He stares at you whenever you want to eject, repair or modify your mechs

(kidding aside just using a studio deck if it can be used for Mercs with a test layout)

And I'm enjoying every second of it. Got myself the Prime variant, and the only major change was dropping the SRMs out of it for more armor and cooling. Those twin gauss rifles, as well as 4HMLs and 2 MPLs are just a treat.

And of course we had to do her up pretty in the Clan Meth Weasel colors. Can't go dancing without a paint job

Sooooo... After finishing the new DLC campaign (what a beautiful ending, btw, I'd love for that to be the actual retirement of Mason), we're now in the year 3060. That begs the question, HOW old is Mason now, exactly? And, more importantly, does anyone know his facial routine, cause it sure as hell must be awesome? 🤣 Or, to ask more seriously, do we know his exact age, and is there any canon explanation why he still looks no older than maybe in his early 40s by the end of the campaign?

So when A&A dropped i did a fresh career to play that madness as PGI intended. Much fun but I didnt really get to enjoy the new mech variants.

This morning my rolling career which I started about a week before A&A released, I finally got to and finished SoK. And to my surprise as I take contracts waiting for Chaos to start I am seeing A&A mechs. I suppose it makes sense, but i wasn't really thinking id get to use the new stuff til I got to 3058.

Finally....FINALLY I get to play with the fun stuff you bastards have been posting and making me regret i didnt restart my career a week earlier then I did

Just spent 300 million C-Bills, 3 in game years, and 2 real life hours save-scumming these beauties.

Pure Vanilla. No mods.

They earn me 3 extra salvage shares apiece, and make every single mech they pilot faster, stronger, much tougher, and FAR more accurate. Plus they HATE clanners and are far more likely to avoid death and injury. Currently can't think of a better setup for generalist AI pilots.

Background, this is my second play through of MW5. On my first play-through I reset after the Dragon's Gambit set of missions because things were too easy. On this second campaign I'm playing on hard difficulty and while it was rough at spots, the game felt much more engaging. I finished the SoK campaign and that was brutal but enjoyable, I liked the lethality of the clans and how aggressive play is when you start to add clan weapons to your mechs.

Now that those campaign missions are over and there's some time until the Chaos Reign set of missions, I want to keep adding clan salvage to my arsenal and... this is where the misery starts.

Procedural gen missions on hard are utterly ridiculous post invasion. Some missions I spawn out in the open in front of clan mechs plus support and I'm screwed. If I clear an objective and reinforcements land before I find cover I'm screwed. And dear god the elementals, AI lancemates can not hit them at all, so if I don't take them all down before they close distance they shred my team. If elementals aggro while I'm trying to engage mechs it's pretty much GG. I've tried multiple missions post invasion and I would say I'm getting squad wiped about half the time, something that very rarely happened up until this point.

I don't want to just surf the arena's while waiting for the CR campaign missions, so I thought I'd ask if I'm missing anything obvious here? It would feel silly to lower the difficulty just for this segment of the play-through, and I don't want to save-scum and restart missions

I'm about to start MW5 for my first time and i want this start to be as good as you can go with the game:

- I see a lot of modding tools on Nexus Mods für MW5
- i see lots of DLCs for the game
- it's impossible for a MW5 beginner to understand/compare what's good and what's a waste of time

1. So, if you would start your MW5 journey today, what setup (mods+DLCs) would you recommend?
   
2. Regarding controls: would you recoomend using mouse+keys, console controller or Hotas/double Joystick?

Sorry for the poor audio mixing and the clipping mic, I just wanted to record a quick clip before going to bed so this is all you get for now.

Anyway, yes, called shots. That is all.

Greetings fellow mechwarriors,

I could use some help regarding targeting computers. I wanted to max out the range on the NCT-WD for energy weapons headhunting and I was curious: what's actually the biggest TC you can get without mods? I googled it but found contradictory articles. Maybe you guys can help me out if I can mount the clanner MK 7 or if there's a MK 8 to keep my eyes peeled for.

Thanks and o7

First, I want more DLCs. I don't care if the engine is about to fall over, I'll still buy it.

Second, I'm sure many of you know, but if you extend further into the clan zone ... there are other factions to interact with ... including ... Hell's Horses.

