MechWarrior 5: CLANS - Character Featurette - STAR COMMANDER JAYDEN
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- Greetings Warriors,
Welcome to our second MechWarrior 5: CLANS Character Featurette, featuring Star Commander Jayden played by Rory Saper. Our Character featurettes series continues to introduce you to the characters and actors immersing players in an epic tale set amidst a massive Invasion in MechWarrior 5 CLANS.
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The Invasion Begins October 3rd, 2024!
MechWarrior 5: CLANS is the Standalone Game
coming to XBOX Series S|X, PlayStation 5, and PC on October 3rd, 2024
- Experience the Clan Invasion from the perspective of Clan Smoke Jaguar as you lead your Star through engaging missions and combat, with cinematics unlike anything seen before in MechWarrior.
- Strategic adaptability is key to victory and more accessible than ever with the new Battle Grid, Command Wheel, and Streamlined Controls.
- Customize your 'Mechs with advanced Clan weapon systems, equipment, and upgrades for mission-specific battles, and advance your pilots with the new pilot progression system.
- Experience MechWarrior like never before with a fully standalone campaign featuring detailed environments and dynamic destruction using the latest Unreal Engine and new Tech Updates.
- Play with up to 4 other players as you protect and lead your Star through complex missions and thrilling combat
I'm glad this game is returning back to its roots. The dark atmosphere, the invasion of the clans, and seeing the war from the Smoke Jaguar's perspective make it refreshing.
Pre Clan era mercenary contracts is the roots of this game, but I’m glad we’ve finally gotten to this era.
@@rubaiyat300 Beat me to it, lol
The original Mechwarrior was set in 3025 era. Clans (and Mechwarrior 2) come a meaningful time later.
@@TheVenge Exactly. Negotiating contracts (ie having agency on what your rewards were) and fighting in a Veritech (at least what I recognized as such) is why I fell into this particular rabbit hole way back when
While they were wrong for it, the Combine had it coming
As much I like the clan era, the third succession war was its roots
"We were made for this" has a somewhat melancholy double-meaning when it comes to the Clans.
Can't wait to see this literal child soldier's reaction to the Turtle Bay massacre.
Clan Warcrime Jaguar
No witnesses, no massacre-Clan Space Kitty forever!
It makes you wonder at what point this level of observation and responsibility arises.
If the writers know how to write clanners at all, his reaction should be basically not caring at all.
To a clanner, putting down a civilian uprising against warriors with force is totally normal, and in fact morally good, because by putting such an uprising down hard at the outset they prevent future death. Note that death itself is not considered bad by clanners; the thing they are trying to prevent is actually waste -- it is wasteful to have to kill the civilian castes, because then they cannot work for the warriors.
I fully expect none of the writers for this game to understand this, and therefore to have the main story be Smoke Jaguars suddenly converting to modern Judeo-Christian values to which they have never been exposed and to find Turtle Bay abhorrent just so they can be more "relatable" to modern players who know nothing about BattleTech lore.
@@JohnSmith-d2h Clan Space Kitty does not care about civilian deaths.
Hope we hear "Quiaff", "Quineg" and "Stravag", mostly "Surat".
I'll be surprised if we don't
If you pay attention Jayden doesn't speak a single contraction in the video
My favorite Clan word is powless, and I've found myself using it occasionally because there is no word for that feeling in english.
And the almighty "Freebirth!"
stravags has been said in the gameplaytrailer iirc
@@darkalman He does speak a contraction at 1:41 - "outta" which is a contraction of "out" and "of"
Oh my god that Summoner at the end looks SO BALLER
The irony of a warrior society being raised in isolation to be reintroduced to their point of origin, only to see true brutality for the first time. The Inner Sphere has not stopped warring for hundreds of years.
Clans had the tech, Spheroids had know-how and determination, earned in blood.
@@LRK-GT And people wonder how Afghanistan bested both the US and the USSR.
Experience beats tech every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Fighting for your home on home turf also doubles that bonus. I love the clans but they never really had a chance.
Not to mention who the hell thought House Kurita was the best target to hit first? Should've knocked out House Steiner first. Then the Fed Suns would've been without their financial support, and then couldn't have reinforced the Combine. This is like Intro to Galactic Warfare 101: Cut the supply lines FIRST, always.
