We got a first look at MechWarrior 5: Clans, the upcoming narrative-driven MechWarrior 5 campaign that follows Smoke Jaguar clan and can be played in single-player or up to five-player co-op. Previewed by Ryan McCaffrey
MechWarrior2 is one of the most pivotal games ever made. Even the market for these types of games has essentially disappeared, i'm so glad there's still a niche band of players of these games. Armored Core 6 sales can attest.
Might be niche but they have an loyal & active communities. Lot of people still actively playing MW Online & MW 5. Even the modding community also still active after 5 years of MW 5 released. I'm quite surprised by that.
@@bookmanjeb7238 MW5:Mercs was a spiritual successor to MW4:Mercs. This seems like a spiritual successor to MW2... so I've been waiting more like 30 years.
Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries does have a story driven campaign, it's that because you are a merc, you have to take contracts to fund your personal vendetta.
Yup he clearly sound like he only remembers how the game was initially during it's early access days lol so misinformed he is 🤦♂️🤣 I expected better from him.
@@MsGhost06 >Expecting better from a (((Games Journalist))) >Expecting better from (((IGN))) It's like you actually think they play games and not exist to force their political ideologies down your throat...
If you liked story-driven Mechwarrior, you could have also taken up HBS Games' BATTLETECH strategy game. That one had an incredible story that played out like a modern day TV series.
Been playing mechwarrior games since MW3. Really hope that the game comes out in a very polished state. Fingers crossed. Demo gameplay looks really promising.
Ok, let´s see about single player story and gameplay mechanics. It looks as updated Mercenaries so far. Let´s hope for the best. But please don´t let Ryan touch the review (cough, cough.... Alien: Isolation)
I know there's a lot of people that live and breath MechWarrior Completely respect that ...but I'm also a huge fan of MechAssault and have been waiting years for something somewhat close This is a great way to get into it and possibly lead into diving deeper with Mercenaries later I can't wait to play it
“We have no idea what these Sphereoids are capable of. Be ready for anything.” Well, now we know why our protagonists are shunned: using a healthy dose of real logic
Is there a difference in the mech combat between mercenaries and clans? Or is the only difference, that one has a story? Also is battletech and mechwarrior the same ip?
Bro we have 360 degree cameras on most cars now, ya don't think they could figure out a camera drone to follow behind a mech in the next 1000 or so years?
Been waiting for this for years. Played MW since the beginning. There used to be a similar game called Starsiege that was fun af also! Which spawned Starsiege Tribes, which I'd love to see again.
People at IGN just can't get anything right can they? Saying MW5 was ALL procedurally generated is completely wrong. There are many many many story driven missions that follow a linear progression along with the procedural stuff if you choose. What a worthless company IGN has become in my opinion.
The "story" part, when describing MW5 Mercs as having "story driven missions" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting. The cost of hiring a script writer was number 20 on PGI's list of expenses in making MW5. Right after "buying the dev ' team a coffee".
Please don’t try to defend that lol. Russ Bullock, the CEO himself, in a recent interview even said that the story DLCs were literally just procedurally generated missions with some extra dialogue slapped on top.
@@faydex86 Nearing 500 hours played? Yes, many times lol. Campaigns, dozens of careers including every story DLC multiple times, you name it. I’m certainly not the person you want to use to prove your point lol
"Mechwarrior 5 doesn't have a story" Ok sure m8, what did you launch Career and never touch its campaign? Its not linear, but it 100% has a story and a plotline if you cared to engage with it.
The "story" part, when describing MW5 Mercs as a "story driven campaign" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting. The cost of hiring a script writer was number 20 on PGI's list of expenses in making MW5. Right after "buying the dev ' team a coffee".
Man this is made in UE5, a little disappointed in the graphics. Was hoping for better details like footprints in the sand, cracked windows in cockpit view or other details, it's looking pretty much the same as MW 5 mercenaries. Hopefully it's just an early build and some polish will have some of the details in the full release.
Jesus just splitting hairs here. You know what he meant he meant Assault mechs in general. All the small mechs were in the demo, he referred to the Atlas as its The 100 ton killing machine.
The clans had a bunch of holdover mechs from the SLDF exodus. Though they were all upgraded with modern clan weapons. Highlanders and Thunderbolts are such examples.
While story can be nice, Mech 5 Mercenaries is awesome with its freemode/scrounge as you go and build up your outfit across the universe and potentially participate in pivotal battle sequences at key points in history since you start just before the 4th Succession War and go all the way up thru the Clan invasion. Really nothing new except for the AI/map control style.
