Stompybot squad administration sim Batteltech was nice, but it surely was clearly lacking one thing. Not so immediately, with the discharge of the Urban Warfare enlargement, second of three deliberate for the squad techniques game’s season cross. No longer restricted to rolling hills, mountains and army basses, this enlargement provides the longer term cityscapes of different ‘Mech games. While developed by Harebrained Schemes, this is also a Paradox joint, which means even if you don’t purchase in, you’ve acquired a large feature-heavy free replace to dig into. Below, a launch trailer and a few gritty particulars.
As per the full patch notes here, everyone seems to be getting one massive combat-redefining function; stray photographs. If you miss that AC20 shot, the large shell not simply harmlessly disappears into the ether. Instead, it may possibly harm close by items, and even break buildings. Being on prime of a crumbling tower will harm, in fact. They’ve added seven extra ‘Mech variants (one only for Flashpoint owners), and fifty new star systems, mostly around the Inner Sphere’s core. The patch additionally contains a number of high quality of life and star-map UI enhancements, new story occasions out within the wild and fewer predictable Battle-type encounters. There’s too many small bug fixes for even the builders to checklist within the patch notes, so they supply a small, abridged checklist in the patch notes here.
As for the enlargement correct, it provides two new ‘Mech chassis types. The Raven 1X is an ECM-heavy scout and spotter mech, while the Javelin is a fast but heavy-hitting light model. Nothing too extraordinary. The big feature is the new environments – massive sci-fi metropolis sprawls. There’s buildings to climb on and snipe from, or simply cover behind, and plenty of stuff to blow up. Some maps have destructible gasoline or vitality reserves that may deal bodily or system-distrupting harm. Plus, there’s a variety of vehicles to stomp on. Missions-wise, there’s a number of new Flashpoint quest chains, plus one new mission sort, Attack And Defend. In this, you might want to wipe out the enemy base or cope with a endless stream of reinforcements making an attempt to knock your personal base out.
On prime of all that, there’s a trio of recent floor automobiles to step on. One cell assault tank, and two ECM machines. The give attention to digital warfare is new within the enlargement too, which a bunch of recent ‘Mech components allowing you to detect out-of-sight enemies, or prevent your foes from doing the same. Less of an issue in a big open battlefield, but in the ‘Mech-corridors of a city, it can save your life. There’s an actual give attention to the sunshine, agile and sneaky aspect of Battletech right here, however the subsequent enlargement – Heavy Metal – appears more likely to do the other, with a reputation like that.
All in all, it seems to be like a nifty replace and enlargement. My solely concern is how lengthy it’ll take mega-mods just like the anarchic Roguetech (which I took a deep dive on not way back) to replace and combine all these new environments and options. Battletech formally has no mod assist, and each main patch sends modders scrambling to evaluate the harm completed. Fingers crossed that the replace course of this time is comparatively brief.
Battletech: Urban Warfare is out on Steam, Humble, GOG and Paradox Plaza for £15.49/€19.99/$19.99, or as a part of the season cross. The base game can also be 40% discounted for the subsequent few days.
