The series has become firmly "only worth playing when highly modded", particularly when you wrangle it back to canon. Canon mech sizes so bugs are actually small, 50% mech armor all around so you don't have to shoot every fucker a hundred times, and 125% or so speed value so they actually move like combat vehicles and not plodding dipshits. Also increase the rare part appearance rate, you never find fucking anything otherwise. MW5 without yaml is straight up not worth playing.

Also battletech is an anime game.