@@austinm5630 -Stop talking out of your ass. Afghanistan never bested the US. The US military could have glassed that country hundreds of times over if it wanted to. We won tens of thousands of times in that country. It became a politician's war. I am no fan of these so called "wars", but lying about them is ridiculous.
@@wordragon We could have beaten them, but didn’t. We were better soldiers, but we lacked their will. In the end, they did win.
@@wordragon Well...
1) We won hundreds of battles.
2) We lost the war.
3) 1 & 2 apply to the USSR too.
There's 3 indisputable facts for you. Not my fault if you don't like the truth. I don't like it either, but I won't deny reality just because it's inconvenient.
As to WHY we lost the war, see my original reply and the entire purpose for it. Whether it's warfare, sports, or fiction, the away team always underestimates home field advantage, and at least half the time it costs them victory. That's true of the Clans, and it was true of us.
The Clans also spent centuries simulating war, while the IS Houses were actually fighting it. Once again, much like Afghanistan - long before the Soviets invaded these people spent a thousand years fighting amongst themselves. By the time this big behemoth of a country rolled their T-72's and BMPs into the mountains (and promptly got stuck) it was already too late for them. And despite being the ones who gave the Afghans the guns they used to beat the Soviets, we learned absolutely, positively nothing from their example. We made all the same mistakes they did - especially the whole "we're a superpower, we can do anything" crap. We didn't appreciate the situation on the ground for the first 5+ years of the conflict. By the time we finally learned how to fight them, they had also learned how to fight us.
And guess what? It's their country. When we got tired of being fought to a standstill, we went home. When they did, they had to keep fighting anyway because they already WERE home. THAT is why we lost. Victory became impossible for us a few months in when we didn't realize we needed to commit about 8x the forces we eventually did (1.2mil+) and brute force a victory. We allowed it to become a war of attrition, on THEIR turf.
Now, if you want to needlessly insult me again, be my guest. But don't deny reality. I'm slightly overweight, maybe work with that instead.
These actors spotlights is such a great addition. Cant wait for the game
Everything looks….so good. This will elevate the series so much. BT/MW deserves to be recognized. It’s one of the greatest series of all time.
What we really need is someone to marry the tactic, top-down strategy game with the 1st/3rd person tank-shooter game, make a game that is both Battletech AND MechWarrior 5 effectively. Yes I do grasp the scope of that task. But I also believe its a realistic goal, and the end product would succeed if well made.
@@user-op7pm6tx1j I would settle for Battletech 2. That was one hell of a game, made into a stellar game with some truly inspiring user made mods.
Can’t wait to lose horribly in the name of clan ash kitty
Ash Kitty.... God bless you sir. That hit hard as fuck
We are unbeatable, until Space AT&T Collections comes knocking.
@@PWlonewolfnah, they lost to the Snakes twice even before Tukayyid
@@PWlonewolf or hohiro and teddy comes along.
@@PWlonewolf Nobody expects the Blake's inquisition!
They birthed you for combat.
They promised you conquest.
They trained you to honor your Clan.
But they did not prepare you for war.
Remember to pay your phone bills, fucko! -Comstar
Welcome to Sphere, tube-born
...least of all, (not prepared) for Comstar
@@iller3 "Pay your bills, fucko"
@@iller3
They inducted you into the Order
Instructed you in the faith of Blessed Blake
Trained you fight for the Inner Sphere
But they never prepared you for being aggressively bought out by Clan Sea Fox
0:44 They knew what they were doing choosing this clip to show
You referring to Tukkayid?
@@andresabourin2423 Turtle Bay
I'm really hoping our main character behaves like a true Clanner and doesn't switch sides as a twist ending or something
@@Chromehounds96 That's a Wolf thing 🤣
@@Chromehounds96 This is my concern too. Just let us die with honor damnit lol
I’ve been a huge battletech geek for a long time. And I have to say… this is the best that the Battletech universe has ever looked.
And I’m not talking about the mechs. It’s the characters and character design… even the uniforms and such. The care and respect that seems to be taken here is evident and above and beyond.
