Shocked to see this game bombing on Steam and after a bit investigation it appears lots of people are experiencing crashes, I just want to say I have not had a single crash since I started playing it. That however does not mean there is nothing wrong with the game, if loads of people are crashing then there is clearly a bug with the coding, am sure they will fix it but I thought I had better mention it as I was not aware of this when I made the review.
I see alot of reviews who give it negatives due to having three genders to chose from. Appearantly that is a game breaker for many people that you appearantly can have a genderless character O NOES! GAME PUSHES GENDER AGENDA!!!! SJW DEVELOPERS!!! None of them actually have told me what is wrong about it, if the story forces it down your throat by having your character fall in love with one of them or anything...nope..just in the char creation you can pick "they" instead "he or she".
Worth A Buy hey Mack are there any big AAA games coming out soon? I just wanna hear u slam the AAA devs for their bs. Love ur stuff if I could afford it I would give u money on patreon but I have no money 😂
I will always watch your review if there's one before buying a game. I'm glad you are strong minded are able to deal with the criticism, you are brutally honest and thank god for someone with some influence being honest for once. Stay awesome man, only reviewer I trust.
Mac correct me if I'm wrong but you said MechWarrior Universe, I'm pretty sure MechWarrior is a game in the BattleTech universe. I think BattleTech was the original tabletop game wasn't it?
Yes instead of word 1 it's word 2. Kind of like how it's the "Call of Duty" franchise, not "Modern Warfare" franchise. Because that kind of pedantry matters very deeply.
SuperUnunquadium it matters to a small extent. If somebody new to the franchise wanted to find some lore or something, they could be confused in what to look for. No, it's not the end of the world. I was introduced to the series in 1997 on AOL with Multiplayer Battletech: Solaris. I discovered MechWarrior way later. At that time, the two certainly did not feel interchangeable.
Mechwarrior was actually the PnP RPG game within the Battletech Universe. It allowed roleplaying on a greater scale within that universe with more rules for a gamemaster and making a mechwarrior character to be roleplayed is wider stories. You can lookup the old Mechwarrior "Role Playing Game" to see the book.
Joel C thanks. Shame I don't know anybody that would do PNP anymore but I'll look into it! It's part of the story so it's just fun knowing these things.
You don't play just one mech at a time like mechwarrior action games. You play whole Lances and you synergize between them much more tactical. It would get ultimately boring if you only played one type of mech in all situations.
Z I want my Warhammer, Phoenix Hawk, and Marauder mech. Just like from the first Mechwarrior. This game already has the Locust, Jenner, Shadow Hawk and Battlemaster. Couldn't care about the Rifleman though.
I got this game at launch, and all the crashes and long (very long) loading screens aside, I just didnt click with it. But, since much time has past and seeing you actually liked it, I might have to revisit it
The game runs so poorly for me. I have a monster of a PC with a 1080ti. This game ran my GPU at 100% load, temp over 80c.... while on the menu screen. NO game I have ever played has done that. Also it does not support Ultra Wide Screen, that is a big issue for me.
First time I ran the game it did that to my PC. Air cooled 1080 ti - Went back and retuned the GPU and case fan curves; It works well now. Still a heavy load but temps around 70 are manageable. I have a beast air cooling case (200MM intake and exhaust fans) I modded myself, so that may make a difference also.
@VidicusDefinitely supports ultra wide, Im using a ultra wide monitor and its works fine for me. However I have a similar setup to yours and I have also been experiencing frequent crashes and havent been able to get past the intro mission.
I believe the issue lies in the game running on non supported resolutions. I got it to run in nominal ranges by setting the resolution to a different setting. As for running it at my native resolution, it cuts off part of the UI including buttons. Having fun with the title regardless of these issues.
As a very old battletech board games.. . and later moved onto the Atari and Amiga versions... anyone else remember Jason blood stealing his first mech from the training ground? Anyway a great all round review so I'm in and thanks for spening your time helping me make the decision easier
Is there dismemberment? In the video it looked as though a mech's arm was incapacitated but it was still there. I'm talking like front mission if anyone is familiar
Awesome, i knew it. So far, every game i ever kickstarted has been totally amazing. I seem to have a sixth sense for staying away from the overhyped crap. Gonna be enjoying this one. You all do the same guys !
I have this game and I can say for certain that the "They" pronoun is for royalty. *Spoilers* (not really) you do start as a person of high nobility when creating your character but like the video said it doesn't affect anything.
