Honestly, this felt more like Splat showing us his cool, new toy. He talks with such enthusiasm. I'm here for it. This is a great game.

"We don't talk about the Charger" "I beg your pardon?" - Charger 1A5

The Battltech/MechWarrior universe is one of my favorite Sci-Fi universes. It is underappreciated, especially given the depth of the universe. So glad you like the title. Excited for the clan release!

I don't think I've put 300 hours into gaming this year overall. I'm slipping, I think I need an intervention.

Ah love MW5. Mods make it absolutely incredible.

"Hippidy hoppidy, get off my property." - old Taurian proverb Splat, would be awesome to see you play some tabletop Battletech

I've been a battletech/mechwarrior fan since the 80's. I still have the books that had the old Robotech models that were eventually phased out due to bad blood between the Macross distributors. I really need to play Mechwarrior 5 more, and I'm looking forward to their Clan release as well.

Definitely didn't expect Mechwarriors 5 on this channel! I've had a lot of fun with it, especially with mods. Coyote recently updated his mod, and it's been great playing with the fighters and of course getting them in the first place

I've been always more into the simple FPS games, but since I've tried MW5 I got hooked. I love that you can be an FPS focused player, and can enjoy it, but as soon as you get to the more complex Mechs, you should use your tactical knowledge instead. I loved the learning curve as well! I've already got all the DLCs and I can't wait the Clan Wars one to come out. Good vid by the way!

I've got like a hundred battletech/mechwarrior books that span like 500 in universe years. Absolutely love the universe.

MW5 with the YAWC mod: Cram as many Clan LMG pods (or MGs or HMGs for that matter) onto your Urbanmech as you can. Outfit it with the largest engine it can handle reasonably. Then install a Supercharger or MASC unit, and finally some ammo and whatever weight you have left over goes to armor (hardened, preferably). I think I fit 13x CHMGs on mine, with about 6500 rounds or so of ammo...which doesn't last long at all. You now have an assassin, capable of running 130 Km/H and absolutely demolishing the toughest Atlas in the galaxy. Sprint toward them, aim at the cockpit, and unleash all guns at once. It's my favorite stupid build to play, and it murders--just don't get hit by the big guys! Alternatively, regular or ER-Flamers are nasty too. Just like the MGs, they have no bullet drop or travel time, and instantly bake the pilot to death. Either one of these builds is perfect for salvaging enemy mechs, as there is minimal damage to the rest of its parts. Shout out to my favorite hero mech, the Anansi Spider (SDR-A) with two AMS slots and a normal top speed of 129 Km/H, along with jump jets. Absolute terror on beachhead missions while the rest of the bois are running Cyclops, Atlas, or other Heavy and Assault mechs; the Anansi is running around nailing those artillery cannons while the rest take out the trash.

Always happy to see BT get some love in any form. I don't have a PC I can play any of the games on, so I'm stuck with MW5 on a console with their DLC, but it really screams for mods.

Man, the Mechwarrior 3 demo I got from a PCGamer magazine was what introduced me to the BattleTech franchise. I think that might be the reason my favorite mech is, still, the Bushwacker.

I tried getting mods to work shortly after the first expansion dropped and it was causing all sorts of issues that scared me off them. Seeing all of yours running so smooth makes me excited for the next time I dive in!

the last DLC right now is freaking awesome. Hearing Duncan Fisher again is beautiful. Granted, I never stopped hearing him thanks to Blackpants Legion, but still having him in a game again is great.

40k could be cashing in on the "mech" or "mecha" genre with making a "Warhammer 40,000: Adeptus Titanicus" but they don't understand the term "Limited Lease Liscensing"

Dude I love that you basically made a well-armored, 95 ton Jagermech.

I've been playing Mechwarrior/Battletech since the C64 days and except for Mechwarrior 1 on the PC (missed it), I loved every one and was even happier that the series was continued. I now have over 1200 hours and several runs (unmodded/modded) in MW5.

"They got rid of the Genoeva Convention like 400 years ago because it made war-criming really, really inconveniet." 🤣

Wasn't aware of the modscene for this game. I guess it will be another example of "mods so good they made me buy that game" like happened to me a few times....

Listening to you talk about this game and world absolutely made me go buy it and all the dlc. I would love to watch much more MechWarrior content from you

Our DropShips peal out thunder, shrieking down through cloven skies; As a planet's grim defenders gather in a host to die; Then open hatch! Forward men! Enemy in sight! They're closing now, the battle's joined. All 'Mechs prepare to fight! Our heavy 'Mechs deliver volleys stroke on burning stroke; As the company advances through the battle fog and smoke. Now open fire! Target lock! Deploy the Recon Lance! Then it's blasting guns and stabbing beams as Battlemechs advance!

