Battletech Mercenary Collection PC

Hey just going to be throwing down some notes while i play and i'll update the review once i get more into it.

I can recommend the game for what i got it for and it's not like i'm out right hating it, outside of the dialogue.

So far i give this game a 2/5 Just nothing is really catching my eye and making me want to play(other than i paid money for it so i got to play it at least once) I hope late game brings out some nice mechs that do something interesting. I was expecting more from something with giant robots,Ya that's my fault for having expectations but it wasn't like my bar was high.

This game so far has been overall meh a doesn't do anything to stand out from the rest,It doesn't even have any decent mods to grab from nexus. So there isn't nothing wild to get.

An example would be xcom 2 solid turned based game with an amazing modding community,You want it to be a star wars game? bam they made it.You want new enemy types,bam you got it. Do you want to make this into a warhammer 40k game? OH f*ck yes,Get to make your space marines,dreadnoughts and fight chaos space marines,orks,dark eldar while also getting new class moves. Point being they went wild with the mods and this game is meh with pretty meh mods.

Pros
1.Character customization always a good thing even if it is basic like in this game, i'm hoping for mech customization to make up for it.(it did not make up for it, pretty basic)

2.The heat system and how to manage it, example you have five guns but if you shoot it all you'll start taking burn damage but the game allows you to turn off weapons to reduced the heat cost for less damage or do you leave all the weapons on until the targets are killed and then turned them off while moving to the next zone or do you just pull back and turn everything off and wait? it's simple but nice.

3.The sound effects are nice.

4.So far the music has been on point and enjoyable.

5.Combat overall feels nice

6.Able to speed up walking/running while in combat, i know it's minor but i just got off a turn based game where it didn't have that feature and it was super f*cking annoying.

7.Variety of mechs, Too bad i can't afford them XD running that 8 part required selection for the achievement. I like what i seen from the npcs though.

8.I like how you get a.i team mates every now and then(also helps that they aren't totally useless),It is a basic as* concept but way too many games ignore giving you a.i team mates, yes i'm the chosen one but b*tch i'm fighting a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ war and i can't be everywhere while you jerk off at the sight of my holy visage. This is probably the only thing it does better than xcom, In xcom oh you get an friendly a.i faction to help you fight but only when their base is under attack and the guards are not even worth being cannon fodder.

Cons
1.Need another account for w/e reason, if i wanted to see y'alls crap i would of bought it on your launchers if you have your own. I'm really tired of seeing games wanting my email.

2.Partial voice acting, Either do full voicing acting or none at all. It's annoying.

3.Can't really impact the landscape outside of destroying buildings.

4.There is no over watch system to my knowledge, Which is weird because that takes away a well established feature of this genre and replaces it with nothing.

5.Travel/load times take waaay too long,I'm on a ssd,I'm just talking about getting from point A to point B.

6.Voice acting overall is god awful unless you get the scottish girl va or you are listening to the main cast.

7.Dialogue is pretty weak and basic,Making me skip the text blocks because of it.

8.Textures sometimes don't fully load in. i mean i assume it's not loading in, instead of it supposed to look like spray painted on grass which f you if it is meant to because they got that epic money from that deal to patch that sh*t. OH and it did a kick starter, ya f u redo the ground textures.

9.No steam mods.

10.Can't use tanks,Hey F you i bought the game and all it's dlc so i want to use what they can use.

11.Can't upgrade your squad limit from 4(as far as i know)

12.The zoomed out camera feels weird to me, like it's way to far out and i'm tired of fighting with it.

13.Bugs/game breaking bugs. example mission tag team, Can't finish it because there is no evac zone and the npcs just run around.

14.The class trees are boring.

15.It's a one of those "story time" things that go oh hey you know all of this and how i'm god now but let's talk about our past for no reason so you can see how we got to me being god.
Like why? once you go with the story time bs i know you don't die and there isn't threat of me dying since i was mentioned.

Great game if you enjoy turn based tactical combat. Bit like Xcom with mechs.