The MechWarrior Tactics team gave us a surprise today (probably as they all finished packing to head to PAX).. Â A Dev Diary!
“Collect, Customize, Conquer.”
Important things to note in this video:
- Chris C is wearing an MWT shirt.. if someone sees him wearing this shirt at PAX, you must find out how I can get one!
- At around 0:49 we get our first glimpse of ‘Mech customization via skins..those ‘Mechs, don’t have the same color scheme as the ‘Mechs in other gameplay videos.
- The art ‘progression’ board that starts at 1:22 follows the Hunchback through part of the modeling/coloring process.. and reveals a bit of that process.. followed by the always cool looking final product at 1:29
- I like the rationale Chris gives for why we’re starting at 3025 in MWT..and fully agree.. that’s always been my favorite era, so it’s nice to have a game set in that time frame.
- At 2:14, while James is talking about excitement.. we see that the ‘Mechs have actual names showing above their model number.. this is excitement! Â it’s a unconfirmed level of customization, and, most importantly, a good reflection of the Lore in the BT universe. Â Most ‘Mechs had been named by their pilots. Â Kai Allard Liao had “Yen-Lo-Wang”, Victor Steiner-Davion had “Prometheus”. Â This will let MWT players have that level of detail for their own units.
- 2:34 starts another look at ‘Mech customization/skins that we haven’t seen before.
All in all, a very nice video.. I do wonder if this is the video GenCon attendees got to see at GenCon, and, presumably, PAX attendees will get to see there.
Looking forward to more videos and reveals out of the MWT team in the future.. the snippets they gave us today, are just building the anticipation!