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Oh man I used to love BattleTech on the '286! (Yes we had a coprocessor, doubt it mattered). I kinda wondered why no one made RPG games in the BattleTech unive
by andyferris 3y ago
Oh man I used to love BattleTech on the '286! (Yes we had a coprocessor, doubt it mattered).
I kinda wondered why no one made RPG games in the BattleTech universe? The MechWarrior series was fine, but there's so much plot and intrigue that could be explored in this universe, and just _existing_ as a human around all these big machines could be pretty intense.
- andyferris 3y agoAnother fun fact - I cut my teeth as a little kid hacking my BattleTech (Cresent Hawk Inception) save games in XTree-Gold. I can still remember the ASCII symbols and the rough layout of the save files. I'd max out my teams stats and skills, stick extra weapons on our mechs (they even programmed in powerful ones that weren't actually in the game) and mark the map as explored. EDIT: I even got so much money it would accidentally wrap around when you got some interest from the bank or whatever (it was some small signed integer type) and then you couldn't spend anything, lol.