I've never played the Battletech tabletop games, but I've read many of the books and played a lot of the classic Mechwarrior games, both the action oriented titles by Activision and the turn based Mech Commander series. I've never enjoyed the "tweaking" and building of mechs, but always enjoyed playing. I hadn't seen this on KickStarter, but when I read about, I decided to give it a shot. I purchased the title prelaunch on GoG, getting ShadowRun Returns as a pre-order bonus. I'm running the game on a 2017 15" Macbook Pro, both in native mode (OSX) and also tried in BootCamp under Windows 10. I have a fairly capable machine, though its not a gaming laptop by any means. I run the game in 1080p at "HIGH" and it runs well on OSX. I'm sure it would perform better in Windows but I can't be bothered to reboot every time I want to play. Its good enough that I am not motivated to do so, which I think is a good accomplishment for any game. The actual gameplay took some getting used to, and other than the real basics of movement, sensor locking, and attacking, the game really doesn't teach you the differences between energy weapons, missle weapons, ballistic weapons (ie autocannons) and support weapons with any rigor. It doesn't raelly teach you about armor and positioning, or about recon. The tutorial does the bare basics on teaching you the mechanics, without teaching you anything about how to really succeed in the game. The same goes for actually managing the economics as a mercenary, which is vital, nor about navigating around the galaxy - I played for a month before I realized I could actually choose where to go on the map and not just from the missions screen! I actually learned how to succeed by watching YouTube videos - thanks streamers! The gameplay itself is pretty good. Once I've learned how to play, the game has been solid. Not sure why people are having problems, but I haven't had any crashes or glitches whatsoever. Good job HBS!
