Great interview and I hope Clans has great commercial success. I hope they allow mods into the game because the MODS are what has kept me playing MW5 for 1380 hours so far. Steam can tell which are my favorite games.

MWO has been around long enough to see generations of content creators come and go at this point. I miss those days, and believing something would actually change, but this IP is so niche I don't know how PGI has kept the lights on tbh. I try not to blame them ,but frankly I do. The last few years every interview with Russ has been painful to listen to, especially one a few years ago where he admitted that even at the height of MWo's success they never got the numbers they truly wanted [he meant Call of Duty numbers], and when you look back at how the game was monetized it really was a failure of communication, and reading the room. Battletech and MWO never had the fanbase for those numbers he wanted, but for some reason they have held a death grip on the IP and I don't understand why. I guess no one else wanted it. I guess we should be happy we got MW5, and modders have had a go at making it into something worth playing.

Take my money now.

Sad that I reported still pgi dont do nothing

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I want them to rework the meta. I think light and light-medium should make up 80% of every single battle. Including your lance.

will mw5 clans have hero / legendary mechs?

But I already get bullied by clan command in MWO...

Bumping into the same people is great, thats community :p

ngl I'm sad we cant walk around in Clans like in mercs, yea it's pointless since you can press Tab, but I always went out of my way to walk around because it immersed me more, only using tab when I need to do quick changes, so I"m sad to have lost that option

There you go, I was right that they upgraded the engine it was without a doubt they would do that since going from UE4 to 5 is quite easy to port which I said in the first announcement trailer of MW5 Clans. If anything the UE5 tools is more user friendly, and UE5 has more options like frame generation and easy plugin support for DLSS/FSR/ExSS better CPU utilisation on threads, ray tracing efficiency. UE4 had pretty bad Ray tracing optimisations which kind of makes even my RTX 4070Ti Super cry with DLSS balanced! It's not like it's high resolution either just 1440x3440. Although pretty sure the mod WAR_FX is a pretty big cause of it but can't live without that mode it just adds so much realism same with Von Bio domes and YAML. As for hours in MW5 I have so many hours in that game far more than hundreds to the point I am too embarrassed to admit how much time I have sunk into MW5, needless to say I have well got my monies worth out of the game and it's expansions! I am quite excited about the motion capture and cut scenes being around 100mins, it would be great to see from the bad guys and how they justify their actions from their perspective.

Definitely a good charge

I think a cool MMO could be MW5 co-op for the combat but then you have a galactic war like in helldivers 2 except you still have factions and completing missions for factions helps them take territory (like in the rogue tech mod for HBS Battletech) that way players can join opposing factions but still have an option if they don’t want to PvP

18:52. correction. They arent human. Theyre clanners.

Idk man... the new UI looks awful to me tbh. Looks very distracting, bloated, and hard to read. I hope they improve on it before the release, or that we will see some quality mods

I would love to see the next game after clans be a relaunch of the MW brand/franchise. I agree 💯 that the lore/narrative of battletech is untapped with MW games. MW relaunched into a broader mainstream audience as a crossplatform PvEvP game would be amazing levering the core combat mechanics with the narrative/world of Battletech.

I am super excited for MW5 Clans. As a returning playing last year since MW3 im looking forward to jumping into a new MW game and experience it as its grows and dlc are released.

Maybe you should stop banning people for trying to report bugs or pathing issues with the games Russ. That'd help a lot.

I'll have to disagree with you on quite a few things there. First being the mechlab not being very important. No, it is extremely important. There is a very good reason why the mod "yet another mech lab" is the most used mod for MW5M. The abillity to customise your lance is literaly half of the fun of the game. I also don't think just a good story is all that you need, in fact as far as mechwarrior goes, story is not even 20% of what matters for the game. Sure, having a good story is better than having a bad one but that's hardly the point. The point about mechwarrior is going through missions, taking contracts and getting more mechs, more parts for the mechs as well as combat. Those are the most important elements in a mechwarrior game. In fact you can compare mechwarrior to any ARPG like diablo and the likes. Story doesn't really matters, it's all about the gameplay. I also don't particularly care for clan jaguar or for any specific clan (no I'm not a clan hater, I like the clans) as far as it comes to play them. You see, unlike the innersphere, clan tech is really nice and there is clan tech that is locked to only those clans. You can get mechs and certain clan weapons but faction specific gear probably would be unavailable even for capture. That would mean that if you want a specific clan bonus, you need to be part of that clan and ultimately, that was my expectation towards clans. That most of them are represented and that picking your clan made a difference in what bonus you have available from said clans. The fact that they force you into a specific clan means they either are not implementing clan bonus or they are just implenting jaguar's specific bonuses which is a let down. Still, it does mean clan mechs so I am happy about that. Overall, I don't expect a revolution from clans, what I expect is to have more things and that hopefully, the idea that you still play like a merc, going around from point to point in the galaxy doing contracts to keep improving your lance is there. It would also be nice if the Devs started looking at the most popular mods that the overwelming majority of players always use and just incorporate them into the game like for example, "yet another mech lab". I understand why from a development perspective they might hesitate to do so. It does adds a lot more complication to mech building but let's be honest, anyone who plays mechwarrior is already a mech nerd and they are more than willing to learn how they can make their mechs better.

I always wanted to love MWO. I enjoy it sporadically for short bursts, but it never really grabbed me. I do still enjoy MW5, and I'm really hopeful for Clans. I loved the hand-tailored missions of the previous MW series, so if Clans can pull off that same quality, it will be exactly the MW game I have been wanting for so many years.

