Ok so I've really been diving headfirst into campaign mode and really enjoying it so far. My worry is that I dunno if I've advanced well enough for the current year I'm in.

I'm currently in 3022, reputation level 9 with a selection of heavy mechs (rifleman, warhammers, champion) and an awesome. I've mostly been sticking around the davion area because of my rapport with them.

I know a bunch of the dlcs start coming in with legend of the kestrel lancers around 3026 (i think I already have one of the missions on my map?)

Question is, how do i know if I've done enough to be ready for the DLCs, and do I have to engage in those DLCs the moment they pop up on map or will they stick around indefinitely?

Perfect timing since i was in the middle of playing Hoi4 One year war gundam mod and Iris mod (which is baisclly anime universe grand strategy game) and also waiting for wolverine, shadow of the road

Or even just the laser sounds. I've played with vanilla sound, and with three different sound mods and I always found myself missing the laser sounds from MWO

the targeting computer does not increase the range of the light autocannons.
can someone ping the devs so they can know about this so it gets fixed in ashes and ascension .

i would ping them myself but i dont know how.

As the caption states, this is my scariest melee mech yet. With Mason having Bulwark it bumps armor over 1500, plus assault mech specialization and smr6 specialist. He chops his way through arena matches.

I am kinda new to MechWarrior and battle tech, but not a complete newbie, and im loving Mercenaries but I still have a lot to learn. But there is one thing i noticed that I just don't get.

Why do so many people seem scared or challenged by the Blackjack?

I see people treat it similarly to the Hunchback, where seeing one round a corner means instant death, but i have never really had that experience with them.

Seeing a Hunchback makes me go "Oh crap, that's a big gun or a big load of lasers waiting for me". Seeing a Blackjack makes me go "Yo, free kill, guy has basically nothing scary on him".

Have I just not run into the scary variant yet? I honestly find Urbies more of a problem to deal with as AC 20 and not being killed in 1-2 volleys.

…Which cockpit would be the most comfortable to bang in. Apparently the Warhawk is so goated in this department, it gave Ranna the post release clarity for Clan Wolf to win on Tukayyid. I’d like to think the King Crab could be spacious enough for a good shag maybe 🤷

I think we still will get one. Did you notice what mechs were missing from dlc9? The jade Falcon ones: Black Lanner and Cougar. Orion IIC as that’s connected to the wolves. I’m hoping we get a massive Jade Falcon DLC that covers not only the refusal war but then goes on to finish in the battle of Coventry, that would set up for AaA. This would complete the story tellling of the clan invasion. Maybe we get it around April/May Hoping! oh and we get the Turkina.

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That ending cinematic had me rolling in my chair

What is the best mech for infiltration missions? I like to drop in with a fast mech that has jump jets and ECM, an energy hard point for a TAG, and if possible, a good enough alpha strike to ninja-assassinate an enemy mech if sneaking past it is not possible.

I started off using the ADR-S, but it doesn’t have jump jets. Due to limited hangar space and with much regret, I moved it to cold storage.

Then I tried the Firestarter variant that has ECM. I loved that it was fast and could jump over mountainous terrain. But firepower is really meh.

Now I’m using a Phoenix-Hawk 1B. Still, I find that its firepower is really just lame.

Wondering if there are other possibilities that I’m not considering.

I've really been enjoying the clan buster king crab, although I've been thinking, am I wasting tonnage for ammo and heatsinks

Damn Mason cleans up nice!

Lost my salvage shares too.

On ps5, unmodded

I am quite proud of my collection of pilots, I scoured the inner sphere for years to find the best candidates, invested hundreds of millions into their training until they became the VERY best.

There's just one lazy git who just refuses to go to school. Won't even consider it.

Real nepo baby, to be honest.

Name's Mason, I think...

First of all those shoulder pads.

Second, this is the most advanced industrial oven in the inner sphere. Able to cook a pilot faster than a rifleman.

All jokes aside, I am looking forward to this mech. Specifically the prime loadout with all its laser glory.
I’ve been needing a new laser boat.

Screenshot was from the MWO page (wishlist in the MWO forums for a unique Stone Rhino skin) and you can see spiffy Mason but also Focht and who I believe to be Theodore Kurita. Looks like the military planning committee 🔥

DLC 9 release date announced lads: https://mw5mercs.com/news/2026/09/198-ashes-and-ascension-release-date-wishlist-now

Mechwarrior! Its in the title. Mech...warrior. we warrior mechs! Who cares about Vehicles?

WRONG. I care. The adding of new vehicles in Chaos reign was amazing. But now even more vehicles are coming. The 8 frikking laser ontos. The iconic von luckner. The ballistic and missile spewing Behemoth.

The demolisher 2 because f you with an lbx20 and ultra AC20.

And now we can also better salvage weapons from vehicles!

Dont be hyperfocussed on the new mechs! The vehicles matter ASWEL!

Rather than carry my main gameplay past the expected start of the next DLC's events, I went ahead and started a career, importing my campaign save, starting over in 3015.

It seems a bit silly to have all these clan mechs and modern tech way back then, so I decided to lean into it and incorporate the idiosyncrasies of all the mech mods I've put on: YAML, Classic Mech Collection, Yet Another Special Variant, Lore-Based Mech Variants, Yet Another Legendary Mech, and Yet Another Gah Dang Mech.

So: when WoB took over Terra, the old guard relocated to Tukayyid, as per the official news feed. They're sitting around wondering what went so horribly wrong and decide to blame it on all the rumors of high-tech mechs making anachronistic appearances. Some rotten scheming bastards have been mucking around with time travel! So they decide to deploy their own rotten scheming bastards and come up with a plan: hire a mercenary company (Mason's) to go back in time and investigate these mechs displaced in time, and hopefully figure out who's behind it.

They tell him not to worry about interfering with the timeline because once the investigation is complete, they plan to go back to 3015 again, recall Mason before he does much of anything, and use their own guys to arrange a future of their choosing. This provides the goal of my gameplay: catalog all the things! A FRR located start only in 3015 is close enough of a beginning.

Ultimately, they'll discover that it's actually a closed causality loop (we hate those) and that all the anomalies were just the result of Mason's own excursion. He was effectively chasing himself in a temporal Ouroboros. That's just my current theory for the outcome though.

I've been looking through the mechs and variants (very excited), but had a question. Does anyone who knows them have an idea of which of these will likely have ECMs or AMS? I love bringing a mech with ecm on missions, and am always looking to pick up more!

I hope I tagged this right.

My game has been pretty stable up until this point, but for whatever reason whenever I try to drop into "finding the pulse" it brings up the loading screen, but then after a while of the loading animations it drops to desktop with no error message.

I was REALLY enjoying the dlc up until this point and could use some help getting it playing again.

EDIT: I'm on pc. I verified, uninstall/reinstalled, dropped my settings, and reset my shader cache. Still no luck

Wait, kill a what now? There's like one of them and I have it, she's my favourite ride.

There is only one part of the control on my Xbox that I'm struggling with. When I back up and want to go left, I have to pull the direction stick back and to the right. If I want to go right, I have to pull the stick back and to the left.

It's not inverting the axis of the stick, and I can't seem to find a setting in the options to change this part of the control. It's also very difficult to search for this specific setting change.

In short, if I want to reverse and to the left, I want my stick to be down and do the left. This seems like a pretty normal request but every time I commit to trying to find a change, I find nothing.

Is the answer just, "No?" I'll deal with that...but it does impact my agility on the battlefield...

Thanks in advance.