When this game first came out I didn’t even want to try it, because of all the mainstream people doing negative reviews, saying it was too simple and all that. I saw it on gamepass these days and thought: hey, wouldn’t hurt just trying it out. Man, I wish I’ve played this before, it is such a great game, so much customization and strategy involved, I’m loving this so much! Thanks for the video as well!
Funny thing I saw a bunch of reviews saying it’s was too complicated and too hard when I downloaded it today to try it out and I agree with you it’s a pretty good game wasn’t expecting it tbh
AI spawning right behind you was the biggest issue for me, I bought the game on Epic Games store so I could mod the game, modders fixed all the issues and could customise exactly how much you get rewarded from side missions, made the game a lot less of a grind.
It's soooo much better now than on release. I played it fairly early and it was kinda trash, they've improved spawns immensely and AI lancemate behavior, lots of quality of life improvements. It's fun now and that's not something I could say before.
I've played through this game like 3 times now, here's some stuff I've learned: 1. If you're going to do Demolition missions, expect to take more damage than you would on, say, a Defense mission. I like to do the Cantina jobs and Demo missions are a good one to do Treasure Hunter jobs on. You can usually go find the treasure package before you aggro the base, without having to fight much of anything. Also, on Demo missions, I usually buy 1-2 air strikes of available. Two air strikes is often overkill, but in the heavier weight classes, your mechs are slow and you'll need to get the base destroyed that much faster. The air strikes might not be the most money-efficient way to take down a base, but they make the base destruction part of your job way quicker, so you take less damage, in theory. One air strike can do like 25% or more of the damage to the base for you, which is a lot, and in some cases its like 50% when you get lucky. 2. Warzone missions are good ones to help you complete the Wardog Cantina jobs. You can destroy stuff to complete the mission, then stick around and fight more waves of badguys, and hopefully they'll throw more VTOLs, Harassers, Missile Carrier tanks, etc at you as part of those waves. This makes that "Kill 25 Harasser" go faster. Having said that, the heavier the weight limit of the mission, the more mechs they throw at you and this means probably fewer tanks, so I tend to expect ths adds to be tanks and VTOLs in the 200-300 ton range and more mechs in the heavier weight class missions.. And be careful because by the time you've racked up like 500k worth of additional kills, you will eventually have to face the inevitable "you better run now" fight where they drop more stuff on you than you're really able to handle. THE easiest Cantina jobs to do are the "Kill X VTOLs" jobs, because it's usually only like 8 VTOLS and you can get all 8 of them in one mission often enough. 3. The vast majority of Cantina jobs that require you to "collect X number of mechs/weapons of a given type" end up being completed if and only if you either A) have the required stuff in inventory already, or B) have enough C-Bills to buy the stuff they want you to give them. These jobs generally cost you more money than they give you back when you complete them, for this reason, but that's not to say that they're to be completely avoided. If there's an upgrade you want in that track, you can work your way up to it, but it will probably cost you money to do so. That said, you might also want the guns/stuff they're going to give you too, so there's that. 4. In my experience, the "Collect X number of Mechs of a SPECIFIC variant" Cantina jobs are not worth pursuing. The stuff they will promise you looks great, but the job is just short of impossible to actually do and will definitely cost you C-Bills to complete it. 5. When you do a Beachhead mission, there will generally be some number of artillery guns on the map that you do not see on the battlegrid until they start shooting at you. Annoyingly, even THEN there may be MORE artillery guns that they're keeping in reserve that won't start shooting at you until later on. I personally like to sweep the ENTIRE map for those artillery guns first, before doing anything else, and I try to avoid the main base while doing this, but I do take out the satellite uplinks where possible. Once you're sure you've gotten all of the artillery, you can then proceed to finish off any satellite uplinks you didn't destroy while you were hunting down the artillery guns. THEN you can proceed to take down the base and wait for the wave or two of adds to arrive and blast them. Also, while you're doing the sweep for artillery, the artillery will be shooting at you. Your mech needs to have a speed of at least 64kph to be able to outrun the artillery guns, so don't take any of the slow 40 KPH Atlases etc for this type of mission, I prefer a good Battlemaster, personally. 6 Upgrading mechs is pretty expensive, so I'd save it for the heavy and assault mechs you intend to use from like level 8 through the end of the game. I always max out the armor and structure with my upgrades, because it helps keep lancemates alive linger and they lose less components that way, one hopes. 7. When you put a weapon on an arm, you're risking losing it when that arm get's shot off, which happens WAY more often than getting torso weapons destroyed. I generally like to have at most a replaceable medium laser or SRM 4 on the arm, or maybe a large laser. I will sometimes play the high-risk game of mounting two really good guns on a special mech like a Victor Basilisk or a Corsair, but that's the exception to the rule, and even then I only put those loadouts on mechs I personally will drive. Lancemates should only ever be given mechs with cheap, easily replaceable weapons on the arms, and then maybe better ones on the torso. 9. If you put a mech in cold storage, you will not have to pay the freight on it when traveling around, but doing this stripes the mech bare and removes all Upgrades you might have had on it, and replacing those upgrades is really costly, and takes a long time, so I would recommend NOT cold-storing any mech that you've done upgrades on, and therefore I would not do upgrades on any mech that you're not going to use for a long time, which is basically your favorite heavy and assault mechs. 10. When doing Defense missions, try as hard as you can to avoid actually going into the base itself, because you and your lancemates will destroy parts of it as you trample through on your way to the fight. For this reason, Defense missions tend to favor faster mechs with longer range weapons so you can hit stuff without having to run through the base to do so.
