From johnct@ix.netcom.com Sat Sep 28 03:35:07 EDT 1996 Article: 185024 of comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Path: prism!gatech!csulb.edu!news.sgi.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!ix.netcom.com!news From: "John Chih-Wei Tang" Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,alt.games.mechwarrior2 Subject: Re: MechWarrior 2:Mercenaries Date: 28 Sep 1996 07:15:59 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 37 Message-ID: <01bbad0c$fb139d00$d1a120cc@hurricane> References: <52d2rn$clp@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <01bbac41$dc3c6d60$01111dcc@orland> <324BAEF0.15A@popd.ix.netcom.com> <324C38B3.5004@cms.cc.wayne.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: irv-ca12-17.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Sat Sep 28 12:15:59 AM PDT 1996 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Status: RO Nathan Johnson wrote in article <324C38B3.5004@cms.cc.wayne.edu>... > Great game are there any cheats yet...I doubt it, but the guys at work > want to know Given the huge number of bugs in the game, cheats won't be necessary. First of all, there's this occurance of weight peeling off mechs. I would buy and customize a mech, and it would show up 75/75 tons. After one battle, that number turns into 61/75. And then if you fit more stuff onto it, it drops YET AGAIN after the next battle! Then there's another huge(and fatal) problem with ammunition. It never tells you exactly how much ammo is left, nor does it ever really chage you for ammo. You just buy the ammo racks, which are replaced if they're damaged. But the odd thing is that once you start replacing these racks, your mech gets heavier and heavier. And you get proportionally more and more missiles or shells. At one point I had 1380 LRM5 missiles, and my mech was 10 tons overweight. 'course that's the point at which the game crashed each and every time when I try to use the LRM5. And there doesn't seem to be a way around either of these problems. It seems like with the weight-loss problem, Mercenaries is taking weight off for the armor lost during the battle, but never adding them back on when it's repaired.. and similarly for the ammo, it leaves the old space in there somewhere(you don't even see it in the critical chart).. so the mech gets heavier and heavier. You can't even attempt to re-customize the mech and remove the space reserved for the ammo, because they take it off the customization list! There're also numerous inconsistencies between the game and the README.TXT file. In the README they say you can choose engine type and armor type.. and guess what? They're not there.. My guess is Activision pushed Mercenaries out the door WAY too early. Either that or their QA is incredibly bad.. I(and others) caught these problems within hours of playing the game. It's otherwise a good game.. but I sure hope that patch is coming REAL soon, like in the next few days. It's not too enjoyable with those bugs in there. John