Baradul: "I gotta say, I like demolition missions!" Garrison commander: "Mercenary! Stop! I beg you. That was a civilian building!" Baradul: "That's what I'm talking about!" This is basically Mechwarrior: The War Crime Simulator. :)
In Battletech universe, there is only a loose agreement against using WMDs and 'destroying too much environment'. It's not even really specific nor fully agreed upon by all. Destroying some civilian targets is mostly fine for these people. Also, the protagonist is a mercenary, a tool employed by more important players, thus, less responsible for what they order him to do. I know it's a small talk, but knowing this universe is far much crueler than our reality can be helpful.
@@Grayghost04 That's what I like so much about MW5. You actually ARE a mercenary, not some lost heir type of guy on his epic quest to reclaiming the throne. OK, the game starts like your average battletech game where you get ambushed in mech school and lose a family member, but the revenge trip this time is kinda secondary. You level entire cities just for money, sell death and destruction to both sides, destabilize econmies, help in assasination plots against politicians and trample down rebellions in your Atlas making Darth Vader look like an amateur... kinda hard to justify all that because you have beef with this one guy... but when I read "LBX-10", I click.
I think he finally got the message from our previous posts on his last videos. Idk, i first played Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries, and i remember what happens if you retire and you're that broke, thats no life.
Civilians: "No! The orphanage! Not the puppy shelter too! Everything's on fire!" Mechwarriors continue stomping through buildings: "Did you hear something?"
Just a cockpit? That's plenty I salvaged a mech that was nothing but a bit of rear armor once. It's amazing what Fahad can do. Elder Mason wasn't joking when he said best tech in the sector.
Pro Tip: Don't put the most expensive weapons into the arms and let AI pilot those mechs. I always keep some lower tier weapons for the arms and put the good stuff into torsos.
The patch reset your bindings, if that was after the patch. And hit markers in the back very often are your AI teammates, supposedly that does no damage to you though. You can runs over the outer walls in heavies and assaults, making it fast to open the objective up.
Love the vids Keep cranking them out! Maybe grind a few missions for a house before doing campaign/ high priority missions so you can claim more salvage
I don't get your logic. Twice now you have turned your nose up at a large pulse laser. You said the range is not that great but it's the same range as an AC5 and you love that range on your Jaegermech. It has less heat than a regular large laser. About the same damage as an AC10. Great rate of fire. Best of all, unlike ppc and autocannons, it doesn't need projectile lead time. That is a phenomenal weapon to stick on the thunderbolt or a future Rifleman. Please take a more critical look at it.
You are comparing apples and oranges. Lasers have a HARD distance limit - the laser does not project past the advertised range. Autocannon's have an actual projectile, and can be arc'd WAY past their advertised range value.
@@jong2359 If it's anything like MWO they actually do, up to twice the listed range, though ballistics do reach out to about three times past their max.
Hey man im really behind in watching all your stuff. But i just wanted to thank you. You really got me into Battletech and Mechwarrior! I like the little German Quirks you got in your speaking x )
I found if you move at speed 40 - 45.. the NPC react faster to enemy that appear. on higher skills . My best pilot to take out flyers and tanks.. skills are 6/6 Balistic ; 6/6 Energy ; 6/6 Missile ;
I also noticed that some of my pilots go full aimbot mode if I put them into assault mechs with Gauss and/or PPCs. Some of my pilots have up to 9 skillspoints in ballistic and energy, it's pretty funny. I have 10/10 everything and can't even remotely shoot PPCs that fast and still hit fast moving flyers. Escpecially that one chick "Cpt. Costa" is hella suspicious... more like "Cpt. Clara"...
Mate don't worry about the pronounciation you are doing fine. Your English is good and you have a happy and likeable way of doing these vids. I've subscribed as a result.
Watching the video series I don't find myself getting into the storyline like I did with MW4 Vengeance, Black Knight, and Mercs. Hopefully it will be different when I actually get MW5
Oh no, he missed looking at the mechs for sell at 29:56 there was a Warhammer , catapult, quickdraw and a Centurion.....Best market hub he found and he missed it. PS Clans haven't been introduced Baradul. So you wont find double heatsinks or any clan mechs/tech. The home tab has date and shows 3019, clans show late 3040's
@@spccyrus6112 A lot of the clan tech is based on SLDF gear, it was far ahead of the rest of the inner sphere's equipment. When the star league left the IS they took as much of the high tech gear with them as they could and destroyed or booby trapped what they could not take. So things like double heat sinks, pulse lasers and gauss rifles exist but are extremely rare, hence the moniker of Lostech.
I just love sitting a few miles away and knocking buildings down, even when it's not a demolition job I like to make sure they remember me as the wrecking ball meant to test the strength of their buildings so they can improve them in the future and in the future they do eventually improve their building structures. Also I got a couple of mods in this game that 1) Improves the weather making dark areas darker and snow areas more extreme to a point visibility is down to nearly nothing so I do use the night vision more, 2) a mod that raises the level cap on your career keeps me immersed in the game with these extra experience/levels. I *spoiler alert* got a weapon persay that tags my targets that's actually fun when my pilots focus on it after I tag it.
