The subsequent growth for BattleTech will deliver new mechs and characters from its tabletop days in addition to new weapons, Paradox introduced at the moment at their PDXCON fanfest. Heavy Metal is the growth’s identify, and including extra soiled gert lumps of metallic is its identify. Our boy Nate, who’s out at PDXCON in Berlin, tells me one of many new weapons coming in Heavy Metal “Reminded [him] of the tiny ‘Noisy Cricket’ gun in Men In Black.” As nicely as new methods to homicide robots, it’ll have new story causes to do it, with a brand new Flashpoint “mini-campaign” that includes ye olde people from Wolf’s Dragoons.
Onto the numbers. Seven previous mechs and one new mech. Paradox say the classic mechs include “unique equipment that reflects the flavor and lore of the original board game.” Eight new weapons, together with a ‘Mech Mortar which deals splash damage to multiple units and Inferno Missiles that light up targets. Two old characters, the Bounty Hunter and Black Widow of Wolf’s Dragoons, on one new Flashpoint thread centered on a derelict cargo ship which has drifted in from deep house.
In whole, that’s 21. The new growth comprises 21. Write that down in your copybook.
Nate will inform us extra about what he noticed at PDXCON subsequent week. For now, he explains to me the Noisy Cricket state of affairs: “There’s a cool little mech called the Flea with a gun called the Coil Beam that gets stronger and stronger the further it runs in a turn, then blows the shit out of massive mechs.” That sounds nice.
No agency phrase but on when Heavy Metal will launch. It will value £15.49/€19.99/$19.99 individually or come as a part of BattleTech’s season move. That there season move has a 33% low cost on Steam and GOG this weekend as a part of the PDXCON sale. If you’re new to all this, hey, the bottom game has a 66% low cost too.
After a sluggish begin to their relationship, our former Alec (RPS in peace) fell arduous for BattleTech once the Flashpoint expansion hit. Rich McCormick advised us BattleTech’s been improved by updates too, although not modified massively. Let’s see how far these robots can take us with one other growth.
