MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries - Legend of the Kestrel Lancers

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● Join forces with House Davion's Kestrel Lancers to experience the 4th Succession War ● Progress through a new Linear Campaign to achieve key strategic outcomes ● Fight alongside large combined forces in all out war ● Experience intense urban combat in large all city settings with massive destruction Experience the 4th Succession War Fight in battles set during the famous Inner Sphere conflict and experience first-hand the frontlines of the 4th Succession War with 14 new campaign missions New Linear Campaign Features a new linear campaign with unique mechanics, authored missions, and custom dialogue and cinematics All Out War Experience All-Out-War scenarios with large-scale expansive combat in 7 new questlines that include 10 new "battle" scenarios Large City Urban Combat Fight in new cities that are massively larger than any previously experienced, never knowing what's around the next corner New 'Mech Variants Over 20 new variants of existing 'Mechs, New Kestrel Lancers 'Mech skin, and 5 new 'Mech-specific skins New Garrisons Discover new Garrisons including Orbital Guns firing on invasion forces, and a new 'Mech Factory Garrison featuring MW5's first indoor play space New Biomes Battle in new Mega-city, Jungle, and Tourmaline Desert biomes New Procedural Content New Procedural Content including new random rewards from Assassination Missions, and surprise Artillery on Raid Missions FREE Update content ● New ability to switch player control to any AI Lance 'Mechs ● New melee combat with the ability to damage enemy 'Mechs with your 'Mechs' fists ● Other new quality of life updates including an updated HUD, and more!

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Developer:
Piranha Games
Publisher:
Fireshine Games
Release date:
22 September 2021
Recent Steam reviews:
Not specified
All Steam reviews:
Mostly Positive (250)
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Description

● Join forces with House Davion's Kestrel Lancers to experience the 4th Succession War
● Progress through a new Linear Campaign to achieve key strategic outcomes
● Fight alongside large combined forces in all out war
● Experience intense urban combat in large all city settings with massive destruction

Experience the 4th Succession War
Fight in battles set during the famous Inner Sphere conflict and experience first-hand the frontlines of the 4th Succession War with 14 new campaign missions

New Linear Campaign
Features a new linear campaign with unique mechanics, authored missions, and custom dialogue and cinematics

All Out War
Experience All-Out-War scenarios with large-scale expansive combat in 7 new questlines that include 10 new "battle" scenarios

Large City Urban Combat
Fight in new cities that are massively larger than any previously experienced, never knowing what's around the next corner

New 'Mech Variants
Over 20 new variants of existing 'Mechs, New Kestrel Lancers 'Mech skin, and 5 new 'Mech-specific skins

New Garrisons
Discover new Garrisons including Orbital Guns firing on invasion forces, and a new 'Mech Factory Garrison featuring MW5's first indoor play space

New Biomes
Battle in new Mega-city, Jungle, and Tourmaline Desert biomes

New Procedural Content
New Procedural Content including new random rewards from Assassination Missions, and surprise Artillery on Raid Missions

FREE Update content
● New ability to switch player control to any AI Lance 'Mechs
● New melee combat with the ability to damage enemy 'Mechs with your 'Mechs' fists
● Other new quality of life updates including an updated HUD, and more!

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows 10 (64-bit versions)
Processor:
Intel Core i3-7100/AMD Ryzen 3 1200
Memory:
8 GB RAM
Graphics:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770/AMD Radeon R9 280X
DirectX:
Version 11
Network:
Broadband Internet connection
Additional Notes:
Broadband internet connection is needed to play and host Co-op games. Internet Connection is NOT Required for Single player once the game is downloaded.

recommended*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows 10 (64-bit version)
Processor:
Intel Core i7-6700K/AMD Ryzen 7 1700
Memory:
16 GB RAM
Graphics:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070/AMD RX Vega 56
DirectX:
Version 11
Network:
Broadband Internet connection
Additional Notes:
Broadband internet connection is needed to play and host Co-op games. Internet Connection is NOT Required for Single player once the game is downloaded.

User reviews

sakipaki
Recommended | 26 Oct 2025

MechWarrior 5 is a great game with tons of replayability. The DLCs are also very good, and I need to speak out against their poor ratings, which actually kept me from buying them for a while... My recommendation: - Buy

Helpful: 15
GRUNKY PEEP
Recommended | 03 Dec 2025

Exactly what I wanted from MW; good, properly authored content with varied battlefields and a decent throughline for plot. Overall, probably the best of the DLC (tied with Heroes of the Inner Sphere) I've played so far.

Helpful: 5
SonofaGlitch
Recommended | 27 May 2026

The problem with DLCs like Kestrel Lancers as time goes on in a game that focuses on lots of DLC like MW5 is that in terms of comparing it to later content, it pales in comparison, but at the time it came out, it was a

Helpful: 7
TheSeymster
Recommended | 08 Jun 2024

Definitely a recommend. The plot is more sophisticated than the base game campaign and the context of the military operation that you participate in is nuanced and has more believable depth. I think it is worth the

Helpful: 9
ZoomBeast
Recommended | 05 Apr 2026

Strongly reccomend this DLC simply because it brings new mechs and campaigns to the table. Pros: +New mechs (eg: Archer) +Nice campaign Cons: -I cannot do without the content from this DLC. Archer 2S is part of almost

Helpful: 4
laughterkills
Recommended | 03 Dec 2025

Legend of the Kestrel Lancers is a must have, and prior to Shadow of Kerensky, was my favorite DLC campaign in the game. It's worth the price of admission, but I would recommend picking it up on sale or as part of a

Helpful: 6