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BattleTech Beginner Tips
BattleTech is a very traditional take on the strategy RPG genre. As a result, it can be incredibly slow at times, with everything from attacks to enemy turns taking up a significant amount of your time. Matches can end up being up to an hour long, which is especially frustrating if you have to replay sections after dying. There are no dedicated settings for speeding up the game, but there are a few things you can do to cut your mission times in half, while still retaining the core gameplay experience. Firstly, you’re going to want to turn off the dynamic attack camera which is the culprit for those long animations where your mech will move and fire from a close third-person perspective. If you want to speed things up further you should turn off the game’s cinematics, which are often painfully slow. This includes melee animations, jumping animations, and enemy animations. Doing so will give you more stability in terms of framerate too, as the dips tend to happen when loading into a cinematic.
It’s all personal preference of course, but there’s no denying that BattleTech is a lot slower than its modern counterparts. This is most likely due to its roots as a board game, and will probably be ideal for some players. For the rest, though, its easy to up the pace without losing any of the game’s charm.
