You are one of the few TH-camrs who I could listen too all day your explanation along with your talk through and excitement are great it’s a pleasure to watch 😊
Mad Dog to Timber Wolf transition for me was awesome! Full Star of Timber Wolves is pretty nuts. PGI really did a great job with this game! Great video as usual!
you need to give your Artemis boat to Naomi. when you max out spread stats completely (naomi + weapon research + Artemis) LRM 15 spread goes all the way down to around 2m. it almost becomes pinpoint weapon with about 75% of the damage on a single component, without the need for TAG. Also, the Timber Wolf makes a surprisingly good UAC/20 carrier.
Having naomi with lrm feels waste - she has pin point accuracy with regular srm 6 with maxed out spread and affininity (i thinks she dont even have affinity for timber and heavier) and not finished research for my 6x 6srm mad dog build - headshots and center torso busting with 1 or 2 salvos
@@hound8382 the Artemis LRM 15 Mad Dog can do the same thing but at long range. Then pair them up with 5 M pulse lasers and those lasers will cut through anything else that still standing.
Something to keep an eye on. Omnipods have different armor. So for example the Maddog you put the 3 LRM 5's on has less armor than the single launcher torso's. It's only 8 points of armor but it's still something to keep in mind when choosing omnipods. General rule of thumb seems to be that the better the hardpoints the worse the armor.
1:03:55 And this is when ComStar first sees the true weakness of the Clans, and Smoke Jaguar in particular. The inflexibility in the face of reality. The priority of protocol over all else. The inability to compromise for the prospect of a greater victory later. The Smoke Jaguars could win battles but could never win hearts and minds. This is where they lost the war.
The Timberwolf definitely is one of the most recognizable Clan 'mechs. I would definitely remove the machine guns on the Warrant though. Good video Bara. 🙂
I prefer the PPC visuals on MW5:Mercs. I hope to see a mod there soon. But I can't argue against missile visuals....smoke trails are amazing and feedback is great.
@@Alatreon0The only reason why Mercs is more replayable is because of mods though. Otherwise, it’s just the same few mission types over and over again.
@@Alatreon0 That’s true, but only the first MW DOS game and MW5: Mercs allow you to do that anyway. That said, an official Clans DLC for Mercs would be awesome to be able to fight the war on the Inner Sphere side and take contracts against each Clan, fight elementals, Mason being confused by their honor system at first, etc.
Smoke Jaguar - We will honourably destroy their mechs while they cross a river and can't fight back, and destroy the rest of their for forces before they can be deployed, making a mockery of our Batchall and thus redeeming us for attacking those who couldn't fight back! Pure genius.
Too bad they didn't go more role-play'y where you would have dialogue options like "Uh, Star Colonel, that doesn't feel very clanny to me" and the response would be "noted, do it anyway".
Gee, it’s almost like the Clans are hypocritical or something. Never mind that Smoke Jaguar was the Clan that ordered the Turtle Bay Massacre in the first place…
@@Logan912 This game may paint them as hypocritical, but forty years of literature and games do not. There are exceptions of course, but they're employed sparingly, and with great care.
I did some SimPod testing. Artemis is only worth the weight if you're going to a 15/20 launcher. However, with Naomi maxed skills and research maxed on missile spread and speed, 2x LRM15+A with Naomi is CRAZY. Still not the greatest DPS because it still spreads a bit, especially on moving targets, but heavies and assaults get cored out SO FAST.
you need machine guns in timby so you can relive the opening credits of mechwarrior 2... hard to think of anything more epic from my high school years ;) (granted mine were quite tame)
That's every military's ethos if they can pull it off. War is not an honor duel and the public tends to appreciate it if you bring your soldiers home alive.
@@bojcio Vietnam War was a "police action" done as a political stunt done wrong. It's a poor example of America at war, but am excellent example of why politicians should stay out of them. Afghanistan War was a rousing success. The extraction was a disaster.
I made a custom variant of the Timber Wolf that has 604 armor, 110 fp, heat capacity 64, cooling 3.4, 25.5 dps. I swapped out the left and right prime torsos for the D variant (2x LRM10, 2x SRM6). I removed machine guns and added 0.5 and 0.25 armor pods in each section, and also a targetting computer mk1. It is a beast. But I mainly beat the game maining a Nova with 541 armor and 12 er small lasers. I highly recommend assigning Dire Wolves to your star for the final mission. It's rough, it's long, and very tight quarters. Use battlemap a lot to move your star to each nav point ahead of you, and once they engage enemy mechs, rush in for rear center torso 2 shot kills.
