Project Reality... Meets Mechwarrior. 

Actually, just wanted to point out that MechWarrior Living Legends is not the only game where you can get out of your mech and walk around, blow things up as a pilot, and get into other vehicles. MechAssault 2 also lets you do that and you can even get into a variety of vehicles like tanks, turrets, VTOL's and other mechs.

0:54 no shit I walked around like a mech and stuff when I was in grade 2, pretending to get limbs blown off and making awesome sound effects and people were like "wtf is wrong with this kid?"

Not gonna bash MWO or PGI, but MWLL is indeed, a better BT representative. It has more stuff, its more satisfying, its more sim, while still being very fun. And it has proper fucking JUMP JETS and BATTLE ARMOR, this alone, is already a reason to play it.

Omg you're happiness makes me smile like a kid on Christmas.

You kidding... i am 41 year old man and i still walk around work making thumping foot steps, prop my shoulders up and make gauss rifle sounds with my mouth while my arms mimic recoil... never grow up!!! Hehe

Correction, you can shoot out the pilot and take his vehicle in Battlezone.

Mech warrior living legends is what the comunity craves. Russ insist MWO is the best ever, agreed on graphics, balance and such. However, maps in living legends feel more real, same for warfare part. My hope is that with Mech5 they will get something like this going, and later they import this to MWO.

3:10 oohh my video on top in the Up Next on the side! =D

Actually there was a MechAssault game where you could get into anything that wasn't a jet. And run around as infantry.

wow...this is indeed fucking impressive dude! I've been playing a lot of MechWarrior Online, and this version you presented, despite having just older graphics, is much much more immersive, dramatic and overall...mechy!

Curious, did you play MechAssualt 1 and 2, for the Original Xbox? It featured you able to get out your mech, getting into other vehicles, stealing mechs, and even some stealth missions where you to infiltrate without any armor.

I wanted this game to take off really badly

I seriously feel you man, but for a different genre. Honestly angels fall first is my star wars battlefront wet dream. You've played it, it's fucking amazing and it is THE ONLY GAME where you can sit inside the bridge of a frigate and watch the captain blast ion shots at other giant ships. Like what the fuck, this is a small team of devs who chat with people in their discord making a better starwars game then fucking EA AND IT'S NOT EVEN STAR WARS. You have so many loadout options it makes call of duty look like a joke, so many diverse playstyles it's like an rpg, and what's that? enemy capital ship? Load up the drop ship boys we're grabbing gun shields and boarding that motherfucker, feel free to walk around, test out your guns, watch out the window, or check the monitor to watch the exterior camera while you ride. I don't get it, in an age where so few people can do so much, why is it that the biggest masses of people produce garbage like BattlefrontEA?

Ok i need to come out and say it, Mechwarrior Living Legends is meant to be a BATTLETECH game. The team , Wandering Samurai could only get an limited nonprofit agreement from microsoft to make a "Mechwarrior" game as BATTLETECH is owned by another party. Otherwise it was to be called battletech:LL , which hilariously would have confused some people who only played mechwarrior XD THAT is why it is SO good it uses the TROs from the tabletop game for BALANCE and level design inspirations. NOT mechwarrior video games. I sat in on the meetings during the Wandering samurai days and we had these files on hand for reference and design of all assets artistically AND numbers wise. The idea was to include ALL battletech assets. Enjoy the comeback people looking forward to a renewed community.

Mechwarrior Online would be so much better on huge, never ending maps, mech repair/rearm, bases to siege and capture, ejection, mech stealing... All these great idea and instead all they did was make a basic as F lobby shooter :( so disappointing

drake, grim here. you know i play this as much as i can and this video is making me fangirl over a game i already fucking play! thank you so much for the positivity while also admitting that the game could use polish. hopefully with more players we can make mechwarruor great again! ;)

Dude, this game is a labor of love. Passion projects will always trump cash grabs.

You sound an awful lot like me! Walking around like a 'mech as a kid. :D Although I was introduced to the game by my Gamer uncle. My parents were stauchly anti-video/computer game, so I only really got into the series when I got my own laptop in college. :(

Nice vid! I made about half the MW:LL levels. Didn't realize they'd started updating again, good to hear! I might just have to go see what this is all about and perhaps...... start level designing again for it- I really miss those days and I'm x10 times a better level designer than I was back then!

