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[Lostdragon]

AND IT IS MECHWARRIOR 5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edit: Website is now up: http://www.mw5mercs.com/

Edited by Lostdragon, 03 December 2016 - 09:32 PM.

[Muzakman]

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!

[El Bandito]

Is the single-player going to be made by PGI? If so, then meh.

[RavenKnight86]

So excited!!! Especially if it's a lot like Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries with the missions, salvage, and having to maintain your Mechs and Pilots, so hyped. Course co-op missions in that game would be dope.

[Lostdragon]

El Bandito, on 03 December 2016 - 09:27 PM, said:

Is the single-player going to be made by PGI? If so, then meh.

Yes, in Unreal. I am cautiously optimistic. Won't be pre-ordering, but will be keeping an eye on this and if it is decent I will buy it when it comes out.

Edit: I guess we know where Bryan has been now.

Edited by Lostdragon, 03 December 2016 - 09:29 PM.

[Muzakman]

I loved how immersive the gameplay looked and felt - largely due to, I think the change to Unreal 4.

PGI has probably been spending the last 6 months either scripting out or otherwise tweaking the game's assets to allow reuse in other engines (e.g., HBS BattleTech), so it makes sense they'd want to get the most out of their investment.

[El Bandito]

Lostdragon, on 03 December 2016 - 09:29 PM, said:

Yes, in Unreal. I am cautiously optimistic. Won't be pre-ordering, but will be keeping an eye on this and if it is decent I will buy it when it comes out.

Edit: I guess we know where Bryan has been now.

PGI doesn't know jack about campaign AI. At least the engine this time is far more workable.

[Lostdragon]

El Bandito, on 03 December 2016 - 09:31 PM, said:

PGI doesn't know jack about campaign AI. At least the engine this time is far more workable.

Hopefully they used some of that mech pack money to hire someone who does.

[Muzakman]

Lostdragon, on 03 December 2016 - 09:32 PM, said:

Hopefully they used some of that mech pack money to hire someone who does.

The MW Academy has been the proving grounds for the PVE elements (including the AI) that we saw today for some time now, so yes, they in fact did so by virtue of allowing their staff to learn lessons and discover obstacles in a cheap, "safe" manner.

[Kasumi Sumika]

Make Mechwarrior Great Again.

[Kilo 40]

El Bandito, on 03 December 2016 - 09:27 PM, said:

Is the single-player going to be made by PGI? If so, then meh.

because I see you spamming this exact same comment in every thread, from now on when you post I'm going to think "meh".

Edited by Kilo 40, 04 December 2016 - 12:02 AM.

[El Bandito]

Kilo 40, on 03 December 2016 - 09:50 PM, said:

because I see you spamming this exact same comment in every thread, from now on when you post I'm to think "meh".

People have been spamming the forums with identical threads about MW5, so I replied with exact same words to each of them. And I care nothing about what you think.

Edited by El Bandito, 03 December 2016 - 09:52 PM.

[Kasumi Sumika]

El Bandito, on 03 December 2016 - 09:51 PM, said:

People have been spamming the forums with identical threads about MW5, so I replied with exact same words to each of them. And I care nothing about what you think.

That's why I demand forum warriors or mods here to make or merge same thread into MW5 Mercs megathread so it prevent same thread pop out in GD.

Kasumi Sumika, on 03 December 2016 - 09:29 PM, said:

Hey forumers or mods, better make MW5 Merc announcement Megathread so it will not pop same thread in General Discussion, Thanks you!

Edited by Kasumi Sumika, 03 December 2016 - 09:59 PM.

[Anjian]

Oh this is awesome.

The other good news is that this is using the Unreal Engine, making due their promise to migrate to a new engine!

Edited by Anjian, 03 December 2016 - 10:26 PM.

[5th Fedcom Rat]

Even though that trailer was rough around the edges (missing cockpit entry animations, framerate drops in several places), the one thing it nailed was making the mechs FEEL giant and heavy again. No game since Mechwarrior 3 and the Virtual Pods has gotten that right (bonus props for making SRMs look awesome again).

Because PGI were smart enough to nail the most important things right off the bat it gives me some confidence in the whole project. So I honestly don't care how broken the AI will inevitably be, or how buggy the game will be (as long as it doesn't constantly crash), or how feature sparse it is, I will preorder it out the wazoo when/if it becomes available. I've been waiting forever for a modern single player MW.

Edited by 5th Fedcom Rat, 03 December 2016 - 10:52 PM.

[kuma8877]

The pool of talent available to draw from to work in U4 is huge compared to Cryengine (whoever hasn't been snatched up by Star Citizen already) so AI and other issues should easily be overcome with good talent.

[Otto Cannon]

If it supports VR I'll play it.

[Carl Vickers]

Anjian, on 03 December 2016 - 10:22 PM, said:

Oh this is awesome.

The other good news is that this is using the Unreal Engine, making due their promise to migrate to a new engine!

Where does it say anywhere that MWO is moving to a defferent engine, they knew they needed a different engine for a different game, MWO was a test bed and filler in while they got the experience they needed to actually develop MW5.

[BLOOD WOLF]

MWO can still make great use of the CRYengine.

[Zordicron]

I will hold my enthusiasm until I see it is actually a completed game before it is "launched". Just say no to microtransaction'd missions.

WUT? You don't think Russ would make a short single player campaign to meet a deadline and then sell add on missions for 10 bucks each?

Again, I will wait and see. Years of MWO has taught me To look at Russ and Co's actions and results, not his announcments and hype.