Anyone who has opened up the older source material will know that a lot of character art was very… eccentric. And I’ll admittedly say that clan warrior art from the source material was damn near ridiculous. So much so that young me never connected with the clans through the source material. They always seemed kind of silly to me.
But this version… chefs kiss. You have made me want to play as a clanner. I want to experience this story. You have grounded the clans in a way that I have never personally experienced. For me, it puts them in a different view.
I want a Battletech movie. And everyone needs to look like this design wise.
"And I’ll admittedly say that clan warrior art from the source material was damn near ridiculous"
It was the 80s 🤣
Lots of attention to detail, I re-watched it twice and Jayden never used a contraction.
I agree that this is a great depiction. The Clans are a military society above all else, so they should look like it, if only in the field.
The crazy stuff like animal masks are basically their dress uniforms, and dress uniforms look equally ridiculous in real life.
"Human to human level." Said the smoke jaguar who dehumanises everyone and everything that's not a smoke jaguar trueborn, even other clans... Let alone spheroids.
I really hope these sentiments will be reflected in the character arcs, and that they will make a Jade falcons dlc soon!
The Clans can pretend to not be human all they want too but at their core their genes are the same
It still counts
Haha, I had the same thought.
"Actor: "the character makes sense from a human perspective."
Ah, then he must be a terrible Smoke Jaguar :P
Well IMO this new mechwarrior will be MW 5 with updated graphics, added most popular mods and this crap, woke story with black, gay transwoman somwhere as your lancmate I bet.
Probably will pirtate it, but after I played MW 5 and saw, that this is just MWO without multiplayer, with shitty autogen missions, without AI at your enemies or lancemates, certainly won`t buy this for I guess 60-70 bucks.
@@tomaszmazurowski149You clearly know nothing about Battletech and MechWarrior in general.
@@tomaszmazurowski149 Trueborn cant be transgender. Their genes are edited at the baseline level to splice in two existing "blooded" warriors to create a new lineage based on a fairly standard (if outdated, by modern standard and even the early 90s in truth) understanding of eugenics.
Each is grown in and decanted from an artificial enviroment refered to as an Iron Womb. They aren't so much born as "made"
Also presumably if one did happen to exist for some reason, Smoke Jaguar would see them butchered via Trial for one reason or another and they wouldn't survive to be a Mechwarrior. In another clan they might be better off (Ghost Bear, or Wolf, of course) but CSJ? No.
this isn’t meet the team
it’s meet the star
heh I see what you did there
Can't wait to see the Battle of Luthien and Tukayyid
Given how Jake Mason's story in MW5:Mercs was a loose retelling of Grayson Carlyle and the _Gray Death Legion_ trilogy, I'd be really excited if Jayden's story in MW5:Clans mirrors Trent's in _Twilight of the Clans_ !
How does Jakes story mirror Greyson? I really loved the Grey Death Trilogy but havent finished the MW5 story since I started playing career only. I dont care for spoilers
@@Frostbite0524 Same "plot twist" with killed father and similar discovered Star League era cache. But I don't remember details, because I read it 10 years ago)
@@oleksandrrogozhnikov5525it if is its so loose you can fit an Atlas in the gap. the recent games almost always have a chapter for rediscovered star league depot to justify getting SL stuff in a game where they are supposed to be so very rare, yet a player can have 100s of double heatsink.
Well... Turtle Bay could be a point where Jayden may feel that the Galaxy Commander is dishonorable, and we may have some conflict with him that may eventually lead to a Trial of Grievence or Refusal or something. But Jayden defecting to the Inner Sphere seems unlikely. Also Jayden seems to be a young officer, fresh for a fight. Trent, as I recall, was considered "old" by Clan Warrior Caste standards, only fit to be shuffled back home for garrison duty by the time he took an Inner Sphere Bondsman. Judith was really a ComStar Intel Officer whose mission was to discover the Exodus Road. Her help, combined with Trent's loss of faith in the Clan, lead to Operations Bulldog and Serpent.
Mason's daddy was a clanner
Please end this at Tukayyiad. Us knowing what they would drop into would be a epic ending.
