BATTLETECH

This was my favourite game during lockdown. I played it for… [b]wait, 450 hours[/b]?! Yeah, it’s a good game. It’s an excellent turn-based tactics game, with a side-order of management and (mech) designer. It also manages to capture the forlorn mood of the Mechwarrior universe. You are in charge of a small mercenary company. You take on (randomly generated) missions, fight, and patch up your mechs afterwards with whatever salvage you managed to gain. If you take heavy damage, your mechs (and their pilots) will be out of commission for a long time (if not lost outright), but in the meantime you still need to pay the bills. And sometimes you lose. Although missions come with a difficulty estimate, sometimes this estimate is wrong. So, inevitably, at some point you will launch into a mission overconfidently, only to have your team wrecked by the opposition. Is it a perfect game? No, it has its flaws. Although there is a decent variety in maps and mission types, after a while you will start recognizing the patterns. I quickly learned to avoid the combination of a lunar map with an ambush mission, as it would always look and play out the same. The management aspect is relatively simple. Once you get a decent set of mechs plus back-ups (and space to store them), the difficulty goes down considerably. It will take you a while to get to that point, though. On the other hand, the designer aspect remains interesting throughout the game. Initially, you are trying to keep your mechs running by fitting them with whatever salvaged weaponry you have on hand. Later, you can start experimenting with exotic weapons and weird configurations. The campaign’s story is great at setting the atmosphere for the Mechwarrior universe (a worn future where realpolitik takes precedence over idealism), but is rather thin underneath. You are offered several multiple-choice replies, but these have no impact on the actual story. However, the game will throw random events every month or so where your input does matter, and these further add to the sense that you are running a mercenary outfit in a remote part of the galaxy. On a final note: I wouldn’t bother with the DLC until you’ve played through a campaign. The DLC are rather pricy, and their main content (the flashpoint missions) is not available during the campaign (only after you finish it, or in the career mode). They do add additional mechs, but the base game already offers pretty good variety. Do check out the modding scene: in addition to more mechs, there’s also several highly-regarded overhaul mods available that change the mech designer, heighten the difficulty, expand the galaxy map, and much more.

геймплэй безумно напоминает мой любимый XCOM да, здесь сюжетка и мир пошире гринд однообразных побочных контрактов уже предвещаю но всё равно буду продолжать поигрывать - лайк

提醒： 可能是游戏编码方式的问题，文本和代码混杂太厉害。实际上目前的所有汉化补丁实际效果都不好。当然，不是要指责那些无偿汉化的朋友，只是即使打了汉化，阅读起来也有很多问题。 另外剧情很短也很无聊，DLC加的东西全部都是主线剧情打完之后给你一些莫名其妙的任务，所以实际上根本没动力，机体也很少，除了是唯一一个基于机甲战士世界观的战棋游戏之外……我没发现这游戏有啥能点赞的地方

Wer Mechs und Rundenstrategie mag, kommt an Battletech nicht vorbei!

If you enjoy XCOM you will absolutely love this game. Its so much fun customizing your mechs and then upgrading the weapons. Then leveling up your pilots and unlocking abilities that pair perfectly with the mech.

Nice mecha tactical. Mission story is well thought out. Career is a lot of fun also.

Among my favorite games on Steam, a spiritual successor to the table top version. Has some graphic glitches now and a again but you are able to finish the mission when it does happen and reload, no biggie really.

The game is fun, but the voice acting detracts from the game - a bunch of yelling and grunting and screaming, it's annoying with male voice actors, and just as bad with female ones. They come across as unintelligent.