OFFICIAL Mechwarrior 5 Is Here!

So, I'm enjoying myself. As I mentioned in Discord, a lot of the interface and campaign systems were ripped straight out of HBS's Battletech, definitely a good thing.

It's a bit of an adjustment period to get used to this one from MWO. Tanks in particular are NASTY, and can sneak up behind up you and open your back with heavy guns if you don't keep your head on a swivel. I've come out of all 3 of the first set of missions with red armor everywhere cause of tank ambushes. I've only fought one mech to date, a spider.

The number of mechs included in the base game is actually quite a bit higher that I thought. There's at least 10 in every weight class, most of which have several variants.. Weapons do in fact have tiers, affecting RoF and heat, and some have variants. LRMs can be stagger or group fired, and AC's can be burst, scatter, or single shot depending on make and model. Your character's skill affects damage, heat dispersal, evasion, and defense; almost like an RPG.

Overall I don't regret the purchase so far.

Example of the mech screen for mediums.

 

Reviews saying solid game play, story/writing/voice acting horrendous? Sounds fine to me...

 

Sounds like MechWarrior. I mean have the games ever been known for story/voice acting and writing? 2 (2.5 games) are mercenaries games (previous) with essentially no story. Mw2 mercs, me 4 mercs and I'm counting 4 black night as the half.

3 expansion didn't really have a story that I recall.

Only think I've seen is people bitching about controls. Seems like not much joystick support yet.

 

The writing does the job. I've certainly seen worse.

 

I believe the editor isn't active till sometime next year. So why it was even in the release/package I don't know (unless that had more to do with some weird EGS thing then a PGI thing. I think it is. I say that because I have ALL 5 phoenix point DLCs in my EGS library and none of them are actually out).

Like they had to release anything that would be included in the base game (such as the editor) whether it was finished or not and couldn't be added to the base package later.

 

If it can be bought elsewhere other than the EGS store (even as an epic key) I might buy it (since supposedly co-op is not dependent on EGS). I don't want EGS to have my credit card info. or even paypal. or any of my money.

YES.

"Epic will receive no revenue share from the sale of those games purchased through the Humble Store," the company said in a statement. "The partnership will launch with keys redeemable on the Epic Games store, and soon Epic will enable players to link their Epic and Humble accounts for direct purchasing."

apparently exlusive games will be on the humble store.

 

Mw 5 is kinda a reboot (not rewriting Anything previous but timewise) to the MechWarrior games.

Mw1 3024-3028
Mw2 and mercs 3044-3052 and 3057 (mw 2 is 3057. Mercs is the 3044-3052)
Mw 3 is the great refusal so 3059-3060
Mw4 no years given but it is all fedcom civil war.

So if mw 5 was going to keep that tradition it would have been late in the fedcom civil war or in jihad.

I think mw 4 vengeance kentares is actually part of the Sparks that cause the civil war. Sometime in 3061

 

I'm trying to figure out why people keep complaining about the story and acting being poor. I don't recall MechWarrior (the games) ever having a great story/acting.

I'm counting mechcommander and HBStech separately.

 

Have played the first 4-5 missions and am liking it. One of those games that are good but could have been so much better. But PGI though so expectations weren't that high to begin with. Battle damage is a bitch though, have not once come out of a fight without everything having to be repaired. Realistically that should be expected. Many times in HBS BT you come out of a major battle with just some armor loss. MW5 is more like what I'd expect to happen.

 

Yea I'm playing HBS BT right now and once you get to assault lances you can steamroll most 5 star missions without getting into internals if you're just smart about positioning and tanking.

 

Had planed on waiting till it came to steam, but grand parents got me a copy, dont have the heart to tell them to return it.

 

I would say most of the people stating "graphics issues" are just graphics snobs and want basically every game to be Jedi fallen order level.

 

I also keep seeing in the Facebook group for MW 5 some guy saying "I have a super great computer and hotas setup and all the game does is crash on me. Fuck PGI it's all their fault". I just sit here going "it's either a dll error or he's fucked around with his system enough that yes his hardware is great but something he did set it outside the normal parameters which is what develeopers build using". They probably don't build with all that over clocking and crap.

 

Spoiler: Intro cutscene

anyone else surprised and go "oh. Wait that was my dad?" In the cutscene during the training/familiarization? I think it would have gone better to do that training. A few missions with Dad (like 2 or 3). Then a mission where that cutscene happens. As it is the revengeangle is meh. I had not attachment to dad as a character.