MechWarrior 5: Clans

Been playing MW since tabletop and love the series in all forms, I think this DLC has done good representing the lore and story of the MW series!

Long term BT / MW fan here This is one of those games where steam needs a neutral option. It's ok, not great. It's certainly entertaining at times and frustrating at others. Story is pretty meh and tried to do too much, too complex Voice acting and scripting, esp at the start is bad. Perez is bad the entire game. The missions are pretty generic. There are still some very memorable missions from MC, MCG and MW4... Nothing that inspired here unfortunately. Push W while the AI pushes W is 90% of what's going on here. And the AI always pushes W even when in long range mechs perched on over watch positions Salvage is pretty dumbed down. You scan to find extra salvage but its akin to seeing change on the ground. Yeah, Ill probably pick it up and its kinda cool knowing I have more now but it really doesn't impact the experience much. Nothing like salvaging the MadCat in MC has EVER taken place in one of these MW5 games or their expansions. The Base game does not have a ton of playable mechs. At different levels I noticed that their either was nothing to unlock or that the mechs "unlocked" were trapped behind a pay wall Some features, like Weapons and Equipment at the market place are nearly completely pointless and could have just been part of the load out configuration UI... Feels unfinished but nothing like MW5 mercs where parts of the tutorial were not even in the game. I really did not like how the pilot leveling system works in this game at all. I much prefer the old school approach of if I want a pilot to train ballistics I give them ballistic weapons and so on. Pilots can't die or take damage so a huge element of MW is just missing in this title. There is ZERO reason to care about mechs taking damage. Pilots can't die, weapons can't be lost, Mechs can't be lost and it cost nothing to repair other than assigning technicians. A mech can be completely obliterated and missing the core, no problem. The heat system is almost non existent. I'm pretty sure every landscape is the same temperature. You can either run without override and when you get to hot your weapons are disabled, or you can run with override and randomly take damage to internals. No slow movement speed, no shutdown. Very arcade feeling. Now that I think of it I don't think ammo explosions are a thing. The performance is not great. Sometimes seeing 120+ and other times seeing mid 40s Every upgrade you get is just power creep and there is ALOT of power creep Speaking of power creep there is no reason to run lower class mechs. Pick the heaviest thing you can afford, get a bunch of those and upgrade again when drop limits allow. Your friendly AI can't hit anything most of the time. The enemy AI just runs right at you even when in long range mechs. Jump jets are nearly pointless. In a light mech running into a building can hurt you but 100 ton mechs can just jump off huge cliffs and be perfectly fine no jump jets needed. Overall I would like to see: A less complex story with less focus on it More memorable missions with more tactical choices A less arcade feel In conclusion its certainly not great, I don't even know if its good. It's decent. Mech combat will always be fun and in a way the Developers have a recommendation to other MW fans just because Piranha owns the IP. It's one of those games where the tragedy of it all is that it could be so so so much better if they would just borrow more from games that paved the way before it.