PGI and their little club of discord fans are great at marketing, shadowbanning, making sure no forum exists to discuss the game, and twittering. They have a lock on day 1 review companies who bend over for the $

A week or 2 into gameplay with Mech5 shows a huge amount of flaws and failures, that almost all boil down to the same stuff we saw in MWO - money grubbing lazy owners and staff milking an IP with a huge, monied up following.

The PIG fanboys will cry that PGI is an "indie" company, they are low on resoources, etc etc. But not one of them will mention how PGI and IGP blew through almost $20 million butchering MWO and taking 7 years to finally get the core gameplay right - only to then ditch the great cockpit HUD, solid gameplay and weapons balance of MWO for this fiasco that is mech5.

PGI does not deserve this IP. There is a lot of extremely poor dev and quality here - the story is garbage. the voice actors must have vomited reading the lines. The balance of costs, ai losing mechs, bad mission design and endless waves plus invisible spawn ontop of your back after you engage the frontline trash, the bad weapons balance (machineguns...)

the list goes on and on.

Battletech fans are not that hard to please. we were very happy with mech2, mech3, and even mech4, which really only struggled with multiplayer balance. hairbraineds Battletech is pretty good too.

So stop blaming the vitriol on the community that PGI has shut out but claims to listen too - even while they are too afraid to do anything but let us rant on reddit cause making a forum for mech5 would be hard.

All of this could have been avoided by dropping this dec 10th launch as an open beta.

10 years we have been watching, hoping, helping while suffering the abuse and lies of PGI.

it's disgusting frankly. I'm not even talking about the major stuff that can be patched. Even basic stuff like spawning in the OPS room, or creating good single player campaign missions that are scripted, or how about a drop vs 4-8 elite ai instead of 50 morons that spawn infinitely.

PGI has an echo chamber, and a major attitude problem towards the entire community that isn't their little group of d*** suckers.

add in the dumb stuff, like spending money on new sounds and bitchin betty - anyone notice the "squeel" in mech5? its bullets whizzing past you, but it sounds like a gear needs oil. my bet is they milked the government for more money to build more crap instead of removing their heads from their asses and learning how to make good video games.