From josh@pico.seas.ucla.edu Mon Sep 30 14:23:35 EDT 1996 Article: 185429 of comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Path: prism!gatech!csulb.edu!news.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!nnrp.info.ucla.edu!zephyr!pico!josh From: josh@pico.seas.ucla.edu (Josh J. Yuan) Subject: Re: MechWarrior: Mercenaries suppose to be out. Review please? Sender: news@seas.ucla.edu (News Daemon) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 16:35:15 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: pico.seas.ucla.edu References: <1996Sep27.031231.6192@lafn.org> <52l0vo$mg3@ccshst05.uoguelph.ca> <52l30i$nvo@ccshst05.uoguelph.ca> <52nce3$d2d@rom.oit.gatech.edu> Organization: School of Engineering & Applied Science, UCLA. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 69 Status: RO Will Day (willday@rom.oit.gatech.edu) wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > A short time ago, at a computer terminal far, far, away, Kenny Chiu (MSSM99) wrote: > >I do have a question about salvage though. It almost seems to be preset > >and not due to any special targetting skills you have. Also, although I > >haven't tried it yet, if you shoot the leg of a mech and let it topple > >then finish the mission, would you get that mech as salvage? I'm > >wondering because in one mission, a bonus objective is to kill all the > >enemy mechs. I killed all the mechs and disabled 2 of them by blowing > >one leg off of each of them. When I checked my objectives, it said that I > >did not complete the bonus objective. Just wondering. > I'm not sure about the campaign missions, but in MercNet, destroying > just one leg of a mech does not, in fact, destroy the mech. It just > sits there, staring at the ground. Once you destroy the other leg, it > explodes, just as before. _Then_, it's considered destroyed. > Based on this observation, it would appear that you _still_ have to > destroy both legs (or a torso section) of a mech to have the game > consider it destoyed. And, when you do, it explodes (which, in itself, > is stupid). So my question, then, is: just how can you supposedly get any > worthwhile salvage from a mech that has just disintegrated itself all over > the battlefield? *boggle* It is very simple, you don't get salvage, so far I only salvaged 5 mechs, and I am fighting the Clans already. Also it see they only give you the lightest mech in the entire mission, and only 1 mech in the campaign. Now, I go a question, did anyone play up to the Clans yet cause I am stuck. In the Final battle for Wolcott, the game will hang if I eject, got killed, win, lost. in other words, no matter what I do the game will hang at the end of the mission. I try reinstalling the game but that did not work. This is with full econ. oh, for those interested, I salvaged a Jenner, Hunchback, Zeus, Asassin, and a Clan Dasher(Fire Moth). These are all the lightest mech I faced in the mission I was in. > === > Will Day * * * * * * * * * * * > willday@rom.oit.gatech.edu HARRY BROWNE FOR PRESIDENT > http://rom.oit.gatech.edu/~willday/ http://www.HarryBrowne96.org/ > OIT, Georgia Tech, Atlanta 30332-0715 * * * * * * * * * * * > =-> Opinions expressed are mine alone and do not reflect OIT policy <-= > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.3 > Charset: noconv > Comment: http://rom.oit.gatech.edu/~willday/pubkey.asc > iQCVAwUBMk80+xDHlOdPw2ZdAQHsTgQAhDmA5C/hXiITRBXAlKweph+SiLA9yRA+ > MlFMtrSlZjH77oNRmptLVULeI1nt51c9+Ag2wPVWb7yGsqFXQsZSnpA58DQKuN/g > T1nBsbqnFO0S0fwlWW2+r5eXaRcybBtMt2o5qn3OX0wQ++ZB5vAKhFNL0/T2tDce > l4GckZp+WJw= > =ZtVu > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- \{|}/ __________.oOOo(0 0)oOOo._____________________________ No quotes from some english books here, just me. Josh Jia-Hua Yuan E-mail: josh@seas.ucla.edu ----------> http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~josh ______________________________________________________