Ah yes, now I remember that this is why RU-vid sometimes suggests your videos to me! I remember when you put out that MWLL video a few years ago, it was linked to me by another MWLL fan - we appreciated you bringing some attention to the game. Yeah, I started getting back into MechWarrior when I saw gameplay for MWLL. Even though my computer at the time wasn't powerful enough to play the game, I played it anyway. Crashed my PC every half hour or less, but it was worth it! It was also the first multiplayer game that I got really, really good at. I eventually got recruited by Clan Wolf. When MWO came out, the clan's attention sadly shifted into that direction. I fought against us abandoning MWLL, but I was the only person who still wanted to play it regularly, and within just a few weeks, we had more players who came in through MWO than had ever been played under the [CW] tag in MWLL. Almost none of those players wanted to give MWLL a shot, even though I tried. Even with all that money and so much time, MWO still pales in comparison to MWLL. MWLL could have been so much better with more development, but unfortunately they didn't have a choice on whether they could continue development; it wasn't that it wasn't popular anymore, so people didn't work on it. And actually I should correct you, Wandering Samurai did have a license to develop MWLL (something almost no fan-mods get), but it was a non-commercial license. The development that is happening now is not by the same people who worked on it back in the day, and AFAIK they don't even have access to the development files, because officially those files were all destroyed. Yes, really. It's not something Wandering Samurai wanted to do, I can say that. Pretty disgusting the lengths some people will go to, isn't it? So the new work is actually kind of like a mod for a mod, based on similar fan work from before the shut-down. I'm not gonna say that MWLL is the most realistic mech game, because Battle Armor really can't be done realistically. With a 32 player cap (28 stable player cap), there's really no way to make BA a good experience unless you take some liberties (infinite SSRMs, regenerating health to this extent, being able to carry two BA heavy weapons, and the BA weapon versions usually being slightly more powerful than their mech counterparts). Heck, being in BA armor while in a mech or vehicle cockpit it also unrealistic. With that said, those liberties made MWLL one of the most fun experiences I've ever had, so I don't think a more realistic version could replace it. Nowadays, many of the old Wandering Samurai developers are actually working on Star Citizen. I can tell you that one of them has publicly voiced his continued love of the BattleTech/MechWarrior franchise. This one has not only gained a lot of experience working on that game, but also gained very important connections AND become one of the most popular members of CIG's staff. I can only hope that after he feels Star Citizen is on solid ground, he'll follow what is clearly his dream, along with some of the other WS staff. Thanks for pushing this game for us old MWLL fans - it feels like justice to me. If benben (the person you were playing against) saw this video, I am sure he would appreciate it. I never really had the patience to play in low-population games like the ones you played; a 3-man server just isn't fun to me. Besides, playing against me would have been more infuriating than fun, unless you requested I used a mech or vehicle. So I also appreciate benben's persistence in playing the game. I'll see if I can send him a link to this video; he'll probably like it. I know that since this video is a few weeks old, you probably aren't going to be reading this reply, but I didn't want to put it in the wrong place. I do hope you see it, though.

as far as the infantry aspects, mechassault did add that in.. but its of course mech assault. same universe different time period and way more arcady.

Those companies don't have billions available to use on MW franchise, after all there's a reason why nearly every studio that's involved with MW titles were defunct, or bought out/ merged post MW4. What was the last time you heard of Wizkids, Smith and Tinker, etc? Secondly the BT franchise especially the games were always struggling and the next installment (MechWarrior Prime) got axed due to a lack of funds among other problems. Secondly the way MW:LL has did combined arms isn't too canon - ie having battlearmour easily fit in a cockpit and would break the immersion of a fair few players who are invested in the franchise.

Sometimes I amputate my arms and pretend I`m a Jagermech

Oh my god this is the game I use to play on PC I forgot which one it was, I love you for this video! This game brought me so much entertainment as a kid I fucking loved it.

I still watch the Mechwarrior 2 intro every now and then too. I watch Mercenaries' intro as well. So f'ing good!

Dude, im so fucking in man. I wish i had known about this sooner

Dude as soon as I get back from Christmas I am totally going to get that and hop on! I didn't know that this was a thing... And I loved Mechwarrior!

13:10 I liked the video not because I liked the video but because you have a since of thrill in games that I've lost and wish I had back.

9:58 *cough* 2142

would love it if they are developing on this again. Last i saw they got a cease and desist when MWO came out.

