IIRC, there's a YAML mod setting that allows you to edit how much damaged or fresh your newly assembled mechs are gonna be. Having partial salvage is already taxing compared with the loot system v1, in terms of salvage shares needed and the knowledge of which system/weapon is destroyed or still ok.
I had to start a new career because with clan invasion it all got too easy. Even before the clans came over I had mechs that could take them on endgame missions and there wasn't much point. Some of the equipment was just too op like royal and corrosive heat sinks, mechs that could go above their weight class and let's not start with cheat weapons that are not clearly labeled as cheat weapons. Like hell, chain cannons are just better, lett heat intensive, lighter RAC but you get them for peanuts and from 3015 as well. Kinda bonkers. I wish the mod creator reigned in their desire to implement op stuff.
Hey Bara you inspired me to start a career with all the mods except clan invasion. Sure finding it hard at first but i have a team made up of a hollander and 3 Urbies. Seem to be doing ok atm. Put a heavy rifle in the Hollander. Seems to work well.
Love your content! Suggestions Place Mechs in cold storage to lower upkeep. Melee builds will allow you to get higher weight class quicker. Leg your targets for better salvage. Air strikes are a waste of resources. Jump jets are fun even on higher weight Mechs.
Mist (Jamestown) and Snowshoe (Andarmax) are both in the area for you to pick up. The GTE recruitment missions are always easier than what they show, except for Preacher....he's got a small urban map for one of his. And for fortress defense ALWAYS upgrade turrets, it's very much worth it to have 4 tier 3 turrets over 10 tier 1.
Seems like you can combine airstrikes with a TAG or a NARC to make it "follow" a target. Could be cool for taking down big mechs before you get some yourself. I would love to see a build where you use the continues lasers, on a mech that is cold enough to use them for more than 2 secs :D I think they would be good a demo missions, seeing as the buildings don't need much damage to get destroyed, so you could probably just sweep them over the base to wipe it really fast o,_,o
I have banned the locust from lineups. Aimbot still hits them sometimes. Paper strong armor stops nothing. Friend decided to try it out and then got mad when he got one shot from a ac20. My npc's are not programmed well enough to avoid shots either. Just seems pointless to repair something that can accidently be killed from friendly fire laser strafe. On paper I love the locust though. Just feel like with dumb AI and aimbot the locust can't cut it.
I'm playing with the same mods (minus clan invasion), trying to live that zero to hero life. So I'm doing my 3rd mission, a simple Defense type, when all of a sudden an UNKNOWN FACTION rolls in. They're salvagers looking to split their find if I protect them. I keep them alive til the end, and do you know what my reward was? An Atlas. An AS7-RS. Zero to hero in 3 missions. It's snowballing rapidly now.
9:55 the Fortress is yellow because it was an event mission (same source like Resource Missions). When you accept the initial transmission, these events show up in the mission list and stay there, even if leaving the planet 11:40 I think bruises can occur when the armor was breached and a mech took structural damage (only on the torso/head?). I think I remember either the Locust or the Javelin getting pretty close to being cored late in the last episode. Also, both exhaustion and injury negatively affect a pilot's performance. The %-box above missile proficiency shows how much of a nerf they get, howering the mouse over it gives a more in-depth explanation. Btw, you can just stomp over turrets to destroy them without getting explosion damage, iirc even Scary Tanks didn't change that. Another thing: you can check out your turrets with "q". While the anti-air turrets look like top value with all those AC-5-BF's, they ONLY FIRE ON FLYERS... (painful lesson I had to learn). And later on the Fortress Defense missions can get quite hard. Was running a 230ton one (I had 3x 50ton sniper mechs and an 81kph XL-Engine Charger with 2x LL and 5x ML for headcapping), I had to face 2 assault waves. First one was an Atlas and a King Crab. The very last was another one, sending in an Annihilator, Stalker and I think another 90tonner against my already half-dead mechs. Safe to say, I got utterly smacked
Clan mechs are great fun. The yaml equipment mod stats its OP and not balanced so it's best to not use it. A few simple mods I can recommend are Lancemate Status and Armor Green.
