In MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries you will adopt the role of a rookie MechWarrior pilot thrust into combat as the Third Succession War continues to fracture the Inner Sphere. Take contracts from the factions of your choosing and engage in tactical, first-person, PvE ‘Mech combat through an immersive, career-based Mercenary campaign driven by player choice. Victory, prestige, and profit will not only require skill on the battlefield, but in the acquisition, maintenance, and enhancement of your BattleMechs.

Set for release in 2018, MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is under development by a dedicated team at Piranha Games. MechWarrior Online, Piranha’s existing F2P multiplayer-focused tactical ‘Mech combat game, will continue its ongoing live development by the MWO team at Piranha.

Humanity has expanded to the stars, colonizing a vast region of space known as the Inner Sphere. Where the Star League once ruled in relative stability, generations of countless wars, alliances, and betrayals have divided the Inner Sphere into five distinct Successor States. These states, also known as the Great Houses, have fought and quarreled for centuries over the remnants of the Star League and control of the Inner Sphere. They are now in the midst of a Third Succession War, one which has been raging for almost 150 years.
While the battlefields of the Inner Sphere burn with an array of devastating weaponry, none is more formidable than the BattleMech. These immense fighting machines, piloted by elite fighters known as MechWarriors, dominate the wars of the future with enough firepower to annihilate entire cities.
In MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries you will adopt the role of a rookie MechWarrior pilot thrust into combat as the Third Succession War continues to fracture the Inner Sphere. Take contracts from the factions of your choosing and engage in tactical, first-person, PvE ‘Mech combat through an immersive, career-based Mercenary campaign driven by player choice. Victory, prestige, and profit will not only require skill on the battlefield, but in the acquisition, maintenance, and enhancement of your BattleMechs.
Set for release in 2018, MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is under development by a dedicated development team at Piranha Games. MechWarrior Online, Piranha’s existing F2P multiplayer-focused tactical ‘Mech combat game, will continue its ongoing live development by the MWO team at Piranha.

Also, not sure why Battlemech in Mechwarrior has hands given that the mechs never use their hands during combat.

Mechwarrior: Mercenaries was one of my favourite games.

2018 is a long time from now.

Also, not sure why Battlemech in Mechwarrior has hands given that the mechs never use their hands during combat.

The table top game and novels have some Mechs that actually have hand to hand weapons like axes. I think it was one of the few features going to be added in Mechwarrior Online before (I played the closed beta then).

That make sense.

Hope they include this in the new Mechwarrior game. I am quite sure the technology should be sufficiently advance to include this (eg. Titanfall 2).

That will be happened in Battletech game, will be hard to use in MechWarrior, hmmm, but this time only single player, may have chance to do that ingame.

Are you referring to the tabletop version when you say Battletech game?

Nope, this one. Although battletech boardgame sure have. hehe

http://battletechgame.com/

Ahh from the creators of Shadowrun.

This should be very interesting.

Yeah, have high hope. The unreal engine sure make this game a lot better in visual compared to current MechWarrior Online, or I think that is trailer effect. haha

Can see a lot of ppl wish harebrained scheme behind MechWarrior 5 instead of Piranha, hope both do good job on continuing this franchise. 

Not many Mechwarrior player here?

Just got my king crab today haha. Fit it with 2 LBX10