Pros: The DLC adds lots of authored missions which really reflect the political infighting of the battletech universe. While the MWO assets took a visual direction that a lot of us classic battletech fan boys aren't particularly fond of, they still look truly great in their own way. Full innerspher playground. Lots of mechs and weapons to us, especially with DLC. It's still fun, albeit frustrating. See Cons. Cons: More primitive AI than Doom 1. Really, the AI is truly awful, and not optimized in the least. I'm actually impressed that such a small logic tree has such a huge cpu load. The AI will almost always prioritize players over any other threat, meanwhile friendly AI will spend their time just shooting the player in the back or always moving to be directly in front of the player so you can't shoot back. DLC 2 broke the raytracing engine, they still haven't fixed it. Single-digit FPS with a 3060ti the second raytracing is turned on. Poorly implemented outsourced audio engine. No sense of scale. Enemies can be actively shooting you in the back and you just never know unless you're looking at your damage indicators. Thankfully fixed by mods. CPU heavy and poorly implemented spawns, constantly checking individual spawns rather than only checking when necessary, no exclusion areas around the player or defense targets resulting in spawns directly behind the player, around corners directly in front of player, directly under player's crosshairs, or inside defense targets. SO many shortcuts taken during development. In conclusion; it's a mechwarrior game. We bought it because we love mechwarrior. It's a decent mechwarrior game... But you'd think Epic throwing AAA money at PGI would have resulted in a better game than this. MW2, MW2M, MW3, and even MW4 were all vastly better games than this. Get it on sale.
