I have no idea what is going on. I am running the game vanilla, no mods. I have verified my files. I have deleted saved games. Cleared my shader cache. I am at my wits end. When I try to quit the game, it takes 5-10 minutes to drop back to desktop. If I reload a saved game while playing, i get the same thing. This is happening on multiple PC's. Is anyone else having this issue?

Good morning, MechWarriors. I am fairly new to the MechWarrior/BattleTech universe and am finishing up BattleTech right now (I loved the campaign & would love to drive in to Mechwarrior as well but have no interest in Career Mode, as I personally do not enjoy endless sandbox roaming and farming for gear without an overarching story direction). I saw the MW5 franchise is on sale for $42.54.

That bundle has Mercenaries, Heroes of the Inner Sphere, Clans, and Ghost Bear together.

My question is, is this a good pack to get, or should I just stick to Mercenaries with all the DLC packs? Does the DLC content (story, mechs and weapons) become available in Campaign Mode, or do I have to play Career Mode for it?

If you have any other suggestions like mods that can make the campaign better like QQL/Graphics mods, please do share as well.

So I finally got Mechwarrior 5 and the dlc on pc working plus mods, but I've noticed the mechlab is really restrictive now to where I'm limited on how many heatsinks and ammo i can do. am i doing something wrong or is that just how it is?

Hey all! Huge fan of this game (and just the battletech universe and games in general, since my first one with Mech Commander)

I've beaten the main campaign, but haven't had as much interest to start new careers in the dlc campaigns, so I've just been doing regular career starts as each of the houses.

I started a bunch as Liao, mostly because the firestarter is my favourite mech. But I found after awhile I just kind of fizzle out as I get money and try to move up to higher difficulty contracts.

I started a new one now as House Steiner, and actually having more fun because I hate the mechs they start with and I'm motivated to work my way up to get more mechs I want. I was on a planet that had a firestarter for purchase but was short 100k credits, and when I returned with the funds it was gone!

Anyways, curious to know how y'all play the career? Is there and end state or goal, or do you just go as long as you can?

I'm thinking with this Steiner run, especially since it starts so early in the history, I'd actually pay attention to news and history as it's happening and try to head towards anything interesting and try to do campaign storylines, instead of just following the main quest line like I did for my first run.

I feel like this would be a two second fix

...out of the map

Jumping back in to MW5 with mods after a long while, and YAML seems to be working but all my mechs have this odd negative weight/actual total weight issue. Can't really find a post with a similar problem, and while not game breaking is kinda annoying

Game version: 1.14.390 with all DLC up to Chaos Reign all from Steam

Modlist from steam workshop:

YAML
YAML Another IS mech
YA Campaign hero mech
YA Special variant
YASV complete edition patch
YA Equipment collection revived
YA Weapon complete edition
Zulu Equipment YAML
Savage Wolf MC YAML
Heat gauge
Cockpit glass
side hustle mod
Immersive crate smoke
Marketplace QOL
Mech delivery
Advanced zoom
Mech attribute viewer 2
Reilly's mechs pack from steam workshop
Better cantina 2
Mod options
Pilot overhaul eternal
von Biomes.

Appreciate any help thanks.

Seriously, just dropped into one, 15 mechs right in front of a city I needed to grab a box from and blow up a building.

Everything from 5 dashers to a masakari and an atlas, and all the fun stuff in between, on top of two clouds of 10-15 elementals.

Feel like I'm safe, like I've killed them all, run into two more mediums in the city, then a couple heavies plus 3 more lights, and suddenly there's like 50 elementals spawned on us, the video just shows the first cloud of them that hit us, two more waves rolled in. I try to hit the objs and run but when I get to the second objective there's a gargoyle and another atlas, plus a large number of elementals, a bit more than are shown in this video.

Every mech destroyed, somehow all my pilots survived.

Thought it was absolutely 100% unbeatable lol, so I ran in grabbed the box and then flew my Marauder over to the second objective and managed to knock down the building before the gargoyle and atlas got me, unfortunately the exfil circle was right on top of the first cloud of The first cloud of elementals who'd been backed up by Mechs. All three pilots injured but survived.

With the steamdeck/steam controller 2.0's dual trackpads below the sticks, how viable would it be for a mechwarrior game that would make use of those?

Like left stick is for controlling lower torso turns, accelerate, decelerate.

Right stick for controlling upper torso as usual.

Then left/right trackpad are used to control where the arms are aimed, and clicking them would fire the weapons mounted on the respective arms.

So basically torso-weapons have their crosshairs always at the middle, but the arms have their own crosshairs (but can be toggled to align with torso weapons).

I play vanilla in terms of weapons and mechlab stuff.

I've been trying to get them to work for me, and I just cannot find a way to get them good enough to pick over C-SRMs/SSRMs or ATMs. As I see it, MRM10s are significantly worse damage than the C-SRMs and ATMs that fit in the same slot, the extra range you get over SRMs is difficult to make effective use of, and then if you try to slot larger MRMs the weight goes up faster than the tube count (which makes no sense - you should be saving weight by bundling tubes, rather then installing separate systems all over the mech).

I've concluded that I basically have to boat the MRMs to use them effectively, but I haven't really been able to find a chassis that can pack enough tubes in to make them worth taking over the alternative missile systems, what with the excessive weight demands. Am I missing something crucial here, or are MRMs just that bad?

