MechWarrior 5: Clans Steam Charts & Stats

Game is pretty good. I'd give it an honest 8/10 especially if you like mechs stuff or cockpit sims. The open universe thing of MW 5: Mercenaries is sidelined for a narrative driven game about the MW Clans. Needs mods support (which they say is coming) and needs more mechs variation with more weapons.

A game I want to love, but poor mission pacing, and non stop crashes makes this game more frustrating then fun. I highly encourage PGI to go play older iterations of mech warrior, throwing a half regiment at a clan star every mission is not only laborious for the player, it also does a poor job of sticking to any kind of lore. Ill revise this review once they patch the game and i can actually play past the 8th or so mission that refuses to play without crashing.

Great story, chance to play Clans and more polished than Mechwarrior 5 Mercerneries. However Mercerneries has a better replayability due to its open world availablilty.

I've been a Battletech / Mechwarrior / Mech Commander etc fan since I was a kid...in the 80s. Did this scratch the itch? Yeah..it has! If you're a long time Mech fan (or new), there's not really much reason to not enjoy the game. Now I see certain types of complaints so I'll address the two main ones. 1) Limited Mechs available in game. Well..firstly..that make sense to me! Yo're only going to get the mechs YOUR clan deems worthy. Innersphere mechs are considered outdated by clanners so you wont get them in this game (but you'll fight them). I'm going to guess more mechs will come with more expansions based on each clan...but subject to that spesific expansion / story. 2) No sandbox or career mode. Well..it's a linear game. It tells a story! Maybe one of the expansions will but for now..no! Personally I think it's a good sister game to Mercenaries. They kinda balance each other out in my eyes (not that you should have to buy both of course). Mercs lacks in it's story telling where as Clans lacks in it's expansiveness. If you're a mechwarrior fan, you'll have bought it already. If you're new to the franchise, yes..it's fun. If you're simply wondering how it runs...amazing on my PC but I have 7800x3D and a 4090 so do with that info what you will.

A much better implementation in the MechWarrior franchise. While there are minor irritants in the game ("Press any key " - oops, you mean 'click the mouse button only'), the story, the graphics, the AI and many other aspects are leaps and bounds beyond what was experienced in MW5 Mercs. This game also does not need a mountain of Mods/Add-Ons to stand on it's own. The MechBay is a little wonky, but as it is no longer central to the advancement of the stoy or play, it is not as cataclysmic as MW5 Mercs needed it to be. This game reminisces of MW2, closer than any other iteration. The music is kinda forgettable (I can't even think of one tune to hum...), whereas I still remember MW music themes from other franchises. What's up with the mouth animations (they seem unnatural - but the full video animations are nearly as trashy as they could be). Overall a much improved MW implementation. Happy I picked it up. Worth the price, good game.

MechWarrior 5: Clans really is a game i wish Steam had a middle option for. If you are a Battletech fan this game will be mixed. If you are not a Battletech fan there is a bit to love, but I feel even non fans will have mixed reactions to this game. The game is split into 2 modes, Campaign and a horde mode. You unlock more horde mode maps as you progress through the main story and if you buy and start the Ghost Bear dlc it will unlock the main campaign horde mode maps instantly. You still have to play through the dlc to get the dlc horde mode maps though. As far as the campaigns go, it's honestly not bad as far as the story is concerned. It is funny if you do know Battletech lore and know how the Clan Invasion ends though. Now to give a comparrision to MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, the actual mission are much better. They have actual structure and progression vs Merc's simple and static mission pool. If you liked Mercs, then Clans might not be the game for you, it has none of the sandbox elements Mercs had. There is no travelling the universe on your own terms, the campaign is a linear campaign more in line with the older MechWarrior games. Some systems are even more simplified than Mercs as well. Take the armor system. There is no adjusting armor in the front and rear like you could Mercs, now you have to buy armor modules to put on your Omnimechs. Now as far as gameplay is concerned this game has some horrendous balancing. If you played Mercs you know that your mech has armor and components that can get stripped and then destroyed as you progress a mission. In Mercs you face far fewer enemies per mission than what you face in Clans. Clans hurls at least 10-15 mechs at you on the earlier missions, but by the end of the game, you will be taking on 20-30 mechs per mission. This means that you will come out of many missions with missing components, stripped armor, and it can't be fixed completely before your next mission. If you are starting your MechWarrior journey with Clans, then I implore you to play on Story Mode difficulty for your first playthrough, otherwise you will die and fail over and over and over again. Even then if you are playing on Story Mode difficulty you need to invest in mechs with lasers. Lasers are the best weapons in the game by a longshot. If you aren't using lasers, you aren't stripping armor and downing enemies quick enough to mitigate damage to your mech and that is on top of doing things like Torso Twisting to make your important components harder to hit. Your ally npcs are also as dumb as a box of rocks and will constantly walk in front of you while you are firing which causes you to damage them because friendly fire is on no matter the difficulty. Enemy npcs are also really dumb thankfully which you can exploit. The horde mode is a horde mode, if you have played one you know what to expect going into this one. Back on the story front I have to hand it to Piranha Games for deciding to make the main story about the most hated Clan both inside and outside the game. Smoke Jaguar is one of the absolute worst Clans who are hated both in universe and by the Battletech fanbase. Only other Clan to get as much as them anymore in Clan Wolf, but that is because Clan Wolf are Catalyst's favorite, so their writers give them all the plot armor and wins. I'll give this game a recommend simply because there is a good game here, but I hope Piranha gets the mod tools released soon so the fanbase can actually balance this game's abysmal balancing. However given it has been 7 months, it might not happen until this game gets it's second dlc.

This game was clearly slaughtered by project creep, and a fetish for the newest, least proven, and most uncanny graphics. The devs tried to do too much, focused too hard on improving the things that were actually fine continuing to be good enough, and accomplished very little. The mechlab should have been one of the strongest selling points for this game, but it's just a giant, lackluster, frankly confusing, mess. Keep in mind I have over a thousand hours playing MW5. I am not a tough audience to appease. I lost the patience to keep affording this game chances to prove itself after 10 hours of mediocre

Waste of time and money. Another Piranha game. Armor inflation out the yin yang. The game feels like you are hitting the mechs with pool noodles and waiting for them to fall over of exhaustion. The only thing your clan mechs are better for is a bit of range and target fire. So, you are basically relying on Piranha's inability to program an AI enemy and your magic ability to have absolutely pin point damage because only you can aim. Functionally the game comes down to maxing out lasers, boating as many as you can, and then just pray you've slathered on enough 'bonus' armor to last the waves of potatoes that spawn within 500m, as you get endlessly ''ambushed!'' Ironically you have more freedom and mech customization in Mercs than in Clans... What a shit show...

Based on my experience I only recommend this game to those in the audience who align with two of the following: - Playing MechWarrior 2 on the family PC in the 90s is a core memory - Mecha - Want to know more about the BattleTech Universe Sometimes the 5/10s for the broadest audience are for you as a member of the target audience.

The campaign is short. Just when you finally get to use the big toys, the game is over. There is no career mode, no sandbox mode, none of the things that added replay value to MW5 Mercenaries. Then I bought the DLC and it was just another extremely short campaign. There's nothing here worth the price of admission.