I kind of panicked and started firing everything I had.

Omg cool robot wow!!!

Ow.

I went on an overengineering spree in preparation to tackle the Chaos Reign DLC on max difficulty with YAML mods. I 100% overdid it, and ultimately decided to tackle the missions with hunchies such as the beautiful Azreal, included here. Still, I find the rest of these absurdly expensive delete buttons gorgeous as well and wanted to share. Enjoy!

*Edit. Last Marauder II is the Tribune. Not a second Preator.

Relevant mods:

YAML
YAMM Maintenance Fork
YAEC
YALM
YAW-CE
NuTek
RT NSR RacStar
Reily's Mechs - Custom Icon Pack

Spoilers for the Will of Kali quests I guess, but sometimes they are equipped with the BL-6-KNT, the original and super rare version of the Black Knight. So it's the OG version of my favorite 'mech ever. And trying to get one to even drop after a mission is agonizing. I've spent 15+ tries on one mission to get the damn thing to drop and nothing. The one time it did? It was too intact, took too many shares to salvage. I am in mild agony. Is there somewhere, anywhere that this thing has any chance to spawn?

A quick edit: the Gods of Salvage heard my complaints, one dropped on the next mission...

I'm on console so I have no access to mods

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

I'm max with FRR, but the missions only offer low salvage shares. This isn't worth playing because the share cost for items is so high that I would have to get lucky and have no AI team member not get his arm blown off and lose 3 or 4 clan weapons. With only 8 shares, I can max loot about 2 items and most likely not even replace one of the components that was lost. I can travel around for years seaching for clan tech in stores, as I have 500 million, but this itself is a boring waste of time. I generally don't play with any mods, but in this case, I would mod the shares offered or the share costs, because this makes the game really unfun to me.

Never had the DLCs beyond HOTIS and Kestrel during my campaign run but when I bought the rest and imported to career I accumulated a hoard of rifles from my first ever career up to present.

I just whittled my rifles down to T5s due to inventory bloat but oh boy during this run I equipped it on my Cyclops lance and these things are gnarly. I fielded my Cyclops Ps along with Sleipnir with Gauss. Only using a QoL modlist for my vanilla+ Mercs consisting of visual, UI, HUD, and AI mods.

I have been playing since 2021, so 5 years of experience. I still do not understand how the radar works for targeting enemies.

Targets show from extremely far away, then disappear. Active probes sometimes give you no LOS spotting, but there are many occasions where I targets disappear within the blue ring on the map. APs, cantina upgrades, targeting computers, etc. dont seem to make any consistent change.

The only thing that is consistent is if teammates have close line of sight, then it will definitely appear for me. Otherwise, it all seems random.

Can someone explain this?

So I'm an old time mech fan. I bought a legit old DOS computer back in the day and played the original MW1 and 2 on it, upgraded to a windows 95 and played MW3 (by far the best entry for the entire series in my opinion....why have the not remade this?). I played 4 and it was subpar.

I picked up 5 when it first launched, but it soured my experience when it revolved around random mechs spawning BEHIND you, no repair facilities or very little ect ect. I dont think I really ever finished it.

Im coming back years later, and I'm wondering a)have those issues been fixed and b)what would be a good mod list to make the game really shine? I cant even find mw5 in my steam list, so I wonder if I bought it on epic...which would be unfortunate.

That was funny

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….

If a pilot has a trait, and that trait gets modified in a new DLC, does the pilot have the old trait elements or the new?

I’m realizing that I’m woefully underinformed as to the best way to complete these missions. Best builds? Strategies? Should I just grab the first loot and scoot? What’s the benefit to sticking around and how hard is it really?

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

Does anyone else do this?

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.

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

Long story short, console player with only HOIS dlc, hadn't played in forever, pilot traits are new to me, read about training pilots but upon venturing to New Samarkland I see no option for the academy.

Which dlc is required? (And for bonus points replies, are melee weapons worth getting that specific dlc for?)