When I watch this, I can't understand WHY there is no big screen Battletech movie to this date. Still the best intro ever.

@jorgmethfessel5774

Жыл бұрын

i agree - and there is more story than two decades of marvel trash

@weldonwin

Жыл бұрын

A big reason, is legal issues since apparently no single company fully owns the Battletech franchise, different parts of it are owned by about a dozen different companies and getting them all to agree a movie franchise would be a nightmare of legal wrangling

@TheTrueAdept

11 ай бұрын

@@weldonwin in addition, for the longest time, Harmony Gold would basically veto any attempt at a movie via copyright trolling.

@rayanderson5797

10 ай бұрын

At this point, I'm not sure I'd want it. Modern Hollywood would surely ruin it. But... If the right people worked on it, it could be beautiful.

@TheJdnight

10 ай бұрын

@@rayanderson5797 Number one reason there is no battletech movie: The BT universe is full of different factions, and no one is really better than another. There is no "good" guy, and therefore no faction to promote that can then promote hollywood idealism. Hollywood only makes movies to promote their idealism and ideas, no other reason. BT, by it's nature, is not idealist in any way. It is beyond pragmatic... it is hard core practical.

"I'll delay them as long as I can!" 38 seconds. His personal best.

@michaelgreenwood3413

3 ай бұрын

That's pretty fucking good when you're outmatched and outnumbered that badly.

@vojtechpribyl7386

3 ай бұрын

@@michaelgreenwood3413 With a Mad Dog mk. III he didn't have to faceplant himself into two Nova Cats and an Uziel and die in two and a half rounds (24 seconds since he started shooting till explosion).

@AGS363

3 ай бұрын

No surprise. Do you expect more from a Freebirth, quineg?

@michaelgreenwood3413

3 ай бұрын

@@vojtechpribyl7386 You do realize the terrain didn't favor him worth shit, right? No high ground? No long sight lines? The fact that he DID last 24 seconds is impressive against two heavies that were MEANT for brawling.

@vojtechpribyl7386

3 ай бұрын

@@michaelgreenwood3413 He had only 80 LRM tubes and was defending a home turf. You know, the weapon you don't have to fire with LOS. And there were friendlies about that could spot for him and he could set up ambushes where he wouldn't have to face immediate firepower of an entire enemy army. Also although the Uzel can brawl the other two were Nova Cats, which are slower long range energy weapon snipers (they weren't shown to have other configurations than Prime). He had a jum on them but he just heroically stood in the open and took everything on the chin. With predictable results.

What sold how a 'mech would move are the small details. The rollers on toes of Sigma Lead's Mad Dog. How the arms bounce when the 'mech is walking. It's just so well done.

@user-lc5bu9bm7v

Жыл бұрын

Check out Hired Steel!!!

@michaelwatson7364

Жыл бұрын

@@user-lc5bu9bm7v I did watch the first few episodes. Hadn't realized they put another out. Top quality stuff right there.

@Albert87nl

Жыл бұрын

animation wise. they nailed it ..!

@Chopstorm.

Жыл бұрын

Mechwarrior 4 was a decade ahead of it's time when it came to the animations. MWO and MW5 still don't come close.

@Albert87nl

Жыл бұрын

@@Chopstorm. 100% treu ! I could feel weight in mw4 thru the looks ... mw5 mehh not much

this old intro made me fall head over heels in love with not only the mechwarrior franchise, but with the mad dog as well.

@thorveim1174

Жыл бұрын

even funnier when you realise.... well this is one weird mad dog, they arent exacly known for a lack of actual arms or a nose-mounted turret :p Fun fact I think a new variant of the Mad Dog (the MK3) was later made precisely to match more closely the one from the mechwarrior 4 intro.

@chitterlingsrtasty

Жыл бұрын

novacat for me. so beefy and intimidating.

