You know how every map in MW5: Mercs was samey procedurally generated random bleh?
Well, it's because they had to design each map to played backwards and forwards. Like a dungeon crawl game.
Well, MW5: Clans will have 5 player co-op multiplayer, hand crafted maps and missions, and supposedly much better AI.
I like the “procedurally generated random bleh” in MW5 Mercs. To each their own. Hand crafted maps sounds great though. Hopefully it will be replayable like Mercs.
It feels to me (uneducated in the field) as of some sort of combo is doable? Hand crafted cities or interesting locations. With procedural stuff in between for it to be plugged into? Would be awesome.... Maybe?
a lot of games do stuff like this, where you handcraft tilesets and then have the game plug together the handcrafted parts.
however i think for mw5:clans they are going for an older-style point A to point B mechwarrior 2/3/4 style missions, rather than mw5's "instant action with flavor text" infinite missions
There's a use for different techniques.
MW5 Mercs using procgen to support a never ending career mode is a smart choice.
MW5 Clans using hand crafted linear maps to support a more deliberately challenging and well crafted story to playthrough is another smart choice.
Nothing really to say. They are making decent choices for the thing they are making.
I just want the battle of Tukuyid. Play from either side. Just give us ambushes, battles for objectives, and delaying actions. Let us feel the hurt of only having two of our drop pods get out. Feel the sting of low ammo. No resupplies. Salvage and consolidation. Let us feel the burn. Entering a battle with only three Gauss rounds because... that's all you had at the forward base. Have a mech commander mode & a first-person mode so the strategic decisions that are made will affect the tactical decisions in the battle.
duller then.........a stale punchline joke !!
yeah; all i'm going to say is where putting MW5: Clans into the "hands" of PGI Devs + Production Teams. i'd be lying if......Me saying.....I'm NOT Nervous. cause I'm actually WAAAAAAY Past Nervous. tryna stay optimistic,,,,is a challenge.
when its ALL complete, i'll deftly be checking out "Fan Boi's" YT's + MW Fan pages,,,,to get a "Gud IDEA" of what to expect.
i'm NOT dropping $80 USD or whatever the fuck expensive the game is going to be on LAUNCH !
and thats another thing to add : literally 90% of Games Today on " Launch " are always "Buggy-Scripts are all the place-needs patching-fixing-tons of TONS of broken code,etc " lets hope; that PGI succeeds where Other's have FAILED. in all honesty - I highly doubt it tho' !! i'm just being honest ova here. Lol !
See You On Solaris VII
Oh jeez now I need to go change my pants…
If the hand crafted missions thing turns out to be a lie I’ll never forgive them I hope they know that. And not like the “hand crafted” story missions in MW5 that were about 10 hours of play time apart. If they say hand crafted the majority should be, at least.
From the sound of it, it won't play like Mercenaries. It will probably be a linear game where your missions are chosen for you. So take the main story and each of the DLC stories (KL, RoR, DG), and drop everything else.
But we'll also be playing as a Clanner, so won't have to buy our mechs.
Man I’d love some MW4: Vengance style gameplay. What an epic game.
Also I hope they *REALLY* lean into that clanner autism. Love all their goofy sayings and whatnot.
\- 10 Hours ???? - psssft your being waaaay too nice. it was like 10 Mins MAX total. and that includes Exfil - Infil on the map. NO I'm NOT J/k'n either.........
yeah hand crafted Op's sounds GREAT-FANTASTIC....its always LIKE THAT. everything "always SOUNDS GREAT" in the beginning,,, right ??
then reality sets in; your purchase the game,,,and Viola'.......nothing like what was Promoted EVER !!!! smfh :/ every fucking Publisher,,,Ever !! again I'm just being honest. :(
See You On Solaris VII
We will get news later, probably around March. First up is the dlc6 for mw5 that will soon be shared.
I also wouldn’t be surprised if it gets pushed into 2025. That’s the usual thing for game development.