Not a fan of machine guns either Baradul. At level 14 and I am mainly focused on 3 weapons: ER Large ER Small and Long Range missiles. I really like the hit scan weapons for quicker kills in this game.The ER smalls weigh only .5 of a ton and I always fire 7 at once. I snipe every thing from 1000 + metres using Clan range with the ER L, my Star fires LRMs and then we all move in and just fry them with a pile of ER Smalls which at this level have an optimal range of about 442 metres. They all just blow up..That’s my thing, but there are so many options in this game!
This game is very interesting, its following some of the events from the book Lethal Heritage by Michael A. Stackpole. Really good on capturing the clan mindset, and how certain events could happen.
Good fun 😃 One thing I dont like is that light and medium mechs get obsolet in the game. I wish there where missions where speed and agility along with pilot skill mattered 😢
Baradul, remember that Rasalhague was created from a portion of controlled Kurita space, so you actually are in what was Kurita space. Plus of course they mention that you are kind of cutting off Wolf Clan that has a jump on you. Also to be noted that they are totally ignoring the Clans' doctrine of one-on-one fights and letting you gang up on mechs whenever you want. I still find it very amusing that they were complaining so much about your one pilot using contractions, when they openly use "Aff" as a contraction of "Affirmative" - so there are approved contractions, and non-approved contractions. If they want to be so hard-lined about following rules, then they should insist you follow the one-on-one rule and not allow you to tell your Star mates to attack targets en-mass. Of course I realize that this free-form combat is probably a hold-over of how MW5 has worked all along. Still, they went to so much effort to create this DLC, they could have gone the extra foot and gotten the combat doctrine right according to cannon. Then again, they probably didn't implement it for when you are fighting them either in the earlier game when you are IS mercs.
man that partisan had sooo much armor... it was red and you dumped all the medium lasers into it, and STILL had to do a full burn of the ER larges before it finally went down o.o
I think you're on the right track using multiple small LRM launchers. One ton of ammo per five missiles gives you high capacity and flexibility. You don't have to waste 15 shots on a target that only needs five.
Wimmer: Orders that no more dishonorable actions stain the cluster's histories. also Wimmer: "We're going to get into position and surprise them, load for long range and cut them down as they ford a river." ...isn't attacking from out of range of the opponent kinda dezgra and against clan honorable combat doctrine?
Ach Bara.. the FRR was formed, but we invade a former backwater, now after FRR sudden borderworld in the DC still. ;) So all is fine. (Comment for Algorithm.)
Clan weapons do not have lower minimum range, well ok technically NO minimum range for LRMs is also lower, also speaking of stats, machine guns just like ac2s should do like no damage at all .. its 2 damage per turn ...
About machine guns : their specialty is destroying components once armor is gone. So I suggest it is fun to have one or two maximum, with a bit of ammo, and use them rarely, against appropriate targets with broken armor. A missile boat, with broken armor, is a good target for example.
The only way MGs are adequate is if they are boated in large amounts 8+. 1 or 2 will do virtually nothing, not even on open components, not compared to other weaponry. They are never worth the tonnage on anything, but the lightest mechs and earliest missions.
You use it like a laser pointer. As long as it's pointed at a 'mech, friendlies acquire missile lock faster against that target, and LRMs have better tracking and tighter clustering. It needs to remain on target continuously for optimal effect; whenever you stop tagging, the benefit ends.
Torso mobility isn't that important, unless you cannot use it at all without the screen tearing up and lagging out badly. I'm still enjoying MW5 Mercenarie.
Sandpapering the enemy with a bad dps and ridiculously short range weapon that gets a penalty against armor and has a requirement for ammo that can blow up. Small ER Lasers are just far far far superior
@@OneViolentGentleman true but the lasers add heat. If you're at your heat threshold and you're trying to cool down the MG's get the job done. There were several instances in this video when Bara in the timberwolf had to use the machine guns to finish off his opponents. Because this heat was at threshold. While firing the MG's his heat levels were decreasing. While I completely agree small lasers put up way more DPS than machine guns The heat penalty should be considered.
Kinda sad you aren’t testing different weapons more, just to see how they are compared to mw5. Like I was really curious about the uac solid slug, seems better for a long range mission. 😊
Tag/NARC and LRM Artemis seem to do nothing to missile spread, I think they're all bugged or the devs never got round to implementing their bonuses. SRM Artemis works though.