It could be like the ending of halo reach lol.
Bonus points if there's a reference to the ending scene of MW2:Mercs, with you leading a star through the Dinju Pass to take on a Com Guard demi-company led by an Atlas.
@@commanderrazor As cool as it would be, Dinju Pass was attacked by Alpha Galaxy. As part of Beta Galaxy, I can see Jayden and his star attacking Port Racice.
@@honeybadger6275 objective updated: survive tukayyid. the fact that in lore only 3 stars of mech survived could be a sign this could be the actual ending of the game!
@@13jojobear , that's a very good point. Well that just means we get to see that battle for the first time.
Nice touch, clanners don't use contractions in there speech. Examples "don't, we'll, aren't, i'll".
Aff
Unless it's a batchall
@cyanidecologne9018 Damn, critical hit. Point to you.
batchall batchall
@@cyanidecologne9018 Neg, that is a portmanteau. Slightly different
I love that the developers made Jayden and his sibkin all have very similar features, which is lore accurate. The sibko are all offspring of the genetic material from two "parents", bloodnamed Smoke Jaguar MechWarriors. Naturally, they should all look like brothers and sisters.
I'm glad we're finally getting what seems to be 'non-goofy' clanners. I get it's fun to hate on clanners and clown on them but it's refreshing to see them taken more seriously.
If you can take The Wolf's Dragoons seriously, you can see a glimpse of what they should be.
Man, the voice acting, general look and camera framing they went with makes me look forward to the cutscenes just as much as the mech play. In my opinion the animations and faces just look good without stepping into uncanny valley.
Maybe we'll be able to get ourselves annihilated at Tukayyid
Whoa, PGI, this looks fantastic.
Better than I expected.
This feels...real.
The promos for this REALLY feel like the way the clanners were depicted in the tabletop sourcebooks and the novels: terrifyingly competent, driven, humorless, brainwashed and zealous. Like they’re human but really sort of alien at the same time.
The trailers just nail that.
I really really hope the in game music is not just gonna be metal songs, but more atmospheric like "Mech Warrior 2: 31st Century Combat"! :)
Oh I don't know about that. When I see a Mech, I think "now, that's metal", so... yeah, I wouldn't mind a metal soundtrack.
@@Uni0nDirect0r Metal un-immerses me pretty hard. I don't think it fits characters' interior life at all. Battletech is a tragic setting of crap situations and desperation. And the clans as a society and an enterprise are the height of that tragedy. They are not heavy metal.
@@moksound19All of the Mechwarrior: Mercs games had more metal because it kinda fit being a badass space merc - but all of the other, "Regular" entries in the series (like this one) had more orchestral music to portray the drama and tragedy of the universe. I think Clans will keep the tradition and return to this orchestral music style.
@@moksound19 Yeah, metal is a bit too much glorification to my mind. BattleTech should be studied, melancholy, with sudden bursts of ferocious activity. (Or maybe I just want more of the HBS soundtrack.)
@@captainkirk4271 You can't please everyone, nor should you try. What I just described would be horribly mismatched with Solaris VII matches, for instance.
“Good hunting”. This is exactly what a CO should tell warriors going into combat.
Not “be safe” or “good luck” or “come back alive”.
I'm loving the development here so far! It's making me hope that there will be a canon sourcebook released based on this game's story, like how we got a canon House Arano book. Maybe something specific about CSJ Beta Galaxy!
Barring MW4 all mech warrior games are cannon
@@jarreddean2094not quite. All games are considered apocryphal. The official stance is that they can contribute to the canon, but only when not contradicted by another source, with the contributions being up to the main IP holder rather than the producer of the games.
@@littleshep5502 my bad your right but considering most games barring MW4 don’t really contradict the lore and in fact the books based on the games don’t even defer from the games story you just don’t play it if I recall, bare in mind it’s been years sense I last read them
The more I see revealed about this campaign, the more excited I get. Watching some of the NGNG podcasts, I see what they're saying where Smoke Jag will do what Smoke Jag does, but you're a character within that larger lore. I wonder if there're any decision points along the way that change the trajectory of the story you play. Are you going to follow the culture of Smoke Jag or are you going to have questions about if this is truly the way Kerensky wanted it to be. Looking forward to October!
