The Mechwarrior 5 base game is pretty average. The DLC add needed polish and flavour. The Mods make this game excellent! I had never technical difficulties, modding is rather easy - grab them from Nexusmod, unzip them and put them into the Mod folder, mark them as active and conflicting mods get a yellow conflict sign so oyu can chose what mods be acive and what not. Merctech, Piratetech, Pilot Overhaul, vonBiomes, TTrulez_AI etc. giv you a world of mods to play with that change the gameplay, add biomes, add vehicles and equiment, give your pilots more flavor etc. At this point especially if the bas game is on sale you can not do anything wrong! And the best is friends need only the base game to play in Coop Mission with the host and all DLCs the host owns can be played coop by them even if they dont have them. MW5 has become a better game and is still improving!
Now around 15h of gaming into the game i can state so far it seems to unfold into a superb Action RPG with really good quests/stories and adequate but not allways convenient controls (not fully customizable and car driving with keyboard is crap). The german translation is minus a few hickups (Hitzdraht?) exceptionally well and as well are the speakers so far. It runs surpisingly well for my PC that is: Win10 Ryzen 3600 32GB (2x16) DDR4 3600 RAM Sapphire RX480 Nitro+ 8GB VRAM 1xSSD Systemdrive Samsung EVO 850 2xHD Stripeset Gamedrive (where Cyberpunk is installed) X-Fi Titanium Resolution is 1920x1200 The only changes to the settings are that i switched to Fullscreen plus i disabled Filmgrain and Motion Blur, Depth of Field. The gameplay feels allways smooth at around 30 to 60 FPS. I had to the point of writing this review zero crashes and only a few glitches regarding mirros and 3rd person perspective at Ripper-Docs, So far my experience with the game is overwhelmingly positive and i am very happy i bought it! Escpecially as i deeply disliked the controls of Witcher 2 and 3 but Cyberpunk does it much better and the controls do not prevent me from gaming at all. Imho the game is a 9/10 with the potential of 10/10 with more polish and some fixes like car riving with keyboard improvements.
Afaik this is not only a Skin but also a unique Mech-Geometry that differs slightly from the ingame Shadow Hawk. The Screenshots seem to approve that as they look slightly different to my Shadow Hawks. What you make of that is up to you and so if you spend Money on it depends only on your own judgement.
