Any 'salvage' you get is pre-determined by the computer, and totally unrelated to what you do in the mission. As the box clearly states, you can 'salvage enemy kills from the field'. It's up to you to look for contracts at no point does anyone come to you to offer you a mission, even if you've blown away half the mech units in the galaxy. But they were quite happy to hire me, even when I had taken so much action against them. In fact, at one point, I was told a price had been put on my head by said clan.
How come ? Recommended by whom? That was the first mission!Īlso, most of the contracts I took put me up against Draconis Combine, a particularly nasty clan. If you fail your first mission, you're told that your employers were disappointed as you came 'highly recommended'. For a start, you don't have any reputation to speak of. What did I expect, you might well ask? Well, quite a few things, which would have added a greater sense of atmosphere to the whole proceedings. The thing is, management aspect is pretty flat it's really nothing more than a collection of missions slung together. Activision have attempted to add a Frontier style management side to the whole mech thing, yet it doesn't quite work for me. Battlestar Galacticaīut there's a problem. And with the missions getting harder and harder, you'll find things get quite nasty. You can even hire other mechwarriors to pilot your new mechs. The latter option includes buying new weaponry, or a new mech and with each mech only able to carry so much weight, you'll have to buy a new mech sooner or later. Complete a mission, and you collect your creds, which you can use to repair your mech, or buy new equipment. These are either single missions, or campaigns of about four or five missions, with various employers, each with a differing level of risk and financial reward. From your office in Outreach starport, you have to scan the contracts posted upon the computer bulletin-board, and find one that is suitable. And since money doesn't grow on trees (not that there are any left any more), you've got to earn it. Since the untimely demise of your commander, you have been left with a million creds, and a single unimpressive mech. In Mercs, however, you are a mercenary, with the aim of making as much money as you can. In Mechwarrior 2, you were part of an honourable clan of mechwarriors, taking on mission after mission, with the aim of advancement through the clan. Thing is, that last paragraph could apply as equally to Mechwarrior 2 as it could Mercs, and if you've already got Mechwarrior 2, you'll know the general scenario anyway. But you've got to get through the earlier missions first. As you advance through the game, you'll be equipped with better and better weaponry, and bigger and better mechs. In later missions, you'll be accompanied by friendly pilots, who will give you a helping hand, but don't leave all the work to them. You can bet that for the first few missions you'll be outgunned by the enemy but it's up to you to use your superior piloting skill to even those odds out. And on top of that, there's a variety of different weapons that the mechs carry. You see, there isn't one single standard type of mech there are a total of about thirty different mechs, each with different characteristics. But you can handle them, can't you? Or can you? One thing is for sure you won't go far before you come into contact with the enemy, who aren't usually that delighted to see you. The actual missions vary you may have to take down an enemy building, defend a base, or make a trip deep into enemy territory, to inspect a secret factory.
Strapped into one of these machines, you have to battle your way through a number of mecha-stomping missions. And guess who's one of these pilots? Yep, you.
The main weapons in these conflict are the BattleMechs huge robotic war machines, armed to the teeth with death-dealing weaponry, and piloted by specially trained mech pilots. Planets have been devastated, and the remainder of the universe is still in conflict. It's some time in the thirtieth century, and humanity has been ravaged by many years of war. And while I've never played BattleTech, it's fairly easy to catch up with the whole scenario. Mercenaries is the semi-sequel to Activision's Mechwarrior 2, which was in turn based upon the role playing game BattleTech.
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