F the 10th! Dishonorable scum, couldnt handle that their coordinator let FRR be a reality, damn ronin. Skål! Dont forget you can change the Weapon Groupings in the mech options, where you find the pattern/camo+color options
This idea keeps getting thrown around, its faulty logic. It takes a set amount of damage to kill an enemy mech, the sooner you can execute that damage and take the enemy of the board, the less damage the enemy mech will be able to do to you. Same goes for ammo, it takes a set amount of ammo to kill an enemy mech you don't use more by shooting faster. Heat management is not an issue. You can stagger your shots when more heat management is needed and conversely go for max damage when required. This provides more flexibility. More DPS = good.
Der 2te Timber hat doch nen energie hardpoint im linken torso. Und kurz zuvor on der mission sagtest du, dass der med engagement mech besser für nen tag wäre. Ist das nicht die beste option in dem sinne
did you try if you MUST have all 5 drop slots filled? Might be possible to just go with 4, 2 Timbers and 2 whatever. Clan honour should make that possible :)
it saddens me that so many streamers play Clans and fight like IS Freebirth Dezgras! where is Zellbrigen? the programmers should have added penalties for such disgraceful actions. worthless, like Ezra!
Disgraceful? Seriously? Dude, have you even read the lorebook "Total Warfare"? Want me to tell you how the Clans treated Zellbrigen BY THE SOURCE MATERIAL? That they only observed the rules strictly when fighting bandits, pirates and other unlikables, but otherwise the entire concept is "figuratively thrown out the airlock" (actual quote, btw) and only used against toher Clans when they have an advantage. And then there's the fact that Zellbrigen is followed only unless circumstances dictate otherwise, like being outnumbered or if you thought you could get away with breaking it. GET WAWAY WITH IT?! You haev an honour-code but break it if you think you can get away with it? What's disgraceful again?
I would rather have been able to direct companies on missions you don't control as part of the larger war effort, pushing the border where you are sucxessful, than a storyline about characters whonwould never die.
While this game is.. Well, probably the best we have in MW genre today, I hate it so much that this nickle and dime "free to play"derived bullshit of billion little tweaks to upgrade every statistic exists. I'd much rather have a sim style mechwarrior where things are what they are and one wouldn't have to mess around with these idiotic upgrade paths. Make the damage even and make the fights matter. It feels just so stupid to just murder 20 mechs per game and going willy nilly against much heavier stuff without a sense of "damn I'm fucked here."
All of the people animations just give me really uncanny vibes like its AI generated or something. I'm also not really a fan of the new sounds. Visually it looks better than vanilla Mercs but I think some mods on Mercs achieve the same effect.
I get what you are saying, for me the faces definetely crossed into uncanny valley territority. That being said I don't mind for this setting, trueborns being genetically modified clones and all that - gives them an subtle alien vibe
Saw the whole history of the Clans...... And now idk, if I want to play as giant war criminals & failures. But, I'm interested to see if the devs decided to add some redemption arc for the Jags.
@@Faulkner108 You should read more of the lore then :) inner spheres is significantly more war crimey than the clans. Clan society was crafted with the express purpose of minimising the negative effects of war on non combatants, and to minimise the financial costs by not wasting excessive resources. Edo is significant specifically because it is one of the few times the clans used weapons of mass destruction. The Inner Sphere chose to unban the use of nuclear weapons on civilians during the first succession war. After the succession wars, the inner sphere was in technological decline because they’d been bombing schools and universities to prevent their opponents from training engineers and scientists.
@@jurgen4466 Yeah, I wrote the comment before he said it, but anyway: Bara does loads of silly meme builds (melee, ac2, machine guns, overheat shenanigans). He wants to play cat and mouse, it seems or he does it for engagement as people might like that more than boring laser vomit, but the worst offending builds like machien guns make me want to bite my keyboard. After decades of BT he has to know machine guns suck BEFORE trying them for the 100th time. What was the definition of madness again? Trying the same thing over and over, but expecting different resuilts? 😋
They do machine guns so dirty lol, 150m range dumb... What machine gun ever only shoots 150m, GAU-8 which would be an obvious choice for a mech is 1200m effectively. Mod this for sure lol.
They're at least slightly beholden to tabletop, where machine guns have among the shortest range in the game and only shoot 90m in tabletop with an optimal range of 30m, to balance their low weight, large amount of ammo and zero heat. I haven't kept up with tabletop, but around the time of the Clan invasion I think the longest ranged weapons maxed out a little less than 900m (although I think there are optional rules for extreme range shots, and I don't know how that works).
The BattleTech rulebook addresses this directly: the 'Mech weapons and ranges are balanced to create big stompy fights in relatively close quarters, because that's the kind of art the designers thought was cool and they want the game to reflect it. With realistic weapon ranges, you'd do all your fighting on sensors from kilometers away and never get a chance to crack somebody's cockpit open with a giant hatchet.