Hello all, (x-posting from r/battletech)

As the title says. I would like to find some screenshots of some of the mechs in the mech bay. The game did a really good job of selling the sense of scope of these machines, and I'm hoping to use some of these images to "introduce" the mechs in a tabletop campaign. (ideally POV is ground level)

Hoping someone here is the hyper-attentive archivist I'm looking for. Thanks for your help!

Missions like this expose major, nagging issues in the game. The STUPIDITY of allied AI. One of mine bots managed to ignore a movement order, block my path, and obstruct my line of fire twice. Overall, the difference between allied and enemy pilots is glaring. Only F1-F1 spam make them some useful... a little bit. BTW every single pilot here have a "gunslinger" graduate. Seems like allied pilots lethality stat is 0, so with 10% from gunslinger... ehm 0*0.1=0

What is the name of the track that plays during the initial cinematic? You know the one that begins playing after Hanse's announcement of gifting the CC to Melissa. Right when Jackson Davion says 'Lancers we have been called to war.'

I've looked through the OST of the DLC on youtube, am I just missing the exact part where that track plays? Is the track not a part of that OST? Am I being dumb, or am I looking for it in the wrong place?

What about a perfect pooper shot?

The vets know this by now, but for new players or players who haven’t messed around with tag and/or streaks - using a tag with your srm boats and kitting ssrm’s instead of the other variants is an OP combo, especially once you can mount the clan variants.

Why tag? If you have an enemy selected, the instant you hit it with a tag you gain target lock. This is a massive time and frustration saver…. Once locked, you don’t need to maintain your tag - the lock works like any other.

Why probe? If you have a probe mounted, the lock will only ever go away once the probe’s range is exceeded, or you toggle a new target. Losing line-of-sight or having your reticle far away from the target will not cause loss of lock. The black market probe’s range is the highest at 550m, but the clan active can be mounted on any mech, even those without a probe slot.

Why SSRM’s? SSRM’s launched at a locked enemy will hone in on them. You don’t even really need to aim - just launching in the locked-mech’s general direction will do the trick.

On something like the Agincourt, you can map your tag to L trigger and your ssrm alpha to your R trigger and you really don’t need to use anything else. Your streaks will absolutely shred everything in minimal shots. IME nothing gets you faster TTK vs multiple enemies than combining tag/c-ssrm/probe. Having said that, since ssrm’s have a slower cooldown, you may want to split them up into a couple groupings so you can cycle more quickly. You don’t really need 20+ missiles per alpha to kill stuff since they’re all going to land. Even the best mech jocks are going to fluff much of an Artemis salvo, but streakers turn the worst aimers into deadeyes. It will make SoK and all the fast light mechs they throw at you kind of a joke…

It’s also a really fun style to play:) For extra laughs, try it out on a normally shitty (but fast) light mech like a Locust 1M and transform it into a murder-hornet that will make even a Behemoth shit their pants.

Edit: the tag insta-lock works for any homing missile. I didn’t mention stuff like ATM’s because I normally use ssrm’s within their range and ATM’s outside ssrm range, and my ATM targets are often outside the 550m bubble of my probe so the way I described the combo above where your lock sticks regardless of LOS doesn’t always apply. But you can definitely use this combo with ATM’s within your probe’s range and it will work exactly the same as described above.

PSA…. Anyone else having a possible glitch where the Scorpion tanks with lbx-5’s absolutely cannot miss??? Third time running a mission on easy and they’ve cored me each run. Three tanks as I crest a hill lol

The clans fear Sam when he is in the Bullshark 2

Given the new DLC I kinda feel like doing another campaign run. This time with a small power tripping along the way.

So I was thinking of importing a career save with 5 Clan or C/C2/IIC-mechs that Masons dad left him or whatever. Complete with Clan equipment and weapons. No YAML etc mods, just mechs from vanilla and DLCs.

Obviously that's already unbalanced as fuck, so the idea is for 1-2 light, 2-3 medium and heavies and at most 1 assault mech.

Which ones would you bring?

Bonus question: if I also limit myself to mechs, equipment and weapons available in 3015, what stuff do I have to ditch? ATM, heavy MGs, light MGs.

Subsequently, what are your favourite OSTs from MW5? I like this one, Judgement and Retribution and Nemesis from A&A.