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How do you complete the "pick on someone your own size" penance? I don't even see it available.

... perfect; yes. Lovely video!

I think the piranha isn’t a good choice for new players. If I were to recommend a 20 tonner the flea is a good choice, its a very strong mech rn, and it teaches how to play mechs with very high agility, speed, and masc, since those are all very important in todays meta. Though it might be difficult at first for a newer player to get used to so maybe more of an intermediate mech. If I had to recommend something it would probably be the firestarter A I believe it is, tanky, teaches poptarting, and has backup small lasers. And the masc urbie, tanky, and teaches masc. I would also put the phoenix hawk 7S up there as a good choice, although not a light it plays fairly similarly to one, it teaches poptarting, and also teaches masc, it has very good mounts, and small laser backups. The bushwhacker is a very good choice for dakka, I think I would recommend the X1 instead. But I would also add the Hunchback IIC A, which is very good for laservomit The marauder is a good mech but I feel like MRMs won’t teach as much as something like laservomit or dakka. I would probably recommend something like a timber wolf S, or a black knight 6b, both are fairly tanky the black knight even more so, but the timber gets ecm, both also are pretty fast for heavies. I might even put the exe here as well even though it’s an assault it teaches masc, and poptarting, and has backups, and it’s fast enough that it kind of plays like a super tanky heavy. And I probably would have put an assault or two here since most assaults play much different the everything else, and kind of are a completely different beast then everything else in most cases. I would probably recommend the Mad Cat MK II B for dakka, and the Stalker 7D for laservomit, both are fairly tanky, and are decently fast, and have good mounts.

I reapectfully disagree on the mech choice for the medium and the weapons on the heavy option. I think that the centurion would be a better learning tool for beginners due to it having a wider toolkit for weapons and its shield arm will reinforce on how to spread damage. And for the maruader i think that using something like lazers/ppc's would be a better option to teach newcomers about heat management since its overall strength can make up for mismanaged heat and still fight hard. Overall though i think the idea gets out very well

full murdermode Urbie just warms my heart

Epic

I've never seen a piranha being played so well by someone. You actually move faster around the enemy than they can rotate their torso on you. Amazing

any long range support with lasers and LRM, madcat II will be perfect

I think I also would have prioritized mechs with the 50% bonus C-Bills.

Replace the Piranha with the Crab 27 and I would agree with this list

Bushwacker is really good mech but my favorite is Viper. Viper is not easy to use but once you master it it is really good mech. I like to play custom Viper with 9 heavy small lazers for hit and run tactics fully utilizing my mobility.

Why the kitfox wasen't here? :o

I wouldn't recommend a knife-fighting 20 ton mech. They require mastery of situational awareness, aiming and piloting. The melee dance is something few players, even experienced ones, can pull off effectively and most players just get deleted immediately. Your other suggestions are great but for a light, something like the wolfhound or incubus are more forgiving.

I really don't like these recommendations. The Piranhas are all VERY high skill floor mechs that require patience and good circling. The new light mech player wants to learn battle flow and escape routes, so something that can play at 400-600m and has some armor bonuses to make it more forgiving is a much better pick. I'd suggest the ACH-Prime with 2 heavy larges, a Spider 5D with 2 ERLLs, or maybe a wolfhound or a raven with 3, though a new player may find the lack of jump jets annoying. I definitely like your choice of medium, and the MRM vomit Marauder's not a bad pick for a heavy either, but frankly a lot of heavies will work. Anything that can play at mid range, and has good shield arms to encourage the new player to torso twist and use that torso speed is exactly what you want to teach with. I also agree with not putting newbies in assaults.

its not really about mehcs but ppl play like noopbs go one flank yolo leave team behind and ur team lose.

In my opinion best mech for a new player is Hellbringer prime. Ecm + Laser Vomit and good speed. I dont remember but I think mine has: 2 large pulse laser and 3 medium laser.

XL engine Bushwacker for a new player...? Good way to get blown up fast for noobs who don't know how to avoid/spread damage.

