MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries Reviews

i play game i get mechs. i see cool mod i download mod now im going 97kph in an assalt mech

The game in its base state if fun for a single play through. With mods and community involvement you can extend the playtime of this game. The missions can be a tad repetitive in vanilla version, but it is still enjoyable. It is fun to start over as well and see where the game takes you.

I bought MW5 from that other online marketplace when it first launched. At that time, the game was obviously unfinished; though still fun, it was very rough around the edges. As of 2025, the game is in a much better state; I've still encountered a few minor bugs, but overall, it actually feels like a finished game. Mechwarrior 5, as a proper Mercenaries game, has two layers of gameplay - the business sim and the combat sim. The business sim has you managing your mercenary company, taking contracts, buying and selling gear, etc. The business sim gameplay is copied directly from Harebrained Schemes' [i]Battletech[/i] video game, which is nice because it's a very solid design (I hope HBS was compensated!). I recommend playing with a HOTAS joystick for maximum immersion. If you play with a keyboard and mouse, you're really robbing yourself of the proper experience.

Very enjoyable Mechwarrior game, over 280 hours playing and still enjoy loading it up

It's good. Could be a lot better if you didn't have to manually reload after cold storage, but I think there is a mod for that.

lots of fun and customizing! it has workshop mods as a plus!

I've played nearly 500 hours of this great game. The vanilla game was really good a few years ago, but moving ahead to 2025 the modding community have propelled this game to AWESOME status for me. I'm stunned how much they've done and how much it has added to the game. If the game had multiplayer options with factions and a dynamic map it would be one of the best games ever made.

Cross play invites often require >5 tries before bringing a party together, and once we're together, it's not clear what you can or cannot do in co op. The mechs have terrible controls, and we couldn't complete a mission. Cool destructible environments though.

A good game but... its some what hollow in the middle & it binds important base game aspects into the DLC like new biomes that help to make the game more interesting as there is very little story or personality. first adjust the sensitivity and get used to the controls (Note zooming in as so changes your look movement speed). The mechs are alterable like in Battletech, but not quite as much as some ammo just doesn't seem to be place-able in some mechs (might be a glitch). I'd move that ammo away from your centre torso & maybe swap that small laser or extra jump jets for more armour. I personal put ammo in the legs as they are not the most likely limbs to lose. It gets a lot of negatives due to aspects of the base game being in the DLC and I can see why, It's repeatative yes but fun and the co-op works well. After just a few small missions the co-op for the campain is unlocked to. You start small but in no time u'll be stomping around in a black knight or something, a good start is recommended so don't head straight to the main missions you need to build yourself up with a fleet of mechs, energy weapons will run a mech hot on some biomes so make sure you have some good ballistic based ones as well. 7/10

Honestly, I can't recommend this game. Mainly due to the AI being an absolute joke. You lancemates will frequently just charge into enemy fire unless you are constantly giving them orders. The enemy AI will glitch out and a mech will just be sitting somewhere on the map when you have to eliminate all enemies, so you now have to hunt down a mech that is completely stuck. Best part is your lance will b-line straight to them, and of course get shot up. Apparently there are mods to make the AI better, but why can't the studio that I paid for this game do that?