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[InnerSphereNews]

MECHWARRIOR 5 MERCENARIES AMA #9

Topic: MW5 MechLab

When: Wednesday, September 4th

Session 1: @10AM PDT // 5PM UTC

Session 2: @6PM PDT // 1AM UTC

Where: MW5 Community Discord AMA Voice & Text Channel

The Devs attending:

Russ Bullock - PGI President

Paul Inouye - Lead Designer

[Armored Yokai]

Atlas with Classic Battletech Head please!

[BROARL]

...please just tell us it supports VR? even War Robots is out in VR.

[Bolo Atari]

First to say FIRST!

Yaaaaas

[VonBruinwald]

Has there even been a screenshot of the mechlab released?

Kinda hard to ask about something we have no information on...

Or is "mechlab" the codename for the mod portal where players will have to pay for content created by other players...

Also, can we get the video part of the ama to be Russ/Paul or an MW5 tech demo. Getting sick of seeing MWO being played while you're discussing a different game.

[crazytimes]

Full HOTAS support? My loins are tingling in anticipation. Tingling!

[Sigmar Sich]

Can you please ask them about sensors, cockpit, life support, gyros, actuators? Are they fixed equipment, or upgradeable?
Can they be damaged and require repair? Remember the early video, where Shadow Hawk (i think) had a faulty left arm actuator..

Different manufacturers for components? For example AC/20 "Pontiac 100" having different stats, projectiles and visuals from, for example, AC/20 "Mydron A" or AC/20 "Kali Yama Big Bore" ?

[LordNothing]

crazytimes, on 28 August 2019 - 06:10 PM, said:

Full HOTAS support? My loins are tingling in anticipation. Tingling!

screw that i want an entire panel covered in switches and *****. xinput IS NOT GOOD ENOUGh!

and k n o b s is not a bad word get it out of the swear filter.

Edited by LordNothing, 28 August 2019 - 06:46 PM.

[Appogee]

I will tune in for sure. Should be epic!

Edited by Appogee, 28 August 2019 - 08:26 PM.

[Vellron2005]

Would love to find out more about how COOP is gonna work.

Also, would be nice to find out if the game will have any decision making / RPG elements beyond "click here to choose next mission", different endings based on how you played, and character (not mech) progression?

[Mighty Spike]

I bet we will become to hear and see lots of real news and infos bout the game^^...sarcasm off ...it will be.as usual the needed minimum ,nothing more nothing less

[Calebos]

Incomming Epic fail

[GaelicWolf]

Screenshots are all well and good, but I'd like to see some in game footage, even if it was rough, it would give us an idea of where we stand.
Also, some more advertising may be a good idea. Keeping it to the EGS an one or two publications and word of mouth is not going
to bring in more interest in a game with a notoriously small market niche.

[VonBruinwald]

Calebos, on 29 August 2019 - 06:57 AM, said:

Incomming Epic fail

I see what you did there...

[Alreech]

Wednesday, September 4th ?
Five days after the last chance to chancel the community preorder ?

[Actaroth]

No new gameplay vids no nothing. kinda shady stuff

[Tordin]

Whats this? Ah... MW5 news.. yeah alright, wake me when it hits Steam.
Wouldnt surprise me if they butcher immersion details like cockpit effects like cracks, steam ( HAH, pun, got it? ) damaged limbs and so on for casualising and making things less... *cough* resource costly on hardware. Last part is a classic excuse to give a middle finger to awesome details which might not at all drain computing power.

[NocturnalBeast]

If you plan on launching on PS4 and Xbox One and having cross-platform Coop, I will but it again on Epic and buy it for my kids.

[L U C A MCMLXXVI]

Nice!! Thk

[LordNothing]

Appogee, on 28 August 2019 - 08:13 PM, said:

I will tune in for sure. Should be epic!

except when they do it you wont be able to rage cancel your preorder anymore.

Ed Steele, on 29 August 2019 - 09:36 PM, said:

If you plan on launching on PS4 and Xbox One and having cross-platform Coop, I will but it again on Epic and buy it for my kids.

it would be xbox. microsoft also does the exclusive thing with the franchise. forbidding things like linux versions and consoles not owned by ms.

BROARL, on 28 August 2019 - 02:24 PM, said:

...please just tell us it supports VR? even War Robots is out in VR.

when vr made its comeback they promised low cost headsets. still waiting for that to happen.