If stomping round in big BattleTech mechs is your thought of a great time, there’s excellent news: a brand new MechWarrior sport is within the works at Piranha Video games, the studio behind 2019’s chonky robotic sport, and it’ll be a “standalone” entry that maintains the single-player, co-op focus of Mercenaries.
Piranha Video games president Russ Bullock made the announcement in an interview with the gaming podcast No Guts No Galaxy, responding to a query about the potential of one other MMORPG expertise like MechWarrior On-line 2.
“We’re nonetheless engaged on MechWarrior, which is nice,” Bullock says. “Everybody is aware of we now have DLC 4 popping out for MechWarrior 5. There’s one other MechWarrior sport in improvement at Piranha, I’ll simply say that. It’s not a MechWarrior On-line 2, it’s not the successor to MechWarrior On-line. Consider it extra according to MechWarrior 5, however a standalone sport.”
You possibly can watch the total interview right here (the related portion begins at across the 32:40 mark):
Bullock doesn’t go into additional element, past saying that it’ll be obtainable on PC and consoles, and can contain single-player and co-op gameplay that’s just like MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries.
A extra formal announcement will probably be coming later this 12 months, presumably within the fall, Bullock says. Presumably, that’s after we’ll discover out what it’ll be referred to as, the place it’ll be going down, and most significantly, which BattleTech mechs we’ll be packing filled with lasers and armour earlier than heading out onto the battlefield.
Mechwarrior 5 now has ray-tracing and mod assist, and with the subsequent DLC coming within the close to future, there ought to be a lot to maintain us busy till Piranha is able to reveal extra about its subsequent sport.