Does anyone know of a mod which provides the "clan invasion" experience involving clan attacks around the time of the clan wars and after, but without all the cheat weapons and ultra-speed pirate nonsense in "clan invasion" itself? I know yaml has a setting to 'disable pirate stuff' but that doesn't prevent certain items like the chain cannons, weird missiles and such from spawning sometimes and flooding the stores. The clan experience is amazing from that mod, but it is hindered and overshadowed by pirate stuff like PPI units with 170 tons crammed into a warhammer that runs 200 kph and has an alpha strike of 400 damage at over a kilometer. There is no reason to look forward to the small optimizations that clan tech offers when every mission is filled with pirate monstrosities that completely skew the sense of balance in the game.
well, you can tone it done a bit. I don´t find it cheating when there is occasion dropping an engine or other stuff that is accually useful.@@Forlong21
I’m trying to find the clans but I can’t find them. I’m at year 3061 and haven’t been able to fight against them. I’ve got yaml, clan invasion mod, etc…. Anyone have any idea.
Think assembly of mech parts is best done in industrial hub. You basically get tech point boost and cost reduced there for all mech work. Check on that for science. 😊
I only build my salvaged mechs at hubs. It's cheaper and I feel I get better chance of getting good stuff. But light mechs are usually slagged so immersion is on point.
The AI still looks like it is spawning units from nowhere and their only attack mode still seems to be frontal assault. They don't even try to get their mission done in a tactical way. So much wasted potential.
if you want to effectively target moving targets with air strike use the rocket type paint system (don´t know the name right now) lets you directly target mechs with airstrike could help in the early game whenn you still have less firepower
Hey, Baradul. Erst mal schöne Grüße aus Dilenburg, einem kleinen Kaff in Hessen. Ich frag jetzt, ganz frech, mal auf Deutsch: Komm ich irgendwie an deine Modsammlung ran, wenn ich nicht Steam nutze? Ich hab mir das Spiel im Gamepass gekauft, liebe aber die Mods. Wär echt cool wenn du mir einen, vielleicht kleinen Hinweis, geben könntest. Ansonsten find ich deine Videos absolut genial. Hab da echt Megaviel Spaß dran (Auch deine Battletech-Serie) Von mir dafür ganz viele Daumen HOCH!!! und wenn du mir bei meinem "kleinen" Problem helfen kannst auch gerne noch die Zehen
You really should get the FrankenMech Foray mod. It'll give you some interesting new options - like a Mech that's a cross between an Annihilator & a NightStar. Also, you may want to switch back to V1 Salvaging. It gives you whole mechs, but also parts salvage. The difference is, you wouldn't get salvage of any specific variant. It just comes up as, say, "UrbanMech Salvage" & each piece costs 1 pick. Instead of needing 5 pieces of a Mech of varying pick amounts to get a specific Mech type, you need 1 piece for every set amount of tons the mech is - with the default being 1:5 tons. So, if you have a Flea or Locust - which are 20 tons - you need 4 pieces, but for something like an Atlas you'd need 20. The thing is, once you have them, the Mech you get is actually random. With the UrbanMech pieces, for example, I got an UM-P67, which has 2 mounts of every single weapon type in the game. I've also seen pure missile types, the P69 - which is initially all about flamers & inferno missiles, & other variants as well. The more possible variants for any frame, the more likely it is you'll find something you've never seen before - & some, like the Locust 1-Vb, COME with Double Heatsink kits, Double Heatsinks, IS-Endo, IS-Ferro, & IS-XL Engines. That's how I've been kitting the Mechs I actually want out.
Bara, as usual you usually convince me to start playthrough when you start them, so I am having a fresh one now. I am pretty certain double heat sinks can be used even without DHS kit
24:13 It seems that you made two of the same. Also you only could pick varient the second time. Is it because of different types you had overall and you only need to have a few of a certain type to build it? I'm going to be getting MW5 on the Xbox, I just have to figure out where I can do the update since I don't have reliable Internet at my place.
The 'variant picking' on the second one was because he didn't have enough parts to complete the second one, so it was letting him choose to take parts from other Urbanmech variants he had parts for to complete it, at a higher build cost. Also keep in mind, if you get it on Xbox, it's going to be a _very_ different game from what you're seeing here, a lot less customization on the mechs, and salvage only lets you take full mechs instead of parts, which is a lot more expensive.
