Pros: - Diverse enemy mechs. - Some mechs has much improvement on their hardpoints. - Some armaments also has much improvement.
Cons: - Large Continuous Laser is broken, better rename it to "Large Liability" or "Heat Generator" because it has no beam, no damage, nothing but heat. - Marauder_II can't have a railgun anymore. sad. - Broken jumpjet (it still works but some of mech's jumpjet visualFX is broken, like atlas). - Because of the enemy placement, some battle can be triggered prematurely, like in the planet when you're fighting Jade Falcon Clan. There's a mission where in the last navpoint is in some kind of dock. In there, mech in 3 different navpoint can spot you and then attack you. - Some armament have a down grade in their stats. No ordinary AC2, not even clan, I think it might be deleted. You better use the Clan UltraAC because it has a higher damage by 0.50 than HyperAC but overall same stat as in range, cd, and heat.
Neutral: - Some mech doesn't have any improvement nor downgrade. - Fair rebalance for some weapons like the small LBX.
Request: - I request an instruction of how to edit mech hardpoints and how to edit weapons stat and possibly their hardpoint size. - I request a version without a change of music (not soundfx).
-Large beam laser bug gets fixed by simply restarting the game once. I have no idea where it comes from -marauder ii yup, intentional -battle triggers are intentional -weapon cost and age is a factor in this balance, older weapons are extremely cheap, but less effective. There are basically 3 categories: 1) old IS trash, cheap 2) clan: strongest and extremely expensive 3) IS new tech and lost tech: very good and not as expensive as clan weapons
A good example of this logic is PPC vs ERPPC vs CapPPC Another example is AC20 compared to CUAC20 or hyperac20 / uac20
You are meant to play at elite difficulty and lose men, lose mechs, so you start finding appeal in those cheap guns for cannon-fodder pilots
Fyi, I download the NOVOODOO version and then download the 1.2a => Extract it into one folder => Cut and then pasted into MW4 Merc directory. Am I supposed to download the Mektek NO DATA MOD (because I have the mektek version)? If yes, should I merge the files into one with 1.2a? Or is this already a full game so I only have to extract then play?
Edit: Marauder II still alright, like a Hauptmann without rocket but extra ballistics.
Got it working on win10 by adding these arguments to the shortcut: -32 -GameTime.MaxVariableFps 60 /gosnojoystick With these arguments to latest dgVoodoo: image It's actually possible to run resolutions different from what the game supports (for example 2560x1440) by forcing it through dgVoodoo, that's neat. And no more awful mouse lag/acceleration (I think the latest dgVoodoo config "SystemHookFlags = cursor" option fixed it).
For some reason reshade wouldn't apply the effects, just showed the preset as empty, but it was pretty easy to just reinstall it.
Haven't played through the campaign yet, but I'll say that I am not a big fan of the new UI and HUD, the metal rim on the radar map looks pretty bad in my opinion. The HD textures are nice tho.
New weapon sounds are great, although the new engine sound does not loop well and is way too loud and grating ('Mechs have fusion turbines, this sounds kinda like ICE engine to me) for something that constantly plays in the background (how would one go around to change it?).
As a request it would also be nice if you changed, remove or at least quieted down the torso turn sound effect, that's another one of these super annoying sounds.
Overall I am having a blast with the new mission balance, so thanks for the great mod!
THANKS!!!! thanks to you even now 22-1-2025 we can play this old game again! And after some google magic i can make it work on my 1080TI on 2560x1600 ^^ Yeah DGVVoodoo FTW
Can pietrom or anyone else please tell me if anything has changed in the mission 'Tharkad: Overlord'. This has always been basically impossible on elite mode and it would be great if it was fixed.
On windows 11 with a 4070, found that in addition to needing the fixes below* I had to disable any monitors that weren't my primary. After that, works like a charm. Thanks for the hard work, and hope this helps someone
Fixes being adding -/gosnojoystick -f 1920x1080 To the launch shortcut
Is there any chance you could outline the basics of campaign modding? I'd like to edit some of my salvage and free market items to add (or remove) some stuff from them.
