MechCommander: Battletech's Most Under-Rated PC Game

I liked both series but the Mechcommander 1-2 are closer to mz heart. I like the battletech too but for me the turn based combat kills because I like to make my actions in real time. There is a similar game Phantom Brigade which follows the path of battletech with some twist but for me a Mechcommander 3 would be the ideal if someone willing to make it. With the modern game engines and graphical capabilities a real time tactical game would look gorgeous but sadly no one tried to try this way. The only tries are turn based ones or very small indie projects which tries to follow the top down or 2d graphics for a similar game.

Mechcommander one was a nice looking game and the second was slightly more balanced but the graphics in that time was limited but I liked the variety of mechs and the option to design the mechs aswell (simple coloring). The only thing a new game must do is to copy these main parts, add more option for costumize your mechs, more mechs and weapons for choice, more pilot options or generated pilots what added in like Battletech, Phantom brigade. Balance can be achieved but by the design the game would follow the predecessors game style.

The only close thing what I seen is a mod for mechwarrior online where the game camera and controls altered to strategy view.

I still hope some day there will be a third mechcommander game or a similar game that follows this style.

nice all city

We need Mech commander 3

How do you get it to run though? I’ve got a Mac and it seems it wouldn’t even run in modern windows.

Also, LOL, in your opening bit where your fighting on mission 1-5 against that last Catapult. YUP, makes sense Scarab is ejected. His pathing always was BROKE. Youd order your entire company to move one way, Scarab would wander off, over the river and through the turret defenses to the grave yard he goes....I always hated hiring him cuz he was such a dumb ass.....

How I want a Mechcommander 3. Feeling, gameplay and combat of Mechcommander 1 with the modern day Mechwarrior 5 mechlab and endless mission style, with a hint of Men of War direct control. I know MW5 has a mod trying to make MC3, but id love a real MC3, not just a mod jerry rigged into the game.

Clan smoke jaguar btw not clan jaguar I highly recommend Mechcommander over mechcommander 2 despite the more dated graphics i think the gameplay and story is better.

It's worth noting that fans have made a mod for MW5 that turns it into "Mechcommander 3".
Mechcommander 2 got me into Mechcommander, but I already knew of the series from Mechwarrior 2 commercial, and Mechwarrior 3 demo.
I thoroughly enjoyed Mechcommander 2 but that game is.. a chore to get running on modern systems correctly if I recall. I do have Mechcommander 1 installed though.

one of my favorite games of all time, played it a ton growing up and recently finished a new playthrough. the sprites, effects, and missions are just so great

I played Mech commander gold online for nearly 2 decades. Theres probably 4 guys who still play it from europe.

i play MC:Gold all the time. i first played in 1999 when i was a kid.

Man I love the game! I played it loads and recently got it working again. I also find the Battletech lore kinda fascinating.

I love this game so much and I'm constantly looking for more or similar. Plz lmk if you know of anything similar! Side note.. Earth From Another Son isn't it.

I played that mission so many times trying to hit that fuel tank before the Mad Cat made it to me and also salvage the thing.

The HBS Battletech video game from 2018 is the closest we've gotten to a sequel to Mechcommander 1&2, though it drops the real-time aspect in favor of being turned based. It actually does a nice job at echoing the parent tabletop wargame (Battletech) while not bogging down with as much complexity. And since HBS is cool with modders, if you want more there's multiple well developed modpacks that take it to the next level (my vote being for BTA 3062, but that's just me!) - worth a look for those wanting a tactical stompy robot game.

I guess I'm the only zoomer who played this game. Its amazing

they don't make games like that anymore(

Feller, you having 2200 subs is a crime.

I had MechCommander Gold and the game pure 'Gold."

All the characters with their unique voiceover personalities, loading up your 'mechs with Clan gear...

Thinking I need to reinstall this old beast and take another crack at the campaign!

MechCommander was F'n great, I fell in love with the game with the demo and I was so excited when I found a copy in a second hand games shop.

4 Maulers with a Long Tom on each arm. A lance hitting a target with 8 Long Toms at the same time. The game was over from then on.

Are we just going to skip over mech warrior 5 that came out in 2019?