I've never even touched any other Mechwarrior game before this and not only did I love it I picked things up really quickly. Same with Shadowrun and I loved those games as well and didn't run into much difficulty into learning how things worked.
Oh Mack thank god for you. After preordering this last night I woke up excited to play it and was disheartened to see the game bombing on steam reviews. I went straight to youtube to see what the critics were saying and was delighted to see your review. I love the Mechwarrior series of games and you’ve given me new hope. Off to play right now. Keep up the great work!
One of my favourite tactical games ever. Just finished the campaign for the 2nd time, now after the release of all dlc, and it was awesome. Gonna jump straight into mechwarrior 5 now.
Hi Mack, great video, thanks. I just want to let you know that you did not come up on search results when I searched for Battletech review. Other channels I watch come up and those videos had also been watched. Either youtube isn't liking the content or the SEO on the video is off. (could be just my profile)
+snugdarkly Are you kidding? When a schizophrenic man tells me god is talking to him inside his head and demands he kills all the non-believers I say go right ahead because nobody knows your mind better than you do so it must be gods will.
I came to comment the same thing but everybody is moaning about it. Glad Mack's audience isn't riddled with far left loonies. Get your SJW identity shit out of our games please!
Another great thing Battletech brings back is having to really struggle to manage money and keep from going bankrupt like in the original XCOM game and one of the great gameplay systems we mostly lost in the new iteration. The new XCOM kinda had it, but not as serious. Also here we finally have maps that are realistic to move on. Not procedurally boxy crap like in XCOM 2 which mostly all looks the same. We even have the "string" drawn line of sight from the old BT game to show how your vision gets blocked by things on the landscape between you and your target. You really have to think about all that when lining up shots. Its a breath of fresh air after being tired of the XCOM style combat having played that over and over, this is opens up all new doors.
Saw this in my feed and clicked on it. I though Macks old like me so he'll probably thumbs up a turn based game because it's good for us old timers haha
Heh you and ACG are most always in sync with your gaming choices. You should be on his podcast/video cast sometime Mack. Love to watch that as I watch you both all the time.
Thanks for this, got me interested in this game again. Will you do FrostPunk? I'm especially interested after some people started voicing their concern about game being over after 4-6 hours, having the city survive for 45 days only and no endless/sandbox mode etc.
oh god, this would have rocked my world half a decade ago, i was so into mechwarrior when i was a kid and i always wanted reboots and other genre games of mechwarrior. But my fan hype just cooled down by the time the mmo came out.
Awesome review Mac I bought this played the tutorial last night your review has made me want to play More now. Frostpunk is also out though and I’m loving that at moment.
I installed the game on the day of release and have yet to have a single issue with how it runs. My only issue is that I wish the actual campaign was longer. In the current campaign I am holding off playing the final missions and flying around taking contract to build up my Mech stable and pilot skills. So far the Argo is fully upgraded, the Bay are maxed out with Assault and heavy mechs, I have 16 full trained up pilots, 18 other mechs in storage and 24 Million in the bank. Ang yes I am still going to carry on flying around dealing out death and destruction as unless the AI can counter my tier 1 lance the final missions would only end the campaign and gain me nothing special.
Mack you need to take another look at rising storm 2. In my opinion you made the game justice back then, but now Im having the best mp fps experiences Ive ever had in that game. It has been updated alot. Theres now community maps that is getting accpeted for the game, theres modding contests and theres something truly amazing. They released a map pack complete with new weapons and bonus xp for free! Your teamates now have tags most of the time. The time to kill has been nerfed so you dont die that often anymore. The community is more experienced so you dont die from teamkills as often. Its even better optimized and they have fixed some bugs. The animations for climbing is still there, you still have to sneak around if you are going lone wolf. You cant run around as a headless chicken with a michinegun because thatll kill you in five seconds.
Yes multiplayer requires an account, but due to them releasing on GoG aswell, I imagine they wanted something to protect multiplayer from pirates jumping on.
I hope you cover Pillars of Eternity 2, they've just announced that it'll have full voiceovers for every piece of dialogue, except for the player's character, of course.
where are the melee weapons? the repair kits? why cant i change the arms and legs? why are there so few weapon types? WHY IS THIS LESS COMPLEX THAN A PS1 GAME!?
Thanks for this review, been following this for a while and steam had me scared. Of course you came with a non-biased review and that’s all I needed. WAB!
