BATTLETECH - Digital Deluxe Content

In short, I like this game a lot. It's very refreshing, a game asking you your pronouns. It looks and sounds and plays great. Very addicting. However, the difficulty could be better balanced. At the end of the day, you'll only ever have four mech warriors - and that just isn't fair. There should be the option to have reinforcements, to upgrade your drop ship or whatever so you can deploy more mechs. Most opposing forces will always outnumber you, and they're almost always stronger. The vehicles and turrets and etc etc are almost always ridiculously powerful. This wouldn't all be so bad if you could just have more mechs out there on the field.

Basically, in a nutshell this is X-Com but with Mechs. But everybody should know this by now. So naturally you would expect some solid turn based tactical gameplay with some mech customisation options, but what I wasn't expecting was great characters, great story, great freedom and flexibility for rewards in missions, and a generally great management sim. Running your own mercernary company is a hoot, having dialogue options gives your character more depth, options that appear based on other criteria even more so. The only real issue at this point is the graphics are a bit meh (but that's really nitpicky) and some of the interface designs are a bit frustration - however they have said they're working on fixing that. I'm nearly 40 hours into since release, no sign of easing up, I just love this game so much.

Got the game and played through twice on the campaign. Bought the expansion and its been one crash after another. Try playing career mode and get 15 turns into a mission and getting that head shot that turns the tide of the battle in your favor and CRASH!!!!! Sent in my direct x log to support and was told"yeah we know there's a problem reduce your resolution maybe that will help." It didnt. Now in order to play career mode i have to exit and reload the game roughly every 5 turns and pray i dont get wrapped up in the battle and forget save. This game never crashed before the expansion. So the few positives. The modeling of the mechs is great. The mechanics are pretty good. 40 to 60 percent damage reduction for standing in trees? Also 3 waves of mechs (thats 9-12 mechs of equal tonnage against my 4) ok.... If you get lucky and this game runs without crashing, it is fun and enjoyable. Just dont expect any kind of support from gog or the developer. I tried all the possible fixes i found in the forums including on steam and no luck. cheers!

An outstanding game, despite the flaws. Harebrained Schemes pulled off a Hail Mary with this game and reinvigorated the Battletech and Mechwarrior faithful.

Average. If they spent more time working on making a good game and less on sjw politics, it would be a good game.