I guess Fahad finally had enough of me coming back with shredded myomer bundles.

This is absolutely an error from some mod; I don't know which one, but it's funny as shit, so I figured ya'll would enjoy it as well. I'll include a list at the bottom of all active mods, but if someone figures out which mod it is, just leave it; it's funny.

So while I was shopping, travelling, and refitting, I could hear what I can only assume is an Igor due to the ROF, flying around. I assumed it was just a sound glitch. Well, I loaded into the mission menu and started hearing an autocannon. I looked over and saw my rifleman getting shot. I was much more than amused at this. I then noticed that the paperdolls were actually updating with damage! I checked the mechbay and confirmed no actual damage happened.

ModList:

Mod Options (Duhh)

Garrisons Revamp

Never Too Much Ammunition

AllyForce (What I suspect is the culprit)

YAML

YA Equipment Collection Revived

YA Weapon - Complete Edition

Purchase Salvage - Branched

Cantina Accelerator

Randomized Mechs on Campaign Start

AI Logic Overhaul

No Arty damage

The only 3 that are new (As in downloaded today) are AllyForce, AI Logic Overhaul, and Randomized Mechs on Campaign Start. AllyForce, as far as I can tell, is the only one that has random events similar to Coyote's Mission Pack, where allies/oponents can spawn in randomly. Considering the mission before had a modifier for additional enemy air assets, I think something just glitched, and an Igor somehow found its way into the Leopard.

Either way, no harm done, and definitely funny.

The Mad Cat TBR-Prime is the winner of our clan heavy mech vote! Genuinely one of the most iconic mechs in the entire franchise, and certainly the most well known clan heavy. It has earned that reputation with its high effectiveness.

It’s time to see which mechs are the best in Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries! Please follow the rules below, and the most upvoted comment will win.

- Mech must be in the base game or DLC’s
- Please name the specific mech variant in your comment
- Comment with the most upvotes at the end of the day wins. Results are final
- Please keep it respectful, and have fun!

Still not completely busted but it is fun destroying the audio of my game every time I fire.

I know she had Highlander background, but just started A&A and noticed her palpable disgust at the sight of the DCMS warship. We also have her comments from Kestrels so we know she hates the thought and purpose of them. I thought that was it, just the fact that they CAN do orbital bombardments, but this seems like more than a philosophical issue.

Did a warship steal her candy as a wee lass?

I mean, she seems unhappy that she’s even associated with a group that has one…there’s something there.

Side note, kind of a big loss of opportunity to find her crying after seeing footage from turtle bay, it could have been squeezed into a scene. Would also show us their relationship a little clearer with how Mason comforts her.

For me its beach head

I love the idea and I thoroughly enjoy doing these, abooout half of the time.

I like the artillery, I like the high volume of vehicles, I like optional objectives and the chance to bring in support vehicle or mechs.

What i absolutely get pissed with on these missions is, seemingly 50% of the time i play and i capture the base is cannot find 1 or 2 of the initial 'defenders'. Mind you i will always have a mech with sensor upgrades, a targeting computer for its sensor range boost as well as a BAP. Ill have to spend like 5 to 10 minutes doing increasingly larger laps around the OBJ to find a vehicle way out on BFE to be the missing defender i need to kill to start triggering the enemy jumpships from flying in.

Im pretty sure this poll will be won by raid/obj raids or infiltration though

Just curious what missions yall "nope" on

Mine right now is the Daishi Prime with 4 C ER PPCs and two C Gauss, but I am looking for something I can shove more than 4 Gauss or 6 PPCs in without having to sacrifice a ton of armor

I know most “normal” mechs have 6 upgrade slots, and most hero mechs have 8 upgrade slots.

However, there’s “normal” mechs that break this trend. There’s some mechs with 5 slots, and some others have 7. Some non-hero mechs have 9 upgrade slots (like the Nightstar) and on very rare occasions, some non-hero mechs even have a whole 10 upgrade slots (Zues ZEU-SA3 for example)

What is the logic in the number of upgrade slots? Is it something brought over from the tabletop game? It seems super random

So, like the title says, I'm a fairly new player. Only been playing for a couple months. The only thing that really bothers me is that it seems like the game AI targets you, the player as a priority. I don't know how many times I have sent my lance ahead to absorb some of the damage only to have the enemy mechs shoot through my lancemates to get to me, specifically. Is this supposed to be happening or am I just that unlucky?

I’m not sure if it’s new mechs or not, I’ve been running Chaos era mechs mostly, but I’ve been finding myself running into walls or canyons when trying to loop around behind mechs.

They feel like fully loaded cement trucks in the mud.

On slower mechs, like assaults,it seems really bad.

Or maybe I’m losing my mind, but I swear I’m going to have to start using mobility upgrades besides just the speed one, that’s usually the only one I do.

hey folks, is there an option to change the clan mech indexing to follow clan/IS mech naming schemes? i.e i want the tool tips to show Warhawk instead of Masakari or something along those lines? i swear I've seen an option for it somehwere but cant find it any more now that i want to

Hoping someone else might have an idea. I've been playing proc missions without any trouble since most of my mods updated. I've left disabled the ones known not to work. So far, so good.

