It’s my understanding that the season pass includes these two new rallies, plus the 2024 cars/drivers.
It also will include Le Maestros and Hard Chargers content pack, which are essentially additional stages to the previous released base game rallies.
Thanks @saghen! I nearly bought this at full price a while back. Super glad i waited. Nice one!
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Me and the boy played for an hour or so, its good fun! Nowhere near as bad as the reviews suggested. I like it. Not sure i enjoy the class/specialist thing but I’m not sure ive got that all worked out just yet.
But I’ve also heard they have dropped that now for later games recently so maybe its just a bad idea or badly executed.
I’m not sure i want to be a “character” prefer being just a regular soldier.
But obi enjoyed the new vehicles and i like the guns .
Distinct lack of humvees though.
Just as a heads up, you level up your guns by getting kills and not through general xp. It’s very difficult to get kills in multiplayer (in a reasonable quantity to level up guns quickly). I would highly recommend playing against bots in the breakthrough mode. Select breakthrough and look for solo-coop or something like that. You can select difficulty and which map. Basically you can farm kills and level up the guns quickly. It doesn’t do much for XP as that’s reduced in bot mode. I would recommend playing on ‘Reclaimed’ since there are built up areas for cover and good sightlines to enemy.
I dont like playing on multiplayer so we have been having a great time against the bots. Some of them are great fun
I agree - it’s improved out of sight since release!
The characters don’t bug me too much, they’re really just subclasses to your standard soldier/engineer/medic classes.
I haven’t been much of an RPG guy but Hogwarts Legacy is 70% off on Steam so I’m giving it a try. Long gameplay but the graphics woooooo boy. Got some weird nostalgia to it as well.
I really liked it. But I am a fan of the books.
The problem for me that I never read any of the books and only watched a few of the movies, which I found interesting in the moment but immediately forgettable. The world never drew me in, so while I’m intrigued by that genre of game, the Harry-Potter nature leaves me feeling pre-bored, despite the price and some mild curiosity.
I was never a huge fan but it’s been a bit of a “spectre” of sorts constantly hanging around me since it’s quite popular here in Japan, plus the Universal Studios in Osaka and the “making of” studio in Tokyo, which have some interactive and fun bits.
But I mean…look at these shots you can take with the camera mode. This might make half the fun for me 
I may give it a try as well,
I need a good RPG to occupy the gaming vacuum left by finally saying bye to GTA5 Online, lol.
GoG is running a deep discount on MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries and all the DLC.
Is it worth it?
I wanted so badly to like it. I just found it impossibly difficult. Possibly more of a reflection on me than the game itself but i found it incredibly challenging and ended being not fun…
Magz has been doing a playthrough of Clans, and quite a few times now he’s referenced Mercenaries being quite flawed. The fact that there’s also a very robust mod scene is also interesting.
What was the things that made it so hard and unfun, balancing issues and things like that?
It was a while ago, but i found aiming at long distances tricky and the enemies ability to be lazer accurate at the same distance and slowly chipping away at you very irritating.
The repair costs as well i am sure i remember being punishing but i might perhaps have that confused with another game.
Is Hogwarts better on PC or console?
I don’t know about the console. But Hogwarts is one of the few 3rd person PC games that I actually preferred using a controller rather than keyboard and mouse.
I was disappointed by MW4: Mercs. To be fair to the game I played it shortly after release, and I understand it has improved a lot since then.
I wasn’t happy that it seemed like a step down from Mechwarrior Online visually - particularly in the cockpits of the mechs I prefer (like the Marauder) - and the poor teammate AI made running a mercenary company incredibly frustrating because they’d do dumb things and lose valuable equipment.
It’s probably better now. And there are mods to fix the things that I have problems with. But I can’t recommend the base game, just based on my experience.
Controls wise I’m debating that myself. Typical WASD keys for moving, C for walk, Shift for run, ctrl for a rolling dodge, space for jump/climb. F to interact, M to access the map, esc or N to access the menu that has inventory, etc. The run/walk commands can be set up for either a toggle or press-and-hold in the settings.
Combat and spells I think is where things get a bit tricky. Your basic “blaster” spell is left click. But all the other spells are scattered across G, R, Q, X, Z, 1-4, and F1-F4.
I haven’t learned the F1-F4 stuff yet, but the 1-4 spells can be swapped out with any spells you’ve learned and are stored in the inventory. Learning the spell requires tracing a shape. I can trace shapes and aim more accurately with mouse than I can with a controller stick, personally.
That is where a controller shines, especially once you have a heap of spells and can create multiple ‘spell sets’.
Once I got used to using one thumb stick for movement (WASD) and the other for moving my head (mouse) It made things so much easier. But that is me - YMMV
I was about to mention that I hadn’t realized they had added in the new controls scheme into MW5 froms Clans, then I got to the last sentence.
I just bought all the DLC this morning, reinstalled Mercs and have been playing it all day if that helps? It has a steep learning curve, not gonna lie. If you don’t have some decent seat time in another MW game to be comfortable with the controls, life can be brutal and short. Also the fact your a mercenary so you’re paying for all your repairs, ammo, etc ramps up the difficulty as well.
My recommendation is ignore the story line missions for a while and just take small contracts and take your time to repair between fights. That’ll let you buid up some funds and a decent lance of mechs before you get into the main plot.
