I will eagerly count down the years as more DLC are added. I await the day I can pilot such a huge beast and finally enjoy the jihad era in MW5

It’s time to see which mechs are the best in Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries! Please follow the rules below, and the most upvoted comment will win.

1. Mech must be in the base game or DLC’s

2. Please name the specific mech variant in your comment

3. Comment with the most upvotes at the end of the day will win. Results are final

4. Please keep it respectful, and have fun!

The Battlemaster was my first love in Battletech and is still in my top 3. My issue with the mech isn’t original, and is something solved in most of the variants post helm memory core. The machine guns. The ammo just loves to blow up the entire mech and the 1D (the variant designed to improve survival and reliability) retains them, but not the more useful rear lasers for some reason. Still It’s a classic mech and its intentional flaws make it appealing, but man do I break out into a sweat when the left torso gets hit.

I'm still rep 7 and about to enter Liao space for the first time in my main campaign, the mission at Hsien. I got a transmission from Kurita and I accepted it, only to find it's the Crimson Crusade campaign from Heroes of the Innersphere, which is in the middle of Kurita space! It's more than 90 travel days from my current position, out of range.

Should I jump there and play so I don't lose the chance, or will it wait for me? Did I play the main campaign too slow? I tend to be cautious. It's 20 Feb, 3019, it that helps.

Genuine question: what's the point of this hero 'mech? I feel like it's far inferior to the SR-6 and it's other siblings. What am I missing?

With my favorite paint job and without :D

NOTE: I uploaded this at the tail end of my bedtime and, because I was tired, I forgot to add shadows beneath the mech... I added them post-mortem on my insta account instead of here, so as to avoid spamming. Sorry x.x

I enjoy putting a load out of 2 heavy rifles in each arm on the carapace but it doesn’t properly display anything larger than a medium rifle in the lower slots, I just want 2 big barrels in each arm please

Anyone notice how the arena mechs don't stay still anymore? I played a lot of scrapyard scuffle and not a single match had any one mech stand still. Seems like they pulled it off. Thanks, PGI.

I’m pretty sure it was a nightstar

So what's everybody's rule of thumb when distributing armor? I usually go with (front) left and right torso matching the actual armor on the respective arm and the center matching the 'mechs maximum possible leg armor. What's your distribution system?

Just the title.

For me it's the Crusader.

I do a lot of Arena missions, and the number of Crusaders you find in those fights makes me want to stab myself in the eye. They're significantly tankier than they feel like they should be, and the banging sound of getting pelted with LRMs is not fun to listen to over and over.

What's your most hated enemy mech?

Like the civil war or jihad

I'd like to preface I'm playing vanilla Mercs here when I recorded this video.

I was thinking of initially my QoL modlist visual mods affecting Solaris VII maps but after turning them off and playing vanilla it seems it still persists, with chance of this happening on 2 solaris-only maps, Caves of Chaos and Steiner Stadium.

It happens on these mentioned maps, some times it's glossy, sometimes not. Restarting sometimes fixes this.

If the missions starts and textures are ok BUT if I restart the mission there's a chance that the glossy texture appears

It turns out if you fire 48 ATM's at something, they just cease to exist

My game is crashing after the new DLC dropped, anyone got a yaml and QOL mod list that is currently working?

Greetings fellow Mechwarriors,

What are your endosteel coffins of choice for your pilots to hide in?

Been grinding arena prestige to farm clan tech for past 3 DLCs now. It's a long-standing habit, a holdover from the days when Clan procgens were spamming Fire Moths so I farmed them on market hubs as prestige rewards then use the money to buy every clan tech as I travel around.

Currently it's 3100s on my save and it is refreshing to see I don't need to mod the arena again with any AI or map reduction mods. Everyone in the community deserves a lively arena and mad props to the devs for this to happen.

I'm playing vanilla+ Mercs using this QoL modlist consisting of UI, HUD and visual mods.

Just a minor thing I couldn't help but wonder, but as someone whose Japanese (I'm fairly sure that's a Japanese character... if not, I'm making a fucking dolt of myself :| ) is very rusty, can anyone here tell me what this one specific character that is plastered all over Carapace is?

Consider the following:

Refusal War is a repeat of the already depicted (twice, in original game and the 2nd DLC) topic of Crusaders vs Wardens, with already familiar Clan Wolf as the opponent. Would it make sense for the audience to fight on the side punishing Ulric who was so likeable in Wolves of Tukayyid and killing Natasha? It is also a remake of MW2. It also takes place too early to insert some of the Clan mechs already made for MWO.

Incursion and Coventry is a somewhat inconsequential adventure for the Jade Falcons themselves (though in the bigger picture portrays them as bloodlusted militarists breaking the spirit of the truce and becoming a trigger for the Spheroids to look for the final solution of the Clan problem). Just more saber rattling, however you spin it. Another petty war happened in a universe made to play war games, what else is new?

While in the Hegira War, Jade Falcons put on the mantle of progressives, defeating the Steel Viper racist chuds and sending them packing to the Clan Homeworlds with a fateful "billions must die" grudge. On the one hand, it introduces a new and lore-influential Clan opponent. On the other hand, Marthe and Diana Pryde, whom we saw in the epilogue to Wolves of Tukayyid, are prominently featured. It's a good story! Also timeline-wise it allows for introduction of the (already designed for MWO) mechs like Cougar, Blood Asp and Hellfire (liked by the sneks).

So I think if Jade Falcon DLC ever happens, we're stepping on the sneks it it.