@rhino2960

Жыл бұрын

@@thorveim1174 hey ive run weirder builds of the mad dog in my time, my favorite unconventional mad dog build is one i call the "Hot Dog". I stripped a bunch of armor out of it swapped the engine, put in double heat sinks where-ever i could and equipped it with 4 clan ERPPC's and nothing else. If i remember right it couldn't shoot them all at once without forcing an overheat shutdown, but it could shoot them one after another in sequence, so any time I sniped someone with it they'd get four barrels to the face 'THOOMTHOOMTHOOMTHOOM!

@matteparent2468

Жыл бұрын

Vulture. No Mad Dog in MW4.

@Mechmanjj

Жыл бұрын

Right!? The detailes they put on sold how the mech would react and move

Now THIS brings back childhood memories of playing it.

@williamyoung9401

Жыл бұрын

Jesus Christ, I'm old... "'Member?' 'Ooooo, I 'member!'"

Not going to lie, I teared up there for a minute. Such good memories with this game. This one as with Mercenaries was my childhood. Had no idea how to form and attack but I had some fun lol😊

This intro, and Mech Commander 1's intro, are the two best intros I've seen.

@Bloodname_Gaming

Жыл бұрын

As someone who has recently started playing MechCommander Gold, they are the most visually appealing, and are admittedly very fun to re-watch, but they are definitely a lot more cheesy, less Battletechy, and a lot more inspiration from Aliens than the previously made intros. Except for Ghost Bear's Legacy. That one sucks.

@budavargas

Жыл бұрын

MC intro is pure badassery. Makes me long for a full movie about Task Force Serpent and Operation Bulldog

@Bloodname_Gaming

Жыл бұрын

@@budavargas Definitely. Though I suppose we'll just have to live with just the games. :)

@tonysauruswrexu4623

Жыл бұрын

If you’ve never seen MechWarrior 2’s intro, I highly recommend taking a look! I ALWAYS get chills watching that one.

@MrCantStopTheRobot

Жыл бұрын

This intro has excellent animation, but it's cheesy in a bad way.

I've always said he should have gone behind the wall before attacking them, forcing them to chase him and making it a game of cat and mouse instead of simply standing there in the open facetanking four enemies.

@MrCantStopTheRobot

Жыл бұрын

The intro is goofy in many ways, and that's one of them. Gotta keep the length under a certain time, though. The problem is the script. If the line was, "They're targetting the Royal Family's launch... I'll distract them! Avenge me, Prince!" it would've made sense and kept the flavor.

@sheilaolfieway1885

Жыл бұрын

Sir, I don't have jump jets.

@oslo6661

Жыл бұрын

@@sheilaolfieway1885 I know what you've got!

@NFDave1992

Жыл бұрын

Sigma 2 should have used that torso twist to spread the LRMs lol

I loved the era of FMV. It just had so much charm. a lot of love and care went into these games and it shows

@kww178

2 ай бұрын

whats the FMV? genuinely curious

@TheSteakStyles

2 ай бұрын

@@kww178 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-motion_video

@sanyaskillpro

Ай бұрын

@@kww178 Full motion video iirc. Basically using real actors for cutscenes instead of full cgi or in-game engine.

Oh, i would die for a well made Tv-show of Battletech with good actors and a decent budget.

this was my first mechwarrior game and that intro movie sold me on it, i had heard about it before but damn . i wish MW took more approaches to make things like this again, I definitely loved the overhead shot from the last stand.

I sometimes walk around and make mech sounds in my camouflage underwear. Unfortunately my neighbours do no appreciate this and have called the police.

hit of nostalgia for me, MW4 Vengeance and Mercs were some of my top games of all time

@AbominationalFailure

Жыл бұрын

I can still remember the pilot names off the top of my head. Casey Nolan, Jen McQuarrie, Jules Gonzalez... good times

Easily the best mechwarrior intro. Beats many modern game intros by a long shot too.

@BlazingOwnager

11 ай бұрын

I still have a soft spot for Ghost Bear's intro. "KODIAK, BASE, KODIAK!"

@PeterNXavier

3 ай бұрын

@@BlazingOwnager I love the Ghost Bear's legacy intro.

