HOW TO PLAY THE MARAUDER II! (GUIDE) - Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries DLC Heroes of the Inner Sphere
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
- A detailed look on all the Marauder II assault mech models available in MW5 Mercenaries - Heroes of the Inner Sphere DLC.
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MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is an upcoming BattleTech """"Mecha"""" game under development by Piranha Games and due for release on December 10, 2019 on Windows. It is the first single player MechWarrior game since 2002. It will be Epic Games Store exclusive and is slated to have raytracing powered by Nvidia RTX as well as DLSS.
MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is set in 3015 during the final decade of the Third Succession War, casting the player as a rookie mercenary MechWarrior rising from the ashes of a demolished mercenary unit. They are able to accept contracts from the various factions available in this time period. The campaign is said to go all the way up to 3049, just before the Clan Invasion." - Ігри
According to lore, it could fit a Gauss so it should be a ballistic heavy hardpoint.
The 4L had a Gauss in each arm and had stealth armor.
The 4S variant had a heavy Gauss in the torso.
The 5B had a standard Gauss in the torso directly replacing the LB-X AC10 in the 5A.
The 6S and 8K also had a gauss in the torso.
It looks like when they implemented the 5A they just took the size of the LB-X 10 as the determining point of what the size of the slot was when it should have been a bigger slot lore-wise. If anything the mods making that slot bigger are correcting the error and making the 5A lore-friendly.
With my MAD-4A, I switched out the PPCs with large pulse lasers, the mediums with short burst medium lasers, the shoulder mounted large laser with a PPC, full jump jets, max armor, and filled it with as many double heatsinks as I could fit and singles to fill the gaps until I reached the weight limit. This is my personal command mech and it hasn't let me down yet.
Yo I tried that and I really like the build, but I recently switched to the 5A variant and put a heavy rifle on top. 13 tons of ammo and max armor and as many heat sinks to fill it out. It's my favorite build so far. Heat is very easy to manage too.
I kept the PPCs on the arms but did a large pulse laser on the top mount and two medium pulse lasers. Maxed armor and jump jets then packed in as many double heat sinks as I could.
Had a weapon group for each weapon type, and put individual PPCs on group 5 and 6 for single shot firing (used this to knock VTOLs out of the sky).
Unless I kept continuous firing everything, heat was never a problem-even in magma fields.
❤✌ Very awesome mech, my fav.
Kinda sucks the Marauder II didn't have better hard points like you mentioned but the marauder is still one of my favorite mechs visually.
To be honest my favorite Mech is the king crab with auto cannons and missile firing
Can't always afford the 100 tons.
Thank you for the video kind sir, very much appreciated laying out the Super-rauder
I can't believe that the Ballistic hard-point is only for a medium ballistic, what the heck were they thinking?
You dare question the Lore! But seriously, even that variant is stretching 3049 limit and if they are doing that might as well do the Gauss Rifle variant anyway
i agree, but throw a tier 5 UAC in ANY mech in this game, and its damage potential goes up exponentially. so medium ballistic is better than no medium ballistic
@@CycKath The 5S has a gauss rifle, and it's a quarter of the size of a Marauder II :/
I utterly adore the Marauder. It's hands down my favourite Mech of all time. If I could only ever pilot one Mech, that'd be it.
i have a seemingly strange amount of love for the phoenix hawk and catapult. and the urban mech. because defeating an enemy crab with 2 guns is always hilarious.
Just switched out the ER PPCs for regular in my Marauder...you are 100%...syncs up much better with my Heavy Rifle. Clapping heads and removing arms at range easily.
As a huge lover of Marauders I cannot agree that the Marauder II is a "hunk of metal". The MAD-4A is my main mech. I have 70% of my game time in that mech. Its not a mech meant for brawling so it does not need all the weapons.
A lot of people forget the MAD-II is an upgrade to the base MAD not because it has more weapons but because it can reliably deliver fire. It heats up so much more slowly and cools so much faster. That's what you're getting with the MAD-II. You just get more Marauder for your Marauder and that's never a bad thing.
