Wimmer is TWO levels above Jayden. Two kills in the trial lets you start at Star Commander (comanding a star, or a nova). Next level is Star Captain (you can start here if you get 3 kills in the trial), commanding anywhere from a binary, to a supernova trinary. Next is Star Colonel (where Emilie Wimmer is) - commanding a cluster (3-5 binaries/trinaries), then Galaxy Commander (like Cordera Perez), then saKhan, and then Khan.
I was so hype to try for that third kill until I saw what came out and than I was like, "Oh I'll give it my best." Than they did the video.....guess we aren't suppose to even try for three lol
Man I beat the dog piss out of the vulture and hellbringer practically untouched. I was so heated the cutscene kicked in and took away my plot armor instead of letting me cheese that madcat 😂
This is a fantastic game. However, the starmates running across the firing cone is... special for sure. It's almost like they used a machine learning model, training on MWO telemetry, and didn't prune out the bad player behaviour.
Played mech commander way back but this is a whole new experience for me, it's really difficult but I love it. Not sure how it happened but in the first mission when the first enemy mechs appeared Naomi got absolutely destroyed in mere seconds starting the encounter I was shocked
Clans were careful with assets. They saw the way the inner sphere fought wars as wasteful. Thus the bidding process, where you only use the minimum forces
Aside from the epic cutscenes I am really impressed by the naval depictions of jum- and dropships. Hell, I wouldn' even mind a Battletech styled strategy game about that part of the BT universe. And if animated that way, I would welcome an animated show hands down!
This game is awesome so far. I played a bit last night and did a few missions. I can't wait to try coop when my friends get this game. If we get mod support so we can make our own coop campaign missions this game will be tons of fun for years. I would love a new MechWarrior Online using this game as a base.
Finally played it past the trial of position. Thankfully its on game pass so i can just test it out before i buy it. Been playing MW5 with a HOTAS setup for over 938 hours but only recently went back to an xbox controller so i can laydown and play afterwork. The xbox controles feel so alien to me having to hold RB to fire my other weapons and mess with radial menues to command my lance mates. In MW5 i had to find a custom script in order to properly bind my T.16000 flight kit to everythingai need, so hopefully MW5 Clans has better HOTAS support. Its also a hog on the GPU and CPU untill you turn the DLSS on. Saw 100% cpu usage while i was testing. Even with a 3080 i had to turn settings down to medium. Even the UI had proems fitting on the screen in 1440p, hopefully after work, I'll have time to test things out. But hopefully thimgs work out.
*grins like a Clan Coyote-Warrior whom he is* Oh and my Rank is Not Star Commander but Nova COmmander, as 99% of the Stars of my Clan are configured as Nova and Supernova-Stars. And nearly all Cluster, even the Solahma Cluster, are outfitted with OmniMechs *laughs*
there was SSRM4s, just in the 2nd row below the SSRM2 and 6s, why ever they sorted it that way... also im wondering, is there a reason u didnt put any extra armor onto the center torso of that Arctic Cheetah, or was it just an oversight? either way, this looks like it could be alot fun, story driven always felt best for Battletech (and especially Mech Warrior) games imo ^^
The before the trial in general violates common practice. Failures of course being disgraced did not automatically get assigned to labor class. Other classes would have 1st dibs.
Where did you get this lore from? I have played OG BT when the clans came out, and I have never read anything like what you said. I did my 1v3 trial on TT, there was never 2v6.
@@seb2750Read the Jade Falcon Trilogy, Aidan Pryde's Trial of Position. 2 cadets vs 6 opponents. Rules of Zellbrigen dictate one-vs-one combat, so a cadet usually picks his opponent one at a time, but Aidan initiates a melee, so the rules no longer apply. Know your lore.😉
Each Clan handles their ToP in their own way but it is usually 1 cadet fighting 3 opponents. The jade Falcons have their cadets fight an opponent before they get in their mechs.
