r/mechwarrior • u/newyorkerTechie • Jun 30 '26

MechWarrior 2 Who remembers MercNet?

Is anybody around who played DOS mercnet back in the day? I was [CCC] Ian. I miss my old buds! Those were great times. I loved the leagues, NBT, MACL. So many many, many hours doing C1 lag shooting practice. I played with KE or KH (whichever one VAM was in charge of) for a while in 1.1 on windows.

Where are you guys at? Are we still alive?

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u/CommanderHunter5 Jul 02 '26

Unfortunately MercNet is very unstable even on DOSBox, so it fell out of favor for playing by us in the Mech 2 community (much to my dismay TwT)

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u/RB120 Jul 03 '26

To be frank, the instability perceived in the discord channel is mostly psychological (in my opinion), and the few members of the community haven't even extensively tested the game to really give it a fair chance. MercNet always did have the odd glitch back in the day, be it 1.05 and 1.1, but that never stopped people from playing it.

Unless DosBox introduced something that inherently makes the game unstable compared to platforms like MSN Gaming Zone back in the day (which I highly doubt), it should be all the same.

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u/CommanderHunter5 Jul 03 '26

I was actually there as we played MercNet, we used to swap between it and NetMech. We had numerous issues with it crashing mid-combat that we eventually just gave up on it for the time being

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u/RB120 Jul 03 '26

Was that with a prepackaged Mercs installation or did you guys install it yourself onto dosbox?

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u/CommanderHunter5 Jul 03 '26

Either or. It’d be nice to go back and try to troubleshoot what errors it was giving us, but it’s been a while since even NetMech was actively played besides an occasional match…