The world needs a live action mechwarrior series

@geoff-lukebihler6157

8 ай бұрын

A movie set during the Amaris coup a 2 or 3 part series

@bon2yan88

3 ай бұрын

clan invasion

Gotta love this guys so called engagement. Has complete element of surprise and only gets an arm. Then proceeded to leave any form of cover. How valiant.

@ShadowcatAlfa

Жыл бұрын

directly engaging in a fire support mech, you would think he was from a clan solahma unit

@mrbigglezworth42

Жыл бұрын

@@ShadowcatAlfa Perhaps he was a former Kuritan pilot?

@NFDave1992

Жыл бұрын

That's Davion Mech Warriors for you, a Steiner Scout lance would have fared MUCH better, all 400 tons of it lol Reference for the uninitiated: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aWeurY-JmtDfe7w.html

@BlazingOwnager

11 ай бұрын

Dudes got a lance tricked out with Clantech that explodes when hit with 2 LRMs.

@egoalter1276

11 ай бұрын

Well, poor man's a FedSun mech jockey. What did you expect.

I would kill for a MW movie

I always wondered why the Royal Palace only had a lance of mostly light mechs protecting it

@NikolaiMihailov1

Жыл бұрын

If I recall this was a training lance that was pressed into frontline combat. Other than the Maddog pilot the rest are fairly green.

@freshdoug

Жыл бұрын

Guess they figured the Vulture (heavy) and Shadowcat (medium) were good enough to carry all the Ravens.

@NikolaiMihailov1

Жыл бұрын

@@freshdoug Well look at the lance makeup. Raven Cougar Shadow Cat Vulture Not an entirely bad fire support/recon lance. Also,for a training lance,it's not too expensive(for FCCW era) standards for a lance that's adding Clantech to it. Considering how short of a time the IS had clan tech before,it's kind of understandable they were using clantech in their training units.

@taemien9219

Жыл бұрын

The Federated Suns is notorious for using lighter mechs and being quite good with them. There is an instance in the fourth succession war where the first Battalion of the Blackwind Lancers surrendered to a reinforced company of Davion Light Guard. Also as Tarkov pointed out, there is a Cougar, Shadow Cat, and Vulture present with the Raven. Three out of four mechs in the lance are Clan OmniMechs. Being as two mechs are light, one heavy, and one medium, this actually a medium lance. What really did them in is being surprise attacked, as well as ultimately being planetary militia. While being from House Davion are still quite good (and in this situation extremely well equipped), they are no where near being a frontline unit. And I don't believe the mechs were even ready for combat. The Shadow Cat should have been able to shrug off a few LRMs.

@KodeeDentares

Жыл бұрын

​@@taemien9219 the Vulture seemed to go down a little too fast as well. I just chalk it up to it being an intro and not a full movie

And this is why you use buildings as cover, and trim the enemy down with guerilla tactics, specially with such bad 6-to-1 odds. Still, this intro has been a long time favorite. 👍

It's the radio chatter that always sets the scene for me everytime. Great motif. Same with beginning of the movie Fury. Im sure there are other great examples.

Watching the thing over and over to figure out what mechs are in it. Some are obvious, the Cena squad leader is in a Vulture, woman is in a Shadowcat, and at the end it's him vs an Uziel and what looks like 3 Nova Cats. The ones that get destroyed inside the hanger are Ravens and maybe a Cougar.

@trenchcoatgamer4216

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Ravens and a Cougar

@RaTcHeT302

Жыл бұрын

SO IM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT HE LOOKED LIKE JOHN CENA

@IntuitiveYakOfAllTrades

Жыл бұрын

And now I can’t unsee it. I’m going to hear “JOOOOOOOHN CEEEEEEEENAAAA!” every time I watch this now.

@OlliTho91

Жыл бұрын

@@IntuitiveYakOfAllTrades You cant see him! But now you can.

@Sujad

10 ай бұрын

I think those are Night Gyrs, not Nova Cats. They have the funky shoulders and two toe foot rather than the boot of the Nova Cat.

