I judge my battlemech games by their gauss rifle satisfaction levels.

This game is a very high A to near S level of satisfaction. The right level of glow, speed, penetration, impact and oomph. It punches through tons of metal like hulk punches through a wall.

It's like ball slapping kinds of goodness, the kind that makes you go "yes, more please" as it foooms through the hull of some poor soul who sees his lower left leg evaporate into nothing because of an extremely high speed chunk of metal slicing through it faster than Miyamoto Musashi slices through his loser opponents.

Bonuses: every other weapon feels great - rail gun is a rail gun, turns tonnage into ground beef somehow - like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ magic. Rapid fire shotguns accurately depict the feeling of pounding the hell out of some dummy who thought you were a gummy for eatin'. No friend, you're getting sprayed by giant pellets.

I like this game. Only downsides so far are steam deck performance is ok at best (really slows down in big fights) and content is still not quite there. I'd love a horde mode - some last man standing kind of crap where I get to endless fire a slug straight through the core of some giant mech and see it explode into a thousand pieces.

Excellent buy!