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[toyota hilux]

mechwarrior 5 and the other modern mechwarrior games have punching why can this game have it?.

[D V Devnull]

toyota hilux, on 04 August 2025 - 04:49 PM, said:

mechwarrior 5 and the other modern mechwarrior games have punching why can this game have it?.

Hello there... The MW5-Series of games is running on a different Engine underneath everything you experience, and it's that Engine which has the ability of allowing Punching & Melee options for you to play with. Unfortunately the particular Engine running underneath MWO is far different, and does not have the ability to allow Punching & Melee within its' structure of operations. Attempts to add such into MWO have repeatedly failed in the past, as it caused dangerous issues within MWO's multiplayer environment which disrupted gameplay due to the Engine not being capable of handling that processing in any reasonable manner. Any attempt now to change the Engine running under MWO would take this game offline for some time, if it ever came back online at all. Even worse is the fact that adding Punching & Melee into MWO with such an Engine change would massively increase system requirements to play, instantly kicking many people out who can not buy a new computer at this time. And this is all let alone the recent layoffs in PGI's Staff forced by EG7 including some from MWO's section and reducing how many were left to build anything. This has left PGI's MWO Staff without any people who are known coding-capable now to even make Punching & Melee into a reality. Oh that reminds me... Unless my memory is out-of-date on the matter, it happens that MWO is forever legally License-locked to the Engine which it currently runs upon, which blocks any idea of Engine changes permanently. Sorry to be the bad news bearer, but the MWO game is simply unable to ever have Punching & Melee due to all of these issues.

~D. V. "MWO & MW5 are on different Engines... Too much blocks Punching & Melee happening..." Devnull