BattleTech’s load times and general optimization were never the greatest, and patches and DLC didn’t make things much better. Make sure you run ModTekInjector.exe at least once or it won’t do anything.īattleTech Performance Fix – Less quality-of-life, more technical essential. Doesn’t do anything by itself, but you should follow the instructions to install it before anything else. You could play strictly vanilla with the DLC, but here are the small mods I recommend: Vanilla quality of life modsīattleTech Mod Loader/Modtek – A fundamental package required by a lot of BattleTech’s mods. The campaign is the smoothest way to learn the complexities of mech tactics, and the more sandbox-styled Career mode is much expanded thanks to several new mission types and several ‘flashpoint’ mission chains, adding some campaign-like scenarios to punctuate the daily laser grind. If you’re a newbie to BattleTech or are coming back to the game after a couple years, you could do a lot worse than just reinstalling and taking a stab at the game with all its DLC and patches. (Image credit: Harebrained Schemes) Before you do anything else Previously a pre-order perk, there is no good reason to buy this. The one thing not included in the Mercenary Collection is the Shadow Hawk Pack DLC, which is a single skin for a single mech that you’ll probably barely be able to see in most situations.
Urban Warfare: Multiple flashpoints, urban maps, a new mission type, ECM tech & new mechs.Heavy Metal: One more flashpoint, eight new mechs, eight new weapon types.Flashpoint: Several story driven ‘flashpoint’ mini-campaigns, new mission types, new mechs.If you must pick and choose, the three DLCs add: While most smaller mods don’t require them, and there are modular components to make individual DLCs not required for some of the major mods, the three add-ons each add notable features that I’d consider fundamental to BattleTech as it stands today. Where you buy the game is of no concern, as all mods are hosted externally. This includes the base game and the three DLC packs that made up the season pass. Install this one What’s the best version of the game?įor the purpose of modding, you’ll probably want the Mercenary Collection version of BattleTech, available (and frequently discounted to around the $25 / £20 range) on Steam, GOG (opens in new tab) and lots of other smaller storefronts. If you wanted to command a true mercenary army of mechs, tanks, aircraft and infantry in a galaxy’s worth of lucrative contracts? Now’s your chance. Here’s why you should be playing BattleTech in 2022, and especially trying out the massive expansion-and-overhaul mod BattleTech Advanced 3062.
Over the past four years, they’ve done a Reverse Ikea on the game, taking it apart and then somehow reassembling it with five times as many components as it originally had. Why am I only deploying four mechs, and with arbitrary tonnage limits when I’m not having to track armor levels on paper? Why do light mechs fade into uselessness? Why does it feel like I’m running a Pokémon team instead of a private army?Įnter the BattleTech mod scene. While it captured a lot of what made the original ‘80s tabletop game great, it felt a bit restricted in scale. That alone should be plenty of reason to pick it up and play it.īut some fans (myself included) felt it was a little limiting. Our own Chris Thursten scored it a very respectable 85, and things only improved with patches and DLC. It was a tight, satisfying squad tactics game with giant robot tanks, delivering customization, book-balancing mercenary management and lots of laser-induced explosions. Harebrained Schemes pulled off something special when it released BattleTech back in 2018.
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