MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries | Tips and tricks | Starting out
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2019
- In this video I'll go over a couple of things I have learn over the last few days that will hopefully help a few of you who are starting out fresh.
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@@swishpronoob awesome. Let me know how playing on a controller is.
I'm at the late game stage and I'm going to write some tips that I haven't seen anybody else mentioned, if you find this useful, please thumbs up so more people can benefit from it.
AI Companion guide:
First of all, every guide I watched says: "always press F1 twice to focus fire on your target mech." This is the absolute worst idea, let me explain why. Every battle has 60+ mobs of tanks and helicopters. Starting mid game they are armed with PPC and LRM15s, focus fire on a mech will leave all the mobs unchecked and they will end you in 30 seconds. Your AI companions are actually fast at taking out small mobs, 2 or 3 shots usually, don't stop them. My strategy is to pilot a mech with more armor to aggro the enemy mechs until my AI companions clean the little mobs, then use focus fire when there are only multiple enemy mechs left.
Don't spam commands to your AI companions, if you pay attention, every time you issue a command, they will stop what their doing for about a second, then do what you asked, so if you keep spamming F1,F2 to form up on you, they will just slow down and stand there. I only use it when one of them broke off to chase an enemy, they usually follow you anyway.
On top of jump jets, don't use unguided missiles on AI companion mechs, they suck at using it.
Battle guide:
When you start any battle, always look at the map first (press B) and walk along the parameter, the direct line to your objective is usually an ambush and you will be overwhelmed with enemies from all sides. This is especially the case in main quest battles, take the road less traveled and use hills to hide behind from long range enemy fire. The difference is night and day.
Sticking to walls is critical, sometimes it can't be helped you are surrounded by enemies, most of them targeting you, if you're near a hill, you can reverse into cover and wait for them to come to you with all 4 of your mechs ready to gun them down.
Late game logistic guide:
When you're heading into a higher rank war zone, save your game at an industrial hub first, then fly over and see what the new tonnage requirement is at the new zone, reload the game back at your industrial hub to chose which 4 mechs to load to meet that tonnage. This will save you lots of money in repairs and refit at the warzone (usually cost 300% more). Not all higher rank war zone will allow more tonnage, my tip is stay in the lowest ranking war zone with the highest tonnage of your mech capacity for farming, it's not worth losing your valued weapons in a more difficult battle capped at the same tonnage.
I have more strategies but this is all I can remember for now. Good luck.
Good stuff. walking the perimeter is actually something I was going to put in my part 2 tips and tricks.
Thx.. btw how do i heal in combat?
You sir are a saint lol I am new to the series and I am just getting ass blasted
@@dsilverleaf4668, unless you’re in one of the rare missions with an active repair bay, you don’t.
Couple of other tips from me (yeah, I'm late to the party):
- You can skip time on "timeline" tab, if you have mechs to repair or refit but nowhere to travel. Avoid repairing in warzones if you can help it - 20-50% increase is not crippling yet, but there are zones with over 100% increases.
- The map is rather lore-accurate and changes over time - some factions may merge or cease to exist over time, wiping your progress with them - so there is no real consequence in doing missions against them early on.
- Mechs and variants also become available as per their lore introductions.
- speaking of reputation - pay attention to factions you make contracts with - better your reputation, better stuff you can negotiate. The bonuses are fairly substantial.
- if you are playing story campaign - keep good relations with 'Independents' - a lot of the story missions are given by them, but also plenty of factions have missions AGAINST them... So keep that in mind.
- it is a good idea to get one or two pips in repair coverage, but otherwise go for salvage, but for missions that require you to just demolish buildings or grab items as quickly - it may be a better idea to go with increased cash.
- your lance mates are really good with PPCs and long range weaponry in general. Short lasers and machine guns... not so much.
- speaking of lance mates - the AI loves aiming for the arms, so perhaps mounting too expensive weapons there, or double heatsinks is not a good idea.
- it is a good idea to keep couple of fast mechs even later on - you might think they would become redundant... And they largely are. You will likely not take down the lance of Atlases in a Flea, but a small, fast mech with machine guns and flamers is fantastic for demolition missions.
- train yourself for headshots - better chance to salvage.
