MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries

Attention: This review refers to the vanilla version of the game. With mods it´s much more playable but still far from being very good. This game is a slap in the face for all Mechwarrior Fans. Even the nearly 20 years old MW3 and MW4 are more fun than this piece of ****. Just a few Things which really annoyed me: -Extreme poor enemy spawn System. Enemies just spawn out of nowhere in overwhelming numbers when you reach certain triggers and get magnetically attracted to your position. -Useless Sensor System. The Sensor just work in your line of sight and even there you can look far wider with your eyes than with the sensors -Poor Mech customisation -Poor Lance AI. The only Thing they are perfect in is Blocking your line of fire. -unnecessary Mech Hanger. I mean, all what you do is running between the Hangar and the Bridge. For what? There is Nothing to do there. You spend your time in the menu anyway. -Very poor depiction of the timeline. If you are not familiar with the Battletech Universe, you notice that the Map and the factions are changing over the Course of time. But you do ot get any Explanation why. Events like the disovery of the Helm Memory Core, the fourth succession war, the war of 3039 or anything like that are not even mentioned in anyway. -Poor Endgame. Lots of the high difficulty contracts do not pay of well as you have immense repair Costs. So you have to pay > 1 Million for repairs, have a very Long outtime and your running Costs which leaves you with barely a Profit. -Poor Story missions. Most of the "Campaign" Missions feel exactly like the random generated missions. -Grinding. Mostly you Play the random generated missions over and over again, which means "Go to Waypoint X and destroy everything" -randomly generated Maps. This developers claim that every map is unique, but they still look all the same and as you are just walking from one waypoint to another, it does not matter -You get introduced to mech repair bays in the tutorial, but won´t find a single repair bay throughout the whole game, except the last mission. -The campaign is a grindfeast -Poor Story. The Story starts as an sub-average "I will avenge my father´s death" and keeps that low Level over the most time of the game. I don´t remember anything of the Story because the Campaign missions were nearly the same as the random generated missions. Towards the end it gets a Little better just to make a crash landing after the last Mission. I know that PGI is not a AAA-Studio, but seriously, this could have been done much better. It has some potential, but at this state it feels like a beta test.