Mercenaries Of Vector

Mercenaries Of Vector is a mech combat game set across wireframe battlefields. You take contracts, fight hostiles and salvage parts from enemies to buy weapons and maintain your mech. Its vector-arcade visuals draw the terrain, enemies and cockpit as geometry, keeping targets legible even at a kilometre.

Contracts and combat

The game has a hundred contracts across four kinds of fight. On open ground, you face roaming waves and field objectives such as defence grids, shield pillars, factory reactors and an enemy general to assassinate. Boarding actions take place inside ships, where there is no terrain or horizon to read. You also fly sorties on rails when a sector cannot be crossed on foot, and fight in flat arenas against Mega Mecha.

Mega Mecha

There are ten Mega Mecha, each with a different challenge. Some have armour that must be stripped before their core is worth attacking; others have emplacements you must answer first. Their attack patterns punish you for standing still in front of them.

Salvage and progression

You cut salvage from enemies, and it carries over between missions. Spend it on weapons such as an energy saber, guided missiles, a charge laser or a flamethrower. The autocannon comes standard and is never sold. Completing contracts raises your rank, which increases the minimum strength of your hull and shields.

Mech condition

Your mech's components take damage separately, and their condition affects how they perform: a weapon at 60% condition behaves accordingly, while a jet at 40% is unreliable for a planned jump. Repairs cost salvage, the same resource used to buy weapons.