Battletech
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That's a no brainer to try out. Had lots of fun with it last year.
Jenner
I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
I really wanted to love this game, as I've played tons of Battletech (video games and table top) but I just couldn't. It really came down to the campaign being way too grindy for my tastes. I just couldn't stomach the grind. So difficult to upgrade your lances, and the game was really punishing.
It's been sitting on my steam wish list for a while.
I never was quite convinced, so this free weekend gave me a chance to try it out.
You can safely believe the frequent review complaints about loading times, its slow alright.
Worse though, 15 turns into the first campaign mission, and i couldn't issue orders to any of my 3 mechs anymore.
Every icon on the command bar was greyed out, so i was stuck.
Quick google search revealed i hadn't been the first one to encounter that glitch, and there was no solution on offer but to restart the mission.
Sorry, but simply not good enough for a game that has been out for almost a year and has also seen paid for DLC.
Kudos to them for offering the free weekend of course, more games should do that.
But for me BattleTech is off the radar for good now, hopefully others had a better experience.
I never was quite convinced, so this free weekend gave me a chance to try it out.
You can safely believe the frequent review complaints about loading times, its slow alright.
Worse though, 15 turns into the first campaign mission, and i couldn't issue orders to any of my 3 mechs anymore.
Every icon on the command bar was greyed out, so i was stuck.
Quick google search revealed i hadn't been the first one to encounter that glitch, and there was no solution on offer but to restart the mission.
Sorry, but simply not good enough for a game that has been out for almost a year and has also seen paid for DLC.
Kudos to them for offering the free weekend of course, more games should do that.
But for me BattleTech is off the radar for good now, hopefully others had a better experience.
I've played thru the campaign twice with no problems.
The second time I added the mod. "Open the entire map after getting the argo"
]This let me play the game at my speed and pick up some really bad mechs.
I'm on a third play thru, 500 weeks in and not much of the campaign done.
I've never had the glitches I have read about. An older pc build here.
The second time I added the mod. "Open the entire map after getting the argo"
]This let me play the game at my speed and pick up some really bad mechs.
I'm on a third play thru, 500 weeks in and not much of the campaign done.
I've never had the glitches I have read about. An older pc build here.
ME too, but what I've seen is some complaints about the expansion giving trouble, but I don't have it installed nor purchased.
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Turn based?
Eww.
Eww.
Take it back.
I have to laff. When it's the enemies turn and they burn down 1 or 2 of your mechs. Tactical thinking comes in big time.
Bumbling through it again as had a disastrous 1st play-through. Even on normal difficulty it can be pretty savage (then again I'm terrible at strategy games) so save-scumming is the way forwards - a look at the story missions is pretty vital as they are much harder than their rating suggests - and then you can go off & build a lance that works for them.
Turn-based: No problem, I played the tabletop. I was crap-ish at that too! This game is a pretty good interpretation of the rules. I'm cool with that but if you came in from a Mechwarrior computer game background you may be confused.
Load times: Yeah, I have it installed on an M.2 drive/16GB RAM/Mobile i5 so no idea what it's doing. May investigate network traffic because calling home is about the only thing that could explain it.
Glitches: I had one that required a mission reset (escort mission, cleared out enemies but APCs wouldn't load into dropship) but been OK otherwise.
Lore: Played tabletop + RPG + related games, read most of the source books available at the time (early 90s) and a lot of the novels. Mainly used 3048/3050 rules & scenarios, though. This game is around that time period and I've been given some newtech - double heat sinks - but I'm yet to see updated Mech designs. I.... was a Battletech lore nerd at the time.
New DLC: Not played it. No immediate plans to, either.
Grind: I'm kind of enjoying it as I haven't table-topped in decades, so am having fun swapping Mechs & loadouts around. But I do agree that if you just want to blast through the campaign you may be in for an unpleasant time.
Yeah. You have to think of this as a remake of the original FASA tabletop game! It does a very good job of this. Remembering all of the rules was a pain in the backside, plus the endless arguments over whether a Mech was in cover/higher or lower/etc with the people you're playing against. [hehe]
Turn-based: No problem, I played the tabletop. I was crap-ish at that too! This game is a pretty good interpretation of the rules. I'm cool with that but if you came in from a Mechwarrior computer game background you may be confused.
Load times: Yeah, I have it installed on an M.2 drive/16GB RAM/Mobile i5 so no idea what it's doing. May investigate network traffic because calling home is about the only thing that could explain it.
Glitches: I had one that required a mission reset (escort mission, cleared out enemies but APCs wouldn't load into dropship) but been OK otherwise.
Lore: Played tabletop + RPG + related games, read most of the source books available at the time (early 90s) and a lot of the novels. Mainly used 3048/3050 rules & scenarios, though. This game is around that time period and I've been given some newtech - double heat sinks - but I'm yet to see updated Mech designs. I.... was a Battletech lore nerd at the time.
New DLC: Not played it. No immediate plans to, either.
Grind: I'm kind of enjoying it as I haven't table-topped in decades, so am having fun swapping Mechs & loadouts around. But I do agree that if you just want to blast through the campaign you may be in for an unpleasant time.
Yeah. You have to think of this as a remake of the original FASA tabletop game! It does a very good job of this. Remembering all of the rules was a pain in the backside, plus the endless arguments over whether a Mech was in cover/higher or lower/etc with the people you're playing against. [hehe]
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Deleted member 110222
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I'm a filthy millennial who never really got exposed to turn-based games.
Hell the strategy games I have played were all real-time.
RIP.
I pretty much thought so.
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Which is why I don't play them. XD
Jenner
I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
We played this board game called Hero's Quest for ridiculous amounts of time when I was a kid. We later appropriated the figurines to up the production levels of dnd 2nd edition battles.
Kids are missing out these days.
Kids are missing out these days.
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It's one of the best games of last year, definitely, and a fantastic rendition of the original game series. The lore is spot on, but that goes without saying as the original author was onboard for the whole project. It's a brutal, unforgiving tactics board game, but it does reward you when you put some effort in it - there i understand why millenials wouldnt like this game...
