So let me start off by saying this game is not the tabletop, if you want a game that is closer to the original tabletop the MegaMek is what you are looking for. NOW, if you want an evolution of the the tabletop game then you have found that game. The single player campaign amazing, the story is compelling, the artwork is fantastic, and the soundtrack is spot on. The fact that there is also multiplayer skirmish is just icing on the cake. On top of it all the game is built on a framework that could give us years of expansion packs and immersive stories. BUT, there is some bad, the AI could be better (you can tweak the AI JSON files on your own), and there is some need of performance optimizations. This game is not easy, but I love that it is a challenge to keep company funded and operational. I also see several complaining that the missions Skull rating is off, well all I can tell you is that is by design and sometime your intel is wrong, but going back to the AI, it isn’t that the individual pilot AI is overall bad but they do not seem to always work together as a lance, however if one of your pilots/mechs is in trouble they will focus on it and will likely take it down. I would have given this a 4 but I am more than confident that HBS will correct it all. For the record I am playing on a MacBook Pro Retina (2015) i7 2.8, 16GB RAM, 1TB PCIe SSD, AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2GB, macOS 10.13.4 1440x900, Medium preset (Motion Blur Off, High Quality UI On) and it is smooth with little wait time but will start to experience slow load time at around hour 4 of play. Closing and launching the game again fixes it.
So let me start off by saying this game is not the tabletop, if you want a game that is closer to the original tabletop the MegaMek is what you are looking for. NOW, if you want an evolution of the the tabletop game then you have found that game. The single player campaign amazing, the story is compelling, the artwork is fantastic, and the soundtrack is spot on. The fact that there is also multiplayer skirmish is just icing on the cake. On top of it all the game is built on a framework that could give us years of expansion packs and immersive stories. BUT, there is some bad, the AI could be better (you can tweak the AI JSON files on your own), and there is some need of performance optimizations. This game is not easy, but I love that it is a challenge to keep company funded and operational. I also see several complaining that the missions Skull rating is off, well all I can tell you is that is by design and sometime your intel is wrong, but going back to the AI, it isn’t that the individual pilot AI is overall bad but they do not seem to always work together as a lance, however if one of your pilots/mechs is in trouble they will focus on it and will likely take it down. I would have given this a 4 but I am more than confident that HBS will correct it all. For the record I am playing on a MacBook Pro Retina (2015) i7 2.8, 16GB RAM, 1TB PCIe SSD, AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2GB, macOS 10.13.4 1440x900, Medium preset (Motion Blur Off, High Quality UI On) and it is smooth with little wait time but will start to experience slow load time at around hour 4 of play. Closing and launching the game again fixes it.
