

It’s not a design that should lend itself to a “restart” button. Failure isn’t the end it’s just another wrinkle in your campaign.


Having to rebuild your lance after a mission goes bad is part of the drama, and having your entire career ended by bankruptcy if you don’t manage your resources well across multiple missions is a feature of the game. While it’s not quite as twitchy as Spelunky or capricious as FTL: Faster Than Light, you’re meant to make a run at the whole story, carrying over both losses and wins from each battle. Thematically, MechWarrior 5 is structured as a roguelike. This makes it easier to avoid accidentally falling off a cliff, or into a lava flow in the heat of battle.īut my favorite button in the game is a very taboo button indeed. There’s even a button to make sure that your legs are lined up with your torso, which forces you to look in the same direction in which you’re moving. There are buttons for lasers, buttons for missiles, buttons to issue orders to your lance, and buttons to move your ’Mech. There’s a lot to keep track of inside your ’Mech, and a lot of buttons that control the various systems. The game can be played in third-person mode to get a better sense of your surroundings, but you can also get right inside the cockpit by playing in the first-person view. You and up to three allies - which comprise a “lance” in the series’ vernacular - are bristling with exotic weapons, and only by working together can you take down the dozens of enemies aligned against you in each mission. The arcade-style simulation game is about flinging yourself into battle inside a building-sized walking tank. Experience these new biomes in Campaign and Career modes, and Instant Action.MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is a game about big stompy robots and, like every other big stompy robot game that has come before it, MechWarrior 5 requires an awful lot of buttons to play. Face your foes in three new biomes, with three unique environments and backdrops for you to further your exploits throughout the Inner Sphere.BattleAxe, Claymore Sword, Katana Sword, Axe, Trench Blade, Long Sword, Hatchet, Claw, and Mace. New animated Stormsurge skin is available for all of your favorite Mechs.3 new biomes including Scrapyard, Rubellite, and Hoodoo Desert are available throughout Campaign and Career modes, and Instant action.Find them across the Inner Sphere in Campaign and Career mode, or equip them right away in Instant Action. 9 new melee weapons are available to equip on these new Mech variants BattleAxe, Claymore Sword, Katana Sword, Axe, Trench Blade, Long Sword, Hatchet, Claw, and Mace.You can also access them right away in Instant Action. 23 new melee weapon-focused Mech variants, plus 5 melee weapon-focused Hero Mech variants.
