Aiming like this is just insane. Hitting with lasers at such distances, also locking the missile cursor. I guess your mouse is a bit more advanced than my old windows mouse i used back in the day ^^ I don't remember if i finished this game, but i got far, remember the last missions. I used 3 or 4 er ppc's, they packed a punch. But lasers are absolutely the best, instant hit so they are the most accurate and predictable to work with. This game has some good elements, but it just doesn't reach the heights for me. It becomes monotonous after a while. I don't know how it could be different to make it better either. Mechcommander is one of my favourite games, i don't know how or if it could implement more elements from that.

He has spoken, Excellent run bud.

Didn't you have a guide published earlier for installing MechWarrior 3 and Pirate's Moon? Was it removed because you showed where to obtain it? If you would ever redo it, would you also show how to uninstall it? (I remember on another computer I couldn't uninstall it. Maybe because dgVoodoo was in it)

The end of this episode was hilarious! Good entertainment.

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god I love this game :)

Question on op3 mission 4 your tasked to capture the convoy, your lancemates likes to shoot at the convoy to garrentee success on the mission but then you won't get the special salvage from the convoy when they are blown up, in this speedrun you seem to complete the mission before the convoy reaches the first bridge, what big weapons or equipment are we missing out on when the convoy is alive?

In op2 mission 1 you could go to where the underground exit building in op2 mission 3 is and destroy that while you wait for the MFB To reach baker, wether it saves a little time or not who knows

MW3 speed run is like watching some one play the campaign after the jarring difference that was MW3 PvP. One shot enemies with the correct amount of lasers and not bothering to run any armor yourself as no amount will save you anyway. Great video; brought back a lot of memories.

I actually like the story and acting in MW4, I think they did pretty good on it and really like that they had FMV stuff. MW3 definitely is my favorite because of all the features that MW4 lacks and its atmosphere, but I love MW4 too as well. Sadly never played MW2 as my Dad never got it back in the day (instead we had Heavy Gear 1 and 2 by the same devs). And before that we had Mechwarrior 1 on the SNES which was pretty simple. MW5 is in a better place now that it had so many updates and mods, but I prefer structured linear stories over sandboxes.

It's cool that you can do objectives early, I didn't know that the maps save from previous missions what has been done in the prev mission. Are there any exceptions to what is preserved into the next mission?

i could have sworn that the pulse lasers were the pewpewpew ones like machine gun lasers... or was that a mod.

Did you guys figure out how the glitches work. Im interested that what could cause them

Damn, I guess Alan doesn't have the best luck being seated in an Atlas! XD

For a moment there I thought you will win entire game with just a shadowcat armed with small lasers. 1 shot on the Daishi was hilarious.

i more interested in how to make this game work on modern pc

Talk about detail...at the beginning of the first mission, get close to a bird perched on top of something. Shoot it with a laser, then zoom in and look,,, you should see some tiny feathers slowly falling into the water. That's paying attention to detail.

there are pilots that are called Mechwarriors and then there are Speedrunners also "this my friends is an Annihilator" firefly: i´m gonna end that annihilator´s whole career"

I like the aiming in mechwarrior 3

How did you mange to run it on the modern hardware?

It was a good game

You were supposed to capture the base BEFORE the enemy lance arrives for repairs. Lol

I played that mission as a 12yo kid without minelayer and no Madcat. It was brutal. The joy I had when I beat that mission was great and till today I remember that mission. Another brutal mission was the 12 truck convoy mission where they were spreading out and you had to capture them before they left. Beating the game without the madcat in mission 3 made this game hardcore.

Well done

What is your pc set up? I have had trouble getting the right hotkeys for me. Do you have a WASD hotkey set up or is the directional keys better somehow?

LRM no needed on WarHawk, DHS in priority

With pulse lasers, you could have farmed normal mechs long ago by shooting at their legs

I always liked this inscription in Russian on a floating background in main menu: имлистенинг то блондие - imlistening to blonde. This is an english phrase written in russian transcription. Is that easter egg or what is this?

