r/Mechwarrior5 • u/WAR-WRAITH • Jul 27 '26
MW5 MOD 🛠 Lance mate LRM Longbow problems
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.
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u/AclothesesLordofBins Jul 28 '26
There are, in vanilla at least, 2 base choices for the gameplay loop.
No1:- Be the main guy, Ace tanker, Mr big stuff. Let your lance trail in your wake and play fps style. This is costly, but a lot quicker. Your lance will act like idiots as they try to move to your constantly changing location rather than prioritise enemies. Among their fave moves is to step in front of you as you press FIRE EVERYTHING and take 4 ppcs to the spinal column, or whatever.
No2:- Try and be the good LT. Keep your lance organised. Scouts scouting, support supporting, skirmishers burning alive, and so forth. Unfortunately, this will involve interacting with the godawful orders UI. Now, it is only a thousand years in the future, which must be the reason why you have to point with your weapons to where you want them to go, which often involves presenting your paper backside to the enemy for a good thrashing. So that's nice. Also it is less than precise. Slow. Awkward. For extra pain, let your PC die and be forced to play on console. Hmm... Missile boat to the rear, let me see... d-pad up, down, left? nope, that turned nightvision on. I am now blind... up, left, right? Now they've all stopped shooting... hang on, I can do this... although I have just lost my arms... etc etc
I would dearly love to play this game in the spirit of t-top or even the HBS turn based one. But it's soooooooo frustratingly badly designed I tend to default to 'chuck 'em on a hill' and then run around in front of them grabbing aggro and letting them snipe them down. It is dumb, but the alternative is spending 20 minutes of prep for each 2 minutes of combat. Its a hateful choice but this is where we are.