It won't be easy to take down Brendon Corbett and his Dire Wolf, but once he's slain, Clan Smoke Jaguar is done for, and the campaign is complete. Notably, the game's final mission is actually a boss battle, where the player's team faces a team of five enemy 'Mechs on a small map, and the enemy leader is piloting a Dire Wolf. If the player gets their own Dire Wolf, they can customize it with both Inner Sphere and Clan tech, as per the game's scavenger economy, and crush all Jaguar forces that get in their way. Enemy forces will start piloting the dreaded Dire Wolf in later missions, a true challenge indeed, but the player may destroy one, then recover it during salvage operations. The Dire Wolf returned in 1999's MechWarrior 3, which takes place during Operation Bulldog, the new Star League's campaign against the villainous Clan Smoke Jaguar. This arsenal is enough to quickly pulverize anything that gets in the Dire Wolf's way, though as an assault 'Mech, the Dire Wolf is slow and easily flanked, so it needs escorts during a fight. The prime configuration features many effective weapons found in the various MechWarrior games, including four ER large lasers for long-range sharpshooting, an LRM 10 launcher, four medium pulse lasers for close-range brawling and two ultra autocannon 5's for medium-range sniping. The enormous Dire Wolf had an unprecedented 50.5 tons of pod space, and its default configurations have more firepower than entire squads of Inner Sphere 'Mechs. It's an OmniMech, meaning it has modular pod space where weapons and equipment could be swapped in and out with remarkable ease. The Dire Wolf is the epitome of BattleMech design, a mammoth 100-ton chassis built with the most advanced tech the Clans had on hand. Thus, Clans Wolf and Smoke Jaguar became the main users of the Dire Wolf, though other Clans also had a few in their own armies. At once, one of their rival clans, the Smoke Jaguars, challenged the Wolves to honorable combat and narrowly won the right to build this awesome new 'Mech for themselves. The Clans are always looking for bigger and better war machines, and in the 2900s, the clever Clan Wolf devised the ultimate weapons platform: the Dire Wolf, named for that Clan's lupine theme. Where did the incredible Dire Wolf come from? It traces its origins back to the powerful warrior Clans, elite fighters from beyond known space, who eat and breathe battle.
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