Black Market access sucks in the campaign because it's almost impossible to fix your pirate rep. I'm not paying 55 million c-bills for a bull-shark.
that crappy dragon you pick up early. Heavy, my ass
Yeah, I wasn't sure I was going to be into the game enough to get the expansions at that time so I didn't check the sale.
I am still pretty early in the campaign so I am still running a suite of mediums with that crappy dragon you pick up early. Heavy, my ass. I am trying to buy my way to an Awesome as it is all I have found so far.
I don't know if it is just the way I play, but I find melee to be more effective in the early game than trying to gun down opposition. Sometimes it seems you can pump serious firepower into an enemy light and it still continues to return fire even though it looks like a doll some psychotic kid just finished with - no limbs, charred and broken. Occasionally you get a decent core, but ofttimes I am left distinctly dissatisfied with the results.
Mechs that just barely meet/exceed the tonnage requirement for a higher class are generally pretty shitty in the vanilla turn based system.
Not to say you can't have fun with them when you get the right components. For instance the Banshee 3E is considered the worst assault by a large margin because it has such a huge engine but if you put a tactics/Piloting pilot in it with the high end arm mods and ++weapons it can one shot melee an atlas and then run away with extra evasion.
As far as mods go I personally prefer 3025 because if I wanted to slam my dick in a door I'd just do it instead of playing Roguetech. You do however need to download mission control and bigger drops individually with that mod. Mission control doubles to quadruples map size and adds allied or neutral lances to most missions. Bigger drops allows you to drop up to two lances of mechs so you can get some company level action going with both. Slams even high end pcs performance wise so YMMV.
The biggest thing from all those MoDs though is the massive amount of mechs you get to play with. Being able to run clan tech or 3060 Inner Sphere tech can be really fun.
Slams even high end pcs performance wise so YMMV.
Yeah, Urban Warfare hit my isthereanydeal at >50% discount. Picked it up. Best deal for Heavy Metal was only at 20%. So, I'll probably wait on that one.Ironman with 5 parts and you’re going in blind. Ooh baby what is it you’re doing.
Urban is probably meh, Heavy metal introduces uacs which are bonkers overpowered and some more mechs between them.
I’d say get them if they’re on sale somewhere. They add a lot of additional flashpoint missions as well.