Career mode dumps the scripted campaign missions, the overpowered campaign mission rewards and the cliched campaign story in favour of a completely freeform experience where you start out with the unupgraded Argo and a few lighter ‘mechs and build your mercenary company up from there by doing the randomly-generated contract missions. 1.3 reworks the Mechwarrior skill trees to try and make the optimal skill build a little less of a no-brainer (which mostly succeeds) and adds Career mode, otherwise known as “what I actually wanted out of Battletech all along”. It is astonishingly anemic.įlashpoint has been released at the same time as the 1.3 patch for Battletech, and this is something that’s worth delving a little deeper into because when you consider that package as a whole it’s not actually too bad. Hell, if I didn’t like Harebrained and Battletech so much that I don’t particularly have a problem with throwing more money at them in general to support the studio, I’d be feeling pretty damn cheated by Flashpoint. Certainly I can’t think of one sitting in the £15 price bracket that adds so little. Given that track record I should like Flashpoint, the first DLC expansion for Battletech.Īlas, I instead find myself struggling to think of a non-cosmetic DLC that, when thrown into its base game, makes such a weak splash as Flashpoint does. In fact, I like Battletech so much I gave it the number two slot on my list of the top five games of 2018. Once the Clans show up, things get crazier than Manson Family picnic.Come on, Harebrained, you’re better than this. This is a good pre-Clan look into the fluff. Some of the fallout from WotB is picked up here. It also has a tendency to “skip to the end” instead of the narrative covering big battles. Because of its long span, it touches on events covered in other books. It focuses on Theodore Kurita and spans from 30teens to the conclusion of the War of ‘39. Note: Wolf Pack deals with some of the more lasting fallout of this book, but occurs after the Clan Invasion. Events here have a direct impact on the Fourth Succession War. Good looks into life in the Combine and in the Dragoons. Wolves on the Border plays out between the Wolf’s Dragoons and the Draconis Combine. Bonus points for the first story appearance of Solaris. Gives a good look at the Federated Suns, Capellan Confederation, and glimpses into the Draconis Combine and Lyran Commonwealth. ![]() It’s basically covers the events before during and closing the Fourth Succession War and the beginnings of the Federated Commonwealth. I will say it’s not as wtf as some of his later Clan books. The Warrior trilogy is one of those Stackpole “push the story” sets. ![]() Also gives a decent “settings” look at the feudal nature of the Battletech Universe. It tells the story of the creation and subsequent adventures of the Gray Death Legion (one of the big name mercenary units). It was some of the first so you’ll see plenty of the “Unseen” making an appearance. The Gray Death Saga is in my opinion a good baseline with that barebones “3025” feel. Depends on what you’re looking for really.
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