Really Beamdog? Bethesda's Horse Armor took more effort to make than this, and that caused a controversy back in the day. What more this especially on the back of the controversy SoD generated. Probably would have generated more sales of BGEE/BG2EE by making this paltry selection of portraits free as goodwill. In fact it's generated badwill and makes me reluctant to pick up NWN EE.
TLDR ignore the overly harsh haters, the Jumpship edition is worth it for the solid core gameplay foundation and native mod support. Ignore the overly harsh haters that bought the game at launch. Their gripes are legitimate but they aren't relevant for those looking to buy the Jumpship edition. With the DLC/patches, the AI is decent, mission variety is improved along with added story missions with tie-ins into the lore/Inner Sphere history, more weapon types and equipment, fun hero mechs to discover or earn from missions, cross-play multiplayer, open-ended career mode, and they even added melee! This is easily a Steiner scout lance worth of improvements! That said the DLCs and patches don't address all the issues. The original campaign and voice acting is still pretty meh as others have already pointed out, and there are some gameplay design decisions that were not fully thought out e.g. losing expensive upgrades on mechs when they go into storage, strict drop tonnages, lifeless hangar etc. This game could have been the greatest in the series if they had given some of these things more polish and thought since the core gameplay and graphics are great. Fortunately for us there is native mod support, and the mods on Nexus mods are amazing! Thanks to the dedicated modders, a lot of gameplay issues outlined can be easily remedied or enhanced! There's no penalties for using mods and they're easy to install: just download, unzip into mods folder and enable via in-game menu. Of course it would be nice if we didn't have to use some of these mods, but at the same time isn't is amazing that we can mod the game as we please? The devs can't undo the mistakes with the original campaign, but they did right with the fixes and features via DLC/patches. The rest is up to us via mods, and if we get a MW6. I can't wait for clans and you know what, I don't have to wait thanks to the mods already available. Modwarrior 5 Jumpship Edition. It's worth your time and C-bills.
As a big Homeworld fan I was really excited by this, and there is some really good content here. However it tends to lacks polish in comparison to the main product and feels like an afterthought not justifying its cost as DLC especially at this price. For instance, you can't access it from the game, there's no way to change the graphics settings so all the textures are quite low quality (really?), the line spacing is a bit too small so whilst it doesn't affect readability it is noticeable and irritating. Also there's not that much content that doesn't just belong in the manual e.g. fairly brief unit descriptions. If it went into more fan-specific material like technical specs etc. then that would make more sense. To be fair there are some nice touches that build the lore but the whole thing just feels like mostly a rushed after thought. As a hardcore fan I'm disappointed...
