What does the game offer compared to mercenary?

[AdeS I RapTor]

This game only has one campaign? Or is there a mode where you have your own company that you have to set up as a mercenary? I'm a little lost and 50 euros for a campaign only I find it expensive

[Ironlegion]

1 campaign, 5 player coop, and you can still customize your 5 mechs that go to battle.

[Ninjafroggie]

its a story based game, so rather than a sandbox where you write your own story, this is like a book with lots of cutscenes and such, and you can play it co-op

[fat4eyes]

Tighter handcrafted missions. Mercs is great but the missions blend into each other after a while.

[Lipi]

So there is no freeform roaming in the universe or taking free missions to earn extra money and parts like in mercs?

[Ironlegion]

Originally posted by Lipi:

So there is no freeform roaming in the universe or taking free missions to earn extra money and parts like in mercs?

no

[Johnny]

Honestly its fun as ♥♥♥♥ and worth 50 bucks, i'm already thinking of my next campaign now for mercs and looking at all the clans mods to bring the fight to them.

[siztem]

Originally posted by Lipi:

So there is no freeform roaming in the universe or taking free missions to earn extra money and parts like in mercs?

The idea behind Clans is fundamentally different from Mercs. In Mercs, you are your own entity, and you operate within a realm where the missions you complete earns you money to buy more (compatible) stuff within said realm. In Clans, you belong to an invading military organization far from home, using tech that's rather different from that of the realm you're invading.

I totally get that Clans feels like a step backwards from Mercs because it lacks the sandbox, but trying to compare the two games is comparing apples and oranges.

[Reaper]

MW5 Clans is a more lore accurate experience, clan weapons and mechs are a lot better like in the novels, and many of the events are also from the novel lore.
It’s a great story driven Mechwarrior game here is hoping that they unlock some mw5 mercs content if you own clans etc (hint hint) omnypods clan mechs weapons and research and hiring. Techs and scientists ( one can hope) it isn’t mercs but here is hoping we get another. Mercs game In the clan or dark age eras.

[hedrah]

There are novels? who cares about that, big stompy robots.

But it's a story driven game, replayability is 0 once you complete it, omnis aren't omnis since you can't stuff ♥♥♥♥ in however you like, limited weapons and limited improvement to our character and mech affinity. Post game has no access to IS travel and missions. The coop for these bogass missions are meh at best, customizaiton level is worse than basegame mw5m. Good acting, good VA, story was boring as hell but according to the nerds i hangout with, it's accurate. worth about 40usd

[VDmitry]

Clan invasion story, clan mechs and techs.