MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries - 10 Minutes of NEW GAMEPLAY 

Amen to that.

It´s PGI...if it is half of what it could be, i´ll be happy...

It's still PGI making it. Sorry.

Too late, it's, PGI, game was fucked from the start.

They already did with mw online

Shivaxi I laughed so hard at that.

Also it's funny to run into you here.

They redo the classics. (:

yeah , you noticed that too hahahah xD

Glad I wasn't the only one that got a kick out of that!! Bouncing APC, anyone?!?!?!

Top Kek sir!

gryphen_357 Lol!!!!

:D :D :D

That's Polygon. What did you expect? Someone good at videogames?

Typical MWO player

Yeah, they are still working out the kinks in that Kanga www.sarna.net/wiki/Kanga

Helicopter donks into building around 6:36

Its like MW3 on a relative new PC. :)

LordDaiggsta Everyone thought he was joking when he said he’d do it. No one could of guessed he was insane enough to actually pull it off. The legend that is Tim the tank flipper was born.

A legend to SUPRASS Kerensky and save muh home planet!

Glad I'm not the only one who thought that way. Need some klaxons blaring and some actual pandemonium, looks way too lifeless right now

18 years of technological development has lead to better graphics with worse gameplay. just sad.

Probably you can't hear them since you are inside a metal giant fucking robot fucker, and all those fucking giant explosions are too loud

Nah, there's no people. We had screaming people being crushed to death and running away in Mechwarrior 3, with elementals getting destroyed with blood bursting out like vapor from laser shots and dismemberment back in '99.

They confirmed already that infantry are going to be in the game - it's still pre alpha footage so presumably they're unfinished assets and thus weren't shown yet

Dude, that is probably a stock atlas with a cruising speed of 30ish~ km/h. It's lucky that he even got into the fight within 10 minutes.

Ahhhhh thats where I'm going wrong. I always take my assault up to the line and the rest of the team runs away leaving me to die. I'll hide better next time.

@@GrimToothman or you get bitched at to push, push and then die just as fast as any other lighter mech because your focused by the enemy team instantly... but hey the people yelling push get to play the entire match thanks to your sacrifice. Its what assualts are for right? (im a primary assault pilot in MWO)... right?

lmao Fuck that, I am either going head in or flank behind with my Fafnir an destroy the team lol

Yeah, that always annoyed me. I tried to tell PGI in their forums to change that in the MWO beta, but they didn't listen! Use what already exists! MW4's "Bitchy Betty" was way better!

Yeah, get that Betty up for another game!

not the only one

another one here XD

Take my f**king money you bastards!!!! Take it!!!

This IS Polygon. So that why that medium mech have lot of armor.

Actually, Shadow Hawks are ridiculously tanky for their tonnage :)

forget the armor, did you see the ammo? they must've fit it with a Hammerspace loadout system.

Double armor™

YOUVE GOT A HOLE IN YOUR RIGHT WING

Vaeyn yeah Id rather it just beep at me if my jump-jets arn’t ready to fire.... being its more likely they are running hot... Being thats “fueled” by my Fusion Engine! They ain’t using rocket fuel, or else wise fuel powered... Don’t lie to me, Diagnostic Lady!!

She IS called 'Bitching Betty' for a reason lol

is it a straight exhaust from the engine? does it have to be cooled at all? does the engine have to refill or replace to exhausted material? i can see a "usable fuel" thing being ok.

It is exhaused being expelled from the fuison engine for the purpose of thrust. Both jumpjets and all the weapon systems generate heat. The thing about the Shadowhawk, the mech that is being played here, is that it is a very heat efficent mech. It doesn't generate enough heat to actually over heat much at all. Are you new to battletech/mechwarrior in general jamhead?

Hey there B33F!

no guts no galaxy

Explosions are trully shitty. Yeah, yeah, cuz it^s prealpha.

Kinda spooky, eh!

MWO landscapes should be more like this. Destructible buildings! Yes please.

No me too, that was infuriating to watch everytime he let them take shots at his back

forget it... if they optimize the engine as good as they did with MWO this game will get to 40 fps with a tripple-SLI 1080 on low settings... and look like MW3 :)

He's just mowing the lawn, cut him some slack...Oh wait there's no lawn.

