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[Dohon]

MechCon happend and Piranha Games (the folks behind MechWarrior Online) announced that they are creating a single-player successor to MechWarrior 4. Details pretty scarce so far. Stay tuned!

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PC Gamer article

[JimboM12]

Please please please, let Duncan Fisher be announcing at Solaris again. Fingers crossed.

[Scripten]

While it's not as impressive as the announcement of MWO's original incarnation, the backing of the MWO funding and Piranha's experience makes me hopeful for this iteration. I really, really hope to be able to walk around my command HQ in first person as they are showing.

[Flying Dice]

Holy shit that looks so delicious.

[etgfrog]

I have a feeling they will rush it to try to compete with battletech.

[Flying Dice]

They're no more competition than older MechWarrior games competed with MechCommander. Totally different types of game.

[Kanil]

Different types of games set in the same time period of the same franchise, featuring the same 'mechs with the same models.

[Mephansteras]

Well, damn, another Mech game I'm actually looking forward to!

[Knave]

Yeah - I don't think this is a competition sort of situation, as far as I understand, HBS is even using assets, or at least designs from Piranha  for their mechs, so I believe there's some collaboration here.

[Flying Dice]

Different types of games set in the same time period of the same franchise, featuring the same 'mechs with the same models.

Yes, and Space Hulk: Deathwing competes with Battlefleet Gothic: Armada too, right? AoE II with EU IV? 

[nenjin]

Hyped.

[etgfrog]

Different types of games set in the same time period of the same franchise, featuring the same 'mechs with the same models.

Yes, and Space Hulk: Deathwing competes with Battlefleet Gothic: Armada too, right? AoE II with EU IV? 

Ok, I'm a bit hasty to think a turn based strategy game competes with a first person shooter.

[Kanil]

Different types of games set in the same time period of the same franchise, featuring the same 'mechs with the same models.

Yes, and Space Hulk: Deathwing competes with Battlefleet Gothic: Armada too, right? AoE II with EU IV? 

I mean, you want a mech game, they both have mechs. You want a BattleTech game? They're both BattleTech. You want a BT game without Clanners? Neither one has Clanners. Your favorite 'mech is the MAD-3R Marauder? Both games have that.

I dare say the two game's playerbase probably has more overlap with one another than they do with, say, LoL or something.

[Flying Dice]

Oh, of course there's playerbase overlap. But it's not like people are going to just buy one and never get the other when the gameplay experience is pretty radically different, which is what I was getting at. For that matter, a very big chunk of the HBS Battletech community have already bought the game, so there's not even the "I can only afford one game this quarter" factor.

[Hanzoku]

Yeah, generally speaking if the games are any good, any battletech fan is going to buy both. It's not like the world is exactly glutted with too many singe-player games featuring big stompy robots.