I installed MechWarrior Online last night and tried it out this afternoon. Ran through the tutorial, familiarized myself with the differences from the way controlling the 'Mech worked in MechWarrior 4 (it's quite different), picked a loaner 'Mech, and jumped into my first match.

It was, I'm strangely pleased to report, a complete disaster. Pushed up a flank, made enemy contact, realized nobody else had pushed that flank, lost the plot, received some surprise buttsex* from something that had a Gauss rifle, died. Damage done: 15. Total XP earned: 2. :)

In fairness to me, it wasn't all my own disaster; my team only managed to kill one of the enemy 'Mechs. All the same... yeah. Game has a pretty steep learning curve. The tutorial doesn't even have any gunnery in it. This is going to take some work.

--G.
*reportedly the best kind of buttsex? I wouldn't really know
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