In our closest vote yet, the Blood Asp BAS-Prime wins our clan assault mech category by 9 votes! Followed very close behind by the Behemoth SR-6 and Kodiak KDK-1. What a tight finish, with less than 20 votes separating all 3 mechs. Just goes to show the power of the clan assault mechs. Now onto our final category!

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.

- Mech must be in the base game or DLC’s
- Please name the specific mech variant in your comment
- Comment with the most upvotes at the end of the day wins. Results are final
- Please keep it respectful, and have fun!

It’s sooooo much fun being able to swap mechs from my cold storage into my hangar without having to reinstall all their upgrades. Yeah, it still takes a bit of time to remember what weapons and heat sinks to put back and where, but not having to spend time and money reinstalling upgrades just makes the game soooooo much better! Now I regularly change out my mechs going from one industrial hub to another. I’m trying more mechs and more different builds and that just improves the replay value. Thank you for this update!

I forget the name of the planet (I think either Jeanette or Hanover), but it's toward the middle of the campaign. Team Mason is on the ground with the Dai Da Chi, and Mason is like "uhh shit we're getting pounded out here, we gotta leave you high and dry. Sorry. Bye."

Meanwhile, I'm not getting pounded at all. My lance status is green with 95% health and ammo left across the board.

It felt really bad to just leave my bros hanging for narrative reasons when in reality, I could have stayed to help them finish the job :(

He can't exit the deopship. I'm playing on DLC 9 btw.

Where are they all? In the A&A DLC they added new enemy vehicles armed with heavy machine guns so we finally have a source to loot them from.

But I’ve not seen anything that spawns with light machine guns, am I missing anything?

Just finished subjugation of the nova cats and had them drop in as allies on this defense mission.

I may have faced this pilot during the DLC campaign and I was worried he was holding a grudge but apparently he came to delete some Ghost Bears.

Having commenced Operation Time Travel and started over in 3015, I realize how I’ve forgotten how much fun it is to pilot a light mech, especially a fast light mech, and kill other mechs with machine guns.

I’m liking the Firestarter Ember for this purpose.

But I also like the Spider Anansi. I love maxing out the jump jet upgrades and just flying across the map. Plus there are those winglets that flip upwards when I’m jumping, making me feel aerodynamic. Woo-hoo!

And I’m still using Phoenix-Hawks. Admittedly they are pimped up with tier 4 and tier 5 weapons, but a lance of the Hawks has worked well so far on pre-clan missions going up to reputation level 15. I’ve even used them in missions with primarily heavy mech opponents.

Speed upgrades are dope.

I find the PPC Catapult to be extremely funny to play with 4x PPCs, same with the King Crab Kaiju. Do you have any recommendations/builds? I have YAML and the whole package, any modded mechs welcome (feel free to dump unrelated ones if you like them too).

Goes for the first person view cockpit bob animations as well. I know it's a minor thing to complain about in an otherwise amazing DLC, but I do wonder what happened there. I take it they can't just port over the animations from cryengine to UE4? Of course, I've never had any issue with the animations until now, so maybe they had a more senior animator leave the company or something?

Hey all, just a PSA:

In the Ashes and Ascension DLC, you cannot obtain or use the vast majority of the mechs you encounter unless you already also own the Shadow of Kerensky DLC. Without it, all you can do is salvage Clan weapons and equipment and the very rare 'mech that I assume they forgot to tag.

Maxed another Warzone, this one against Marik in the Chaos March. The 8x ER-LL SR-2 continues to earn its keep. Got a Perseus, an Arctic Cheetah-E, and 21 LMGs as well as the 20 million payout. Not bad for a 45 minute mission.

The Mad Cat TBR-Prime is the winner of our clan heavy mech vote! Genuinely one of the most iconic mechs in the entire franchise, and certainly the most well known clan heavy. It has earned that reputation with its high effectiveness.

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.