Even if they don't, I can see the Galaxy Commander being a threat to the player as Turtle Bay was a rather brutal event even to the Clans. And I think it was the first of many events that would lead to the other Clans seeing the Smoke Jaguars as corrupt and not helping them whatsoever when the Inner Sphere launched their assault to wipe out a Crusader Clan.
So either way I think we'll be dealing with the Galaxy Commander.
This looks so story driven it really makes me wonder if the game will have any replayability.
Russ on NGNG podcast stated that there will be kind of "New Game +" mode, so I would assume that it will be 3-4 "interesting playthroughs" with the DLCs to cover all game content.
Im sure the they will add random mission generator from MW5 at some point :)
Linear story didn't hurt the replay ability of older MW titles. It's the ability to change your mechs and playstyle that gives the game variety.
@@ShimmeringSword For you maybe but not for me. Doing the same mission over and over just in a different mech is boring.
@@1stpogookay? Tell me how unique mw5 missions feel? You know, so I can laugh at you.
Will we fight in Turtle Bay?
Considering who the Galaxy Commander is... you can count on it
Wasn't the turtle bay ground garrison mostly vehicles and elementals? Maybe a few Sohlama mechwarriors?
You would likely be somewhere outside and see it from a distance
Would have to be a cut scene, but given Gxy.Cdr. Cordera Perez is shown very prominently, we will undoubtedly see it covered in proper detail, since he was the CO of Beta Galaxy who ordered the CSJ Sabre Cat to do it.
And much as I am loathe to admit it (I'm a Warden Wolves fan), Perez was *promptly* Trial of Possession-ed out of that billet by Dietr Osis specifically because even his fellow Jags thought it was beyond the pale.
@@commanderrazor And poor Nicolai Malthus got blamed for a made-up massacre of the same type because Mr. Saban of the Tharkaad Broadcasting Company said he "Didn't think Lyran and Fedsuns children were quite ready to empathize THAT much with a bunch of dead snakes"
@@commanderrazorand Dietr Osis in turn died on Wolcott. I wonder how the Wolcott missions would be like, trying to survive wave after wave of Genyosha (Black Ocean) units.
Genetically engineered and indoctrinated into a Heinlein inspired military meritocracy.
Students are forced to compete against each other since childhood to prove who's best and get the most of out them resulting in most Clanners have a superiority complex.
By the time the game starts Jayden has probably already killed members of his own sibkos (his brothers and sisters) to prove he was worth joining the warrior caste.
Now he starts facing the realities of war
Not to mention that SJ was considered, even by the clans, to be the most underhanded and vicious among them. Nukes? Ok. Destroying Jump Ships? Ok. War Crimes? Ok. Terrorism? Ok... -SJ in a nutshell.
The clans are not at all akin to the Terran Federation. They're an insane police state, not a modernized Roman Republic like the Federation.
@@rpscorp9457 The commander for this op is the same guy known to have been at Turtle Bay.
This is going to get REAL Smoke Jaguar real fast
Eh, sibko cadets seldom kill each other. The vast majority of the ones that don't graduate simply wash out into the civilian castes. Even with CSJ. But yeah, they do graduate with a hell of a superiority complex given they've all been told their entire lives that they are the spawn of the literal heroes of their Clan, the combination of two of the best warriors of that Clan, selectively bred to be the best combatants humanity can produce. They almost always graduate feeling very confident and ambition is encouraged.
But they don't really resemble SST's Terran Federation really. That's more the Cappies with their requirement to serve the state in order to become a citizen.
The Clans don't really conform to anything, they're just really fuckin' weird. Probably described as a stratocratic republic thing with some very fucking odd and eccentric specifics that sets them apart from other stratocratic republics in fiction.
Well, at least we get to see what Heinlein's church would have become had he won his bet with L. Ron. IN SPACE!
Serious "I'm getting my men" vibes with the older gentleman
He does remind me of Adama
Another great actor spotlight. Featured characters so far seem well-written.
These cutscenes look awesome. I’m so excited to have a mechwarrior game with this level of presentation!