- I have noticed that mechs that go critical also have a chance to be salvageable - but obviously they will be heavily damaged and will require very costly repairs.
- It appears that some of the destroyed mechs in conflict zones get salvaged and find their way on the mech market - so if you didn't have enough points to salvage something you liked, chances are you will find it on the market in the area.
- 'rare mech' offers are quite often overpriced, but not always.
- do not be afraid of using ammo-based weapons, especially SRMs - medium laser and SRM combo is absolutely amazing and will save you much trouble.
- do not underestimate those dinky little tanks and helicopters - they can deal considerable damage if left to their own devices, even to mighty assault mechs.
- plenty of weapons have what I call "flavour" variants - missiles may come in normal or stream, autocannons come in normal or burst fire, lasers can be normal or short burn. There are some functional differences. Stream missiles are somewhat more accurate, BUT fire longer and thus are easier to shoot down. Burst autocannon also fires longer, and gives you ability to hit multiple parts, short burn lasers have lower damage, faster reload and are more heat efficient. Some may work better on different builds or be a matter of taste. For example - short burn lasers are nice if your mech has a tendency to run hot, normal autocannon is better for poking etc.
Cool tips man! One more important tip: On many mechs there are important weapons, like on the centurion you have in the beginning. If the gun is gone, most of your fire-power is too. Remember those spots and try during combat to concentrate on those spots. Urban Mech is fantastic example. If the gun is gone, the Mech can be ignored (or finished later) same goes for the Centurion and many many other mechs. Also if you fight one alone, it is often a good strategy to just blow its legs.
Excellent point. Also why you want to protect your own weapons as well. Picking a chassis with hard points on the body verse arms is also good idea.
Here's a good early tip I found out. Keep an eye out for the Commando COM-TDK hero mech in the early market. It's just over 3 million C-Bills. Buy it, strip it of parts, and sell it back (best way to do it is throw it in cold storage, throw it back in your mech bay, then sell it). Now you have 4 double heatsinks. Go off and do some missions, then come back and find it on sale again (save scum to get it to appear if you have to). Rinse and repeat. Never use single heatsinks again.
Nice! How much do you sell it for?
@@Mannyocrity About 800k, if I remember correctly.
that's basically ruining your own playthrough, it's already easy enough as it is
@@Cenot4ph I'll be sure to flog myself for heresy, just for you
So you say to remove extra missiles but you still had a ton of ac10 ammo and no ac 10....
Good catch. I actually fixed that right after I recorded this. I had switch from an ac/10 to ac/5 and forgot to remove the ammo. It is a good idea to look over your load out every once in a while.
A short Video with usefull Informations! Thank you Sir!
I like Mechwarrior, but I'm really just here for the accent. Nice work dude!
Thanks bud the armor adjustments helped!!
awesome!
Hi Manny, good channel and good job. You have really good content.
Lovely video my friend!
Great tips Mannyocrity, first time watcher and really enjoyed. Would love to to throw a few tips into the pot if you dont mind. Thumbs me up if you agree:
- always bring 4 mechs to combat. This spreads out the damage and can improve your effectiveness and reduce repair costs.
Keep at least one pilot in reserve in case someone gets popped in the middle of a long operation so you can keep going.
- reduce ammo in legs.
I go down by 50% and almost never get a lost leg. More space for other nice things.
- area protection (defense?) contracts: bring jump jets on your command mech, it helps a ton to intercept enemies since there's often really weird big hills/craters that can make it difficult to stop the enemy trying to trample the base. Being on top of these high areas also seems to really confuse the enemy and they are terrible at shooting you up there.
- bring additional armed mechs ready to go in your mechbay when entering a conflict zone. instead of refitting your mechs after a mission to go on to the next which can sometimes be extremely expensive, swap them out for the fresh one and throw the trashed ones in cold storage to be repaired later in a hub. This will save you a ton on operation costs for mechs maintained in your bay too.
- DONT press V unless you are a cheaty clanner LOL :)
Keep up the good work Manny!
Good stuff John!
Some good tips there, especially about the armour and how to face the enemy during a fight. I'm just starting out and struggling to take down mechs as I'm playing with a HOTAS setup and accurate aiming is challenging. Hopefully the armour tips will help me survive long enough to defeat them!
