MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries - MechCon 2018 Demo Gameplay [HD 1080P] 

Jesus Christ. They did more damage to the farm then the attackers did.

Going in to save a civilian farm...proceeding to burn half of it down with missed LRMs and lasers...seems legit :P.

I want everyone to focus on that Firestarter [immediately loses focus to chase a tank]

This pilot turned his back to a hostile mech at close range to keep chasing a hovercraft. Someone's lucky... :)

"I want this done smooth and by the numbers." *Uses LRMs from 100m away* *Turns back to enemy mechs* *accuracy of a potato*

Its the Team America approach to saving stuff 😉

Killing buildings should penalize your payment.

*POTATOES STOMPING POTATOES...* *LITERALLY!* *OH WOW!*

The hangar in the end of the video is neat. It shows the thunderbolt with open components showing the lack of armor left.

Watching Russ play this game explains the balance decisions that were meant to nerf good players from dominating bad players. (Not that they worked)

Getting a real kick out of how the LRMs occasionally fail to track their targets because they started moving sideways. Also, I like how torso twist was bound to the rotation axis on the joystick. Guess Piranha skimped out on pedals when making the super pods.

The buildings appear to have no 'weight' to them. Or to put it in Battletech terms, no Construction Factor. You don't appear to slow down at all when you impact them and have no fear of a trip and fall or taking any damage. Is it even possible for a lighter mech to use a building as a perch?

I really dont understand why everything must be state of the art graphics - lots of potato pilots in the community based on what I hear from the MWO players. This looks good, not bad, not amazing - I'd feel better if they made a great game in terms of content and scope rather than only focus on making it eyecandy.

For God's sake man, unlock the arms!

Know what I find interesting? I've been mentioning how the first and second succession wars had a complete disregard for civilians, including scenes of mech pilots that gone off the deep end to stomp on children pouring out of schools and farms because it was fun. And here we are, at a farm, with children, and mechs attacking it for very little reason. Seemingly because it might be fun. Also I've noticed mechs seem to be scaled closer to canon, far more so than ever done in MWO.

Player tells his guys to do some fighting because he is taking damage. Player proceeds to use himself as a shield for the enemy preventing any of his team mates to be able to make a shot.

Nobody mention the AI just bum rush you to 200m and do circle of death till someone dies? No tactic, no team work, no weapon range consideration, no focus fire, no terrain awareness (other than avoid building) and no rear arc awareness. It's like watch T5s in MWO. No wonder they are showing off co-op, if Russ had 3 AI lance mate, the demo would've been a cluster f*ck. Although seeing how badly Russ plays, he probably thinks the AI is just fine since that's how he plays. I miss the first trailer's HUD. THAT was progress with on screen target info rather than relying on a separate screen to show enemy conditions. This is just MW4 gameplay in 2015 graphic.

Heh. "Quick, defend that farm or the bad guys will burn it to the ground!" *Farm fields are set ablaze by laser and missile fire thirty seconds later*

Wow. Just wow. I did not expect it to look this good from those old trailers. But this is GREAT! Cant wait!!

Hmm, graphically, very much a step up from MWO, not sure we're pushing any real boundaries, not sure if the RTX tech is in play here or not. Mech movement looks okay, and seeing it's being played with a HOTAS, that makes me happy, about how I want the mechs to move, though a little bit more arm animation would be nice. Music sounds decent and sound effects are fairly punchy I feel. I'm still out a bit on the damage modeling... I feel we can do much better these days. Also, Marauder confirmed, thus the Unseen are in play, which means exactly what I thought, PGI 100% won in the lawsuit against HG.

Is it just me, or does the HUD in this build look better than the HUD in the final build?

Hit crops with fire, fire disappears, crops unburned. Stomp on crops with machines weighing in the tons, crops unharmed. Does Monsanto know about this shit?

Amazing! This is turning out to be the most detailed mechwarrior experience since mechwarrior mercenaries. Got huge mechwarrior 2 vibes and that is a great thing!

