This is what we love in MW, isn't it? But to be honest I will think twice to go again at megacity raid against clans.

I honestly prefer to KEEP my jump jets. They provide greater strategic mobility and increase the skill ceiling. Allowing a more aggressive and risky play style.

After thoroughly thrashing the clan invasion with MASC assisted melee mechs, I started to think maybe YAML is a bit overtuned. So I went for a vanilla playthrough. One thing I'm immediately missing is all the stats YAML gave, especially when it comes to heat management.

Question: when vanilla mechlab says "Heat: 8" on a weapon, what does this mean? Is that a /s value? How much a single shot gives? Likewise on missiles, is the heat value per missile or per volley?

Thanks for the replies gang

Currently my group and I have hero status for: Liao, Marik, Kurita, and Rasalhague. We are sworn enemies of house Davion and Steiner. I'd have to check the other ones (I'm at work).

My question is, are we screwed? Its 3048 and we are out of time to improve our rep with the other houses. Will we be able to get that sweet clan tech or are we going to be negotiating with a brick wall?

Thank you in advance.

Installed YAML and finally started the campaign, after 5 playthroughs in the sandbox mode of all DLC, and my mech seems to do almost no damage to tanks or the aero vehicles. Couldn't even step on them to destroy them. Disabled YAML and I could kill them again.

What am I missing? Is it some setting I missed?

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

When Clan mech is targeted by IS mech then on screen it displays unknown BUT computer voice recognizes mech correctly (by IS nickname) so why this mismatch? In SOK dlc it displayed Error or ??? and I'm pretty sure that when Timberwolf was targeted then it was switching between Mad and Cat. But computer voice was silent which was consistent behavior.

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.

As much as I like piloting light mechs, their viability for me in difficulty 65+ missions plummets compared to my usual lance of Marauder 5R + LRM Boat Wall that sets up a defensive wall and blows up anything in my way.

The way I'm using light mechs is to have my lance draw aggro first, then trying (badly) to backstab them with a Wolfhound disco ball.

Advice/Tips needed, I really like the Wolfhound but I just can't use it

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

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.

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

Just looking for a of information on MW5 Mercs.

Ive not played in the last 8 months due to the glitch where teammates wear loading into the mechbay as opposed to the mission screen, some people recommended dropping inventory down to the minimum needed and the same thing for pilots, by the time I last played i had one page of pilots and 50 or something mechs and my co op buddies still were not loading up properly.

So with the recent updates and DLC My question is, have the developers sorted this problem out? Or does it still exist? Anyone know?

Thanks in advance!

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.

Hello! I'm newer to the Mech 5 community and have been toying around with the builds for Clan mechs for a while. I noticed on 3 mechs (in instant action) a lot of MXP tier 5 lasers goes kinda hard. Problem is I can't find a good way to obtain a massive amount of at least tier 4 or 5s. Also looking to dabble in LXP Builds. Hit me up if you have a relatively quick way!

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....😱

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?

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

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?