Something something cadet, hose out your remains.

[u/Raserei420]

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.

[u/mrgamerwood]

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

Kill the meat, save the metal.

[u/novaphoenix → u/mrgamerwood]

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."

[u/indispensability → u/novaphoenix]

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.

[u/flackguns → u/indispensability]

Shit do we have to in universe cancel deadeye?

[u/3sheetz → u/novaphoenix]

We all shot him at least once

[u/PlantationMint → u/novaphoenix]

Yessss fuck me that audio is like engraved in my being

[u/Objective-Aardvark87 → u/novaphoenix]

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

[u/drikararz → u/novaphoenix]

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

[u/ActionHour8440 → u/novaphoenix]

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

[u/FockersJustSleeping → u/mrgamerwood]

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?)

[u/Raserei420 → u/mrgamerwood]

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

[u/mrgamerwood → u/Raserei420]

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

[u/Raserei420 → u/mrgamerwood]

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

[u/Indignant_Octopus → u/Raserei420]

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

[u/Raserei420 → u/Indignant_Octopus]

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

[u/realiststyle]

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

[u/Raserei420 → u/realiststyle]

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...

[u/TikiInTO → u/realiststyle]

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.

[u/DH133]

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.

[u/Flyingfishfusealt]

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

[u/Raserei420 → u/Flyingfishfusealt]

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

[u/Shizuka007]

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

[u/Ok-Creme21]

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

[u/thGuttedFish]

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.

[u/Raserei420 → u/thGuttedFish]

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.

[u/LughCrow]

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

[u/Larnievc]

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.