What kind of machine guns can tear apart mech armor? Even the GAU-8 armor penetrating rounds only achieve maximum effectiveness under 300m of range. At 1200m there effectiveness drops by a third. Pretty sure mech armor 1000 years in the future is stronger than current day tanks.
They are a bit iffy on the lore on this game. It seems like they want to soften it up some. I don't recall which clan was suppose to take Rasalhaugh, but the clans pretty much drive half way to terra then stop for a year then drive all the way to terra then a group of heroes agrees to a challenge the clans. They upgrade the mechs with some of the comstar hidden tech which is released to fight the clans. They win for a 15 year truce. Jaguar breaks it and leads to the clan downfall. Nuking a planet wasn't a big deal to the clans if the enemy fought like cowards from their perspective. It was odd seeing Jaguar crying like Wolf. The books and a channel called Grim Dark Narrator are great for lore if anyone likes.
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You are one of the few TH-camrs who I could listen too all day your explanation along with your talk through and excitement are great it’s a pleasure to watch 😊
Your reaction to being chased down by the hatchet Pheonix Hawk had me ROLLING laughing XD
Mad Dog to Timber Wolf transition for me was awesome! Full Star of Timber Wolves is pretty nuts. PGI really did a great job with this game! Great video as usual!
Oh yes. Finally going to see a timberwolf in the star
you need to give your Artemis boat to Naomi. when you max out spread stats completely (naomi + weapon research + Artemis) LRM 15 spread goes all the way down to around 2m. it almost becomes pinpoint weapon with about 75% of the damage on a single component, without the need for TAG. Also, the Timber Wolf makes a surprisingly good UAC/20 carrier.
Having naomi with lrm feels waste - she has pin point accuracy with regular srm 6 with maxed out spread and affininity (i thinks she dont even have affinity for timber and heavier) and not finished research for my 6x 6srm mad dog build - headshots and center torso busting with 1 or 2 salvos
@@hound8382 the Artemis LRM 15 Mad Dog can do the same thing but at long range. Then pair them up with 5 M pulse lasers and those lasers will cut through anything else that still standing.
Something to keep an eye on. Omnipods have different armor. So for example the Maddog you put the 3 LRM 5's on has less armor than the single launcher torso's. It's only 8 points of armor but it's still something to keep in mind when choosing omnipods.
General rule of thumb seems to be that the better the hardpoints the worse the armor.
1:03:55 And this is when ComStar first sees the true weakness of the Clans, and Smoke Jaguar in particular. The inflexibility in the face of reality. The priority of protocol over all else. The inability to compromise for the prospect of a greater victory later. The Smoke Jaguars could win battles but could never win hearts and minds. This is where they lost the war.
The Timberwolf definitely is one of the most recognizable Clan 'mechs. I would definitely remove the machine guns on the Warrant though. Good video Bara. 🙂
The effects look so much better than Mercenaries
I prefer the PPC visuals on MW5:Mercs. I hope to see a mod there soon. But I can't argue against missile visuals....smoke trails are amazing and feedback is great.
Almost everything is better than mercenaries, except replayability.
@@Alatreon0The only reason why Mercs is more replayable is because of mods though. Otherwise, it’s just the same few mission types over and over again.
@@Logan912 at least in Mercs I can travel the inner sphere.
@@Alatreon0 That’s true, but only the first MW DOS game and MW5: Mercs allow you to do that anyway. That said, an official Clans DLC for Mercs would be awesome to be able to fight the war on the Inner Sphere side and take contracts against each Clan, fight elementals, Mason being confused by their honor system at first, etc.
Smoke Jaguar - We will honourably destroy their mechs while they cross a river and can't fight back, and destroy the rest of their for forces before they can be deployed, making a mockery of our Batchall and thus redeeming us for attacking those who couldn't fight back! Pure genius.
Too bad they didn't go more role-play'y where you would have dialogue options like "Uh, Star Colonel, that doesn't feel very clanny to me" and the response would be "noted, do it anyway".
I think you have missed the point of the story in this game…
Gee, it’s almost like the Clans are hypocritical or something. Never mind that Smoke Jaguar was the Clan that ordered the Turtle Bay Massacre in the first place…
@@Logan912 This game may paint them as hypocritical, but forty years of literature and games do not. There are exceptions of course, but they're employed sparingly, and with great care.
As a motto, it's a bit on the long side...
