Recent reviews by Dogcant

A lot of work went into the aesthetics, and the writing is excellent, for the most part. 7/10 presentation. There were bugs, some ghost quests related to colony management and one encounter i had to repeat a few times.
The voice work is very high quality, especially the companions (the sister and the space wolf in particular), but it is unfinished.
The later parts of the game are rushed, the ending is a disappointing boss fight and a mediocre finale. This is sad, but the quality of the first half makes up for it, and its still worth playing.

hire better writers, re-write all the dialog, but this time have an adult (not from reddit) supervise. otherwise this game is on the right track.

the list of developers i can trust is rapidly shrinking to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 0

crisp and tasty

:( I WISH IT WAS THEY ARE BILLIONS 2

70 hours played, still have a billion icons on my map.

btw, craft purple grenades for 1:1 components then salvage them back for 4:5. don't tell them though, i don't want them to fix it until i finish the game.

The user interface and controls are so bad that it's offensive.

i hate this game beacuse im bad at it.

This game is worth buying if you're a fan of tactical turn-based strategy games like XCOM or Shadowrun. It's a very straightforward tactical game once you're on a mission, position your mech's, check your facing, watch your heat levels. The real complexity comes in the MechLab, even from the very start of the game you'll have enough stock to customize your 'Mech's in any number of ways. If you enjoy sitting in a garage fiddling with bits and pieces until you've created the perfectly optimised walking death machine, you'll love this game.

Pros
+ Good Difficulty, just enough for me to be sweating it out the entire time
+ Rewarding tactical experience
+ Great variety of 'Mech's
+ Story has some great moments, overall it's well written
+ Solid music and sounds

Cons
- Not enough weapon variety for me, and most ballistic weapons are a waste of time
- Missions become repetitive, some bonus objectives seem impossible on story missions
- Menu load times are frustrating, taking over 10 seconds to load the refit screen is annoying when you need to upgrade/repair multiple mechs.
- Overall load times are poor, I'm running this on a brand new SSD and Farcry 5 loads faster.

protip: delete the autosaves, i had 40 or so after just a few hours, this seems to speed things up a little. Oh and buy this game.

It's not a bad game, it's just depressingly mundane.

Good graphics, the soundtrack is cool. Vehicles are fun to drive and feel cool. Playing pokemon with NPC's is pretty cool. Arcade mode is a cool addition, but I seriously doubt anybody will be making maps or playing this mode in a few weeks.

Gun's feel like toys, AI is no challenge. Air vehicles are babby mode. Raising the difficulty makes enemies into bullet sponges. Coop is trash (no progression for guests). Attachments are weak, its basically extended mag, silencer, and the same 4-6 scopes for every gun.

Overall its not bad. But it seems like ubisoft has mastered the art of doing just enough work to get away with a huge price tag.