English is difficult at times, especially when you have people who want to speak pompous & snooty. Paraphrasing an old saying: English doesn't as much borrow from other languages, rather it mugs them in a dark alley & rummages through their pockets for loose words.
Um schnell Ziele an seine Lanze zu zuweisen ist ein Tag perfekt - das Ding kann ununterbrochen schießen, sorgt dafür das Raketen extrem schnell das Ziel aufschalten und alle KIs greifen automatisch das getagte Ziel an. Die eine Tonne investiere ich da gerne..
230 tonage mission my main loadout rifleman thunderbolt kintaro centurion. 60 tonnage rifleman with 4 medium laser and 2 ac5 bf imperator really good. Heat management is great and armor around 400 not bad. One last thing u can do multiple mission even 4 mission. U accept contract u gain money and salvage every mission. And u repair lance between missions. But dont risk to much complete. When u reach limit just abort mission. Only effect house rep. But in davion ur anyway reach hero rank u lose nothing. Great for cbill and salvage grind.
Baradul: Can we run? ok lets run, there is to many. *turns are runs, get shot in the back* Baradul: We can't run, il get shot in the back. *stands and fights, loses a PPC* Me: Just walk backwards? still retreating and killing, while also not getting shot in the back.
I have the same problem with the shadowhawk taking huge damage in brawler setup. I think it's usually because the shadowhawk can deal huge damage but not necessarily take it that well. The hige damage dealt means the AI tend to go for him. Shadowhawk works well if everyone else in the lance can also keep up the damage and pull the hate away. Usually requires you or others concentrating fire on whatever is going after the shadowhawk.
I wouldn't put as precious a weapon as that LBX-10 in an arm slot. Not unrelated, I think it is funny that we have the exact opposite opinions of the Grasshoppers and Jaegermechs. :D
After I beat the game, I went ahead and advanced the timeline to May 3050 and went to Rasalhague Republic.... no clans =( I didn't expect it, but I had hope for something special at least. They really should have removed the calendar imo.
I am about the same place as you in the game, although I've bought and been using a Cyclops and a Zeus. So far, I've found the best ballistic weapon to be the UAC/5 but ammo for it is hard to find. The Dragon with the UAC/5 is quite spectacular.
Save those MPLs for a Black Knight, Battle Master or a Banshee (the one with 5 energy slots on left side torso). I have MPLs on all those mech's and they melt everything that cross my path.
Ok so I went deep into Steiner space and played two 400 ton missions when all I had was about 265 tons. I beat them both, and the damage was amazing. Got two tier 4 AC10 BFs out of it, and stuck them on my Jagermech. Was really scary though.
Is there something in-game to see the lore of the Hero mechs? Or do you just know things about it from history with the franchise/wikis/etc? loving your videos btw. I'm about 20 hours into the game myself and really enjoying it. Just got my first couple assault mechs. Stalker missile boat is such a fun build with the spawns being farther away now, for the most part
Just want to commend you on your pronunciations of new English words. You nailed them first time. I try and speak German and my friends spend ten minutes lecturing me.
Yes English is a brutal language sometimes. We have words from everywhere. So much of English comes from German and Norse and Gaelic and also Latin and French but English also borrows from the slavic world too... That's why English can be called the "bastard language of Europe".
I've got a headcannon that Freeman's seemingly suicidal tendencies are a side effect of his PTSD from losing his entire lance. I only give him cheap mechs that I don't mind replacing parts of. Unless a human is playing him because his stats are great.
There has to be a 'pilot background' running were some AI pilots are more reckless than others. I have a random Capt. Grom who will not let go of a target. He's punched out twice already thanks to him turning the Centurion around to fight in a 1v4.
heres a note the easiest way to get an orian is to go to free worlds league it seams the houses have mechs that are more prevlevent to themselfs then the others which makes sense lorewise edit:i belive shadow hawks are cursed mine has allways taken a good amount of damage also hero mechs are hella expensive thought have double heat sinks on them lostech endosteel,better engines,etc they are good for saving weight while being very powerfull also im i a madman for putting a ultra autocannon 5 on the hero wolverine an another hero mech example is the javlin its litterally both of the other javlins loadout together 4 medium lasers 2 srm 6s
so i am thinking of getting this game if it ever comes to steam (so. won't be until the end of the year) and i was wondering. is the marauder in the game? i know putting the marauder in anywhere is a bit. iffy. but it is my favorite mech and i was wondering if you saw one during your entire playthrough?
Honestly, a SHD-2D is known to have fairly low armour to make room for the additional weapons. The 2H or 2K version should be more to your armour taste... However, I'm sure you know that.