To this day, my friends and I still laugh about "Incoming LRMs! Eject, eject!" Seriously what did they armor these mechs with, high explosives? lol

@basedeltazero714

4 ай бұрын

Judging from the fact there are so fewer of them, those might have been Arrows. Saturate everything in LRMs then pick off stragglers with the big missiles.

MechWarrior cinematics were always so good, man the nostalgia...

Back in the day we had Clans when we played online in MW3. I was the first in my clan to buy this game.

This was by far the best Intro for any MechWarrior game I ever played. I miss this game.

Man what a fantastic game it was. Brings back memories I was 7 or 9 years old when I play it but sadly lost it in the flood 😢

His cockpit was blown open while he was still alive? got dam

Steiner's 4X Nova Cats, 1 Hellspawn, 1 Uziel... still have the magazine form when it came out. Had plenty of pictures from the Alpha, some camos and weapons that didn't made it into the game. MWO and MW5 feel so incredibly stiff when comparing to this. They nailed the way mechs walk, all the toes and joints. So silky. How the foot stays put and the leg rotates on the joint when te mech turns, how they bounce when walking. Even the install menu with all those drastic comic drawings, Ernie Pike style was epic.

cant believe this was 23 years ago.... feel old now.. but not old enough to play Mechwarrior 5 lol

@Sujad

10 ай бұрын

Or when the Mechwarrior 3 comes up and you realise you're almost forty, your beart is greying and your knees don't work as well as they used to.

MW4 Vengence and MW4 mercs were the golden age of online gaming for me, these were my only games i played online from their beginning until MS pulled the plug on server support and mektek put up mekmatch to keep it going, eventually that went down when they decided to move on from mechwarrior and they shut down their forum aswell. Miss those days and all the pilots/units i played with.

I'm so glad someone uploaded an upscale of this. Definitely does it justice.

I could watch this a thousand times and it would never get old to me.

The first new game I ever bought, had just finished Mechwarrior 3 that I had found in a bargain bin a couple of week before release.

To this day it still disappoints me that there wasn't a Mad Dog with this loadout in the game. In fact, I've never encountered a Mad Dog that had two autocanons in each arm and a pulse laser on center torso combined with launchers on the shoulders.

@algernonilfracombe

Жыл бұрын

I think it's supposed to be based on the Mad Dog Mk IV from the Dark Age era... certainly not canonical for 3065 though!

@KHETTIUS

Жыл бұрын

Mektek added the Vulture MK2 which had ballistic mounts in the arms, they also added the maddog C variant which mounted a gauss rifle in each arm.

@sheilaolfieway1885

Жыл бұрын

i've never seen a mad dog with that central turret either.

@KHETTIUS

Жыл бұрын

@@sheilaolfieway1885 It was a unique maddog/vulture design for MW4, they changed the hardpoints for quite a lot of mechs, and it was done for balancing reasons for multiplay.

I didnt know John Cena was in MW4!

@igorbukovy4313

Жыл бұрын

Nope, actor is: Michael Bailey Smith

@The_Burrito

Жыл бұрын

@@igorbukovy4313 that's.... the joke is that he looks like John Cena.

aaaaa so nostalgic

I miss the golden era of gaming when devs gave a shit about their games and made awesome stuff like this :(

If only the franchise had spawned a film.

@TheTrueAdept

Жыл бұрын

That would likely get Harmony Gold all up into whoever is doing the movie. Remember, this was during the period when HG was at the top of its IP trolling campaign.

@the_maker1841

Жыл бұрын

Get time machine to collapse harmony gold before they could kill the Battletech scene

@TheTrueAdept

Жыл бұрын

@@the_maker1841 no, all you have to do is convince the anime studios to send reps over to torpedo the paid dissertation that HG pulled. That is why HG denied so much stuff over the years...

wow, i still have this game on CD, but never this clear on intro!!! nice work

First MechWarrior game I ever played, and I loved it.

Damn good back then, wish MW5 had such good movie.

One of the best video games ever made. It's a real shame that it's not available for today's systems.

