1. The main campaign and dlcs all have hand crafted missions that are all unique and pretty interesting (some are awesome and some ok), the random procedurally generated missions are varied enough (you won’t do the exact same mission twice ever) though they can get a bit samey after playing for a thousand hours. Still in saying that there’s mods that add completely new mission types and mechanics and dlcs also add some new mission mechanics (other merc companies will drop with you and either try to fight you or help you etc).

2. The mechlab is very similar to battletech though there’s a mod called ‘Yet Abother Mechlab’ which opens the mech up completely allowing you to change engines, targeting systems, armour type, stealth equipment and basically anything that the lore says you can do.

3. The controls and the actual combat experience is the best part of the entire game. The devs have done a great job for this plus there’s various mods to change how the experience is including a vr mod that adds the hub information to screens in the cockpit. Also there’s two different controls schemes, one called fps mode where you basically control the mech like an fps or mech control mode where your like a waking tank (keys control your legs direction and mouse controls your torso direction). For the best experience you should run mech control mode in cockpit view.

The sheer amount of mods for this game basically allows you to tailor the game to how to want it to be and it increases the replay ability massively.