What's that? Smoke Jaguars might not be the bad guys? Does this mean its possible to get the real truth on the Capellan Confederation? Play them for once and see it from their perspective?

I liked your chat yesterday I can't get enough of clans can't wait. I'll pre order just to support mech games go Piranha

I'll get more excited with some more gameplay

I really hope Clans will include a real reason to play multiplayer. I barely touch Mercs for this reason. I want to play a co-op campaign where we can all progress together.

If MW5 Clans will have enough animated character contents to make a feature film, or 2-3 part mini series with in game combat footage (which sounds absolutely fantastic) why leave it to the fans to piece this together afterwards? Wouldn't it be better, if your studio assembled and produced this movie/TV show then pitched it to a streaming platform say 6 months after launch? Wouldn't that generate more revenue and also recruit new fans as well?

I think Russ is underestimating how popular MWO2 would be in Unreal 5. He says nobody is releasing these types of games now, well clearly there is a void in the market to fill. Look at the success of Street Fighter 6. People still want pvp.

i dont give a fk about cinematics... does the armor melt off a side of a mech and stream to the ground as hot lava when I lash it with my large lazer? or does it gust splat a decal on a side and call it a day?

Hope MWO stays on for a good while. Still not much of anything like it

So, I have a feeling Mr. Bullock will see this, so I want to be honest. I play MWO...a lot. I barely play MW5. I purchase the DLCs to MW5 *because* of the continued support for MWO. It's quite clear that MWO and MW5 feed each other in terms of asset development, and I've bought every Platinum Pack, every Legend, every Booster Pack, and every Mech Pack since the Bloodname Pack, plus a few earlier ones that I went back for (eg: Black Lanner, Incubus). PGI has done a great job of supporting the community through what I might call "marketing through continued support." I'm big on the mech collecting aspect of MWO, and due to the continued support, I'm comfortable spending money on MWO and MW5, because I'm assured that it's not all going to just vanish because someone decided to shut the servers down. I know that one day MWO will end, but I have a decently historically supported hope that, in some fashion, my mech collection on MWO will transition to the next game in some way...be it as the mechs themselves being represented in-game, or some kind of representation of my collection (eg: cosmetics, models, special variants, etc). So I wish to encourage PGI to keep supporting MWO and furthering the development of the ecosystem that the PvP and PvE products create. PGI is getting to sell its product to the same customers twice, and we're loving them for it.

Im cautiously optimistic, im hoping they have enough time to let Clans cook yknow? I hope with everything MW5 went through, that its applied to Clans.

Did Russ bring a tear to Philz eye when talking about how much cutscene content there is? 55:05

Think about this. Without Russ we would not have any Mech warrior games. He did MWO which is epic. His team made mercs, now there on the road to success, now clans which looks epic. What's next I can't wait. He needs to keep moving in order to keep it paying the bills. I wonder will clan me coop. Me and my son play alot of Mercs, he is on playstation and I'm PC.

One of the biggest issues I had with MW5:Mercs is the lack of a "engineering upgrade" path. HBS:Battletech did it really well. I hope the Science Lab has that kind of aspect.

I would love like a story where you go from place to place taking over the inersphere and maybe there are other players taking over different places but you can take over there stuff etc but would be hard with the lore being the lore.

Biggest thing I find frustrating and maybe it's intentional but the lack of information coming out I literally can't wait for clans but have so many questions. Biggest ones mech lab and pilot progression skills etc

I hope that enemy units will not spawn in line of sight out of nowhere. Enemy units should be present on the map (powered down/ guarding or patrolling) or they should be dropped by dropships. Nothing else.

Mercs is amazing...APART from the AI. Its absolutely unforgivable

Quad Mechs confirmed!

AS LONG AS THE MECH GOT THEM STAMPY LEGS IM GOOD WITH IT

Nah Sean, a long game is a 50+ hour game. 5-10 hours is short and 10-50 maybe 45 hours would medium tier.

13 years too long. everything about MWO/ mercs5 is garbage. im an early legendary founder and been disgusted since. russ has me blocked on twitter cause he cant take criticism. they need their MW license taken away

When talking about accessibility and third person support @28:00 I really wish they would go back and fix the horrible third person reticle in MWO. It jumps around in a nauseating way due to the fact that the reticle is still being drawn from the first person perspective of the mech's cockpit even though your perspective has changed to third person. This would be a really simple fix to change it to drawing from the third person perspective and would actually make third person usable in MWO. Along with that they could: - move some of the cameras higher up and slightly to the side to improve visibility of your target - allow me to keep my minimap while in third person - allow me to unlock my arms while in third person MW5 doesn't have these issues so I know they can do it.

I personally would LOVE to get two questions of my own answered! First: Is there a bidding system in MW5 Clans that match how the Clans operated at the start of Operation REVIVAL? Second: What can we expect out of the length of the game? Are we expecting like very grandiose battles such as the Battle of Tukayyid or even the battle of Black Luthien? Or should we expect it similar to what MW5 Mercs had for scale and scope?

Predictions: Final mission on Luthien, DLC on Tukayyid

I really hope elementals will be included

Mechwarrior is dead. Period.

Thanks for sharing.

Ohhh i wonder if we will come across Phelan/Natasha or Ulric at some point, there was some pretty important events that took place that resulted in Clan councils.

The company's future rides on MW5: clans is a recurring theme and confirms EG7's very bleak, most recent quarterly report. Watching Russ discuss Helldivers 2 was especially entertaining. He seemed lost on the concept of a game where premade comp teams can stroke their epeens WITHOUT also griefing casual solo players.

Been a PlayStation user for years now and I love every seeing playing with it, so thank you for giving me that opportunity to get back on the cockpit