I'm on the second plantet after tutorial, I just unlocked summoner.... granted I don't have any variants, but my god does this thing suck. Went back to nova and its 12 medium lasers immediately because overheating doesn't force you to stop like mw5, seriously take base NOVA through your entire playthrough. You only get two alpha strikes before it overheats, but again it does not matter.. you just run away and wait 5 seconds for your weapons to come back online, you also get it VERY early. Thing is absolutely busted, screw summoner... awful mech.
the initial part of the cinematic before they landed was awesome. After they landed and they just looked and talked like regular loser humans, it lost its flair. To me the clans have to evoke a strange feeling of "they're human, but they feel alien". They need to talk, act, speak, and look different. Whereas the IS and mercenaries are the rough raw and emotional side of the franchise, the clans should be cold, calculating, and honor-bound.
The franchise does its damnest to try and remind you that Clanners are in fact regular loser humans. It makes their entire society a much more poignent horror story than if they actually eugenics-ed their way to a society that would make Chairman Yang and Colonel Santiago blush.
Its much more difficult than 5 is.. on normal mode.. the first boss the giant airship shredded us like it was nothing and we didn't even get it down to half.. No checkpoint is highly annoying having to entirely restart the mission just to get back to that point and likely die again. I am not so much of a fan of that sudden massive difficulty spike on like the 4th mission..
just tell your start to target one engine on it at a time and it goes down pretty easy, If you don't tell them to target one engine at a time then its a nightmare. I finished it on normal when on a mech with no weapons before the fight started.
@@kryptonianguest1903 Oh, ok. I was wondering if they implemented a minor choice selection path for replayability reasons but that doesn't seem to be the case.
@@lironk1 I own an ER PPC for self defense, just as Kerensky intended. Four light mechs drop into my AO. "I declare Batchall!"; as I charge my capacitors. Headclip the first mech, pilot is dead on the spot. Fire my LBX 10 on the second mech, miss him completely because it´s smoothbore and nail a friendly Elemental. I have to resort to the spinal mounted SB Gauss. "Freeborn scum!" The Cluster Shot shreds two Locusts in the blast. Wait for the Elementals to finish of the last terrified Scout-Mech because it is beneath my honor to chase the wretch.
"Haven't a clue" He used a contraction. Very unclanlike. I have no interest in playing Mechwarrior 5 but i'd really like to see a Mechwarrior film starting with "Decision at Thunder Rift" and working up to the Clan invasion and the Battle of Tukayyid.
@@miklawson211 lol and he continues to get called out on it for hours to come so don't worry the clanners let him know its not clan like every step of the way lmao
? it plays very close to both MWO and mech 5 with minor control setting changes (or zero if you're not a silly person who picks modern controls on first launch, no joke if you pick classic it plays like every other mech game made in the last 10 years. I can not stress enough that this plays exactly like mercs once you change like 2 settings and its actually goofy to pretend that its different, the only reason you'd think it was more arcadey somehow is if you didn't play it and you're just lashing out repeating something you heard someone say. Go play mech assault 1 and 2 (the true arcade mech games) then come back and play mech 5 clans and actually explain to me why you think clans is somehow an arcade mech game.
@@wingnutmcmoomoo494 You don't have to explain to me that if I change two settings it plays the same as in MW5 Mercs because that's what I feared it would be another Mw5 Mercs. And it's not about the gameplay itself but the overall design of the game Forgive me but I don't enjoy the gameplay go forward without any tactics shoot a random target with a random weapon - repeat. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Battletech and that's why I'm frustrated that I'm getting the same thing again, which is a poor quality product that again will have to be patched with fan mods. I guess it's time to accept that I won't be able to play in Mechwarrior which will be at least a half simulator.
Looks like an arcade game, not a mechsim. The story is scripted (boring as F) which is a big nono for me. maybe when it's for sale but after what they did with Blaine, i don't think i'll spend money on BT anymore.
I mean in lore you don't have the customization bullshit that exists in mwo.. loadouts are nothing like we did in 5 either.. this is true to how most mechs were setup
Such a shit game dude. I will refund it today and wait for mods and a sale. How they butchered the mech lab, and then these long boring shit cutscenes? The DEI hire lance mates? This game is so cringe. The developers never played MWO or MWM modded so they could see what the fans want. This is the explanation that they went entirely the other way.
you do realize the characters are lore accurate right? There isn't any DEI garbage that im aware of its litterally in the lore if you knew the lore moron. The mech lab is simple because in lore you don't have a lot of customization mechs are tailored with loadouts and you can only play around with a few things usually that is how actual battletech works. Not the bullshit we have in mwo that make 0 sense, and not even the stuff in mw5 really either.