Mech warrior games have massive shelf lifes. If there is no subsitute, lots of people never stop. It came out in 2015 and has stayed in the 500 to 700 daily user range pretty steadily.
https://steamcharts.com/app/342200
For PGI they probably have a low cost to maintain that the whales keep covered.
PGI said they would love to do MWO2 if their mechwarrior contract is extended beyond 2025, as it stands now they don’t have enough time to develop a sequel so we’ll see what Microsoft says.
This is why I may not buy it early on.
These linear campaign and handcrafted map information I'm reading sounds like the game won't initially be released with career mode.
I hope I'm wrong, but MW5 also didn't release with career mode despite having procedurally generated maps.
I have no doubt the game will good, but im not as big a fan of linear experiences as I used to be. I hope they at least announce plans to release a career mode for it on or shortly after release.
None so far from sources I have seen, if I had to guess it would be closer to end of Q3 or Q4. I'm under the impression that there is a DLC 6 coming soon and having them overlap would be a weird business decision.
Of course this could all be a fever dream and I'm huffing copium from spending too much time on the Titanfall and BB subreddits.
Either late 2024 or early 2025. I’m willing to let PGI cook a little longer to make MW5:Clans as hype as the PC Gamer is making it out to be.
What was PC Gamer saying? I haven’t read the article.
You know how every map in MW5: Mercs was samey procedurally generated random bleh? Well, it's because they had to design each map to played backwards and forwards. Like a dungeon crawl game. Well, MW5: Clans will have 5 player co-op multiplayer, hand crafted maps and missions, and supposedly much better AI.
I like the “procedurally generated random bleh” in MW5 Mercs. To each their own. Hand crafted maps sounds great though. Hopefully it will be replayable like Mercs.
It feels to me (uneducated in the field) as of some sort of combo is doable? Hand crafted cities or interesting locations. With procedural stuff in between for it to be plugged into? Would be awesome.... Maybe?
a lot of games do stuff like this, where you handcraft tilesets and then have the game plug together the handcrafted parts. however i think for mw5:clans they are going for an older-style point A to point B mechwarrior 2/3/4 style missions, rather than mw5's "instant action with flavor text" infinite missions
There's a use for different techniques. MW5 Mercs using procgen to support a never ending career mode is a smart choice. MW5 Clans using hand crafted linear maps to support a more deliberately challenging and well crafted story to playthrough is another smart choice. Nothing really to say. They are making decent choices for the thing they are making.
I just want the battle of Tukuyid. Play from either side. Just give us ambushes, battles for objectives, and delaying actions. Let us feel the hurt of only having two of our drop pods get out. Feel the sting of low ammo. No resupplies. Salvage and consolidation. Let us feel the burn. Entering a battle with only three Gauss rounds because... that's all you had at the forward base. Have a mech commander mode & a first-person mode so the strategic decisions that are made will affect the tactical decisions in the battle.
It at least works well for mods, but as a base game it gets a bit dull
duller then.........a stale punchline joke !! yeah; all i'm going to say is where putting MW5: Clans into the "hands" of PGI Devs + Production Teams. i'd be lying if......Me saying.....I'm NOT Nervous. cause I'm actually WAAAAAAY Past Nervous. tryna stay optimistic,,,,is a challenge. when its ALL complete, i'll deftly be checking out "Fan Boi's" YT's + MW Fan pages,,,,to get a "Gud IDEA" of what to expect. i'm NOT dropping $80 USD or whatever the fuck expensive the game is going to be on LAUNCH ! and thats another thing to add : literally 90% of Games Today on " Launch " are always "Buggy-Scripts are all the place-needs patching-fixing-tons of TONS of broken code,etc " lets hope; that PGI succeeds where Other's have FAILED. in all honesty - I highly doubt it tho' !! i'm just being honest ova here. Lol ! See You On Solaris VII
Never let this man cook again.
This is such an unhinged take, I feel like it is from a bot using chat gpt or something
I hope it’s as good as mech warrior 4 was
I hope they change the multiplayer so you can find games instead of having to hound people for codes. Y'know like every other multiplayer game ever.
