Greater than three years after the discharge of MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries (opens in new tab), Piranha Video games president Russ Bullock has revealed in an interview with the NoGutsNoGalaxy (opens in new tab) podcast that an all-new singleplayer Mechwarrior sport is at the moment in improvement.
“We’re nonetheless engaged on MechWarrior, which has been considerably stunning to me, that we have been in a position to work on it this lengthy, which is nice,” Bullock mentioned. “And everybody is aware of we’ve after all DLC 4 popping out for MechWarrior 5.
“And there may be one other MechWarrior sport in improvement at Piranha. I am going to simply say that it isn’t MechWarrior On-line 2, it isn’t the successor to MechWarrior (opens in new tab)On-line [which entered open beta in 2012 before releasing in 2013], it isn’t on-line PvP—consider it extra inline with MechWarrior 5, however a standalone sport, a standalone product.”
Bullock mentioned the brand new sport shall be launched for PC and consoles, and can comply with “extra of a singleplayer co-op sort of pathway.” There is no indication as to what period the sport shall be set in, although, or what faction it can give attention to, and Bullock warned that the official reveal might not occur till the autumn of this yr. That leaves us loads of time for hypothesis, and off the highest of my head (given sure occasions in MechWarrior 5, which I cannot spoil) I really feel like one thing involving the Clan invas (opens in new tab)ion of 3049 (opens in new tab) may not be a foul guess.
Bullock additionally mentioned within the NGNG interview that he is thinking about doing a followup to MechWarrior On-line as properly, however famous that it faces extra challenges, together with the necessity for a license extension: Piranha at the moment has the rights to the MechWarrior license till 2025, however wants “extra runway than that” for a full MWO2.
“You are not going to make a MechWarrior On-line 2 in case your license is possibly over in 2025,” Bullock mentioned. “We might should know that we’ve a minimal of 5 years as soon as the sport is finished, so we most likely want an extension to 2030.”
In an e mail despatched to PC Gamer, Bullock confirmed that the brand new singleplayer MechWarrior sport is focused for launch in 2024. The fourth DLC for MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, referred to as Rise of Rasalhague (opens in new tab), is slated to return out on January 26.
