You might wanna get some QoL mods. Especially things like saving Loadouts in Cold Storage, Repair bays, and other stuff like that.

Some tips for people who have not played this before (like Lord Pravus, long may he reign). Jumpjets give 80-90% functionality with the *first one*, so you can scrap most of them for extra armor. You'll still be able to slow a fall off a cliff and clear most walls but getting on top of building might be hard, you'll only want to try that with light or medium mechs regardless though so still a good trade. Armor arms and torso first, if the center torso dies so does your mech and the arms have most of the weapons... which get destroyed if the arm does and have to be bought separately. The enemy tends to aim center torso and while they will clip legs or hit the head with weapons like LRMs that spread out the hit area those areas will last longer with less armor. Ammo is heavy and can *explode* inside your mech if damaged (they have to get through your armor before there is any risk of this) so keep an eye on how much you use and consider bringing less. (A half ton of machine gun ammo will last two guns for most missions.) You are limited to a certain *total* tonnage for each mission, that means that if you carefully gather heavier mechs you can just bring two or three mechs but make them bigger and tougher. The AI will also pretty much just follow you around so expect them to stand around aimlessly if you stay at long ranges, LRM mechs and sniper mechs work best on Warzone or Beachhead missions with long sight lines, Assassinations and Raids tend to be tight maps where you need to get in close, prepare accordingly. Pilots have limited skill caps that are often lopsided, mechs that use only one or two weapon types instead of all three can let you get pilots with lopsided skill caps that will be better then their price point suggests. These bonuses apply even when a human is controlling a mech in co-op so this matters. Mechs sell for a lot and their value in shares is determined by their condition, more missing limbs will reduce the salvage share cost at the end of the mission but make them more expensive to repair. Mechs are considered destroyed if the center torso is destroyed, both legs are destroyed, the head is destroyed, or all weapons are destroyed. So if a mech keeps all it's weapons in it's arms blowing those off will kill it just as dead as the legs but removing the value of the weapons will make it cheaper to grab with shares. Unless on a scripted mission or gained by completing an optional side objective, all allied mechs will have no armor and all components at critical health, they *will* die and you get no benefit from saving them, so don't bother trying just enjoy the meat shields while they last. There is a low light vision mode and a larger full map you can bring up to use, set or learn the keys needed and make use of them on the rare night map or for planning your route between objectives. Beachhead maps *always* have enemy artillery but they don't always activate until you trigger the main objective. You can still destroy them before that point though so running around doing the optional objectives and blasting any artillery pieces you see can greatly reduce the mission difficulty when you finally do move in for the main objective.

As someone who fell in love with the Battletech turn-based game, I'm putting this one on my list, because I wanna drive some of those mechs I sent into battle.

Great introduction for this game for me. I used to play MechWarrior hardcore back in the day. Will definitely give this a look when the DLC drops.

I LITERALLY just re-watched your Battletech video!

Around half of the Atlas 100t weight is just armour, because of this it has two medium lasers in it's back to deter light mechs from going behind it.

Speaking of customisation and flamethrowers - Mechwarrior 2/3 (I forget) : Ghost Bear’s Legacy had some of the hardest old school gameplay challenges. If you completed the game without retrying a single mission (which required you to reset your computer, back then, IIRC) then you were entered into the trial of Bloodright for a Bloodname. It was fought using the actual, completely unfair rules that pitted you against ridiculous badasses, and I distinctly recall having to mod out my omnipods on my Kodiak(I was Ghost Bear, what other assault Mech would I take?) to energy slots, and fill it with flamethrowers to defeat one opponent I just could not beat. Actually, I may not have had the Kodiak. I recall some of the missions forcing you to bid light mechs and win against assaults to prove your badassitude. Either way, the winning tactic proved to be to charge to point blank range and fire 10+ flamers at my opponent, who immediately shut down a fraction of a second before I did, and we both sat there for ten seconds before their reactor cooled off only slightly before mine. Ah. Those were the days. Almost as good as some of my crazier builds in MWO. Which sadly, due to being multiplayer really suffers from setting breaking designs being the best.

