It's just such a do-nothing game. Repetitive, boring missions. They expect you to dump dozens or hundreds of hours into a campaign but you experience 100% of the content in your first thirty minutes. Even mods barely help, the only value the game has now is as a VR experience.

You'd think the concept of running a giant robot PMC in an open world galaxy would be easy to develop content for but they swung and missed twice now.

Clans are retarded and their entire involvement with battletech would be improved if they were entirely excised and instead everyone just made cool new mechs around that time.

tranny game

>>720792706
I was gonna say I had a lot of fun with it but that was both with a strong element of fun with friends and being heavily modded

is the combat really just circlestrafing while shooting each other with cannons?

>>720796378
If you want to just brute force every fight, yeah

>>720792706
What did they change on it?
Did they make walk speed match cockpit sway?
Did they add denoise in the UEngine shit graphics?
Did they finally made the mechlab not useless?
Are the explosions finally not shit and you don't have to get WarFX to at least look cool?
Added a not super fucking retarded loot system that finally works in your benefit?
Reasons why you should take contracts against allies like a much higher pay to betray?
Maybe an AI that is fun to fight against?
Accelerated ballistics?
Coop mech import from your friends aka not having to just lend shit from your game?
Individual wallets to your mates?
Anything that is just not completely boring shit or has to be heavily modded to be like it should in the first place?

>>720796378
Yes because
>>720796494
is a tranny and won't admit the game is barebones and the AI is retarded, not balanced, not well designed and not fun and every encounter and weapon is the same

I still cannot fathom how MWO does gameplay better and they just didn't copy it system but single player.

>>720796627
>the game is barebones and the AI is retarded, not balanced, not well designed and not fun and every encounter and weapon is the same
But I think all of those things too. I don't have to "admit" it, I literally already said all of it in this very thread.

You only circlestrafe around enemies if you just want to brute force the mission.

>>720796697
Ok then carry on you are completely right
Sorry for calling you a tranny
Or glad if you're really a tranny
Which if that's the case fuck off anyways
If not sorry

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>the endgame is to assemble a team of assault mechs to do the highest tonnage missions
>all assault mechs are so incredibly slow that anything that isn't a defense mission is a massive slog
>the game literally gets slower and less engaging the longer you play it

>>720796494
how do you not "brute force" a fight?

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>>720792706
>"Just install 300 mods to make the game playable, bro!"

the gameplay is better than previous mechwarrior titles but it has none of the soul
mw4 mercs listening to your lancemates exchange bants during the mission is one of my fondest gaming memories

game needs a cute mechanic you get to fuck after each mission

This is one of the ugliest Unreal games i've ever seen. It has everything you hate about the engine

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>>720792706
That game is trash. They wanted to revive a genre because nostalgia. But that same nostalgia made them blind to how dogshit the gameplay actually was back then. So they did their best to emulate garbage, only to realize it was too simple and garbage. They couldn't change the fundamentals of the gameplay because nostalgia, so they just started adding more layers of shit to try and increase the pace and complexity to be suitable for modern audiences. The result was boring gameplay because the core gameplay was the same oversimplified 90's shit, but with lots of artificial convoluted bullshit and busywork making it a chore to do anything. So it's neither fun as a simple shooting game, nor as a complex simulation.

Which mods are essential?

>>720794212
That is the nature of all sandbox games.
Hell even many rts and open world titles inherently are very repetitive.
Sure Clans avoids that but that's because it is an actual story campaign as a game.

>>720796547
>Did they make walk speed match cockpit sway?
They inherently match? Do you mean the difference in walking animation between 1st person and 3rd?
>Did they finally made the mechlab not useless?
It was never useless, or well as usefull as it was in previous games.
>Added a not super fucking retarded loot system that finally works in your benefit?
The fuck is does that mean? What makes a loot system retarded?
>Reasons why you should take contracts against allies like a much higher pay to betray?
What allies? There are no allies.
>Maybe an AI that is fun to fight against?
Arguably comparable to your average enemy AI in games, which isn't really a compliment

>>720797062
>endgame is to assemble a team of assault mechs
>he doesn't know
Lights > Assaults

>>720799190
Truly essential?
BattleGridReordered to give lancemates orders at a distance.
Maybe Advanced Zoom and PuchaseSalvage, for more zoom and the option to go over your salvage allowance for money respectively.
Everything else is to taste.

>>720792706
I'm still somewhat mad that there aren't any infantry or power armored guys to fight with

>>720799190
vonBiomes and coyote mission pack

>>720796547
no
maybe next year

>>720801550
>power armored guys
Elementals are now in, if you'er facing Clanners.

>>720801394
>Lights > Assaults
It'd be fine if the game gave you good variety of missions with things like scouting and recon but instead you just get endless wave-based meagrinders where the ability to move around is completely secondary to having more health than god.

They're not supposed to be used for direct attacks on heavier mechs, that's fine, but then they should give them other justifications to be around.

>>720796547
Well no but they added a few clan mechs. Buy now!

>>720802067
In the late game lights are super strong against heavies and assaults, unmodded btw.
A kitted out Firestarter mulches assaults.

>>720801394
>>Did they make walk speed match cockpit sway?
>They inherently match? Do you mean the difference in walking animation between 1st person and 3rd?
They do not retard
They do not you fucking retard
It's one of the first things that most mods do to fix
I don't even want to dare to read your post now because you already starded like a fucking apologetic retard

Fuck you Russ

>>720802623
No seriously what are you talking about with that?
Sure 1st and 3rd person do not match but that's it and it was an intentional choice.

>>720802494
I wouldn't be shocked if they were. I'm still not bringing a firestarter to fight a dozen mixed mech waves in a row, spawning from all sides or directly from above. I also want my allies to keep up with me and the baby carriage builds they require to not be a constant drain on my wallet doesn't help.