MechCommander / MechWarrior – MHLoppy

Patching MechCommander’s “left arm bug” for fun and profit

MHLoppy — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:32:39 +0000

MechCommander 1 has an annoying quirk where it shoves all of a mech’s biggest weapons into its left arm. If your mech is kitted out with mostly/only big weapons, then losing that arm means you basically lose the mech. Normally this issue doesn’t have much impact on the outcome of a mission. Specifically targeting individual …

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What does the “official” MechCommander 2 patch actually change?

MHLoppy — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:30:43 +0000

Having finished MC1 / MCG (complete with noticing a couple of gameplay quirks), I decided to move onto MC2. Several sources provide and/or recommend installing the “official” patch for the game before playing it: However, having spent a few more hours than I’d planned to looking into it, I’m now quite confident that this is …

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Getting MechCommander running on Windows 10 with minimal crashing (for me)

MHLoppy — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:30:53 +0000

Before I forget what I did, I’m infodumping how I personally (eventually) got MechCommander Gold (MechCommander 1 + Desperate Measures expansion) singleplayer running nicely on my own Windows 10 system. These instructions were written for me-and-friends with that level of detail in mind. No effort has been made in the instructions to support any other …

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Something seems horribly, horribly wrong with LB-X Autocannon damage in MechCommander

MHLoppy — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:42:56 +0000

Desperate Measures, the expansion for MechCommander 1, introduced LB-X versions of Autocannons. Exactly how they work is a bit nebulous, but combining the in-game information, the official strategy guide, and player-created guides, it seems that each shot either connects or doesn’t (there aren’t separate hit chance calculations), and then if the shot does hit, damage …

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What’s up with the Commando and Uller (Kit Fox)’s movement speed in MechCommander?

MHLoppy — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:03:34 +0000

With the years-long CBP Alpha 10 done I finally had some spare time/energy and so sat down to revisit MechCommander 1, something I haven’t played since I was a kid (and very, very bad at it). After first playing through much of the original campaign in my revisit, I noticed that even though all of …

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