they left faster. btw, is the cougar mech the face of the MechWarrior/MechAssault franchise? I wouldn't be surprised if it was; its basic but awesome. just wonderin

Now, 7 years later, I'm the one who's 16 and enjoy playing this game and MW4 Mercenaries. 4, not 5.

@@icywarhammer5003 god I wish I could get 4 working on my system

@@purplekey9330 I could send u a working google drive file for it

Indeed. This was the first MW I played, and I was dismayed to find the direction had changed so much in MW5.

When Paradox's Battletech's cutscenes achieve way more with still images.

It has cutscenes?

you and me both buddy. It was such an awesome time :)

I like your breakdown but I don't agree. The two lances of attacking forces we see have 1 medium, 5 heavy, 2 unknown, while the defenders have 5 light, 2 medium, 1 heavy, 2 unknowns. Even if you set the unknowns to be entirely in the defenders favor (attacker unknowns are light mechs, defender unknowns are heavy), it's still not a battle in the defender's favor. The defenders might have a numbers advantage but by tonnage they are way outclassed here. Those ravens do not have the firepower to handle equal numbers of nova cats....especially once you get inside the palace area where it's going to favor mid to close range brawls over the long range maneuver warfare the raven/vulture mix is suited for. The only way I see if being an even fight is if the two defender unknowns are assault mechs...and then you would easily spot their bulk poking out of their places in the hangar and they wouldn't be unknown.

Well, in my case, it reminds me of Dune, but with giant robots and no spice. Even in this game's story you are a duke's son and you have to revenge your family, like Paul Atreides and Duke Leto Atreides. The final confrontation in this game is against Ian's cousin, which also reminds me of the final battle between Feyd Rautha Harkonnen and Paul Muad'dib, who are technically cousins.

Is that really him? There are similarities...

Wait... Did they hire an actor?

Idk

It has Machine guns in the arms, Medium pulse lasers in the chin turret and LRM 20s

@@JazzJaRa that's such a waste in the arms xD

This is some derp non-canonical Vulture Mk II. No spec sheet i can find has this weapons configuration. Were i too guess though, those would be clan ultra 5s in the arms, with clan rotary mgs underneath them. Pulse laser turret and lrm 15s.

***** appeals to a small group PRECISELY because it isn't put on film."Decision at Thunder Rift" would be a excellent introductory movie.alot of people are tired of robots who shoot a laser and annihilates a entire army in one blow,plus the teen whining and teen drama,and hoh,they happen to be students at some school.(sigh)but yeah,people don't want to strain their brains too much nowadays.

they really should make a battletech film theres so much material

I so agree. They made Pacific Rim, which was fine in its own way, to best Transformers when they should have just let Mechwarrior stand on its own like it always has in the face of other competitors like Robotech and even Gaint Robot.

INDEED!!! Battletech has GREAT stories.

Fear is what rules Hollywood. The logic the executives follow is the more expensive the movie, the higher the return if it succeeds. Failure can kill a studio. We were lucky to get Pacific Rim as it is, because the studios do not like taking chances. That's why most blockbusters follow the same tropes and story structure. The paying audiences liked it, surely they'll like it again and again. The Battletech universe had that nonsense legal problem from those hacks at Harmony Gold and it made touching franchise risky. Now that's it's over, we might see something in the future.

Yep, this showed up on the homepage and I got my nostalgia on.

Yea..Im here. Still love this game!

2021

You mean retreat when you don't know if the people you're sworn to defend got out safely? For all we know this guy might be the reason anyone survived at all.

satannstuff Perhaps but if Command was gone then it would've been safe to assume the Palace has completely fallen. Steiner may be idiots but they know how to pull off a surprise assault.

example "best mech gets damaged from last mission... cant use your best mech for even harder level, not to mention lost mechs from ejecting allies. also HARDEST DIFFICULTY OR GTFO, lol makes the game more awesome.

TheRumChum Thats coz it's a real military campaign with consequences :P. Not some space pirate gallavanting around the galaxy working for the highest bidder ;P.

EllieThePug exactly

+Jerry try playing it on elite lol

I actually have MW4 Vengeance, MW4 Black Knight, and MW4 Mercenaries. it's probably one of my favorite campaign games ever, and this is going by 2020 standards

I did, I was the Uziel for 2 reasons, 1) The Uziel is one of my favorite mechs, and 2) Because I refuse to pilot a filthy vat-born Clan mech.

Jadefox32 exact same feelings!

I think it's implied that ian's tyranny was propaganda in order to take him down

It’s implied Ian chose to get the weapons instead of saving his sister in the sequel In the eyes of the rebellion, it’s the best choice But to choose weapons over a blood relative, is equal to a death sentence to his sister, and Ian pulled the trigger. Now if you chose the sister over the weapons - it’s likely the story went Ian didn’t like his sister’s way of rule and did a coup since he had only known war, war is how he ruled At least that’s how I explain that scenario

Nope, its cannon.

@@TimberWulfIsHere K den, I'll keep my cannon thanks

I agree, and by the way, old mechwarrior games dispite old graphics, had a lot of mechs

The new community warfare mode that just got introduced to MWO does a piss-poor job of address your complaints. It is still a shell of a game with barely any heart or soul to it. Such a waste of the IP.

You're 100% correct, sir.

MWO is basically multiplayer of a Mechwarrior game, and nothing else. MW5 (original) got canceled because of Harmony Gold shenanigans. Then there are the various balance changes that were required because direct translation of the tabletop was piss poor for the game (Time to Kill during the pre-armor rework made Call of Duty look like it was standing still). MW4 had this major issue of 'laser pop tarting' where you essentially slap as many lasers with as little armor as possible because you're using so many lasers that armor is useless since lasers 'stick' where they hit. Nothing else mattered in the multiplayer meta back then. MWO's 'time on target' lasers made that impossible. AMS is actually scary as they should be to missile boats (especially after the tabletop rework made them actually useful), especially if you got a bunch of them together. The cockpits are rendered faithfully to the source material... and it didn't help that the company that published MWO was discovered to be right bastards trying to kill the game with P2W crap. MWO did a lot of things right despite its missteps at the beginning.