This one needs a remaster for sure, so does Drakan and Legacy of Kain series

The game that taught me early in life I was doomed to be never lucky. The only clan mech I remember salvaging was a cougar.

Ow yes! This game was amazing!

The game wasn't much fun unlike Battletech and Mechwarrior before it.

Wtf is a Jagwire?

playing this game, nothing was more satisfying to me than hearing the sound of an atlas with twin autocannons coreing a mech

MW4 Merc was some of the best bloody multiplayer I've played around that time.

This is a great game even today.
There is a freeware version available online or was a while back.

Loved both 1 and 2; 2 also has pretty good live action cut scenes, IIRC.

I LOVED MechCommander 2. I remember spamming armies of Anubis mechs and giving every single mech nothing but rockets. It didn't work for myself as a kid, playing it many years later, but I had so much fun using the AoE ordnance (Swarm missiles?) that just OBLITERATED any mech if they didn't get out of the way on time.... at least, I THOUGHT they did. I converted to the world of lasers instead.

My favorite of all Battletech/mechwarrior games.

Called shots are included, gotta use that num pad

mech commander gold and mech commander 2 are still some of my favorite games

The Mechcommander intro remains my favorite Battletech video.

This is a game that I loved deeply. Slight correction to your review though you CAN do called shots using the number keypad. They're pretty unreliable though. The only complaint I had with the main game is just the sheer randomness of salvaging, one would think shooting both legs out of a mech would make it salvagable but nope it goes boom regardless.

Looks like it was Mechcommander 2 that I had gotten into and I loved that game especially customizing your mechs and pilots to do the various missions. I recall my basic squads usually consisted of the fastest mech I had with jump jets and sensors equipped with a few long range weapons to hit depots and such; this was obviously the scout and in more than one battle it seems I had the entire enemy force chasing after this one mech while the rest of the squad moved in with the objective. If not that my scout was usually a cloaked mech but those lacked the jump to get over walls and other obstructions.

As for being "easier" it may have been if you restart with your full inventory of mechs from the first time through.

I still have the t-shirt and manual. It was the first time that I saw full color versions of some of my favorite mechs. I have the disk kicking around here somewhere. Using terrain to your advantage was the best way to get mechs early on.

One of the few games I wish they'd make a sequel to. I love the 2018's BattleTech but there's something about the RTS of MechCommander that's always captured my heart

The modern Battletech turn based strategy game by HBS is also phenomenal - Especially with a bit of modding. I really love and hate the feeling of being perpetually broke, and knowing that some tiny mistake I make can lead to my star pilot being killed and my most expensive mech being reduced to slag.

It really challenges you to try and cobble together a lance of mechs that both perform economically and punch above their weight - Necessity is a fantastic training mechanism for economic success, if that makes any sense whatsoever!

That one early game mission where you encounter Timber Wolf for the first time is actually a way to get your hands on that juicy chassy by restarting that mission until you get the mech by succesful artilery strike to the cockpit.

Mechcomander was so advanced for its time that if made today would hold up better then most new tittles. Mech commander is game that made me fall in love with battletech/mecharrior. My only gripe with both games how simplified mechs and weapons systems were(it would have been nice to be able to tell them to fire specific weapon or group of weapons instead of shoot only short/medium/long). if you have tonnage you can put anything on mech(make boat of anything) and space(in case of mc2). So that took away from mechs and combat but everything else was just perfect.

I loved MechWarrior 2 and its DLC, Ghostbear, Mercenaries etc, Bought MechCommander......and didn't like it.
I missed the whiplash and sweating through my undies😆

The first was amazing, someone made a big campaign mod for it but I cannot remember the name. Amazing stuff.

The bit that drags it down for me is the bit that's often most praised, the real-time "combat", which like pretty much every title in the genre devolves into a bunch of zurgrushing headless chickens running around.
A WeGo turn-based system would've made it so much better, letting you actually use tactics in an engagement other than "run in circles and hope I do the most damage".

Weird.. I had a game called mechCommander but it was nothing like this O.o

MC1 Gold was great, never really got to play MC2, only thing I had available to me was when they released that free version but with the stripped UI elements so it was kinda confusing to play.