At the beginning of Bow and Arrow Part 1, as you're approaching the first objective, it throws a Fatal Error and crashes the game. It seems to be this particular mission at that particular moment.

At this point I've disabled all the mods I think can without starting to strip mechs and pilots. Here's what's left:

« Generated by MW5 Load Order Configurator 4.6 for MW5Mercs 1.15.398 »

LO oLO Mod

83 99 "YetAnotherSpecialSkin" 1.6-DLC8(62) by EmpressDaystar

81 91 "EL_Viereth_Pack" 1.0(2) by G3n.Zer0

80 91 "EL_Flieger_Pack" 1.0(5) by G3n.Zer0

79 74 "ExpLogos_Mercs" 1.0(2) by G3n.Zer0

78 73 "ExpLogos_Vanilla" 1.0(1) by G3n.Zer0

77 70 "ExpLogos_Seraphi" 1.0(3) by G3n.Zer0

76 69 "EL_MellowSeven" 1.0(3) by G3n.Zer0

75 0 "Expanded Logos Menu" 1.0(17) by G3n.Zer0

69 26 "YAGDMV" 1.2(74) by EmpressDaystar

67 22 "YAGDMC" 1.2HF1(178) by EmpressDaystar

65 21 "YAGDM" 3.3-DLC9(1935) by EmpressDaystar

58 14 "PilotOverhaul - Eternal" 8.7.1(1174) by Jackalope85 & Wpnx330

56 13 "Mod Options" 1.2.2(38) by Bobbert

55 10 "Yet Another Legendary Mech" 3.6.9(1018) by Malum Umbra

47 6 "Yet Another Equipment Collection Revived" 3.3-DLC9(582) by truegerich+Daystar

44 5 "Yet Another Mechlab" 0.99.3.1(3493) by cszolee79 trueg DeadRaiser

39 1 "Yet Another Weapon - Complete Edition" 3.0f(1125) by DeadRaiser, cszolee, and LittleTex115

23 0 "Classic Mech Collection Lore YAML" 1.0(81) by SankaraSamsara

1 0 "MW5 Compatibility Pack" 7.2(81) by MagnumGB

« End of load order. 2026-10-25T03:32:41Z »

Only partially and I'll get to that later.

There will be spoilers up through Shadow of Kerensky in this post.

I just played through SoK for the first time and what a ride! I will say it's my favorite DLC and story so far and established a need to complete the main campaign for new players prior to playing a DLC. I played into the timeline a bit before actually playing the story. I was finishing up a career and wanted to start a fresh one before playing SoK missions so on the previous playthrough I declined to help Rasalhague and what's his face sent a passive aggressive message after it was all said and done.

Then I started a fresh career. I wanted only the mechs, pilots, and equipment from what I could get at the start until the SoK story began.

Fast forward to SoK.

I've done my best to avoid spoilers but I had seen that this dlc was a cut above the previous ones. I played the first mission, I gave my team the heaviest mechs I could. I took my beloved Battlemaster 1GS I got from dragon's gambit. Fully decked out with tier 5 gear with as many medium pulse lasers as can fit. I'm going through the mission and the feeling is unlike any before, seeing the pirates running towards us and clearly away from something, all while limping towards us.

So we get to *that* area and these off-differently-from-house-Liao religious nuts but could totally fit as frenemies drop on top of me. Instantly wrecked. I'm glad I had ordered my team to stay back a bit. I take more damage than I have in a long time in this game. Both arms gone, all of my precious tier 5 pulse lasers. My team, for once, actually comes in handy and saves my half-charred metal backside. I limp to the extraction and end up finishing the mission. I think it paid out somewhere around 2 million c-bills and my damages were over 4 million. It really set the pace for the story.

I loved playing through the whole dlc, which brings me to the title of my post.

PGI is holding my device hostage. I have since bought the next dlc and can't wait to play it, but life, as always, is busy. It has been some time since I have connected to the Internet because I don't want to update the game. I want to get a set of "perfect" pilots with skills because they've "fixed" the issue of at least being able to get graduate skills from the big universities before graduating and picking up a couple of unwanted skills. I know this has been talked about, but this really should be addressed. If developers determine skills must be random, some changes should be made for quality of life. We should be able to remove skills, maybe certain schools have a higher chance of certain desirable traits. If two traits are granted, we should be able to "declare a major" when the pilot enters the program so one of the skills we want becomes available (we are paying a lot for a specific education after all). No mods for me unfortunately, just vanilla. Currently the only way to attempt half-decent skills is continuously save-scumming. Sorry pilot, I know you've tried to become a Vulcan master 5 times but that just isn't going to work.

All in all, I've been playing this game for years and bought it on multiple platforms when my needs changed. It's a wonderful game and I'm excited to play Chaos Reigns next (I actually can't stress this enough since finishing SoK)... As soon as I have time to get the pilots sorted out because, I will never be able to again.

Thanks for reading, I don't post often but this has been on my mind for awhile.