There are lower than three weeks left ’til Father Battlemech’s massive metal arse comes down the chimney, youngsters. A mere 20 years after Mechwarrior four left off, Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries arrives subsequent month. While there’s loads of massive robotic fights to sit up for, builders Pirhana Games launched a brand new trailer displaying off what would-be house pirates shall be doing all that smashing and crashing.
Expansive star maps, difficult loadout screens and fixed monetary peril? Yup, it’s a MechWarrior game all proper.
For now, let’s simply take pleasure in some stomping nice explosions, yeah? Beautiful. Absolutely lovely.
This fast tour of MW5’s marketing campaign provides us extra than simply an Atlas stumbling into an condominium block like some sloshed metal Godzilla. We lastly get an excellent take a look at the nitty-gritty of managing an interstellar mercenary agency. If performed these older MechWarrior games again within the day, or Harebrained Schemes’ wonderful BattleTech final yr, this’ll all be very acquainted.
Like final yr’s ways game, MW5 is much less of a story-driven marketing campaign than it’s a freelance work sim. Sorta like what I do, solely I’ve by no means demolished a warehouse by strolling into it and my invoices by no means fairly hit the thousands and thousands of C-Bills. Travelling by an intensive star map, you’ll be selecting up missions for numerous factions.
Some worlds are higher stops for selecting up gear or hiring new pilots, whereas battle zones supply up some high-risk contracts. That map appears fairly a bit extra sizeable than BattleTech’s, too. Correct me if I’m improper, however I reckon they’ve squeezed the entire Inner Sphere in right here. Downtime throughout journey can be utilized to wander round your ship, restore your mechs, or test in with Rhiannah (not that one) for some new contracts.
There’s additionally an excellent take a look at loading out a mech with new gear, in addition to salvaging new tools in a post-mission display. Naturally, making a loadout means poring by an incomprehensible mess of numbers, slots, weight counters and warmth concerns. Classic BattleTech. Besides simply selecting up greater weapons for greater mechs, it appears like loot is cut up by loot ’em up rarity ranges.
Fine, MechWarrior. You could be a looter-shooter, so long as the stomping’s good.
Cor, it does look bloody good although. Look, of us, I actually like Mechs. I like watching them stomp by fields, timber burning from laser hearth, tanks and vehicles crushed beneath a 55-ton heel. Towers erupting in glass and dirt as stray autocannon photographs plunge by a penthouse suite. That bit on the finish the place an Atlas and mates flip a small city to ash? That’s the shit I dwell for.
MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries lands on the Epic Games Store on December 10th. Piranha have confirmed that it’ll come to “other digital game stores” after about its unique yr on Epic.