I can barely tolerate anything turn based in this day and age, but I guess this is still pretty cool. Then again all will be doing tonight is Frostpunk. I came home from work and next thing I now I'm five hours in and haven't taken a pause. After a sandwich, some coffe and a refreshing WAB; I'm going back in. You'll love it.
not a bad game but it didn't meet my expectations either. The campaign was a huge disappointment , not only the main quest but the lack of side quests made the storyline dry as fuck, the npcs and the main characters where so shallow too. Finally when you finish the main quest there isn't much to do other than gathering c - bills and mechs plus the missions get repetitive too . The main core though was very good , the battle system awesome, the graphics mediocre , the sound effects the music AAA! I'd like to think that we will get more content in the near future , but definitely not the battlemech game i was expecting .
thank you mack that you are still doing great reviews you know since youtube changed its income system i feel like there are less independent reviewers cheers
Game looks awesome. You mention in your review that if you are unfamiliar with the mech types or mech games in general you'll feel lost. From what I can see there are a lot acronyms I have no clue about. Is it easy to learn this kind of stuff or am I forever going to be lost? Thanks
Bit late to the game bought it last week for under a tenner in a steam sale. What I great game! Even though I'm getting my botty kicked and utter more swear words than a Tourette's convention, I'm loving the game. Also not sure if my old ears are deceiving but sure one of the Mechwarrior soundclips is "Aye up" Nice to know there's northerners on distant the 32nd century planets. They be the Mechwarrior who wear t shirts during winter
Hi. I went to buy the game from greenmangaming. I used the link in the description. But it doesn't take me to the battletech page on GMG, just their top page. If I from there go to the battletech page on GMG and buy it, does it still support you? Just wanna support if I can.
I am running the game on an Alienware 17 R4, with Nvidia GTX 1070 GPU, a 32 gig memory and a 16 gig graphic card, why the hell is it pushing my CPU to such high heat levels!. Had to stop playing after 20 mins due to high heat level warning. Never had a game do this, Farcry 5 runs on Ultra and never gets this hot nor do any of my other games, The Game is no way heavy on graphics so i do not understand why it doing this. YOU NEED TO SORT THIS OUT NOW!!!!!!
To Mack or whoever... I've always wanted to get into mech games. But, as Mack makes it clear, this game isn't really for those who don't understand mech games generally. Being in that group anyone have a recommendation for a game/resource to get into it? Mechs for dummies? Here's my recent mech game experience: Titanfall 2 :) Yeah I know it doesn't really count :) But damn what a good (very underrated, imo) game.
i still play it, just played lastnight and will do more tonight. i wont say its a great game. but for me the customization of mecs, and tactics, good graphics makes it all fun. i never followed the story in 3 playthroughs lol.
I don't understand why so many people seem to not like this game? Tactics are a MUST for this game or you WILL get killed, maybe that's it? On the first real mission of the game, I got my butt handed to me on a silver platter, at which time I was made to kiss it both vigorously, and repeatedly... But that's a good thing, I WANT a game to give me a reason to play. Tonight, uhhhh, after I restart the game, I will teach those mechs a lesson they will never forget! But, most likely I will be made to kiss my own butt after it has been detached from my body once again.
Mechwarrior games are set in Battletech universe, not the other way round;) Battletech is a classic series of board games. Yes, there was a Mechwarrior board game, but it was part of the Battletech series.
You get to choose your pronoun? xD Well. That'll never hold up. Next week they'll be called intolerant for not having included the last 3 pronouns that sprung up.
I also thought it was a poor design choice. Half the audience is put off by multiple pronouns, the other half will never be happy no matter how many pronouns you include. Best to leave it alone.
Are the people who come up with this nonsense really part of a market? Most of the ones who scream loudest about this idiocy are jobless Marxists who would rather pirate your game as working for money is misogyny or something.
was good review , I do like these kinds of games. I will have to fit it in some where, wow so many games and no time lol. You are the greatest take good care.
I7 8700k watercooled + ddr4 3.2ghz + Strix 1080ti OC. Still got some unacceptable rare some 50fps fps drops on ultra 1080p on 1st mission. Totally unacceptable for those average graphics. I get 120+ fps all the time on FC5, BF1 and graphic intensive games so my system is working perfectly. Refunded + bought Frostpunk.
Battletech is not a Mechwarrior game fyi. Mechwarrior is a battletech game. Not a huge thing but the fact that HBS managed to beat a patent troll in order to use the proper game/mech names is pretty cool.
Was just looking at strategy games today, shocked at the prices for old games, I actually think you get more sales on the PS store and PS+ now. I totally forgot about GMG though, I'll make sure to use the link, hopefully Warhammer isn't £40!