I'm not a new player, but it's nice to see content made with integrity

I would also suggest anything with a high velocity bonus, makes it easier to aim which can be awkward due to tank controlls.

Excellent video! thank you

Background: I'm a dedicated light jock (~30% of matches) who's consistently ~97% percentile on Jarl's List. Just to be clear that I have a little bit of an idea what I'm talking about. I would strongly advise against new players buying *any* 20t light as their introduction to the class. 20-tonners have a much higher skill floor than most lights, just as lights in general have a higher skill floor than heavies or assaults. If someone is playing MWO as their first MW experience they're going to lack the mechanics and game knowledge required to keep it alive. 20t lights are also the most desperate for XL+ES+FF+DHS due to their extremely restricted tonnage, which makes them a much more expensive prospect than the chassis price indicates. They also tend to be very range-restricted. You can technically run 6xML on some, but new players will cook themselves with that. My personal pick for "I want a fast, small skirmishing light" for new players would be an OSR-4D. You can run 6xML or 6xSPL with an XL280 + extra DHS + 4JJ, or ditch some JJs for LAMS. You can even drop all the JJ and the extra DHS to fit a light engine. It's almost as fast and small as a 20t but can run a one-sided peek build with better range and more armor to boot. Other solid picks, as others have pointed out, are Wolfhounds and urbies. BSW and MAD are both solid new player options, but after you mentioned sticking to simpler weapons in the intro I'm not sure why you're recommending a UAC-favoring BSW. You *know* new players are going to spam-click the UACs and jam constantly. Something like a HBK-4G with 2x AC/5+3t ammo, 3x ML, LFE280, and full armor isn't exactly peak tier 1 meta, but it's simple and reliable, which is what new players need while learning core mechanics.

I did this but with the thanatos and light guass and a engine to give me speed. Never found boating LPPCs to be very good.

After you get practice with the Marauder 9m in landing the MRM missiles, it's SO fun, especially with the great shots you get being off radar. Fantastic mech. I did 1200 damage one game!

Piranah 2 allso know az assbalster

tbh its not Gauss or PPC ... it's Gauss and PPC and Large laser ... with 4 martell medium backups for when stuff goes south ... and dont forget the srm6 pair ... it's Called a sniper .... it's jb is to snipe enemy mechs specially command ones as it has plenty of room for 3c and targeting cockpit ...

I'd argue the gridiron can do it better with light gaussx2 but thananos isn't mech credits so this one is great if you won't spend real money

You are thinking of a sniper as just the standard sniper in most fps games, in mwo mechs that work like that provide very little impact on a game compared to other options. In MWO the role of a sniper is not to get sneaky kills without being seen but is actually to use range and lots of firepower to take over the map for their team by walling parts of the map off from other mechs making it so that the enemies cannot move positions without taking lots of damage, while simultaneously being able to trade with other snipers to stop the enemy team from taking over the map. This means that that having lots of firepower and armour is way more useful then stealth and speed, while ecm is very good, it is just as good for any mech and is not necessary for snipers. and you do not need stealth armour. All this means that the best snipers are actually assaults, since they have the most firepower, and armour, so that they can trade and control the map the best. And it is not a waste of tonnage at all for an assault to snipe, this misconception is way too common. For some examples of some actually good snipers if someone reading this is unsure of what to run, gauss erll or hag erll night gyr h, gauss erll or hag erll dire wolf, gauss erppc marauder 4l, light gauss erppc king crab kaiju, gauss erll or hag erll stone rhino 1 or 2, hag erll marauder IIC D, erll stalker 5s. There are other really good snipers these are just some of the best. and assaults and heavies aren’t the only good snipers but they usually are the best. The problems With the builds in the video. Thanatos doesn’t have nearly enough firepower with only 2 gauss, and the stealth armour is fairly useless, the stealth Thanatos is a meme build. if you wanna snipe with the Thanatos do either 2 gauss and 2 erll with ecm but no stealth armour, or 2 light gauss and 2 erppc with ecm and no stealth. The problem With the light gauss phoenix hawk is that it is way too heavy of a load out. If you wanna snipe with a phoenix hawk run the 7S with masc 2 erppcs and 5 small lasers. The lppc Phoenix hawk is a good build but it is not a sniper.