Incredible, thank you for sharing!

lol you should try speedrunning pm

Nice run. I really need to beat this game into cooperating and play it at some point. Tried with MW2 and I just gave up because of issues where things just wouldn't work, like JJs. Also, that LRM Annihilator hurts on a spiritual level.

MW3 was one of the first PC games that I remember ever playing. I had no clue what was going on nor did I progress very far into the campaign but safe to say it left a lasting impression on me and 30 odd years later I still am very much into the franchise. Thank you kindly for the detailed breakdown on your speedrun strategies - super fun and interesting to watch.

Great! It is very interesting to see your reaction to the Mechwarrior 4 trailer Intro 🔥 That would be really cool 👍

Imagine how good they could re-make this, even adding in a ton more. I dream of a game that combines the entire BT universe, where you can be independent, be a merc, join a house, or be a clanner. Hell, a VR game would be glorious. All the logistics and stats of MegaMek/MekHQ. Using a ChatGPT type AI to guide you through the lore and build new stories. But most of all having stuff beyond just a mech pilot, imagine being able to do maintenance sort of like car mechanic simulator as a mechtech or vechtech, or be a VTOL pilot, or a aerospace fighter pilot, or cruise around in a hover tank and blast... or be an infantry man who gets squashed by an atlas lol Have an AI planet generator to build custom worlds/battlefields for you to fight on the ultimate role playing combined with a huge universe and giant stompy robots mmmmmmmmmm

My favorite and first mw game. Nothing really was able to replicate the gritty feel of the mw3 imo

I have learned that I always have to shoot that little crate before walking onto the conveyor belt. My game does this every time I step on that crate, otherwise.

How did younget this to work on a modern machine? And where can i still get a copy?

No seriously... I've been trying to stream this game for a long time... How did you do it?

Wait... How did you record it? I was trying to do it but I can't.

Headlights: Try capping your FPS at 30. It might fix the headlights.

The story would probably be more engaging if you could hear it. Most of the time the in-game coms dialogue is covered by weapons fire, your naration, or both.

Well the reason Alan couldn't cross the canon was because you put him in a 70-ton Avatar with no jump jets. (That's why it kept warning you about starting the mission with a >50-ton mech and no jets.)

iirc if you get detected in that mission, you get assailed by infinitely respawning Catapults

I've never finished mw3 myself but have done most of the missions. I liked to do instant action missions more.

This has been a truly amazing playthrough, and your lore friendly immersion attitude towards it was really great! I eagerly awaited each video and can't wait for more MW content! I never got to play pirates moon back in the day, was always a glitchy mess :(

I want to say Mechwarrior 4 had vehicle health divided into parts even though it only showed one health bar, and depleting one of the parts just kills the vehicle outright. Take that with a grain of salt though

Was impressed to see that you could destroy objectives for O1M4 while still in O1M3, Both good game design and good find by speedrunners

Finally finished this, looking forwards to Pirate's Moon! I might have done the first mission for this in a Champion.

Given the brilliant storytelling of the intro cutscene, the outro was a little disappointing in MW3. I suppose there wasn't much room left on the CD to show the defeat of Smoke Jaguar, but something mirroring the Clan rampage through the city with Damocles Commando wiping out Corbett's team might have been a fun callback. Looking forward to MechCommander!

And finished my replay. Thanks for the install guide, this almost completes my tour of all the Mechwarrior games, some of which I hadn't seen in 20 years. (I skipped Mech 4 Vengeance in favor of Mercs, now I'm thinking I might load that one up next) I gotta say, I think Mech 2 Mercs might be the best. Mech 4 Mercs and Mech 5 kinda vie for second place. Mech 3 is a really interesting game that pulls off some innovative ideas, but there's nothing really stopping the player from just laser-boating their way through from insane distances. I definitely don't have your skill in Mech 3 so that's exactly what I did. It's laudable that the developers tried to hew very close to the Battletech table top in terms of weapon statistics, but I found the overall pacing at times made me wanna just go play on an actual hex map instead. A real shame Mech 3 didn't get the time and resources to develop the soundtrack and add some extra polish to the mechlab, it really feels like the development team had a lot left on the table that they wanted to get done.