Good deep dive. You can tell he’s sincere in his description of the character
This is what I have been wanting in a MW game, 5 was fine but it just didn't have that cinematic quality that I remember from playing 4 back when I was a kid.
MW4: Vengeance was really the best game in the entire series. I've been trying to get it running on my PC for the past several days. About to give up and install it on an old Windows XP machine. MW4: Mercs was great too with the Mektek expansion, but in my opinion it was too short. Needed more missions.
@@TehButterflyEffect I managed to get it working for a playthrough about 6 months ago, as fantastic if not more than I remembered it. Made MW5M hard to play afterwards though!
MechWarrior franchise finally is receiving treatment it deserves.
Oh, it looks like a movie. Very nice!
Jayden is a clanner. There is no innocence in his actions, only degrees of slaving space barbarian.
"Innocence" does not mean "Goodness." He looks like someone who's never questioned what the world was or his place in it. I really hope they play with that.
@@krishonk7754 Yeah, I'm getting strong "Crusader turning into Warden" vibes, but maybe that's just the Ghost Bear in me.
A cruel society is not necessarily comprised solely of cruel people.
Best Clan ever. Glad they're back.
Best at being wiped out?
Best at being stomped by space at&t who has centuries older equipment and ignoring the threat of an enemy general and falling for ambush after ambush. In all honesty I do think the clans are neat it's just that they suffer from viewing war as a sport vs war as a conflict.
Centuries old equipment is where you have the entire concept of battletech, backwards. 300 year old equipment is only one step back from clan equipment. The difference is simply that those weapons are close enough in advancement to be analogs of clan weapons. Current innersphere tech is a total of four nuclear halocaust scale war steps back from clan tech in only 300 years. The mercenary group Wolf's dragoons ( a splinter group of wolf wardens, the opposition clan of the jaguars and falcons) had to bridge the gap for the rest of the innersphere, while comstar simply held on to as much advanced technology that they could, over 300 years of innersphere damned near regression after back to back wars over centuries. Effectively, the clans are simply up to par with where 31st century technology SHOULD BE, in the story. The only difference is that their biological sciences and medical advancements are above and beyond the rest of civilization, thanks to the warrior and science caste being number one and number two in their caste system.
@mercerholt8299
@@nilsingvar7319 Perez deserves a Nobel peace prize for being the crusader who puts the new SLDF to work. He actually is more deserving than Ulric kerensky post humously. That is saying ALOT.
They could have done worse, they could have been snakes.
I may not actually Joined any Clan Mech Forces yet.....but already know what it means to be a real true Mechwarrior.
I was never really a diehard BT fan. HBS's Battletech was my actual intro into the wider franchise. But Im glad older fans are finally getting more attention for this series.
That game is ok, but we really needed it to be made by a different studio. The game is garbage without a couple of mods.
I am so pumped for this game! I love how the actors for the voiceovers are taking the roles serious and talking about the aspects of their act; such as finding their voice as well as figuring out just who they are as the character. Really inspiring!!
"Smoked Jaguar indeed." - Some Asshole
REALLY REALLY looking forward to playing this!!!!
Space Kitties vs Space Weebs. Whoever loses, we all win.
wolf will eat you
Ah, a Summoner.... my beloved
Excited for this! Smoke Jaguar was always one of my favorite "foil" factions.
Can't wait I hope they make there money so they keep making mechwarrior games. I think we will turn on smoke jaguar and fight against them at the half way point through the game.
I really hope not
That would be the most liberal marxist predictable thing ever. And IF they do that then the game will be utter trash, and id rather more M5 Mercs DLC
@@normanred9212 after the turtle bay massacre I wouldn't be surprised
God I hope not
@@normanred9212 How to spot a yank? Anything they don't like is liberal marxist, not that they could explain what those things are.
I can't believe I have to play someone called Jayden.
Oh well, the game is just gonna be awesome, so that makes up for it.