This reminded me a lot of Titanfall 2. Forever in our hearts, never to be forgotten and always to be demanded for a sequel (p.s BT is totally still alive)

Happy to see MW5 Mercs getting some more attention with DLC5 coming up and the new game MW5 Clans (a more linear story campaign based release) coming sometime in 2024. Its not a perfect game, but its a whole lot of fun and they've at least been continuing to update, add content (both free and paid DLC), and squash bugs/fix issues. For some info with anyone looking at it. Its co-op playable, its crossplay with console, only the host has to own the DLC (you are joining the host's save game) for everyone to access it in that co-op game, and this game has hours of replayability to do things differently, take a ton of procedurally generated missions, and travel across the map to play for/against plenty of different factions/mechs. The DLC is completely unneeded to enjoy the game, but it sure does make it a lot more fun and adds a bunch of content.

Praise Pravus! Love me some good old Mech action, would like to jump into a Marauder or Timber Wolf again.

I would love to see a series with this game, maybe with AI improvements and some other QoL mods.

Oh hey this game is awesome, haven't played in awhile but it's always been super fun

So glad I'm not the only one who yells out PEWWWW when shooting things

So the trick with the AI (if you don't want/can't use mods) is to set up the weapon groups to the range you want the mech fighting at as group 1. The AI looks at its max range for group 1, then tries to get to it and fire, then it moves to weapon group 2 and does the same while group 1 is on cooldown, then keeps moving down the list until group 1 is off cooldown. If you put something like a MG in group 1, the AI will close to that range then NEVER SHOOT ANYTHING ELSE until it runs out of ammo. Setting up a missile boat with all the LRMs in group 1, then putting an AI on it will actually keep them out of harms way...somewhat.

Love this game so much. Was considering returning to it later this year once I'm done with my initial Starfield run.

Absolutely LOVE MECHWARRIOR 5 and MWO and battletech! More big stompy robots please!

I personally liked the campaign for it's start. You get a pretty good medium mech and can still do the dlc stories. And most importantly you end up with the Nightstar, a mech I can only assume they made a mere hundred of, and most of those went with the SLDF into exile.

I dont know why I do it, but I always call Rasalhague, house Hasselhoff for the funsies.

It's always fun to play in the Heavy and Assault class mechs, and with each DLC, they add new variants and Hero 'Mechs to the lineup. I ran a mission with all Hero 'Mechs, and it was a blast. Agincourt needs more missiles, and any ballistics based 'Mech needs more dakka

Get that sponsor money buddy! I always play these in the background with no sound for you man yeeeeeeeeeeeah

Uh, I dun think it was your AI companion in the Commando being accident-prone.. I think it was the 2-or-more AC-20 shots up close from that hunchback. XD

I've spent way too much time and money on Mechwarrior Online; but I desperately hope a competent developer gets a shot to do a Mechwarrior Online 2.

This is a great video. I just got this game and I have been HOOOOOOKED. I just got my first Hunchback 4P and that mech should not be allowed to brawl with the mechs that it does. I got mine loaded down with just straight up 9 tier 5 Medium Lasers, it shreds amror of everything leaving mechs open to your heavies and assaults.

I agree with you, Atlas It’s quite disappointing they never gonna give you a long time canon AK for descendent of the Gustavo came from Germany during World War II. Oh my my German, and in Steiner feelings started kicking

Looking at this after playing Armored Core is like playing with legos after clay molding. Still wonderful, but very different

Love this game beat it and have all hero mechs and all achievements

I think the dad was a clan spy. Hope they put in a clan invasion dlc.

Ghost Bears Legacy was the peak of Mechwarrior. Anything since is a bit ordinary.

Pravus, if you also like Legos, then can I suggest Mobile Frame 0 to you? It's an awesome DIY miniature game that is a lot of fun.