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- Diverse enemy mechs.
- Some mechs has much improvement on their hardpoints.
- Some armaments also has much improvement.
Cons:
- Large Continuous Laser is broken, better rename it to "Large Liability" or "Heat Generator" because it has no beam, no damage, nothing but heat.
- Marauder_II can't have a railgun anymore. sad.
- Broken jumpjet (it still works but some of mech's jumpjet visualFX is broken, like atlas).
- Because of the enemy placement, some battle can be triggered prematurely, like in the planet when you're fighting Jade Falcon Clan. There's a mission where in the last navpoint is in some kind of dock. In there, mech in 3 different navpoint can spot you and then attack you.
- Some armament have a down grade in their stats. No ordinary AC2, not even clan, I think it might be deleted. You better use the Clan UltraAC because it has a higher damage by 0.50 than HyperAC but overall same stat as in range, cd, and heat.
Neutral:
- Some mech doesn't have any improvement nor downgrade.
- Fair rebalance for some weapons like the small LBX.
Request:
- I request an instruction of how to edit mech hardpoints and how to edit weapons stat and possibly their hardpoint size.
- I request a version without a change of music (not soundfx).
I have no idea where it comes from
-marauder ii yup, intentional
-battle triggers are intentional
-weapon cost and age is a factor in this balance, older weapons are extremely cheap, but less effective.
There are basically 3 categories:
1) old IS trash, cheap
2) clan: strongest and extremely expensive
3) IS new tech and lost tech: very good and not as expensive as clan weapons
A good example of this logic is PPC vs ERPPC vs CapPPC
Another example is AC20 compared to CUAC20 or hyperac20 / uac20
You are meant to play at elite difficulty and lose men, lose mechs, so you start finding appeal in those cheap guns for cannon-fodder pilots
Fyi, I download the NOVOODOO version and then download the 1.2a => Extract it into one folder => Cut and then pasted into MW4 Merc directory.
Am I supposed to download the Mektek NO DATA MOD (because I have the mektek version)? If yes, should I merge the files into one with 1.2a? Or is this already a full game so I only have to extract then play?
Edit: Marauder II still alright, like a Hauptmann without rocket but extra ballistics.
The version you mentioned is just a default mektek reupload without any changes from my part.
Absolute banger honestly, no idea why the MekTek guys changed it back.
-32 -GameTime.MaxVariableFps 60 /gosnojoystick
With these arguments to latest dgVoodoo: imageIt's actually possible to run resolutions different from what the game supports (for example 2560x1440) by forcing it through dgVoodoo, that's neat. And no more awful mouse lag/acceleration (I think the latest dgVoodoo config "SystemHookFlags = cursor" option fixed it).
For some reason reshade wouldn't apply the effects, just showed the preset as empty, but it was pretty easy to just reinstall it.
Haven't played through the campaign yet, but I'll say that I am not a big fan of the new UI and HUD, the metal rim on the radar map looks pretty bad in my opinion. The HD textures are nice tho.
New weapon sounds are great, although the new engine sound does not loop well and is way too loud and grating ('Mechs have fusion turbines, this sounds kinda like ICE engine to me) for something that constantly plays in the background (how would one go around to change it?).
As a request it would also be nice if you changed, remove or at least quieted down the torso turn sound effect, that's another one of these super annoying sounds.
Overall I am having a blast with the new mission balance, so thanks for the great mod!
thanks to you even now 22-1-2025 we can play this old game again!
And after some google magic i can make it work on my 1080TI on 2560x1600 ^^
Yeah DGVVoodoo FTW
How do I make my own??
Ok, I figured out the fix for the AMD white screen issues:
Follow the youtube guide left by the author, and leave all the settings as they are, except for the following:
in the dgVoodooCpl.exe go to the DirectX tab and check "Fast video memory access".
This is the only setting that makes the game playable.
Any chance of versions for Vengeance and Black Knight?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-d3xv9vkrk&t
Fixes being adding
-/gosnojoystick -f 1920x1080
To the launch shortcuthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY2iwwzr81Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU6MvMWN2ho