Announced at MechCon 2016, Piranha Games is taking MechWarrior back to its singleplayer roots with MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries. Slated for a 2018 release, Piranha Games president Russ Bullock took the stage to reveal the first footage of MechWarrior 5, which is being developed using Unreal Engine 4. You can watch that demo in the video above and head over to MW5mercs.com for more info.
Though details are scarce, what we do know is that MechWarrior 5 is a completely standalone singleplayer game being developed by Piranha Games using a separate team than the one currently supporting MechWarrior Online, its multiplayer-only CryEngine game that went into open beta in 2012. MechWarrior 5 will feature "intense PvE ‘Mech combat in an immersive, career-based Mercenary campaign driven by player choice."
If you're not too familiar with the series, MechWarrior is the tactical FPS offshoot of BattleTech, where players pilot a single BattleMech and issue orders to squads (called 'lances') of AI-controlled allies. Set during the Third Succession War of 3015, MechWarrior 5 puts you in the cockpit of a "green MechWarrior mercenary" caught in the conflict by factions vying to control the Inner Sphere—the region of space surrounding Earth. True to MechWarrior, pilots won't just need to prove themselves on the battlefield but will also oversee the maintenance and enhancement of their BattleMechs. Along with the emphasis on player choice, MechWarrior 5 seems to adhere closely to the traditions established by the earlier MechWarrior games.
Aside from the demo, you can feast your eyes on the screenshots below to see what a MechWarrior game in Unreal 4 looks like. Spoiler alert: Pretty damn good. With the turn-based BattleTech strategy game coming in 2017, there's an exciting future ahead for fans of mech-on-mech combat.
Stay tuned, as I'll be bringing more coverage of MechWarrior 5 (and BattleTech) straight from MechCon.
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ABOUT FUCKING TIME
I have spent too much time in the MWO thread to build up any hype for this.
i think i got bored of assassin's creed syndicate about an hour in
the free running is so obvious and laid out for you more than in previous games- hugely apparent spars, beams, nets etc. there is no thought at all to the parkour and the enemies are placed in very obvious spots to bypass if you want
man this level design is shit
it's like if an obsessive person had access to the level editor and decided to make the neatest, most direct world possible
Announced at MechCon 2016, Piranha Games is taking MechWarrior back to its singleplayer roots with MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries. Slated for a 2018 release, Piranha Games president Russ Bullock took the stage to reveal the first footage of MechWarrior 5, which is being developed using Unreal Engine 4. You can watch that demo in the video above and head over to MW5mercs.com for more info.
Though details are scarce, what we do know is that MechWarrior 5 is a completely standalone singleplayer game being developed by Piranha Games using a separate team than the one currently supporting MechWarrior Online, its multiplayer-only CryEngine game that went into open beta in 2012. MechWarrior 5 will feature "intense PvE ‘Mech combat in an immersive, career-based Mercenary campaign driven by player choice."
If you're not too familiar with the series, MechWarrior is the tactical FPS offshoot of BattleTech, where players pilot a single BattleMech and issue orders to squads (called 'lances') of AI-controlled allies. Set during the Third Succession War of 3015, MechWarrior 5 puts you in the cockpit of a "green MechWarrior mercenary" caught in the conflict by factions vying to control the Inner Sphere—the region of space surrounding Earth. True to MechWarrior, pilots won't just need to prove themselves on the battlefield but will also oversee the maintenance and enhancement of their BattleMechs. Along with the emphasis on player choice, MechWarrior 5 seems to adhere closely to the traditions established by the earlier MechWarrior games.
Aside from the demo, you can feast your eyes on the screenshots below to see what a MechWarrior game in Unreal 4 looks like. Spoiler alert: Pretty damn good. With the turn-based BattleTech strategy game coming in 2017, there's an exciting future ahead for fans of mech-on-mech combat.
Stay tuned, as I'll be bringing more coverage of MechWarrior 5 (and BattleTech) straight from MechCon.
Because that's a silly tagline because it will obviously never happen. If real time ever gets to the point where it equals pre-rendered then CGI will just become using real time instead. And that's not gonna happen either.
Man when chu asked me what to make the OP about and I yelled "pizza" like a 5 year old I didn't predict this but I guess I should have
Hahaha yeah I don't know that you should have predicted this specifically, but absolutely an OP about pizza was going to lead to some kind of argument.
If it wasn't this, it would be toppings.
The only toppings that are unacceptable:
Steak - it gets ruined in a pizza oven! places everywhere please stop trying, its bad every time!
Mayonaise - [quote="synda...
Anything you'd only find on a pizza in korea - Korea your pizza privileges are revoked
@Donkey Kong even with this stub I still saw this goddamnit.
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In front of me is the first cup of coffee I've seen in two days, the headache has become massive by this point.
I know that within 30 minutes of drinking this cup I will feel normal.
My sister has turned into one of those facebook people that is always going on about how happy she is and how she is in love with the perfect man and how she is sooo super blessed you guys omg! And I just want to vomit all over the place every time I read something she posts god damn it I didnt raise you to be this way!!!
i think i got bored of assassin's creed syndicate about an hour in
the free running is so obvious and laid out for you more than in previous games- hugely apparent spars, beams, nets etc. there is no thought at all to the parkour and the enemies are placed in very obvious spots to bypass if you want
man this level design is shit
it's like if an obsessive person had access to the level editor and decided to make the neatest, most direct world possible
Stick with it, because the mechanics change another hour or so in in a very satisfying way that changes lines dramatically.
Also it might be the second or third best one of those games made (brotherhood, syndicate, black flag is my ordering though I can easily see people shuffle those around).
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I have spent too much time in the MWO thread to build up any hype for this.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
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the free running is so obvious and laid out for you more than in previous games- hugely apparent spars, beams, nets etc. there is no thought at all to the parkour and the enemies are placed in very obvious spots to bypass if you want
man this level design is shit
it's like if an obsessive person had access to the level editor and decided to make the neatest, most direct world possible
Nice. Graphics that finally surpass CGI.
but how does one apportion their time between MW5 vs Battletech?
UNEXPECTED CONUMDRUM
jesus christ
NO NO NO NO
play it in VR
Not in a million years
Absolutely fucking terrifying
Compañeros is hella Marxist
And possibly Il Mercenario? It's been a while so I can't remember that one very well.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
also fuck when did it become definitely morning and i should have been in bed
@desc @winky
It was a missed steak
*bolt of lightning streaks you down*
Well Done!
Has that been used as a tagline?
Because that's a silly tagline because it will obviously never happen. If real time ever gets to the point where it equals pre-rendered then CGI will just become using real time instead. And that's not gonna happen either.
Not until April of next year.
Look at the bright side kid.
You get to keep all the money.
The guy is 67.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Spiner
Choose Your Own Chat 1 Choose Your Own Chat 2 Choose Your Own Chat 3
i reflexively held my breath when i started reading this post because 2016
It is cool. He is not dead.
Everyone from TNG is pretty dang old. I think P Stew will be 80 soon. Somehow that show does not feel like a show from the 80s.
Tell me how Wynonna Earp is while your at it.
While I know the production of episode 467 is way different than episode 107 the improvement has been so gradual.
@Donkey Kong even with this stub I still saw this goddamnit.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
I know that within 30 minutes of drinking this cup I will feel normal.
Emergent storytelling in a compelling unique world. Good stuff.
also breakfast this morning
Stick with it, because the mechanics change another hour or so in in a very satisfying way that changes lines dramatically.
Also it might be the second or third best one of those games made (brotherhood, syndicate, black flag is my ordering though I can easily see people shuffle those around).
Let's play Mario Kart or something...