One of my all time fav games, & what an epic way to start it off

Awesome intro. I enjoyed playing these games back in the day.

Still remember installing this when it was new.

Thank you for posting this.

This cgi looks amazing for 2000

This and the intro to MechCommander will always be my absolute favorites

2:43 I never noticed his flinching away from the brightness of the explosion before

My favorite mechwarrior intro

Very cool! The story was very compelling and true to Battletech without the need for flashy CGI. I'm impressed!

Great game, I still have it installed and played it last night.

ahh, the old, live action game trailers :D gold

One of the best intros of all time in my opinion

I remember my father playing this game as a kid, my introduction to battletech, badass.

Would’ve been a sexy little touch if you heard “Override ENGAGED!” JUST before he engages the enemies.

I would pay good money to play these again.

I've never played MW4 but goddamn that's some classic late 90s early 2ks CGI and FMV mix. Goodness me I wish the games today had that level of soul that this single intro has. It really makes me think of the old CnC games. Both Tiberium and Red Alert.

This game was so freaking good

Good job! It seems like a 4K quality modern intro :D

Oddly enough, this is how I remember it

great work

That right there, is the only "primer" you need for the battletech universe.

Done in Lightwave 3D by long-defunct Station X, a VFX house that primarily worked on TV commercials.

i wish there was a real battletech movie with the mw4 designs

They need to continue this style in the next Mech Warrior sequel. Live action and CG are a good combination.

Unluckiest 5 mechs in history. One volley of 5 missiles destroys over half of their force. 1 missile destroys their second to last and second heaviest mech in one shot. Mere seconds into its final engagement their final mech suffers an incredibly unlucky shot to its knee, utterly dooming it to a much quicker death. Had their luck not been so tragically bad and all 5 Mech's made to this final fight they might have actually won here, especially if they got the drop on the enemy Lance who was busy murdering every noncombatant they could find. I would have loved to have seen that.

@glasgowc1

5 ай бұрын

Given the revelation at the end of MW4 that a cousin of the royal family is who sold them out, you honestly wonder if the Royal Guard lance hadn't had their mechs sabotaged. And come to think of it, Sigma Two's anti-missile system /did/ mysteriously crap out right before the LRMs hit her.

It's supercool. I want such a movie! 🙃

@Sujad

10 ай бұрын

Look up Hired Steel by Tex.

Those brave pilots gave their lives to make a good trailer. They did it for US!

Salvaged Clan tech mixed with Inner Sphere replacement bits seems like a good recipe for malfunctions. 'Be a shame if something like the AMS failed at a critical moment.

@KHETTIUS

Жыл бұрын

Salvaged Maddogs led to the development of the Bushwacker.

This scene hits abit harder when you learn the pilots are linked to their mechs via neurohelmets and experience pain when the mech takes damage. I never understood why the pilot looked like he was in pain until I learned that. This guy got a very messy death trying to defend civilains.

That hunch into an alpha strike the Vulture (yes, I prefer that over Mad Dog) did looked so cool.

@matteparent2468

Жыл бұрын

Well it IS a Vulture (70T). There's no Mad Dog (60T) in MW4.

It was inevitable, everything has changed.

Very nice, very nice, very well done

this scene is why i like playing the mad dog/.vulture mech in mwo

This, Starlancer and Heavy Gear 2 awesome intro. With HG3 was a thing

I recognized the cyclic stick from a cobra gunship when they showed his control stick.

God I wish I could drop a shadow cat with 3 missiles.

@adriankoch964

Жыл бұрын

It hit a missile launcher which may have cause critical internal explosion. Mech went down pretty quickly so prolly wasn't a cookoff. 3 Thunderbolts, perhaps? Those looked big and slow.

@davidlewis1009

Жыл бұрын

@@adriankoch964 . Yeah good point. It just seems every time I go up against the shadowcat at least in game on mwo. It goes one of two ways. Either I catch him off-guard or I get outmaneuvered and get picked apart. Lol.