I use to play HOTAS back in MW4, but haven't gotten around to picking up a new setup. I like it being a bit more immersive, so I may get it setup one day. Which one are you using?
@@Mannyocrity I'm using the Thrustmaster T.16000 Joystick & TWCS Throttle - luckily for me this is one of the handful of HOTAS setups that the game supports out of the box. You really feel like you're piloting a mech with these controls - just takes time to adjust to aiming without a mouse. I'm getting better though... slowly.
@Shurryy Namegenerator Works for me. I did have to manually map keypresses for some things (jump jets etc) and I swapped the turn and torso twist axis over as I didn't like the default setup but yeah it works 😀
@Shurryy Namegenerator I guess there are certain HOTAS that work and certain ones that don't. They just released a hot fixed that is suppose to help fix some of those problems.
with a mouse keyboard this game is very easy to control, you might want to switch and see how that goes
Just finished the game, brought back mems of the old MW =) I ended up with like a Warmaster with lots of guns, AC ftw
I’ve just got my first king crab, was underwhelming until I swapped out one auto 20 for a slug thrower. I’m in love. I just need one more thrower and then…
Noice! Thank you.
All good tips
thanks
Don't forget to change into a clean dry diaper if you're going to use the 3rd person camera 💪
Thanks for the video man. Lots of good tips. Unfortunately I'm just starting out and I can't figure out how to repair my javelin. Two of my medium lasers got blown off in a battle. During repair I'm told that the method of repair won't replaced destroyed items. How do I replace them early in the game?
destroyed weapons and heat sinks need to be replaced and not repaired. You should start stocking up on common weapons and heatsinks that you use. Unfortunately, there is no other way.
Never played a mech game before the only thing I really struggle with is how they control coming from fast paced fps this is a massive learning curve for me but my dad loves the game and I wanted to play it with him any tip on how to get used to the controls faster
Sub. Cuz I didn't know enemies need to be in a line of sight for lock on
I jumped into this franchise starting with MW5: Merc. I am now in repair/upgrade and it shows 26 days to repair. I am confused. Is this time repair in realtime? I am only on my 3rd or 4th mission so my star map is not activated yet. I also only have one pilot being I cannot hire any until I complete the started missions. Any info would be very helpful.
Repair time is In game time. They is a wait button that will cause the days to go by and it also takes X number of days to travel between planets.
Not bad but how do you change weapon groups on the fly and chain fire? Teach me this.
You can change weapons groups on the fly by using the arrow keys to move around the weapon group UI and right ctrl key to select and unselect weapons from a group. I do not know if there is a way to enable chainfire while in combat.
I have MW5 but the lay-out is totaly different from yours or the other guy on UA-cam..how??
Plz help, how do i heal in combat. There was a repair station in the 1st mission . But not one since???
The repair stations are few and far between. You'll have to learn how to minimize damage to your mechs during combat. Engage at a distance, draw the enemy mechs out one at a time.
There’s something like 4 missions with repair bays in the entire campaign. When you see them, it’s a very good sign that you’ll *need* them.
5 has a story but a weak one it feels at times but in my mind I'm comparing it to acfa
How did do move the camera so far behind your mech?
3rd person view?
I am at rep level 9, and maxed my rep with Davion. I went over to Steiner land and found conflict areas of 11 and 12. I managed to buy an Atlas, a King Crab, a Zeus and a Victor.
It is fun fielding assault mechs but i am struggling as in a typical defence mission, i am facing waves of mediums, heavies and some assaults.
Any tips? I am finding myself earning just a little over my repair bill :(
It gets much tougher later in the campaign with the npc pilots. Have you hired higher end pilots? What level are you current pilots? Are your current pilots rushing in and dying. I typically have the pilots focus fire one mech and I'll run around taking out the tanks and helos. Try and pull a single enemy away from the area at a time and focus on them. Don't worry about the damage to the buildings. What do your loads look like. some are better then others.
@@Mannyocrity Besides the main character Mason and Freeman, the other pilots are the best i can find at skill level limit 27-28. One is maxed and one is about half-way there, being a recent hire. I have one mech configured for long to med range combat. I was using a King Crab with dual A/C 20s and a PPC.