Game did not include my chosen pronoun "zheehewhodopoo", and did not include my preferred hair colour "washed out blueish-green". Thumbs down, will not support Nazi transphobic games.
Late to comment, but Battletech/Mechwarrior has a lore that rivals if not surpasses Star Wars. The HBS Battletech game is a mediocre story set in an incredible sci-fi universe. I was a little disappointed in the story and some of the lore-breaking mechanics, but I guess beggars can't be choosers, especially considering how long it took to get a new game set in the CBT universe (the Microsoft years of Mechwarrior were...well...difficult to chew).
Have had 4 crashes in over 100 hours myself, your mileage may vary. The game has transported me back to the 80s playing a Mechwarrior RPG campaign, with a sadistic bastard GM who wants to make you work your arse off for every victory. I think I just described most GMs :D Genuinely confused as to why people think a (completely optional) pronoun is the main feature of "Game of thrones in space with gigantic killer mechs!".
Shocked to see this game bombing on Steam and after a bit investigation it appears lots of people are experiencing crashes, I just want to say I have not had a single crash since I started playing it. That however does not mean there is nothing wrong with the game, if loads of people are crashing then there is clearly a bug with the coding, am sure they will fix it but I thought I had better mention it as I was not aware of this when I made the review.
When is MacksCorner coming back? I need my playthrough fix! D=
I see alot of reviews who give it negatives due to having three genders to chose from. Appearantly that is a game breaker for many people that you appearantly can have a genderless character O NOES! GAME PUSHES GENDER AGENDA!!!! SJW DEVELOPERS!!! None of them actually have told me what is wrong about it, if the story forces it down your throat by having your character fall in love with one of them or anything...nope..just in the char creation you can pick "they" instead "he or she".
Mack, do frostpunk! Amazing game. I think you're gonna like it.. Well, hopefully anyway.
Crashing can be patched out, so I'm buying the game anyways.
That's a no buy from me.
Frostpunk will be up next hopefully
Worth A Buy hey Mack are there any big AAA games coming out soon? I just wanna hear u slam the AAA devs for their bs. Love ur stuff if I could afford it I would give u money on patreon but I have no money 😂
Oh been keeping my eye on that.. can't wait.
Good review on battletech too
im risking it
Lol mac, vän you read my mind 😂 löpning forward to frostpunk
Is Mackscorner coming back? I Still love watching the old vids.
you make the best reviews, even if the game doesnt interest me, your commentary makes the videos good. great work mr
I like the sad music at the end of the reviews.
Lol yeah I literally just watch the videos for mack I don't think I've ever gone and actually played one of the games
I will always watch your review if there's one before buying a game. I'm glad you are strong minded are able to deal with the criticism, you are brutally honest and thank god for someone with some influence being honest for once. Stay awesome man, only reviewer I trust.
I sexually identify as an atlas mech
I've always loved Mechwarrior, and turn based games as well such as XCom. I picked this up immediately, and have loved it so far.
Mac correct me if I'm wrong but you said MechWarrior Universe, I'm pretty sure MechWarrior is a game in the BattleTech universe. I think BattleTech was the original tabletop game wasn't it?
Yes instead of word 1 it's word 2. Kind of like how it's the "Call of Duty" franchise, not "Modern Warfare" franchise. Because that kind of pedantry matters very deeply.
I mean we can get real nerdy and nitpicky and start mentioning Macross.
SuperUnunquadium it matters to a small extent. If somebody new to the franchise wanted to find some lore or something, they could be confused in what to look for. No, it's not the end of the world. I was introduced to the series in 1997 on AOL with Multiplayer Battletech: Solaris. I discovered MechWarrior way later. At that time, the two certainly did not feel interchangeable.
Mechwarrior was actually the PnP RPG game within the Battletech Universe. It allowed roleplaying on a greater scale within that universe with more rules for a gamemaster and making a mechwarrior character to be roleplayed is wider stories. You can lookup the old Mechwarrior "Role Playing Game" to see the book.
Joel C thanks. Shame I don't know anybody that would do PNP anymore but I'll look into it! It's part of the story so it's just fun knowing these things.
Couldnt see it in the vid but does anyone know if the Timberwolf design is included? TBH thats the only one I enjoy playing with.
Just innersphere atm but Clan Mechs may appear in DLC, I am just guessing this but I would not be surprised if clan pack DLC's arrive at some point.
Worth A Buy Thanks for the info, pity but will hold off on buying. Have a good week and cheers for the great content, as always.
