I absolutely love the characters! They are all so different and unique.

After the cinematic I have a little crush on Tara lol.

It showed a soft nice side to her, not just the skilled mechwarrior who can take down anything thrown at her.

Ive finally manged to get enough clan stuff to trivialize most normal missions.

However, whenever I go up against clanners in conquered clan space (difficulty 100+) i get my ass handed too me.

How do you fight clanners? Lots of missles from very far away? My normal walk up, shoot a little, get behind them when I drop aggro is costing me millions!

Because the great houses are assholes?

The way I look at it, I'm a merc. I get shot at by great house armies for a living. It pays the bills but gods those guys suck. Why would I let one of them continue to have unfettered access to a battlemech factory? Yeah the high born prattles on in my ear about it, but the whole time I'm kool-aid manning through walls, taking pot shots at equipment, and mag-dumping my MGs. I think the lowest I got it was 20%?

Client chose to hire a merc, that sounds like their problem.

It's great if you want to inflict unspeakable horrors on people in an arena duel, or anywhere else really

Hey all! Just getting back into the game after a few years away, but I’m at a loss. Does anyone have a current mod list that they’re using? Any mods that are universally used by most everyone?

Thanks for any tips you can offer.

Did they change how they spawn in Indutrial Zones? I only found 1 hero mech so far, which i don't care about but i can't seem to get a single Star League mech. Yes i have Mech Delivery and can just order them, the situation is still the same.

In my previous playthrough i had multiple of them by this point

Anyone knows if one of my mods might be interfering? I don't think any of them is supposed to affect spawn rates for them. Everything works perfectly otherwise but i'm not sure if i'm just unlucky or somehow banished all the SLDF mechs to the shadow realm

Hi fellow mechwarriors,

I’ve put together a spreadsheet based on data from Sarna about MW5 weapons and their various features. The idea is to see how weapons compare not just in terms of raw damage per hit, but also damage per minute, damage per ton, range, spread, etc. It’s been pretty insightful and helped me crystallize some build ideas for my mechs.

That being said, the information on Sarna is incomplete. They have not yet updated with the latest weapons, and I have had to fill in the data based on weapons in my inventory. However, there are still some weapons I have not found, and to complete the sheet I’m looking for screenshots of weapon data for the following:

Tier 1 Small X-Pulse Laser
Tier 1 Medium X-Pulse Laser
Tier 2 Large X-Pulse Laser
Tier 1 MRM 20
Tier 2 MRM 20
Tier 1 MRM 30
Tier 2 MRM 30
Tier 5 MRM 30
Tier 1 MRM 40

In exchange, if there is interest, I can look into uploading the spreadsheet for everyone else to peruse.

thanks in advance

Have all DLC, been playing a career from the Kurita start and going through all the DLC campaigns, just finished Dragon's Gambit (~dec 3039), and realized - I haven't seen a single ER medium laser, what gives?

So far the only lostech ive been missing is streak srms and er meds/smalls, everything else I've come across in decent amounts

Iirc, on the lbx/uac side of things, only lb10xs and uac5s existed initially/in Star League era, did something similar happen for er lasers?

Hey y'all,

I'm playing for a while now (campaign only so far and not that far into) and recently I found an ECM on the market as well as a Raven. But the raven does not have an ECM slot and non of my other mechs has...

So what are the first ecm mechs I can expect to find and what is the easiest way to get my hands on one of them?

Started playing the Dlc recently. I used an old save game where i had a ton of mechs & 620mil+ Cbills.

I am quite shocked with the clans mechs vs my own.

1st mission was a wipe out. Played it 4 times to get through with 2 x100T mechs blown up. 😆

As i am grinding through the game to collect Timber wolfs, Executioners & Warhawks... i realise i have burnt through some 500mil Cbills in repairs, weapons & mech purchases. By the time i finish the campaign, i have 5mil Cbills left. ( after selling maybe 10 assault mechs along the way) 🫣

🍇🍉🍑 I want to ask if this Dlc is really this hard for many of you also ? Or am I just too lazy to keep scumsaving ? Or I need to go back to Mech Academy ? 😬🫩

I almost got the Daichi twice from salvage. Pfffttt....😱

So I’ve liked the Highlander as a Mech since I got into BT (as admittedly recent as that is), but I never enjoyed piloting it in MW5 before. Felt too slow (most of the Mechs I enjoy piloting are bare minimum 64 km/h) and the old Jump Jets didn’t help. But I decided to give it a shot again with the new Jump Jets and after getting the speed increase upgrade from the Cantina. I am so happy. It feels *so* much better to pilot now.