I knew from you posting nine times in a row that you were a loser, but whining about DEI hire lancemates in a galaxy where race has long since stopped mattering put the cherry on your pathetic loser pie. Congradulations, lmao.
There is no DEI, the lore has always had diversity, the clan Khan is described as African descent, this is decades old stuff. Also your whining about fixed story is weird, that's how single player games typically are and all previous MechWarrior games (except M4:mercs expansion) have worked, MW5:Mercs was the weird one. You have a new and shallow understanding of anything.
@@ShwetankYa This kid has no concept of DEI, just spamming out catch phrases to sound cool. You see him crying and bitch spamming his comments all over.
Hell, 4 Mercenaries was still scripted branching narratives through the fedcom civil war And anyone decrying "DEI" in battletech lore is clearly new as hell to it. Think "tourist" sums it up well
I don't like their mouths, they look weird, like they are slightly too big or something. it's totally stupid that you can;t actually fight your third trial opponent, and start with a higher rank and better gear. This isn't MWO! There shouldn't be mech xp!
I have had a blast with the 6 hours I have put in already. The return of a narrative focused MW game has been sorely missed.
4.5 for me, had to stop to go to bed for work today....but today is my work from home...hmmmm would they even know? LOL
Nice to see someone not shitting on the game. A lot of people seem all to used to it
Aff, I have been waiting for this since I last played MW2 - Refusal War, in my high school days. o7
One thing that I'm enjoying about this is just how good of a leader Jayden is. Makes it nice to see this story through his eyes.
the least important aspect. the fixed story bullshit.
first space marine 2, now this. they are not ready for the space fascism arc in gaming
Wimmer is TWO levels above Jayden. Two kills in the trial lets you start at Star Commander (comanding a star, or a nova). Next level is Star Captain (you can start here if you get 3 kills in the trial), commanding anywhere from a binary, to a supernova trinary. Next is Star Colonel (where Emilie Wimmer is) - commanding a cluster (3-5 binaries/trinaries), then Galaxy Commander (like Cordera Perez), then saKhan, and then Khan.
I was so hype to try for that third kill until I saw what came out and than I was like, "Oh I'll give it my best." Than they did the video.....guess we aren't suppose to even try for three lol
@@likeorasgod It seems the story has us starting as a star commander, in charge of 1 star. Star Captain is supposed to have at least a binary.
you can't kill 3 the 3rd fight is scripted for you to lose.
“The death of the incompetent is the death of a feebly progeny!” I had the biggest stupidest grin on my face at that line!!
Man I beat the dog piss out of the vulture and hellbringer practically untouched. I was so heated the cutscene kicked in and took away my plot armor instead of letting me cheese that madcat 😂
The Outbound-Light-Incident ^^
I literally said the same thing when they called us Kuritans "But we're not- uh yes. For the Coordinator."
I understand why they are an important game mechanic, but Inner Sphere repair bays working on your clan omni seems a bit of a stretch
clan mechs are made of the same materials and repair bays don't repair internals so.
38:54 beautiful shot. Kerensky would be proud.
This is a fantastic game. However, the starmates running across the firing cone is... special for sure. It's almost like they used a machine learning model, training on MWO telemetry, and didn't prune out the bad player behaviour.
Played mech commander way back but this is a whole new experience for me, it's really difficult but I love it. Not sure how it happened but in the first mission when the first enemy mechs appeared Naomi got absolutely destroyed in mere seconds starting the encounter I was shocked
Just went and picked up the game. Looks great, and is a lot of fun watching you go through it TTB. Can't wait for more episodes!
It's nice to see how happy you are playing this game.
Clans were careful with assets. They saw the way the inner sphere fought wars as wasteful. Thus the bidding process, where you only use the minimum forces
1:17:28 it's Clan Smoke Jaguar. 🐆
Of course they are just rushing in.
Aside from the epic cutscenes I am really impressed by the naval depictions of jum- and dropships. Hell, I wouldn' even mind a Battletech styled strategy game about that part of the BT universe. And if animated that way, I would welcome an animated show hands down!