It's just realism. You'll understand when you talk to a real life helicopter pilot.

real life helicopters bounce off buildings in combat situations all the time.

Thats why you dont see grass.

The chopper crashed and was plummeting to its death, not flying upside down?

"You drive like a freebirth cadet!"

LEG EM! its the best way to take out a mech and keep it intact.....too bad mw4 removed it :( I loved seeing an atlas come at me only to have his leg blown off and topple to the ground like a bitch. Never take the Bushwacker lightly.

Good Morning! Hows it feel to be strapped into a walking nuke reactor at 6 'ahey-em?

s a l v a g e

Fuel at 0%.

Warlock

uidsea fancy seeing you here.

"Auto pilot engaged" "Auto pilot disabled" I remember Mechwarrior 2 demo so vividly .

Shutdown sequence overridden.

Not going to happen until PGI has the rights.

Alternative exist in living legends mod question is how strong will be my eyes if am will gonna wait a lot more . When you have 37 years old & you got chronic problem with eyes you must thing about every cards of luck what you have . Am not sure did any blind Mech warrior exist in universe .

Aidan Pryde fought blind for some short time. Right before he perished... Made several kills though. I'm not very happy with MWLL, but it's still ton better than this "MW5".

At least it isn't Russ playing... remember the reveal where he was running away from a Raven was it?

Found Russ' alt account.

Would’ve been nice if their “pilot” was able to lead his shots.

I can see a lesson with the Sensei Onion from Parappa the Rapper teaching the Shadow Hawk all about it.. "Kick! Punch! It's all in the mind!"

ARescueToaster jeez how old is that game I remember playing the demo for the original playstation as a child.

Im developing space/mech simulation game with 100% dynamically destructible crafts/environments, its a geomod engine that i developed. But it wont be out for a while. Sub to me.

I remember firing all my weapons at once, and someone ELSE exploded. Maybe I just did it wrong...

Matt Redman No, you did it right. I think my mech was unbalanced, too many heavy weapons, that's why it exploded for overheating.

Don't get me wrong the game looks great its the pilot that leaves something to be desired.

Yes i was thinking too "damn i want to beat him out of that cockpit and pilot it myself" i think he need to show us more than just fiering at destruktible buildings and helicopters, at least an single meach would be nice to see falling and not 5 of them getting light/medium damaged.

Yes! Seriously! That idiot with ADD!!! You got a fucking LRM 5 with ammo for days! Rain out the turrets at the freakin' least! GOD!!! What a dumbass!

Agreed

PPC4 noticed that to, really strange?

Trying to picture the scale of the inhabitants of the building in the helicopter. This must be a mockup game play

Yeah, I found that, too... On the other hand, the objects ingame have to have some ... size... at least, to be recognizable. Imagine a star of elementals attacking your mech. Or some guy with an RPG. Them elementals would be as big as people, so you can hardly hit them and they just tare your mech apart when appearing in large numbers. Yes, this would be lore-fitting. But just and simple would be no fun to actually play. So you gotta re-think the size of things in general when building a game that is about to feature 14 meter death robots... Also, the engine/requirements for players...

Captain Blackbeard I hope that's the case... Because it as painful to watch.

What a fantastic description lol

Awesome way to describe it. MWO has some really lazy audio work.

Yea... In lore it says artificial lighting.... Have the developers ever stood outside and listened to lighting and the thunder clap that followed???? Couldnt agree more, electric farts.

I want my PPC sound effects to be Tyler Carpenter screaming "ZORCH!"

Daeion108 I distinctly remember reading "Azure bolt of lightning streaking across the sky".

The online game look good technically, but I prefer single player experience through a good story it makes you feel that you're truly an awesome mercenary leader, not simply a pilot fighting for scraps

Yeah, me too. Cockpit games are prime candidates for that. I don't have VR yet, but support for it will surely give better headtracking support as well.

I heard it will be getting VR If so, that is gonna be so awesome! :D

I'll give ya that one. He seemed a bit...inexperienced.

>"recorded by the team at Piranha Games"

I've seen tier 5 LRM boats play better than this.

