There is definitely something off about this whole game. On paper, I love everything about it. But in game, it's meh.
It's missing something 2,3,4 had that made them fun.

jdreyer wrote on Dec 1, 2022, 20:58:

Tomas wrote on Dec 1, 2022, 17:12:
Edit: so many phone typos

As the resident MechWarrior apologist I'll defend the game a bit. It has a great host of less-than-exceptional features, but in coop, playing the mercenary mode (I don't remember what they call it), my friends and I have had a lot of fun with it. I've about 80 hours in the game and I'd play more but getting friends together on the same night is always a challenge. Be aware there are a number of good mods for it as well. Could it be better? Definitely. PGI isn't a great developer (I'd call them moderately competent and somewhat uninspired), but it's still a fun game.

There are a lot of serious ways the game could improve, but the money just doesn't seem to be there. The expansions usually add little nibbles of features and mostly new mechs. I'm guessing this one is the same.

Oh, and the game has notably improved from the initial release which was pretty crap all around.

Hey thanks. Bought this last year and never got around to it. Been thinking about it after my current run through Skyrim is done.

Prepare to be underwhelmed! That's probably the least negative thing I can say about this game. If they added VR they would at least have that going for them, but apparently that's NOT on the table and is never going to be on the table.
Oh how I miss the golden days of.......well pretty much every other Mechwarrior game I've played. If someone remade Mechwarrior 2 and Mechwarrior 2: Mercs in the Unreal5 engine, like straight up remade them, with no extra missions or anything, just a new graphics engine, they would rake in a ton of cash. A ton. Those games would be GOTY material, easy. You see back in those days, when graphics were the bare minimum required to let your imagination fill the rest, gameplay had to be king. It had to be otherwise your game would fail, and fail miserably. Today it's style over substance, well most of the time it's style over substance, and this is how you end up with games like Mechwarrrior 5.

This comment was edited on Dec 2, 2022, 03:53.

Tomas wrote on Dec 1, 2022, 17:12:
Edit: so many phone typos

As the resident MechWarrior apologist I'll defend the game a bit. It has a great host of less-than-exceptional features, but in coop, playing the mercenary mode (I don't remember what they call it), my friends and I have had a lot of fun with it. I've about 80 hours in the game and I'd play more but getting friends together on the same night is always a challenge. Be aware there are a number of good mods for it as well. Could it be better? Definitely. PGI isn't a great developer (I'd call them moderately competent and somewhat uninspired), but it's still a fun game.

There are a lot of serious ways the game could improve, but the money just doesn't seem to be there. The expansions usually add little nibbles of features and mostly new mechs. I'm guessing this one is the same.

Oh, and the game has notably improved from the initial release which was pretty crap all around.

Hey thanks. Bought this last year and never got around to it. Been thinking about it after my current run through Skyrim is done.

Edit: so many phone typos

As the resident MechWarrior apologist I'll defend the game a bit. It has a great host of less-than-exceptional features, but in coop, playing the mercenary mode (I don't remember what they call it), my friends and I have had a lot of fun with it. I've about 80 hours in the game and I'd play more but getting friends together on the same night is always a challenge. Be aware there are a number of good mods for it as well. Could it be better? Definitely. PGI isn't a great developer (I'd call them moderately competent and somewhat uninspired), but it's still a fun game.

There are a lot of serious ways the game could improve, but the money just doesn't seem to be there. The expansions usually add little nibbles of features and mostly new mechs. I'm guessing this one is the same.

Oh, and the game has notably improved from the initial release which was pretty crap all around.

VaranDragon wrote on Dec 1, 2022, 13:33:
This is by and far the worst of all the Mechwarrior games. It's boring, repetitive, and basically the antithesis of what made any of the previous Mechwarrior games good. I.E. great mission design, story and even mech customization is seriously lacking in this game. Piranha destroyed this franchise with their sorry excuse for a single player Mechwarrior game.

^This. It is one of the few games I deeply regret purchasing.

This is by and far the worst of all the Mechwarrior games. It's boring, repetitive, and basically the antithesis of what made any of the previous Mechwarrior games good. I.E. great mission design, story and even mech customization is seriously lacking in this game. Piranha destroyed this franchise with their sorry excuse for a single player Mechwarrior game.

GinRummy wrote on Dec 1, 2022, 12:24:
I forget if the base game is the turn-based strategy one or the first-person action one.

It's the first person action one by Piranha Games (the MechWarrior Online guys and not to be confused with German dev Piranha Bytes).

The turn-based one is simply called BattleTech, and in spite of Harebrained Studios (the Shadowrun devs) being bought up by fucking Paradox, there has not been any new DLC since 2019 for some miraculous reason. BattleTech is dead for now, though I really hope that a sequel is in the works since the original game was pretty awesome.

I forget if the base game is the turn-based strategy one or the first-person action one.