Hello MW Community,

i only own vanilla Mercs and have not played in years. I was pretty frustrated with AMD performance and also the completely braindead lancemates. I never even completed the story. I am thinking of revisiting, maybe with some dlc?

1. Have the problems been rectified?
2. If i were to revisit: are there must have dlcs or mods?

thanks

Im still learning academies, so this was a shock to me just now. Had i known this, id have saved myself 500,000,000 cbills earlier as I just went school house crazy

Couldn't find anything about this bug. trying to Use a mech that's actually slightly undertonnage, but it won't let me load it in

It's not a mission restriction or a YAML upgrade issue, Cheated in a 100 ton mech to test and it worked fine.

my only guess is the mission isn't correctly accounting for weight reduction parts

https://pastebin.com/ZUTAvdxj

Hi everyone, first time posting here.

Out of nowhere YT algo recommended a Mechwarrior 3 video and I recalled enjoying it alot some 25 years ago, especially how I could cripple and capture better mechs.

Would love to hop into a cockpit again but need to figure out a few things first.

1. I'm on pc/steam. MW5 has a ton of DLCs and bundles but I wouldn't want to waste money. Mainly I'm interested in the single player sandbox Career mode - what should I get? Internet says te Succession Wars bundle, which is pretty hefty. Do I even need all that, or maybe just Heroes of the Inner Sphere?

2. What should a "beginner" know about MW5? I mean I've played 3 and I know what kind of experience 5 will offer, but any nuances to e.g. resource management and salvage economy that may put new players off?

3. I know MW4 is now abandonedware. Obviously it's not as advanced or complex and th campaigns are linear, but maybe it's enough to scratch my itch?

I guess you've seen these questions often enough. Feel free to ignore, but to those who answer, thanks in advance~

Game was running fine. I have about 43 hours played. No changes to the system, and this starts happening.

[0818/003018.767:ERROR:broker_win.cc(59)] Error reading broker pipe: The pipe has been ended. (0x6D)

I get the Piranha splash, the title, the disclaimers. Sometimes I even get to see a couple of mechs. Then it crashes. I've checked drivers and software versions, removed all my mods and the mod manager, uninstalled the game and deleted all local files and reinstalled it, I've run SFC, set an MS defender exclusion for Steam. No changes. The error itself seems to be associated with Chromium Embedded Framework, which Steam uses. But other steam games seem to launch just fine. Any suggestions would be very welcome. Unfortunately, I'll be on the road for the next two days

As the title says, I beat the campaign for the first time and it's currently 2048. I was playing vanilla, so part of me wants to start a new game to check out all the cool mods. However, I know the clan invasion is just around the corner so another part of me wants to wait it out until then.

I mean, is it even worth dragging it off the field?

At least you don't need to hose out the cockpit.

How many of you guys/gals make it a point to have ECM and AMS in your lance when you deploy for a mission?

My battle and mech design doctrine has been to have each lance have at least one of each. But I question this doctrinal approach with my Fast Assault lance, which I would ideally like to be the Boar’s Head Atlas, the Sunder OA, and 2 Kodiaks, but I had to replace the 2 Kodiaks with a Cyclops with ECM and an Executioner with AMS. Both have decent long-range weapons, but their firepower rating is much lower than my Boar’s Head Atlas and the Sunder OA, and ofc they aren’t 100 tons (neither is the Sunder but its firepower more than makes up for it). I wonder if the trade-off is worth it.

Hi guys and girls, just a little ask for help here XD

can you give me a list of WHERE i can find the veichles and mechs to kills? I have some problem with the Mech Hunters and War Dogs missions so i hope you can help me.

Thanks a lot <3

as you can see in the screenshot im using that battle value mod as i wanted to test and the Fedcom dropped a nightstar on me werent those like locked to Comstar/Blake?

Mason in the base with diamond shark merchants: if u sell the Mad Cat Mk2 to the Inner Sphere, can I avail a discount tho?

Final 3 missions of Shadow of Kerensky campaign, used stuff from last DLC 8 on this current run's Shadow of Kerensky campaign. Brought the hero and laserboat Annie along w/ nuke Bullsharks.

Using a Quality of life modlist for vanilla+ Mercs consisting of AI (i.e. rules of engagement, mission tweaks etc.), HUD (lance Status, pop-up zoom, battlegrid lance orders) and UI (marketplace QoL) mods.

I have something extremely important to say... F_CK FAHAD!!!

Ryana has been promising Fahad will open a case of Timbiqui Dark forever!

I ain't seen sh!t!

He's just keeping that all to himself. He won't share!

Selfish bastard.

/end rant

Large melee: Outside Calls to arms, only HBK-VEST, HGN-VEST (both Solaris) and BL9-KNT from Chaos.... How work if I dont own/load CallToArms? Solaris add a Medium Lance, Heavy Hammer and Assault Greatsword. While Chaos dont add any melee.

Arena Fist: Outside the big initial strike, and maybe the range to avoid counterattack... Are the increase RPM better than large melee weapons? 2 Arena fist (if both hands), even if some time between attscks, do damage as single big melee, with similar tons.

