So as it turns out I had 3 missions left... I beat the game, and man what a trip. Getting back into my old AC it just felt natural. I made some modifications to it. Gave it some more agile boosters and a better targeting chip. It felt great. I beat the game last night I couldn't put the game down, well it only took an hour to beat but thats besides the point. The point is that the game is awesome and I'm excited to build some new AC to win the simulation battles.
The sim battles are putting you up in a one v one arena against another pre made AC , since you both are on equal footing it all goes down to play style and overall skill. I tend to use a Areial sniper. I keep a distance of 400-600 to avoid small arms fire and to able to dodge extremely heavy arms, but I'm low armor so a few good hits f's me up.
I'm beating the game on hard now, because there are achievements and well I want to play the game more. So I'll post up picks of my main AC it looks pretty cool and has a nice green paint job. It is fun fun times.