@Spread4

Жыл бұрын

Possibly Arrow IV artillery missiles that would do it.

I can't count the number of hours I spent playing this.

aaaaaaaaaand mech5 couldn't be this good, why?

@the_maker1841

Жыл бұрын

Honestly it was a revival attempt, it did what it needed but today's gaming culture doesn't want the the clean dozens of missions campaigns that are mostly linear. Rumors they are working on another MW game and I hope it goes back to the roots

Hey, I made the Coop mod for this game. loved it so much!

I love the tech in Battletech. It looks gritty and real -- helmets with microphones, consoles covered in buttons and gauges like a fighter jet, the one guy detaching a coolant hose or whatever that was, machines that walk and have to worry about ammo and overheating. One thing that bugs me about Star Trek is the magical technology. In a show that's supposed to feature the power of science and engineering, there isn't any. Everything is crystals and lights and made-up jargon. They say the Federation is X number of light-years across but the reality is your destination is never further than one commercial break away. The ship can be crippled and then a few minutes later it's fine. There's no injury that can't be fixed by waving a wand over it. They have teleportation, psychic powers, total elimination of scarcity and poverty.....the list goes on. No magic in Battletech. It's steel and blood and bullets, like God intended. Even jump drive, the closest thing to magic, is heavily restricted in time and distance, so the galaxy feels big. Your 'Mech gets damaged, it takes time and money to fix it. Your 'Mech blows up, it's gone, and you with it. We're still stuck with war and politics and greed and all the products of our nature. It feels so much more real.

Battlemech could've been a massive hit if they ever did a series like this. Game of thrones proof that.

This CGI puts John Halo's show to shame.

I just noticed one of the mechs is a hellspawn on the right when the mad dog comes into the courtyard. I thought all the mechs were just the uziel and nova cats

oh my god i remember playing this game so much as a child even though i didnt understand everything i was having a blast, i still remember this uziel class mech which was my fav :D And still here play mechwarrior 5 merc now ^^ What an awesome genre and that vid just throw me back just so amazingly good

Based on the mechs involved this is actually depicting a Nova Cat civil war.

Reminds me of going to an exam that I wasn't studied for, LATE.

Salute to Sigma Lead for trying to hold off a lance with a Vulture, o7

Botox and Biceps. Hallmarks of an elite mechwarrior.

We need this rescaled and placed as a modded campaign in MW5.

@Razgriz_01

2 ай бұрын

Might actually be possible, if the modders can figure out how to create custom linear-style missions for MW5 There is a project of trying to remake the MW2 campaign and the first mission is available to download. Its janky as hell but it's a start.

4 and its standalone addons where great.

I like how thin that maddog/Vulture is it really says hey i'm a military vehicle because it's thin body allows it to dogde shots.

@matteparent2468

Жыл бұрын

Vulture (70T). There's no Mad Dog (60T) in MW4.

Needs to be a movie or tv series of this. GOT with mechs

This should have been a live action show

When this trailer was out, everyone was like: "OH MY GOD WHAT TERRIBLE ACTORS" "OH CRAP THE GAMEPLAY ISN'T LIKE THIS!!" "THE GAME IS CRAP, MECHS LOOK LIKE TOYS IN GAME" ... Yes... I remember... And I won't forgive... And yes... Those people still exist... And yes... Those people say the same about Mechwarrior 5...

@hunterkiller1984

Жыл бұрын

I am simply happy to see a new mechwarrior game. Also I enjoyed 4. It was my second MW game after 2...

@BRBingeDrinker

Жыл бұрын

I mean MW5 is not a good game, but for other reasons.

@Kuraimizu9152

2 ай бұрын

​@@BRBingeDrinkerhahaha... Wrong... Is a good game.

That's a lot of eyeliner.

If only we could get an official Mechwarrior 4 Remastered Complete edition on Steam…

I wish the Galactic Empire would have these meches. The Empire would have crashed rebellion with those meches.

I wish the Galactic Empire would have these meches. The Empire would have crashed the rebellion with those meches on Endor.