You don't play just one mech at a time like mechwarrior action games. You play whole Lances and you synergize between them much more tactical. It would get ultimately boring if you only played one type of mech in all situations.
Joel C Thanks I'm aware of the squad-based vibe, still need the Madcat or the value isn't there for me.
Z I want my Warhammer, Phoenix Hawk, and Marauder mech. Just like from the first Mechwarrior. This game already has the Locust, Jenner, Shadow Hawk and Battlemaster. Couldn't care about the Rifleman though.
What was the song in that gow stream you did?
Also you should check out a game called ready or not,not out yet but it looks amazing
I got this game at launch, and all the crashes and long (very long) loading screens aside, I just didnt click with it. But, since much time has past and seeing you actually liked it, I might have to revisit it
Picked this up in 2020 on GMG with the three expansions dirt cheap. Well worth it
"THEY" D:
wtf is "they"
1:26 it's bullshit is what it is. Must say the game looks cool af though.
I guess we should be happy "Ze" wasnt included...
I am confused. What is meant by "They" in the male or female choice?
The whole point is to make languages so awkward that nobody could say anything that can't be interpreted the wrong way...
The game runs so poorly for me. I have a monster of a PC with a 1080ti. This game ran my GPU at 100% load, temp over 80c.... while on the menu screen. NO game I have ever played has done that. Also it does not support Ultra Wide Screen, that is a big issue for me.
Have you checked your GPU load and temp while running the game?
First time I ran the game it did that to my PC.
Air cooled 1080 ti - Went back and retuned the GPU and case fan curves; It works well now.
Still a heavy load but temps around 70 are manageable.
I have a beast air cooling case (200MM intake and exhaust fans) I modded myself, so that may make a difference also.
@VidicusDefinitely supports ultra wide, Im using a ultra wide monitor and its works fine for me. However I have a similar setup to yours and I have also been experiencing frequent crashes and havent been able to get past the intro mission.
So what's your CPU? It might be more of a CPU problem.
I believe the issue lies in the game running on non supported resolutions. I got it to run in nominal ranges by setting the resolution to a different setting. As for running it at my native resolution, it cuts off part of the UI including buttons. Having fun with the title regardless of these issues.
As a very old battletech board games.. . and later moved onto the Atari and Amiga versions... anyone else remember Jason blood stealing his first mech from the training ground? Anyway a great all round review so I'm in and thanks for spening your time helping me make the decision easier
When Mac gets excited about games, I get excited about games!
Is there dismemberment? In the video it looked as though a mech's arm was incapacitated but it was still there. I'm talking like front mission if anyone is familiar
Yeah there is, i've had mechs punch arms off & kick legs off. They stay on the battlefield too.
gravytrader cool, thanks
Awesome, i knew it. So far, every game i ever kickstarted has been totally amazing. I seem to have a sixth sense for staying away from the overhyped crap. Gonna be enjoying this one. You all do the same guys !
I hope 'they' is referring to royalty otherwise keep your identity politics out of my pc.
well, if the game takes place in the far future, and you can *only* choose between he, she or they, maybe the future isn't going to be so bad!
Eurotrash RC Good point.
Who the fuck cares
CJ Richards I for one do
I have this game and I can say for certain that the "They" pronoun is for royalty. *Spoilers* (not really) you do start as a person of high nobility when creating your character but like the video said it doesn't affect anything.
I've never even touched any other Mechwarrior game before this and not only did I love it I picked things up really quickly. Same with Shadowrun and I loved those games as well and didn't run into much difficulty into learning how things worked.
Oh Mack thank god for you. After preordering this last night I woke up excited to play it and was disheartened to see the game bombing on steam reviews. I went straight to youtube to see what the critics were saying and was delighted to see your review. I love the Mechwarrior series of games and you’ve given me new hope. Off to play right now. Keep up the great work!
Overload releases on the PC May 31st. Please tell me you are gonna give it a go?
As deep as old Meg's what? Tell me, what is he referring to? OLD MEG'S WHAAT?!?!
deep voice
...list of shit she wants Mack to do around the house when he gets off that bloody computer.
Just bought and played for around 3 hours. Good shout Mack, enjoying it so far. (Thanks for the voucher code).
One of my favourite tactical games ever. Just finished the campaign for the 2nd time, now after the release of all dlc, and it was awesome. Gonna jump straight into mechwarrior 5 now.
Hi Mack, great video, thanks. I just want to let you know that you did not come up on search results when I searched for Battletech review. Other channels I watch come up and those videos had also been watched. Either youtube isn't liking the content or the SEO on the video is off. (could be just my profile)
This game looks really cool, I really loved Mech Commander back in the day.
