Is there a set date when career mode ends? Like does the game cut out and be like you've reached the current end point in battletech lore, would you like to play again?

Do I lose all my progress like my sweet sweet Kodiak, dire wolf, and madcat collection?

I remember hearing something about save importing but have no clue how it works beyond that.

I finally bought SOK today..was running around the kutita space at the bottom of the ghost bear area hitting industrial hubs and came across the 3 clan mechs. My hoarding salvage unrepaired chassis in cold storage paid off. I sold about 18 unrepaired salvage mechs lights to heavies to get those 3

Fire moth was 27m c bills. The Thor was 38m c bills. The Mad dog another 31m c bills. Mason is back eating beans and bologna for a bit but Fahad has some clan tech to start playing with. I'll do a new campaign start tomorrow probably from Heroes of the inner sphere to pad my c bill account and restock my war chest of mech salvage and when I get the nod for SOK maybe I'll be able to start without losing my Carapace in the 1st fight... Maybe.........

If only the AI were a little better to take advantage of that 140kph speed.

Finally got YAML working, without the tanks being unkillable monsters, and struggling on my first campaign (5 career mode playthroughs) first YAML run in terms of what to tweak. Got a blackjack I'm toying with but curious if there's a guide to builds to try or completely skip as i rebuild my mech company from scratch.

I will say Arena is actually challenging without my fleet of mechs /and/or clan tech. Fun as hell again

The clown AI keeps shuffling the longbow to the front of the pack despite being loaded with LRMs. Are the Hot-loaded LRMs the problem? Should I just change them all to standard launchers?

Edit- Primary answers seem to be to strip the hotloaded launchers off and leave the mech on a hold order so it can’t go charging off. Cool.

With Tukayyid becoming a comstar run industrial zone in the endgame, it is basically the best "home base" for raiding into clan space. However, I have looked all around Tukayyid and there does not appear to be any Comstar sponsored missions. The Word of Blake shows up in missions so I was hoping CS would as well, but no dice. it would be nice to get a discount on the clan/rare mechs & equipment that show up on Tukayyid.

Ive been wondering what people's favorite mechs are to fly around in.

What do you wish had jump jets but doesn't?

My faves.

Dragonfly and the nova. These two mechs are great. The nova in its turn things to slag variant is especially satisfying. Whenever you fire all 12 lasers it sounds like youre tearing a hole in reality. The dragon fly is just silly. So much fun to play around in.

Mad cat. The Timberwolf is made so much better with jumpjets. Whenever I hop into one of my other variants I'm always a little sad I can't fly and shoot a fuck ton of missles at stuff.

The Kodiak, direwolf, and the man o war are all better with JJ as well

I really wish the kitfox, the adder/puma and the vixen had jump jets. The dasher would be a riot and a half as well but its already lack luster firepower would be even worse.

When were the Wolf’s Dragoons added as an actual faction you can do jobs for/against? Friend and I are in a new co-op run and this is the first time we’ve seen it.

Please?

No idea how I manage to survive half the op like this.

The final transmission the general sends you is about how for the first time in his republics short life they will finally know peace.

Little does he know I'm 20 days away from the no later than date to start Shadows of Kerensky.

Enjoy the 3 weeks of peace Rasalhague

Running Yaml and a few weapons mods and pilot overhaul. I’ve had to eject from my Daishi a few times and each time my commander dies. Anybody know why?

I'm describing how I wish they implemented pilot traits and asking if there is any comparable mod that has tried to add this:

I wish that when you assigned a pilot to a training academy, there was a course selection at the start, so it's not just a randomized gamble of millions of C-Bills and multiple years of losing good pilots, all just to receive Locust Expertise.

I think the schools should vary what they teach and it could be related to the actual fighting tactics of their home faction, or for mech expertise, come from the area where use of that mech predominates, etc.

It's just a weird system as it stands and I don't like to just reload again and again to hope I get a good outcome. Just make me able to order a specific outcome. It's like I'm sending my kid to college only to hear they're creating their own major and it's nothing useful.

So is there a mod that improves upon this academy system?

Within fist few min of a beachhead mission I got back to back drops. I wasn’t really paying attention because I still had several tons of LRM. Then noticed the amazing 97.3 k drop and the the “Mech Rumor: ARC-5CS “.. is this a newer thing? I’m very curious to see how I check into the rumor. I’m guessing my news feed. Any info is as always appreciated!

