The Multiplayer BattleTech Archive - Information repository for Kesmai's MultiPlayer BattleTech

3025 Action Shots

Grond — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:23:33 -0500

Various combat and planetary control screenshots from the EA version of 3025.

I think the "Targeting a Spider" shot was from an internal test and the sparse detail was from the diagnostic mode with the diagnostics turned off.

Skippy's Fern Bar

Grond — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:35:23 -0500

Another chunk of the GameStorm forum archives is now available.

This is the second piece of the infamous in-character "Coke vs. Pepsi" in-character roleplaying that dominated Skippy's for a month.

Early 3025 Concepts - Real-Time Desktop Map

Grond — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:47:00 -0500

Back in 1999, shortly before the MPBT:3025 promotional website was released prior to that year's GenCon, a few of us from the MPBT team were brainstorming with the Kesmai marketing people about ideas for supporting 3025 outside of the game.

An idea that I'd had percolating since before I joined Kesmai was the concept of an on-demand Inner Sphere status map to keep players regularly updated with the real-time House spheres of control. Originally I was thinking that a website would be the proper delivery platform but after Doug (Vernon) and I discussed the potential, we looked into other routes.

A Few Solaris Images

Grond — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:34:27 -0500

Some more retro Solaris images from both the closed beta test in 1996 and the Fujitsu Solaris instance in Japan, sometime in 1999.

My memory may be wrong, but I don't remember the damage coloration ever being blues and red as it shows in the Fujitsu Solaris combat shot.

Multiplayer BattleTech: 3025 Developer Diary, Part I

Grond — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:41:47 -0500

This is part one of a two part interview with Dave Marsh and Tony Van, the senior producers of the EA version of 3025 after development was ratcheted up after EA's acquisition of Kesmai in 2000.

Mountain Dew. Lots of Mountain Dew. That's the best way to describe the last two weeks of development of Multiplayer BattleTech: 3025 here at Kesmai Studios, an online game division of EA.com and located in Charlottesville, VA.