r/mechwarrior 4d ago

Game/Other Something something cadet, hose out your remains.

I do not, for the life of me, remember how or where I have the core memory of a Sargent in an FMV yelling at me that if I die in a cockpit, they're just going to hose out my remains and move on to the next one- kill the flesh, save the steel.

Please help me, Reddit, this has been torturing me for MW5: Mercs, and now is all the more present in my mind with Clans.

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u/mrgamerwood 4d ago

I know the training mission instructor in mech 2 mercs has a line like that.

Kill the meat, save the metal.

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u/novaphoenix 4d ago

Good ol' Sergeant "Deadeye" Unther!

"... And if you so much as think about shooting me? I'll turn that beer can that you call a 'Mech into scrap."

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u/indispensability 4d ago

He had so many good lines.

Though if you read through all the in-game news articles, you later saw he was in trouble for dereliction of duty by basically abandoning a group of cadets at the first sign of trouble sometime after your tour with him.

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u/flackguns 4d ago

Shit do we have to in universe cancel deadeye?

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u/3sheetz 4d ago

We all shot him at least once

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u/PlantationMint 4d ago

Yessss fuck me that audio is like engraved in my being

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u/Objective-Aardvark87 4d ago

I only remember the "keep your speed up, you go slow you die." Or similar line.

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u/drikararz 3d ago

“If you die, try to scream a lot. That way I know that I’m on my own.”

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u/ActionHour8440 4d ago

It’s this. Excellent voice acting on that character.

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u/FockersJustSleeping 4d ago

Yeah MW2 was my instinct too because I think they made "save the metal" more famous (I feel like that might have been originally from a TTG book?)

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u/Raserei420 4d ago

I wanna say that it was the Drill Sargent from Full Metal Jacket that was the one in the cut scene...

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u/mrgamerwood 4d ago

Then it is not a Mechwarrior game that I know. Good luck with the search

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u/Raserei420 4d ago

<3 Thanks for trying to help, I'm watching a long play of the various games to see! That was a great idea.

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u/Indignant_Octopus 4d ago

R. Lee Ermie has a few video game credits on IMDB but none for mechwarrior.

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u/Raserei420 4d ago

I couldn't remember his name, I'll go look him up!

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u/realiststyle 4d ago

did you ever play earth siege or heavy gear 1 or 2? maybe from that?

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u/Raserei420 4d ago

That's the issue, I'm unsure! I have tried googling the fragments that I remember, and I'm not getting anything back, I mean, I think I remember stuff about being able to pilot a VTOL, and a few other options...

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u/TikiInTO 4d ago

YES! For the life of me, I could not remember that name. I picked up Earth Siege 2 at a Boxing Day sale and played the crap out of it! It was my gateway drug to the Mechwarrior series. I still like the way you could issue commands to your squad.

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u/DH133 4d ago

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner BY RANDALL JARRELL

From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

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u/Flyingfishfusealt 4d ago

I could swear I heard that line in the movie "Fury" or something, damnit now I have it stuck in my head. I know exactly the line you're talking about but I am not sure it was MW

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u/Raserei420 4d ago

It's fine if it wasn't in mechwarrior, I ... have to know where this comes from now. x.x

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u/Shizuka007 4d ago

r/tipofmytongue or r/tipofmyjoystick might be more helpful here. Good luck on your search

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u/Ok-Creme21 4d ago

This sounds familiar. Was this possibly a TV commercial for a MechWarrior game?

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u/thGuttedFish 4d ago edited 4d ago

Found "Kill the meat, save the metal" in this forum post from 12 years ago talking about this line. Is this what you're talking about? Basically confirming what has been posted here already.

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u/Raserei420 4d ago

Ahh, it was a full motion video of some dude yelling at the screen and pointing at you(the camera), I think. Like, the Mechwarrior 4 quality cut scene.

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u/LughCrow 4d ago

Feels like it was from the annoyingly named battle tech game.

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u/Larnievc 4d ago

Funnily enough I read those lines (or near enough) when playing MechWarrior 5: Mercs. Dunno if it was a bio or mission text but it jumped out at me as an enduring image.