MechWarrior 5: Clans Announced

[ColBosch]

The Saber Cat is Essex Class Destroyer,  I guess PGI taking it's own liberties with the designs.  I have NO IDEA what the ship behind it is.   Not anything seen in BattleTech before.

Though it's cool, but wow it be wild if they allow people use aerospace anything in the game. 

Hrmf? Looks like a 3057-era Essex to me.

And so do the ones in the background, just a bit tweaked.

Like being able to haul DropShips.

[Mech_Minis]

Hrmf? Looks like a 3057-era Essex to me.

And so do the ones in the background, just a bit tweaked.

Like being able to haul DropShips.

One in the BG isn't an Essex. Essex's are destroyers, not carriers, so they don't have any DropShip collars. One in the BG is carrying dropships.

It is a canon class of Warship, but which one you guys will need to guess  Curious to see what people think since it will be a hard one to ID from the underside.

[Maingunnery]

One in the BG isn't an Essex. Essex's are destroyers, not carriers, so they don't have any DropShip collars. One in the BG is carrying dropships.

It is a canon class of Warship, but which one you guys will need to guess  Curious to see what people think since it will be a hard one to ID from the underside.

Well the nose seems to suggest a Sovetskii Soyuz.

[BATTLEMASTER]

I'm pretty sure those are Essex-class destroyers in the animation.  They definitely have the same shape as the Clan/Late SL version of the ship from TRO 3057.  And at least one of them is carrying dropships.  But considering their cargo capacity, it's entirely possible to modify them to accept dropship transport docking collars within the aerospace construction rules.  It's also a MechWarrior game, which is likely going to have some non-canon elements.

Maybe the Sabre Cat won't be modified to be able to carry droppers, but other Essex-class ships might be.

I await a CSJ Beta Galaxy Source Book that might have TRO entries for such ships

[VanVelding]

While I don't think canon is that important, it's so interesting to me that there are literally technical readouts for these things and video games continue to improvise.

I get MW 5's Leopard of Holding and whatever the Argo was doing in Battletech (2018), but when they're aren't even systems at stake? Weird.

[Sapphirus]

Video about Ezra's character featurette:
https://youtu.be/Pt2a5ifDcR8

[Cyc]

Hm, the Jags are so information censored they haven't heard a) the Great Father's voice b) The Voice?

Also the actor's comments makes me wonder they will feed into Jayden realism/disillusionment vibe I'm getting, Ezra provoking Jayden to action only then try roll him for his own advancement perhaps?

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

I suspect that Ezra is going to bite it partway through the game.

[Fire Scorpion IIC]

Hm, the Jags are so information censored they haven't heard a) the Great Father's voice b) The Voice?

Also the actor's comments makes me wonder they will feed into Jayden realism/disillusionment vibe I'm getting, Ezra provoking Jayden to action only then try roll him for his own advancement perhaps?

I think he is talking about the Voice of Kerensky:

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Voice_of_Kerensky#:~:text=The%20Voice%20of%20Kerensky%20was,his%20Star%20League%20in%20Exile.

They were traveling towards the Inner Sphere so at some point they would have had the opportunity to hear the Great Father "for real in real time"

[Cyc]

I think he is talking about the Voice of Kerensky:

Which is why I mentioned the Voice. The phrasing of "true voice" made me wonder if they had actually heard anything from him before or simply written texts.

And now I'm also wondering if they'll effectively "official-ise" (can't canonise as its a video game) George Ledoux's fan reading of the Voice...

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

They might be calling it the True Voice just because it's not a recording but the original broadcast.

[Sapphirus]

Mechwarrior 5 Clans delayed to October 16 (or 17th if you're outside PDT)
https://mw5clans.com/news/2024/09/116-clans-release-date-update

[Caedis Animus]

I'm a little surprised by that, honestly. I get the reasoning, it just feels kind of... Superfluous?

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

In what way?

[Caedis Animus]

In what way?

It's not that much of an extension, so it just feels like it wouldn't ultimately accomplish much.

I'm not about to pretend to know about the realties of final touch coding, but the average delay makes me think that a few weeks longer would make more sense.

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

Well, it's being published by an independent game company, not a big AAA developer that's going to push a game out in an unfinished state in order to meet a quarterly earnings report.  If they say they need two weeks, I figure that must mean they need two weeks.

[Wrangler]

I rather them come out right, than rushed

[PyreLight]

I'm so incredibly hyped for this game, you have no f'in idea 

The first Clans focused game since Ghost Bear's Legacy in December 1995? 29 years later and we finally get one, but in a modern engine and crazy cutscenes? People should really realize how amazing this project is

[Colt Ward]

Huh?

MechWarrior 3
MechCommander

Both after GBL and involved the same Clan as this one.  Heck, Jags are WAY over-repersenter in video games.

[Fire Scorpion IIC]

Huh?

MechWarrior 3
MechCommander

Both after GBL and involved the same Clan as this one.  Heck, Jags are WAY over-repersenter in video games.

In both those games you play as FedCom soldier not Jaguar

MW2 Ghost Bear Legacy was last Clan game before this one

[Colt Ward]

Lol, not even that- MW3 is the ELH as part of the Star League.

Even if it is not the POV it still revoles around the Clans.  When was the last video game about the League?

[Fire Scorpion IIC]

Since MW3 we had MW4, MW5 and HBS game which had no Clans whatsoever so we are long overdue for some Clan content

And if faction being in the game in any capacity somehow means that game revolves around it then it also means that every single game revolved around Successor States one way the other

HBS one would even revolve around Taurians because they were antagonists


Long story short if a faction is not a protagonist then the game does not revolve around it

[Sapphirus]

Yet another character featurette (Mechwarrior Mia):
https://youtu.be/9UVb7IRpvjM?feature=shared
(can we get more action footage, please, PGI?)

[Wrangler]

Yet another character featurette (Mechwarrior Mia):
https://youtu.be/9UVb7IRpvjM?feature=shared
(can we get more action footage, please, PGI?)

I don't think they have time, their working on the game since it's been delayed.

[BATTLEMASTER]

There's a Smoke Jaguar MechWarrior in Mia's featurette with EI tattoos    Now that's really cool!

EDIT:  Added slow-motion capture from YouTube, so it's a little fuzzy and out of focus.

[Sapphirus]

I don't think they have time, their working on the game since it's been delayed.

Makes sense

[JAMES_PRYDE]

I'm so incredibly hyped for this game, you have no f'in idea 

The first Clans focused game since Ghost Bear's Legacy in December 1995? 29 years later and we finally get one, but in a modern engine and crazy cutscenes? People should really realize how amazing this project is

Seconded. I hope we get to play (change colours and logos) of at least the other Invading Clans in Instant Action too

[elf25s]

i hope they bring control mechanics from mech 3...but i doubt it
mech 3 was almost a mech sim that you actually had more than one strategy to use to achieve objectives but when mech 4 came out it turned into a arcade rail shooter with no planing and mech 5 despite graphics is still a arcade almost on rails all the time arcade shooter

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

I don’t think those words mean what you think they mean.

[BATTLEMASTER]

I saw some of the early review videos with cutscenes of the Clan flotilla:



There are 8 different types of jumpships and warships I could identify in that picture.  Can you figure them all out?  They're all based on their appearance in TRO 3057.

A freebie:  All the dropships appear to be Union-C type.