MechWarrior2 is one of the most pivotal games ever made. Even the market for these types of games has essentially disappeared, i'm so glad there's still a niche band of players of these games. Armored Core 6 sales can attest.
MW must be selling at least ok, given that there's been a ton of DLCs and now a standalone/sequel/expansion thing.
If you listen to Publishers games like Helldivers 2, Baldur's Gate 3, and Armored Core 6 wouldn't sell very well in the modern market.
Enemy mech destroy.
Mechwarrior Online is obv. still around. There's also World of Tanks/War Thunder for the war vehicle sim genre.
Might be niche but they have an loyal & active communities. Lot of people still actively playing MW Online & MW 5. Even the modding community also still active after 5 years of MW 5 released.
I'm quite surprised by that.
Been a fan since my Dad bought the Mechwarrior 2 and an MS Sidewinder Joystick, can't wait!
The sidewinder was where it's at!
FACTS. Still got mine and my old Windows 98 PC @@empoweredshemphoward
Never clicked on a IGN video so fast
😂😂😂
Same, looking like the mechwarrior game ive been waiting 20 years for. A spiritual successor to MW:4 Mercenaries.
same bro
💯 😂😂😂😂
@@bookmanjeb7238 MW5:Mercs was a spiritual successor to MW4:Mercs. This seems like a spiritual successor to MW2... so I've been waiting more like 30 years.
Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries does have a story driven campaign, it's that because you are a merc, you have to take contracts to fund your personal vendetta.
Yup he clearly sound like he only remembers how the game was initially during it's early access days lol so misinformed he is 🤦♂️🤣 I expected better from him.
@@MsGhost06
>Expecting better from a (((Games Journalist)))
>Expecting better from (((IGN)))
It's like you actually think they play games and not exist to force their political ideologies down your throat...
He liked MechAssault. Opinion immediately sus. @@MsGhost06
@@MsGhost06 you expected better from IGN? Where have you been?
@@0num4 From him, Ryan McCaffrey, not IGN
playing Mechwarrior in 3rd person mode should be against the Ares conventions.
You don't have to if you don't want to Play in 3rd Person mode.
Any mechwarrior in 3rd person should be illegal
The tabletop should alwaya be played at eye level with your units
100% agree. Freaking freebirths.
Sometimes you need to lol
If you liked story-driven Mechwarrior, you could have also taken up HBS Games' BATTLETECH strategy game. That one had an incredible story that played out like a modern day TV series.
Been playing mechwarrior since before 3d accelleration was a thing. I'm so stoked for this
Been playing mechwarrior games since MW3. Really hope that the game comes out in a very polished state. Fingers crossed. Demo gameplay looks really promising.
A real mechwarrior plays MW2.
@@Predaaator you must be a very old guy and hardcore mechwarrior fan that followed the franchise since the 1980s
The teammate control scheme is giving me major Star Wars Republic command vibes but improved with the top down directions too! Very cool
Nice to see the command system for teamates has been improved that was my biggest problem with mw5. Being able to go into rts mode is awesome.
So pumped for this game, this preview gave my brain one sentence:
SATELLITE LINK... ESTABLISHED
Is it possible to be nostalgic for the 31st Century?!
"Reactor Online. Sensors Online. Weapons Online. All systems nominal." Hell yea! Let's Go!
*Missile launch detected*
Need to include Clanspeak like Quiaff, Aff, Neg, etc to make it bit more authentic.
They threw out "stravag" in the cinematic reveal. So there's hope.
Better not be any contractions though.
Yeah Clan brevity codes and language is a big part of their feel.
Now if they nail the Mechbay as well, this game is gonna be an instant classic for me.
Been with mechwarrior since the dinosaur days of 2. Looking forward to this.
Hey! Hello fellow cave-dwelling dino-age MechWarrior fan. Haha
Give us all that MW2: Mercs feel, with joystick/HOTAS support and I'm IN. This looks like a true return to form
Definitely excited for this! Looks solid!
Ok, let´s see about single player story and gameplay mechanics. It looks as updated Mercenaries so far. Let´s hope for the best. But please don´t let Ryan touch the review (cough, cough.... Alien: Isolation)
Hype drive online
Copium engaged
All systems hopeful
MechWarrior 5 just keep getting better and better
Mech Commander is back
Give us the Mad Cat,Thor,Vulture,Uziel.
U mean
Timber wolf
Summoner
Mad dog?
