Yeah, me either. I just played it with a keyboard.

At that time I had 2 voodoo 3d cards in sli mode and could play anything voodoo compatible in 3d with glasses.

It was cool but it was, is and will always be very niche (stereoscopic viewing).

Because PGI are an absolute cumstain of a company that broke their promises of what they were going to do with the franchise right at the get go.

They watered down the flagship product (MW:Online) of them taking over the franchise to "appeal to a wider audience", while cramming in greedy pay-to-win micro-transactions and alienated and pissed off all the long time fans that paid into the crowdfunding.

When revenue tanked, everything after that was progressively more "minimum viable product that has to work on an Xbox pad held by a five year old with one eye".

Edit: If they ever do anything else with the franchise, I fully expect it to be 100% AI slop development and artwork.

I had this on the 486dx2 66MHz. It ran smooth.

Pentium ≠ 486

We played it on a Mac Performa with like 24mb ram and maybe a 75 MHz PPC processor.

That and a starter’s Jedi game were the first FPV 3D games we’d ever played at home. (Someone had installed doom on the auto as compys at highschool).

I think you're memory is fuzzy, it was either a Pentium or a 486, not both.

The incoming LRM warning sound is forever stuck in my head.

Yes, I've been messing with it lately, can't remember the details, but i'll go look I'm a while.

Edit: the dos version works fine in dosbox, the only thing I see is a note in my startup conf reminding me to stop my kvm, barrier. have not succeeded in running any of the better graphics build.

Just add a service that plays a sound on system startup

In KDE, YES!

Crap, I can't remember 100% how I did it but they support sound themes now.

But my OpenSUSE Tumbleweed system running KDE6 starts up with this startup sound, I think I pulled the MechWarrior Online startup sound off YouTube or something. :)

...Now if only I could make my car do this... 😂

I remember tweaking the config and I think blowing my arm off by firing

Is that an Awesome? I think they have a tabletop loadout with 3 PPCs

Mass jump jets and machine guns was my go to... fly into close range really fast and gun then brrrrrrr. You could win most battles using the smallest mech this way.

My exact strat. It's fine if your mech shuts down after each shot, so long as you don't miss... Just gotta pick em off one by one

I played Mercenaries a bunch and had a blast loading up as many machine guns as I could on a relatively agile mech and just fully unloading on some big ass Atlas' cockpit in order to salvage it.

It wasn't exactly a fantastic strategy, but a great way to get a beast of a mech.

I thought this was standard practice, especially once you have the C-bills and/or chassis to pull it off. Glass cannon builds are tons of fun.

Then you read the mission specs and see that you're landing on an ice planet this time...

i76 was great. I remember playing MW2, MW Mercenaries, and i76 all around the same era.

Monkey Island too!

A lot of original PlayStation games as well

An awful lot of early CD games would let you do that. Track 1 was the data and tracks 2-whatever were individual songs from the ST, because that's how the game played the soundtrack audio, by treating it like an audio CD. That really only changed once audio compression got better and other assets got larger so there was a better way to use the space.

But when CDs first landed your storage media moved from 1.44MB disks (PC) or <= 6MB cartridges (SNES) to 640-700 MB it took a while before code and graphical assets started using a lot of that and well, you are paying for the whole CD either way, may as well use all the space.