BATTLETECH

SO. After 105 hours for the Campaign and another 66 hours in the Epilogue doing Flashpoints I can, with confidence, say that the game... is pretty cool. Now this technically being my second Battletech/Mechwarrior game I've played [MW5Mercs] this game is a lot easier to delve into the universe of it than the more modern ones simply because of the story. The opening cinematic gives an intriguing and easy to understand background; 2107 Humanity figures out FTL, 2116 they begin settling worlds starting with Tau Ceti-4, 2571 Humanity unifies under the Star League, 2765 Amaris starts a civil war that Kerensky ends, around 300 years of war and politicking between successor houses/states later and thus the story begins. You play as a noble, you make a background, and you're working as a royal guard for a coalition at the edge of known/inhabited space when a coronation goes to absolute ♥♥♥♥. It's now 3 years since than and you, returning to the humble life of a mercenary Mechwarrior, are trying to make ends meet until a Mysterious Benefactor offers great pay for a long term contract promising loads of C-Bills and piles of Mech salvage. No Guts, No Galaxy. The Combat from what I understand is a simplification of the table top game where each individual mech, components and weapons are placed and stored across its structure. Each mech has their own niches, strengths and drawbacks, though some of those can be changed from the give and take of refitting them. For example; the Hatchetman is a 45 Ton medium mech whos main goal is to close the distance and take the enemy limb from limb. You can make that easier by giving it jump jets , make it tougher by removing the autocannon and ammo from its shoulder and upping its armour, or saying to hell with melee and turning it into a sniper. With refitting you can make your perfect war machine. I'm realising that I'm explaining this horribly so the best I can suggest is to look up Infoguy101's review on youtube for a more in depth explanation. Beyond that; pretty good tactics game, I've yet to check career mode but 1200 in game days to become a Legend? Now that sounds fun. And if ever I get bored, want more complexity, more content, quality of life or just tougher battles? Theres plenty of mods like; Roguetech, Battletech Extended-Tactics, Battletech Advanced 3062, Vanilla+, Battletech Revised and Hyades Rim. Or TLDR; If you want to command big mechs with a good story? Start here, you can make your own story even. If you want to get thrown into the deepend and figure it out from the cockpit? Play the Mechwarrior games, though this will smooth things over and make things less confusing. (One thing I forgot. The game has a memory leak so you may want to restart every few hours once the turns and loading start taking too long.)

It is a great game, is like making Gundam a reality while playing it, it fair but punishing, in some missions if you don't choose wisely your strategy you will get wiped out or suffer so much damage and injuries that make the payment not worth it. But all in all, the story is engaging and the mecha fighting is addictive, it has my approval

If you are into Tactical Turn based games and the Battletech universe, then this game is a no brainer. I hope the game gets a sequel.

Great game, got it for $10 and its been a blast. Make sure you position your Lance well, a few mistakes snowball into dead 'mechs quickly.

The game seems to arbitrarily give buffs and debuffs to units. Why would an enemy mech have so many defensive buffs when its standing in a short distance from my mechs, in the middle of a road with no cover? In addition, the hit chances for attacks make no sense, it seems like the game straight up lies to you about what the hit chance is.

One of a kind turn based sci fi game. The modding community is huge with plenty of variants. If you haven't played this your really missing one of the best games in the genre.

Even though my old save file corrupted it's so fun I'm happy to just start again