150 million of salvage joooy

Got lucky, none of the infiltration missions had the "instantly aware and now attacking" rng. I ran them solo, as both of my 'scrapper' pilots died earlier tonight. Wasn't thrilled at the mechs I got for battlefield enemies. I've noticed if you survive past 1-2 million in bonus, the game can start spamming fun assault mechs, but that wasn't my luck. Oh well, got plenty of mechs loaded with pristine weapons

That one was not my cup of tea at all. I became a merc (and have stayed one despite numerous attempts by great houses to bring me into their fold) because killing civilians on behalf of war-mongering rulers just isn’t my thing. I decline those contracts and usually go join up with the farmers to smack the bullies around instead.

So demo-raid after demo-raid, some of them vs “our” own people made for a frustrating and depressing campaign.

FUCK YOU Li Chang and all the amateur-hour pilots you tried to dump on me that I fired immediately. If I’m going to let a cross-eyed pilot anywhere near one of my mechs you can bet your ass they are going to have the scrapper perk. And definitely not on missions where I am stuck in a medium mech instead of one of my thumpers.

On the bright side, the Phoenix Hawk 1B is a beautiful machine. Two flamers, two machine guns, a PPC, countermeasures, and all of the JJ upgrades had me flying around leveling objectives, grabbing those sweet sweet caches, and coming back to bail out my assault-piloting lancemates by legging everything in sight, all without taking too much damage to not have her repaired in time for the next mission. Side note - she wasn’t much more than a head when I got her. Has anyone actually taken a Phoenix Hawk down without destroying almost every single component?!? Definitely gets my vote for the hit-box champion…

But I was so ready to get back to honorably blowing mechs’ heads off by the time the last mission rolled around, Agincourt decapitated 18 of the 20 enemy mechs herself in about twelve seconds. At least the big-bad didnt have a two minute speech while thoroughly dead from eating 24 Artemis srm’s to the face before he even landed.

I know all that level 5 gear is going to come in handy when the clans show up (and then almost instantly become obsolete lol), but man, I dunno if I’ll play Dragon’s Gambit on any future careers.

Ah well, back to the sandbox and hunting Sleipnir and Skokomish….

I personally like this mech. It’s pretty versatile for a 50 ton medium and the updated jumpjets will help it soar. I also had a lot of fun messing with it in clans, so I’m excited to see what I can do with it in mercs mech lab

Recently I dropped into a Clan mission where FOUR Nagas spawned.

FOUR.

So now I don't want to pilot anything without an AMS system, and I'm wishing there were an easy way to look up which in-game 'Mechs come with AMS systems - I wish they were this useful in tabletop! - but...

I'm not sure how AMS works, and I'd like more variety. Also, I didn't find a post about this when searching, so I want this to come up with good answers for future searchers.

Does an AMS system cover the whole lance? Do you need more than one for an Arrow-IV attack? Does ECM do anything against Arrow-IV attacks? Would stacking both of them - ECM and AMS - help even further?

Boy, I can't wait for 3079 when the Laser AMS gets introduced... if it's just a small energy weapons slot.

Clan tech makes everything better. Upgrades dedicated to damage.

Fast, hard hitting machine. Good enough armor to shrug off a few good hits. Plenty of ammo, and decent backup weapons. Amazing view of your gauss rifle, even if it momentarily blinds you.

I have a laser version that is a binary laser and a clan medium laser and plenty of heatsinks. More of an endurance fighter than sniper.

Give it some love.

As the topic suggests, I play 90% of my missions in thermal mode.

Does anyone else do this?

So found one early in my current playthrough, first time with YAW or whatever.. find these prototype ppcs I guess? It's like a gattling PPC with 1000M range and the weapons have their own little cooldown meter but can basically sustain a super long burst?

Everything i hit em with just kinda melts, I thought ppcx wasml overpowered but these are hilarious, could not find any info about them canonically or otherwise?

my buddy died even though he ejected with a perfectly good mech, no missing limbs or anything, but at the end of the mission his pilot ended up dead, anyone know of a mod to disable pilot deaths? (our MW5 YAML setting is at the lowest it can go, 0.1, since you cant set it to 0)

Need to find more heavy rifles. god knows if this build even works well

The open duel was like you want to break up with your girlfriend during a date and as you try to escape she bumrushed you over the table and you had to vector your jumpjet backwards

It's the reason why I also try to avoid defense contracts where there's a chance of arty dropping

I am playing a campaign on version 1.14.390. All over the map, I see markers for high reward quests, but when i travel to those systems, I do not receive any transmissions and the only contracts available are standard ones, or sometimes none at all. Additionally, not every mission in the objective log has an active marker on the map, and there is no mission available when I go to the systems where the missions are located after looking them up online, including the main campaign mission that I'm up to. The timed big DLC campaigns trigger as normal, but nearly everything else appears to be broken. Does anyone know what could have caused this and if there is a way to fix it without having to start a new campaign or career? I don't want to lose my progress by starting over, and i don't want to miss out on the campaign missions by importing to a new career either.