I did some SimPod testing. Artemis is only worth the weight if you're going to a 15/20 launcher. However, with Naomi maxed skills and research maxed on missile spread and speed, 2x LRM15+A with Naomi is CRAZY. Still not the greatest DPS because it still spreads a bit, especially on moving targets, but heavies and assaults get cored out SO FAST.
naomi is ultimate brawler in mad dog 6x 6srm with pinpoint accuracy (best mech she can have full affinity for)
you need machine guns in timby so you can relive the opening credits of mechwarrior 2... hard to think of anything more epic from my high school years ;) (granted mine were quite tame)
MW2 was my first online (AOL on 33k then 56k) PVP experience... still have great memories. Lag shooting, I'm sure, is a completely lost skill.
Same thoughts 😊 and 0 armor on the cockpit, to relive one shot to the head from PPC
I thought the same, but it needs the duel ppc's as well.
"we completely overwhelm an enemy that can't even shoot back?"
Yep. That's the American military ethos as well. It's quite effective.
That's every military's ethos if they can pull it off. War is not an honor duel and the public tends to appreciate it if you bring your soldiers home alive.
Munitions are cheap, lives are expensive.
Reminds me of “The Bravery of Being Out of Range” from Roger Waters’ Amused to Death album.
Its effectiveness is debatable. Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan et al.
@@bojcio Vietnam War was a "police action" done as a political stunt done wrong. It's a poor example of America at war, but am excellent example of why politicians should stay out of them.
Afghanistan War was a rousing success. The extraction was a disaster.
Gauss MadDog is an absolute blast.
Certainly a nice preview for the Warhawk. I don't like the long cooldown on the Gauss and I usually prefer 2x UAC/10 or just go PPC if long range.
I've enjoyed this, and the others more than anything else on TH-cam 👏 👏 👏
Thank you 😊
Bara, you can put armor in the CT of the Mad Dog, since it always seems to get cored out. Thanks for the content!
HEh, short leash for the madman. fitting. Doubtful it'll temper his rage, though.
I made a custom variant of the Timber Wolf that has 604 armor, 110 fp, heat capacity 64, cooling 3.4, 25.5 dps. I swapped out the left and right prime torsos for the D variant (2x LRM10, 2x SRM6). I removed machine guns and added 0.5 and 0.25 armor pods in each section, and also a targetting computer mk1. It is a beast. But I mainly beat the game maining a Nova with 541 armor and 12 er small lasers. I highly recommend assigning Dire Wolves to your star for the final mission. It's rough, it's long, and very tight quarters. Use battlemap a lot to move your star to each nav point ahead of you, and once they engage enemy mechs, rush in for rear center torso 2 shot kills.
Not a fan of machine guns either Baradul. At level 14 and I am mainly focused on 3 weapons: ER Large ER Small and Long Range missiles. I really like the hit scan weapons for quicker kills in this game.The ER smalls weigh only .5 of a ton and I always fire 7 at once. I snipe every thing from 1000 + metres using Clan range with the ER L, my Star fires LRMs and then we all move in and just fry them with a pile of ER Smalls which at this level have an optimal range of about 442 metres. They all just blow up..That’s my thing, but there are so many options in this game!
This game is very interesting, its following some of the events from the book Lethal Heritage by Michael A. Stackpole. Really good on capturing the clan mindset, and how certain events could happen.
It's an unpolished gem whose plot going sideways by being patched novels. Sometimes you need to melt the iron to make steel.
Good fun 😃 One thing I dont like is that light and medium mechs get obsolet in the game. I wish there where missions where speed and agility along with pilot skill mattered 😢
Kitfox is a great mech if it was lore accurate it would have a special Hi-kick melee attack. And it has 55 armor in almost every torso
I love your vids and I'm still waiting for a gauss rifle build. The notion of a BFG popping mechs like cans of beans seems so appealing.
MEchs in the water.
Rockets in the sky!
The ouchie couchie?
Baradul, remember that Rasalhague was created from a portion of controlled Kurita space, so you actually are in what was Kurita space. Plus of course they mention that you are kind of cutting off Wolf Clan that has a jump on you. Also to be noted that they are totally ignoring the Clans' doctrine of one-on-one fights and letting you gang up on mechs whenever you want. I still find it very amusing that they were complaining so much about your one pilot using contractions, when they openly use "Aff" as a contraction of "Affirmative" - so there are approved contractions, and non-approved contractions. If they want to be so hard-lined about following rules, then they should insist you follow the one-on-one rule and not allow you to tell your Star mates to attack targets en-mass. Of course I realize that this free-form combat is probably a hold-over of how MW5 has worked all along. Still, they went to so much effort to create this DLC, they could have gone the extra foot and gotten the combat doctrine right according to cannon. Then again, they probably didn't implement it for when you are fighting them either in the earlier game when you are IS mercs.
man that partisan had sooo much armor... it was red and you dumped all the medium lasers into it, and STILL had to do a full burn of the ER larges before it finally went down o.o
I think you're on the right track using multiple small LRM launchers. One ton of ammo per five missiles gives you high capacity and flexibility. You don't have to waste 15 shots on a target that only needs five.