Different mechs. Hopper is a short range brawler in the original configuration (Jumping laserboat with a small LRM and tons of armor, good heat curve, basically a Zombi), Hammer is a long range sniper in base. The official (was BT/Mechforce turnament legal since it is in TRO 3025) 6D version was a energy based zombi mech with max armor and tons of heat sinks. Running around and dual firing PPC was the typical way to use. Good lancemates the two, the Hopper eats light mechs that close. Maybe a Laser-Centurion as a fire support
They SHOULD, as that's how it works in MWO, their other MW game. Kinda weird that they totally skipped that in this one, even though this one is even more of a simulator game, whereas MWO is more arcadey. Strange.
I do wonder how worth it the shiny lostech/high tier weapons and DHS really are in this game, given the sheer attrition of components your lance seems to take every drop.
Would you be interested in showing off the AI companions capabilities a bit more? The extreme version would be to pick an easier mission and never fire a single shot yourself, just pick a mix of brawlers and long-range mechs and order them around like a tactician. I have seen others complain about the AI allies, calling them stupid for bringing their LRM mechs into brawls. But maybe that isn't really the AI's fault, the standing order is "follow me" after all and they do exactly that. They don't run away to be solo-heroes in combat either, they seem to stick together like a team. The biggest risk with splitting them up with orders seem to be that some enemy spawns could appear out of thin air ontop of someone. Apart from last episode when a certain centurion got herself stuck behind a rock for half the mission, the AI appear both capable and obedient, but it's a bit hard to tell how good they are when you turn all enemies into scrap so fast.
what are the best weapons to take advantage of the AI anyway? srm seem to work well considering the dmg numbers of the shadowhawk being consistenly the highest of all companions. lasers and ballistics probably too, but lurms? dont really see much use for them when baradul kills flyers faster than the AI can lock their lurms on them.
@@Genesis23OPB I think it comes down to positioning, an LRM mech ordered to stand behind the brawlers should in theory be able to go all out. But if no orders are given, I would guess that the PPC/LLaser/AC's are better for the AI snipers since these can be fired during brawls too. I'm not so sure about this, but it sometimes seems like the enemies attacks the closest target that attacks them. That should keep snipers relatively safe, but also makes LRM mechs pick targets that are too close for them to attack. As for the best brawling weapon I have no idea. SRM's seem really effective. It also kind of looks like the AI is programmed to miss against fast moving targets, or maybe that's just the evasion skill causing that.
My mech got stuck in place on a late game campaign mission, so I had to rely on my lance (3 cyclops brawlers) to carry me to victory. They did not disappoint.
Yeah it's ironic, I would expect the AI to be good at simply picking a target and spamming missiles... But apparently this is a very hard concept for them to grasp. Brawling, on the other hand...
Did the last Patch changed the Dificulty by a lot? Played not much for the past days, was in the 200~ Tonage range, easy missions with 4 Hunchies... moved to 230 - still easy, moved to 280 - bit hardern adjusted my Mechs, field a different lance now.... but then on the second 280 and several ~70 rated missions the enemys are... absurd in masses. I peak around a corner and 10+ Cicadas get aggrod with lots of Heli's and Tanks... its not that a Cicada perse is a thread... but if 10 of them swarm you with Flamers... while the backline has 1-3 Medium/Heavy Mechs like Jeager and Hunchbacks sitting there... my Medium/Heavy Lance gets EATEN alive every mission, resulting in 80-100 days repairs every single mission... for testings I fielded a Banshe with Max-Armor, two Hoppers with Max-Armor and a Marauder with Max-Armor... on a Demolition Mission with 3 Bases - after the second one a Hopper was lost, second one at 30% the Banshe was close to done and only my Marauder was still fighting back... compared to lower difficulty missions with 200 tonnage where my Lance did not even get below 90% most times it feels like a different world. Short - the difference between 200 and 300+ tonnage missions (if fielded the max-weight) feels like the difference between playing Pokemon to Dark Souls... is this based on the latest Patch? (So lower Tonnage missions would also be harder now) or its just... the way the Game is? Because its getting much less Fun, as I expected that the Enemys would maybe just field bigger Mechs as well, instead of just SWARMS of Flamermechs and Heli's...
that javelin was trying to get 'ahead' in the marketplace though :p methinks you should just upgrade the torso guns on the hawk and remove the lasers from arms n just use em as shields :x
I'd prefer the ~40 min vids. Easier to digest. EDIT: Might consider adding some flamers to one of the mechs you personally drive to make demo missions easier.
an engagement range would be nice, or set them to follow you by X meters, however the ai pilots in my game end up doing what they want regardless, I'll send them to a waypoint, and if I dont keep spamming it during combat, they'll just go a kilometer away into the middle of the fray all the while making everything spawn. I tire of replacing so many weapons.
If it is destroyed (red) you have to find or buy another one. If it is damaged (yellow) you can repair it. But LosTech is very rare in the beginning... After year 3028 LosTech is in Stores, after 3030 nearly every shop has LosTech.
vid time 22:20.. "still really slow in my books"... thats because PGI refuses to add REAL arty mechs to their games... ive been asking for a C3 Cat for ages now in MWO... and if you had one in MW5, you could make use of that Arrow IV missile system and level that town in no time.... well shorter time at least...lol... and its not like that Catapult is defenceless either, it still has med lasers just like other varients...
guess i'm just a grinder, but we are the same distance through the campaign, but I have 3 assaults and have a full 12 mechs. btw the awesome and battlemasters are broke as hell at this point in the game.
