Posted on: October 5, 2018
caiburn
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Scratches a 30 year old itch
Oh boy. Back in ye olden days (I'm 47 at the time of this writing) I used to play the boardgame with some friends of mine for hours on end. We even found oversized sheets of hex paper to create our own maps (and rule variants). I found this game by chance, Battletech/Mechwarrior was completely out of my focus. I read some articles and posts saying that it was meh, too hard, technically bad. Then I watched Arch Warhammer (greetings and salutations!) play it on Youtube...and bought it. Damn. I was not ready for this. After the first three hours of playing it I felt a sort of relief - the game really scratches a 30 year old itch that I didn't know was there. It has it's quirks, for sure, but overall I now am solidly in the "one more mission, ups it's 3am" department. The game uses the XCOM-esque split between economy-sim and tactical battlefield. I am not interested in the economy part, so I cheated myself rich to not have to care for that, I want to boom boom instead of counting c-bills. Works like a charm, most game configuration is in user editable JSON files. The "in my opinion" laundry list: - Hard enough to challenge and sometimes the RNG makes you pull your hair out, but if you change tactics (and sometimes, yes, restart the mission or reload a save) you should always be able to come out on top with a feeling of achievement. - Lots and lots of information during the game, this is how it should be done, thanks HBS! - MECHS. 'nuff said. - Most of the game configuration is in JSON files, making it easy to adapt things to your liking. - Story is ok, writing is so-so, but not detrimental. - Long waiting times for mech refits and travel are detrimental to experimentation. - Technically not top of the line, VERY long loading times in enough places to annoy me (-1 star) and some graphical stutters. Good sound though, with nods to the glorious MW3 soundtrack imo. I love it. Now if the devs can find a way to rid us of the load times...
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