OMG!!! Happy New Year Buddy, I've played MW3, Mercanaries, 4 etc Plus recently I've been playing a game called "War Robiots on Android with my buddy while singing the blues about MW days". Since last Sunday I've been trying to install Mechwarrior online and it's full of bugs just to install. Now that I've seen this I'm definitely gonna play with y'all.

OMG I have not thought of MechWarrior in years, but have so many fond memories... I played so much MW2 Mercenaries back then- oh, wow, how long ago was that? Great video! I'd never heard of this game, before!

is it just me or does bluedrake want everygame to be project reality in a different setting xD

at 3:20 look at the side bar 1000 degree knife he watched it lol

hey bluedrake, awesome to see you are still really into MWLL. If you or anybody else want some help playing or just want some games then just jump on the community teamspeak and i will be glad help or join in.

hell yeah, ive been waiting sooo long for living legends to make a comeback, and bluedrake covering it on his channel is a amazing bonus

Conor, you're not a fucking robot, sit down.

What exactly IS the situation with Living Legends these days? I thought they got shut down by those assholes who made MWO.

I love how excited you get over this, it's exactly how I felt watching it haha :D Playing Battletech right now and I'm going through watching all these vids. Honestly came across this one (not only by being subbed) but because I was looking up the "reactor online, sensors online, weapons online.... all systems nominal *brrreeeep boop*" haha

Your enthusiasm to the point where you don't know which words to choose to describe how awesome this concept is just makes me smile inside. XD This is such a cool idea for Mechwarrior! I mean, you COULD technically jack mechs in Mechassault, but that game series made as much sense as...well....actually no it doesn't. Hng. But seriously, this is awesome as hell, and I agree that it's disappointing that devs aren't making something this cool. Your enthusiasm for it though just makes my day, haha.

Actually they had the "rights", but Piranha Games, a company that brought the rights, and was planning to make a shity F2Pay game, removed the rights from them I was playing MWLL, not that long ago, I was playing until I could not login in the servers... But someone sad that there was something happening in the development of the game/mod

THANK GOODNESS YOU FOUND THIS GAME BLUEDRAKE IM SO EXCITED. BRAWL ME IN MY MADCAT FUCKERRRR but in all seriousness, this is the game i sink my teeth into. mechwarrior online felt unpolished so i always go back to this one. the number of players is not that many. you have to be lucky to find full matches but i used to always try my luck every weekend. the long range battles, the brawling, mw4 style arena maps with original announcer, training provided by community and devs themselves. oh its everything ive ever wanted in an online mechwarrior game. i havent watched the video whole yet because at work but if youre going to get dedicated servers for this i am soo all over it. edit: I CAN BE YOUR LANCEMATE edit2: im overexcited but please play more. edit: oh yeah i forgot you played it before eeeeeehh lel but its great you give light to it again.

i love the enthusiastic energy as you talk about whats goong on in this vid. is suprisingly refreshing. XD

Oooh...nice! I'd heard of this while I was playing MW 3 & 4 (yeah I came to the party a bit late). Nice to see what its all about. Looks very cool and will definitely give it a go. Just in case you hadn't heard though, Piranha Games are looking to release MechWarrior 5 sometime next year (2019). Should be a major announcement this December.

The last time I was this early I was left at the alter

That is cool I would love to play this

When i was about 8 me n fam went to cn tower in Toronto where they had 12 player pvp mw2 where you would be briefed by a colonel on a tv, then alarms and smoke went off revealing a dark strobing room of actual cockpits, which inside would seal up and you were surrounded by functioning throttles, buttons all lot up and oh man it was unbelievably fun.

I come back to this video every now and again. It's in my Favourites, and when I need a cheer up I come here.

Not because you're cynical, but because you have a great taste. Few gamers today like Mechwarrior and Battlezone. Hell, few months back was still playing Forgotten Enemies mod

no one cares and thats the problem. no matter how passionately i talk about this shit with my friends, they just wanna play league of legends or cod or sum shit.

Great video. I'm a bit too young to know Mechwarrior 2, but on my 8th birthday my grandpa bought me MW3 for the PC and I fell in love with the IP. Mechwarrior became my go to franchise and was literally all I played for years, up there with Halo. You may have talked me into downloading Living Legends. I've heard a lot about it, but when I heard it died off I never bothered. Maybe I'll see you out there o7

The splash image of NetMech for mechwarrior 2 that shows up as you are about to enter a match is an iconic graphic in my mind. I will do what I can to make sure that it is the very last thing I see before I die

what other game can you do that in? spoiler alert! NONE!! xD fuckin lost it haha. God I love MechWarrior, 100% agree with everything you said and I feel the exact same way about battletech and MechWarrior as a whole. MWLL is by far my favorite MechWarrior/Battletech experience in the franchise.

