MechWarrior 5: Clans

I found that Merc's was not my really my gameplay style so I was interested in clans when it released as it looked like it was much more single player focuses, linear and structured. After I played clans for the first time I imediatley purchased flash storm and subsequently the clan wolf DLC. I am now going back through the campaigns a second time playing in COOP. Highly recommend.

Good

Just as I was admiring how good of a game this is, as I get to the next planet to the Turtle Bay mission terrible FPS stuttering emerges and google search shows a handful of similar complaints beginning at the same mission. This seems to make the game entirely unplayable! What a shame, because I was really starting to enjoy this. Changed back to positive as problem is "solved" :)

I really like this game overall - but I kinda see where it neither satisfies fans of the setting nor newcomers - for the latter there is very little lore information available outside the movies and for fans the salvage system, mechlab, research and pilot XP are maybe a bit too dumbed down. TLDR: if you really enjoyed the more story driven missions with individual maps in MW5 Mercs you will really like this (especially if the more grindy part in that game is maybe a bit too much or less enjoable. other way around it might be harder.... also the amount of mechs thrown at you is pretty insane in some missions you really ´going to struggle hard with more ammo dependend mech loadouts. on the third hand you can put 16 MG on your adder and leg assault mechs all day long - in a way this is the first mechwarrior title where I really have been using light mechs in higher tiers which is kinda nice.

it's very pretty. it plays fine, notwithstanding highly questionable mission design. for a battletech fan, it's a real treat to see one of its essential story arcs come to life. it's almost what i wanted out of a modern mechwarrior game. but look: mech4 isnt *that* hard to get running.

its really good and playable