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MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries

It's no battletech

Maybe if you are coming from MWO this might be the game for you but I found this game immensly frustrating for what it is. Engagement ranges are too short, zoom is pointless early on, never got far enouugh to see if that imporves. Radar may as well not exist, enemies rush close to engage which would be fine if you could find people on the radar. There is no ability to snipe targets which means long range weapons are pointless. The pop up turrets appear practiacally next to you so there is no planing for them. Defence missions are a waste of time since the enemy will just rush into the defense location and run around breaking everything so you are force to take a mech into the base you are defending to kill the attacker. The endless waves at the end are okay to a point as it helps to get money and materials but there are planetry defences that have less then what they were throwing at the lance. For me this felt like a complicated FPS, locational armour and damage that can hurt my character, but there was no impact from the weapons, no ability to engage and target enemies at reasonable ranges. Every battle felt the same, take a few shots at range, maybe waste the LRM's and achieve nothing if the target was moving, and then brawl with everyone because you aren't going to hit them otherwise. Overall I came here wanting to play a stompy tank game and ended up playing an unimpressive FPS. Looked alright through and worked better then MWO, so there is that.

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