Battletech nerds rejoice? Mechwarrior 5 being worked on?

[Ramses II CP]

The unseen mechs, or the ones that don't suck anyway (The LAMS, I'm sorry to say, are lousy art and ripped off from other stuff anyway), are in the expansions to MechWarrior 4. If I recall correctly the Longbow was a stock Mercenaries mech too, so it was put in by MS/FASA before Mektek got involved.

That doesn't mean they'd be in a new game necessarily, but it does imply that Microsoft has or had some access to the rights.