WHAAAAT? MW:LL IS BACK!? I thought PGI sued them or something

You got yourself another subber. I'll get around to check this out.

LOL, I used to roleplay as a Battlemech to. I even put my fingers beside my head and pretended to be a Warhawk, as you see the guns in the cockpit in Mechwarrior 2.

Bluedrake42 can you try the new update in Groundbranch.

Chrome Hounds will forever be the best mech game in my opinion.

Doesn't the ~1998 remake of Battlezone also let you jump out (or just forcibly eject you when your ride is toast) and let you go against the enemy vehicles on foot (for a few moments until they inevitably slaughter you)?

So Glad to see Blue is into mech games. Did you ever play Chromehounds?

oh.... my..... god.... GIMME GIMME GIMME

"Spoiler alert, none" xD

I have always played MechAssault on the Xbox and have always been wanting to play a Mech warrior PC game. After watching this video I literally drove my ass to the store picked up a decent PC and downloaded this off of your website and it might be the best decision I've ever made. This is bad ass!

At the website Just downloaded patch installer mirror 1 But below it says mech warrior: living legends 0.8 community edition (changelog) What one do I download? Mirror 1. Mirror 2 Or torrent? I could use a hand

mmmmm I smell another project

CHROMEHOUNDS

MechAssault and MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf were the first mech games that got me into the mechwarrior series. The Mecchassault 2 was my fave cause I enjoyed running around in a small power suit highjacking other mech and driving tanks or air ships in the multiplayer and story

You talking about the MW2 and being a kid and doing the arms and sounds....that was me too, lol.

I agree with you 9001%

Does that "buttkicker" device work well with these games? Like, can you feel every step, weapon release, hit, etc?

You're like this funky mix between Egoraptor and The Rageaholic. XD

Looks amazing. Been dreaming of mechwarrior since I heard about MW5. Was going to DL MAP but I'm gonna try this first. It Does look like a wet dream of nostalgia from an age almost past. I understand what you mean when talk about having much more depth in a game like mechwarrior, the immersion of playing as infantry that has the ability to then pilot mechs or drive vehicles has always been sorely missing. I want the whole scope of warfare in that world, and others too. I've always dreamt of an Armored Core or Gundam game that delivered that. I'm with you sir, I think it's time these developers and producers listen to us and deliver that something we are yearning for.

Man when I hear that radio comms, my childhood digs itself out of it's grave, and completes an adventure to kill a vampire. those games were so good at establishing their universe.

OMG! I'm 34 and when I go to Trader Joes, I walk around like I'm a mech, strafing the isles with my body turned sideways like I'm searching for enemy mechs.

i'm really surprised nothing like this was made sooner. i've been waiting for a game like this, and it doesn't even have to be mechwarrior. just a combined arms shooter with mechs, first person or third person

Merry christmas!

Just leaving this here: Battletech pods still exist. There is a substantial base in Houston to get into this late-90's VR system and fight your customized giant robots, and if I remember correctly there is a place in NYC as well. It is my absolute favorite title, the most immersive experience you can ever have. They will teach you to play at a beginner level, and I think in one night you can ramp up the steep learning curve required for expert play. This means you will go from piloting a basic MadCat and operating your system with one joystick, a throttle, and using 3-5 buttons on the throttle and joystick to accessing information on all SIX supplimentary screens and managing your torso and walking direction independently with two pedals. Oh, each of these screens have user interaction too. You can change your control scheme and manage heat dispersion with coolant flushes on a center screen, you have a side screen to reformat what weapons fire in your 3 weapon groups (they are automatically assigned with group 1 being ballistic/lasers and group 2 being missiles, so you may want to change it starting every game). You also have to eject jammed chambers for certain ballistic weapons if they misfire. You can view the status of targeted enemy mechs and cycle through their targeting, and view your rank in the ladder and your damage output across all players in the game. You can use one screen to change the button that activates a zoom window to your jump jets if you have one, and if you are in a particularly bad spot in terms of your armor and ammunition there's a convenient red button inside that lets you self destruct at your convenience. Rob people of their ability to do damage to you at the cost of a bit of your own score, or see if you can catch another in the boom. If you love Battletech, then you have to make a pilgrimage to one of these places. It's an experience like nothing else.

