Hi all. I’ve been working on OpenMercs, an independent, non-commercial reimplementation of MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries Titanium for modern machines.

I’ve put together about six minutes of gameplay across three environments, showing the updated environments, cockpit, textures and weather effects blending into the classic gameplay that made the original a classic.

NetMech multiplayer and campaign co-op are planned and i'm hoping to have both up and running before public release.

It’s still in development and as such, there’s no public download or release date yet, and the repository is currently (ironically) private, though I'll be open-sourcing everything alongside the initial release very soon. The project uses game data from your own legitimate copy of Mercenaries Titanium. I'll see if I can also add support for other release versions of Mercenaries as well.

I’ve also launched a website with screenshots, development status and community links:

• OpenMercs website
• Join the OpenMercs Discord

I’d love to hear what you think of the footage, particularly the cockpit presentation and atmosphere.
Thanks for checking out the project. It's been a lot of fun to work on and I can't wait to share it with you all soon. Cheers!

On our channel we use games to explain management and leadership ideas, and MechWarrior 5: Clans ended up being a really good way to talk about something I think managers get wrong all the time: more direction is not automatically better leadership.

The thing Clans does really well is make giving orders cost you something. You can jump into BattleGrid, reposition your Star, call targets, keep somebody out of trouble, try to get everyone exactly where you want them,

and meanwhile you are still sitting in a timberwolf eating enemy srms like cheetos

So the more attention I spend managing everybody else, the less attention I have for my own mech. Sometimes that's absolutely worth it. If somebody needs the direction, or positioning actually matters, then yeah, get in there and manage it. But sometimes I'm just burning attention telling a perfectly capable lancemate how to do something they were already handling fine.

Thats where I got the idea for how to see this from a real world leadership angle. Different people need different amounts of direction, and the amount you can realistically give them also changes depending on what's happening around you. An easy fight gives you room to be very deliberate. Once everything goes to hell, that same level of control can become its own problem because now the leader is spending half the fight managing the team instead of dealing with the thing trying to remove his torso.

So I built the episode around that. How much direction should you actually give people, when should you back off, and what do you do when your preferred way of leading just doesn't fit the situation anymore.

Then I tied it into a few leadership models and used Clans as the way to make the problem feel real instead of just an abstract theory regurgitation or run of the mill linkedinslop.

If that sounds interesting: Youtube Link

I replaced the annoying key buzzer in my 1987 Toyota Tercel with the MechWarrior 2 startup sound. Inserting the key now feels like powering up a BattleMech.

Still a Tercel. Significantly more prepared for orbital deployment.

Hi mech fans! I'm releasing this "demo" out since I'm no longer interested in finishing up this mod, please note some content maybe broken/buggy.

What does this mod change?
This mod unlocks the DLC mechpack content, restores removed beta content and adds a lot of new toys (mechs and weapons) into the game for single player.

Removed beta content include:
Command-able in mission allied mechs.

1st person cockpit bobbing/shake

Synced torso with cockpit movement

Salvage depends on what you destroy or save for some missions instead of the pre-determined bs of the vanilla game.

Vulture MK II (non-canon version, the one that appears in the intro, it is inaccessible in the campaign because I didn't get time to include it in)

Scrapped Hellspawn design (named "Firestorm" in the mod, inaccessible in the campaign)

Restored weapon pods for Uziel, Atlas etc

and various irrelevant things that you probably will not notice.

New content include:
Griffin
Anubis
Crusader (replacing Black Knight)
Centurion (replacing Wolfhound)
Stiletto
Initiate
Champion
Warhammer
Puma
New variants of existing mechs.
Various new weapons and variants.
Black market (BK feature)

This mod is based on Black Knight due to their similar file structure and easy moddable nature compared to Mektek 3.1, this mod was mostly done manually and the addition of mechs was especially hectic/annoying long process.

Where can you download this mod?
the link is in the description of the video

Any requirements?
Yes, you need the Black Knight overhaul mod which can be found in the description of the video to run this properly, the overhaul mod was released on Nexus mods.

Decided to install the game today and go through the multiplayer menus and was looking at total players and its only 16?