THEY?!
To your battlestations, men! The SJWS are coming for our video games again!
I'm not from Europe. Do not ASSUME my nationality!
Sounds like you're whining about the lack of representation of your demographic, Han Lockhart. Who is the real SJW, here?
I love the that you record the frame rate...
Wait, He, She, or They.....? Alarm bells ring when I see shit like that lol.
Why tho?
It's eye rolling at the very least and at worst, it's indicative of identity politics shoving its nose where it doesn't belong.
+snugdarkly
Are you kidding? When a schizophrenic man tells me god is talking to him inside his head and demands he kills all the non-believers I say go right ahead because nobody knows your mind better than you do so it must be gods will.
I came to comment the same thing but everybody is moaning about it. Glad Mack's audience isn't riddled with far left loonies. Get your SJW identity shit out of our games please!
Who cares, don't give them the attention they so desperately want.
Did a quick skirmish mission - totally green - and had a lot of fun. Will have play it many more hours, but it started out well.
Multiplayer requires account, why is this a problem?
Another great thing Battletech brings back is having to really struggle to manage money and keep from going bankrupt like in the original XCOM game and one of the great gameplay systems we mostly lost in the new iteration. The new XCOM kinda had it, but not as serious. Also here we finally have maps that are realistic to move on. Not procedurally boxy crap like in XCOM 2 which mostly all looks the same. We even have the "string" drawn line of sight from the old BT game to show how your vision gets blocked by things on the landscape between you and your target. You really have to think about all that when lining up shots. Its a breath of fresh air after being tired of the XCOM style combat having played that over and over, this is opens up all new doors.
Can you imagine how terible the UI would be, if it was for consoles too?
Console peasants do no think that way...
Amen brother :-) ( to meno si zabil :-) )
Where is my Attack Helicopter pronoun option
How high end of a rig do you need? Will my HP 2540p with 1st Gen duelcore i7 and 8gb ram run it? lmao!
I forgot about the affiliate link, bought the game last week when it was on the other gmg April sale :/
Can you review the new spin tires mud runner?
This game keeps giving fan service long past its release date only now finishing their run of great value DLC.
Saw this in my feed and clicked on it. I though Macks old like me so he'll probably thumbs up a turn based game because it's good for us old timers haha
Nice one you Geordie beut, was wondering what would satisfy my xcom itch and it’ll be this.
Thanks for getting the review up fast man, I needed proper information on this game before I pulled the trigger or not.
This game is currently on sale - 14 aud. Good time to pick it up!
Heh you and ACG are most always in sync with your gaming choices. You should be on his podcast/video cast sometime Mack. Love to watch that as I watch you both all the time.
Now I need to dig out the old Gankenstein videos again. Is it worth a Fuego?
-Is that number in the top left corner your GPU temperature or game fps?-
Nope, must be fps, 132 at 3:51 would kill a GPU.
Thanks for this, got me interested in this game again.
Will you do FrostPunk?
I'm especially interested after some people started voicing their concern about game being over after 4-6 hours, having the city survive for 45 days only and no endless/sandbox mode etc.
oh god, this would have rocked my world half a decade ago, i was so into mechwarrior when i was a kid and i always wanted reboots and other genre games of mechwarrior.
But my fan hype just cooled down by the time the mmo came out.
Awesome review Mac I bought this played the tutorial last night your review has made me want to play More now. Frostpunk is also out though and I’m loving that at moment.
3:15 what's that coming over the hill, is it a mech-sir? is a mech-siiiiir?!
I installed the game on the day of release and have yet to have a single issue with how it runs. My only issue is that I wish the actual campaign was longer. In the current campaign I am holding off playing the final missions and flying around taking contract to build up my Mech stable and pilot skills. So far the Argo is fully upgraded, the Bay are maxed out with Assault and heavy mechs, I have 16 full trained up pilots, 18 other mechs in storage and 24 Million in the bank. Ang yes I am still going to carry on flying around dealing out death and destruction as unless the AI can counter my tier 1 lance the final missions would only end the campaign and gain me nothing special.
Mack you need to take another look at rising storm 2. In my opinion you made the game justice back then, but now Im having the best mp fps experiences Ive ever had in that game. It has been updated alot. Theres now community maps that is getting accpeted for the game, theres modding contests and theres something truly amazing. They released a map pack complete with new weapons and bonus xp for free! Your teamates now have tags most of the time. The time to kill has been nerfed so you dont die that often anymore. The community is more experienced so you dont die from teamkills as often. Its even better optimized and they have fixed some bugs. The animations for climbing is still there, you still have to sneak around if you are going lone wolf. You cant run around as a headless chicken with a michinegun because thatll kill you in five seconds.
