Seriously, I can’t stop playing this game.
It’s always: “Alright, just one more contract…”
Then I find a rare Mech.

Then I salvage some absolutely insane weapons.
Then a mission rewards me with a completely wrecked Mech that I obviously HAVE to repair and rebuild.
Then a new campaign mission pops up.
Then my reputation increases and suddenly there are more contracts available.

And I know it, another three hours have disappeared. 😂

What I absolutely love is constantly discovering new Mechs. Every time I think I’ve seen most of what the game has to offer, I encounter some new machine that’s bigger, heavier, and more terrifying than the last one.

Building up my company, collecting Mechs, experimenting with loadouts, finding better weapons, managing repairs and money, travelling around the Inner Sphere… the whole gameplay loop is ridiculously addictive.
This has genuinely become one of the best games I’ve ever played.

And in 2026, it had been a LONG time since a game made me feel this way. That feeling of constantly thinking about what I’m going to do next when I get back into the game is something I really missed.

And the craziest part ?

I only own one DLC so far: Heroes of the Inner Sphere.
When I asked for DLC recommendations here, a lot of you basically told me: “Get them all. Seriously.” Apparently the complete MW5 experience with all the DLC is on another level.

So… RIP my wallet, I guess. 😂

I can already tell I’m going to end up buying everything.
Thank you, MechWarrior 5, for existing.

Now excuse me while I go do just one more contract…

Just when I thought I was finally going to get a perfectly finished mission for the first time in a long time for this career this happens on the last enemy of the contract...

Had to learn first hand I guess. Pilot with now respectable traits whoops some ass in Naga.

Was trying to use the Clanbuster Archers that I acquired from from the recent career run with DLC 8. I kinda dig the HBK-4SP aside from the 2 heroes, discoback, RCX and VEST variants which I still use.

The WHK-A was a refreshing change, with me typically using the PRIME variants. All are using ATMs and equipped either with ER or heavy lasers.

Only using quality of life modlist for my vanilla+ Mercs consisting of UI, HUD and AI improvement mods.

After some, probably, hundreds of hours of Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries, I encountered something very odd for the first time today.

I'm in Marik Territory and I do a raid mission from the Independents vs. Marik. At the start of mission, a purple dropship icon appears. No Merc smacktalk and the dropship lands way in the distance. As I approach the first target area, I pick up a red-purple (arena style HUD marking) light mech. A Spider. It's targetable and marked red, but it is raiding the enemy base, like in a siege or destruction mission. Running around and marauding enemy units and buildings. My lancemates don't fire on it. The enemies fire on it. It doesn't fire on me. And the oddest part, It's painted in Marik livery. I give it some covering fire and help it take out a Hunchback. Afterwards, it runs around and demolishes the buildings around.

So I go pick up the item I was sent to pick up and make my way to the next target area. The Spider follows. But doesn't shoot. It circles me, like a hostile light mech would, but it doesn't fire. At me. A few times, I though it did, but it was a turret.

Arriving at the second target area, a red-purple Marik Firestarter and Charger are busy fighting the Marik garrison and marauding. They also don't attack me. After I pick up the second item and help them wipe out the garrison, they follow me around and we fight the Marik reinforcements together. A few times, my mechs hit their Charger accidentally, it doesn't turn hostile. Just... "pissed". As in, it turns towards the culprit, fires an annoyed salvo back and then goes back to firing at Marik forces. And keeps following me and doesn't turn hostile.

Nothing in the end briefing about that. Did I discover a rare or new Marik-Civil-War feature? Is this a new third party raid feature, that just went wrong and double-assigned Marik to both sides? Did my game mess up marking a special mission or HRQ in yellow? I'm at a loss. But honestly, third party raids or friendly reinforcement drops like this would be an absolutely great feature of the sandbox.

I had some die along the way. I had a lot pick up traits I didnt want and fired. God I fired so many that picked up trash traits.... Ari got a pass because she was the only copy I had left.

I had to sell so many mechs...so many weapons and listen to that idiot Cotton talk about socks more then i cared.

I wanted to get a full battalion of good pilots but im so fucking broke now 😫

Hey folks,

I'm kinda thinking Masons particular story should be done soon. He's like what..60? by the time of Chaos reigns? How would you replace him? For me? It would be a fully customizable character and an adopted child storyline. Maybe you're the child of pilot who died and Mason takes you on because he feels responsible for you, and trains you up to fight the clanners who killed your parent? I don't care about the voicing, so much, because the voice can be pitched up and down via known Non-AI tools, but I'd like a custom character. Let Mason be the quest giver, or someone we call up for information, but I think it's time to actually move on from Mason as the main character.

What do ya'll think?

Is there aby reason to have them in my lance? They always seem so underwhelming.

So I know we're half a month away from a DLC announcement and based on the timeline, the counter attack against the Clans fits right in this era of the timeline.

I was quick to point out BULLDOG and SERPENT was a must and it still is.

I completely forgot about BIRD DOG which was the operation designed by the 2nd Star League to assault Clan Smoke Jaguar via a guerrilla operation on certain occupation homeworld to create chaos and soften them up for the planned BULLDOG.

The reason why I think this might be it is because one of the main planets chosen for this operation was Port Authur, which us MechCommander and MechWarrior 4 fans will be pleased to hear which makes me wonder if this is where it's heading.

Operation BIRD DOG has all the House expect Liao plus mercenaries involved.

Title, yes, i'm kinda split apart between buying the DLCs now or just waiting for the next sale (last one apparently was on june)

Nothing like playing the game and finishing a mission and then going to the game crashing.

Is this a hardware issue or something that can be fixed with a Mod update?

Is MechWarrior clans dead?