Lol! So many comments in the last couple episodes about you cutting to the bone on finances. Yeah.. They must be new here! Lets not even talk about Baradul losing BattleTech because he ran out of money! I myself am not even as far Baradul but I have 16 mil atm and field a battlemaster and have a couple of heavies. I just can't run them all because of tonnage restrictions. Baradul you have to get your spending under control and make the right purchases. Money is so easy and your are so damn skilled with your shooting you carry your entire lance every battle. You should be swimming in money! By the way who cares about where you repair... Your wasting money going somewhere to repair unless you have backed yourself into a corner so bad you have no choice. You need to suck up those missions and rotate your mechs and be good enough not to have a lot of down time. You have to move and you need the rep built up to reap rewards. You need to be grateful and take the nuts and bolts weapons in salvage for replacements as needed. Downtime is your enemy. Baraduls enemy in every play through is his greed for shiny things. That's fine. He delivers.
@@roflfin sadly no, it stops a year before the clan invasion in 3050, I kinda feel like they'll make the clan invasion dlc if the base game does well enough. though that's just a thought
"mercenary, stop! that's a civillian buildings!"
*Baradul laughing maniacally*
Baradul: "I gotta say, I like demolition missions!"
Garrison commander: "Mercenary! Stop! I beg you. That was a civilian building!"
Baradul: "That's what I'm talking about!"
This is basically Mechwarrior: The War Crime Simulator. :)
Geneva Convention? What Geneva Convention?
"And this HPG antenna gives something like 15% and this orphanage gives 5% Not much but def. worth to quickly stomp over it"
It's not a war crime if there are no witnesses.
In Battletech universe, there is only a loose agreement against using WMDs and 'destroying too much environment'. It's not even really specific nor fully agreed upon by all. Destroying some civilian targets is mostly fine for these people. Also, the protagonist is a mercenary, a tool employed by more important players, thus, less responsible for what they order him to do. I know it's a small talk, but knowing this universe is far much crueler than our reality can be helpful.
@@Grayghost04 That's what I like so much about MW5. You actually ARE a mercenary, not some lost heir type of guy on his epic quest to reclaiming the throne. OK, the game starts like your average battletech game where you get ambushed in mech school and lose a family member, but the revenge trip this time is kinda secondary. You level entire cities just for money, sell death and destruction to both sides, destabilize econmies, help in assasination plots against politicians and trample down rebellions in your Atlas making Darth Vader look like an amateur... kinda hard to justify all that because you have beef with this one guy... but when I read "LBX-10", I click.
Waiting until in a non-conflict zone to repair???
OK... Who are you, and what have you done with Baradul?
I think he finally got the message from our previous posts on his last videos. Idk, i first played Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries, and i remember what happens if you retire and you're that broke, thats no life.
yeah i'm like "DUDE QUIT WASTING C-BILLS BRA!!"
Civilians: "No! The orphanage! Not the puppy shelter too! Everything's on fire!"
Mechwarriors continue stomping through buildings: "Did you hear something?"
Just a cockpit? That's plenty I salvaged a mech that was nothing but a bit of rear armor once. It's amazing what Fahad can do. Elder Mason wasn't joking when he said best tech in the sector.
Now I'm imagining some floating Javelin head haunting your mechbay.
I have to say, I'm enjoying watching Baradul run this mercenary company into bankruptcy...
Consistent near-bankruptcy. Seems like he's managing it pretty well, but he's cutting it closer than I would.
Pro Tip: Don't put the most expensive weapons into the arms and let AI pilot those mechs. I always keep some lower tier weapons for the arms and put the good stuff into torsos.
and once you stop using under 40 tin mechs sell off all the small lasers they are useless above 40 tons ...
Goes shopping, sees some ok mechs: hrm, we're short on money. Sees high-tier pulse lasers: hrm, we have *some* money...
>"I wanna play the Archer today!"
Oh, thank god. Please, barry, show my baby some more love.
He showed it love by the assassination target getting shreked
The patch reset your bindings, if that was after the patch. And hit markers in the back very often are your AI teammates, supposedly that does no damage to you though. You can runs over the outer walls in heavies and assaults, making it fast to open the objective up.
More Love for Freeman! Dude went from Level 13 to 33 in like 8 episodes :). Excited that the series is so popular!
Freeman is worth Gold, the majority of mechwarriors are shit
After watching all Baradul's videos for MW5 my loath of Epic is less and less. I believe I need this game in my life!
Just get it however you can (not epic), and backfill your guilt when it goes on Steam.
Be patient young grasshopper.
Not sure I can wait a year though that stinks.
Read up on why Epic is hated so much rather than just believing everything you hear about it. Make a decision from there.
@@Clusterflak It is pretty hard to avoid being 40% owned by Tencent, lol.
“I like your voice, I’m gonna hire you”. Wait till HR hears about that!
