Posted on: October 1, 2023
ninnamin
Verified ownerGames: 510 Reviews: 8
New mechs are nice; Story's a hot mess
The questline is set after the events of the main story, and the difficulty feels appropriate. I found the missions to be lacking compared to the other DLC questlines; Many times I had to try the mission to figure out which mechs would suit it, something I hadn't had a problem with previously since the DLC mission director usually suggested the general tools you needed to run them. The DLC missions also have trouble telling you whether you're capable of extracting right after objective completion or if you need to kill everything first. One particular mission supposedly tasks you with defending dropships as they take off in sequence, but in reality is little more than window dressing for the usual waves of enemy lances since they don't bother actually attacking the dropships; However, most missions with unique conditions actually work. Like the Rasalhague DLC, you're attached to a great house military but it usually doesn't feel like it. The missions in which it does, are fun, but most of the time you're fighting by yourself. One mission tasks you with taking an entire city by yourself, something you had an extra lance for help with in the Kestrel Lancers DLC. The pilots you supposed to be fighting against might be LCAF/AFFS in the lore but their livery and dialogue suggest they come from all over the inner sphere, including the Draconis Combine (Which during the questline you are currently allied with), which I assume is a bug? Like the Rasalhague DLC, one of the new music tracks is a stinker but the others are good. They're not released as of me writing this so I don't know their names. The six 'Otomo' mech variants are all hero mechs, most of which are gifted to you during the DLC and all of which have unique "greebles" added on to them. They're pretty useful. The longbow is an 85 ton missle boat, and plays like the rest of the missile boats but with more armor. TL;DR the new mechs are good, missions are a hot mess, I'd wait for a discount.
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