Dude I think it would be amazing if you could make a series out of this game. I know it's not your main form of content but this was such a good watch IMO and would love to see more.

This game is like a giant Costco bucket of macaroni and cheese in game form. It's not at all sophisticated, it will make you feel sick and destroy your ability to poop right. But then one day you're going to find yourself craving that fake cheese sauce and a giant heap of carbs.

I do love the fact that we're finally seeing the "unseen" mechs again - marauders, phoenix hawks, all of the Robotech models that Harmony Gold was complaining about for many years... marauders and warhammers ftw :D

Tex does tons of crazy detailed video content explaining lore or history in mechwarrior on the blackpantslegion channel. This includes a new to battletech tutorial style video and plenty on the mechs.

Serious sleeper hit! I was BLOWN AWAY by how much I fell in love with this game. It has the hook of Call of Duty multiplayer (basic kill your enemies ad infinitum) with a SUPER DEEP management sim. Not a perfect game by any stretch but MAN is it fun. I must have invested 300+ on my PS4 and now I started over on the PC with mods and its like a whole new game! Looking forward to adding some Timberwolves and Mad Dogs to my collection now!

2:55 If you`re playing with the YAML mod, where you can change the engine, there`s absolutely nothing wrong with the Charger. An assault that you can loot early game, with 7 energy hardpoints. This as your main mech, while having 3 urbies (that are super tanky for their weight) for the AI, and you can dominate the early-mid game.

Hey Splat, I've been playing Battletech/Mechwarrior games for just about as long as you, they are some of my favorite games. I do so love stomping around in a giant death machine and laying waste to all the things! The TTRPG version is much fun as well.

I love how excited he is to share! Might give mechwarriors a try myself. Always love watching your videos.

Just starting with this after your last vid, and the mod list is REALLY useful - cheers Splat.

Love this game and although I know it all I'm absolutely here for it. Keep preaching Splat

Yesssss this game rocks with mods. I discovered Mechwarrior and Battletech for myself a couple years ago and I fell in love instantly, so I am 100% for getting this game some more attention.

Just impulse bought this! Thanks for alleviating the "was buying this a mistake" anxiety while it downloads.

Haha. Splatty, *none* of your viewers are going think you're chasing another hit with this video. If they released Cooking Mama Mechwarrior Edition you'd buy a Switch before the trailer was finished. I love this. It reminds me of being a teenager and excitedly showing stuff to friends.

Yeah dude! I've been playing since MW2 as well. A friend of mine had access to a commercial printer and he would take beautiful screenshots of these horribly low poly mechs with barely any textures and basically make posters for all his friends walls.

One thing worth mentioning is that once you install yet another mechlab make sure to look at the panel for it in main menu because by default it sets the enemy hp to 3x… I’ve played yesterday and was wondering why is the main campaign so punishing and didn’t notice that… I only noticed that because I’ve checked yt for tips for beginners and some guy played first mission and was one shooting most enemies when for me it took 2-3 salvos with all weapons. So yeah, make sure to adjust that.

I love hunting Hero mechs, it keeps me coming back for more. Just added the Atlas Boars Head, giddeup! (Grind War Dog, +15% speed is good on every Mech in the game)

My journey with the Battletech/Mechwarrior started with 3. I remember watching that opening cut scene for the first time and being beyond floored. I had to have watched that scene at least 1 times before I even started playing.

Battletech is to WH40k the way Star Trek is to Star Wars. By that I mean one is SciFi and the other is SciFan and they're both great IPs overall.

The Cicada is a precious bean! The Charger and all its variants can go rot though lmao!

I reinstalled this because of seeing all the mods Splat had and remembering how fantastic this game is WITH mods specifically. Love MW games since the 90s as a kid, too. Leave it to the community to make a mediocre game in the franchise into the best modern MW game out there. You modders are the absolute best ❤

"The Cable Company is the most scary", lol, nice one

With the YAML mods, the Cicade variant that has 4 ballistic slots (I think it's the CDA-3C) can mount four clan light machine guns. Loaded up with a bunch of ammo, armor, and an up-sized XL engine you can zoom around the battlefield just chewing everything up. I kept that thing well into the realm of Assault 'mechs because it was ridiculously good against everything but VTOLs.

I do feel like the only way you can play this game is modded, and I remember trying this back in 2022 and it was a really fun. Now with my hearing loss it's still cool to play but not quite the same because it's the radio chatter, the environmental sounds like the mechs and the guns that really bring to life the game. Anyways thanks for the video Splat I do love hearing you waffle on about things you enjoy.

This video got me into mechwarrior for the first time ever. I play on console unfortunately but I plan to move to pc for mods eventually. Thanks for putting this on my radar splattercat.

