Demonstration Team

http://catalystgamelabs.com/2009/06/24/catalyst-game-labs-brings-back-unseen/

In 1996 numerous images originally licensed from several Japanese anime sources were retired from use within the BattleTech universe. Those illustrations formed the bedrock of the BattleTech 2nd Edition and BattleTech 3rd Edition Box Sets and were generally considered “fan favorites” across the board. These images—such as the Warhammer, Marauder, BattleMaster, Phoenix Hawk and so on—became known as the “unseen.”

After much blood, sweat and tears, Catalyst Game Labs is exceptionally pleased to announce the return of these “unseen” images.

“I’ve had the honor of helming BattleTech for a long, long time,” said Randall Bills, Managing Developer for Catalyst Game Labs. “I’m exceptionally proud that the work of the last several years for the new line of core rulebooks and the current storyline has precipitated a resurgence in BattleTech play and recognition as a fun, great game, with one of the greatest legacies of any gameline. However, to participate in returning all our favorite images to the game we love… my geek’s been on for long weeks about this explosively cool development. Just wait until you see some of the art under development to “bring them back” in a style worthy of our current books.”

The first books containing these images will start appearing this summer, with future releases—as appropriate—able to use illustrations of these classics. One of the biggest of these coming releases, of course, is BattleTech: 25 Years of Art and Fiction; we’ve got a preview of a complete, all-new-story from this book that also showcases a plethora of art across years, including some images not seen in a BattleTech book in long, long years.

Camospecs has posted a lot of the old sculpt Unseen, take a look!

Many of you have found the Find Players page after logging in to your CDT Player Account, but quite a few have been puzzled about the inability to contact those players!

Well now you can get in touch with players in your area!  Start by searching your area for players, then you can either click on a specific player to contact them or you can click the checkbox next to each player you want to contact and send them all a single message.

The player being contacted has the option to keep their contact information private or not based on how they respond to your contact.

Hopefully this will help everyone find other players in their areas and create more games for all!