Ideally this baby should be headclipping assaults before they break into medium range. If you're trying to brawl with an Atlas or a King Crab you're gonna have a bad time.
The Marauder II is a command/fire support mech. You CAN charge into the fray against lighter mechs but that's far from ideal. You want to let your buddies whether they are AI or human kite the chaff while you hammer the big bois from afar. And for those who say the AI sucks and that doesn't work, it does. I play on console and have more than a solid month of actual gameplay in the game. Most of it played solo. You need to be patient with your AI teammates while using the Marauder II. It can take a hit but it can and will be worn down if you aren't smart. Pick your targets, use AI to kite the chaff and aim for the head. If you're accurate you should have no problem running the Marauder II. Its a beast of a mech and deserves to be treated as such.
P.S its medium ballistic slot in the 5A variant absolutely needs to be upgraded to a large ballistic slot. They did my baby dirty.
whats mods are you running? maybe give a list of mods you recommend to use and maybe some that are a good idea for coop or coop friendly? I'm personally not using any because I'm not sure where to start with them yet.
I've had this game a few days now and I love it I'm playing on xbox series x ,I came from world of tanks and it is hella fun !!!!
Im playing on Xbox as well and just got my first heavy mech today its the Sharpshooter
I remember being excited about the Marauder II when i saw it in the list, but then i went to try a loadout and was immediately disappointed by the medium balistics hardpoint.
I wish they had the marauder’s biggest strength in this game and that is the fact that it’s a command mech with systems designed to better coordinate with the rest of the lance. That and the fact it’s slopped armor allows to minimize the damage it takes by turning and spreading it out over a wider area. So basically make it able to give you lancemates buffs to targeting and awareness and making it harder to strip the armor off it and this thing will be a huge asset
A missile boat Marauder breaks my heart!
It's just wrong to see a Marauder, Marauder II or IIC with more than 3 big guns & 2 lasers. A Gauss on the C torso is sick though. I love the Marauder in Classic BT & am looking forward to MW6 Clan Invasion or whatever they call it & run the IIC! I'm really just excited to get a Warhammer in MW5 as it has been too long since I last piloted one in a MW game. Thanks for the great videos!
Your modded build is very similar to the Marauder II Bounty Hunter.
I was super hoping they would introduce a Heavy Gauss Rifle and have it equipable on the Maurauder 2. I'm very disappointed :(
Giev Fafnir plx.
Heavy Gauss is FedCom Civil War era tech. We probably won't be seeing those along with Snub PPCs and MRMs until after Clans are introduced (If they are introduced at all).
@@VolantFool I have a good feeling we'll see something before MW6 is announced
@@VolantFool After all the clans definitely need their own game
@@VolantFool I cannot wait for my mrm. My favorite missiles
How did you customise your commander
Mechwarrior4: Mercs...Marauder 2 had a rail gun from Hell! I want that in this game. RT least you got close with your build :) I still haven't found the Marauder32 in-game though LOL I always run SB lasers. The quicker follow up is more useful.
I found both assault Mauraders in Kurita space at the 2 north industrial zones. Its random when they are there. Good luck.
Check often.
I use light rifles
How did you get a Gauss rifle on the medium slot???
Gauss can mount on medium slot
Where did you find the Marauder2?
The result of the build freedom with these mods reminds me of the invulnerability cheats from mw2 mercs. I know youre takin damage but the dmg your doin is soooooooo much
I am pretty fond of the heavy rifles, but I think until there is a mod or an update that fixes the AI, i probably wont play for a long time. my save got nuked in the latest patch a few days ago too
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The medium ballistics spot in that 5 could hold a heavy rifle...
He got, Thunderstruck
I run 3 large pulse, and 2 medium pulse, a bunch of doubles and a few singles. It’s a sniping beast. Given the lack of weapons, it should be at least as fast as a Banshee. If they give you the speed the me h makes sense, but they don’t. Even if the speed was 64 mph, it should still come with 2 more medium energy hard point and a missile hard point. It’s nothing more than a giant slow marauder. Makes no sense.
iirc it was designed by the Wolf's Dragoons with their Clan origins in mind. The idea was to make a giant, slow marauder, that turned out successful simply because of the empty space to fill with heat sinks. The average marauder will overheat after only one or two alpha strikes, but the giant has much more endurance
All pulse all the time. But the upgrades make this monster shine. Go with lower burn and weapon cool downs, add extra speed and any extra damage that you can. Once you've got nothing but tier 4 or 5 weapons, you'll pin point over 75 with essentially rapid fire and no real heat build up. Other assaults become jokes real damn quick.
