MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries

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BE YOUR OWN WEAPON OF WAR Welcome to the year 3015! It’s a hell of a time to be alive. Humanity has colonized thousands of star systems spanning a vast region of space known as the Inner Sphere. The golden age of cooperation and advancement is now a distant memory, and humanity has once again splintered into disparate factions all vying for supremacy. In the midst of these Succession Wars, power hungry Mercenaries like yourself are in a privileged position to capitalize big time. It’...
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BE YOUR OWN WEAPON OF WAR
Welcome to the year 3015! It’s a hell of a time to be alive.

Humanity has colonized thousands of star systems spanning a vast region of space known as the Inner Sphere. The golden age of cooperation and advancement is now a distant memory, and humanity has once again splintered into disparate factions all vying for supremacy.

In the midst of these Succession Wars, power hungry Mercenaries like yourself are in a privileged position to capitalize big time. It’s dangerous work but that’s why you’re here, right? If you’ve got an itch to blast, wreck, stomp and go all out ballistic, step inside and become your own weapon of war!

STORY
As the inheritor of a once-prominent Mercenary company, reborn in the flames of its near destruction at the hands of conspiring factions, your quest for glory and revenge will stretch light-years as you chase threads of interstellar intrigue along your journey to becoming an elite MechWarrior and mercenary commander.

THE INNER SPHERE
Home to thousands of star systems and an array of stunning biomes, the Inner Sphere is alive with activity, purpose, consequence, and variety. Systems will be captured and reclaimed, major events will unfold, and new technologies will come to light.

The rigors of war will be seen with each passing week as your relationships with the various factions fluctuate according to the relentless Succession Wars and your choices as the leader of a Mercenary outfit.

GAMEPLAY
The battlefields of the future are dominated by BattleMechs, hulking machines of war capable of leveling entire cities. As a BattleMech pilot you’ll rain havoc upon enemy ‘Mechs and targets, including tanks, ground vehicles, aircraft, advanced defenses, and reinforced bases.

Few things can withstand the power of a ‘Mech for long, and the worlds of the Inner Sphere are veritable playgrounds of destruction awaiting your shielding defense or crushing devastation.

BATTLEMECHS
"With over 50 unique ‘Mech chassis and hundreds of sub-variants, all fully-realized with high-fidelity models, damage states, and equipment, no two ‘Mechs are the same!
Whether acquired from scouring the markets of the Inner Sphere for rare and valuable chassis and equipment, or salvaging directly from the wreckage of your annihilated enemies and the spoils of war, the maintenance and operation of your BattleMechs will be vital to your success both as a MechWarrior and a Mercenary outfit commander."

THE MERC LIFE
Off the battlefield, as the leader of a Mercenary company you will need to manage all the key components of running a unit.

You’ll need to maintain and acquire ‘Mechs and equipment, hire and field MechWarriors from throughout the Inner Sphere to join you on the battlefield, and manage your relationships with the Great Houses of the Inner Sphere, all of whom are vying for your contribution to their staggering war efforts.

Of course, with each Contract comes negotiation, and with each victory comes consequence.

OTHER FEATURES
With the vast scope of the Inner Sphere and its complex system of world generation providing huge variety and replayability, the MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries experience offers no end. Outside the campaign, a fully-featured Instant Action system will allow you to customize and kick off isolated missions at any time, free from campaign restrictions.

With four-player co-op supported both within the campaign and the Instant Action system, you can experience the full breadth of the MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries universe alongside your friends.

Mods extend your game even further! Unlock the boundless creativity of the community to alter and expand the game in amazing ways. With a full editor and interface supporting gameplay mods out of the box your creativity will know no limits.

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  • OS: Windows 10 (64-bit versions)
  • Processor: Intel Core i3-7100/AMD Ryzen 3 1200
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770/AMD Radeon R9 280X
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 55 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: Broadband internet connection is needed to play and host Co-op games. Internet Connection is NOT Required for Single player once the game is downloaded.

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- The game is enormous. If you want value for money, you cannot go wrong with this. It's not one of those crappy modern games that takes someone around 4 or 5 hours to complete. For reference, I've got just over 100 hours played, and only now have a full lance / team of assault mechs (Yeah I know, I'm a bit slow on this game. More on that in a bit).

- Amazing variety of mechs, which all have variants, each with their own weapons loadouts / set ups. One could have a setup for more long range combat, others can be more oriented towards close quarters brawling. So there's likely a mech for everyone. And it's great fun to play around with this.

Some mechs can be tailored for certain mission types too. For example, on Assassination missions, I find it good fun to bombard enemies from afar with mechs like the iconic Catapult, and have one or two heavies for backup. It's also handy to have jump jets, because it opens up new gameplay options.

On the other hand, if you like to run & and gun / hit 'n run, you could try faster mechs with less armour and weapons on them for quick Raids or Demolition contracts.

And contrary to that, you can use heavies & assault mechs where you're basically giant tanks or artillery platforms on legs. Make no mistake though, depending on the difficulty level - usually indicated by tonnage limit on a contract – you might think that using 4 beastly mechs means that you can just steam roll an enemy. But think again. Because the game always has a way of chucking a fly in the ointment, or a "monkey in the wrench", so that you may just end up with some badly damaged mechs by the end of a mission if you're careless.

But I like that, it's a good kind of uncertainty where you rarely feel overpowered.

- Fun co-op. Works well most of the time, because you can coordinate and plan various tactics and strategies. I've not had many problems with connecting, but did have an issue where my friend kept being chucked into spectator mode. Not sure why, but it oddly just went away.

Quick gripe about co-op though, is that when anyone's a guest in another person's game, they can't earn any C-Bills(in game currency) or salvage.

It would have been fantastic if the C-Bills or salvage you earn at the end of a co-op mission could be given to each person to take back to their games, same for salvage. This would definitely be welcomed and appreciated in a future game update.

- Really love the vibe of the game, including the retro synthy main menu theme. Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries was my introduction to mech games WAY back, because I was late to the PC games party, and I loved it. But due to the 4th game being so iconic, this game had some sizeable boots to fill. And dare I say it, it's done it rather well.

- Sound effects are superb. The escalating, out of control whirring of a gunship coming down after you laser them out of the sky, followed by a crisp boom when they impact the ground never gets old.

One minor gripe I'll add though; the pounding of the footsteps of each mech are basically the same, rather than being a colossal thump when in heavier mechs and a little bump in lighter ones.

- The maps and visuals are really immersive and detailed considering the sheer vastness of the game. The graphical settings are all set to high at 1080p, but I don't have an RTX video card so no ray tracing for me. But it still looks sweet
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