MechWarrior/Trivia

• Fan Nickname
  • There's developer nicknames for some asset variants. There's the Mr. Bubbles Atlas, Noisy Cricket Sparrowhawk, Warthog Bushwacker, Beatstick Mad Cat MKII, and the Toast And Go Harasser.
  • The Shiva E in Living Legends is nicknamed the Beat Stick Shiva or Flying Beatstick, since it's basically a flying version of the Mad Cat MKII Beatstick.
  • The Harasser D (which carries 6 flamethrowers): Flamasser
  • Vehicles with long, unpronounceable names tend to get renamed. The Huitzilopotchli is usually just called a "Huit", "Huey", or pronounced on voice chat as "Who-it". The Hephaestus is typically just "Heph" or "Hepatitis"
• Hey, It's That Voice!: George Ledoux, the voice actor for Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries' Solaris Arena announcer, "Duncan Fisher", returned in Living Legends to voice Duncan Fisher again for the Solaris Arena gamemode.
• What Could Have Been: Before Mechwarrior 2 saw the release it's early alpha and beta stages were more like the original Mechwarrior game in visuals and also had a couple of clan mechs that didn't see use in the final Mechwarrior 2 release.