HR was the first thing launched at the enemy. Dumb fire missile from airlock launcher
Betty: Heat Critical
Baradul: "Heat critical? I don't care!"
I love it xD
Love the vids
Keep cranking them out!
Maybe grind a few missions for a house before doing campaign/ high priority missions so you can claim more salvage
Love. That. Warhammer. Shit hit the fan in short order on that last one and several mechs and vehicles were toast just as quickly.
You said 2 a day, I say that would be one of my best Xmas gifts i could get!!!
I'd definitely watch x2 episodes a day dude.
Same
I don't get your logic. Twice now you have turned your nose up at a large pulse laser.
You said the range is not that great but it's the same range as an AC5 and you love that range on your Jaegermech. It has less heat than a regular large laser. About the same damage as an AC10. Great rate of fire. Best of all, unlike ppc and autocannons, it doesn't need projectile lead time. That is a phenomenal weapon to stick on the thunderbolt or a future Rifleman. Please take a more critical look at it.
I asked me the same and as you, i don´t understand Baradul at this.
You are comparing apples and oranges. Lasers have a HARD distance limit - the laser does not project past the advertised range. Autocannon's have an actual projectile, and can be arc'd WAY past their advertised range value.
@@jong2359 If it's anything like MWO they actually do, up to twice the listed range, though ballistics do reach out to about three times past their max.
@@KageRyuu6 The listed maximum is in the mech lab, not in the cockpit - and lasers do not extend past the mech lab distance.
Weighs to much .
Hey man im really behind in watching all your stuff. But i just wanted to thank you. You really got me into Battletech and Mechwarrior! I like the little German Quirks you got in your speaking x )
you killed it on the reading, a lot of hard words, well done!
Baradul the MechWarrior games have always been grinders always haha
I found Baradul's channel three days ago and I'm not addicted to these MW5 videos!
Denial....the first sign.
@@Baradul lol
"That's a mech and a half"
No, it's little over half a mech ;)
I found if you move at speed 40 - 45.. the NPC react faster to enemy that appear. on higher skills . My best pilot to take out flyers and tanks.. skills are 6/6 Balistic ; 6/6 Energy ; 6/6 Missile ;
I also noticed that some of my pilots go full aimbot mode if I put them into assault mechs with Gauss and/or PPCs. Some of my pilots have up to 9 skillspoints in ballistic and energy, it's pretty funny. I have 10/10 everything and can't even remotely shoot PPCs that fast and still hit fast moving flyers. Escpecially that one chick "Cpt. Costa" is hella suspicious... more like "Cpt. Clara"...
I enjoyed having a ppc panther for an AI early on. It swatted down choppers like nobody's business
Mate don't worry about the pronounciation you are doing fine. Your English is good and you have a happy and likeable way of doing these vids. I've subscribed as a result.
omg 2 per day would be godlike, u are the best _
Sweet I’ll watch this new episode when my boss leaves work early today 🤫
🎶Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I 'Mech on company time🎶
Two episodes YES😁
Watching the video series I don't find myself getting into the storyline like I did with MW4 Vengeance, Black Knight, and Mercs. Hopefully it will be different when I actually get MW5
Oh no, he missed looking at the mechs for sell at 29:56 there was a Warhammer , catapult, quickdraw and a Centurion.....Best market hub he found and he missed it.
PS
Clans haven't been introduced Baradul. So you wont find double heatsinks or any clan mechs/tech. The home tab has date and shows 3019, clans show late 3040's
You can get double heat sinks in mw5, but they are the SLDF style ones that take 3 slots compared to clan 2 slots.
You can get Double Heatsinks off Hero Mechs. Best I've found is the Hero Catapult with twin PPCs. Sooo many DHS off that Mech. Others not so great.
@Silamon @@Clusterflak Oh, i might be out of loop then, I never played anything before Clan invasion.
@@spccyrus6112 A lot of the clan tech is based on SLDF gear, it was far ahead of the rest of the inner sphere's equipment. When the star league left the IS they took as much of the high tech gear with them as they could and destroyed or booby trapped what they could not take. So things like double heat sinks, pulse lasers and gauss rifles exist but are extremely rare, hence the moniker of Lostech.
I just love sitting a few miles away and knocking buildings down, even when it's not a demolition job I like to make sure they remember me as the wrecking ball meant to test the strength of their buildings so they can improve them in the future and in the future they do eventually improve their building structures.
Also I got a couple of mods in this game that 1) Improves the weather making dark areas darker and snow areas more extreme to a point visibility is down to nearly nothing so I do use the night vision more, 2) a mod that raises the level cap on your career keeps me immersed in the game with these extra experience/levels.
I *spoiler alert* got a weapon persay that tags my targets that's actually fun when my pilots focus on it after I tag it.
you should go on a pilgrimage up north and get some good 50+ skill pilots thats makes all the difference in doing higher difficulty quests.
English is difficult at times, especially when you have people who want to speak pompous & snooty.
Paraphrasing an old saying: English doesn't as much borrow from other languages, rather it mugs them in a dark alley & rummages through their pockets for loose words.