The return of Gankenstein! :D
LONG LIVE GANKENSTEIN!
MECHWARRIOR living legends is best battletech game .... SERIOUSLY Mack you should check it out!!
Best of all.... Its FREE!!!!!!
Hey Mac, A Tribes style game is coming out in two weeks called Midair. Do you plan on reviewing it?
For me all you have to say is "From the makers of Shadowrun" and it's an automatic buy. Very awesome devs.
Yes multiplayer requires an account, but due to them releasing on GoG aswell, I imagine they wanted something to protect multiplayer from pirates jumping on.
Anyone know if titan fall 2 still has a decent playercount on pc?
I hope you cover Pillars of Eternity 2, they've just announced that it'll have full voiceovers for every piece of dialogue, except for the player's character, of course.
Is there going to be a Bless Online review?
I have been waiting this game for 28 years. Since BattleTech: Cescent Hawk's Revenge (1990).
I used to play that game in the 90's in my 20's. Good times...
I for one love the minimalistic visuals! Only have an hour or two into it but I love it!
really this just makes me wanna play Front Mission again...
where are the melee weapons? the repair kits? why cant i change the arms and legs? why are there so few weapon types? WHY IS THIS LESS COMPLEX THAN A PS1 GAME!?
Thanks for this review, been following this for a while and steam had me scared. Of course you came with a non-biased review and that’s all I needed. WAB!
I don't usually like turn based games but I'm playing one now and I'm actually enjoying it.
I can barely tolerate anything turn based in this day and age, but I guess this is still pretty cool.
Then again all will be doing tonight is Frostpunk. I came home from work and next thing I now I'm five hours in and haven't taken a pause. After a sandwich, some coffe and a refreshing WAB; I'm going back in. You'll love it.
when is that ice world strategy game wab?
fucking frostpunk that's the name
NEVER!
Mining and Grinding?
not a bad game but it didn't meet my expectations either. The campaign was a huge disappointment , not only the main quest but the lack of side quests made the storyline dry as fuck, the npcs and the main characters where so shallow too. Finally when you finish the main quest there isn't much to do other than gathering c - bills and mechs plus the missions get repetitive too . The main core though was very good , the battle system awesome, the graphics mediocre , the sound effects the music AAA! I'd like to think that we will get more content in the near future , but definitely not the battlemech game i was expecting .
thank you mack that you are still doing great reviews you know since youtube changed its income system i feel like there are less independent reviewers cheers
It looks good but not beginner friendly at all. I’m not sure if I’d get into it before giving up.
Game looks awesome. You mention in your review that if you are unfamiliar with the mech types or mech games in general you'll feel lost. From what I can see there are a lot acronyms I have no clue about. Is it easy to learn this kind of stuff or am I forever going to be lost? Thanks
Wow. Didn't expect this one to be good. Nice surprise
Bit late to the game bought it last week for under a tenner in a steam sale. What I great game! Even though I'm getting my botty kicked and utter more swear words than a Tourette's convention, I'm loving the game. Also not sure if my old ears are deceiving but sure one of the Mechwarrior soundclips is "Aye up" Nice to know there's northerners on distant the 32nd century planets. They be the Mechwarrior who wear t shirts during winter
Mac mac mac is it werth a bye let's read the words from the developer
Hi. I went to buy the game from greenmangaming. I used the link in the description. But it doesn't take me to the battletech page on GMG, just their top page. If I from there go to the battletech page on GMG and buy it, does it still support you? Just wanna support if I can.
Yep it will! Any purchase made within 30 days of clicking Mack's affiliate link will support him, as long as you don't clear your cookies.
Thanks for the reply and thanks for supporting him!
So it's Xcom with Mechs?
I am running the game on an Alienware 17 R4, with Nvidia GTX 1070 GPU, a 32 gig memory and a 16 gig graphic card, why the hell is it pushing my CPU to such high heat levels!. Had to stop playing after 20 mins due to high heat level warning. Never had a game do this, Farcry 5 runs on Ultra and never gets this hot nor do any of my other games, The Game is no way heavy on graphics so i do not understand why it doing this.
YOU NEED TO SORT THIS OUT NOW!!!!!!