Right then, got this game during christmass as i wanted to give myself something, and been using your mods and a few more... i have lost 147 hours in this fudging game so far and i aint stopping, Marauders all the way baby! And some awesomes too, gotta love a good PPC machine.

Mech Warrior is one of those old near an dear classics they hardly miss.... sooo many memories playing Mech 1 an Mech 2 in the early 90s as a kid ugh Nova/Gargoyle so much fun

I've been playing battletech for years now and played the old mechwarriors, but had no idea the newest one looked this good I may have to scoop it on up thanks for showing it off

I was a new father when Mech Warrior came out. I tried to play it on my first computer, but I just never had the time to really put the time in that was needed. I might have to think about checking out MW5 now that I am a lonely old man. :D

If anyone wants to listen to documentary quality and above content on Mechwarrior lore, look up Tex at the black pant legion, his thesis on the warhammer and hunchback are legendary.

Splatt we love your Mechwarrior addiction

"I just keep modding and adding more stuff to it" - yep, sounds like a typical battletech/mechwarrior experience ;)

Don't forget MechWarrior Online. It's the PvP F2P partner to MechWarrior 5. MWO is probably the best it's ever been right now, and just added the Longbow to the roster of mechs. Plus, it has a hell of a competitive scene.

So, I watched the two videos you posted about what MW5 did to you and I don't even know if I should thank you or... Not only that I've put like 56.7 hours in 2 weeks in MW5 (of wich 50% was probably just adding mods, tweaking and balancing the experience) but also got really crazy about the Battletech universe and its subculture. Somehow, even tho I am past 45 and played thousands of games, I missed it entirely. I really needed something of this amplitude to spice my free time so, yeah, cool, thanks. I am a big fan of games (and not only) with a lot of depth and considerable amounts of theorycrafting, especially if that is a part of a preexisting universe of sorts. This game in its modded version really fits the bill. It is like crack... Thank the universe that my job is in the same video games area, or else I think I would have needed some serios amounts of time off...

Splat... You have an artistic gift for describing basic things! Well done! 🧐

Great video! I'm just getting back into MW5 since release and the updates since then have completely changed the game! I'm absolutely loving it. I'm having trouble getting all the mods listed in your description to work. YAML seems to be giving me the most issues. Are you using the mod loading tool that's available or just the mod settings in the game?

One of the best things about BattleTech/MechWarrior is the rules are compatible over the whole 40 years the game has been developed. There has been errata along the way, and every few months seems to see a new piece of equipment or whole new unit released, but it is still largely recogniseable. This means that you can open a campaign sourcebook printed over thirty years ago, give it a look over if it seems cool or not, then just sit down and play it. Other gaming companies (I shall not name them) take a different approach, and decide to release whole new versions every couple of years, completely invalidating everything that has come before, in what is a simple and obvious cash-grab. The people who make BattleTech actually like the game and the setting, and it shows.... ...for the most part. Don't mention porches on the official forum.

I only started getting into Battletech with MWO, and boy did I love that game despite all the hate it got. Those few games where I ended on a terrible team that gets wiped out, only to clutch a 1v12 are still the highlights of my gaming life. especially when I did it in a *Centurion*.

Dope. Dope, as in Pope. Dope Pope! This continuously looks awesome, and I kinda want to play it.

I started the Mechwarrior series on a Tandy 1000TX. I was excited to find MWO and well over 4500 hours in play time. I picked up MW5 and all the DLCs plus hundreds of mods with over 460 hours. I love the customization and the variety of missions. I have a tendency to play scorch earth on missions. I figure if I'm called in, the bad guys need to go and not come back!

Ooooooh this looks like too much fun to miss out on!!!

You mentioning that mw is something you can always comes back to reminds me of starminer, an ancient game that came on a demo disk (eforce? eforces?) in the 90s. It was simple but enjoyable, and impossible to find these days. I consider Delta V to be its truest modern successor. Anyway, thanks for introducing so many games to us over the years.

I’ve never been able to get a cicada to work, but turning the charger into a pure speed/melee build is fun.

You're commentary is underrated and hilarious

ah that Great House view of the star league is great to hear because it makes my inner Periphery person laugh and laugh and laugh while fortunate sun plays.....

Came for Splats latest awesome video, and I'm a huge fan of MW5. However, I definitely cheered at the Sabaton reference. One of my absolute favorite bands!

Didn't know I needed splattercat lore videos, but now I do

Mods for this game are so freaking fun. Got so many hours into it.

@Splattercatgaming After watching this video or maybe the prior one, I bought the game and the first 3 DLC. Tried playing through the campaign and just was a very frustrating experience and I uninstalled. Recently I reinstalled and just went career mode.. and I'm having a blast. So basically thanks for getting me to buy the game, even if it did take me a couple tries and quite a bit of time to actually get into it!