Then I remembered there's a command line that you can put in the shortcut app by right clicking shortcut then "properties" then somewhere in there is a "target" line where you can add a command on the end like "playerlimit24" for example and increase the amount of bots or players in the lobby.

I can't remember what it is tho and it doesn't seem to be online anywhere either

Recently got MW3 working, but for some reason I cannot rebind half my keyboard to work with it. Trying to change my Throttle to W/S and it just doesnt seem to read my inputs when I click them when having them highlighted.

https://github.com/Icehellionx/MechWarrior-3-Remastered/
https://github.com/Icehellionx/MechWarrior-4-Remastered/

Just letting everyone know the vast majority of bugs or issues people were having seem to be ironed out. I greatly appreciate anyone and every that gave feedback.

Only things I'll note as I've had requests for them and I don't want bug reports on it as it's not really bugs.

#1 Yes, MechWarrior 4 has a 30 fps cap. The MechLab gets buggy over that so it's purposeful. My goal is to have a complete non buggy experience from end to end. If I can find a way later to have the frame rate lowered to 30 in MechLab and elsewhere in gameplay cap it at whatever the limit is there before things break I'll see what i can do, but it wouldn't be a simple matter.

#2 I see a lot of people asking for widescreen. Similar to the above. It's important for me to retain the UI in game look as it was meant to look be the developers. If I can find a way over time to get widescreen only during gameplay and NOT have it morph the UI I'll do it, but I don't want to promise anything as. This is another one of those "I'll rummage around and see if theirs a way in the future but no promises.

#3 I've had people ask why I don't include the games directly. If I did that the project would likely get taken down in 2 days because it's basically pirating. I want this to stick around as something people can grab for years so I tried to stay away from directly including game data myself. If anyone knows anyone that can give me the go ahead and legally include it on a non commercial license I'd be over the moon and do it in a hear beat. Until then, this is the best compromise I have.

#4 I won't be including any material from the MekTek group. Not because I don't think it's fantastic. I played it to hell. It's because I don't have contact with any of those groups and don't want to use their assets or content without their permission. If someone from that group reaches out and gives the go ahead, I'd love to include it as an alt launcher into 4.

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Beyond that thanks to everyone who helped out, thanks to everyone who downloaded it. It was wild coming across a YouTube video and it included a screenshot of something I had a hand in; that was a bit surreal. Finally and hopefully, you all can easily enjoy MechWarrior 3 and 4 into the future. :)

I swear I’ve searched everywhere for this picture in poster/wall art form. Can anyone direct me to somewhere I can get one please?

Apologies for posting again so soon, I had some success reverse engineering MW2 and was able to build a VR-enabled version! It's a rough prototype atm and not available anywhere yet.

How it was made:

• Ran AI in a loop over MW.EXE to reverse-engineer it and infer the original C code. This took a few days running repeatedly.
• Have AI write the game from scratch in javascript, using the C code as a reference.
• Vibe code any changes, like VR support, upgraded graphics or redone cockpits.

The gameplay in the video is actually a javascript port running in the browser. From what I can tell, it behaves identically to the original source code. Even including its bugs and frame-rate dependant issues...

I thought you guys may enjoy this retrospective I made about some old school arcades - not the least of which are the incredible BATTLETECH Centers from the 90s, and where they are now! There's also a segment about the game "Red Planet" (anit-grav racing on mars) which also ran on the same networked game pods used at the BattleTech Centers.

There's some other stuff about the old Sega arcades and a few local spots in my neighborhood (not BattleTech/Mechwarrior related). Anyway, hope you enjoy this look back :)

For a bit of fun, I vibe-coded a level viewer for my favourite childhood game: Mechwarrior 2. I just opened the `MECH2` folder in claude code and let it loose. Was surprised how much the AI was able to figure out just by looking at the binaries..

Not really planning to do anything with this. Just wanted to share because I thought the results are pretty cool.

When I was five (yeah, the 90s were a long time ago), I had the game, and I remember a mission where you went in and there was a line of enormous mountains that were too high to jumpjet over, but if you tried to go around, you'd fail for abandoning the mission area, yet the Navpoints were on the other side of the mountains. I can't seem to track any info on this map down. Does anyone know what I'm talking about so I can put my mind to rest on this after nearly 33 years?

