Game is broken like everything else being made. Enemies can hit you when they CANNOT SEE YOU. Take this piece of **** game down and burn it. Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries, and Clans is better than this piece of crap game. They screwed up the Gauss Rifles (2 shots should disable a light mech....NOPE!, barely any damage at all. The Machine Guns are over powered and can chew through armor in about 5 seconds. If I could give this POS game a negative review, I WOULD!

The physics and actual gameplay of the game r good due to a quality 3rd party game engine (cryengine i believe). However the nuts and bolts that have been done by the company PGI miss the mark entirely, Firstly instead of random grouping when joining, the game rigs the grouping based on previous individuals game results. This however is deeply flawed resulting in ridiculously one sided games very frequently. In regular game play it's 12 men per side, 24 total and far too many games end in 12-0 or similar results. This takes away from the enjoyment and penalizes the veteren players as they are often paired with much lesser accomplished players and end up getting wiped out in a regular pug. Conversely you can join with groups of up to 4 players further rigging the outcomes. If a veteren player takes in a new mech robot that hasn't been fully leveled up and or lesser than the robot they had previously had good results with, the game does not take this into account. Making it much more difficult to level the mech up. This has been mentioned constantly since the game was released and they still heven't gotten it right. They would have much better success with random groups. Period. Or at least have a separate option to play entirely random games(no group drops no psr) . Next is the Mechlab UI. The place where you do all your robot configurations among other things. It's ridiculously counter intuitive and unnecessarily tedious. For example from the main menu it takes at least 9 to 10 mouse clicks on various tabs and buttons to assign one skill point to a new unleveled mech. Once you click save, it automatically and ridiculously kicks you back to the main menu instead of leaving you in the tab you are in, forcing you to go through the whole routine again if you fogotten something or wanted to continue to evaluate the robot you were working on. Horribly conceived. Next is the text chat. Again ridiculously clunky and cryptic. Amateur hour here. You have to press different buttons to talk with either just your team or all players in game. This would be fine except it doesn't work this way if you are dead and want to continue to chat. Then it defaults to all chat. This would probably be acceptable except if you die while texting or are texting in transition between game lobby and game starting your message is cut off resulting in unintelligable portions of messages being sent. Horrible! This hasn't been addressed since day one, near 10years. Another thing is the banning of certain names. For some reason this company doesn't like the word "NOOB". If you've been found to have this word in any portion of your player name, for example Noobboy or Canadiannooby etc the company unilaterally bans your name and turns it into its generic "mechwarriorxxxxxx". I can't remember when I've ever seen something more anal or ridiculous with a company. The game population has dwindled to a shadow of what it once was due to all of the reasons stated above as well as others. They were and are too slow to respond to the majority of paying customers and the exodus was the result. When people became impatient and discontent the company blamed those individuals for the migration instead of immediatley understanding that people were trying to help. They ended up alienating and making their base estranged. Only themselves to blame. With the state of this game now I can only conclude that the people responsible for this company have coddled to a very narrow quirky few that are ridiculously rigid and live in a bubble. I would give the game a 7 for gameplay but I give it a 0 due to all the things that detract from it and how quickly they make the game get old. Lastly the game is what 10 years old **** it still has bugs with players getting randomly disconnected. They try to relog quickly to find that while they were rebooting the game they've been killed. They receive a time penalty because they left the game prematurely and they receive no rewards. There's no excuse for this epic a failure to resolve issues that have been there forever. At least none they've given that rings true.

Great game! I really enjoy shooting other people mechs. The gameplay is great, Making and building our mech is fantastic! you can change a lot of aspects of your mech! like armor, engine, ammo, heat and jump jets and more. Grahpics are good. like the mech and their cockpit is good. You got an startup animation which i enjoy watching everytime i go and play. It feels like the negative reviews are botted. But keep in mind that most of them are old. like from the 2012 to 2018 era and the game is not pay to win. just find a mech that suites you and your good to go. for you who is i having freezing issues it is probably because your pc is not good at runing this game. whoever who is being negative in 2021 is wrong.