You can sometimes loot a mech in ressources missions, with standard checkpoins (not high value targets). I got my hands on a assassin with XL engine and endosteel.
I also reloaded your Mod Pack and started a new run through… (only the Mods on Steam though)… I have Not noticed any FIXED components as of yet… As such, ALL Components are Yankable including XL & XL(c) engines. Looking Forward to the new Mechwarrior 5 CLAN Invasion… Hoping it comes in early 2024! Cheers!
Liao eh . . we may have to keep a closer watch on your behaviour . .
IIRC, there's a YAML mod setting that allows you to edit how much damaged or fresh your newly assembled mechs are gonna be. Having partial salvage is already taxing compared with the loot system v1, in terms of salvage shares needed and the knowledge of which system/weapon is destroyed or still ok.
I had to start a new career because with clan invasion it all got too easy. Even before the clans came over I had mechs that could take them on endgame missions and there wasn't much point. Some of the equipment was just too op like royal and corrosive heat sinks, mechs that could go above their weight class and let's not start with cheat weapons that are not clearly labeled as cheat weapons. Like hell, chain cannons are just better, lett heat intensive, lighter RAC but you get them for peanuts and from 3015 as well. Kinda bonkers. I wish the mod creator reigned in their desire to implement op stuff.
Clan Invasion mod is a clusterfuck.
@@PraetorGix really hoping the Clan expansion coming next year will be light years better.
@@tommantek3632If you mean the official thing, isn't it a stand-alone game? I don't think it's an expack in the same sense as like Kestrel Lancers
@@Foostinithink its a dlc. Since its teaser video is titled mechwarrior 5 clans
@@RobertJones-vb2qi that was my impression that it still requires MW5.
"Let´s just kill all of these guys and..."
"Lol." said the behemoth. "LMAO even."
I hope you will repair Whitworth. I've never seen it in action.
Hey Bara you inspired me to start a career with all the mods except clan invasion. Sure finding it hard at first but i have a team made up of a hollander and 3 Urbies. Seem to be doing ok atm. Put a heavy rifle in the Hollander. Seems to work well.
High tier heavy rifles are fun! Had a Centurion with one that made it through the mid game, holding it's own with heavies and assaults.
Love your content!
Suggestions
Place Mechs in cold storage to lower upkeep.
Melee builds will allow you to get higher weight class quicker.
Leg your targets for better salvage.
Air strikes are a waste of resources.
Jump jets are fun even on higher weight Mechs.
i've been waiting for this for three days at least, lunch is on and now i'll devour this vid^^
Mist (Jamestown) and Snowshoe (Andarmax) are both in the area for you to pick up. The GTE recruitment missions are always easier than what they show, except for Preacher....he's got a small urban map for one of his. And for fortress defense ALWAYS upgrade turrets, it's very much worth it to have 4 tier 3 turrets over 10 tier 1.
"Bye, Ryana!" *BOOOM*. Quite the sendoff!
More Urbies, more Firestarters, more lasers and more flamers - sounds like fun..!!
I call a lance of Urbies an Urbie Derbie. 😆
Seems like you can combine airstrikes with a TAG or a NARC to make it "follow" a target.
Could be cool for taking down big mechs before you get some yourself.
I would love to see a build where you use the continues lasers, on a mech that is cold enough to use them for more than 2 secs :D
I think they would be good a demo missions, seeing as the buildings don't need much damage to get destroyed, so you could probably just sweep them over the base to wipe it really fast o,_,o
Derwishes are such good little monsters . .
Everytime you move from one planet to another check mech market , like a smart person .
exited to watch the new mw5 episode, by the way personally the videos around an hour-hour and a half long are the best😁
I have banned the locust from lineups. Aimbot still hits them sometimes. Paper strong armor stops nothing. Friend decided to try it out and then got mad when he got one shot from a ac20. My npc's are not programmed well enough to avoid shots either. Just seems pointless to repair something that can accidently be killed from friendly fire laser strafe. On paper I love the locust though. Just feel like with dumb AI and aimbot the locust can't cut it.