@@jessicaregina1956 Don't waste your breath on an Inner Sphere freeborn!
@@lohengrin5082 Crawl back to your sibco cloning vat. Quiaff?
Gives us the option to fight the clans as the IS
@@Drewbyy spoilers, playing a single lance, they'd wreck you soo hard :)
A VR game would be nice
Correction* a VR mode for the same game. So everyone can still play together regardless of hardware.
There is already a fully functional VR Mod for MW5!
Glad more mech games are coming out
They need to allow us to jump into friendly Multiplayer games with our own inventory and cut of the payout
Can you jump in to random games like they're a lobby, or is it pre-made groups only?
MY BODY IS READY
So will this be a big DLC for MW5 or a completely new game? Since it has the name MW5 in it??
Give us new Mech Commander already.. and still sand box would be awesome somehow..
Try Battletech my brother
legging is always the best plan in my experience
legging if nice until you can just headshot them
I'm excited and disappointed I'm going to have to go through another series of lore-accurate mods when this campaign and the patches come out.
Can’t wait for this ! I’ve put many hours on mechwarrior 5
I know there's a lot of people that live and breath MechWarrior
Completely respect that
...but I'm also a huge fan of MechAssault and have been waiting years for something somewhat close
This is a great way to get into it and possibly lead into diving deeper with Mercenaries later
I can't wait to play it
This looks far better than what we got from MW5 at launch.
Don't forget about Battletech, not the same style of play, but still a single-player Mechwarrior game.
its the opposite. mechwarrior is a singleplayer battletech game.
“We have no idea what these Sphereoids are capable of. Be ready for anything.”
Well, now we know why our protagonists are shunned: using a healthy dose of real logic
Is there a difference in the mech combat between mercenaries and clans? Or is the only difference, that one has a story?
Also is battletech and mechwarrior the same ip?
Playing a mechwarrior game in 3rd person is just so wrong. Kills the atmosphere for me.
Then don't play it in 3rd person! Personally i'm the 3rd person option is there.
Bro we have 360 degree cameras on most cars now, ya don't think they could figure out a camera drone to follow behind a mech in the next 1000 or so years?
3rd person is dumb in mw games. Go play armoured core or something
@@patton3338camera drone behind an object being blasted by weapons fire? Probably last a long time back there.
Gotta see that sexy mech. Ill do 1st person when we get a vr mode
Been waiting for this for years. Played MW since the beginning. There used to be a similar game called Starsiege that was fun af also! Which spawned Starsiege Tribes, which I'd love to see again.
A star is a group of 5 mechs for the Clans. It's called a lance for the Inner Sphere.
Lance is also 4 mechs
The moment you say "can't say im a diehard mechwarrior fan", you fail the fan test.😂
Ill take honesty over deception.
McCaffrey why is your audio for voice so loud man lol
Whoever edited this video has zero clue how to mix and balance.
Oh joy. The Smokeblower Jagoff clan. Most hypocritical creatures in the 'verse, and that's with the Inner Sphere as competition.
So pumped for this.
I've always loved clan tech designs the most. Put me in a mad dog or timberwolf and I'm happy.
People at IGN just can't get anything right can they? Saying MW5 was ALL procedurally generated is completely wrong. There are many many many story driven missions that follow a linear progression along with the procedural stuff if you choose. What a worthless company IGN has become in my opinion.
The "story" part, when describing MW5 Mercs as having "story driven missions" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting. The cost of hiring a script writer was number 20 on PGI's list of expenses in making MW5. Right after "buying the dev ' team a coffee".
@@alistaircollins9537 Sounds like you didn't play the game at all.
Please don’t try to defend that lol. Russ Bullock, the CEO himself, in a recent interview even said that the story DLCs were literally just procedurally generated missions with some extra dialogue slapped on top.
@Zathul4198 have you played it all through to the end?
@@faydex86 Nearing 500 hours played? Yes, many times lol. Campaigns, dozens of careers including every story DLC multiple times, you name it. I’m certainly not the person you want to use to prove your point lol
So is this a standalone game or a massive expansion??
Stand alone. Story driven. no open world. like 40 missions. russ bullock gave some info on a no guts no galaxy podcast recently
The current UI definitely need some improvement.
Does it have HOTAS support!?
All mechwarrior games have had hotas support. Don't know about mech-assault though, it was a spin-off and not a sim
"Mechwarrior 5 doesn't have a story" Ok sure m8, what did you launch Career and never touch its campaign? Its not linear, but it 100% has a story and a plotline if you cared to engage with it.