I cannot get my head around how few hardpoints they gave to this massive 100 ton mech. You have so much spare tonnage that seems almost unusable. I guess you could trick it out with all jumpjets.
Personally I like that the marauder has that hard points it has. If I had mechs that had multiple missle and ballistic options is more of a pain to negotiate the ammo for each weapon. As someone who has a preference for ballistics and energy weapons. I usually give large LRMs to my AI pilots and prioritize them to attack the most dangerous targets while I get in and start brawling.
Your painful negotiation scenario sounds exactly what I experienced with my first King Crab 0000. I didn’t have weight left for the large missile hardpoint after it was equipped with the dual Gauss cannons.
@@Creshex8 yeah I found that many mechs suffer from this problem in mw5m. Sadly the king crab is one of those mechs. Cool as it is it lacks the speed and/or utility needed for higher difficulty missions and when you get the nightstar you have a mech that can do the king crab's job better than the king crab once you replace the gauss rifles with AC20s
No offense to anyone who loves that mech but I for the life of me I just don't regard the king crab as a competitive machine.
@@Isharu well I kinda disagree. Having too many hard points is so much better than having WAY too few like the Marauder 2. I already have tons of firepower with two gauss cannons and a PPC. But maybe I want to turn it into a light missile boat, so I swap out the gauss for some UAC 10’s while loading up a Artemis 20 LRM. Certain annihilators suffer from having too much extra free weight without hard points to use too. The all energy one has you literally using SINGLE heat sinks to fill up all the extra free weight. The KC 0000 has over 40 tons of free weight and flexibility to use an assortment of weapons, that’s a good mech by me.
@@Creshex8 I suppose though it really can boil down to a difference in preferences and tactics to. Kinda funny you mention the AN-1E running on single heat sinks to. I see that mech as very economical cause doubles are a pain to come by. Its one of the reasons why I gave up on the Warhammer cause that thing cost me so many doubles and valuable equipment while trying to update it for tougher missions.
2 ER PPC's, 1 gauss rifle, 2 M pulse lasers, and more double heat sinks than you can Find in the inner sphere.
The problem with the Marauder II is that the prequel was better.
Still a lovely piece of hardware, though.
so im the wierdo with lots if rules to my mech 5 menu gameplay. i only loot new mechs and supplies. i can only have one of each variant. i dont skip time by using the button for skiping time. i never fight against my chosen loyalty, i never fight againstthe faction space i currently inhabit unless its my loyalty vs them. and i travel as directly but as slowly as possible through warzone space. i find that playing this way keeps every moment relativly fresh with often lots of decisions to be made. oh i also accept my losses, and fight every mission in every system.
Thats looks... Extremely underwhelming...
Obviously designed for long range sustained pinpoint damage which is basically the worst way to play MW5 in my experience with the stupid squadmates & swarms of enemies
Been rocking the MAD 4A for 20+ hrs in the game now. Swapped out a handful of single heatsinks for doubles. Was able to keep jump jets, max armor and equip Trip tier 4 PPCs, 2 MP Lasers. Then applied +15% in energy damage upgrades and some other stuff.
I'm not going to dispute the lack of weapon options. But it's now my goto assault mech. Heat is a non issue most times. Guaranteed one shot kill on any light mech CT. In fact, I aim at a limb and it's gone. Instantly strip off CT armor from any Medium mech, usually a 2 shot ordeal to destroy. Ran into a lance of 4 marauders on a difficulty 95 mission. Plinked each cockpit in succession, 4 dead marauders. Been swarmed multiple times also while under artillery barrage, armor still held up throughout the entire mission. The jump jets also come in handy.
