Now, I know there's a lot of hate on this DLC, and I can see why. I mean, what were we expecting from a $10 DLC? An entire world? If that were the case, it would have been $30 to $25 tops.
Now to the review, the DLC gives the option to build your own robot (Obviously), a few locations to dungeon claw on, and a new story mission. To say, that's all good for me, I mean the game became lacking after meeting a few locations and finishing a lot of quests, so I'm glad they did this! I mean it's not much, but at least they are showing us what can be done.
The robot building is a bit annoying if you don't have the material, but it's just fun! How much can be built in the game is just awesome! It's as if they got the weapons moding and the base building were put together and mashed it into one. I mean you can choice a voice for the robot and just customize it to the fear or cuteness of the voice. But for some reason, they mention that there can be personalities in the robots, but they don't utilize it as a custom creation option. Way to tease us Bethesda!
And what's great is that they put in a new raider. Doesn't sound much, but the same raider keeps getting old, and they are a bit too week to fight sometimes. The new raiders, The Rust Devils, are a lot harder than the average raider with a stick. They have lasers, can go higher than level 60, and when you encounter a legendary, you're going to need a Mini Nuke.
And of course there is some new weapons and armor that come with them, they have the parts of scrapped robots that are a stronger than the standard metal armor... Yes I read that off the loading screen... But besides the armor, there are a few new weapons like the Assaultron's head that blasts a beam stronger than your average laser, but can give the user radiation damage, a Mr. Handy Buzz Saw Arm, Assaultron Blade and not to forget the Tesla Rifle.
And even Tesla Power Armor! Me encanta esta armadura!
Now to finish this, lets talk about the story mission.
To say, there was a lot of lore that was explored in this, and I had to say, they strayed away from the New Vegas game when they talked about the Robobrains. The game explored how the Robobrains worked and how the hell does the brain have to do with the robot!?
And it just tries to make you dig deep on what the hell is happening and why it's happening. Now to the story, the DLC mission line is fun, and I would have to say you would have to get at least an expert hacking skill because there's going to be a lot of that in the long run. And make sure your health is large because there will be many legendary enemies, and remember what I said about the Rust Devils.
And not to spoil anything, the main boss fight is a bit typical, but it reminds you of the fun and memorable boss fights in the past. I mean The Mechanist throws all he's got at you! Good thing there wasn't a sentry robot in his stash...
Now of course there are some glitches that are in this DLC, like if you have almost full storage, the DLC will not appear until you clean your hard drive. The enemies thinking you're not there. That guy you killed is still alive. And don't get me started on the crafting. I mean I got to build every robot I wanted even though it said I couldn't build it! I mean every robot. I built a Mrs. Handy for Codsworth, an Assualtron to protect Sanctuary, and 5 Sentry Bots for each settlement on my map. And I don't think that many people will encounter this.
Oh! And the boss fight I was talking about has a glitch, and it's not cool. You finish off every bot and you have nothing else to do, you wait for The Mechanist to stop attacking you with teslas and explosive barrels. Nothing happens! I had to start way back from the beginning of the fight and died 4 times over and finally defeated The Mechanist.
Now this was what I thought of the DLC. What did you think of the game's newest DLC that may give an example of what may come next in the other DLC's? I just can't wait for those two awesome DLC's... I hope there will be more, too!
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