BATTLETECH

Игра в момент релиза нравилась, но ни разу не прошел сюжет даже, раз 5 начинал и забрасывал. Вот решил еще одну попытку в 2026 сделать и вспомнил. Баланс в случайных заказах днище полное. Выводить в бой можно одно копье, в то время как у противника их два минимум и на четверку твоих стартовых мехов могут выставить намного более серьезные машины, так еще и лютый рандом, бот может выдать подряд три хедшота по меху даже если на нем набраны максимальное число уклонений. Механики игры и карты явно сделаны под бои копье на копье, но вот в сгенерированых миссиях когда одним копьем надо размотать 2-3 копья баланс ломается. Вся проблема в том что стоит засветиться на сенсорах одному меху и боты по всей карте сразу узнают где игрок и несуться к нему. Каких либо механик позволяющих этого избежать нет, ни разведки со стэлсом, ни спрятать мехи в рельефе и за зданиями нельзя, если бот условно видит условно одно плечо из за холма то он лупит сквозь текстуру холма, боты даже спокойно сквозь друг друга стреляют, поэтому нивелировать численный перевес засадами и заманиванием в узкие места не получится, только размен броней лоб в лоб, и тут численый перевес и рандом всегда на стороне бота, из-за чего вся игра скатывается в душнину. При этом в длц добавили миссии где дают союзное копье или на карте идет бой между двумя фракциями и игрок выступает третьей стороной, и вот в этих заданиях намного веселее, если только союзник которого надо защищать не пойдет на своих легких и средних мехах сливаться об копье тяжей и штурмов.

Some would argue this is a classic. It's pretty good stuff. It can get a little repatitive, but the story is decent and replayability beyond the story is there as you grow your lances... 7.5/10 and better with discounts. It can easiiy be found at 75%+ off and at that price it is a no brainer. Not sure the DLCs add alot to it, but it adds a little.

I came in expecting MechWarrior: Mercenaries vibes. What I got was a part‑time job as a bankruptcy administrator. Low mission payouts, repair times that feel longer than a Steiner family dinner, and AI that apparently graduated from the “I never miss” academy. Lose a mech? Lose a pilot? Congratulations, you’re now save‑scumming whether you like it or not. And don’t get me started on the monthly bills. I swear my dropship is secretly subscribed to twelve streaming services. One‑ and two‑skull missions should be warm‑ups, not “pray to RNGesus and hope your mech doesn’t explode” events.

It's RNG uglyness combined with lack of depth, repetitive gameplay, fake difficulty that sums up to just heavily outnumber you because the AI isn't good enough to outwit you, and boring grinding. I've tried to give this game numerous second chances because of the storyline, but I can't take it anymore. It feels like taking the garbage out, have it teleport back inside and having to do it again, and again.

A great game buried beneath its own horrible technical state. The core gameplay is very fun. The tabletop battletech concepts translate amazingly well into a xcom-style game. Mr. Weisman is the GOAT and clearly knows what he's doing when it comes to turn-based combat design. However, all this is made completely irrelevant because the end product is one of the ugliest and worst performing videogames ever made. It looks like a jagged aliased mess, the tactical map is completely unreadable, 'mechs are impossible to visually distinguish without zooming in or hovering a mouse over them because at the distance they just look like fuzzy vomit of jagged polygons. And to add insult to injury, in a shameful attempt to hide the sickening uglyness of their brainchild, the HBS artists decided to violently smear a dozen different post effects on the player's screen. The game has like scanlines, dithering and film grain going on all at once, making it look like an art student's first attempt at retouching a picture in photoshop. But listen, I can close my eyes on the graphics only a mother could love as long as it runs good. But it DOESN'T. I run it on a very beefy PC, and the way it utilizes GPU and drops frames would make you thing this game is an advanced real-time voxel physical simulator that calculates the heat dissipation of every metal panel in your mech's body. BUT THIS IS A TURN BASED GAME THAT ROLLS A COUPLE 6 SIDED DICE EACH TURN. IT HAS LIKE 15 UNITS ON THE SCREEN MAX. We used to make these back in the 80s and they ran just fine on what today would be considered a graphing calculator, what the hell happened? I wish I could force myself to see past the horrible technical state and just enjoy the very entertaining gameplay beneath. I even wasted a few hours trying to make it work for me by disabling all the visual noise with mods and applying the unity performance fixes, but then I load into an urban warfare mission and it wrecks my ♥♥♥♥ again. Send all unity devs to the reeducation camps and make ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ learn C.

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The game is probably good if you really get deep into it and mod it or have near-infinite time to play. Unfortunately the gameplay loop (aside of the very short main story campaign, which is also very basic and mid) consists strictly of repeatable skirmishes which are just unbelievable slog, take forever to complete and feel unrewarding. There are way better turn-based games available.

1553 hours and I'm itching for more. This is one of my fave games, especially with the BTA 3062 mod.