Battlemech 1.1
September 7th, 2003 by CrusaderA reader wrote in regarding Battlemech, a top-down perspective shooter created with the Quake 1 engine. Bots, various maps, and internet multiplayer features are included. There’s also source code (QuakeC) should you wish to contribute to the project.
Download: [1.1 Release | Additional files (req) ] – Installation instructions
September 8th, 2003 at 3:32 am
Oh no, I don’t think so. I’m never touching QuakeC again. I did my time programming in a “language” with no arrays. I’m not doing it again.
Good luck to anyone else, though. :)
September 8th, 2003 at 7:20 am
The game is quite playable and plays difreent then Quake. I can tell it uses the Quake engine from the visuals, guess I played Quake too much back in the day. Eye candy isn’t everything though, and I like how this game plays. I would think that the Quake engine would be running into limitations by now and Crystal Space (crystal.sf.net) would have make a better choice (you would get arrays! :-), but I am sure there are reasons.
Anyhow, still a good game (my opinion) and I recommend people try it.
BTW, the link to ‘Additional files (req)’ is a like to the files required for Windows play (.dll and .exe) and I didn’t use it and still played.
September 9th, 2003 at 6:09 pm
I’ve downloaded it and is quite playable. It’s a very different Quake mod. It’s Linux compatibility is great.
I wonder when the Dedicated servers start going up….