I will eagerly count down the years as more DLC are added. I await the day I can pilot such a huge beast and finally enjoy the jihad era in MW5

How are sales looking so far? Is anyone able to share? Judging by peak play, it looks more successful than Chaos Reigns which was successful. The formula of building off the enhanced cinematics from SoK, selecting cool points in the timeline to experience, and continuing to throw gobs of new mechs and gear at us has been excellent.

I'm hoping it justifies continued DLC output.

Hi, I've been enjoying the game so far... but there is something I'm curious about.

What is the point of light mechs? Right now I'm super early in the game and light mechs are really all that's available to me, but all of them are seemingly just worthless. fleas, cicadas, locusts, spiders, urbanmechs, and firestarters are kinda all i have access to (besides the occasional assassin) and kitting out any of them is a nightmare without stripping all the armor.

either they do 2 damage per second or they have zero armor, and with or without, they get cored instantly or get all their turrets/legs blown off if the enemy so much as glances at them. should i not be taking them? is this a situation where all mechs are technically playable for fanservice but you're only "supposed" to play as specific ones? does the game expect me to beat the stealing supplies story mission right out the gate after picking up the jenner guy, resulting in medium mechs being unlocked?

Like, he didn't have to do all of that

also NEVER DOING THIS AGAIN god the amount of reloads i had to do on Xbox😭😭😭

It turns out if you fire 48 ATM's at something, they just cease to exist

Like cmon...Is difficult to believe that is still MW5....I recognize some of the mods like the Disembark Mod, UVW, WARFX, Audiostash...but I'm pretty sure there is much more...

My imagination flies thinking what infantry must feel in the middle of the heat like that....crazy

Guys gotta check this channel with different povs of combat in MW5.

I finally got around to playing the new dlc and watched the first cutscene. In all the books i read back in the day i never thought First Prince Victor Ian Steiner-Davion was a short king.
Is he short or is Mason just tall due to Clan genes?

It’s time to see which mechs are the best in Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries! Please follow the rules below, and the most upvoted comment will win.

1. Mech must be in the base game or DLC’s

2. Please name the specific mech variant in your comment

3. Comment with the most upvotes at the end of the day will win. Results are final

4. Please keep it respectful, and have fun!

Not only does this bring back the functionality of Enhanced Academies for DLC9, you can also add traits to Mason.

https://www.nexusmods.com/mechwarrior5mercenaries/mods/1628

I suspect some folks were waiting for something like this.

Thanks to Utkantir.

Now PGI just needs to fix the Merc spawns and I can start my new campaign run 😄

In the final mission the Diamond Shark leader claims we stormed their base with a superior force, and is just answering in kind. We had two lances, our own and the useless Maruader dudes that somehow seem to find themselves just outside the battle radius no matter where the enemy lands.

Do we think he is referring to superior as sheer tonnage?

Or, do you feel the battles we participate in are just a snap-shot of what is happening all around us? In the final mission you depart on a pair of Unions meaning there could be another 16 mechs on the field, and anyone in their right mind and with that capacity would take it if possible.

I mean, that's how it works in all the other campaigns, so it stands to reason that it's possible, it's just that this time you don't have a house army in your pocket so it's a little different on that account.

So, is the reality that there were up-to two companies actually involved with storming the base, which would actually make your force superior (or at least very close, don't have a count on how many clan mechs are in that first mission, but I would guess 4-5 stars plus the "boss" at the end.

Or, his claim of superior is because you brought 8 assaults and they had mostly light and medium mechs with a few heavy and one assault sprinkled in?

I was doing my usual rerun after getting the last DLC and when I was doing "Payday" mission on Solaris DLC I got this infinite mission runs glitch where you can use jump jets to climb to the arty position, straight into the mercenary review board center, walk back to trigger the enemies, kill them and once you fight vs the hansens and win you get a mission failure, 3 salvage shares & 0 c-bills but you could potentially farm NARCS doing this over and over (vanilla)

With about 5 missions to go in SoK this go-round, I had my hangar full so every salvage just went to cold storage until the campaign ended and I could do cleanup.

When I went to sell everything, I had 39 clan mechs in cold storage, I'd say all but 5 were Prime variants. Granted, I selected them based on salvage cost and what weapons remained so I am sure I left non prime variants on the field, but it seemed a bit odd to me since in the first couple run-throughs between the campaign, conflict-zone missions, and marketplace, I scored every variant of all the mechs besides the stuff I didn't care for.

It just kind of surprised me that I would end up with 5-6 of one model and all of them were prime.

And, yes, I run max repair costs, that's why I have so much salvage, I was averaging 10 mechs a mission with enough points (via scrappers) to add a couple weapons as well.

The Battlemaster was my first love in Battletech and is still in my top 3. My issue with the mech isn’t original, and is something solved in most of the variants post helm memory core. The machine guns. The ammo just loves to blow up the entire mech and the 1D (the variant designed to improve survival and reliability) retains them, but not the more useful rear lasers for some reason. Still It’s a classic mech and its intentional flaws make it appealing, but man do I break out into a sweat when the left torso gets hit.

I chose to start my merc company in 3015 for the House Steiner territory.

Genuine question: what's the point of this hero 'mech? I feel like it's far inferior to the SR-6 and it's other siblings. What am I missing?

With my favorite paint job and without :D

NOTE: I uploaded this at the tail end of my bedtime and, because I was tired, I forgot to add shadows beneath the mech... I added them post-mortem on my insta account instead of here, so as to avoid spamming. Sorry x.x