Ah, great, good, interesting.
Nominally, the DLC sounds good, though it feels like a lot of that stuff really should've been in the base game, part of the campaign missions. Indeed this is often an issue with DLC and expansions for any game, improvements are not ported to base games. As it is, light 'Mechs are largely worthless and mediums dubious once you get heavier equipment, and while tonnage limits and mission objectives do make them more useful, this will only apply to DLC missions.
The Fourth Succession War being next DLC sound extremely interesting, and hopefully is true. I'd imagine it will be pretty big expansion though, new campaign rather than just content additions.
The sequel POV-talk is also interesting, though i worry it will be poorly received. Mercenaries are very often a big draw in BattleTech while being neutral, whereas factions tend to be divisive, in good and bad. Suppose the POV would be the Capellan Confederation, who are often treated as villains in BT and are generally one of the less liked factions, not sure it would draw interest. On the other hand, the Federated Suns is popular but it tends to lead to "fuck yeah, space-Americans", no, "fuck yeah, space-Anglo-French*-monarchy saves the day once again". Though i guess HBS is aware of this, and will work either to correct generic perceptions or work around them otherwise.
Of course, it is quite possible Mitch is hinting at the sequel being from Clan perspective...
*yes, FedSuns cultural origins are England and France in BattleTech, presumably for intentional irony and/or historical allusion. Amusingly, BattleTech is a scifi franchise where space-Americans don't actually exists, at least not in the mainstream time setting during Third Succession War and onward, as American colonies got wiped out during the Succession Wars.