I was having problems with their overwhelming numbers as you said, and the problem being aggravated that since I found a place with Rep level 11, at least half of every mech I encounter is a heavy or assault. I configured the King Crab to core any mech asap to make my bottom line easier but even then it is rather taxing. Can you imagine this? For a typical defence mission, I get something like this . Wave 1 is 2 lights and a medium. Barely a scratch on the paint job. Wave 2, a light, a medium and a heavy. Sometimes it comes in 4 mechs instead of 3. Ok, my guys are more or less still in one piece. Wave 3, 2 heavies and an assault. An example being a Quickdraw, a Thunderbolt and a Zeus/Victor. By now, my mechs are already quite beat up. By the 4th wave, it is at least 2-3 assaults and a heavy.
If I can make it back to base successfully after the 5th wave with one of my lance mech blown up, 2 of them and myself in the red and nearly dying, this is considered a victory
Look for the 8 or 9 conflict areas. I think they are on the Marik borders. If you get ahead of your rep you get shot up so bad you rrepair bills eat up everything. You can even go back to the 6 and 7 areas if you have 230 and 200 ton lances (sometimes I use 3 mechs) and farm them for C-bills.
David Wainio but I managed to have a lance of Assault mechs. Can i take it to mean that if i get ahead of my rep level, the repair is more expensive?
I have only made it to running heavies, but it felt like lighter heavies had the lowest repair to average mission damage on 6 and 7 rep which is 200 or 230 tons. If you run three 60 to 70 ton mechs on a 200 ton drop you tend to only take armor damage, cheap to repair so you get ahead in c-bills.
This is very surface level from a view point that is very early on in the game. You can really play any way you like and still be effective. That is why the game is so fun, it allows you to fail. My tips would be that more mechs and lance mates does not always equal better. If you have too many mechs and pilots you will constantly be broke and un able to play around with interesting setups of mechs as each mech costs passive money just to be in an active slot. Also, the more it weighs, the more it costs. With three lance mates on the field, they also tend to shot themselves more than they shoot the enemy costing you even more money. I tend to keep the individual tonage high and the lance mate numbers lower. The A.I. is also by default a worse pilot than you will be. Make sure you are piloting the highest pressure assault mech as the A.I. is very conservative with it's rate of fire.
Larger weapons does not equal better weapons. Everything has it's pros and cons, just because it is a large weapon slot does not mean you have to put a large weapon in it. If all you have is large weapons, you will lack the rate of fire to deal with multiple targets effectively. Conversely, if all you have are the smallest weapons, you will lack the fire power to bring a single target down in a timely fashion. Machine Guns are useful, especially in large quantities. The ability to keep constant pressure on your target without large recycle times is critical. Also, be careful how many missiles you put in one mech. When your armor is exposed where the missiles are stored they become bombs that blow you to pieces as the enemy shoots them.
This is more personal preference but I prefer a tighter field of view as well. The further out you are zoomed, the harder it is to see and hit targets that are further away. Also it is easier to judge weapon firing arcs from inside the cockpit rather than the third person view. Also turn off sharpening in the graphics options. It makes the shadows look really weird and breaks immersion. Shadows take on a screen door effect.
Good stuff and so true about personal preference.
Could you make the voice a little quieter? I can still understand a lot of the stuff you're saying.
I'm not sure I understand what you are asking? I also made this video over 2 and a half years ago. Obviously it is something to do with the audio. Is my voice too loud? Is in game voice too loud?
Your video is Listed as Starting out. Yet the 1st screen you show is a hanger with 7 mechs , that is not starting out. When I started I had 2 [50t Centurion (damaged) & an JVN ] mechs . Then 2 missions latter I could get a third w/pilot. On the 4th mission the market became available.
I apologize for the confusion. When I say starting out, I am referring to "tips for when you are starting out".
lol leaving with completely unnecessary ammo
I had a great time refunding this game. Hopefully in a couple years it will be the game it deserves to be. Waited over 20 years...what is two more.
Sorry to hear that.
god this game is fucking stupid no offence just to blow shit up XD hahaha like i get it dont rob the mech heads but fuck sakes man this game is assy right now XD