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Mechwarrior Online Catapults Its First In-Game Screenshots

Post by Dan @ 12:25pm 03/05/12 | 17 Comments

They've offloaded quite a bit of concept art in recent months, but the developers of the upcoming free-to-play and officially licensed mech-combat game Mechwarrior Online have finally released some of the first in-game stills. The screenshots offer various perspectives of the Catapult, one of the more iconic inner-sphere battlemechs:

The quintessential indirect-fire ‘mech, the Catapult excels at blanketing a target in LRM fire. Most useful when used in tandem with a spotter, the Catapult can fire on enemies without being in visual contact with them. In addition to its excellent LRM weapons, the Catapult also has jump jets and four medium lasers, allowing it to quickly move out of close combat while offering fairly scary counter-fire.

Hit the thumbs below for a close look or head over to the official site for more details.

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breno
Posted 02:26pm 03/5/12

Mmmm, loving the open world. True to the original Mechwarrior games

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DeadlyDav0
Posted 05:26pm 03/5/12

Oh the memories. LRM20s wasnt it? Unleash hell from a distance.

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Fish
Posted 06:09pm 03/5/12

Looking pretty sweet.

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TicMan
Posted 06:12pm 03/5/12

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DeadlyDav0
Posted 06:15pm 03/5/12

Nah, i only ever played mech 4. Fond memories of this vid:

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BladeRunner
Posted 06:19pm 03/5/12

So will this be like Battlefield 3 but with Mechs? If so, that will be sweet.

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Tollaz0r!
Posted 06:19pm 03/5/12

Mechwarrior 2 was great.

Using a locust to run reallllly fast up to the legs of an atlas and just lash into it point blank was win.

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WirlWind
Posted 06:51pm 03/5/12

TicMan, you're a fucking legend :D

Thanks for a blast from the past that I wasn't expecting to see today :)

MechWarrior 2 shaped my childhood, I even wrote stories about mechs in class lol.

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Dazhel
Posted 07:38pm 03/5/12

Mechwarrior 2!
<3 *nostalgic teary eyes*

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Fade2Black
Posted 07:57pm 03/5/12

Mechwarrior 2 is probably my earliest fondest memory of gaming.

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fpot
Posted 08:03pm 03/5/12

I remember coming home from school knowing we have a new PC and watching that Mechwarrior 2 intro for the first time.

Everyone played GBL as well right? Very worthy expansion pack for Mech2.

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Fish
Posted 12:10am 04/5/12

So will this be like Battlefield 3 but with Mechs? If so, that will be sweet.

Not sure if they'll allow you to leave your battlemech. Or even have aerospace or tanks.

However, there's Mechwarrior Living Legends (Mod for Crysis Wars). That has tanks, aerospace, vtols, mechs. You can also run around on foot, but that's not the core gameplay.

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TicMan
Posted 12:26am 04/5/12

Yeah Mech2 was a huge part of my gaming as a teenager. The amount of hours I must have played that game would be ridiculous.

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IVY_MiKe
Posted 02:27pm 04/5/12

I played and enjoyed Mech 2 (and GBL and Mercs) but of Mech 2-3-4 I loved the gameplay in 3.

Smashing around on the battlefield with the mobile resup/repair bases was an AWESOME gameplay mechanic.

I'm still a much bigger fan of the 'American' take on Mech's (when compared to the Japanese 'superfast' alternative)

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