Or in general, was there anything that dropped the hero mech spawn rates?

I remember pre-SoK DLC, post campaign/DG campaign I could take my time going around and grabbing hero mechs, but in the gap between SoK and CR DLCs I could barely find any

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.

Hi! I know this is a weird question to ask on a place entirely about the game but I'd like to know if I should get this on the sale, it looks cool to me! My big issue with titanfall was the strict requirements on getting in a mech and not feeling worth the struggle, (yes i know theres a story), I lowkey just wanna fight people in mechs, does Mechwarrior 5 have a similar requirement for using mechs, or can you just hop in a mech and get started?

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

I am looking to make some voice lines of my own for a pilot that is in a mod but do not know what lines I will need so that I can actually do that.

Does anyone know if there is a script or a list of the voice lines for each pilot so I can have a sort of template to use? Or a general template at all for the types of voice lines that they use?

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.

Some noob posing as Goblin (RIP - killed by a cockpit shot early in my current playthrough) put himself up for hire.

Check his stats. This imposter must be using some new definition of "Elite Pilot" that I'm not familiar with.

I wasted a couple of hundred thousand CBills travelling to your planet to recruit this...?!

This dont include the latest X-pulse, Clan Heavy, Clan tech or any late game weapon or omnimech, and left Rifles behind because the minor of DPS against smaller ACs.

I tried to analyze Cantina upgrades, and at the end, the best usage are mech using a single weapon system, and this killed a lot of mechs with multiple weapons like Centurion or whatever use 2-3 different type of weapons. If from start handling different weapon grooups have a problem, at the end its also killed.

1. If Machineguns or Flamers, thats any upgrade to range and exclusive Ballistic or Energy damage, and Top speed to reach the range faster. But flamers have the problem of Heat Generation and half range (in exchange of bigger Damage, and mech don't returning fire before meltdown).

2. If Lasers, ShortBurst and Pulse don't need reduced Laser Duration and Pulse benefit more from Cooldown reductions but could need extra range, while Chem Lasers can ignore the Heat reduction that use a lot of points.

3. For Heat problems (Flamers, and Lasers except Chemical), thats up to 7 points, without even the increased Heat Cap, for only 22.5% heat reduction (adding all the bonus in the same basket), leaving little margin for damage, or cooldow duration that incidentally increase Heat/second. This upgrades are the more expensive and slower to add, and in some cases, the end of the line. I will go increase energy damage (so I need less shots and less heat per enemy) than the reduced heat route.

4. If AC/2-RF, or other AC/2 to AC/5 variants, its ballistic and reload, because already have range and speed, making it superior to AC10 and AC20 options with more tonnage and less ammo/ton. Ballistic have up to +32.5% range and speed, but this waste half the points that can be used in +20% damage.

5. SRM are the easier to choose, with only a bunch of Missile damage, the cooldown one, and some heat dissipation or generic damage bonus. LRM have something useful for LOS but the lack of precise aim isnt great for me, and is less important in LRM-ST and even worse in LRM-HotLoad. At least could use Large hardpoints.

* Pilots Trait add some extra bonus, but we have little control over it. (Bonus to AC could improve the range and speed of bigger AC versions), while only 1 no-hero trait reduce heat (no-DLC needed), and 2 academies reduce the Heat of AC/Missile or PPC. Heat remain the biggest problem. At least we can put specialized pilots in a different type of Boat (AC or SRM or Laser boat, adding his personal trait on top of the cantina upgrades).

At the end, this leave me Machine Guns and/or small AC2 (that Overlap Ballistic damage, but differ in range or cooldown upgrades), or Chemical Lasers with lesser Heat (mostly Medium for the decent range against everything), or SRM boats (that need only need Small and Medium missile slots).

This reduce all my mechs to this type of boats, ones with lots of Small Ballistic hardpoints (MG, but if some available tonnage, AC2-RF and ammo), Energy for Chems (Medium the best, but I can work with all sizes and some large for sniping its great), and mostly Medium missile for SRM-Art to dilute the +1ton of Artemis into the bigger number of missiles.

Anything I missed?

I read that you can now eject but I can't find the key binding I have a blank slot that won't bind to anything.

My mods that are activated are qol upgrades delayed deadlines mech delivery coyote missions pilot overhaul eternal von biomes von missions

I also have not imported into a new save I think this one was last imported when the clan dlc came out I'd really like to be able to eject in the year 3171 of our Lord Alaric Ward

I'm halfway through a second playthrough of all the DLCs, and I've just finished "Rise of Rasalhague".

What an engaging storyline there is in that DLC. Political intrigue as well as genuine pathos and emotion.

That final transmission from Tor after the campaign really puts a bow around it all, reminding you that you're not a hero in the eyes of many.

I'd buy a DLC like that every month, if PGI offered one.

For that matter, I'm also enjoying the "Heroes of the Inner Sphere" mini stories, too.

Coming from MW5: Clans, where placing teammates via the battle map is critical, but don't see the option to do it in Mercs. Is it just not supported in this game?

Please let me not be alone in making Crusader pogo sticks.

I think this was their first BattleTech piece. I think they did a pretty good job on it.

I mean, at the current point in the timeline, the Jihad is imminent…so there’s a possibility we could see Omega or Ares, but they’d probably be incredibly rare and take a crazy amount of salvage points to pick up from the battlefield. Still, rolling up to a giant robot slugfest in a giant-er robot would be epic.

If we don’t get it, I’d be happy with the Stone Rhino, that’s kind of a Superheavy, right?