Man, MW2 and Ghost Bear's Legacy + a Microsoft Sidewinder went HARD. I had so much fun with those games. MW3 was great, I actually trialed for my boss's MW4M clan before me got me into WoW. After MW Online, I'm really happy with how MW5 turned out. I'll have to fire it up again and slap on some mods. Life-long Timber Wolf/Mad Cat fan.

Hey nice to see you playing this is also have aloooottt of hours in this game its awesome. always bin a fan of battletech even run in a clan on MWO in the really begining. This game is awesome with modes

I agree with Splat about MW5. I've been playing since the day it arrived on Steam and have almost the same mods as what was shown here today. Multiplayer is an amazing experience if you have even somewhat experienced lancemates. At this point we can run specialized mechs (fire support, melee, etc) and run through contracts relatively quickly. I'd suggest playing the original story in vanilla, then mod MW5 to be the game you want.

Haha, the enthusiasm! So geeky. ^^ Game looks great btw. :)

I love that you included your modlist it makes it easier to find hidden must haves without having to cycle through dozens of pages in utter boredom lol

Love Mechwarrior and western style mech combat in general. Played a ton of hours with buddies. Quite a bit of fun.

Put respect on the chargers name mr splattercat, before I kick your car into the next state with my hot-rodded, supercharged charger

I appreciate this love for Battletech/Mechwarrior..., but lore-wise, you are somewhat off the charts.

Star Citizen has Cockpit Glass mod in vanilla, like it already has those features. You have to press a button to wipe your helmet in extreme environments. There is some customization but not quite as much as Mech games. It's still in Early Access but there is talk of a release by the end of 2024. Squadron 42 is a single player version of Star Citizen and will be releasing before the MMO, if anyone is interested in that.

I love playing this in VR with a hotas setup, best immersive mech game out there!

I love this game so much, and can never reccomend it enough - its a solid 9/10

8:35 THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!

Thanks for the mech showcase! ^^

Battletech, Mechwarrior, Also see, Black Pants Legion.

As someone who could probably teach a university level course on the history of any Successor State or major Periphery state, I love your approach to it.

I recently got this during the Black Friday sale on steam and Holy Guacamole am I addicted, I'm playing it so much i'm losing sleep lol

Ammo. Legs. Always. The only time your ammo isn't in your legs is if Ferro or Endo is preventing you from putting it there. After, it depends on how tanky arms are, if I can split ammo between them and what other weapon systems I have. With an Urbie, I might get cheeky and put it in the CT/Head. It depends on how many Lights I'll be up against. Everyone laughs at an Urbie, but that starts to become nervous when their little MLs take forever to even weaken armour. It ends when your AC/20 takes their Shadow Hawk's head off.

"Tinkerer delight" - gotta remember how my favourite genre actually called :D

Oh dear sir... I was not aware that you are a Mech enthusiasts as well.. I clocked about the same hours in this fantastic game.

I had a loadout that was insanely devastating for MW3. Basically jump jet right into the enemy and unleash 10 to 15 medium pulse lasers all synced to one key, with every other slot being heat sinks and one LRM 20 for fun. It could destroy any mech within one second.

Thx for the mod list! Can you also share detail on some of your preferred mech builds?

I just recently reinstalled Battletech because I was getting the MW itch and I was getting impatient waiting for Rogue Trader to drop. Was already considering starting a new MW5 run with some mods once I'm done with RT. It's such an exquisite game. I would not at all be mad about dropping biannual "Yep, still playing and loving the heck out of MW5" videos.

Really looking forward to the Clan Invasion expansion. Back to my MechWarrior Clan roots!

In between your last video and now, somebody finally released a tool so that I can play the game with my dual-stick setup. It's everything I wanted and more. And I haven't even started messing around with mods, yet.

Mechwarrior 2 was my first mechwarrior as well. I don't recall what I originally played it on, but I remember sinking hours into that game.

I'm unsure about the Geneva Conventions in the BT universe, but they actually made rules of war which were supposed to prevent large scale warcriming (Ares Conventions). They then decided to ignore them because rules are less fun than galactic domination. Also, autocannons are not machineguns >:(

@1:57 LGB-0W : I must have made a wrong turn at Albuquerque. Where am I ? *_THE FRONT LINES?!_* Oh shiiiiiii

Thank you. Because of this vid I reinstalled this and modded it up. It's super intense

Ayo Mechwarrior and a Real Monsters reference? Quality content.

Ive played around 200 hours this year on MW5: Mercs. On XBX. All the DLC , Vanilla. No mods available on XBX. Love the game. Kitaros are heat beasts.