"Preferred an Atlas my self" Ok but that isnt a clan mech :/ Its the Clans game. Read lore.
The "story" part, when describing MW5 Mercs as a "story driven campaign" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting. The cost of hiring a script writer was number 20 on PGI's list of expenses in making MW5. Right after "buying the dev ' team a coffee".
Man this is made in UE5, a little disappointed in the graphics. Was hoping for better details like footprints in the sand, cracked windows in cockpit view or other details, it's looking pretty much the same as MW 5 mercenaries. Hopefully it's just an early build and some polish will have some of the details in the full release.
This is the early build that was privately showed to a few last year, it even said it on the video is an early build demo
Looking forward for this, there is only few mech games these days.
Just found out about this. Can't wait! Hope they learned from Mercs.
"Always preferred the Atlas" ... You are meant to say DireWolf or Warhawk, freebirth.
Hey, the Atlas was built to the Great Father's specifications. It is a completely honourable ride.
Any idea for which quarter launch yet?
That onscreen map display is like 70% of the screen right?
Bargained Well and Done
Yes, love a bit of mech warrior !
Been waiting to hear and see more from this.
Timberwolf and I'm happy (been a fan since the cartoon)
Smoked Jaguars 😅
He said it he said mechassault
Quiet, Blakist.
Your cult has no power here.
@@distantblaze561 behold the instrument of your suffering
We lacked co op progression in mercenaries. If this problem remains, still a no to me.
MW5 has a Campaign mode and Career mode. You are referring to Career mode not being story driven
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Ngl, love it when people mention mechassault, my favorite video game
Any update of release dates? Leaks?? Anything?
They don't get it.. It needs more coop options.. Like really sharing the star.
you only show footage from 1 map?
Is there a cockpit view.
Can't pilot an Atlas if you're Clan, since the Atlas is an Inner Sphere mech. You could pilot something like a Dire Wolf/Daishi though.
Ever heard of salvage & merchants? 😅
Jesus just splitting hairs here. You know what he meant he meant Assault mechs in general. All the small mechs were in the demo, he referred to the Atlas as its The 100 ton killing machine.
The Clans do use the Atlas on occasion, and have access to the upgraded Atlas 2 which is completely extinct in the Inner Sphere.
@@SignificantpowerAll right
IGN reviewer preferring Atlas, right on brand.
Honestly, +1 respect
Bring on the Steiner Scout Lances!
Edit - and MW3 construction.
remember mech asault 2: lone wolf? That was my favorite game
If the star league is absurdly unrecoverable in the 31st century,just wait till the year 40K.
. 😉🤘
Why is he so loud in this video.
The employee narrating this has obviously never played any MechWarrior games at all😂
For the clans!!! 💞✌😊👍
Does anyone know if this is coming out on PS4?
My only hope is that the AI doesn't pilot the mechs like they aren't respectful for them as they did in 5.
Bro we smoked Jaguar??? We not getting off Ttykiad with this one bois
They're clans. Why would they be using an Atlas?
Yes! Yess!
Better not be epic exclusive
keen!
Amazing! :D
Is the cokpit suposed to look that bad?
Can’t wait!
give armored core 5 ago too. great story driven mech game.
When?
Well you wanting an Atlas as a Clan pilot - kinda figured you're not a die-hard fan :)
Dont the clans have atlas mechs?
The clans had a bunch of holdover mechs from the SLDF exodus. Though they were all upgraded with modern clan weapons. Highlanders and Thunderbolts are such examples.
While story can be nice, Mech 5 Mercenaries is awesome with its freemode/scrounge as you go and build up your outfit across the universe and potentially participate in pivotal battle sequences at key points in history since you start just before the 4th Succession War and go all the way up thru the Clan invasion. Really nothing new except for the AI/map control style.
HELL YESS
GET SERIOUS AND MECH SOME DAMN MODEL KITS FOR THESE MECHS ALREADY!
What was wrong with the Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries UI? This new UI looks so horribly messy.
Let's hope AI is updated to clan lvls...
You shouldn't play it in 3rd person. =(
really need to implement vr for this
Is the is DLC or a new stand-alone release on it's own, anyone?
Stand-alone game, don't know if it is still UE4 or they went for UE5, probably UE4...
@@Snake2208x Oh wow, cool 😊 (thank you for answering).
@@Snake2208x it's UE5 bro
This is sick
He says he played many and only mentions 3. He either doesn't know how many there really are or that "many" is misused!