well, after seeing this on the main page (news), i figured i'd go check it out. it seemed to 'install' just fine, or whatever the hell it does, but when i click on 'play', it comes back and tells me that my system doesn't meet the requirements for the game.

now, granted, this machine isn't the biggest, baddest, bestest out there, but i'd figure that an athlon 950, 256M ram, 45G disk, GeForce2, win2k(+sp2) equipt machine would fit into their requirements.. since.. uh.. it does.

anyone else have a similar problem? i realize that it's "in beta" and all that..sigh. at least EA isn't selling this.. yet.

- mike - no joy in gamesville tonight -

I haven't tried it, and your testimonial will probably keep me from trying it. Aszurom is a big giant robot fan. Aszurom? Any word on this Battletech pre-beta?

Better than WW2OL:

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ACES! This rocks so far!

Ok, I got in ONCE. As far as I'm concerned, from what I played of it I like it a lot more than the feel of MW4. Two radically different games there, of course.

A bit of history about MPBT and me...

In the mid 90's I was a memeber of Tolkien's Walkers mech regiment on AOL. In fact, that's the only reason I had an AOL account at all. The graphics were utter ass, but the community of pilots and the gameplay itself were enough to keep me actively playing for a couple of years.

Well... during that time they were promising that they were working on "3025" which would expand the game to include an updated engine and the ability for our units to conduct organized territory capture missions on a big inner-sphere map.

I can honestly say that this is a game I've been waiting on for about 6 years or so. Man, that's a long time. Thus far, from a short 15 minute hop into the game, it looks like they didn't leave anything out from their wish list way back then. Why, oh why did it take so LONG though?

Yeah, the whole virtual war thing could be kind of cool if it's done right, since it will give you a reason for playing besides deathmatching.

Yep. They start you in a true piece of shit, a commando with a flamer, med laser, and srm4. It dies in ONE SHOT. I managed to weasel a few kills in it and get the next better one with 2 med lasers - and I'm getting decent kills now... well, for a commando versus a field full of javelins.

A javelin has FOUR medium lasers and is a one-shot killer against 75% of the light mechs, so you see a LOT of them.

For all intents and purposes, it looks, tastes, and smells just like old-school MPBT on AOL. It's pretty familar except that I no longer have access to my beloved stalker. I'll get there though! In the old game I could kill an atlas and still have enough wind in my stalker to finish off a beat-up medium.

i actually ended up reading the message boards there to see if i could get any more info.. apparently, the software doesn't work under Win2K, despite the 'system requirements' of "Operating System: Windows 98/Me/2000". go figure.

- mike - using an operating system that is(n't) required -

Operating system optional

update: well, they've fixed whatever it was that wasn't working and the software has now entrenched itself onto my machine. things *look good* right up to the point where i want to begin training. at that point, the machine (win2k + sp2, athlon.. details at start of thread above) reboots. yeah, RE-f'n-BOOTS.

just for reference, nothing in the machine is overclocked: not the cpu, not the GF2.. nothing. using the last official nVidia reference drivers and all.

anyone else have any better luck?

- mike - coz i wanna be a mechwarrior, too! -