To Mack or whoever... I've always wanted to get into mech games. But, as Mack makes it clear, this game isn't really for those who don't understand mech games generally. Being in that group anyone have a recommendation for a game/resource to get into it? Mechs for dummies? Here's my recent mech game experience: Titanfall 2 :) Yeah I know it doesn't really count :) But damn what a good (very underrated, imo) game.
i still play it, just played lastnight and will do more tonight. i wont say its a great game. but for me the customization of mecs, and tactics, good graphics makes it all fun. i never followed the story in 3 playthroughs lol.
I don't understand why so many people seem to not like this game? Tactics are a MUST for this game or you WILL get killed, maybe that's it? On the first real mission of the game, I got my butt handed to me on a silver platter, at which time I was made to kiss it both vigorously, and repeatedly... But that's a good thing, I WANT a game to give me a reason to play. Tonight, uhhhh, after I restart the game, I will teach those mechs a lesson they will never forget! But, most likely I will be made to kiss my own butt after it has been detached from my body once again.
Mechwarrior games are set in Battletech universe, not the other way round;) Battletech is a classic series of board games. Yes, there was a Mechwarrior board game, but it was part of the Battletech series.
I haven't had any crashes either! It's fantastic! Solid no bugs loving it.
You get to choose your pronoun? xD Well. That'll never hold up.
Next week they'll be called intolerant for not having included the last 3 pronouns that sprung up.
Fragadelic and as an added bonus I now know what a pronoun is...
That might seriously be the best thing that's come out of the movement
Well that's a redflag.
I'll just save my money lol
I also thought it was a poor design choice. Half the audience is put off by multiple pronouns, the other half will never be happy no matter how many pronouns you include. Best to leave it alone.
Are the people who come up with this nonsense really part of a market? Most of the ones who scream loudest about this idiocy are jobless Marxists who would rather pirate your game as working for money is misogyny or something.
it somewhere really reminds me of XCOM
was good review , I do like these kinds of games. I will have to fit it in some where, wow so many games and no time lol. You are the greatest take good care.
Bought the game through your link. Thanks for the great review.
U can play pc games on Xbox through windows display now
I7 8700k watercooled + ddr4 3.2ghz + Strix 1080ti OC. Still got some unacceptable rare some 50fps fps drops on ultra 1080p on 1st mission. Totally unacceptable for those average graphics. I get 120+ fps all the time on FC5, BF1 and graphic intensive games so my system is working perfectly. Refunded + bought Frostpunk.
Who knew Mack was such a tabletop nerd?
I bet you his missus has bright blue hair...
Battletech is not a Mechwarrior game fyi. Mechwarrior is a battletech game. Not a huge thing but the fact that HBS managed to beat a patent troll in order to use the proper game/mech names is pretty cool.
Cheers Mack, I was hoping you'd do a review of this. Particularly as you are a fan of the Mechwarrior genre.
Thank You , Mister Mak' Makkerson,
This is a defo for me, cheers
Was just looking at strategy games today, shocked at the prices for old games, I actually think you get more sales on the PS store and PS+ now.
I totally forgot about GMG though, I'll make sure to use the link, hopefully Warhammer isn't £40!
Frostpunk looks interesting, I'll wait for your review on that.
Or not, got it for £19.94 with the link and code :)
It's fantastic so far, but that's what you'd expect when the original Battletech creator designs it while he's still lucid and motivated.
Game did not include my chosen pronoun "zheehewhodopoo", and did not include my preferred hair colour "washed out blueish-green". Thumbs down, will not support Nazi transphobic games.
Late to comment, but Battletech/Mechwarrior has a lore that rivals if not surpasses Star Wars. The HBS Battletech game is a mediocre story set in an incredible sci-fi universe. I was a little disappointed in the story and some of the lore-breaking mechanics, but I guess beggars can't be choosers, especially considering how long it took to get a new game set in the CBT universe (the Microsoft years of Mechwarrior were...well...difficult to chew).
Have had 4 crashes in over 100 hours myself, your mileage may vary. The game has transported me back to the 80s playing a Mechwarrior RPG campaign, with a sadistic bastard GM who wants to make you work your arse off for every victory. I think I just described most GMs :D
Genuinely confused as to why people think a (completely optional) pronoun is the main feature of "Game of thrones in space with gigantic killer mechs!".
i cant decide over this game or frostpunk
Looks great, I may pick this up, i'll be sure to get it via GMG if I do.
It's not just steam. GOG is having the same issues. Despite their "money back guarantee" I had to stop payment to get my refund.