"careful!" *dumps a lurm alpha into the stormcrow's back quarter*
just reached this point in the video.... ooops
you really should be getting the ppc heat upgrades imo
Apparently, lasers, and ER small lasers in particular, are more powerful relative to other weapons compared to other Mechwarrior games.
75 tons of righteous 'Mech fury.
I seriously want some of those loading screens for Wallpaper engine
When in an enemy's face four machine guns can make quick work of a cockpit with accurate fire.
I would assume that this goes double for when you decide to ignore melee like Baradul is doing.
Wait, Baradul never unlocked the Nova?!!
He certainly missed out there.
Wimmer: Orders that no more dishonorable actions stain the cluster's histories.
also Wimmer: "We're going to get into position and surprise them, load for long range and cut them down as they ford a river."
...isn't attacking from out of range of the opponent kinda dezgra and against clan honorable combat doctrine?
i wished there would be Berserkers in game.. either as enemy or to play.. i always loved a mask-powered 100t mech with a 7t battleaxe
This is the one channel that actually teaches how to play the game.
Ach Bara.. the FRR was formed, but we invade a former backwater, now after FRR sudden borderworld in the DC still. ;) So all is fine.
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The first mission is what the OPFOR looks like if you play Roguetech.
Spoiler: You're the other guys.
I would see if its possible to add Auto Cannons to the center torso @Baradul such as LB-X Autocannons cluster or solid shot.
you generate alot of excess heat with your laser fire and should chain fire more often to not waste shots
Clan weapons do not have lower minimum range, well ok technically NO minimum range for LRMs is also lower, also speaking of stats, machine guns just like ac2s should do like no damage at all .. its 2 damage per turn ...
About machine guns : their specialty is destroying components once armor is gone. So I suggest it is fun to have one or two maximum, with a bit of ammo, and use them rarely, against appropriate targets with broken armor. A missile boat, with broken armor, is a good target for example.
The only way MGs are adequate is if they are boated in large amounts 8+. 1 or 2 will do virtually nothing, not even on open components, not compared to other weaponry. They are never worth the tonnage on anything, but the lightest mechs and earliest missions.
It would be interesting to see the clans try and create something akin to imperial titans...
Aff, Smoke Jaguars, Star Captain, Star Commander AHHHH
This needs to be modded out of the game.
can i ask how do you have the arrow indicating where legs are pointing?
How long before we get all Timberwolf Star..? And can you try some of the other camo schemes that unlocked..?
45:48 Master Chief Reference? lol
Picking affinity on one pilot to ignore the rest is typical Bara moment.
how does the tag work? does it start when you first target a mech or is it always looking for a target?
You use it like a laser pointer. As long as it's pointed at a 'mech, friendlies acquire missile lock faster against that target, and LRMs have better tracking and tighter clustering. It needs to remain on target continuously for optimal effect; whenever you stop tagging, the benefit ends.
Recruit, Green, Veteran, Elite ...they all do the same. Move forward in a straight line....
Torso mobility isn't that important, unless you cannot use it at all without the screen tearing up and lagging out badly. I'm still enjoying MW5 Mercenarie.
The MG's Give cold damage. Maybe low DPS but you can blaze away while cooling. Its a great personal defense weapon. I'd keep em
Sandpapering the enemy with a bad dps and ridiculously short range weapon that gets a penalty against armor and has a requirement for ammo that can blow up. Small ER Lasers are just far far far superior
@@OneViolentGentleman true but the lasers add heat. If you're at your heat threshold and you're trying to cool down the MG's get the job done. There were several instances in this video when Bara in the timberwolf had to use the machine guns to finish off his opponents. Because this heat was at threshold. While firing the MG's his heat levels were decreasing.
While I completely agree small lasers put up way more DPS than machine guns The heat penalty should be considered.
@@cesarespinozaspain and even then' i'd rather use armor pods or another double heatsink or two in the mech than a machine gun and ammo.
Kinda sad you aren’t testing different weapons more, just to see how they are compared to mw5.
