MechWarrior 5: Clans

Pay your phone bills

Bad storey, bad mechs, bad AI and bad gameplay. Waist of money. Probably one of the most boring games I've ever played.

cutsecens are great. gameplay is good and the new dlcs are really good.

I think there’s a certain amount of Stockholm syndrome with Battletech/MechWarrior games where people are just happy to get one at all but this is just not a good game. It’s an inferior product to Mercenaries in every way, sure it has nice cutscenes but the acting isn’t all that great. I refunded after a few hours but from what I played the missions were painfully boring, walk from waypoint to waypoint shooting enemy mechs that still have awful AI despite all the work the community has done in Mercenaries to fix stuff like that. Enemies still get dropped right on top of you or just spawn out of a literal monster closet right next to you when you reach a certain trigger point. Maybe it opens up later but every mission I played was just being funneled through narrow canyons until it opened up to a wider area where there would be a fight which you’d clear and then go in to the canyon towards the next one. The real final straw for me was when looking at the mechs I could eventually purchase I thought maybe once I ranked up and got some more stuff I’d be a little more forgiving. I finished the fourth or so mission and saw all the mechs I’d unlocked only to be greeted by most of the mechs listed for sale being DLC that I didn’t have. Instead of the 10 or so options I thought I had it was actually only 2… The only real positive thing I can give Clans is that in co-op everyone has a lot more control over all the aspects of the meta game but that’s also something that mods can fix in Mercenaries so it’s a bit of a backhanded compliment. Even on sale for $14.99 the base game felt like a rip off.

If you want to feel like youre in a giant mech with satisfying guns, beautiful graphics, epic explosions, incredible vibes, magnetic visceral gameplay and a non-covoluted non-time-hoover story.. def try elsewhere. In the meantime just get yourself 'Broforce' and see how game excellence is done proper.

So boring. No impact in firefights. Stopped playing in 5 stack after 10 minutes.

Hope they fix the crashes and Co-Op disconnecting between every single mission. Also poorly optimised, but otherwise a fun game once fixed.

Scratches my Mechwarrior itch. The format is quite likeable and a welcome change to the Mercenaries sandbox. I appreciate the attention to the details of Battletech lore and the Mech gameplay works very well. Yes, there is room for improvement, especially with quality control, but overall the game is pretty good. I'm looking forward to the DLCs.