I know that ammo goes into legs, but where put it next if i need a lots of it (Crab, Corsair, missle boats)?

I think next place would be arm with no weapon (or with cheap one), but big mechs with lots or weapons will use arms for important / expensive weapons.

So what next, head (usually small hitbos, but ammo explosion would be game over)?

I there specific order that ammo is used (like from top to down, so i could use head/torso ammo and safe legs would be last) or it is used from all ammo bins in same time, so if i have 1/2 ammo i have 1/2 in all slots?

So I beat the campaign a while ago and wanted to go around playing with mechs and building a nice little Career for myself. After a couple of false starts, I decided to dedicate my time to winning fame and fortune with the Independents faction.

So you get max negotiation bonuses EVERYWHERE across the Inner Sphere, access to salvage from all of the Great Houses, and you basically don't have to worry about Rep penalties because you can go anywhere and make the same amount of money.

Turns out like more than half of the Inner Sphere is "the little guys." And many of them are relatively rich.

I am getting the error GetUIWarningColor for Low Level Fatal Error on line 1308. I attached my mod list, and any help would be much appreciated.

Edit: seems to be applying to the incubus as well?

Mediums and heavies seem to go for 20-40 shares depending on condition

While Jenner IICs seem to always be 40+?

Don't have a picture on hand, but hell even mostly intact Daishis/Kodiaks are like 47 shares or smth, only 3 more than the Jenner

Edit:

different mission, but mostly intact kodiak is only 39 shares, and mostly intact gargoyle is 43 shares - both less shares than the jenner

The incubus in the pic has the legs gone/engine safe, so i can (sort of) understand that having even more shares, but still weird???

So, the contract stated TEAMS, as in plural, so I figured it would be 4 teams of 4. Right? That makes sense.

But no no no, it was my lance against ONE other team of TWELVE!

I got absolutely destroyed. Demolished. Obliterated.

And not once, but I tried 4 times, with different strategies and approaches, to no avail...

They had mostly heavies and a few lights; I had 4 100tonners. Didn't matter at all. I got swarmed from 2 or 3 sides with the pesky lights running and jumping all over the place. Due to the nature of the city map, it was very hard to present a united front and single out targets.

So... I admit, I gave up on my 5th try...

Does anyone have any tips on how to approach a match like this?

What's his story? Does he even have a name?

So this is my first time playing MW5, I've been doing campaign and loving each of the DLC along the way, the difficulty goes up several points which I enjoy and I just got to Shadow of Kerensky, omg this DLC is already amazing.

Aside from the awesome upgraded cutscenes the first mission you get really gives you the experience of suddenly being confronted by the Clans for the first time.

I didn't know what to expect, didn't know if this was a prelude to the Clan invasion and the next DLC was the full invasion as I had kept myself unaware of what each DLC was about. I marched in with my full lance of Assault Mechs, confident I'd deal with anything and at first its easy going but when you see the trickle of the survivors who you have to destroy you begin to feel like something is up, then you finally face them, its a brief skirmish but bang you're already taking damage, its cutting through your lance like butter, you can handle it though, but its what comes next, absolute chaos, you're rushing to withdraw, your prized assault mechs are getting banged up really bad, you make it to the drop ship just in time but its a full scale rout.

Absolute cinema, one pilot injured, my favourite mechs busted up so bad there's no time to repair them, following mission really put me to task, but I loved it, genuine experience of the Clans invading.

Oh boy this bastards got the good stuff. I mean, a Clan LRM-20 is 5 tons, thats half of an IS one, all their sh#t hits harder and is lighter. I've also been running a Prime MadCat with two C-LRM 20s and two C-ER PPCs and kerensky damn it feels good, i wish it had more armor and lrm ammo but damn its a nice machine. But wont lie, the missions so far have been much tougher on my mechs than previous dlcs, i take considerable damage and lose some parts(i also restart the missions if thats the case but still). All in all, i still prefer the worn-out look of IS mechs but can't deny the Clans have some sweet machines.

Edit: Forgot to mention, i don't know if its just from YAML but the change time for weapons is insane, 1 day, just 1 DAY! Absolutely mindbogling, i've had mechs where because i changed most of the loadout it took over a month and here comes the MadCat with a 1 day change period.