I know this is kinda simple to make a whole post for, but I just want to see if anybody else feels or has felt the same.

I don't typically get irritated by the garrison commanders, but holy shit you need to chill out.

Not really in need of more pilots, but I imagine they'd want to be a package deal. Instead of one of them being flown to the other side of the galaxy while the other stays on whatever planet we happen to be on now

I like my clan mechs so a star would make sense here.

Shadow cat

Huntsman

Summoner

Black Lanner

Nova Cat

Yeah I wouldn't rate this star very highly, a slow sniper surrounded by 4 skirmishing harass types, not the most well balanced.

So, I completed storymode in Vanilla with all DLCs, I am on 3060's and decided. I could stop and start a new career. I am interested in modded experience as they can transform it completely. I have hear YAML might give you option to build just super OP mechs, but I am trying not to do that and have some rule of cool with my builds.

So, I am looking forward to these:

- YAML (and weapons probably) for more mechs and weapons (Fafnir I miss you)

- Coyote Missions

- VonBiomes

- TTRulez (seems it is compatible now with Coyote according to latest update)

- 330's Pilot overhaul

Seems those five will change the game enough to give overall different, fresh experience to continue onwards. Going to start new career as mentioned with all the new stuff awaiting and see if I am making to dark ages (315x--> ?). As someone here used term "Honest man Hardcore", I plan to accept my, or my lancemates faith as it goes.

Would you recommend something new, something I am missing? If I understood, YAML has rescaling built in with it.

Are there some QoL mods you would absolutely recommend? Maybe something for shopping? Something for piece of tra... interstellar home we call Leopard?

What I am absolutely don't want, is easier experience or feeling completely overpowered. Scary tanks feels a bit rough still, so I might skip that.

Cuz to my knowledge, the two take place simultaneously and we cant be in both spaces at once.

i think given the map, they'll have us join in Bulldog and handle Serpent via news or cutscene so that they dont need to expand the galactical map all the way to clan space

I’m 2000 days into my first playthrough (35 hours or so) and only now realized that by smurfing in low-rep zones, my standing is pretty shot with everyone. Should I just restart with some mods, or is a vanilla playthrough worth completing before I dive into YAML?

So cathartic to see these assholes actually hovering around and fighting FOR ME FFS once a game or two.

Also, fwiw the AC 10 engage range doesn't work for these, they need at least 600 meter engagement range to avoid being insta-killed. Man, I WISH I could spawn that AC/2 variant .. dakka dakka

Is there a mod that does this?

The IS LB10X BF variant, specifically, is a special weapon. Has anyone noticed that *not even the Clans have an equivalent*?

That's right, if you want a burst-fire mech shotgun, you have to go to the *Spheroids*. One would think it's another experimental weapon tested on Solaris, similar to burst-fire rifles and the PPC-X.

But it got me thinking.

PGI has a chance to create several new weapons by mixing and matching existing coding, mechanics, and assets.

With ease of implementation in mind, I came up with a few examples of compelling, lore-friendly experimental weapons PGI could introduce in the future:

Ballistic:

-AC-10 and AC-20 INF: Autocannons with shells large enough to carry inferno gel. Trades slight damage with heat buildup.

-HE Gauss: A gauss rifle that fires explosive shells for extremely high damage but uses explosive ammo bins.

Energy:

-PPC BF: A PPC that fires a rapid burst of ion bolts. Causes more direct damage, but with less sensor disruption.

-C-Chemical Lasers: Clan-spec chemical lasers that trade range and heat generation for damage. Consumes ammo.

-Capacitor Battery PPC: A PPC that relies on batteries rather than the mech's reactor and cooling system. Higher damage, but trades heat generation for ammo consumption.

-B Laser-SB: A binary laser that lessens heat generation with a shortened burn time.

Missile:

-Inferno LRM: Long-range missiles that trade damage for heat buildup.

-NARC ECM: A NARC beacon modified to distort enemy sensors on attachment. Target and surrounding targets within [insert radius] receive an accuracy penalty as long as the beacon is active.

-NARC INF: A NARC beacon with electronics replaced by a large inferno gel payload. Can quickly overheat even Clan omnimechs if used in enough quantities.

Artillery Missile:

-Cluster Arrow IV: An artillery missile that splits into a shower of 20 cluster munitions within [insert range].

Using existing mechanics and combining attributes, what whacky weapons and equipment could you all cook up?

Edit: It came to my attention that PPC capacitors exist in the lore but are different than what I was describing. I was essentially describing a "chem"-PPC that uses batteries for ammo.