Posted on: August 9, 2025
Sereglach
Владелец игрыИгр: 125 Отзывов: 3
Okay game, but modding makes it a 5/5!
I'm a huge Battletech fan, and have been playing since the 80's, playing almost every electronic game that's ever come out for it (I don't own MW5:Clans because it's not on GOG), as well as a longtime player of the original tabletop game. I will thrilled at the concept of a sandboxy type Mechwarrior war sim game of running a mercenary company in the Battletech universe. That said, I must be honest. The vanilla game is maybe a 3/5, with a lot of credit coming from the DLCs and later free updstes. The mech combat feels good, and adds most of the replayability to the game. However, the selection of truly viable units is limited due to the specific MW5 extremely limited customization abilities. The original selection of missions are very samey, with even the base story missions being mere variants of normal generic missions. The DLCs and free updates did a lot to improve upon it, but it was still just an "okay" game vanilla. That's where modding comes in. Thank God PGI made the decision to support modding, and the game is stupidly easy to mod! With just a few mods it becomes almost an entirely different game, with full customizability (Yet Another Mechlab), better AI (TTRulez_AIMod2) a slew of new mission types (Coyote's Mission Pack), and a plethora of mechs spanning the entire timeline of the game and beyond (Lore Based Mech Variants, Yet Another IS/Clan Mech, Brian Cache, and more), make pilots feel meaningful (Pilot Overhaul - Eternal) and even flesh out the map (Known Universe, slighly more difficult to install). Ironically, with DLC7 coming in a month (sometime September 2025 at time of review), the game will finally be where PGI promised to have the storyline day one, with the original announcement stating the game would run from 3015 to 3052 in the Battletech timeline. Until now the gameplay and available map changes run their course at 3042. DLC7 will push the available timeline to 3057. About time. Worth a pickup on sale, worth more with mods!
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