Idk why everyone so far has to look like beta male soyboys, I want 90s edge and intensity not 2020s douchness
I like how the sibko members all look related because that's how it really is in a clan sibko. The genetic program "trueborn" warriors you could looks exactly like your CO if your from the same genetic line
this looks so awesome,i cant wait for the release allready
Hopefully, they'll bring DLCs with Clan Jade Falcon, Clan Wolf, and Clan Ghost Bear.
without the fancy trailer editing some of those scenes seemed awkward
I can't believe they're putting Jerma985 in this game
The clans in general are extremely authoritarian and they usually very strictly enforce the caste system, where warriors often look down on civilians and the lower caste.
Smoke Jaguar in particularly is known for their utter contempt of the lower castes and their open disdain for civilians.
Trying to humanize a character from such a background will be a tall order, but I really hope it all pans out. It would add a lot of complexity to the Smoke Jaguars if it manages to make it believable that there's a young and idealistic warrior, who might think himself above non-warriors but still wants to be honorable within the codex of the clans, warped as that codex might be at times.
It could work out well, the main character starting out the war with high ideals, but the longer it progresses, the more the advances bog down and the more brutal the war gets, the main character might become increasingly disenfranchised with his clan.
Of course, this is just one potential storyline they could go for. Eager to find out what awaits me in this new title.
The books had Trent and that one Elemental who was Victor's bodyguard
Implying that human beings aren't typically extremely authoritarian and willing to look down on people they perceive/are taught to see as lower than they are. Frankly such a character is more typical of humanity than someone who believes in liberty strongly enough that he would even grant rights to his enemies.
Ever try reading a history book? Or the news?
@@JohnSmith-d2h 1) That is one edgy comment.
2) Using the term "implying" like this was 4chan in the year of our lord 2012. I'm actually impressed you didn't go the extra mile by posting it in the ">implying..." format.
And just for the record, your hottake is laughably wrong, even when I disregard the tautological "If people are raised to look down on others, they look down on others" to focus on the "humanity is inherently evil" shtick.
Just for the hell of it: You are aware that nations literally grant rights to their enemies, aren't you? Clearly, it doesn't apply to hellholes like North Korea or Iran (at least not to the same extend), but by and large, the majority of nations grant people general rights and Western nations grant full human rights to everyone unconditionally. Enemy or not.
If you're still on this emo trip and you don't believe me, how about *you* read up on some history and have a look at the Geneva Convention.
OMG the look up to the Summoner really gave me Aidan Pryde vibes.
I'm getting real excited for this game.
Did he say trials? Oh YES!
you had me at mechs, you extra had me at Clans, but now you really got me with real characters and cutscenes. thats so cool. I hope there is one mech fight cutscene though, those are always good
1:57 gave me giggles. Jaden: [shout through hangar]. She: [standing literally 5 meters away from him]
Super excited for this!
At least they didn't use contractions like the lore.
There's at least two contractions in the conversation at 1:36
Wow, this looks great. Will have to see how the pudding tastes, so to speak, but so far... great stuff!
With the exception of Perez, none of these characters feel like SJ's.
My son Jaydens really excited to be the main character 😂😂
Gotta say the character work is phenomenal and has me hyped. Very cool and unique character designs and animation, great voice acting, writing... this is better than pretty much any character work I'm seeing in AAA at the moment.
1:36 - CONTRACTION! This is verbotten for a trueborn Smoke Jaguar warrior.
They sometimes slip up when frustrated
This spotlight has me stoked for the game!
I'm not a Smoke Jaguar fan, but this game will be huge for those that are, & is the best look at the Clans to date!
This is looking to be what MW5 should have been
Their MoCap is shaky. The adaptation of mocap to the engine and render has to be stabilized. Since the mocap was already done, there's soft noise stabilization techniques to get rid of that jitter and smooth it over.
still months to continue top fine tune each scenes mocap data
Are we the bad guys?
Man. That whole ‘Contractions are rude’ thing really sticks out, doesn’t it?
Love this but still waiting for an AeroTech PC game!
I want a Battletech Warship sim ^_^
Hm, now this looks promising. I wonder if he rebels after Turtle Bay and that is a the plot maybe? Looking so forward to this. Finally a story driven MW game again with modern story telling options.
Any ideas about what bloodname he is from?
My own gut tells me it is Howell.
And on that note, I can't be certain about the possibility of branching paths for the campaign...