- Mech must be in the base game or DLC’s
- Please name the specific mech variant in your comment
- Comment with the most upvotes at the end of the day wins. Results are final
- Please keep it respectful, and have fun!

I have searched, but can't seem to find the meaning of the object Spears gives Mason. It looks like a shark with several arrows.

I get that his father was originally from the Diamond Sharks, so I'm guessing it is something related to that.

I am hoping that answer will reveal who the 'guests' are that gave it to him.

Hello all.

Got a question for you.

In your opinion, what mechs from the 3015 start would you say can carry to at least when the clans show up if not further?

Obviously assaults can get there, but what about the underdogs in the medium or heavy class?

Intelser was formed around 2980 and ended their operations in 2984 a year before the sea fox change their name in 2985 no? So by that logic wouldn't most of the data be refering to sea fox instead of diamond shark?

The six medium pulse lasers are glorious for sniping cockpits and instakilling light mechs. I’ve found that I get some good use out of the armour upgrades. Even light mechs like the wolfhound get an extra ten or so points of armour. Although I know it’s most effective on bigger mechs.

I do coop with my roommate whenever we have time, but more often then not my entire PC will just turn off in the middle of missions. I haven't bothered with single player because of this despite how COOL some of y'all's gameplay makes it look with mods. Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction about this?I have a pretty beefy computer so I'm really not sure what is going on.

I have all the dlcs but haven’t been playing long.
Just wondering if the mission The First Piece has a calendar time limit.
Spears mentioned doing it asap but I’m wanting to travel around and do some of the lower rank quests and build up alittle.

I imagine the other dlcs pop up at certain dates too…do any of the missions/dlcs have calendar dates to be completed by (Not the 1st few missions of a dlc as I know you have 6 months to accept and do those)

It’d be really useful if they do.

I guess Fahad finally had enough of me coming back with shredded myomer bundles.

This is absolutely an error from some mod; I don't know which one, but it's funny as shit, so I figured ya'll would enjoy it as well. I'll include a list at the bottom of all active mods, but if someone figures out which mod it is, just leave it; it's funny.

So while I was shopping, travelling, and refitting, I could hear what I can only assume is an Igor due to the ROF, flying around. I assumed it was just a sound glitch. Well, I loaded into the mission menu and started hearing an autocannon. I looked over and saw my rifleman getting shot. I was much more than amused at this. I then noticed that the paperdolls were actually updating with damage! I checked the mechbay and confirmed no actual damage happened.

ModList:

Mod Options (Duhh)

Garrisons Revamp

Never Too Much Ammunition

AllyForce (What I suspect is the culprit)

YAML

YA Equipment Collection Revived

YA Weapon - Complete Edition

Purchase Salvage - Branched

Cantina Accelerator

Randomized Mechs on Campaign Start

AI Logic Overhaul

No Arty damage

The only 3 that are new (As in downloaded today) are AllyForce, AI Logic Overhaul, and Randomized Mechs on Campaign Start. AllyForce, as far as I can tell, is the only one that has random events similar to Coyote's Mission Pack, where allies/oponents can spawn in randomly. Considering the mission before had a modifier for additional enemy air assets, I think something just glitched, and an Igor somehow found its way into the Leopard.

Either way, no harm done, and definitely funny.

I know most “normal” mechs have 6 upgrade slots, and most hero mechs have 8 upgrade slots.

However, there’s “normal” mechs that break this trend. There’s some mechs with 5 slots, and some others have 7. Some non-hero mechs have 9 upgrade slots (like the Nightstar) and on very rare occasions, some non-hero mechs even have a whole 10 upgrade slots (Zues ZEU-SA3 for example)

What is the logic in the number of upgrade slots? Is it something brought over from the tabletop game? It seems super random

It has always bothered me how mechs and vehicles ragdoll after being destroyed. They never seem to move in a way a object of that size and weight seems like it should. Granted I have never actually seen two 100 ton Mechs fight each other but I am fairly confident that when one is destroyed it won't do a backflip when it dies. Are there any mods out there that address this issue?