Recent reviews by Sydney Wolff

Give them a Broadside Mister Gerard!

Spacemen shoot space bullets spacily.

Bing Chilling!

TIE-ln n chill me boys, Blast those rebs!

This game's business model is built entirely on frustration, it used to be fun, but it is, for the most part, a game with huge flaws, as a long time veteran of the game I find it hard to look past them, generally speaking, if you do play, don't go past era 2, it's not worth your time or effort.

Waited for the steam release, Well worth the wait, and the $30 i spent on it during the release sale, Absolutely wonderful time, some issues with the story most definately, but the moment to moment gameplay was exceptional and there where some solid jokes in there amongst the myriad detrious of trash puns, It's more borderlands, now with Alternate Fire modes and ATLAS Smart Bullets, what more do you want?

Wonderfully enjoyable game, Feels good to play, it's come a long way since 2015.

Okay, so let's start it out simple : I don't have the DLC, I might get it at some other time, I don't know.

I've been playing on Extreme difficulty with some of my friends, we each have a kind of role and the interplay works well, I have some minor complaints but other than that the game is fantastic, There's your TL:DR Play with friends on a hard difficulty and enjoy the hilarity and emergent gameplay

PROS :
+ Good God is this game beautiful
+ Loads of fun in Coop
+ Ballistics, None of the weapons are hitscan and there's reasons to choose certain rifles over others
+ Wonderfully crafted environments with loads of ways to tackle obstacles
+ Good voice acting with some truely funny jokes for those who are "In" with military humour.
+ Loads of customization means you can tailor loads of things for your playstyle, for example i've got an AK-12 with a long barrel and a 50rnd drum kitted out as a medium range automatic rifle for when the MG just isn't accurate enough


Cons :
- Noise generation seems to be based on weapon class DESPITE the noise reduction stat, Ignore the bar
- AI Teammates can be dense at times, highly recommend only playing co-op if possible, or playing an easier difficulty solo
- All sniper rifles have the same trajectory with the right modifications equipped as the "Range" stat affects the ballistic drop of the round, so if you've maxxed the bar, they drop the same ammount and go just as fast.
- Some microtransactions that I'm not a fan of, It's a full priced game guys, let's not have weapons that can only be acquired by microtransactions that you can't even customize, that's kind of ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Neutral
/ Lots of collectables and side missions that feel like fetch quests, not being able to keep weapons you pick up or modifiy them unless you retrieve them from a crate is kind of frustrating, the general system for acquiring new guns and attachments feels "Gamey" not a fan, but understand why it's done like that for gameplay reasons.

Additional Notes : While I don't own the DLC myself I've heard that Narco Road is more fitting in GTA than Ghost Recon and is the lesser of the two expansions, I've been having a blast so far and see myself putting lots of hours into this game.

DISCLAIMER : THIS GAME HAS A MASSIVE LEARNING CURVE, BE PREPARED TO FEEL THE SUCK FOR A FEW HOURS OF PLAY UNTIL YOU GET THE HANG OF IT.
I HAVE BEEN PLAYING SINCE CLOSED BETA AND AM STILL PRETTY TRASH.


Having put hundreds of hours into this game before its steam release, and with a large number of mechs in my stable without spending a single dime despite having a premium mech and cosmetic items earned entirely from in-game Events (Which happen quite often actually, or did before steam release, we'll see!) I have to say that I enjoy this game far too much, The thing is, even if you buy things you are getting NO ADVANTAGE. This game's ONLY deciding factors are player skill, luck (Just like anything else luck is a factor) and utilizing the built in communications to coordinate with your team.


TIPS FOR NEW PLAYERS :
1. Turn off the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 3rd person, there's alittle camera drone behind and above your mech with a flashing red light EVERYONE CAN SEE when you're in 3rd Person, and its actually detrimental to your ability to aim.
2. Controller support is wonky, and you DO NOT want to use a controller anyway, M&K is going to serve you much better, tracking targets smoothly and quickly is ESSENTIAL in this game.
3.Never go out alone, you will die faster than you can say "What's going on?!"
4. Save every C-Bill you earn until you can afford an IS assault or Clan Heavy, then save a few million more to outfit it as best as you can.
5. USE OUT OF GAME UTILITIES LIKE SMURFY'S MECHLAB AND METAMECHS. YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.
6. The community has developed a Utility called "Fire Control" it has a weapon toggle feature for things like machineguns and TAG Laser designators, It is not against the game's rules and has other features as well like fire sequencing multiple fire groups instead of MWO's chainfiring mechanic, I only use it for very specific builds that are heavy on constant fire weapons like MGs/Missile boats with a TAG, but it can be used for other things as well.

7/10 This game has its problems, and will continue to have problems, but It's had a great year this past year and with it's deadweight publisher IGP gone since like two years ago IIRC PGI has been making massive strides to regain community trust and has produced an enjoyable if frustrating stompy mech shooty game. Its not battletech, but then again mechwarrior has never been battletech, its just set in the same universe!

Server Disconnections are semi-common for me its kind of annoying but has been getting better lately.

SCREENSHOT! : http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/395552769137893977/105682C1B28BA38BAE6FBF0F31C7C8960EEA272C/

Built space-ship, crashed spaceship, rebuilt spaceship, mined some ore, built more spaceship, had big ass space ship spontainously explode due to misplaced rocket launcher, blew up a cargo ship, had dogfight with friends.

Fantastic. The amount of fun you can have with this with enough friends is endless, BUILD. MORE. ♥♥♥♥.

What in the Name of The God-Emperor Did i just play? I have no IDEA What anything I did was about... but i BLOODY LOVED IT. Its like a mix of all the best things slapped together with an underlying level of chaos that puts Tzeentch to shame. 11/10 would Fumble through again.