German gamers website has now footage of this free2play mmo game!
Imho best looking Mech game so far!
http://www.gamestar.de/index.cfm?pid=1589&pk=65992

Hopefully it has a large play area and not the small 'arenas' of all the previous MW games.

agreed, while looking nice, its still F2P and i have concerns over how much the gameplay has evolved.

There was no 360 degree pan in that video, but the area seemed to be a box canyon.

Hope it's not just TDM. LMS is ok, but I want bases to take out, objectives to complete etc.
Otherwise it does look good if the area is large enough.

Has this been posted?
Some game type info at about 4:15.

Is it actually up already?

Though they have not shown it yet, they have stated that there will be urban environments in it. They have mentioned TrackIR, but I'm not sure if it will be in at launch or added later.

I am really hopeful on this one, it looks like it will play similar to MechWarrior Lining Legends, but with a bit more polish.

Release is tentatively this fall, IIRC.

I still don't know how the games will represent in the metaverse though..

I was really hyped by this but i have a sneaky little muttering in the back of my mind that its just going to be Mw4 with better visuals.... God i hope not.

Are you the same Bad Karma from Bad Karma.net of Mechwarrior fame?

Closed beta signups are open NOW.

http://mwomercs.com/signup

Tells me my email address is already in use, so I guess back when you could reserve your pilot name that entered you for this this too?

Go to your profile and click the beta stuff it asks for including system specs.

There it is, thanks!

Well... nobody seems to be getting into the beta, at least, who I know (and that's a LOT of ppl signed up). It appears the only people getting in are utter mechwarrior noobs who played all the F2P games they asked about as far as I can tell. Go figure.

Sooooooooooooo to hold me over, I downloaded and installed Mechwarrior Living Legends. It rocks! They've done quite a bit to it since the first beta came out, ya'll should give it another shot.

Or maybe people are honoring the NDA that comes with the beta?

I can't wait to play this.

But I think I will miss the aero/tank/hovercraft/battlearmor from Mechwarrior Living Legends.

I'd like to install this on my sons computer. Dual core, though, not quad. Does it take a very powerful machine to run this?

MechWarrior Online Minimum System Spec:

CPU:
Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz
Athlon II X2 245e

GPU:
GeForce 8800GT
Radeon HD 5600/5700

RAM: 4 GB

OS: Windows Vista 32-bit

DirectX: DX9

HDD Space: 4 GB

MechWarrior Online Recommended System Spec:

CPU: Core i3-2500 AMD Athlon II X4 650

GPU: GeForce GTX 285 Radeon HD 5830

RAM: 8 GB OS: Windows 7 SP-1 64-Bit

DirectX: DX9

HDD Space: 4 GB

Source: mwomercs.com official-developer-update

No luck on the beta here.

I'm quite looking forward to playing it, that's for sure. Anyone here get one of the founders packs?

The announcement was updated to include Windows XP 32-bit SP3
http://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/13874-official-developer-update/

not a fan of F2P... because they usually screw you later, lol... but I loved the original Mech Warrior, was in a clan and all... so I jumped on the beta.. waiting.

http://mwomercs.com/

I was a big fan of MW2 and played it online a good amount too, I've played MWLL a good bit too, looking forward to this but the prices scare me a bit to tell you the truth and I will try it in F2P before committing that much money to it.

If you are talking about the founders program then that is planned to end on Aug 7th.

Yeah the fact that paying $120 for the "Legendary" founder's package only gets you 3 months of "Premium Account" scares me as to what the prices will be like for premium account...

I know there are many of us longtime FASA Mechwarrior universe fans out here and probably lots of gamers that have great memories from the other MW games so they probably have a pretty good potential customer base, but if they are expecting to cash in on WOW type monthly service fees right off the bat, there are a ton of other MMOs that have tried and failed going down that road.

Glad there is a F2P option so I can test drive it and see, I have big hopes for this and just hope it turns out to be terrific and my worries misplaced.

I too am a long time Fasa Mechwarrior fan from the borad/tabletop days. I love the franchise and some of the fluff.

However i also share the same sentiments over the F2P genre as all the F2P games i have played whilst enjoyable for the short time are quite devoid of depth and longevity.

So i am interested in how this will pan out. However for me, a founders pack is out of the question as i will need to get that dreaded upgrade i have been putting off for years (actually its the dreaded discussion with the wife to justify to spend )

I hope the game will be something new, but at the moment its an updated looking mechwarrior (if that is a bad thing) with the same endless squad matchess. Now if we knew more about how the metaverse works, that would be great.

Anyway looking forward to it and if i do get (gain permission off the boss for) that upgrade, then there will be a few titles i will have to invest in as well........

Ohhh well, i can always sell a child ;-)

I've enjoyed the Mechwarrior games from MW2, so I'm quite looking forwards to this, especially as I just have a new computer. The videos look fairly impressive, with a lot of need for terrain and teamwork, especially with LRMs.
The Free to play aspect has the possibility to be disturbing, but I've quite enjoyed world of tanks (without paying anything), so I'm not writing it off! I hope they have something other than team deathmatch/capture the flag. Even something like one team attacks, one team defends, would be a good change.

Why wait to play it when you can play Mechwarrior Living Legends, now?

It's awesome and there's no reason to not play it.

I play MWLL and I have several friends of mine who are in the Beta who say this is going to be an epic MW game. I also bought a legendary founders pack. I had a bit of extra coin laying around.

My buddy got into the beta and I played it this weekend.

I will be playing this when released.

Glad to hear good early impressions, I'm looking forward to this.

Saw this on Gizmodo or Engadget:

Caustic Valley gameplay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgrOECiN7ZU

Nice to see people respecting the NDA they signed.

Awww


So sowwy

They'll probably cancel it now.

Ive been in contact with the Guys from PGI and let me tell you. They truly do love the battletech lore and are doing there best to make it one of the Best Mechwarrior games in recent memory. I paid the 120 for the Legendary Founders and truth be told I would do it again just to support the guys at PGI

Really Raptor. Then have I got an offer for you.

Heck, ALL of the paying customers are in the beta now. It is common knowledge, now.

120 dollars to play this game?! You've got to be kidding me.

NO, Pooch, it's an offer. Just as Kickstarter or Indiegogo, only privately managed. Game is F2P...

Well it's free to play. But if you want to pony up $30, you can get into the beta. I believe the $120 offer also includes a massage and happy ending package, so it's got that going for it...

Worth.....every.....penny!

and...on your deathbed, you will achieve total enlightenment.

Which is nice.