Looked like an inexperienced pilot playing on the lowest difficulty setting, not sure how many hits his Mech took but it looked pretty fresh after taking a pounding.

He is playing it like other first person shooter... run and gun

Yup. HOTAS, VR helmet, and Mechwarrior 5 = set for life?

I want Force Feedback support though :/

Same. Been waiting for that day for two decades.

if im not mistaken we could see more footage hopefully at mechcon in early december!

it's called an alpha, you meat thermometer. People like you are why companies often don't release alpha footage. Are you seriously bitching about 1000 ammo when AC5 has what, like 20 to a ton? It's OBVIOUSLY a test / playground level where they test shit out. The flying tanks should have given it away

it is polygon after all i dunno what u expected.

MeriwetherMalodor least you forget gems like ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9yYp8ZeQ-I8.html there is no way u gonna get a good impression with trash players at the helm. and u sound uneducated and ignorant. If you wanna be a shill at least get paid for it.

It's fine. Go grab your tool and cut it off ya fucking baby. And this is nothing like Hawken. They wanted to show what was up not have the guy die in five seconds like you do.

Looks good so far.

Agreed. I sure hope they allow you to tweak the brightness/colors of it, because the paper doll of the mech is far too muted for my taste. Really hard to see when its getting hit.

I like some things about the hud, like the mech specific diagram, but it definitely can be better. I'm not a huge fan of MWO HUD. the mech specific diagram me hopeful for weapon pods and stuff like that as a separated part. I hate how the weapon pods from the madcat are part of the side torso. either way, the fact that its singleplayer means mod is a possibility

You can tell it's not finished. You have no turret angle display even.

awrawrwar a catapult, two locusts, a jagermech, and an atlas.

With his brother, Mechwaluigi!

there is still a year of development, as it is right now MWO looks and feels better. the effects don't look right, there is no visual damage on the mechs, the scenery is really bland... there is still a lot of work to do

I hope they add more ground clutter. Cars, pedastians running away, neon signs, whatever. Granted, it was a base on a barren planet, but the streets and buildings all look so clean and similar in appeareance. Lke noone has ever used them.

They have buildings like that and no APCs and infantry running around - waste of current tech

*cough*work-in-progress*cough*

I totally agree. That’s because it’s true, this a carbon copy of mechwarrior online, it’s a 6 year old game being regurgitated back as a single player. This is a game they’ve been “developing” for a long time. They stopped developing and just started pumping out new mechs to appease people and make any penny they could, the game was going somewhere great early on and they dropped the ball. This is literally the same thing, looks and feels identical still looks half finished don’t expect much at all.

1) Agreed, they should add a limiter that prevents repeating lines unless they're a few seconds apart. 2) The voice is coming out of your neuro-helmet 3) Agreed, the velocity of the AC/5 looks too slow, and the glowing SRMs don't look good. 4) Surprised they didn't keep the same damage colors from MWO's HUD, they were easily distinguishable unless you were color-blind. 5) There's the target's damage model in the top-right of the HUD, although it doesn't show the weapons like in MWO. I'm impressed that they made models unique for every target, even the helicopters. 6) They should offer an option for disconnected lower and upper torso movement, unless they add a toggle switch, which would be perfect.

some of those problems are most likely related to the change of engine. there is a lot that they will probably need to work from scratch

Oh I completely missed that it showed the enemies info, thanks for pointing that out. I was also happy that they didn't just go with the same standard damage readout for each mech/vehicle, I expedt it'll help with discerning where centre torso ends and side torsos begin in some cases

the Laser effect is actualy quite realistic, you seem to have seen to many Starwars and Star strek lasers.

Or maybe I played too many MechWarrior and Battletech games. Speaking of realism, laser ray shouldn't be visible at all, unless through haze or something. Making it half-visible like here doesn't help. Anyway, even the best laser effects in the world wouldn't help the game shown in this demo.

well laser that are so strong to do real destruction do interfere with even a clear air and should be visible, that may not look that impressive as arm thick lightbeams but are not that bad.

You have a point here, I agree. But does it make MW5 a better game?

