>>997426
>>MechWarrior 5 Clans (not out yet)
Even without playing it I can recommend MW5:C for pirating and nothing else, just like MW5; the only thing that stops MW5 from being console trash without reservation is mods on PC and even then barely so - umodded MW5 is inferior in almost every way to Mechwarrior 2, a game from
1995. A fucking Crysis mod released in 2009 is a better Mechwarrior game than MW5.
That said, I actually DO recommend that anyone interested in mech games pirate and mod MW5 just to check it out because as far as first-person stompy-shooty mech action (as opposed to the slidey-shooty mech action of something like AC/Gundam/Gungriffon/etc. or something turn-based or an RTS) from a cockpit perspective goes MW5 is pretty much your only option released in the last 25 or so years - and to PGI's credit they managed to make that aspect of the game fairly enjoyable. It just starts to grate once that initial new game smell starts to fade and the problems come into focus and you realize that almost every fucking non-story mission in the game is literally just "walk to the waypoint(s) on the tiny procgen map, shred the braindead enemies and everything you see and walk back to the ship" with effectively zero subtlety or tactics and the sheer lack of love put into many aspects of the game become visible. No escort duty, no aircraft or tank gameplay, no LAMs, no combat drops, extremely limited stealth missions, pitiful EWAR and electronics options, lack of advanced functions for your mech, extremely similar cockpit designs, improperly synced sounds, an objectively inferior bitchin' betty, poorly handled salvage and customization, etc. Just walk up, shoot, walk out.
There isn't even a map grid and your three (3) commands to your lancemates ("follow me", "go here" and "attack my current target") are all handled with buttons instead of KB+M because they had to be usable on a controller - hope you like exposing your rear armor to tell your lancemate to move to a new position lol. Mods can at least partially address some of these but it still amounts largely to polishing a turd because doing many of these things properly is well beyond the scope of mods.