Ive got MW5 for PS4 with a few DLCs when it cane out. I know with mods it could be better but I think it works very well on console with no mods. The FPS can drop in massive battles and in uban maps though.

keep in mind repairing and refitting mech in conflict zones will take longer and expensive so i advise you to stay out of conflict areas if you want to spand less C-Bills

The story is essentially a direct copy of the SNES MechWarrior

If you grab the TTRulezAi mod it makes the lancemates less stupid

I wonder if Pravus plays this with MKB, Controller or something else

Let's go

I want to see a play through sir ❤

When will I be able to play as Clan Jade Falcon?

you should play Project Wunderwaffe

This is going to sound hella controversial but: I prefer Chromehounds. The mechs felt like they had an actual weight to them, and while the Story mode wasn't the best, the online mode was brilliant. I still miss that game.

MECHS!! But when Rimwolrd?

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AC6 and Battletech are my first introductions to mechs. Though, after playing AC6, I'm not sure I'd enjoy this game. It got really mixed reviews. Is this worth a buy or should I wait for a sale with the DLCs?

Campain mode sounds great to me and is why i am buying the game pvp is not for me i am visually impaired :)

Pravus should play more democracy 4. i would love to see a hardest difficulty america run. day 249

Guy needs to play mechwarrior 2-4

So, that means, you have to get the game. Then you get yourself two DLCs. And then you get yourself some mods to deal with the idiotic AI. And then you can play a shooter.

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Is it possible to enjoy Mechwarrior 5 as a casual, 1 hour a day gamer that doesnt want to get indepth with any systems or game mechanics?

ive got a few thousand hours into MW5. here are pretty much all you need to know to be good in MW5. 1) once your pilots have the 'elite' tag, the 'brawler' AI is pretty good. they'll follow orders and hit what you tell them to. if you dont want to them to do something stupid, just use F1+F3 to tell them were to stand and fight. it is up to you to give them mechs with loadouts that deal damage quickly and force them to pilot the way you want them to, aka dont give them stupid mech builds. if you give them a mech with too many different weapons with to many different optimum ranges, they'll struggle to do any one thing well. the AI will use whatever weapons you give it, and prioritize using the weapons in the first few weapon groups. these ARE NOT sub-optimal mechs. MWO is about cheesing your builds to be a toxic troll shit head that says GG Close. MW5 is about giving your pilots what they need to survive in a battlefield that is changing and throwing different things at you at any given moment. 2) put supercharger, MASC, or maximum jump jets in every mech. i prefer JJ for 'my' mech, but the AI uses the hell out of SC/MASC to flank and avoid taking damage. i'm not even amazed any more when my 54/60 lancemate dude in a KTO-19 with LRMs, SRMs, and Med Lasers and SC, or my girl in a QKD-5A with 5 Med Pulse, 1 SRM4 and 5 JJ, does 2k damage and takes almost none in return. a few JJ will get you off the ground, but 7 JJ will push you over 200kph and make you almost unhittable by the elite enemy pilot AI. same with your lancemates. dont skimp on JJ. one or two JJ is some MWO min/max cheese that doesn't do shit in MW5. 3) dont use Ferro Fibrous armor. ever. pointless, expensive, and wastes time. 4) heavier mechs are slow mechs, they take too much damage, cost too much to repair, and take too long to repair. 40-60 ton mechs have the optimum speed/firepower for the way most of the missions work in MW5. dont fall into the trap of thinking you need bigger mechs to do all the toughest missions. 200-240 tons is all you should ever need for the 400T missions. congrats, you are ready to win at MW5. solo all the DLC content in an ASN-21 and get back to me.

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mw5 is 100x or 1000x better with mods

The AI is critically moronic to the point i am suspecting it was deliberatly made by the devs. In my lance they constantly walk in my line of fire and sit there. If i go left to manouver around them they go left. If i go right they go right. And it is not because they are in formation. They do this even if i am not moving! I've seen better AI in games in the 90ies.

Day 48 of asking for HOI4 TNO

I wish they would just get rid of that stupid dialogue pop up above the crosshair