From dank@alumni.caltech.edu Thu Sep 26 09:40:56 EDT 1996 Article: 18844 of alt.games.mechwarrior2 From: Dan Kegel Newsgroups: alt.games.mechwarrior2 Subject: Re: Mercinaries - quick REVIEW Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:35:34 -0700 Organization: Precious Little Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3249FA06.47C1@alumni.caltech.edu> References: <3249bd61.5009741@news.iserv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-206-170-66-63.nhwd02.pacbell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) To: Ron K Path: news.accessus.net!chronos.syr.edu!coma.syr.edu!nntp.wwwi.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!news.PBI.net!usenet Status: RO Ron K wrote: > 1. IMAGE ENHANCEMENT has been trashed. This is the worst part. > I always play mech2 and netmech in wireframe mode. It's smoother > during battles and I likek the hi-tech look. Mercs offers NO > WIREFRAME at all. You can get it back by adding the line ENHANCED_VISION w into GAMEKEY.MAP. It was taken out because it wasn't quite finished- I think lasers don't show, or something like that. (I bet we can finish that up for a patch sometime.) > 4. The new slick graphics are un-useable. I have a 166mhz pentium > with 4 meg VRAM stealth and in order to get decent play speed I must > disable ALL image maps. (to get mech2 speed) Even with these off, it > still gets sluggish during the heat of battle. (I have only tried the > win95 version, there is a DOS version on the disk as well... will try > that next). My goodness, what graphics card do you have? That system should be just fine... - Dan -- The opinions expressed in this message are my own, and are not the opinions of my employer. Charles Darwin - a guy with a Vastly dangerous idea!