You all liked the the Mechwarrior 3 Remaster All-In-One Launcher, so I built so much that I made one for 4. (Which was honestly a PAIN in spots.) You just need to supply the ISOs/ ZIP files. Supports Vengeance, Black Knight, Mercenaries, and the part that was a massive pain, both the Inner Sphere and Clan Mech Paks. Runs at you local desktop resolution at 4:3 ratio. Exception for the Vengeance opening video that runs in fullwidescreen. 4x MSAA and 16x Anisotropic Filtering included so it should look better than ever. Manuals included. Game should properly work for alt-tabbing as well.

https://github.com/Icehellionx/MechWarrior-4-Remastered

If you see any bugs please report them on the github and I'll look at them.

EDIT For some of you having issues with install, try having the install go on your C: Drive and see if thats resolves your issues.

Running in DOS Box in Retroarch, was hoping to take advatange of the touch screen.

Results were mid, the Wii U's PowerPC is a major bottleneck and it ran a bit choppy. I was bummed because th FMV ran full speed but the game basically has to be turned down to low settings to be playable.

So will be sticking with my Retroid Pocket Flip 2 for portable MechWarrior 2 and my Xbox Series X for the big screen experience.

Is this the first real Mech ?

Hi, I was thrilled to get MW2 running on Windows 7 (old laptop, not important)! I downloaded the version that was published here, MW1&2 with add-ons. It works almost perfectly!

Almost.

See, when targeting, I very used to normal (not flight sim) controls. I'm using kb+mouse combo, and man, do I suck when my muscle memory has it that "move mouse down" = "move reticle down", but it's coded the opposite way.

No biggie, I can change it in Cockpit Controls! Only I can't. I mean I can, I can even save the control scheme, but as soon as I leave the menu, it's all reset, and I'm back to reversed controls.

No biggie, I can change it directly in INPUT.MAP! Only I can't. I mean I can, but after the game starts, whatever I put in there goes to INPUT.BAK, and I get default controls. I tried setting the file to read-only, but it's not modified - just moved and regenerated.

What am I missing?

I've finished my third run through of MechWarrior on DOS and still have questions on how some of the systems in this game work and figured I might as well consult here. My main point of interest is regarding some of the rarer events I've experienced (being abandoned by the dropship and losing some of the reward and just outright not being paid). Are these linked to any specific Successor State? I swear it was the Capellans both times but it's so rare for me to experience this that I'd like to confirm if it's just them.

I've also had the FWL stop speaking to me when I was still Neutral with them, so is it just a cap to how many missions you can take against an employer before they stop dealing with you or can you counterbalance it and I just got unlucky?

Also, how does company reputation improve? I've had runs where it takes years to reach 'Worth Watching', but my most recent run had me at 'Veteran' before 3028 was over. Are some missions weighted more for improving reputation and skills?

I've also heard it's possible for some pilots to steal the mech you give them but can't confirm if it actually happens. Is that a myth like the Crescent Hawks Urbie and Spider or has someone experienced this?

So if it interests you I built an all-in-one simple installer for Mechwarrior 3 to let it run on modern systems. You just run the .exe, point it at the ISO files for the CDs, and it installs the game, wraps them so they work on Windows 11, upscales them, adds anti-aliasing, ups the available colors to get rid of banding, does some minor clean up of the cut-scenes (not fully but they look better than base, especially the blacks), and made sure the musics working.

I tried to leave the game 'as intended' as much as possible. Just a super easy clean way to play Mechwarrior 3 without jumping through hoops.

Pirate's Moon is also supported.

*EDIT*

Cleaning out other edits so this doesn't just scale up forever.

1.2.6 is out. Should fix issues people were having with the Pirate's Moon ISO and some other issues.

This is a random thought that popped up in my head just now.

Say you won a 100 ton hulking intimidating machine of war in a scrap yard auction. The targeting computers have all been stripped, all military hardware has been stripped, and it is void of any live ammo. Long story short, it is no longer used as a war conquering machine. So your job (with a horde of engineers and technicians) is to strip any remaining hardware and retrofit the cannons, and body into something more civilian-ish and/or kid friendly... Something like if it's in a parade, a festival show theme or if you want to use it for disaster rescue?

How would you do this and how would you utilize this behemoth to help out?