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7. "And Now, a Video"
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   LAST EDITED ON Sep-10-17 AT 03:25 AM (EDT)
 
In which Lewis (who has never played any Battletech game) and Ben (who has played all the Battletech games) from the Yogscast hang out with Mitch Gitelman and, well, play some Battletech. Some of you may know Lewis and Ben from their Old-Timey X-COM playthroughs, in which they do multiplayer the way we all used to do multiplayer in the early '90s, by sitting at the same game and kibitzing at each other. :)

Their Battletech experience is entertaining, but I'm also finding it valuable, in that Mitch explains a number of the new and (at least to me) not-very-intuitive mechanics in this version of the game, as well as what various bits of the complicated UI mean, in a way that the currently extant documentation* do not.

The new game is not really "tabletop Battletech ported directly to your PC" like I was, if I'm honest, hoping it would be—it's much more complicated—but it's a lot closer than previous non-MechWarrior efforts have been in terms of capturing the way playing the old game felt, IMO.

--G.
* yeah, there isn't any
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