Dude i dont know, videos are deceiving little devils. This looks like every other Mechwarriorgame mission if you try a Lets play video to help remember. It may could be a simple taped together demo map for showing what they have yet, it can be what we get at release not sure what, but i wont make any review of mw5 after viewing this vid

Hahahaha! Well said mate

and it looks gorgeous! you know from something like this what you're actually gonna get. i would play this game as is and be happy. get a trailer from EA or ubisoft and you could get ANYTHING. no, this is real and i love it so much for not making promises.

Looks fine to me. Just, damn, the person piloting the mech was terrible.

this is not pre-alpha. This is closer to beta, evidence to that is that they have textures done and many other assets. your comment will be so embarrassing to read in one year.

I think the reason people are upset is because most of them having been playing MWO for years, at this point, and dumping hundreds of dollars into it, (honestly, they're better at convincingly maintaining the feeding trough of pure addiction, better than any IRL drug dealers that I've ever met,) and what they're seeing here looks like asset-sparse MWO with boring gameplay. Like I'm sitting here watching this and I can't even process the video because I'm thinking, "wait does this mean I can play MWO at my leisure without having to rely the whims of the internet maelstrom to provide me with quality gameplay, and without having to drop $80 just so I can use the Marauder IIC? That's amazing!" *and* "wait does this mean every mech pack I spent that much money on, mostly so I could salivate over having each and every one of my delicious, customizable, shiny mecha wet dreams, all to my self, was totally wasted?! That's not fair!" Like I'm both excited at the prospect of being able to play MechWarrior again without having to set aside a controlled spending account in order to do it responsibly, and furious at the prospect that everything I've so jealousy horded and desperately, delicately and unreasonably attended to might be freely available. But then I think about it for a couple of minutes and I go, "wait, the only reason I even allowed myself to get so irresponsibly addicted to the most egregiously shameless pay-to-win (which is only partially true, really, it's pay-for-privilege-of-losing-but-looking-exactly-a-certain-kind-of-pretty-while-it's-happening,) gaming experience I've had since fucking Magic: the Gathering, is because the gameplay in MWO is actually really, really good. Like, I typically hate online death match style shooters because I find them so boring, but the balancing and execution, for all of the flaws of MWO, still provide a better experience than any single player MechWarrior game I can think of, let alone hope for happening again in the future. The only major flaw I can even see in MWO is how quickly it burns through my bank account. So I look at something like this and I go, "yeah this is about a dozen steps in the wrong direction. If they were advertising a single-player campaign that launched along side MWO, ran on the same engine, let me use all of the specialty mechs I'd already paid for, but also unlocked a full mechlab of the vanilla units, just to be used in single player? Like *that* would be a game I could get excited about, I don't even see what they're going for here... They've already invented medical grade, industrial strength heroin that I can mainline, why bother trying to entice me with baby-formula codeine that I have to drink in a foul tasting syrup?" And then I happily return to playing Dark Souls 3, which has all of the fiending goodness an addict could ever want for, to the point where my biggest worry is about what kinds of builds I might never have time to try, and I only have to pay for it once on Steam. Even though I bought a PS4, Bloodborne, a second copy of the season pass of DS3 on the PlayStation, a PS3, a second copy of Dark Souls *1*! AND a copy of Demon's Souls, all purely for the sake expanding my appreciation of the one fucking game, and I've still spent only a fraction of the amount of money there than what I spent on MechWarrior Online. Which means at this point I've developed a pretty substantial immunity to BattleTech, but it is fun to watch them try to hook me again, and I can appreciate that the whining of other players about how bad it looks, because I know secretly, in their heart of hearts, many of them are going, "oh thank God I don't even have think about this garbage, this doesn't even look appetizing." Now the only thing I have to worry about is if FromSoft releases another Armored Core game. _O7

Would no game be better justice for the IP? Because that's what will happen; this, or nothing. Which do you choose now? :)

Listen, if you're going to get into a pool, you have a couple options of what you can do in said pool: you can shit in it, or swim. If you're going to shit in the pool, I'd rather you not get in the pool at all.

mw2 merc was the best in the series imo, i have been wanting them to build offf that comcept for a long time now.

