Developer commentary and Q&A sessions indicate that they're not expecting a traditional MMO model; the game will run on multitudes of servers, with only a persistent meta-verse to speak of. Mercenary Units will be not unlike callsigns: reserve early when available, first come and first serve.

The devs indicate that they're focused on PvP first, but are looking to integrate PvE at the earliest opportunity once the game goes live.

There's talk of more destroyable items and a technology category called 'InfoTech,' apparently related to battlefield intelligence. They want the game to favor teams who can cooperate, not just Mechwarriors who twink out and go off doing their own thing. This may indicate that InfoTech involves the accuracy of the information one receives from satellites, sensors, and so on; a team that is coordinated can better confirm such information than four disparate Mechwarriors loosely operating in a single unit.

They also aim to limit straight circle-strafe battles (citing them as being repetitive), as well as leveling up a variety of skills for pilots. This means that they may make the opportunity to specialize in certain roles available, such as a scouting role, or a sniping role, or a commander's role.

Fortunately, they are not touching the lore, so all things working out, there should be faction-specific designs: Davions featuring fast but fragile cavalry designs, Steiner showing off the Wall of Steel, the Draconis Combine possessing high damage but high heat 'Mechs, Marik mixing their tech and their focus, and Liao units being light and sneaky, for instance.

Finally, and most drastically: new information as of the 16th of November reveals that the operational year of the game will be 3049, just years before the coming of the Clans. This means that Level 2 Technology as well as the Clans may well come into play later in the course of the game. Balancing the initially overwhelming nature of the Clans is going to be quite the challenge for the devs, it seems.