A brand new MechWarrior single-player recreation is in improvement

If stomping round in big BattleTech mechs is your concept of a very good time, there’s excellent news: a brand new MechWarrior recreation is within the works at Piranha Video games, the studio behind 2019’s chonky robotic recreation, and it’ll be a “standalone” entry that maintains the single-player, co-op focus of Mercenaries.

Piranha Video games president Russ Bullock made the announcement in an interview with the gaming podcast No Guts No Galaxy, responding to a query about the potential for one other MMORPG expertise like MechWarrior On-line 2.

“We’re nonetheless engaged on MechWarrior, which is nice,” Bullock says. “Everybody is aware of we’ve got DLC 4 popping out for MechWarrior 5. There may be one other MechWarrior recreation in improvement at Piranha, I’ll simply say that. It’s not a MechWarrior On-line 2, it’s not the successor to MechWarrior On-line. Consider it extra in step with MechWarrior 5, however a standalone recreation.”

You possibly can watch the complete interview right here (the related portion begins at across the 32:40 mark):

Bullock doesn’t go into additional element, past saying that it’ll be accessible on PC and consoles, and can contain single-player and co-op gameplay that’s just like MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries.

A extra formal announcement will probably be coming later this 12 months, presumably within the fall, Bullock says. Presumably, that’s once we’ll discover out what it’ll be referred to as, the place it’ll be happening, and most significantly, which BattleTech mechs we’ll be packing filled with lasers and armour earlier than heading out onto the battlefield.

Mechwarrior 5 now has ray-tracing and mod assist, and with the subsequent DLC coming within the close to future, there needs to be lots to maintain us busy till Piranha is able to reveal extra about its subsequent recreation.