The year is 2341. In an attempt to control violence among deep space miners.... err, wrong game, wrong game. In these last days of 2011, Gurluas and myself have made an astonishing discovery. This discovery is a cancelled game in the Battletech universe, called Battletech: The Elementals. It's been found in the X-COM Alliance sources/design docs/resources composite archive that Leo_TCK and myself have been given earlier by the Alliance LD. Or more precisely: a tiny pre-alpha demo of it is what we have managed to recover. None of us both know how to play this (if it features any actual gameplay at all). On 64-bit Windows the installer may even refuse to run. Still, it seems we have preserved a gem. Screenshots and links to this below. http://www.multiupload.com/F0TZJMG4DH - BTECHINS.zip (5.29 MB). The original installer of the demo... thing. http://www.multiupload.com/MOIBLBOIYN - BTECH.zip (4.7 MB). The preinstalled version. Extract to D:\BTECH or change path in the ini within the archive. http://www.multiupload.com/NN7HZ0IW3F - BTECHSCR.zip (934.33 KB) some scripts & documents from Microprose Credits: Microprose / Illuminatus - development. Gurluas / Delacroix / Leo_TCK - recovery.
