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Re: Anybody who has played Heavy Gear, please help.

#70795
From: Jeff McClain
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 00:00
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Well, I was actually fairly impressed with the play in the 1.1 Mercs
patch.  I had shelved it for a year and a half "waiting" for something
that would make it *HALF* the game that MW2 and GBL was (they missed
something and made it really *suck* initially).  I'm *still* waiting
for something that will make HG something that I want to play.  And
I-76 is still not viable product for me (yea, I even plunked down
the change for the ARSENAL "upgrade")...still have about 5 issues
with the damn game...nice game, but DAMN, open your eyes Activision.
Similar problems with the Mech2 titanium pack (mostly involving multiple
joystick/driving wheels on one computer)...

Darrell Mayeda wrote:
> 
> Thrasher wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 24 Jun 1998 20:47:00 -0400, "Krud"
> > <au...@nospam.mindspring.com> wrote:
> >
> > >Hiya Dave.   Mind if I ask a question?  Is Heavy Gear 2 going to be finished
> > >before or after the retail version ships?
> >
> > Dreamer! It's never going to be fiinished. That's against activision
> > policy. The closest they ever came to finishing anything was the 1.1
> > mercenaries patch they released last december, a year and a half after
> > the game shipped.
> 
> Well, FYI Mercenaries is finished.  The 1.1 patch is the last one we're
> going to get for that game.  so it "ends" as a buggy piece of who knows
> what that is not very good and has a few gameplay issues. Dynamic
> Salvage was interesting but only half baked at best.

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From: Jeff McClain <jmcc...@micron.com>
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Date: 1998/06/26
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