Um schnell Ziele an seine Lanze zu zuweisen ist ein Tag perfekt - das Ding kann ununterbrochen schießen, sorgt dafür das Raketen extrem schnell das Ziel aufschalten und alle KIs greifen automatisch das getagte Ziel an. Die eine Tonne investiere ich da gerne..
230 tonage mission my main loadout rifleman thunderbolt kintaro centurion. 60 tonnage rifleman with 4 medium laser and 2 ac5 bf imperator really good. Heat management is great and armor around 400 not bad. One last thing u can do multiple mission even 4 mission. U accept contract u gain money and salvage every mission. And u repair lance between missions. But dont risk to much complete. When u reach limit just abort mission. Only effect house rep. But in davion ur anyway reach hero rank u lose nothing. Great for cbill and salvage grind.
Great Vid, I am really enjoying the series! :-)
Really impressed with your grasp of at least two languages! BTW Duchess is a female Duke or German- Herzog
Du-Chess.
@@bhmand1669 hey I said he mastered two languages not that I had mastered even one 😀
@@frshunter You did, I was attempting to help with pronounciation.
@@bhmand1669 lol print was so small on my phone I couldn't read it. Thought I had mistyped. Now that I am on a bigger screen got it!
Baradul: Can we run? ok lets run, there is to many. *turns are runs, get shot in the back*
Baradul: We can't run, il get shot in the back. *stands and fights, loses a PPC*
Me: Just walk backwards? still retreating and killing, while also not getting shot in the back.
Wait until you get to merc level 9 Combat zones. The difficulty takes a HUGE jump up! You have to be ON POINT with your lance setups to survive.
I have the same problem with the shadowhawk taking huge damage in brawler setup. I think it's usually because the shadowhawk can deal huge damage but not necessarily take it that well. The hige damage dealt means the AI tend to go for him. Shadowhawk works well if everyone else in the lance can also keep up the damage and pull the hate away. Usually requires you or others concentrating fire on whatever is going after the shadowhawk.
I wouldn't put as precious a weapon as that LBX-10 in an arm slot.
Not unrelated, I think it is funny that we have the exact opposite opinions of the Grasshoppers and Jaegermechs. :D
Yeah I think it should go in the Shadowhawk's side torso.
genius at last mission. lets charge the center & get flanked on both sides.. genius
You DO want that Kintaro with the 4 SRM4 .. Man this thing is so much fun .. Full Alpha at some Light and Medium .. and down they go :-D
After I beat the game, I went ahead and advanced the timeline to May 3050 and went to Rasalhague Republic.... no clans =( I didn't expect it, but I had hope for something special at least. They really should have removed the calendar imo.
Got to love a good LRM boat.
Rare mechs often provide double heat sinks. You go and buy them, remove DH and sell the mech.
I am about the same place as you in the game, although I've bought and been using a Cyclops and a Zeus. So far, I've found the best ballistic weapon to be the UAC/5 but ammo for it is hard to find. The Dragon with the UAC/5 is quite spectacular.
Save those MPLs for a Black Knight, Battle Master or a Banshee (the one with 5 energy slots on left side torso). I have MPLs on all those mech's and they melt everything that cross my path.
The Kintaro is a great player-mech all the way up to Rep 10+! ( especially a Golden Boy). I used mine forever. Until I found my BB Catapult.
Ok so I went deep into Steiner space and played two 400 ton missions when all I had was about 265 tons. I beat them both, and the damage was amazing. Got two tier 4 AC10 BFs out of it, and stuck them on my Jagermech. Was really scary though.
Asks you to take Catapult in an earlier episode. You find one in a market. Doesnt buy. My heart...
Great video....pity to wait a year to play it myself
Hey Baradul does the game keep track of your kills? I'd be curious to see how many kills you have. Great video! :)
Is there something in-game to see the lore of the Hero mechs? Or do you just know things about it from history with the franchise/wikis/etc?
loving your videos btw. I'm about 20 hours into the game myself and really enjoying it. Just got my first couple assault mechs. Stalker missile boat is such a fun build with the spawns being farther away now, for the most part
that lbx should go into the shadowhawk played by baradul, this thing would rip.
10:39 well, that's actually half a Mech.
MartwoPiola 😆😆😆 that was my thought exactly!
wow i got to say this game is cool
Just want to commend you on your pronunciations of new English words. You nailed them first time. I try and speak German and my friends spend ten minutes lecturing me.
Yes English is a brutal language sometimes. We have words from everywhere. So much of English comes from German and Norse and Gaelic and also Latin and French but English also borrows from the slavic world too... That's why English can be called the "bastard language of Europe".
I think a command wheel on q would be awesome
Your English is better than most who are born speaking it, don't worry about it.
Where is the Heavy metal?
I've got a headcannon that Freeman's seemingly suicidal tendencies are a side effect of his PTSD from losing his entire lance.
I only give him cheap mechs that I don't mind replacing parts of. Unless a human is playing him because his stats are great.
i found javelins a great cheap replacement mechs.
