I've always liked playing Mech Warrior games, and generally enjoy tactical (turn-based) games quite a lot. As such, having these combined in a game is definitely interesting. Unfortunately, Battletech does not meet even my rather basic expectations and I've requested a refund. The performance issues, e.g. stuttering, frame rates dropping, is something I could work around, mitigate. But the frequent stuckage in turns coupled with slow loading becomes aggravating rather quickly. The constant 100% GPU utilization even when ALT-TAB'ed out of the game is totally unacceptable, especially given the rather poor graphics. Still, I could get past that if gameplay were to be exceptionally good. In my opinion, it's not. Not by a long shot. The handful of campaign missions I've played all play out the same way, tactical options are no where to be found, and chances to hit are a joke (but to be fair they are in most games I've played; here a 85% chance is ~60-65%). You can either move then fire, jump then fire, or fire (and no longer be allowed to move until you acquire a skill later on which is only available when choosing a certain direction in development), move/jump then guard (which magically reduces damage by 50% from front and side), just guard, sprint (use entire turn for moving further). There are a few actions acquired through skills, but that's about the jest of it. By moving you (and the enemy) build up evasion chevrons; the more you move, the more you get, and these directly influence the chance to hit. Firing will remove a chevron from the target mech. Early on you mainly engage light and medium mechs and will spend most turns trying to remove some, or all, so one of your mechs might actually hit it. Or just get lucky and score a hit at 30-45% chance to hit. A better option is to simply melee the enemies as it will ignore evasion, will remove some chevrons, or even all. I found all missions to be quite boring and repetitive. Yawn. For exception tactical turn based gaming, go for modded Jagged Alliance 2 v1.13.
