Re: Ooh! Mechwarrior 5: The Clans is Out

Martin.Kazmaier@f148.n2.z21.fsxnet (Martin Kazmaier) looked up from
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Xo> Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
Xo> the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
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Xo>> Mechwarrior, I played probably 2 and 3 and enjoyed them quite a bit.
Xo>> I'm not sure why I never tried 4, or maybe I did and just don't
Xo>> remember.  I like mechs, and have played a few other mech games, but
Xo>> nothing really grabbed me (well EDF, but the mechs are a tiny part of
Xo>> the game, and One Must Fall, but that's just a side arcade battle game
Xo>> with mech skins.)
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Xo> Mechwarrior4 is when Microsoft took over the franchise and it changed
Xo> quite a bit.  Fixed weapon slots on the mechs that could only take an
Xo> energy weapon or a projectile weapon or a missile. The mechs also
Xo> lost their ponderousness, and while that plays to the Battletech
Xo> novels about how nimble the things are supposed to be (some kind
Xo> of artificial muscle moving them not standard robotic gears and
Xo> such,) it lacked gravitas.
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Xo> Also they did NOT have Mechwarrior 3's destructible terrain.
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Xo>> More actiony sounds better to me, so I'd possibly enjoy it.  There's so
Xo>> much to play and try though, I'll leave it until it's on deep discount
Xo>> if I'm ever even so interested to try it.
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Xo> I actually bought mech5 a while back and found it a bit meh, since the
Xo> campaign forces you solo against loads of enemies guaranteeing your mech
Xo> will require repairs that will take longer than you have before the next
Xo> mission - 2-3 of those and you literally have no mech to drive for the
Xo> next mission.
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Xo> Think I'll skip clans, but they might get me again if they put out a
Xo> :Mercs, Mech2:mercs and mech4:mercs were the best of their relative
Xo> groups.   Pity there was never a mech3:mercs though, just mech3 and
Xo> pirates moon.
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I've got Mech5:Mercs.  I love it, but it's a bit repetitive after a while and
I'm starting to lose interest.  I haven't purchased any of the DLCs and am
only about 10 missions in.

I should have looked at my steam library before posting.

What I have is mech5:mercs not mech5 basic.

Xocyll