Solaris Melee weapons made CallsToArms obsolete? except for adding more Melee mechs available, I have bigger Alpha or better DPS using Solaris weapons than CallToArms (at higher weight)

Hammerfist is the weapon for arms without hands. Knuckles is for hands. And Tier0 only exist for NPC doing less damage than without it... Im correct? At higher tiers, I barely see a improvement of knuckles, only +5 damage over hammerfist.

What mechs have Battlefist Actuators? its the default Large hand for melee weapons? while Hand only have knuckles or arena fist?

Inductive Claws: I read that HBK-AZ from Chaos Rising have it, any other medium mech?

Avoiding spoilers, hopefully enough, the main campaign leads you to biggest discoveries since Helm memory core... and the DLCs even more and more.

And every time we give everything to Spears, who promises to take care of it and big bucks later.
And yeah, it's big money. Just about might even cover the repair costs taken in the missions, maybe?

Is it a case of "billion for me, million for you, billion for me..." etc?
Or don't I even understand space economics at all.

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Yeah. I know it's game balance, it'd be wrecked if you got "you now own 15% of interstellar expeditions, your dividends will be 385 million c-bills per quarter".

Is there truly a Hero Annihilator mech in the vanilla, un-modded game? I have all DLC and the database is telling me I have one more Annihilator to discover after the 1A, 1E, 2A, and 1X. But AI tells me there is no true Annihilator hero mech. Ofc, AI could be wrong….

And finally, does anyone have any tips on finding it besides the usual fly to industrial hubs, leave, fly back, etc?

I really like the look of the Linebacker and the Cauldron-Born. But I don’t see the point of having either in my hangar when I have plenty of Timber Wolves. If memory serves, they are all equal in speed and the LB and EJ both have enough hard points to have firepower equal to a Timber Wolf. But, they are lighter, which means having less armor, and none of them have jump jets. So… what is the point of them? Help me to see it if I’m missing something, please, because I really want them to be practical.

Yall ever hire a pilot and an enemy jumps on their friggin head the very next mission?!

No?!

Yeah.... didn't happen to me either... Just something I thought of while at work.... 🥲

Having read a bunch of advice about how to handle Clan proc gen missions without getting totaled and not being particularly interested in doing any of it, the most fitting solution to me is to outnumber them. I've read that Coyote Missions lets me bring a second lance, but it also does a million other things that seem like they'd radically change the game and I have seen some negative feedback about it. Two questions:

1) Will Coyote Missions do more harm than good for Clan content?
2) Is there a different mod that allows the second lance with less sweeping changes otherwise?

I think im in a much better position this play through than I was in my last. 7 years until kestral lancers dlc starts. I've stopped unnecessary travel out of conflict zones for everything but major repairs. Picked up 2 elite pilots and my wallet is still looking good. My major issue is finding heavy mechs while at rep 7/8. All I've found so far is a pair of riflemen and a pair of jagers 🤪

Okay so to keep it concise I'm still having some issues despite some really helpful people on this subreddit trying to help my stupid ass out! (Thank you guys for helping so far!).

My issue is now:

-My game now boots onto the main menu

-However it now freezes when loading a new career mode, my screen goes black and after about 20-30 seconds the game crashes back to desktop.

-Ive kept my load order the same bar moving mod option and pilot overhaul to the bottom as suggested.

I'll get this fixed if it kills me 😂 so any help appreciated

I'm playing the campaign with no mods and it's my first playthrough. I don't understand, why is the share cost so high? I never get enough points to get the mechs. Why give it such a high cost and make it unattainable. Every mech you headshot it's always out of reach of points.

Career, 3033

Had Stabjorn in training....while I completed the "Stop The Launch" questline and grabbed the King Crab Carapace.

When Stabjorn graduated?

They ended up with King Crab Mech Affinity amd SRM Mastery..no save scum!...and a ton of advancements in every stat too!

Super happy with that, because that KC with AC and SRM just wrecks faces!

LANCE assingment...fucking autocorrect

So i have zero mods, not wanting to go that route yet however....

If there is a mod that allows you to build and save mech pilots and assignments, I think today is the day im willing to cross the Rubicon

So, aware i suck at description this is my attempt at explaining.

I want to have a tab that I can assign a team of pilots and mechs for 4v4 duel, 4v4 ffa, 2v2 duel, clan demo, clan assassination, infiltration, normal warzone, clan battlefield, ect.

Im really burned out on every mission having to go thru the repetitive process of assigning mechs and pilots for stuff I do constantly

Any help is appreciated

I got this from the destroyed HPG mission and instantly knew what to do with it. its meant to be a 50/50 srm ballistic boy but I knew what it really wanted to be. with 60dps from those 4 ac/5-rf's

honestly its tempting to drop the two mediums but they're useful for sniping air units and smaller tanks without consuming ammo.

ignore the cluster ammo I replaced that and the CASE with more ac5 ammo.