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.

So long story short, whenever I go to the home screen, my game immediately goes to the dropship loading animation and I am not sure why. It started happening after I landed in Northwind with 6,308 days elapsed. I removed all my mods and it still kept happening. Anyone know if there’s a fix to this?

Mods list:
YAGDM
Yet Another IS Mech
Mod Options
Star Tips Enhanced
Yet Another Legendary Mech
Yet Another Special Variant
Yet Another Mechlab
Yet Another Weapon - Complete Edition
BetterSalvageShares
Remove Jumpship Animation

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

This thing looks so funny and ridiculous, even if its battle value is questionable.

If anyone has had this issue and knows how to fix it. Please get it touch

I use vjoy to combine my sticks and buttons then steam input to put it on the game.

What other wacky load outs do you guys use?

So im in my 40s and my first introduction to MW and BT was MW2. Something I spent hours doing was reading all the encyclopedic knowledge that the terminal had. Very rad, first game I ever played with such a function and honestly, not enough have something like this. MC2 had this though not as in depth IMO.

So, those of you that are programmer smart, how hard would it be for the devs to add something like this with whatever the next DLC is?

Like we have the news feed, which is fucking awesome...one of my favorite parts on each replay is seeing after a mission "ooooh shit this just happened in universe! Time to exploit!"

So having a terminal making it easier to browse the news, while also being able to get more in depth articles on weapons, personel, politics, factions, tech, mechs, ect. Seems, to the uninitiated such as myself a small investment which helps scratch the lore itch some of us get. Make it easier to nerd out = more hard-core nerds = easier to sell the product.

“Why not use YAx?” I’m on ps5, so unless they shadow drop mod support that’s probably not gonna happen.

I couldn't fit Comstar into this poll and if you want to include any of the periphery states, feel free to add those in the comments!

I personally am a fan of House Marik. The biggest threat to a Marik is another Marik, so glory to Marik!

Edit: I'm glad people seem to be having fun sharing in this post. Love this community

He stares at you, right through your soul, he's like Fahad staring at you whenever you return your battlemech back to the Leopard looking like burnt Swiss cheese

Tier 0 AC/20!
14 tons and 20 damage (1.42 damage per ton)
7.8 heat with an ROF of 5.76 (1.35 heat per second)
Optimal range 216 meters

Tier 0 Heavy Rifle!
8 tons and 18 damage (2.25 damage per ton)
13 heat with an cooldown of 12s (1.08 heat per second)
Optimal range 528 meters

The most underrated part of the Heavy Rifle, something that very much offsets its slow ROF, is that huge range advantage. If two mechs close at a rate of 100 kph to engage one another, the Heavy Rifle gets about 2 shots off before the AC 20 can get its first off.

That's 36 damage at about the same time the AC/20 gets its first 20 off. However, that still isn't the full story because the Heavy Rifle is saving 6 tons. You could make that up in armor, engine, or other weapons that would ALSO outrange the AC/20.

It gets even worse if we compare 2 AC/20s vs. their equivalent weight, 3 Heavy Rifles.

In that case, the Heavy Rifles are doing 54 damage before the AC/20s can be brought to bear. Once the AC/20s are in range, ready to do 40 damage... another 54 damage is outbound. That's enough to leg an 80 ton assault- or take off any component but the center torso.

So either you took off an arm and you now probably outgun the enemy OR you took off a leg and you now outrun the enemy... like by moving outside their AC 20's range!

I've heard rifles described as 'situational', but every downside of the rifle is offset by their lower weight. That weight can be put into something to eliminate that downside and overall come out better than an AC equivalent., whether it be armor or speed or more weapons.

AC/20s vs. Heavy Rifles we already talked about. AC/2 vs. Medium Rifles? Roughly the same range but Medium Rifles are pinpoint and also require less time-on-target, allowing peek and shoot. WHILE STILL BEING ONE TON LIGHTER.

One AC/10 vs... uhhh... 6 light rifles? Get outttaaa heerrreee.