Russ has stated in the AMAs that they have a dynamic system in place to slow you down when walking through buildings but that it was turned off for the Mechcon demo. Supposedly it takes in to account the weight of your mech and whatever you're trying to walk through/step on. An example was an assault mech will have an easier time walking through something like a building or stepping on a tank compared to a light/medium mech doing the same. A reinforced building is harder to walk through than a farmhouse and etc. In addition, they've also stated that you suffer a payout penalty for causing to much collateral damage in a mission.

any options to remove the waypoint from showing up on the "outside." I like to read the minimap and compass. I find that following the waypoint kinda gameplay takes away from the game.

Graphics is fine for me, I looking more for a better gameplay: I dont' like the fact a mech can pass trough a building like a knife through butter and with no sort of deceleration, same when he stomp a tank, no deceleration and no legs damage. The entire physics seem to revise, in 19:20 you can see the Griffin trying to jump in a strange way. I'm not happy with the AI, all the enemy mechs in the video seem to follow the same erratic pattern, they are ever in motion switching target continuously trying to avoid the building that you can break through to be then get stuck in small obstacles like the spider at 17:30; here you can also see the marauder keep turning in a silly way. Not sure if this depend by some difficulty settings. I'm not impressed by the music, sound and voice acting, Mechwarrior 2-3-4 were far better and exciting in the audio compartment, the Actors really in the part. Sound of the Large Laser is very very ugly to me.. 9:10 I see a lot more work to do here.

this was so hard to watch, whoever is piloting is terrible, what a horrible dislpay of what this game actually plays like

Anyone know what kind of joystick they're using? I know everyone is hating on joysticks but I still feel like it would be fun.

Just have good stick controls. That's all I want. Slower arm and torso movement, acceleration and deceleration times scaled to mass and engine rating, all that other stuff is great. I just want to get the HOTS setup running again.

Looks great

Showing your back armor to a Marauder to chase after a Spider just shows that this is truly a successor game to MWO

Why there is no animation climb in and turn on the mech?

a bit upset that your feet dont leave marks in the field

What is the sim rig that he is using. The joystick and all that. If someone knows. THX

Looks really promising, keep showing off the game and you have my money and support

Yeah! We saved the town by blowing half of it up and running through the other half!

As an OG MechWarrior fan and someone who never played and never was interested in playing MWO I have to say this game looks like everything I ever wanted.

this looks so cool, why wasn't the actual game like this

I can't figure out if the mech pilot sucks or if the game sucks but something does not seem right..

if you played like that in MWO youd be dead in seconds..

That controller is awesome :O i really want it :D

"They're going to destroy that farm!" *proceeds to step all over the farm in a giant robot to 'save it'*

When did they start changing the mechs names? I could have sworn the banshe was named an atlas at one point or atleast it looked close to it

I'm glad that the enemy firestarter couldn't destroy the farm. Good job :) lol

Looks promising.

OMG this looks amazing!

LargeLaser sound @9:10 sounds like a fart! Really PGI, is this a joke to you? Mechs cutting through buildings like nothing, enemies shooting left and right without any sense of weapon advantage or teamwork, UI DOWNGRADE from 2016 trailer makes me really really sad. You have one of the most loyal fanbase, so please take these suggestions from us and make us proud to be battletech fans once again. We don't need another MWO game in single-player. IMMERSION, make it feel more like a battlemech sim for the love of atlas.

I have a feeling that before this the people demonstrating were told: walk through as many buildings as possible to show the destructible environment. and when they put in a real AI to fight against it will be much better.

I love that mechwarrior always has like 1980s high rise buildings in the year 3000

One question i want to know is can mechs go critical?

I see buildings still act like pieces of cardboard. If they would just take like 30 seconds and look at mw4 and see how the environment interacted with the 'mechs. I mean the (what was it like 2008-2009?) trailer for mw5 before they scrapped it literally showed a 'mech plopping itself on a building and then the building being shot out from underneath it. Why does everything looks weak in this. Buildings and other things in mw4 actually had what seemed to be individual health and would take either melee or weapon damage. I just hope that they capture what I played as a kid in those older games, and actually try and expand upon the existing fun that these games definitely had.

Looks like "smooth and by the numbers" means "full throttle and damn the torpedoes."

Makes me wonder once this is out the door for sale will MW:O be getting a much needed engine upgrade to UE4 from the locked version of Cryengine 3.4 it currently is in.

