So... Heavy Gear 2

I just bought it. Weird stuff.

 

Whats weird about it? For its time it was well done and entertaining, story was so so. Still roller skating on gear was fun, was using Grizzly most I think. By the way why is it that some of the plot looks like it ties in to Strikeforce Centauri, minus the "magical knights"?

 

Been itching to play this again, but I never found a way to get it working on a modern computer.

 

Same here, I managed to get it work on XP once though.

 

Generally, the whole concept. Mecha that are rather small and not really that powerful. The amount of keys is quite crazy.


The worst thing is that it doesn't see half of my keyboard.

 

I quite liked it. More like an FPS than like Mechwarrior.

 

Bollocks, it has much more simulation depth than MechWarrior ever had.

General problem while running it on modern computers I guess. Even when I did get it to work on XP, I had to generate a keybind file and then quit the game before loading it again for the keybinds to work.

 

I just tried sniping with light auto-cannon. Actually, sniping is a bad word, since I was 200m from the target (tried with various targets). None of the shots hit it despite that they were perfectly aimed. Also, there was no reaction from the AI. Pathetic .
For fucks sake, even the PnP version has the maximum range of 800m for light auto-cannon.

I think I'm going to uninstall it.

The only way I can play it is by binding the basic functions to 18 fire buttons and 3 POV hats of my X52 FCS.

Just take a look at my bindings:

Code:

MOVEMENT {
	BINDINGS "Forward"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 6"	SENSITIVITY 0.500000
	BINDINGS "Backward"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 29"	SENSITIVITY 0.500000
	BINDINGS "Steer Left"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 22"	SENSITIVITY 0.500000
	BINDINGS "Steer Right"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 20"	SENSITIVITY 0.500000
	BINDINGS "Roll Left"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 17"	SENSITIVITY 0.500000
	BINDINGS "Roll Right"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 16"	SENSITIVITY 0.500000
	BINDINGS "Increase Throttle"	CONTROL "Numpad +"	SENSITIVITY 0.500000
	BINDINGS "Decrease Throttle"	CONTROL "Numpad -"	SENSITIVITY 0.500000
	BINDINGS "Reverse Direction"	CONTROL "Backspace"
	BINDINGS "1/3 Throttle"	CONTROL "["
	BINDINGS "2/3 Throttle"	CONTROL "]"
	BINDINGS "Full Throttle"	CONTROL "\"
	BINDINGS "Full Stop"	CONTROL "="
	BINDINGS "Center Torso"	CONTROL "Numpad 5"
	BINDINGS "Jump Jets"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 7"
	BINDINGS "Jump"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 5"
	BINDINGS "Wheels"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 8"
}
TARGETING_HUD {
	BINDINGS "Weapon Fire"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 0"
	BINDINGS "Weapon Cycle"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 1"
	BINDINGS "Target ReticleX"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Axis 5"	SENSITIVITY 0.200000
	BINDINGS "Target ReticleY"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Axis 1"	INVERTED	SENSITIVITY 0.200000
	BINDINGS "Change Weapon"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 2"
	BINDINGS "Pick Up Weapon"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 9"
	BINDINGS "Change Grenade"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 26"
	BINDINGS "Throw Grenade"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 27"
	BINDINGS "Fire Artillery Strike"	CONTROL "S"
	BINDINGS "Target Cycle"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 3"
	BINDINGS "Previous Target"	CONTROL "Y"
	BINDINGS "Nearest Enemy"	CONTROL "T"
	BINDINGS "Target Friendly"	CONTROL "F"
	BINDINGS "Target At Reticle"	CONTROL "R"
	BINDINGS "Laser Targeting"	CONTROL "L"
	BINDINGS "Radar Zoom"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 19"
	BINDINGS "Active Radar Config"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 10"
	BINDINGS "Imaging System"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 11"
	BINDINGS "HUD Display ON-OFF"	CONTROL "H"	LINK "CTRL"
	BINDINGS "HUD Color"	CONTROL "H"	LINK "ALT"
	BINDINGS "ECM Enable"	CONTROL "E"	LINK "CTRL"
}
SQUAD_NETWORK {
	BINDINGS "Tactical Map"	CONTROL "Tab"
	BINDINGS "Stats Display Toggle"	CONTROL "F1"
	BINDINGS "General Chat"	CONTROL "F2"
	BINDINGS "Team Chat"	CONTROL "F3"
	BINDINGS "User Taunt 1"	CONTROL "F5"
	BINDINGS "User Taunt 2"	CONTROL "F6"
	BINDINGS "User Taunt 3"	CONTROL "F7"
	BINDINGS "User Taunt 4"	CONTROL "F8"
	BINDINGS "User Taunt 5"	CONTROL "F9"
	BINDINGS "User Taunt 6"	CONTROL "F10"
	BINDINGS "User Taunt 7"	CONTROL "F11"
	BINDINGS "User Taunt 8"	CONTROL "F12"
	BINDINGS "Command Group"	CONTROL "C"
	BINDINGS "Squad Fire At Will"	CONTROL "A"	LINK "CTRL"
	BINDINGS "Squad Regroup"	CONTROL "R"	LINK "CTRL"
	BINDINGS "Squad Hold Ground"	CONTROL "S"	LINK "CTRL"
	BINDINGS "Squad Defend My Target"	CONTROL "D"	LINK "CTRL"
	BINDINGS "Squad Attack My Target"	CONTROL "T"	LINK "CTRL"
	BINDINGS "Squad Goto Checkpoint"	CONTROL "G"	LINK "CTRL"
}
MISCELLANEOUS {
	BINDINGS "Select Nav Point"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 28"
	BINDINGS "Goals"	CONTROL "O"
	BINDINGS "Console Display Toggle"	CONTROL "`"
	BINDINGS "Zoom In"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 23"
	BINDINGS "Zoom Out"	CONTROL "Joystick0 Button 31"
	BINDINGS "External Tracking"	CONTROL "C"	LINK "CTRL"
	BINDINGS "Camera Left"	CONTROL "Left Arrow"
	BINDINGS "Camera Right"	CONTROL "Right Arrow"
	BINDINGS "Camera Up"	CONTROL "Up Arrow"
	BINDINGS "Camera Down"	CONTROL "Down Arrow"
	BINDINGS "Abort"	CONTROL "ESCAPE"
}
MOVEMENT 
{
	BINDINGS "Stand Up"	CONTROL "JOYSTICK0 POV 0"
}
MOVEMENT 
{
	BINDINGS "Side Step Right"	CONTROL "JOYSTICK0 POV 0"	INVERTED
}
MOVEMENT 
{
	BINDINGS "Crouch"	CONTROL "JOYSTICK0 POV 0"
}
MOVEMENT 
{
	BINDINGS "Side Step Left"	CONTROL "JOYSTICK0 POV 0"
}

 

The game has differing variations from PnP for maximum range for different weapons, you can check those in the assembly. The AI is dumb as bricks though, nothing you can do about it (why do you think I keep dreaming of a remake that only updates graphics and other technical aspects like AI?)

 

Uninstalled it.

 

What for?