Von Biomes can be really hard on the AI pilots. They'll get stuck behind destroyable rocks or locked in a corner
Not to mention turrets in rocks lol
I'm playing with the same mods (minus clan invasion), trying to live that zero to hero life. So I'm doing my 3rd mission, a simple Defense type, when all of a sudden an UNKNOWN FACTION rolls in. They're salvagers looking to split their find if I protect them. I keep them alive til the end, and do you know what my reward was? An Atlas. An AS7-RS. Zero to hero in 3 missions. It's snowballing rapidly now.
Maybe Fahaad would have time and resources to fix the Leopard of you weren't always breaking mechs. 😉😆
9:55 the Fortress is yellow because it was an event mission (same source like Resource Missions). When you accept the initial transmission, these events show up in the mission list and stay there, even if leaving the planet
11:40 I think bruises can occur when the armor was breached and a mech took structural damage (only on the torso/head?). I think I remember either the Locust or the Javelin getting pretty close to being cored late in the last episode. Also, both exhaustion and injury negatively affect a pilot's performance. The %-box above missile proficiency shows how much of a nerf they get, howering the mouse over it gives a more in-depth explanation.
Btw, you can just stomp over turrets to destroy them without getting explosion damage, iirc even Scary Tanks didn't change that.
Another thing: you can check out your turrets with "q". While the anti-air turrets look like top value with all those AC-5-BF's, they ONLY FIRE ON FLYERS... (painful lesson I had to learn). And later on the Fortress Defense missions can get quite hard. Was running a 230ton one (I had 3x 50ton sniper mechs and an 81kph XL-Engine Charger with 2x LL and 5x ML for headcapping), I had to face 2 assault waves. First one was an Atlas and a King Crab. The very last was another one, sending in an Annihilator, Stalker and I think another 90tonner against my already half-dead mechs. Safe to say, I got utterly smacked
Time for the hardened armor urbie with 600 something armor. fingers crossed you come across the srm one
45:00 the ragdoll spider😂
Clan mechs are great fun. The yaml equipment mod stats its OP and not balanced so it's best to not use it.
A few simple mods I can recommend are Lancemate Status and Armor Green.
Please please please go 5/8/5 on the assassin with four srm2 and two medium lasers. Be a striker. U will be amazed.
The mission is long and full of terrors. 😄
Good video Bara. Build the Assassin and use that free Firestarter! 🙂
Come on Bara, 50 ton limit challenge, you can do it. Get to da choppah!
Yes this was a long video but they are never long enough :D
Does anyone know of a mod which provides the "clan invasion" experience involving clan attacks around the time of the clan wars and after, but without all the cheat weapons and ultra-speed pirate nonsense in "clan invasion" itself? I know yaml has a setting to 'disable pirate stuff' but that doesn't prevent certain items like the chain cannons, weird missiles and such from spawning sometimes and flooding the stores. The clan experience is amazing from that mod, but it is hindered and overshadowed by pirate stuff like PPI units with 170 tons crammed into a warhammer that runs 200 kph and has an alpha strike of 400 damage at over a kilometer. There is no reason to look forward to the small optimizations that clan tech offers when every mission is filled with pirate monstrosities that completely skew the sense of balance in the game.
🔥🔥🔥
I always enable all the devices around the outside of the Stronghold first. They are your first line of defense.
Bara, Mod recommendation!
Stacked Crates
MechWarrior Music Medley
Sounds of the succetion wars
Stacked crates is fun but it's definitely a cheat level mod
well, you can tone it done a bit. I don´t find it cheating when there is occasion dropping an engine or other stuff that is accually useful.@@Forlong21
I’m trying to find the clans but I can’t find them. I’m at year 3061 and haven’t been able to fight against them. I’ve got yaml, clan invasion mod, etc…. Anyone have any idea.
I know this is a modded playthrough... what mod is making his mechs faster? I'd love a fast trash can
Think assembly of mech parts is best done in industrial hub. You basically get tech point boost and cost reduced there for all mech work.
Check on that for science. 😊
I only build my salvaged mechs at hubs. It's cheaper and I feel I get better chance of getting good stuff. But light mechs are usually slagged so immersion is on point.
