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Posted on: April 25, 2018

Tempest777

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Games: 19 Reviews: 1

Very good

Everything I wanted out of a Battletech game. Merc company management, tight finances, lots of lore, and missions of varying lengths.

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Posted on: April 26, 2018

Reneator

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Games: 287 Reviews: 3

Big Potential, poor execution

For fans of the tabletop, this game may be very good, but seen as a game, without any experience with the tabletop beforehand, it has a lot of rough edges. The combat feels unnecessarily slow, you cant speed up movements of enemies (or i havent found the option for it yet). - The controls feel counterintuitive. - The combat-dialogues of the pilots repeat after 3 rounds. - The game has good voice-acting, but then the dialogues are often written instead of voiced (waste of potential and atmosphere) - The story is a run-of-the-mill betrayal story (im not that far into the story yet, but what im seeing doesnt look good) - When you get to the point, that you can manage your mechs on the ships, it feels like a cheap X-COM 2 ripoff. - I was expectin feeling of power-progression: "Hey, here is a supersmall mech, fight those other supersmall mechs. When you win, you get money/loot and can improve your mech. Sometimes you will be able to fight against bigger mechs and get yourself a bigger mech." But i guess that is personal preference I really wanted this game to be special

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Posted on: April 30, 2018

Yagdrasil

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Games: 194 Reviews: 3

So Close, Yet so Far

I was beyond excited when I learned we were getting a new turn-based Battletech game. Indeed, my first few hours with game were fantastic. Tactically managing mechs on the battlefield is a treat, and the between-mission gameplay was a great surprise for me (seriously, I never thought managing finances and repairs would be interesting). Unfortunately, there are some extremely frustrating bugs that simply make the game unplayable for me at this point. I hope these are patched in the future, and I will modify my review if/when they are fixed. Here's an example from my last attempt at a mission: 1. Enter mission. Everything goes fine for about an hour (yes, some missions are quite lengthy). Game crashes. 2. Restart game, realize that the last autosave is before the mission started... 3. Replay through mission, this time making sure to save periodically. 4. Camera gets stuck on terrain (this mission has terrain that makes managing the camera particularly frustrating. 5. Save and reload to free the camera. 6. Due to a camera quirk, send a mech inadvertantly running across the battlefield in front of an enemy mech where the pilot & mech then immediately gets one-shot. Fortunately, I've saved a new game a few turns prior to this. 7. Remove some of my old saves and reload my latest. This time the enemy mechs refuse to spawn. 8. Rage quit. Pros: - Excellent tactics and combat - Pilot and mech customization is fantastic - Crew management is cery well done Cons: - Bugs - The camera sometimes gets stuck on terrain, sometimes so badly that I was forced to save and reload. - The camera can be hard manuever, particularly when trying to rotate the view on certain planets.

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Posted on: April 30, 2018

Michael_Clarke

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Games: 273 Reviews: 6

Wait for updates/patches

Where to start, the game seems very solid in it's mechanics and ideas and I was enjoying it a lot but techically it has a myriad of problems. Started with the saves dissapearing and the ability to save locked, then had another bug where the game would not progress from the management screen and now after starting a new campaign and doing a few random contracts everything seemed fine until a story mission now the game just hard crashes and locks my whole PC so I have to shut it down and reboot physically. Very disapointed and fed up at the moment with another rushed buggy launch but hopeful these things will be fixed...

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Posted on: June 10, 2018

Awesome0n3

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Games: 113 Reviews: 1

Excellent Game; Minor Flaws

A lot of fun to play. Really reminds me of playing the Battletech card games when I was a kid, but this version is much deeper with a lot more background mechanics going on. The music reminds me of Sins of a Solar Empire, so it's top-notch. I was one of the original beta testers back when this was supposed to be a browser-based game. The basic combat mechanics are still very similar, but everything has been fleshed out - from 'mech customization to finances. There is some numpty political stuff in the game (that has nothing to do with the game itself), but it can be modded out. Performance-wise, the game could run smoother. I am running it on a first-gen Core i3 530 (overclocked), 8gb of DDR3, and a 1060 SSC. I have it installed on a conventional hard drive, and while it does load slowly, it's not ridiculously slow. No - the performance issues are engine-related. My framerates are amazing, but when attacking or moving, or really performing any action at all, the game pauses for a few seconds. Bottom line - this game delivers the 'mech combat we've been waiting for since MW4. It's worth it.

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