I purchased this game for my wife (she's usually quite discerning about games) and she absolutely loves it. The graphics are really beautiful and she finds it fun, relaxing and fulfilling to play. We did run into some bugs however, that stopped the story progressing. The reason that it's still a 5/5 rating is that we raised a ticket with the Devs (I assume other's did too of course), and it was resolved after 1 week - they pushed an update and it was sorted. Really great the Devs are so responsive - top job!
Fist off the bat, one can tell the team tries to add in the whole "social justice" narrative. They have preferred pronouns at character creation, as well as going on about "diversity" in the descriptions of houses. I hear enough of this nonsense in real life - don't want it in games. That aside the technical faults are terrible. The game is not optimised, and runs terribly even with a GTX 1080Ti with long loading times and poor in-game performance. They chose the Unity Engine to build the game with (would not be my first choice, but that's personal preference). The texturing is inconsistent and terrible. Even on the highest settings some of the rocks looks like a blurred mess. The graphics are 2006 standard. There are numerous bugs, like when being zoomed all the way in to look at one's Mech, not being able to move the camera left, without first pressing "w" to move it up. The game crashes. Allot it seems. It froze/crashed 3 times in a row when I tried to finish the tutorial and just got a screen with a ship floating and planet in the background, so couldn't even really play the game properly. The animations aren't great, but okay. They have modelled 'Mechs off the MWO 'Mechs, which is fine, but then they have some things which are non consistent at all with Battletech, such as damage output of some weapons as well as hardpoints. The game also crashed every time when attempting to quit to the main menu or desktop. There are also finnicky things, like not having a drag-box to select your 'Mechs or targets with, making it harder to just play the game. All of these things (and more, I have limited characters to type with here), make me give the game 1 start. I really wanted to like this, being a MWO player and loving the real tabletop Battletech game, as well as older Mechwarrior titles. These problems can be fixed (well, not the infetion with the SJW brain virus however) with subsequent patches. Might be better when/if fixed, but for now, 1 star.
Fist off the bat, one can tell the team tries to add in the whole "social justice" narrative. They have preferred pronouns at character creation, as well as going on about "diversity" in the descriptions of houses. I hear enough of this nonsense in real life - don't want it in games. That aside the technical faults are terrible. The game is not optimised, and runs terribly even with a GTX 1080Ti with long loading times and poor in-game performance. They chose the Unity Engine to build the game with (would not be my first choice, but that's personal preference). The texturing is inconsistent and terrible. Even on the highest settings some of the rocks looks like a blurred mess. The graphics are 2006 standard. There are numerous bugs, like when being zoomed all the way in to look at one's Mech, not being able to move the camera left, without first pressing "w" to move it up. The game crashes. Allot it seems. It froze/crashed 3 times in a row when I tried to finish the tutorial and just got a screen with a ship floating and planet in the background, so couldn't even really play the game properly. The animations aren't great, but okay. They have modelled 'Mechs off the MWO 'Mechs, which is fine, but then they have some things which are non consistent at all with Battletech, such as damage output of some weapons as well as hardpoints. The game also crashed every time when attempting to quit to the main menu or desktop. There are also finnicky things, like not having a drag-box to select your 'Mechs or targets with, making it harder to just play the game. All of these things (and more, I have limited characters to type with here), make me give the game 1 start. I really wanted to like this, being a MWO player and loving the real tabletop Battletech game, as well as older Mechwarrior titles. These problems can be fixed (well, not the infetion with the SJW brain virus however) with subsequent patches. Might be better when/if fixed, but for now, 1 star.