There has to be a 'pilot background' running were some AI pilots are more reckless than others.
I have a random Capt. Grom who will not let go of a target. He's punched out twice already thanks to him turning the Centurion around to fight in a 1v4.
Survivor's guilt, I like that.
heres a note the easiest way to get an orian is to go to free worlds league
it seams the houses have mechs that are more prevlevent to themselfs then the others which makes sense lorewise
edit:i belive shadow hawks are cursed mine has allways taken a good amount of damage
also hero mechs are hella expensive thought have double heat sinks on them lostech
endosteel,better engines,etc they are good for saving weight while being very powerfull
also im i a madman for putting a ultra autocannon 5 on the hero wolverine
an another hero mech example is the javlin its litterally both of the other javlins loadout together 4 medium lasers 2 srm 6s
so i am thinking of getting this game if it ever comes to steam (so. won't be until the end of the year) and i was wondering. is the marauder in the game? i know putting the marauder in anywhere is a bit. iffy. but it is my favorite mech and i was wondering if you saw one during your entire playthrough?
Thanks for the video
Honestly, a SHD-2D is known to have fairly low armour to make room for the additional weapons. The 2H or 2K version should be more to your armour taste...
However, I'm sure you know that.
I'm beginning to think that Shadow Hawk is cursed!. lol
Freeman got wrecked but he did 920 damage in that first engagement in the SHD-2D.
I actually like the Grasshopper, it can take quite a beating, though I think I would prefer the Warhammer if I found one :)
Different mechs. Hopper is a short range brawler in the original configuration (Jumping laserboat with a small LRM and tons of armor, good heat curve, basically a Zombi), Hammer is a long range sniper in base. The official (was BT/Mechforce turnament legal since it is in TRO 3025) 6D version was a energy based zombi mech with max armor and tons of heat sinks. Running around and dual firing PPC was the typical way to use. Good lancemates the two, the Hopper eats light mechs that close. Maybe a Laser-Centurion as a fire support
does PGI not understand the TT heat sinks rules?
Huh? There are no turn phases in this game so how could tabletop heat rules apply?
@@CrizzyEyes He means TT heat *sink* rules, i.e. you cannot mix Double and Standard Sinks on one 'mech. One or the other.
They SHOULD, as that's how it works in MWO, their other MW game. Kinda weird that they totally skipped that in this one, even though this one is even more of a simulator game, whereas MWO is more arcadey. Strange.
Do you like symmetrical or a symmetrical designs? Which ones of both are your favorite? Personally one of my favorites is the bushwacker.
One of my favourites is the Thunderbolt. That should explain a lot :)
I Personally love the design of the mad cat and timber wolf mechs
I do wonder how worth it the shiny lostech/high tier weapons and DHS really are in this game, given the sheer attrition of components your lance seems to take every drop.
I want to play Jamie Wolf's Archer 2x LRM 20, 2 Lg Lasers
Would you be interested in showing off the AI companions capabilities a bit more? The extreme version would be to pick an easier mission and never fire a single shot yourself, just pick a mix of brawlers and long-range mechs and order them around like a tactician.
I have seen others complain about the AI allies, calling them stupid for bringing their LRM mechs into brawls. But maybe that isn't really the AI's fault, the standing order is "follow me" after all and they do exactly that. They don't run away to be solo-heroes in combat either, they seem to stick together like a team. The biggest risk with splitting them up with orders seem to be that some enemy spawns could appear out of thin air ontop of someone.
Apart from last episode when a certain centurion got herself stuck behind a rock for half the mission, the AI appear both capable and obedient, but it's a bit hard to tell how good they are when you turn all enemies into scrap so fast.
what are the best weapons to take advantage of the AI anyway? srm seem to work well considering the dmg numbers of the shadowhawk being consistenly the highest of all companions. lasers and ballistics probably too, but lurms? dont really see much use for them when baradul kills flyers faster than the AI can lock their lurms on them.
@@Genesis23OPB I think it comes down to positioning, an LRM mech ordered to stand behind the brawlers should in theory be able to go all out. But if no orders are given, I would guess that the PPC/LLaser/AC's are better for the AI snipers since these can be fired during brawls too.
I'm not so sure about this, but it sometimes seems like the enemies attacks the closest target that attacks them. That should keep snipers relatively safe, but also makes LRM mechs pick targets that are too close for them to attack.
As for the best brawling weapon I have no idea. SRM's seem really effective. It also kind of looks like the AI is programmed to miss against fast moving targets, or maybe that's just the evasion skill causing that.
My mech got stuck in place on a late game campaign mission, so I had to rely on my lance (3 cyclops brawlers) to carry me to victory. They did not disappoint.
Any plans to get clan tech in an expansion pack or something?
so since this game is getting all the views are we done with the mwo daily dose? you had a good run with that
ENGRISH WURDS!
The shadowhawk whoopin ass at 920 dmg over the centurion at 720 and the trashbucket at 473.
Yeah it's ironic, I would expect the AI to be good at simply picking a target and spamming missiles... But apparently this is a very hard concept for them to grasp. Brawling, on the other hand...
