Love it so far, a lot faster paced vs other clan campaigns. Playing expert and its actually a challenge, I had to upgrade my techs early because I was taking that much damage, compared to the regular game I didn't need to touch it until I had nothing else to use my honour on.

Had 2 tech/bugs so far. One mission an enemy mech spawned/got stuck in a building causing a fail. Also had my game freeze but audio was playing fine and I had to end task. It is time for bed so I'll retry the mission tomorrow and hopefully it was a one off.

If you liked Flash Storm, I would suggest getting this as IMO I'm enjoying it a lot so far, although I'll have to see how the story goes and if its better/worse.

While playing Vanilla is very different, I'm getting my ass kicked in the first 3 missions using the quick start career so its a breath of fresh air.

Cutscenes are much better and don't be like me, remember to get the Atlas 2 on planet Romulus

So I found this game on gamepass originally a year or two ago. Loved the game, and was super sad I missed the launch in 2021 but at least most of the DLC was out by then.

When it went on sale on steam, I went over for the mods and ended up buying a few DLC as well. The game was already good but then I found about YAML set of mods and it just made the game feel brand new.

I'm now over 500+ hours in, own every DLC and I'm counting the days to the new SoK DLC which I will buy at full price because this game has been amazing. I will literally spend hours min maxing my mechs and if Piranha can fix some of the issues that cause lag late game (each duplicate item counts as a separate item, so you have to keep selling items or risk game crashes etc) it would be amazing! But great game, give it a try and support an amazing company that won't allow me TO PREORDER DLC !!

While this is not as replayable as MW5 Mercs, the story has vastly improved and its still fun mech combat. Has a few issues still (weapon balancing mainly) but overall a pretty good 8/10 at least. The first DLC was also an improvement vs the base game so hopefully we keep getting more DLC that get better and better!