This is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ miserable save-scumming simulator. You're pitted against completely unreasonable odds going 1:5 against enemies who will randomly one shot because of RNG. There's a term for this: Accuracy by Volume. You have a tiny chance to just die out right no matter what--no matter how well built your mechs are or how much armor you have--if the enemies hit you in the head. Due to the sheer volume of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ you're thrown against it is inevitable that an enemy will force you back to your last save because losses of all heroes (except your MC) and mechs are permanent. All the non-combat ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ chores you have to pay for means you cannot afford to lose anything and will constantly be rolling back to the last save.

This game is trash and it makes me hate the entire franchise despite having loved both the spinnoff MechWarrior and MechAssault titles in the past. I bought this game on sale because that's what all the negative reviews said it was worth and even then it was not worth the money or frustration of its garbage design.

I've tried to like this game giving it two separate attempts but I just can't. I've watched hours of guides tried over and over on easier and harder missions but this game's combat system is incredibly unreliable. At times you're blowing up enemies left right and center like a cool guy, the next you're shooting one target 300 times till you run out of ammo and they still have half their health even without armor. And just as you're about to say screw it and rush the enemy mech one guy gets a lucky shot on your head and take out you highest health most armored mech ruining your incredibly limited control of the action economy.

I'm just tired of putting effort into this game on normal difficulty just to be uncontrollably derailed by your 80% shots chances missing while getting hit with +5 evasion and cover. Strategy has literally no bearing on this game at least in the very early stages.

Yeah... no. In the vast sea of probability-based strategy games, this one takes the cake for being the worst I've played. Not only do the probabilities straight-up lie to you (hit chances are different than the percentages represented in game), but there is also a horrendous hit chance cap that handicaps your tactics. As if that wasn't enough, the different parts of a mech take separate damage, with only the head and center torso being insta-kills upon destruction. While this sounds pretty cool, what it means in practice is that the amount of damage you dish out will feel nowhere near the damage you receive. One lance (squad of four mechs) is basically all you can effectively manage, despite the fact that the game throws several other threats at you all at once.

I can keep going, but the jist of it is that every tool you get that's supposed to tip the scales of the battle in your favor end up being disappointing at best and completely useless almost every time. It really is a shame that a game with a great strategic layer utterly fails on the tactical field. Would not recommend unless you're a masochist that loves missing every shot you take and receiving every shot the enemy throws at you.