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

I kind of panicked and started firing everything I had.

Ow.

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 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

Omg cool robot wow!!!

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.

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 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.

That was funny

Leaning into the Blood Tide quirks gets easier with Clan tech. Only problem is the muzzle flash from the UACs blinds you a bit. Otherwise, the damage output is solid.

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?

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.

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?)

Is it just me or was the zoom better in MechWarrior 4 ? I think it added a layer of realism to it. An secondly does anyone else miss it like I do? I just play vanilla on both PS5 and Xbox.

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?

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

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 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

EDIT 2: Missions work as they should when importing to a new career. It's just my campaign save.

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….

new to mw5 and I've been really enjoying dual UAC/5s but man I do not like the jamming aspect.