We were made for this. Yes, made in an Iron Womb.
Turtle Bay Massacre PLUS All Quiet on the Western Front as inspiration... This looks solid. I'm a hardcore jolly war-crimes-for-hookers merc at heart, but I do feel the universe needs that sort of sobering reminder as to what 'mech combat is really about.
Please don't mess it up.
Do the characters look alienish because of they are genetically altered/created?
Most likely adapting to mocap, regardless, could be worse
Frick yeah Craigy! 😄
It's odd, the animation is a bit uncanny valley for me. I think it's how the mouths were animated. It just moves in a way that meant to be human but feels slightly off or it could be that it's just the expressions seem a little off? I'm not really sure what it is about their faces that activate my almonds. Am I the only one that noticed this?
I know the Jaguars are cruel, but do I really have to be named Jayden?
It's like the song "A Boy Named Sue" 😅. Gets the blood boiling to get into that Smoke Jaguar murderous mindset.
Finally sentient and fleshed out white male protagonist
I really dig the character design so far. When i watched the Battletech series, I always thought the clanners looked kinda goofy. I know it was a product of it's time but it gave the impression that the Clans were these sortof techno barbarians (which tbf they kinda are.)
But you'd think that being the descendants of what was at the time, the best military force ever seen, that they would retaine the aesthetics of said military force.
I totally see it here. Everyone looks sharp and uniformed, like you would see in a military based society.
Anyway, i hope there's an encounter with Eridiani Light Horse.
LOL Don't you run into a Light Horse star in MW4: Mercs? They were dweebs.
@@TehButterflyEffect The light horse are IS, so they wouldn't be a star. You run into jade falcon though
Inner sphere gang!!!!! Get Focht Clanners
It’s mind blowing they picked Smoke Jaguar, the lore’s punching bag, to make the game’s focus. I sure hope they’ve got some amazing writers on board.
I wouldn't say punching bag honestly. Even in the novels they recognized the Smoke Jaguars as the most ruthless and brutal of the invading Clans. Which is WHY the reformed Star League targeted them. Take out the most aggressive of the Clans, as well as one of the Crusader faction, and you show the Clans you mean business.
@@chrisjohnson1146 True but even Jade Falcon can point to them and say at least we aren't that bad, so lore wise they do tend to be looked down on even by other clanners.
The Wolves, Falcons and Bears have already been featured in Mechwarrior games.
@@chrisjohnson1146well, that and also the fact it needed to align with multiple nations goals, which is why they hit the jaguars, as they were sitting in combine space
Well done on avoiding contractions.
Hope there’ll be a batchall between the Crusaders.
Hmmm not sure about his look, but we will see
Metahuman can look uncanny sometimes
Those facial animations need some work
Yes they sure do. Jitter needs to get fixed.
Wtf is up with his eyes? Is there a canon reason they look so weird?
It’s called being a trueborn clanner
The speech patterns and lack of contractions are spot on.
Smoked Jaguar indeed.
Can't wait to meet the rest of the sibko: Braiyden, Ayden, Jaiden, Kayden, Caiden, Kayleigh, and of course Jaeden.
Was each star supposed to be a group of cloned siblings? I don't know much of the lore beyond MW3, MW4 and what little lore MW5 contains. I was never able to read any of the books.
@@TehButterflyEffectNo they are not. A sibko share some similarities between them, from their geene parents, but they are all different individuals... With different names.
@@TehButterflyEffect my comment was poking fun of the name Jayden in the context of stupid baby naming trends popular in the USA 😅
Less people... More mechs.
Kinda looks like someone enlarged his eyes with photoshop
They might have. After all, the clanners are genetically engineered.
Got to fix the odd mouth movements. Really off putting
Last mechwarrior game wa alright, but wasn't as good as I was hoping. This game looks like it could blow the last one out of the water.
Anyone want to talk about how the Clans invaded without enough troops to garrison more than a dozen words apiece?
Darn good thing Comstar was willing to help them out.
Otherwise they'd have never made it out of the Periphery.
They had the troops, comstar was more helping them quell insurrection so that Frontline units didn't have to be pulled back
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