Like I was really curious about the uac solid slug, seems better for a long range mission. 😊
atm Artemis aswell as TAG seem to be bugged (or so low in value it makes no difference) sadly... hope they fix/adjust is in a timely manner
Do you get points for damaging your Star Mates?
Tag/NARC and LRM Artemis seem to do nothing to missile spread, I think they're all bugged or the devs never got round to implementing their bonuses. SRM Artemis works though.
Baradul, can you please fix the order of the plsylist?
Did it. First episode first now!
F the 10th! Dishonorable scum, couldnt handle that their coordinator let FRR be a reality, damn ronin. Skål!
Dont forget you can change the Weapon Groupings in the mech options, where you find the pattern/camo+color options
Upgrading weapon cooldown: "Let's overheat faster! Let's spend all our ammo quicker!"
This idea keeps getting thrown around, its faulty logic. It takes a set amount of damage to kill an enemy mech, the sooner you can execute that damage and take the enemy of the board, the less damage the enemy mech will be able to do to you. Same goes for ammo, it takes a set amount of ammo to kill an enemy mech you don't use more by shooting faster. Heat management is not an issue. You can stagger your shots when more heat management is needed and conversely go for max damage when required. This provides more flexibility. More DPS = good.
Let’s kill the enemy faster!
Der 2te Timber hat doch nen energie hardpoint im linken torso. Und kurz zuvor on der mission sagtest du, dass der med engagement mech besser für nen tag wäre. Ist das nicht die beste option in dem sinne
did you try if you MUST have all 5 drop slots filled?
Might be possible to just go with 4, 2 Timbers and 2 whatever.
Clan honour should make that possible :)
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Mgs suck but it looks just like what ever they were shooting in the mw2 mercs op so i like it
Why upgrade cooldown? Not simply damage? Please explain.
it saddens me that so many streamers play Clans and fight like IS Freebirth Dezgras! where is Zellbrigen? the programmers should have added penalties for such disgraceful actions.
worthless, like Ezra!
Disgraceful? Seriously? Dude, have you even read the lorebook "Total Warfare"?
Want me to tell you how the Clans treated Zellbrigen BY THE SOURCE MATERIAL?
That they only observed the rules strictly when fighting bandits, pirates and other unlikables, but otherwise the entire concept is "figuratively thrown out the airlock" (actual quote, btw) and only used against toher Clans when they have an advantage. And then there's the fact that Zellbrigen is followed only unless circumstances dictate otherwise, like being outnumbered or if you thought you could get away with breaking it. GET WAWAY WITH IT?! You haev an honour-code but break it if you think you can get away with it? What's disgraceful again?
The clans did not use Zellbrigen if the enemy they were fighting didn’t.
Too many large lasers? Your words confuse me.... is 8 too many for a direwolf?
15 Medium Pulse Lasers works much better. Basically delete anything smaller than an Atlas. With full upgrades, it'll hit out past 1KM, as well.
I would rather have been able to direct companies on missions you don't control as part of the larger war effort, pushing the border where you are sucxessful, than a storyline about characters whonwould never die.
No offense, but didn't you just build a worse Timber Wolf prime with more ammo? 😅
People of culture call them "Mad Cats".
Mad dogs bite everyone else, mad cats scratch your eyes out
The hell they do
The people of culture are the ones who designed this mech, and they named it Timber Wolf.
If by people of culture, you mean "filthy freebirths", then yes.
@@Myuutsuu85 Turtle Bay is a good display of that "culture" ;)
While this game is.. Well, probably the best we have in MW genre today, I hate it so much that this nickle and dime "free to play"derived bullshit of billion little tweaks to upgrade every statistic exists. I'd much rather have a sim style mechwarrior where things are what they are and one wouldn't have to mess around with these idiotic upgrade paths. Make the damage even and make the fights matter. It feels just so stupid to just murder 20 mechs per game and going willy nilly against much heavier stuff without a sense of "damn I'm fucked here."
All of the people animations just give me really uncanny vibes like its AI generated or something. I'm also not really a fan of the new sounds. Visually it looks better than vanilla Mercs but I think some mods on Mercs achieve the same effect.
I get what you are saying, for me the faces definetely crossed into uncanny valley territority. That being said I don't mind for this setting, trueborns being genetically modified clones and all that - gives them an subtle alien vibe
Ttb noticed no change on using artemis systems.
It makes a LRM15 into a LRM20 in how much actual damage it provide which make ammo increase as the spread is lower.
Saw the whole history of the Clans...... And now idk, if I want to play as giant war criminals & failures. But, I'm interested to see if the devs decided to add some redemption arc for the Jags.
