BATTLETECH

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Posted on: November 30, 2019

DESFritz

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Games: 11 Reviews: 2

Tactics, Strategy...Headshots, broken AI

What a.... game. Reviewing V.1.8 after 2 weekends of playing. Tutorial Mission is fine. 1 Pilot lost, 1 with two headshot wounds, 1 with one headshot wound. Headshot wound....headshot wound...headshot wound.... Fun and engaging. AI is broken. If you play a mission where you need the AI do go somewhere, or do something - have a lot of saves! Ironman anyone? Seriously: Escort convoy missions are broken. Really broken. Your 'mechs have to stay close to the convoy - got it. Vehicle rushes forward and complains. 'Mech stands next(!) to the vehicle and you get a complain. WTF! Unfortunately does the AI not move after a complain. Even if you stand/move next to it. No enemies left to destroy the vehicle? Well, that is a 'load save game'. So far in 2 out of 4 escort missions. Why it takes 15s for the AI to move a vehicle straight forward on an empty street? No idea. Sorry, that is bad. Really bad. Luckily only paid 13,- for it. Not going to purchase the DLC's. Nope. Can't complain about loading times, or graphics, as my PC is rather old. But I am complaining about these non-skippable jump ship -scenes. They go on and on and on. Together with the loading scenes, playing some missions takes less time, compared to waiting. Bad. Why the **** would you make those jump ship scenes non-skip? Really! Why? They are still going on and on, and on... You can read this review every time you go from one system to the next. Every time.... It's an in-game cut scene, and according to mod-pages, no chance to skip. You could even write a review every time you travel. Rec.Mods: +Skip Intro for quicker game start; helped a lot on my old machine Hopefully the Jump Ship scenes can be skipped in the future as well. Until then: Relax and wait...

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Posted on: August 26, 2020

Aleton

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Games: 216 Reviews: 6

Not DRM Free

Multiplayer and online play requires Paradox account. LAN play is not avaliable. Gameplay also suffers from some classic turn based meta gaming problems.

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Posted on: January 3, 2024

eucrasia_gog

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Games: 66 Reviews: 2

Could've Been Great

Let's start by getting my scumminess out of the way: I'm glad HBS isn't going to make another BT game. For the same reason I hope they never touch my other favorite IP: Shadowrun. Much like they ruined Shadowrun by including tons of nonsensical gameplay choices that work in theory (real time stealth in a turn based game for example), they did a lot of the same to Battletech in the name of balance. That mech line whose entire purpose is to lock down mechs with flamers and machine guns? Well, it can't do that, flamers have 3 shots per map now. That heavy mech you're chasing? Yep, it runs just as fast as your lightest light mech does at full sprint, and their pilot can sprint AND shoot. Oh, a vehicle on one side of the map spotted you? Prepare to get 'sensor locked' by a commando pilot that won't even be able to reach you for 5 or 6 turns. Entire lines of the mechs included in the base game have no purpose other than to fuck you over if you choose a random career start. The store system makes no sense. The performance OF THE GAME ENGINE is ABSOLUTELY ATROCIOUS. I have like 5 mods installed just to play the game at an actual pace other than `go and have a smoke every time you hit enter`. AI processing? Animations? Random slowdowns for NO REASON? Yeah, they have multiple options to speed it all up, and none of them actually help beyond very specific slowdowns. You're still hitting them every. Single. Unit. You like your camera getting stolen? It's gonna get stolen, despite you turning off the options for that. It's bad. I want to like it. I came back to it after letting the mod community percolate for a few years, and it's still awful. It's just a sad entry in the battletech lineup that could've been way better if the development team hadn't decided to rebalance a game that's already had 30+ years of balancing done to it (you boring clan gene-perverts aside), and, really, the only thing this iteration manages to do well is leak memory everywhere.

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Posted on: April 27, 2018

ehtom

Games: 43 Reviews: 3

Buyer beware: BUGGY

I haven't really been able to play the game much as it has Bluescreened my computer several times in a row. Trying to get a refund -- avoid this one at all costs imo.

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Posted on: April 29, 2018

ruskinimp15

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Games: 11 Reviews: 2

No widescreen is a dealbreaker for me

Pro: - Mechs - Solid gameplay systems Con: - Boring storyline - Mediocre graphics - Poor performance - Widescreen resolutions broken and no 3440x1440 resolution supported

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