Yes upload twice a day
Did the last Patch changed the Dificulty by a lot?
Played not much for the past days, was in the 200~ Tonage range, easy missions with 4 Hunchies... moved to 230 - still easy, moved to 280 - bit hardern adjusted my Mechs, field a different lance now.... but then on the second 280 and several ~70 rated missions the enemys are... absurd in masses. I peak around a corner and 10+ Cicadas get aggrod with lots of Heli's and Tanks... its not that a Cicada perse is a thread... but if 10 of them swarm you with Flamers... while the backline has 1-3 Medium/Heavy Mechs like Jeager and Hunchbacks sitting there... my Medium/Heavy Lance gets EATEN alive every mission, resulting in 80-100 days repairs every single mission... for testings I fielded a Banshe with Max-Armor, two Hoppers with Max-Armor and a Marauder with Max-Armor... on a Demolition Mission with 3 Bases - after the second one a Hopper was lost, second one at 30% the Banshe was close to done and only my Marauder was still fighting back... compared to lower difficulty missions with 200 tonnage where my Lance did not even get below 90% most times it feels like a different world.
Short - the difference between 200 and 300+ tonnage missions (if fielded the max-weight) feels like the difference between playing Pokemon to Dark Souls... is this based on the latest Patch? (So lower Tonnage missions would also be harder now) or its just... the way the Game is? Because its getting much less Fun, as I expected that the Enemys would maybe just field bigger Mechs as well, instead of just SWARMS of Flamermechs and Heli's...
Cant you do 2x 1 hour Episodes on one day? Pretty Please? :) pwease!
Does walking trough buildings and walls give u damage?
Am now lvl14 and do mission lvl90 alot of fun
Warhammer is beautiful.... :)
Save that lbx for a cataprhact or nightwolf.
that javelin was trying to get 'ahead' in the marketplace though :p
methinks you should just upgrade the torso guns on the hawk and remove the lasers from arms n just use em as shields :x
I'd prefer the ~40 min vids. Easier to digest.
EDIT: Might consider adding some flamers to one of the mechs you personally drive to make demo missions easier.
nice brawl )))
an engagement range would be nice, or set them to follow you by X meters, however the ai pilots in my game end up doing what they want regardless, I'll send them to a waypoint, and if I dont keep spamming it during combat, they'll just go a kilometer away into the middle of the fray all the while making everything spawn. I tire of replacing so many weapons.
That trebuchet dosent seems very useful some times.
Question, if the hero Hunchback mech has the Gauss destroyed is it possible to fix or replace it?
Normally the hero Mechs are in prestine condition.
@@FreakShootA as in if it was damaged or destroyed in battle
You can buy a new gauss if the old is broken, but they are very rare on the market in the beginning of the game.
If it is destroyed (red) you have to find or buy another one. If it is damaged (yellow) you can repair it. But LosTech is very rare in the beginning... After year 3028 LosTech is in Stores, after 3030 nearly every shop has LosTech.
vid time 22:20.. "still really slow in my books"... thats because PGI refuses to add REAL arty mechs to their games... ive been asking for a C3 Cat for ages now in MWO... and if you had one in MW5, you could make use of that Arrow IV missile system and level that town in no time.... well shorter time at least...lol... and its not like that Catapult is defenceless either, it still has med lasers just like other varients...
you should of read cpt gore's bio :P
guess i'm just a grinder, but we are the same distance through the campaign, but I have 3 assaults and have a full 12 mechs. btw the awesome and battlemasters are broke as hell at this point in the game.
Lol! So many comments in the last couple episodes about you cutting to the bone on finances. Yeah.. They must be new here! Lets not even talk about Baradul losing BattleTech because he ran out of money! I myself am not even as far Baradul but I have 16 mil atm and field a battlemaster and have a couple of heavies. I just can't run them all because of tonnage restrictions. Baradul you have to get your spending under control and make the right purchases. Money is so easy and your are so damn skilled with your shooting you carry your entire lance every battle. You should be swimming in money! By the way who cares about where you repair... Your wasting money going somewhere to repair unless you have backed yourself into a corner so bad you have no choice. You need to suck up those missions and rotate your mechs and be good enough not to have a lot of down time. You have to move and you need the rep built up to reap rewards. You need to be grateful and take the nuts and bolts weapons in salvage for replacements as needed. Downtime is your enemy. Baraduls enemy in every play through is his greed for shiny things. That's fine. He delivers.
Does this mean you'll upload another episode later?
How many years does the campaign take? Just 9 years till the discovery of the helm memory core.
it goes up to 3059 if I'm not mistaken
@@ZeroSpeaks Wait. Doesn't the clan invasions happend in 3049. Does this game have clanner tech?
@@roflfin sadly no, it stops a year before the clan invasion in 3050, I kinda feel like they'll make the clan invasion dlc if the base game does well enough.
though that's just a thought
@@ZeroSpeaks They have all of the assets in MWO already... I'm sure they are milking it for the DLC.