![]() Jetpack fuel is anther gauge you need to worry about, although I would've like it to refill more quickly outside of battle so the quasi-platforming segments didn't involved me waiting several seconds every time I botched a jump. Movement also has it's ins and outs, since your building-size walking armoury also has jetpacks which are crucial to traversing the uneven terrain and moving quickly around the battlefield. There's no munition but you need to keep an eye on your heat gauge and space out your shoots lest you overheat your mech and enter a cooling phase in which you become a stationary sitting duck for a while. The mech are weighty and there's some strategy in how you position yourself and attack. With a cockpit full of little details and movements (although I would liked the buttons and levers that decorate to be interactive) the immersion is complete. There's no munition but you need to keep an eye on your … More There's no repair system, which might make sense in multiplayer, when you fight until your mech is destroyed and respawn again (I suspect) but not in single player, when you might finish a fight without a leg and have almost no way of continuing the mission by moving to the next waypoint.īut I think that the good overcomes all those genuine problems. Enemy and ally AI during combat is hit and miss, and I had to restart missions a couple of times when convoys got stuck on the terrain. The way your own legs twist around unnaturally when you walk is the stuff of nightmares. Character animations are genuinely horrifying, arms contorting in impossible poses, hands clipping all over their bodies. Now, a lot of what I will have to say needs to be tempered by the fact that this is a very janky title with lots of issues. ![]() Being a multiplayer-only game with a recently-added single-player mode, I didn't have big expectations. With its complex controls, I had to use every finger and every key on the keyboard just to walk around.įor whatever reason I never played another until I found this old, relatively low-budget VR title on sale. I loved how the game made you feel like piloting a lumbering beast. The first and only mech game I played was Mechwarriors 4: Mercenaries decades ago.
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