All the awesome features pointed out here, are really making the gameplay better and immersive! Thank You for that.

I still have an install of MW4: Mercenaries with the MP3.1 HD pack that I play because Mechwarrior Online just does not do enough with the universe to satisfy me. Without tanks, aircraft and infantry it's just not how it should be. I played Living Legends a LONG time ago and thought it was hosed because of the IP issues, your video just came up in my recommended, and I'm installing it again now, thanks. BTW, I also still get goosebumps every time I watch the MW2 intro, your gameplay footage was pretty awesome.

Mech Warrior 2! Yes! I have so many fond memories of that game! A friend of mine had this fancy Joystick to play it with, it was amazing shit to see when you're 10.

I'm just now seeing this video. Believe it or not my brother made the 3D models for the PPCs , Gauss rifles, Fafnir, Nova Cat, Atlas, Ryoken, Raven, and the shadow cat etc . He was a developer and when MWO came out they got a cease a desist note from them hence why updates stopped coming. I appreciate this video and I'm glad him and his team could bring that nostalgia and joy to mechwarrior fans.

That damn 1000 degree knife video channel lmao.

Mechwarrior 1 or 2, a cable and two PCs hooked up, that was my first multiplayer experience ever. 1996 maybe. The 90's MW games had a special mood over them, a seriousness that I'd not seen in other sim-games at the time, the only exception maybe being Spectrum Holobyte's F-16 Falcon.

Have you ever given the Battletech tabletop a try? You mentioned once getting one of the minis.

The tabletop game is the reason the BT universe exists, with all of the things you mention, you can play it on Tabletop Sim, I also have a simplified ruleset based on Silhouette(The system behind Heavy Gear) But it's awesome that they were able to pull that off with cryengine. Also, you can snipe pilots out of vehicles in the Battlezone series.

Im downloading this tonight! Thank Bluedrake!!!

Oh man. when I heard the mw2 intro... when he's using the auto cannons and the choir starts.. goosebumps every time.

If you played Living Legends before the HUD rework (all the clips you showed have the 'new' HUD), then odd are we met on the battlefield. I was with Clan Smoke Jaguar, usually ran as ~SJ~Atlessa. Good to see I'm not the only one who's annoyed that this franchise isn't getting anywhere near the love it deserves...

MW2 intro hit you like sweet sweet mecha sugar. You saw that madcat walking around and are like "aaaaaaw yeeeeeeah time to blow some shit up"

I had a smile on my face the entire time throughout this video... so so true, everything you say, and that enthusiasm is something I share... Oh, and MW2 intro gives me shivers every time I see it...

*Screech* Reactor: Online. Sensors: Online. Weapons: Online. All systems: Nominal.

Blew my fucking mind!!! Lmao on that intro part haha

I always love how fucking genuinely excited you get about this stuff.

OH MY GOD finally found someone who thinks about mechwarrior like i do, everything you said... i completely agree. and as someone who's played and obsessed over everything mech fps combat sim i played MWO for a while and was left unsatisfied for the reasons you described. Though I honestly want the next mechwarrior game to play like the end of the mechwarrior 4 intro (good enough graphics, full auto-autocannons, rapid pulse lasers, chunks of armor being blown off, and PPCs that are actually powerful).

"...What is your situation?""Blowed up."

im trying to download the game off your website but i'm not really sure what to download. what do i click on? in what order?

i enjoyed the mech-assult games that were on the old xbox. thanks for this video ill probably check this out

Companies really need to go back to the old style of game design: Better game = More money Imagine if living legends was given 1080p, 60fps, Animations for getting into vehicles, high quality textures and super detailed cockpits with the MWO models. With some nice ads, and maybe a decent singleplayer, it would easily put Mechwarrior back into the AAA games. It'd be up there with CoD, Halo, Battlefield and Gears.

As far as getting into and out of vehicles, commandeering them, and destroying parts of them so as to kill the pilot without entirely damaging the vehicle, that's been the staple of Halo since its inception. On that note, all the tools exist within Halo Reach alone that allow for the creation of gameplay entirely the same as that of the old Battlefront franchise. Air vehicles, land vehicles, troop deployment, capture points, destruction objectives, all of it. They just never sought to implement them together. They even added mechs as of Halo 4. So within the Halo franchise lies the potential for a new Battlefront game and a Mech Warrior Battlefront game at that. I think it's only a matter of time.

Do you still play this? Been looking around for you. Wish a lot more people were on there. We still get full servers though.