BATTLETECH - Heavy Metal

By no means is this expansion the best ever but people need to stop complaining. This expansion brings a new flashpoint campaign and even more mechs and toys than we had before. I am all for expanding on the Mech selection and enjoy having new toys to experiment with. Yes, Hairbrained did release a pretty big update alongside this expansion but that doesn't mean this expansion isn't worth it. They have to pay bills like everyone else so they can't just give all their work away for free and I for one am glad they do what they do so I can play this awesome game.

Ok, well it has the Rifleman, one of my fave Mechs since the good old 1980/90s when I was a kid and Devs just made GOOD games (free of gender politics) - although some say it was part of the patch, if so I don`t have much to say about the exp itself. There are a couple of extra mechs although i`m not sure which are new. There are some new weapons systems, but I`m certain some of these things are out of chronological order. they look like Clan stuff, which shouldn`t exist yet. Can`t help but get the feeling hat they don`t care for the good old Battletech experience that many of us had in the 90s. Sad.

While it's great that they brought some of the classic 'Mechs back (really, the Assassin and the Flea? Why no Wasp or Stinger?) that they actually brought some completely broken devices into the game indicates that they're not interested in giving us a BattleTech game, and more trying to re-write history and whitewash years of canon. An Ultra AC/5, in 3025? That does 9 points of damage per shot? Great job. The "improved" autocannons broke the game originally, and now adding LB-X autocannons an Ultra Autocannons firmly cements the game as more a fanfic than a canonical adventure in BattleTech. The new "powers" that they gave the newly added 'Mechs show what little regard they hold for BattleTech fans who have been playing since the BattleDroid days. The one good thing (and what indicates it deserves a single star) is that they're finally allowing mods. So, maybe one of the great modding community can create an effective mod to fix all the bad parts of this game and make it amazing.