The AI still looks like it is spawning units from nowhere and their only attack mode still seems to be frontal assault. They don't even try to get their mission done in a tactical way. So much wasted potential.
if you want to effectively target moving targets with air strike use the rocket type paint system (don´t know the name right now) lets you directly target mechs with airstrike could help in the early game whenn you still have less firepower
Hey, Baradul. Erst mal schöne Grüße aus Dilenburg, einem kleinen Kaff in Hessen.
Ich frag jetzt, ganz frech, mal auf Deutsch:
Komm ich irgendwie an deine Modsammlung ran, wenn ich nicht Steam nutze? Ich hab mir das Spiel im Gamepass gekauft, liebe aber die Mods.
Wär echt cool wenn du mir einen, vielleicht kleinen Hinweis, geben könntest.
Ansonsten find ich deine Videos absolut genial. Hab da echt Megaviel Spaß dran (Auch deine Battletech-Serie) Von mir dafür ganz viele Daumen HOCH!!! und wenn du mir bei meinem "kleinen" Problem helfen kannst auch gerne noch die Zehen
31:36 was someone else nearly losing the sh*t and think as calm as possible „put them in the cold storage, tho“ 😅
I've been stripping out the Kit Fox's "(C) XL Engine" in my play through.
Fixed internals is an option in yaml clan mod. You must have it off.
Behemoth! :D
You really should get the FrankenMech Foray mod. It'll give you some interesting new options - like a Mech that's a cross between an Annihilator & a NightStar.
Also, you may want to switch back to V1 Salvaging. It gives you whole mechs, but also parts salvage. The difference is, you wouldn't get salvage of any specific variant. It just comes up as, say, "UrbanMech Salvage" & each piece costs 1 pick. Instead of needing 5 pieces of a Mech of varying pick amounts to get a specific Mech type, you need 1 piece for every set amount of tons the mech is - with the default being 1:5 tons. So, if you have a Flea or Locust - which are 20 tons - you need 4 pieces, but for something like an Atlas you'd need 20. The thing is, once you have them, the Mech you get is actually random. With the UrbanMech pieces, for example, I got an UM-P67, which has 2 mounts of every single weapon type in the game. I've also seen pure missile types, the P69 - which is initially all about flamers & inferno missiles, & other variants as well. The more possible variants for any frame, the more likely it is you'll find something you've never seen before - & some, like the Locust 1-Vb, COME with Double Heatsink kits, Double Heatsinks, IS-Endo, IS-Ferro, & IS-XL Engines. That's how I've been kitting the Mechs I actually want out.
Bara, as usual you usually convince me to start playthrough when you start them, so I am having a fresh one now. I am pretty certain double heat sinks can be used even without DHS kit
Yes they can be used!
There is an option to enforce matching sinks and kits. I'm pretty sure Bara has this option on by choice
@@danielreader4814 yes, he installed it. You can see the mods list in the first episode.
@@danielreader4814 I thought he left most of stuff default there
Was excited to watch the vid and see which cool urbie youd choose, watching you make 2 primitives kind of broke my heart lol
24:13
It seems that you made two of the same. Also you only could pick varient the second time. Is it because of different types you had overall and you only need to have a few of a certain type to build it? I'm going to be getting MW5 on the Xbox, I just have to figure out where I can do the update since I don't have reliable Internet at my place.
The 'variant picking' on the second one was because he didn't have enough parts to complete the second one, so it was letting him choose to take parts from other Urbanmech variants he had parts for to complete it, at a higher build cost.
Also keep in mind, if you get it on Xbox, it's going to be a _very_ different game from what you're seeing here, a lot less customization on the mechs, and salvage only lets you take full mechs instead of parts, which is a lot more expensive.
Yep, getting established, but soon enough you might have to jump up a weight class.
You can sometimes loot a mech in ressources missions, with standard checkpoins (not high value targets). I got my hands on a assassin with XL engine and endosteel.
I'm for an urbie lance
Hey... second. Can't wait for Bara to play the new Clans game!
in 2024 tho
The hot rod Urbie cannot be stopped!
I also reloaded your Mod Pack and started a new run through… (only the Mods on Steam though)…
I have Not noticed any FIXED components as of yet… As such, ALL Components are Yankable including XL & XL(c) engines.
Looking Forward to the new Mechwarrior 5 CLAN Invasion… Hoping it comes in early 2024!
Cheers!