This game is only worth playing, and continue playing, because of the modding community has turned it into the game that the fans originally wanted. And not just a compromised product designed to appeal to the largest number of people.

If you're looking to buy this game in 2024 what you'll need to do is head over to Nexus Mods. There are a host of great mods that give you the enter map of the galaxy, mods that allow other factions to war and take systems, and my current favourite, Hyades Rim which changes the story, rewriting it, changing the cut scenes, your role (which didn't make any sense to the roll playing elements of your origin story).

Is it the Cresecent Hawks Inception remake that i've always dreamed of (i'd destroy the only copy of Half-life 3 if it meant someone remakes Cresecent Hawk inception) .

So Batteltech is worth it. Its cheap, play vanilla and then go town modding it. Every fricken planet has its own story, there are hundreds of mechs that modders have put into the game, thousands of weapons and equipment, great missions (properly thought out, challenging but not impossible, well paced).

Jeez why are you still reading this. Go buy it.

if you can adjust to the "chess style" turn play, and have patience, it is not too bad. If you are one who has been used to the "in mech style" of play and constantly moving, it will be a hard adjustment to make.

It's awesome. Big mecha, shooting and punching, with bits falling off. What's not to love?