Prospective buyer: Did they fix the difficulty?

[Water]

I hated MW5 Mercs’ difficulty. One lance taking on 20 mechs, vehicles, and bases. Is this version more balanced like classic MW - MW2,MW3, and the first mercs game?

If this is another MW where you need to PPC everything from a mile away and avoid damage like the plague please let me know so I dont waste money.

Thanks

[MacMillion]

Tutorial mission pits you against a dozen mechs and tanks and you start with a Summoner which has an ER PPC. Take from that what you will. Game isn't hard though. (It has a story mode difficulty)

[Fungers 🌹]

One or two stars having to tear through a ridiculous amount of IS stuff would be lore-accurate. Clans bid stupidly low against each other for the "honor" of invading a planet. They had the tech, info, training, and surprise advantage, so fighting like that worked for a bit.

[[Lord] Vader]

Normal difficulty seems pretty similar to Mercenaries default to me, although I had a bug or AI glitch because the intro mission kicked my ass the first time I tried it... and then was way easier on game restart.

There is an Expert difficulty option as well that I haven't (and won't) try.

As for mission design, I'm sure you'll be mowing down a lot of mechs.

[Malkuth]

I was about to say that. Clan were outnumbered but had the tech.

[Malcom Renyolds]

wait till few mission in and u fight 250 tanks helis then fight 5 brandnew heavy mechs all mission feel the same from watching on twitch and man most were full player teams not ai and yeah nope im not buying it for good fix and price for current bugs and fixes it needs hard pass for me the ai is horrid lol

[Slap Happy Pappy]

same difficulty. Less walking for 5 minutes straight with nothing happening.

SLIGHTLY less turret and urbanmech spam.

[MrFrengLitch]

Im playing on Expert. I got rekt in the first "real" mission of the game (post tutorial). Literally barely made it out alive. 3 mechs down, 2 at 50% hp. and I ran out of ammo. I dont recommend expert unless you're a maso lol.

[Water]

Thanks sounds like I'll wait until the sale.

I swear it's like the new devs never even played MW2 or M4 Mercs, those old games were so much better.

[Halfalfasleep]

From what I've seen it's similar to Mercs, but with the added context of Clan vs IS mechs so it's not as blatant since your equipment is supposed to outclass IS tech in-universe as well. A star of Clan mechs is supposed to equal two lances of IS mechs of equal tonnage.

Also in MW4 Mercs you can wipe out a bunch of Jade Falcon stars with two IS lances so it's not like this ♥♥♥♥ is new.

[Last Seraph]

Originally posted by Water:

I hated MW5 Mercs’ difficulty. One lance taking on 20 mechs, vehicles, and bases. Is this version more balanced like classic MW - MW2,MW3, and the first mercs game?

If this is another MW where you need to PPC everything from a mile away and avoid damage like the plague please let me know so I dont waste money.

Thanks

The biggest problem in difficulty is that you have all these fancy new technologies that let you overpower IS mechs, but the maps are designed around such close quarters fighting that you can't leverage said tech at all. If the game wasn't throwing nothing but spiders, commandos, jenners, and panthers at you for the first planet outside of boss fights, you'd just get wiped every mission.

Seriously, build for CQC. Long range is basically useless because there's so much cover that the range edge is meaningless. At least on the first planet.

[Humble]

I recalled There is many IS while clan is smaller number, clan use highest powerful mech vs IS but IS make up is by number, so it's make sense, more or less, on based of lore, Clan is very, very minority yet had access to highest tech while IS is majority in world but lower tech.

[Chef0Death88]

Mercs didnt have Set Piece arcade boss fights against a singlr mega armoured SHOOT THE WEAK POINTS vtol.
Whose idea was that? They need a smack in the mouth.

[zombygunner]

No this is a watered down version for those whom like games that follow the books and this is it. Im sure the handcrafted levels are much easier for you.

[Malkuth]

If they made it too easy the 20+ hour campaign would only be 15-10.

[silvermurk]

Played expert till like 2 or three missions past is invasion. My main problem is not difficulty, its munitions.
I spent 3 ac10 and 3 lrm with lrm15 bins and that was like 2/3 mission length.
If you dont go perfect all special rewards in sim, you are screwd.
If you do, your ammo screwd.
I cant afford more than 6 tonns of ammo to chew through stuff.
And its either that, or ppc/laser builds.