Dang a lot changed demo to the Mechwarrior 5 we got

he has his stick inverted woah, how is he controlling that thing.

Came to the comments to see critique of the demo pilot, was not disappointed. ❤

so, who built that cockpit thingy? why is no one asking this?

im imagining this game is going to take high amounts of CPU and RAM to run correctly with all the damage effects and different hit boxes on each mech. What are the minimum requirements to run this

I really hope the game has support for motion seats and udp telemetry so someone can make a full motion simulator cockpit like they did for 3 (I think it was, may have been later).

What controller is that?

this brings me back to childhood with MechWarrior 2 on dos

Did this man ever played any MW? Does he playing games? Is it some random guy from street without understanding where to move and how to fire?

are there any melee attacks?

The original mercenaries was a favorite, I hope this one is even better.

Is this compatible with VR???

graphics are so much better than mwo. Also u can break through buildings

Now I gotta find a way to get enough money to buy a computer. Also a desk.

aaand I want that setup

at 9 min is that a heavy vtol??

Looking good so far

Are the buildings they're walking through made of rice paper? Tons of concrete and steel doesn't even slow a battlemech down?

Is this from the same guys who made mech warrior for the original xbox?

A locust for all intents and purposes kicked a full heavy lances asses. Good god.

So -- why is it that the weapon names listed in the weapons group panel on the bottom right of the screen keep flickering so badly throughout the whole recording? Is that just because of the capture method? Cause if that's in game that would be rather annoying to me.

This hurt to watch as much of it as I did. I really want to know if the AI gets more computing power than an abacus, and please for the love of god and all that is holy fire that pilot!

This looks like it might be able to entertain us :)

Buildings should hurt you. If you walk to far into the core, They should collapse and slant into you (skyscrapers)

Missiles could look and feel a little more visceral. The seem kind of... toy-like? Hopefully there is an option to get a tone for target lock and destruction. The voice feedback seems out of place for BattleTech. Too tech rich for the the whole genre.

I think you left some civilian structures undamaged :P

Graphics are really nice but why are the light mechs so damn slow? A Locust and a Firestarter are supposed to be really fast.

IS THIS STILL GOING TO HAVE VR SUPPORT!?!?!

wow is shooting the legs will make a mech fall and unable to fight?

I see a marader . . . thank goodness maraders are in it. now just need my mad cats and I will be set

Must this guy walk up to everything and fire at point blank?

coming to PC?

Native VR support?

It would have looked amazing if there were people and cars running for their lives during a mech war. I thought that would happen in some mcw

I like the modeled cockpit, and the enemy variety that discourages boating. It's a little disappointing that smashing through a building doesn't slow down a 'mech at all (especially considering the physics involved).

*Sees molten armor from laser fire dripping to the floor* SOLD!

WTF?! That was one seriously tough fucking locust!!

Rem8nds me of the Avengers saving the day and destroying the city in the process.

Can you get a 3rd person view I wanna see my mech I’m piloting

I'm a big fan of the new laser style, it's more correct that it wouldn't be visible as a constant brightness beam I'd love for in the future if it was based off volumetric smoke and dust I like that the missiles agent perfect hits and can't track perfectly But I'd love for them to travel at a more realistic speed (faster) I love the destructive capacity of the buildings, something that had to be skipped in MWO that was sorely missing from the MW series But there needs to be some more "junk" in the open spaces, people make footpaths put up fences and leave trash around where they live Overall, I'm pretty stoked for this and this demo video has me the most stoked so far

i really like the style

does not look like live play for me...he often pushes the joystick forward, but nothing happens in the game...fake play???

It has many elements from the former games; nice. And some design features from mech commander (the arm movements) . The AI needs improving tho, they look quite confused, especially the mechs. The Hud is uninspiring but it works, hopefully we can change it if not... well mods will be an option. Other than that, Im buying the game.

i wanna play it^^

looks good, more like MW4 Mercenaries than MWo (which I find very positive, I hate MWo) but where is the damage report for the opponent?

Are those the new IS Airsoft machine guns? Kinda sounds like they are :p

Walking through buildings makes city fighting that much easier.