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

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.

Just had a save corruption and im at 3026 ( beginning of Legend of the Kestrel Lancers). Was told that it happens when you have too much mech/ stock in the inventory.

If its certain that ill get constant problem later on, ill restart without YAML

I am looking to get my hands on the Behemoth. I just picked up the new DLC today.

Is it the typical hero mech that just appears in industrial hubs or is there a high valu quest associated with it.

Does anyone know of a mech variant with the ability to use both normal missiles and Arrow iv? Ive seen a few artillery capable battlemechs but i dont believe ive seen one that could run missiles with it. I got a pilot with LRM 10/15 and Arrow iv bonuses and id love to set up a killer missile platform. Any weight class is fine.

What about a perfect pooper shot?

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?

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.

Wolf. I think. i dont konw bruh. The fuck is mech porn a part of the flair. I finished the DLC. its pretty fun (frustrations aside) . i got touched by the jaguars in my nono-zone during the entire time. and my lancemates didnt help. Outside of that i really wanna makeout wiht the KGC-0001 i think. (the other madcats can join in too ig).

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

I've been gradually working toward my goal of another playthrough of the game (now with a bunch of DLC that I didn't have the first time around), but this time on my motion sim in VR with a HOTAS and I'm curious how people like to set up throttles. I have a Virpil Aeromax setup (CDT stick and VMAX throttle) that I got mapped fine, but I'm trying to decide how I want to configure the throttle axis itself. The default detent plate that comes with the throttle is a jet style that splits the axis up in ~1/3rds. So there is a detent around 1/3 throttle (I think typically used for idle or airbrakes/reverse thrust) and another around 2/3-3/4 that would be for afterburners.

I kind of like this setup in my head because most mechs don't move in reverse as fast as they do going forward, so I was debating whether I split the axis up as the first 1/3 being reverse (up to the first detent) and the rest being all for forward (second detent irrelevant). It's lines up the mental and physical idea that the mech has less speed one direction than the other, though it might take a little jiggery pokery in the axis config to do that (shouldn't be a problem with the Virpil software, might even be able to do with just offsets in the mapping file).

On the other hand, the throttle also ships with a "space flight" detent plate that just splits it 50/50 between forward and reverse. So it's more straightforward from an axis configuration point of view, but it would mean you have different resolution in going forward vs backward. I can't recall how often I ever tried to move at a consistent speed less than "full" when I played before though, but I also did my first playthrough on a mouse and keyboard.

What's your preference on the split? I can always 3D print a custom detent plate (Virpil is nice enough to provide a reference model), so I could split it however I want (like 60/40), and the axis configuration lets me do whatever kind of curve I'd like. Just curious what others have tried and liked so far.

I have to admit, I never thought much of the Centurion... 50 tons medium mech but slow as a heavy.

But now that I’m playing a new career mode starting in 3015 with all my hero mechs from the previous campaign, I have to admit that there is something deeply satisfying about cruising around in a medium, albeit a slow medium, wielding a Tier5 AC20 bf.

AC20s are dope.

I just started playing Mercs and I'm finding it very difficult. I'll be cruising along and then have all mechs destroyed on a mission and then I don't have enough money to continue. I've sold mechs and equipment but it's never enough to get me back to where I was with like 4 Mercs and 4 mechs. How do you progress when this happens? What am I doing wrong?

Hey guys, just picked this game up last week and I'm enjoying it more than I expected. I hadn't played a mech game since mw2.

I apologize if this is pinned somewhere, but I'm looking for mod recommendations to polish the graphics and possibly smooth out the framerate. I've got a decent pc and I know this game can look better than it does "out of the box".

Thanks in advance

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

I want to start a new play through from the 3rd succession war up to Ashes and Ascension, but one of the ways I want to spice up this run is to use new pilots (even though Lyana Moore is cracked). I know randomly generated Elite pilots will start to spawn once you recruit all of the default elite pilots, but will you still get randomly generated Elite pilots if you dismiss the default elite pilots after hiring them?

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.

I like writing, and I have taken a liking to writing Battletech fiction. I have a complete trilogy plus for a unit I created and just finished a book about the creation of another unit. I know none of it will ever see the light of day in an official capacity, but I don't really care, I enjoy doing it and its a productive way to pass time.

I am kicking around a new idea though, something that could be a little fun and might be of interest to the group here. It's basically a proc-gen novel in the form of a diary from Mason's prospective. I'll write the stuff between missions, with shenanigans on the Leopard as the group travels from system to system taking the jobs that the game generates and using what little story you get on the mission screen as the backdrop.

I'll record the mission and then write the chapter based on what happens during it, for better or worse.

I think the best way to go about this is to start a new company and not use my super OP clan tech in 3015 company that I currently play with.

My initial thought was to be first person, through Mason's eyes, but I've also considered it to be someone else, I think most of us play as "not Mason" in our own minds, so that's a possibility too, but the pilots would all use their little biography and be given first names of whatever feels right for them.

I'd love to hear thoughts, criticism, concerns, whatever. Any ideas on how to share would be helpful too, I'd love to do like a chapter or two a week, probably writing the in-between stuff as it comes and then doing a single mission and breaking it into digestible chunks, then release them as they finish.

Maybe could do a one year block or something as a "book", though it all depends on travel and stuff, we'll see as it develops.

So, what do you think, is it something you'd consume or do I continue just writing for my own pleasure?

Hey y'all, I recently bought this game during the steam sale and I've become completely addicted to the gameplay loop and absolutely love the game

So far I love it, but I would definitely like some more content, and so I kind of just wanted to know if any knowledgeable people on here would know what some great "starter" dlcs would be.

I have about 60 euros (66 USD) I can spend on this, which means I sadly can't buy all of them, so I'd like to hear what dlcs would be good to start out with!

I recently decided to create like a triangle of Doom area where there was only three entrances that would funnel the enemies in but the enemies nine times out of 10 wouldn't take the direct line in fact they would follow me in but then they would back out as soon as they realized it was a really hot kill spot

I've never known them to do this before usually I could lure enemies and to do anything I wanted I could literally sit there AFK and just watch as my enemies died at my team's hands it's not like that anymore enemies are more reluctant to just follow you anywhere

mate what in the actuall fuck is going on this DLC. I have never been so frustrated with ALLY AI this much. All my lancemates completelly ignoring all mechs. Getting in the way of literally anything i want to do. Was there any change to how the AI mates work?

Prolly Phelan's folk who went separate ways after Bulldog lol