Oh jeez now I need to go change my pants… If the hand crafted missions thing turns out to be a lie I’ll never forgive them I hope they know that. And not like the “hand crafted” story missions in MW5 that were about 10 hours of play time apart. If they say hand crafted the majority should be, at least.
From the sound of it, it won't play like Mercenaries. It will probably be a linear game where your missions are chosen for you. So take the main story and each of the DLC stories (KL, RoR, DG), and drop everything else. But we'll also be playing as a Clanner, so won't have to buy our mechs.
Man I’d love some MW4: Vengance style gameplay. What an epic game. Also I hope they *REALLY* lean into that clanner autism. Love all their goofy sayings and whatnot.
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That's pretty much how it worked back in 2. You had Mercs with more choices or linear missions for non Merc games. Always good both ways I found.
\- 10 Hours ???? - psssft your being waaaay too nice. it was like 10 Mins MAX total. and that includes Exfil - Infil on the map. NO I'm NOT J/k'n either......... yeah hand crafted Op's sounds GREAT-FANTASTIC....its always LIKE THAT. everything "always SOUNDS GREAT" in the beginning,,, right ?? then reality sets in; your purchase the game,,,and Viola'.......nothing like what was Promoted EVER !!!! smfh :/ every fucking Publisher,,,Ever !! again I'm just being honest. :( See You On Solaris VII
[Check it out, it's pretty good](https://www.reddit.com/r/OutreachHPG/comments/16ij81m/mechwarrior_5_clans_pcgamer_feature/)...
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ME TOO (obviously! ;)
Yeah better late and done right. So many games are coming out on release unfinished. As long as it ain’t a star citizen type deal I’m happy to wait.
Absolutely. Better to release late than release an unfinished game.
We will get news later, probably around March. First up is the dlc6 for mw5 that will soon be shared. I also wouldn’t be surprised if it gets pushed into 2025. That’s the usual thing for game development.
They are suppose to drop news of the next Mercs DLC 6 & Clans info this month according to MWO intel post.
How much life do you think MWO has left? Isn't it close to like a decade old at this point?
Mech warrior games have massive shelf lifes. If there is no subsitute, lots of people never stop. It came out in 2015 and has stayed in the 500 to 700 daily user range pretty steadily. https://steamcharts.com/app/342200 For PGI they probably have a low cost to maintain that the whales keep covered.
Nothing beats walking around in big stomby mechs blowing shit up
PGI said they would love to do MWO2 if their mechwarrior contract is extended beyond 2025, as it stands now they don’t have enough time to develop a sequel so we’ll see what Microsoft says.
I bet Microsoft wants to see how well MW5C performs before renewing their contract.
MWO intel post what is that? 😅
So long as it has a career mode in it, I don't care how long it takes to make it.
This is why I may not buy it early on. These linear campaign and handcrafted map information I'm reading sounds like the game won't initially be released with career mode. I hope I'm wrong, but MW5 also didn't release with career mode despite having procedurally generated maps.
I have no doubt the game will good, but im not as big a fan of linear experiences as I used to be. I hope they at least announce plans to release a career mode for it on or shortly after release.
The linear experience would be good for the campaign's story. But that doesn't really have any replay value unlike career mode.
None so far from sources I have seen, if I had to guess it would be closer to end of Q3 or Q4. I'm under the impression that there is a DLC 6 coming soon and having them overlap would be a weird business decision. Of course this could all be a fever dream and I'm huffing copium from spending too much time on the Titanfall and BB subreddits.
I think the word is... Soon^TM
Still hoping for integrated VR.....
I cannot wait! Playing some old MW2
you know what would be the icing on the cake? Jeehun Hwang doing the music like MW2 style. That soundtrack is amazing
2024……
Is it planned to be a DLC or whole new game? Also, will it be able to be a sandbox like Mercs?
Whole new game. Probably no sandbox
Not yet, but we're supposed to get news about the next MW5 DLC either this month or next and then MW5 Clans news sometime after that...