Mechwarrior Online Open Beta 2D and 3D game play for old pilots and bold pilots ...

A weekend of Hawken washed down with some fine vintage Mechwarrior Online .. not bad .. here is how the game looks and runs on Intel HD3000 powered hardware. Note the game is still a Beta so there is going to improvement, this is old skool PC fare . As you learn to pilot these Mechs, it becomes clear  that victory is about understanding rock paper missile barrage combat and all of it hinging on how you manage your prone to overheating Mechwarrior. 

Coming from the visual beauty of Hawken which runs at a fare pace on the same hardware , you may dismiss Mechwarrior Online as being too old school , but start playing , in fact spend many hours learning how to play and you have a completely different take on Mech gaming. 

That Mechwarrior Online is neither revolutionary or even evolutionary is to be expected and should not put you off playing this and Hawken, the developers  Piranha have been careful to give the fans what they wanted, old school Mechwarrior game play. I have never seen the Cryengine looking so clean, the sanitised  look of this game is all about reminding you of the good old days of Mech gaming . Light and dark contrasts work well in this game , check out the silhouetted Mechs in the pictures above and below, its not the eye melting candy of Hawken but Mechwarrior Online creates its atmosphere through more subtle means. The game already has enough hooks to the old classics that make you want to persevere and actually learn to pilot those Mechs, learn about balancing weapons and heat etc . 

I play using an Intel HD3000 powered i7 Lenovo X220T ( some day I will be bothered to refill the Boreas on my gaming rig ) in 2D and 3D. To get playable fps you should play with low settings and vsync off . 

I played in 3D using the Cinemizer OLED . Now imagine this game when the head tracking option becomes available . 3D was achieved using Tridef 3D generic settings , I wish developers would wake up to the fact that there are considerably more igpus out there now which can capably handle modern PC gaming not just in 2D but 3D . I have been 3D gaming for 2 years now , never with an ATI or nVidia gpu. Gamers need to be clear too , you do not need nVidia or Ati hardware or GPUS to game in 3D . The Intel HD3000 or 4000 in your PC or Jobs Difference Engine will do just fine more than fine in fact just check my Hawken videos. Neither do you need to lug around a 3D  Plasma or 120 hz monitor not when there are hmds like the Cinemizer OLED and the smd ST1080 .

What I most need from the developers of Mechwarrior Online  is for the game to come with a ready made profile for my trusty old Force Feedback Pro 2 .. atm twisting and throttle controls are not functional which is why you will see me reversing in mountains quite a lot in the videos ...

and in 3D set your 3D viewers to over under for this 

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