Game feels great to play, the size and power of the mechs are realized in an increadibly satisfying manner. Unfortunately the game is designed like its XCOM in that everything you deploy in a mission are all intended to be disposable and the mission difficulty reflects that with the amount of firepower your squad is forced to wade through. Ordinarily this wouldn't be an issue, Xcom is a fine game after all, however one of the disposable grunts that you are sending to their death is you. This issue is compounded with the fact that there are no standard difficulty options available. Instead the game opts for a more "diagetic" difficulty selection option in the form of a weight limit. Every mech in the game has a set maximum weight and each mission has a weight limit associated with them, you are allowed to go over the weight limit of a mission but doing so will incur a reward penalty (you do not get bonus rewards for going under weight). This allows players to effectivly brute force their way through any content that is otherwise too difficult for them as "difficulty" in MW5 is simply put more firepower in front of the player than they could reasonably handle if they were at limit. Or in the case of the non-proceduraly generated content have that firepower spawn on top of the player. I still cannot belive that only the non-randomly generated contet, i.e. the content that was designed by an actual human being, has enemies phase into exsistance right in front of the player. The only explanation for this is that the designers didn't want the player to be able to snipe enemies from a safe distance so that they would be forced to take damage. Baffling. Mech aquisiton is also awful, I don't have enough characters to go into detail why but just know that the starmap is miserable to navigate through due to the limitations put on it. Recommended for budding game designers wanting a both good and bad game to learn from and maybe MW vets, not recommended for anyone else.