This game is awesome so far. I played a bit last night and did a few missions. I can't wait to try coop when my friends get this game. If we get mod support so we can make our own coop campaign missions this game will be tons of fun for years. I would love a new MechWarrior Online using this game as a base.
"But sir, we just arrived" Shittttt, saying something like that would get you killed
Btw, Mirror Paper Doll is an option in the settings.
Finally played it past the trial of position. Thankfully its on game pass so i can just test it out before i buy it. Been playing MW5 with a HOTAS setup for over 938 hours but only recently went back to an xbox controller so i can laydown and play afterwork.
The xbox controles feel so alien to me having to hold RB to fire my other weapons and mess with radial menues to command my lance mates.
In MW5 i had to find a custom script in order to properly bind my T.16000 flight kit to everythingai need, so hopefully MW5 Clans has better HOTAS support.
Its also a hog on the GPU and CPU untill you turn the DLSS on. Saw 100% cpu usage while i was testing. Even with a 3080 i had to turn settings down to medium.
Even the UI had proems fitting on the screen in 1440p, hopefully after work, I'll have time to test things out. But hopefully thimgs work out.
Very well, like and favourite this shit. Become a Corgi Mechwarrior today
@seb2750 Hell yeah man, been a fan of Robbaz, The King Sweden since the Skyrim unarmed bad ass days. You made me smile with that reference.
46:20 Clans do not wage war against each other, they test themselves by trials...😇
just started playing it and love it
Okie dokie. That was a definite setup. You couldn't have won.
Pirate king slightly resembled TTB; coincidence?
The mop haircut seems to be popular now in video games. SW Outlaws and MW5 clans seem to dig this cut.
No wigs in 3050, eh?
@@wildchild1823 Check out the 1980's artworks.
I must say this is much better than the last Game Story Sound Grafic all better it seems it now makes you feel great to fire a PPC. ^^
*grins like a Clan Coyote-Warrior whom he is* Oh and my Rank is Not Star Commander but Nova COmmander, as 99% of the Stars of my Clan are configured as Nova and Supernova-Stars. And nearly all Cluster, even the Solahma Cluster, are outfitted with OmniMechs *laughs*
The Nova Cats. The Mystics.
the trial is a nod to mechwarrior 2 even has the same lines to an extent.
Auto Repair Bases = they refill your ammo as well next to repairs ^^
kit commander Ismiril looks and sounds a lot like Michael o'hare from babylon 5. ty he has passed away
23:43 wish LRMs worked like this at MWO...in fact all weapons effect look nicer.
Opps. Khan Showers should have had his mask on. He could have removed it and aet it facing outward on the podium
@TTB were is your Livestream ??? I had high hopes for it
The livestream was 9 hours ago mate. But I'll be live again in around 7 hours.
gad the characters look.. idk.. weird except for the commander guy
there was SSRM4s, just in the 2nd row below the SSRM2 and 6s, why ever they sorted it that way...
also im wondering, is there a reason u didnt put any extra armor onto the center torso of that Arctic Cheetah, or was it just an oversight?
either way, this looks like it could be alot fun, story driven always felt best for Battletech (and especially Mech Warrior) games imo ^^
There were no open slots in the CT, the only slot there is a jump jet and you can't remove those.
Thx for early playthrough...
@34:35 ❤!
The before the trial in general violates common practice. Failures of course being disgraced did not automatically get assigned to labor class. Other classes would have 1st dibs.
1:01:35 Now, why does this guy look like TTB in 30 years from now?
rip
I would fail my trial and spend the next 40 hours playing 'Janitor Mop commander '
Chipolte for the win!
Firestarter got stuck. Some things never change!
Looks good. But isn’t the trial for position a 2v6 (or 2 1v3 ) in the same arena? At least in lore.
It's all scipted anyways
Where did you get this lore from? I have played OG BT when the clans came out, and I have never read anything like what you said. I did my 1v3 trial on TT, there was never 2v6.
@@seb2750Read the Jade Falcon Trilogy, Aidan Pryde's Trial of Position. 2 cadets vs 6 opponents.
Rules of Zellbrigen dictate one-vs-one combat, so a cadet usually picks his opponent one at a time, but Aidan initiates a melee, so the rules no longer apply.
Know your lore.😉
@@shagrat47 oh man, I read those books like 30 years ago during high school.
