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Has BattleTech been improved by its updates?

Update Night is a fortnightly column in which Rich McCormick revisits games to find out whether they’ve been changed for better or worse.

If I had asked people what they wanted, father of the assembly line and horrible anti-semite Henry Ford supposedly said, they would have said faster horses. As cool as nitrous-enabled horses sound, I think old Hitler-fancier Ford was trying to insinuate that the masses can t imagine the next technological revolution; they can only think of a better version of what they ve got.

Maybe that s why we as a species are so stuck on the concept of mechs: if we think about future warfare, all we can imagine is BIGGER PEOPLE!

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