They're using Unreal 4 if I'm not mistaken

the whole point of that mission was to shoot a building and assassinate a target ;o you weren't meant to stay silly

You have the option of choosing a Jagermech, Shadowhawk and Atlas at the very start of the demo. This guy went with the Shadowhawk for some reason...

Are you going to take back your galaxy?

You dare to refusal my batchall?

Information is ammunition!

Han Lockhart, you must have missed the 2+ memes in the original comment

You made an even bigger mistake. You refused my batchall.

I feel like the missiles and the cannon look too similar.... I also agree on the thin laser comments.... Won't make or break the game for me, but anything to drive VR immersion is okay with me!!! i'll just feel like I'm stargazing in my backyard (or getting in trouble with the FAA :) )

Pssst, those were locusts. Also as to why they were staying? Probably showing off the AI director making the mission more difficult by staying longer. Showing off how by instead of finishing faster more enemy reinforcements come in because you decided to take too long to finish the job and get out of there.

You're right, I forgot Alex had to fuck the Locust design up for MWO because of The Company That Shall Not Be Named. Still, just in 'Mechs this lone Shadow Hawk is out-tonned by 215 tons; then, you add everything else and it's amazing what sort of situation this pilot leaves himself in. The point was not what 'Mechs were what, the point was that he was WAY out-tonned and should have done the boot-scoot boogie.

seems like mwo to me. xD those bland buildings etc..

Just be happy? The fact that its made by PGI is keeping me skeptical. I rather not get hyped over nothing and waste my time and money.

I don't care for hud I'm afraid this is just going to be shit mech game that will be just be money grab. Hell they won't even deliver multiplayer with it because they have shit MWO to grab money for idiots there as well. Only hope is that mods for this are going to be done better then what PGI can do and we might get some nice linear campaign with nice story. Again they promise what they can't deliver. They lied so much it is sad. I remember how they promised MWO will be this true free to play game then proceed to add first mech pack that had minimum entry level of 70$. Move time another couple of mech packs and they add GOLD timber wolf for release of clans and its price was whooping 500$. So tell me how can I be happy when people like this are making it ?

I mean yeah.. I can name ten games in development right now that crush this garbage. And some are further out than this.

It's mostly due to the company thats making it, PGI is very very fond of "minimally viable products"

I'd love to hear the 10 games in development, by the way.

pre alpha, full year... betas last a whole year, alphas last years. if this is pre alpha with a year to go this game is screwed.

@Ivo Ivic You really have selective memory don't you? The only games that have year-long betas are those helmed by tiny teams like PUBG, DAYZ, or massive MMO persistent games like Star Citizen. The vast majority of games only have betas that last a couple months at most.

Looks like the player just has terrible situational awareness, and was playing on godmode or something to compensate for this.

yeah haha. the player seemed to be on drugs. but I explain that as its meant to be a demo to be promotional content you know? so I think the player was just letting enemies build up and focused more on "exploring" the map and showing us building destruction, and the various enemy types. the end result of building up so many enemies is that we get to see weapons fire and various enemies everywhere and it looks like a massive battle you know? so I think its deliberate rather than simply the player giving a genuine effort and sucking. which is why my complaint isn't "god why can't you just shoot straight" but rather "why didn't you SHOW us how a mech looks when it dies?"

I think it´s not the player being bad, but deliberately trying not to have it look like doing pot-shots at careless AI´s. Else they could´ve just showcased MWO training grounds and you´d get the same result. Hoping for significant AI improvement and a changed perspective away from minimal viable product seems pretty daft at this point. Actually wish i had´nt watched this... :E

same for me on it being disappointing, magicAAA

I know its hard to see at the bottom but it does say "early playable work in progress"

Why are you looking at MW5 if you're stuck in the nostalgia of MechWarrior 3? Won't it feel betrayed if you look at new MW games?

MW3? Pfff, young blood. MW2: Mercs is where it's at. AND I AM STOKED FOR MW5 (so long as they don't fuck it up hard).

Look at the bright side, kid. You get to keep all the money.

Nes Ra Head ass bruh,this is pre alpha

So, is it true you could blow up a mech with only two volleys of missiles in MW2?