Each Clan handles their ToP in their own way but it is usually 1 cadet fighting 3 opponents. The jade Falcons have their cadets fight an opponent before they get in their mechs.
My only issue with the trial is the scripted battle.
Why is there a wire zip-tied to the cockpit? I thought clan tech was supposed to be advance.
Clantech ER zip ties. Ton for ton holds more cabling but generates more heat
I'm on the second plantet after tutorial, I just unlocked summoner.... granted I don't have any variants, but my god does this thing suck.
Went back to nova and its 12 medium lasers immediately because overheating doesn't force you to stop like mw5, seriously take base NOVA through your entire playthrough. You only get two alpha strikes before it overheats, but again it does not matter.. you just run away and wait 5 seconds for your weapons to come back online, you also get it VERY early. Thing is absolutely busted, screw summoner... awful mech.
The Summoner Prime is life. Jade Falcons know this.
Clanners aren't very fond of living long, so it fits.
The Clan speech of lack of contractions is interesting. I get it, I get the lore, but it kinda makes them sound like awful actors.
the initial part of the cinematic before they landed was awesome. After they landed and they just looked and talked like regular loser humans, it lost its flair. To me the clans have to evoke a strange feeling of "they're human, but they feel alien". They need to talk, act, speak, and look different. Whereas the IS and mercenaries are the rough raw and emotional side of the franchise, the clans should be cold, calculating, and honor-bound.
The franchise does its damnest to try and remind you that Clanners are in fact regular loser humans. It makes their entire society a much more poignent horror story than if they actually eugenics-ed their way to a society that would make Chairman Yang and Colonel Santiago blush.
yeah the blinds in the office were what made me feel this way
Its much more difficult than 5 is.. on normal mode.. the first boss the giant airship shredded us like it was nothing and we didn't even get it down to half..
No checkpoint is highly annoying having to entirely restart the mission just to get back to that point and likely die again.
I am not so much of a fan of that sudden massive difficulty spike on like the 4th mission..
just tell your start to target one engine on it at a time and it goes down pretty easy, If you don't tell them to target one engine at a time then its a nightmare. I finished it on normal when on a mech with no weapons before the fight started.
khan leo golden showers
the grafik of weapon fire really lvled up lol looks so much nicer i bet they took inspiration from all the weapon overhaul mods for mw5 mercs.
What if you only kill one in the trial of position?
Then you have to restart the mission.
@@kryptonianguest1903 Oh, ok. I was wondering if they implemented a minor choice selection path for replayability reasons but that doesn't seem to be the case.
@@brambillafumagalli8122 That wouldn't be minor, though. They'd have to redo the cutscenes almost entirely.
@@kryptonianguest1903 fair enough.
Xbox gamepass is probably the cheapest way to get this game
The mouth animations on the star is a bit... jarring, the stiffer rigging on the old guy looks way less uncanny
Contractions are bad, but using only the first 3 letters of a word is ok? "Aff" and "Neg"...😂
That is the Clan way, QUIAFF?
Controller huh? Granny mode
Aff? Neg? Batchall? :)
i must say the ER PPC looks very disappointing
I want my lightning bolt back
that's how its supposed to look.. its supposed to be very hard to see..
its not a big lightning bolt
@yulfine1688 how do you know? From books or you have it at home for self defense 😅
@@lironk1 I own an ER PPC for self defense, just as Kerensky intended. Four light mechs drop into my AO. "I declare Batchall!"; as I charge my capacitors. Headclip the first mech, pilot is dead on the spot. Fire my LBX 10 on the second mech, miss him completely because it´s smoothbore and nail a friendly Elemental. I have to resort to the spinal mounted SB Gauss. "Freeborn scum!" The Cluster Shot shreds two Locusts in the blast. Wait for the Elementals to finish of the last terrified Scout-Mech because it is beneath my honor to chase the wretch.
@@xyxxanx9810 bro leave some pussy for the rest of us
I don't know what's worse, the writing or the cringy voice acting in this. Hopefully all the scenes are skip-able.
"Haven't a clue" He used a contraction. Very unclanlike. I have no interest in playing Mechwarrior 5 but i'd really like to see a Mechwarrior film starting with "Decision at Thunder Rift" and working up to the Clan invasion and the Battle of Tukayyid.
