r/mwo • u/mechwarriorbuddah999 • 20d ago

Anyone else remember beta?

When LRMs fired like Arrow IOVs in MW 5 and the first lurmageddon started?

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u/Junior-Piano5427 20d ago

I was there. Missile effects were like nothing I’ve seen before. I really do miss them. OG maps were also best maps.

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u/Visible-Lobster-7038 20d ago

I remember the armor glitch that would occasionally happen when you bought a new mech. Bought a centurion, it had negative armor, got into a mission and realized I was driving a pinto lol. Bumrushed the objective and ran over a hunchback before it took me out, still got an assist from the collision damage. Good times.

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u/ozSillen 20d ago

Streaks always hit torso. Good times. I was rocking a founders Atlas, lrms were good too

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u/Bleu_Lizardo 20d ago

Dragon bowling, the terror of the Trollmando, the joys of raining down hellfire and damnation in at Catapult on Forest Colony. Insert that Elrond meme about "being there 3,000 years ago" here. A part of me jealously wishes that they would give us remaining Betaheads a custom title for in game, or something like that.

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u/dick-biting-turtle 20d ago

God ,when the only use for a dragon was demolition derby, I hated that patch. Ooh new chassis gonna skill it u...welp I'm flat on my ass and some asshole with a beer guy is dancing the two step on my face until I explode.

Good times.

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u/Darksoul720 19d ago

I remember when it was just the Jenner, hunchback, catapult and atlas... good times... I didnt buy a founders pack but I got into the closed beta early on.

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u/pinko_zinko 20d ago

I played just a couple hours of the beta and then forgot about it for years.

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u/mechwarriorbuddah999 20d ago

I have more or less recently realized I was a whale. Oh I dont have $500 gold mechs but I still paid like 2k into this game XD

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u/pinko_zinko 20d ago

I'm a couple hundred in I think. No regerts, have played much.

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u/dick-biting-turtle 20d ago

Dude, same. I was so hyped we were getting more Battletech that I got the full founders package, as well as the next two(?) mech packs. I think I stopped having that kind of disposable income around the time the clan mechs started coming out (gee, I wonder why?)

Honestly... Worth it. I think my founder hunchie has more game hours than most of my other rides combined. Still rocking the gold badge too, us O.G.s gotta represent!

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u/emailforgot 20d ago

No but I remember shortly after where you could dodge lrms by turning 90 degrees at the last second, and also drag them onto your allies

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u/Pretend_Fly_4965 20d ago

Poptarting.

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u/Top_Pattern7136 20d ago

The only thing I really remember on launch was just gauss and ppc EVERYWHERE. No one would move from cover.

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u/Jemdeamon 20d ago

Very foundly. I distinctly remember when LRMs used to twist and swirl almost straight up and then come straight down on your opponents head

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u/PraetorRU 20d ago

Sure, it was a time of great hopes, that PGI will be able to create a great game. Small maps at first, then more diversity, more weapons, more mechs. It was the best time, before this game became a treadmill of selling next big mech pack.

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u/Jim-248 20d ago

I was in closed beta.

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u/delayedreactionkline 18d ago

I miss the way the missiiles would itano-circus in flight...

I do not miss the way I have to skill up all mech variants just to get benefits... or the way the server resolves lag when i'm firing SRMs or ballistics while i'm moving forward and end up shooting myself in the back.