I think it is the Orion 1-VA or 1-V with amazing quirks towards missile heat. That thing can carry 2xMRM40 and 2 medium Lasers. Might be worth a look for beginners, too.

Ummmm why do it look mechwarrior 5 ?

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I'm trying to copy the medium build..but couldn't fit the ammo nor lower the armor to the same numbers here..is there something I'm missing?

Where is mech warrior 2 online with unreal engine 5?

Urbie 4tw

Is there a Piranha variant with the traditional machine guns? That could be fun

3rd person is seemly just situational, if you're somewhere that you need a better view of where you are now and dony need the map ay the moment sort of stuff

I ran Cent-9D, splat assassin. 110kph+, either ac5 or lb10xac, 2 medium lasers always, and the arm splat, srm4 if I recall. Around 50 Alpha, enough to whack anything from behind. Can't play these days but would love to see someone run the Beast. A flanker that breaks up enemy lines and can down an isolated Assault from behind. Atlas: ac20, 3xsrm6, 2xlarge laser Cent: ac10, 3xsrm4, 2xmedium laser Commando: 2xsrm4, 2xmedium laser If I recall correctly ;) Ticket request AK44 buddy, make it so, new subscriber.

"Hasta la vista.... Maybe." 🤣🤣🤣

10 kills, ... nice carry, CDU!

grid iron with 2 lgausses

King crab is one of my fav mechs! Earned another sub looking forward to seeing more MWO uploads in the future thank you!

For a mixed early build go Orion iic and run 3 atm 9’s and an lb 20

Older video so maybe no one will reply but what is the weapon group on that PIR? I see that group 1 fires all the lasers but what exactly is happening in group 2?

I enjoyed this video. Great presentation, no excess talk, just a description with good gameplay examples. I had no clue about how the hardpoints and weapon systems worked when I first started playing, so my first mech that I bought for myself with C-Bills was a Spider-5K. All ballistics with one laser, and I wanted a laser build. Turned out to be a blessing and a curse, the curse being I had to rely largely on short range light ballistics (the Spider is a light mech, so it can't rock heavy cannons unless you like having no armor), but the blessing being it forced me to improve my accuracy and strategy. I still had enough tonnage to equip one medium laser, so that became my little "poker" that I would use to annoy enemy players. I spent my first month or so barely making 100 damage per game, but once I learned ballistics have the highest crit percentage against unarmored components, my game started to get better and I started to get kills. After that I could buy more mechs, and because I had gotten used to playing with such a gimped mech in the beginning, the other mechs felt like powerhouses. Point being, a video like this would have helped lighten the learning curve considerably. LOVE the Piranha series. Such an annoying little backstabber. My Piranha-1 has 3 heavy small lasers and 8 light machine guns, so that thing literally cuts down heavy mechs from behind. My recommendations for beginners would be these: Light Mech: Urbanmech series with a fast XL engine. (I know the Urbie makes people mad, but it's a damn durable light mech with 360° visibility and a fair amount of available tonnage). Medium Mech: Viper series. Speed, weapons AND flight. Heavy Mech: Timberwolf series. Armor, weapons, durability, and a little bit of speed.

I appreciate the MWO video as a returning player away for a few years. Keep up the good work.

4:58 no cool shots?

no argument. The griffin it the first mech toy i had as a kid back in 1970's. Love the look, love the durability and great weapons.

9:35 My NovaCat B has a skilled range of at least 1,035. No quircks for range so that's pretty decent. I have 2 of them and average well into 800 damage per match.

My 3 top picks for new players is Clan: Kit Fox KFX-G, Shadow cat SHC-P and Hellbringer. I.S. : Cicada CDA-3F, Enforcer ENF-5D, Marauder MAD-3R.

Also thano is lacking in self defense and armor. I like the hunch II with 2 gauss and 2 er med lasers for a med mech, Heavy sniper either night gyre .

1:29 those are not clan so that's to first mistake. 7 tons of ammo, is that skilled also?