I'm not gonna claim there aren't other mechs that couldn't pull off what the MADLAD 2 does. I recently picked up a King Crab Kaiju and the hardpoint options on that mech are ridiculous. But man...it gets the job done.
There is an AI mod that makes that better. I also play with Merctech and PirateTech.
Mods fix this thankfully, I can rock my MWO large laser spam without ghost heat and it’s disgusting
How the hell you get 4 Marauders II, i cant get any, i have bunch of Marauders, and even that is only one of three models, darn those mechs are super rare
I had one after 3049 time line pass, when on news, there was info of Wolf Dragoons allowed to Marauder II (MAD-4A version) being marketed for Inner sphere and Mercenaries Commander, got it in Idustrial Hub near Terra on Draconis Combine area (its random so yu need to jump to many industrial hub). the occur also coincide with the production of Mauler (Daboku) by Luthien Armor Work. You can got it at early if after you doing Agincourt mission if your salvage point big enough by defeating the son owner of Agincourt archer. Marauder II reminded me of Behemoth or Marauder IIC Clan,
@@AllForManKind77 You can find them before then but they're very rare. I managed to find one in Steiner territory, and that was after I'd given up visiting industrial hubs from there to deep Kurita territory actively looking for it.
Quick question to anyone out there,
In MW5, I just noticed something weird.
I just weighed the
Maurader MAD-3R with its standard base gear and its weighs the max 75 tons.
Then I weighed the hero version
Maurader MAD-BH2 and I changed everything to the base of the MAD-3R.
What doesn't make sense is that the MAD-BH2 weighs only 60 tons with the exact same gear as the MAD-3R.
Can anyone explain why this is the case in MW5.
I can kinda guess a sorta loreish reason as with Ferbro-Fiberous Armor like in MWO.
But did Piranha purposely fudge the weights of the mechs or something.
Because it doesn't really make sense. That the MAD-BH2 with the exact same gear as the base MAD-3R weighs 15 tons less with the same gear when both models are 75-ton mechs.
Probably XL engine, Endo-Steel, or Ferro-Fibrous under the hood. You need a mod to properly see it.
@@TTBprime well Lorewise yeah, I agree with all that you said.
But I don't think that Piranha implemented those in MW5.
But ots possible that they did underneath the hood, since they based MW5 heavily on MWO. And they prevented players from accessing it which would make more sense.
But I kinda which Piranha would have explained it more than.
Hey you got two models of the same mech and they weigh the same, but one with they exact same gear just so happens to weigh less.
@@noticedruid4985 It's in the game man. Both BH and 5D are XL and DHS
@@TTBprime I have never seen any direct Engine types, armor ect in MW5.
So if you have seen them I like to know where though.
And I don't doubt the very likelyhood it is sorta implemented under the hood in some way, since MW5 is heavily based on MWO. Just the player can't see any of those hidden modifications.
And to be strictly honest I sincerely wish they implemented those types of customization for your mechs just like they done with MWO.
@@noticedruid4985 grab the mod "Mech Attribute Viewer".
I thought it was, point the thing in the direction of the enemy and make them violently disappear.
Where is location for marauder || ?
random
@@TTBprime thank you....
Just like me: Pays for Airstrikes...never uses a one.🤣👍
MAD-4HP is a PGI apocryphal variant, it will not come to MW5.
minus the P and this is what it was replicating anyway "MAD-4H
Using a shipment of Lyran bound MAD-4S hijacked by pirates, the 4H Marauder II is a refit developed by the Marian Hegemony that replaces the Heavy Gauss Rifle with four Rocket Launcher 20s, six Rocket Launcher 15s, and a Rocket Launcher 10..."
What is that sparkling shit every time he fire the weapon?
Gauss
Yeah that’s a tell tale sign of a gauss it also makes a Gauss rifle easily spotted from range so it’s something to be aware of if you’re an avid gauss user
Marauder 1 Looks good, but Marauder 2 is... Dorky, for lack of a better term.
Side Note, It does walk like a Beast, So I'll still get one.
I've completely turned my view around, MAD-II looks fantastic, and I'm always looking for ways to make a perfect build.
Don't like the look or feel of mw5