MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries - Ashes and Ascension

I'm only putting in a negative review temporarily, because the issues I experienced can be fixed in a hotfix later. My #1 issue; You don't get enough starting mechs to complete the DLC if you wish to do a career start. As a result, you are forced to import an existing save. You may say, but wait, you get 12 mechs and 15mil cbills that's plenty! Yes. it's plenty if you wanna play the first 4 missions, after that, you're thrown into back to back to back to back missions with 7 days to repair. It's just not physically possible to complete the missions when none of your mechs are repaired. Buying new mechs is also pointless since they all cost 10m+, and even if you get them from salvage, it's irrelevant, as you won't be able to repair any of them in time. Simple fix, PGI please give us 24 mechs, some of which are assault mechs. Issue #2 Past mission 10, the DLC becomes so infuriatingly difficult. waves upon wave upon waves of mechs, tanks and Vtols. Combine that with teammate AI that charge the enemy, and you will lose your lance every single time. I just genuinely don't see a way to complete the latter half of the campaign without IRL multiplayer and Arrow IV spam mechs. It's like the warzone mode, but you see 3 dropships full of assault and heavy's drop at once, and then the new demolisher II tanks spawn in shooting you in the back. I know people wanted harder DLC, but this to me just feels like No one in QA did their job. It's disappointing and frankly a slap in the face. Fix: Better AI and balance the missions Issue #3 Besides the new mech variants and the weapons, there isn't really anything new or fun. No new mission types or such. It's just late game QOL update it feels like. --- If even TTB couldn't beat the DLC on his first try, I really really doubt the average person would fair any better. Will change review when hotfix address issues.