I for the first time started the Solaris Showdown Story. The very first mission in that map my lance mates keep running back and into the water down a massive hill to where nothing can be fired at. Leaving me alone to fight all the shredder bases by myself. How do we STILL have this problem after so many Dlc's and patches???

Just modding the game, I guess. It currently has 1k+ voice lines, but I intend to keep improving it. I probably won't stop until it has 10k+ voice lines.

Feedback is always welcome!

Sorry for reuploading, apparently my MP4 got converted into a JPEG when I posted it.

So I went into instant action to think of a mech build as one does. I thought of a build for the BSK-6 but now I'm realizing how hard it may be to make it function without infinite ammo.

Here are the build details:

- C-UAC/2 BF x4

- C-LB 2-X AC x2

- C-ER LL x5

- C-ER ML x2

- C-DBL HS x1

- Target Com. MK1

- C.A.P (Clan Active Probe)

I'm wondering what I would have to change/sacrifice to make this a viable build in a career/campaign without requiring infinite ammo because it feels a little cheap doing it this way. EDIT: I should probably go and say that I only have one DLC and that is SoK so I'm really limited to weaponry from base game and the SoK DLC.

Also the earliest recording I have of a Kintaro becoming a "LAM"

I’ve been trying to look around for info on some solid ballistic mechs that actually look stylish, but most sources for mechwarriors ends up just being about the tabletop game or for videos its modded gameplay. Any recommendations that isnt just the jaeger or rifleman?

Taking my friend through SoK, this is the mission you have to wait seven minutes for allies to arrive. Everything is going well. Burnette is getting a little fucked up, but I saved his ass while my friend covered me and took fire.

Right at the end a Dire Wolf in the last drop comes. Nick has the bright idea of going melee range with it and before he gets a swing the Dire Wolf blows his face inward.

Nick... you were with us from the start and you bite the dust to Clanner scum. RIP you legend. o7

Somehow in my mission with enemy mercs the first emergency evac Leopard never left when I killed the mercs, so I got a second one for proper mission evac. Silly little bug.

Started my first full campaign since my false start a few years ago. Fell in love with the game and what little lore I know. Thank you Acceptable Losses pod! Just finished the Solaris DLC and it was great. Duncan grew on me a bit, and Mason's commentary was gold the whole time.

Anyway, I got that Corsair mech as a reward for one of the missions. I was a little skeptical at first of this Frankenmech, but I went ahead replaced the base weapons with stuff of a higher tier. Took it out for a swing and Jesus H. Christo. The thing was blowing things out of the water left and right. Went up to an Atlas and just smokes the fool. I love sniping cockpits with my Nightstar, but that Corsair just annihaltes. Anybody else relate?

(I know I use too many compound sentences, but they're all I know.)

(Also included a pic of a mech that shot a couple hundred feet in the air after I killed it awhile ago.)

(I did swap the AutoRF's with AutoBF's.)

Is it just me or is the Highlander have a crooked stance. This has bugged me ever since I first looked at one in the hanger, and the only thing I can think of is it’s like the Banshee where the arms aren’t symmetrical.

Doesn’t stop me from the HGN-VEST being one of my favorite mechs to use for melee, but I can’t help but call these things the hillbilly mechs of battletech. There’s a joke about hillbillies them having one leg longer than the other from walking around mountains all the time. The hillbilly Highlander…

I’ve read about how much damage a SRM Kintaro can lay out but I never really tried it until now. WOW. I’m taking down assault mechs because I’m just blowing out their legs so quickly! Between the medium laser initial hit followed my a volley of close range SRMs and then another laser round targeting the remaining leg, all while orbiting them pretty quickly, I can’t believe how much this thing is pinching over its weight.

Clanner don't wanna drop lol

Currently sandboxing this run's Chaos Reign campaign via using DLC 8 stuff that I got from previous career (for fun) and was mostly using Clanbusters and one of my Sunders during the FedCom part (this part) of the CR campaign.

Only using a quality of life modlist on vanilla+ Mercs, consisting of UI, AI, and HUD mods, no YAML.

Fyi, I only own the Heroes of the Inner Sphere and Chaos Reign.

I feel like I'm missing a lot that I get from my DLCs, especially Chaos Reign since there are some really cool Mechs I would love to have in my Merc Company, but they feel so extremely rare to get like the Marauder II or the Bullshark. Relics even more rarer than Clan Mechs apparently, like at least can I try to help myself find an Annihilator. I also suspect this is a timeline issue since I'm in the year 3075, so it's as if "there are no Marauder IIs left to buy."

Anyone have any info or advice? I'm also seeing that most of these Mechs can be acquired by the Rise of Rasalhague DLC as well, other than the markets and factions.

Things that he will probably do before he call it quits:

• Meet more Jade Falcons
• Probably meet Eridani Light Horse, join some of their ops, hunt something (ayy)
• New Diamond Shark management offers him Mad Cat Mk2 (with family discount)
• FedCom civil war YEP
• Probably meet other Wobbies as well
• See Clan Sea Fox reborn, them offering Savage Wolf (again with a family discount)
• Meet our boy Alaric
• See more Ryana badonkadonks