After how much I loved MechCommander, and my general love of turn based games, I was surprised by how disappointed I was with BattleTech.
It's a game with some shockingly bad flaws. It doesn't bother to tell you how to play the game until the second mission. I could only get to that after going off and watching a 30 minute YT tutorial on the game's systems and UI in order to beat the first mission. It's kind of ridiculous really.
There are some pretty poorly designed/programmed mission too. There are loads of instances where I've had enemy "reinforcements" show up at the same time, if not before, the main batch of enemies. Once, there was even an animation of a dropship delivering the reinforcement lance of Mechs that played after I'd already destroyed 3/4 of them. Absolutely mad.
The core systems and gameplay are fine but I found them rather tedious after a while, especially combined with the samey missions. The financial roleplaying elements are a bit of a drag more than anything, and I ended up modding the game to minimise them, especially the time taken to re-equip stored mechs.
I'm not sure how far into the campaign I got percentage-wise, but I hit an absolutely insane difficulty spike in the Liberate: Smithon mission, where your four mechs are dropped on the south edge of a turret heavy base and tasked with destroying 8 enemy mechs and also some supply trucks if you want/can. There are ammo dumps around the base which you can destroy, but you're incentivised not to. The trucks are almost impossible to take out before they escape, certainly without having a light, fast mech then stuck in the line of fire of multiple turrets and mechs. You can neutralise the turrets, but taking out the enemy mechs was an absolute slog and even blowing the ammo dumps didn't help. I once blew up an ammo dump and the mech standing with its back right next to the explosion was barely scratched. The entire mission was a slog that took me several attempts across an entire weekend to get through. I was ready to just bail on that, but succeeded on my last attempt. But since that mission, my interest has waned regardless. The charm has gone.
It's a game with some shockingly bad flaws. It doesn't bother to tell you how to play the game until the second mission. I could only get to that after going off and watching a 30 minute YT tutorial on the game's systems and UI in order to beat the first mission. It's kind of ridiculous really.
There are some pretty poorly designed/programmed mission too. There are loads of instances where I've had enemy "reinforcements" show up at the same time, if not before, the main batch of enemies. Once, there was even an animation of a dropship delivering the reinforcement lance of Mechs that played after I'd already destroyed 3/4 of them. Absolutely mad.
The core systems and gameplay are fine but I found them rather tedious after a while, especially combined with the samey missions. The financial roleplaying elements are a bit of a drag more than anything, and I ended up modding the game to minimise them, especially the time taken to re-equip stored mechs.
I'm not sure how far into the campaign I got percentage-wise, but I hit an absolutely insane difficulty spike in the Liberate: Smithon mission, where your four mechs are dropped on the south edge of a turret heavy base and tasked with destroying 8 enemy mechs and also some supply trucks if you want/can. There are ammo dumps around the base which you can destroy, but you're incentivised not to. The trucks are almost impossible to take out before they escape, certainly without having a light, fast mech then stuck in the line of fire of multiple turrets and mechs. You can neutralise the turrets, but taking out the enemy mechs was an absolute slog and even blowing the ammo dumps didn't help. I once blew up an ammo dump and the mech standing with its back right next to the explosion was barely scratched. The entire mission was a slog that took me several attempts across an entire weekend to get through. I was ready to just bail on that, but succeeded on my last attempt. But since that mission, my interest has waned regardless. The charm has gone.