Every faction in battletech are giant war criminals and failures,
@@edinalewis4704 But it looks like the Clans are even worse than the Inners.
@@Faulkner108 You should read more of the lore then :) inner spheres is significantly more war crimey than the clans. Clan society was crafted with the express purpose of minimising the negative effects of war on non combatants, and to minimise the financial costs by not wasting excessive resources. Edo is significant specifically because it is one of the few times the clans used weapons of mass destruction. The Inner Sphere chose to unban the use of nuclear weapons on civilians during the first succession war.
After the succession wars, the inner sphere was in technological decline because they’d been bombing schools and universities to prevent their opponents from training engineers and scientists.
@@edinalewis4704 Quite a "charming" picture, lol. Thanks for the advice, will try to find some more lore.
How does such a veteran Battletech player not know that machine guns (and ac/2s) are useless junk? ... 😋
He did say that, he kept them because he thought it was cool not good
@@jurgen4466 Yeah, I wrote the comment before he said it, but anyway: Bara does loads of silly meme builds (melee, ac2, machine guns, overheat shenanigans). He wants to play cat and mouse, it seems or he does it for engagement as people might like that more than boring laser vomit, but the worst offending builds like machien guns make me want to bite my keyboard. After decades of BT he has to know machine guns suck BEFORE trying them for the 100th time. What was the definition of madness again? Trying the same thing over and over, but expecting different resuilts? 😋
machine guns sound horrible
Jump jets are a waste of tonnage
No
It’s like watching a Arnold impersonator playing mech warrior lol
the amount of edgelord is as ridiculous as the still sh*te ai
Keep them in reserves. Use 1 of them following with AMS. Put 3 on guard on high ground far away.
Two weeks later and I still can't play due to crash on launch...thanks PGI.
Pretty sure that’s a you thing.
@@edinalewis4704And everyone else on the forums with the exact same issue...
Shaders compilation crash? Try add ""-forcedisablesm6" key to game's start parameters.
It bothers me that not everyone in Smoke Jaguar pronounces "jaguar" the same way.
Why would they? Regional accents exist, even across very small areas. Smoke Jaguar is made up of people from different planets!!
we r in the future but still graphics shtyy. i was expecting more. It makes me sad that this game has come to this :(
Unreal engine 4 is superior
Kinda sad design weak enemies come in solo instead of strong lances. At least its an okish easymode exp.
They come both in strong lances and solo.
They do machine guns so dirty lol, 150m range dumb... What machine gun ever only shoots 150m, GAU-8 which would be an obvious choice for a mech is 1200m effectively. Mod this for sure lol.
They're at least slightly beholden to tabletop, where machine guns have among the shortest range in the game and only shoot 90m in tabletop with an optimal range of 30m, to balance their low weight, large amount of ammo and zero heat. I haven't kept up with tabletop, but around the time of the Clan invasion I think the longest ranged weapons maxed out a little less than 900m (although I think there are optional rules for extreme range shots, and I don't know how that works).
The BattleTech rulebook addresses this directly: the 'Mech weapons and ranges are balanced to create big stompy fights in relatively close quarters, because that's the kind of art the designers thought was cool and they want the game to reflect it. With realistic weapon ranges, you'd do all your fighting on sensors from kilometers away and never get a chance to crack somebody's cockpit open with a giant hatchet.
What kind of machine guns can tear apart mech armor? Even the GAU-8 armor penetrating rounds only achieve maximum effectiveness under 300m of range. At 1200m there effectiveness drops by a third. Pretty sure mech armor 1000 years in the future is stronger than current day tanks.
They are a bit iffy on the lore on this game. It seems like they want to soften it up some. I don't recall which clan was suppose to take Rasalhaugh, but the clans pretty much drive half way to terra then stop for a year then drive all the way to terra then a group of heroes agrees to a challenge the clans. They upgrade the mechs with some of the comstar hidden tech which is released to fight the clans. They win for a 15 year truce. Jaguar breaks it and leads to the clan downfall. Nuking a planet wasn't a big deal to the clans if the enemy fought like cowards from their perspective. It was odd seeing Jaguar crying like Wolf. The books and a channel called Grim Dark Narrator are great for lore if anyone likes.
U r not fighting FRR but DCMS troop bordering FRR
Your comment is a bit iffy on Battletech lore. The devs did much better research than you did.
baradul what you think 6 lrms 10 if tons and slot free in mad dog, dps up maybe spread but minus heat generation. btw is me from twitch piotr1502pl