Yes and he gets called out for it repeatedly.
@@kryptonianguest1903 I saw that as i watched the rest of the vid.
@@miklawson211 lol and he continues to get called out on it for hours to come so don't worry the clanners let him know its not clan like every step of the way lmao
I think mercenaries was better.
This arcade crap is what pretends to be a Mechwarrior is a crime against humanity.
? it plays very close to both MWO and mech 5 with minor control setting changes (or zero if you're not a silly person who picks modern controls on first launch, no joke if you pick classic it plays like every other mech game made in the last 10 years.
I can not stress enough that this plays exactly like mercs once you change like 2 settings and its actually goofy to pretend that its different, the only reason you'd think it was more arcadey somehow is if you didn't play it and you're just lashing out repeating something you heard someone say.
Go play mech assault 1 and 2 (the true arcade mech games) then come back and play mech 5 clans and actually explain to me why you think clans is somehow an arcade mech game.
@@wingnutmcmoomoo494 You don't have to explain to me that if I change two settings it plays the same as in MW5 Mercs because that's what I feared it would be another Mw5 Mercs. And it's not about the gameplay itself but the overall design of the game Forgive me but I don't enjoy the gameplay go forward without any tactics shoot a random target with a random weapon - repeat.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Battletech and that's why I'm frustrated that I'm getting the same thing again, which is a poor quality product that again will have to be patched with fan mods.
I guess it's time to accept that I won't be able to play in Mechwarrior which will be at least a half simulator.
Looks like an arcade game, not a mechsim. The story is scripted (boring as F) which is a big nono for me. maybe when it's for sale but after what they did with Blaine, i don't think i'll spend money on BT anymore.
did you played mechwarrior before? every mechwarrior game was scripted for story reasons
someone has never played any mechwarrior game..
Dorks not giving up their entire hobby when a single product isn't a godly 10/10 masterpiece challenge (Level: Impossible.)
Lol your response to the mechlab: they changed it significantly compared to what we knew but that's fine. Lol Not fine. This is a downgrade lol
I mean in lore you don't have the customization bullshit that exists in mwo.. loadouts are nothing like we did in 5 either.. this is true to how most mechs were setup
Such a shit game dude. I will refund it today and wait for mods and a sale. How they butchered the mech lab, and then these long boring shit cutscenes? The DEI hire lance mates? This game is so cringe. The developers never played MWO or MWM modded so they could see what the fans want. This is the explanation that they went entirely the other way.
you do realize the characters are lore accurate right?
There isn't any DEI garbage that im aware of its litterally in the lore if you knew the lore moron.
The mech lab is simple because in lore you don't have a lot of customization mechs are tailored with loadouts and you can only play around with a few things usually that is how actual battletech works.
Not the bullshit we have in mwo that make 0 sense, and not even the stuff in mw5 really either.
I knew from you posting nine times in a row that you were a loser, but whining about DEI hire lancemates in a galaxy where race has long since stopped mattering put the cherry on your pathetic loser pie. Congradulations, lmao.
There is no DEI, the lore has always had diversity, the clan Khan is described as African descent, this is decades old stuff. Also your whining about fixed story is weird, that's how single player games typically are and all previous MechWarrior games (except M4:mercs expansion) have worked, MW5:Mercs was the weird one. You have a new and shallow understanding of anything.
@@ShwetankYa This kid has no concept of DEI, just spamming out catch phrases to sound cool. You see him crying and bitch spamming his comments all over.
Hell, 4 Mercenaries was still scripted branching narratives through the fedcom civil war
And anyone decrying "DEI" in battletech lore is clearly new as hell to it. Think "tourist" sums it up well
Wow, I am reading the comments all these bootlickers like it?? LOL, y'all have no taste!
refunded it!
Plus this fixed story bullshit, and that I can't travel freely to anywhere. THe mech lab is the worst version sofar. Terrible design.
well duh it's a narrative mechwarrior game, not a sandbox like mercs or mwo
I don't like their mouths, they look weird, like they are slightly too big or something. it's totally stupid that you can;t actually fight your third trial opponent, and start with a higher rank and better gear. This isn't MWO! There shouldn't be mech xp!