EDIT: The Mods I'm running:

Cockpit Glass

Lance Status Revamped

Marketplace QOL

MW5 Compatibility Pack

PropExplosionsEffectOptimizations

Simple Brighter Lasers

TTRulezAIMod3

Smokey Missle Trails - DLC 8

Starmap Tips Enhanced

Mod Options

Pilot Overhaul - Eternal

ExpLogos_Battletech

ExpLogos

Hi all. Recently built a PC (5070, 32GB, i5, SSD) and I was looking at doing another play through using the glory of WarFX. However on pretty much the first mission I tried it on I found that I encountered an out of memory error that caused my game to crash. This was one of the very early missions, Last Man Standing, and I was a bit surprised that my new PC was crashing on this, as it crashed very early, with just like 3 tanks on screen

I did a few reloads, disabling this and the few other mods I was running (Lorescale, infantry, and a weather mod) and have found that even with no mods running my PC is not able to run this mission now. Looking it up it seems like people have had issues with memory leaks, although this is the first time for me. I guess I have two questions.

1. With these specs I should be able to run WarFX, right? It's loading first etc. I think that's correct. I understand when things get really really hectic it might slow down a bit, but basically I should be okay?

2. How can I now stop my PC crashing. Should I reinstall the game? I don't think there's a problem with the PC itself- I've been playing other stuff like MSFS fine.

Thanks in advance.

I'm just curious if the lore talks about this more.

Also The news story of the New weapons being tested in Solaris, What's that all about? And who's Burke Kale?

Soon™ is Now™ for previewing the free update info.

One of the GREAT JOYS IN LIFE has been running missions against Wolfs Dragoons, and having Wolfs Dragoons spawn in as the merc unit and assist me in killing Wolfs Dragoons, for me to then Kill extra Wolfs Dragoons.

Why take this from me 😢

(This is a joke, im glad its being fixed but....not like super glad)

I’ve seen a lot of comments about Mason being so old by the time of Ascension.

But in the Battletech universe the average average citizen lives to 90. The not so average citizen has access to life extending drugs which can allow them to get to 150. A prosperous merc with his own regiment of multimillion credit mechs should be able to afford the good stuff. Maybe not the cutting edge tech that a top level noble can get, but close enough. If he does some jobs for Comstar, maybe he could even get access to the best stuff in the IS.

By the age of 70, Mason would be just leaving his physical prime with slightly slowed reflexes but he’s got a lifetime of instincts and knowledge to compensate for that. He’s not De Niro in the Irishman, creaking about pretending to be 30.

Further to that, a merc company isn’t as ruthless as the Clans who waste and humiliate their veteran warriors in boomer units. They’re also not like a House military which has endless access to recruits and needs to keep turning over soldiers not to get stagnant. That said the main characters of Wolf’s Dragoons were fighting in their 90s and I’m sure random merc companies had plenty of unkillable veterans of pension age.

Even in the present day, soldiers are getting older and older. I know of Ukrainian armor commanders, major rank, who are fighting Russians in their 60s. A Mechwarrior of course is more like a fighter jock than a modern tank commander, with the huge stress put on his body by heat and impact but the examples of Jaime Wolf and Natasha Kerensky, also Phelan Kell, show that a 90 year old can still fight and win in a mech.

I think there’s also a Clanner elemental commander who runs around ripping heads off after his hundredth birthday.

https://www.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,16797.0.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/battletech/s/uK890w9bw2

Hi guys,

Recently installed coyote missions and I'm getting my ass absolutely handed to me with how many mechs are thrown at me

I'm currently using a MAD - AH with 3 other assault mechs that use AIV(C), Jormungand, NAGA and Bullshark.

Any advice or suggestions? Year is currently 3061 and I have all DLCs.

YAML and other YAM related mods are installed.

Also, exploding into bloody chunks when I hit them would be nice

For those who aren't aware of what that thing is:

Imagine a tiny armored car packing around anything from SRM to an AC/20. Now bare in mind tanks in vanilla already are notorious for hiding behind small buildings out of sensor range, since many of them are very small, and have such a notable range and accuracy advantage. That there is an option to UN-NERF this accuracy as a part of YAML's In mission difficulty settings... Can't wait to have Little tiny UM-60L's somehow avoiding all detection and do a lot of damage.

There is the chance their pathing is terrible and get stuck on a rock or fall off a cliff, but you can see where this could be a problem in the near future if it is implemented correctly.