MechWarrior Tactics coming this year, will be free-to-play
MechWarrior Tactics, a new turn-based, free-to-play, tactical combat game set in the BattleTech universe has been announced for North American PCs.
Roadhouse Interactive and A.C.R.O.N.Y.M. Games have announced that they're partnering with the newly-formed entity Infinite Game Publishing to deliver MechWarrior Tactics, a free-to-play, turn-based tactical combat game for PC later this year.
Set in the year 3025, MechWarrior Tactics will feature asynchronous, turn-based combat, and a large variety of customization options.
The announcement was revealed after a countdown on the game's official website. Though no details are present on the actual site--save for a promotional image--completing the free registration serves up some more details for interested parties.
Global leaderboards and combat replay features will be included, and though the skinny on microtransactions hasn't been shared yet, it's likely that it will enable players to purchase things like new weapons and mech-parts with cash, rather than earning them through the course of normal gameplay. Or hats, perhaps. We all know how how people love virtual head-wear.
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MechWarrior Tactics, a new turn-based, free-to-play, tactical combat game set in the BattleTech universe has been announced for North American PCs.-
You don't have to sign up to read their press release, just click on the image.
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Yep. Looks like the image is now clickable.
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Front Mission?
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Videos look like shit, but the game was awesome:
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Yep. It was great. Tried to reinstall it a few weeks ago, but it doesn't work on Win 7.
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Awesome! btw what a crazy idea to make a turnbased Mech game based on Mechwarrior. They should go ahead even make a table top game with that concept!
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I see what you did there.
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Tribes Ascend wants a word with you!!!!!!!
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A CRAPPY REMAKE OF .... ah fuck it.
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What? How did they do this with the MW:O project going on? Do multiple parties have rights to the IP now?
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apparently the same publisher....but why? What is going on here in Battletech? I'm happy, yet confused!
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Just the 2
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No, there's another one for iOS that is supposed to be out this month. Tactical Command: http://www.mechwarriortc.com/
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Whoops, my bad
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4 MW games. The Day 1 Mech game announced yesterday is official Battletech
Mechwarrior Online
Solaris Assault Tech
Mechwarrior Tactics
Mechwarrior: Tactical Command
Then there's the Mechwarrior: Living Legends mod which is pretty much commercial quality.
8 years with no hope of a Mechwarrior game and now we'll be up to our asses is metal goodness. Oh, then Hawken (non BT) in December.
Time to start looking at joysticks fellas.
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How is Battletech itself different from MechWarrior? I'm really not too familiar with Battletech outside of MechWarrior. I'm assuming there's a lot of stuff outside of MW since Infocom used to make Battletech RPGs or something like that back in the day. Someone should make a Battletech game again.
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It's not. MW was just the RPG part that was eventually created to go alongside the BT part. BT was strictly the table-top/board game. MW was for life outside the mechs.
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Battletech was the original table-top RPG, and Mechwarrior was the video game run and also a somewhat decent miniatures/clicks game.
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I'm pretty sure MW was a pen-and-paper RPG before it was a video game; I bought all the original stuff when it came out in the '80s--boxed BT set with the Warhammer on the front, the MW RPG book with the Rifleman on the cover. I think that was maybe 1987 or '88 when MW came out.
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See, the 40 in your name probably refers to your age and that's how you know. ;))
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Today I learned that MW was first a pen and paper game! Wh0a!
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Sooooo it's just Battletech the game that is using the mechwarrior name for market appeal I guess?
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