Cheers 👍😉 Maybe the devs should have had you to do the codec. That thing is a right tedious chore, and I only got about a third the way through before seeking out this video.
Another good tip for Destroy missions if you don't want to lug around MG and Flamers. You can use your own mech as a wrecking ball by running at buildings/over structures. With the exception of walls most things will be destroyed on impact and you can keep charging through without taking damage. Also Air strikes. They really are not necessary in missions but they help if used right. A single air strike can flatten a base and heavily damage mechs inside its perimeter.
An exception to your repair in conflict zone exception: It can still be beneficial to repair mechs if the overall cost and time is less then what you made in a mission so your still in the black. Doubly so if you're in a multi-drop mission set. On top of that, max 3 drops is generally the best as by the point you can do these you should have enough mech to grab a fresh lance for each mission or repair the first batch for the final mission. ANOTHER THING: Cantina Collection missions don't care if you've grabbed the required item as salvage or as store items. So you can game the system a bit by just buying the required items and just completing the quest to get the mech quirks for more customized mechs.
Adjusting my AI weapon groups was a game changer. I gave Freeman my old favorite Warhammer with a good spread on his weapon grouping and he sometimes top-frags now!
usually you get a rather good feel by just looking at the mech.. the real issue is when you have large and medium lasers in the arms/torso and you cannot tell which is which.
thats why you have instant action with all the mechs available at once. So you can try all the mechs and all the variants and see wich ones are useful to your play style and wich ones are not.
You can edit weapon groups while piloting as well. Use arrow keys to nav, I believe CTRL to select an deselect, and backspace to set chain fire on or off :)
Thank you for this. By far the best tips I've seen for starting out, and nicely presented too. No fluff or waffling on about the game to start - just straight to the point. This has given me the confidence to try some stuff out and start making cash!
I started playing this on a whim because a friend had started playing it. And honestly thanks to game pass for allowing me to play it because after getting over the bit of jenk its alot of fun. Has abit of oldschool mixed in with the newer gaming things.
I've been playing MW since MW2 came out on Playstation 1 and every one since on PC, I absolutely love this series, and I'm _fairly_ happy with this game. It's got it's quirks and I can see it being a little repetitive for people who don't love it though, the mission design is a little, shall we say, condensed. I think a bit more story telling and scripted scenes would have benefitted the game greatly, they start the game out with this badass CGI cutscene that leaves MW junkies drooling then sprinkle in a few generic story missions where you do _exactly_ what you did in _every single other mission._ Like I said, I love the game and I'm not giving up on it but it could have been so much more. And damnit I want to see some timeline progression, where's the Clan mechs and weapons at? They were a goal to work towards, endgame OP powerhouses that wiped the field. I want my Mad Cat MkII AC boat like I had in MW4 mercs, I used to smear anything that came at me if I could get in close without being sniped in online play, it had (I think🤔) two AC20's and three AC10's, either that or one AC20 and two AC10's, can't actually remember off the top of my head, it's been a while lol. Anyways, I want my Clan mechs damnit!🤣
Or just omni points, plus if you have a large slot you should be able to put multiple weapons in that slot. Just saying it would make sense if you have room for an A/C 20 there should be room for multiple A/C 10's, 5's, or 2's.
@@KP762a Nope, MGs generally strip mech armor like crazy, even on heavy mechs. I've played the hardest missions with a Hero Blackjack with 6 fully upgraded MGs, one Large SP Laser and two medium Lasers. This thing will strip ANY mech of it's armor in two 360 mg bursts, then my lance with it's heavy guns take em out with 2-3 good placed shots on the torso. Flamers on the other hand are made to overheat the enemy mech, they won't deal that much of damage but can be a major harassment for laser based mechs especially when there a two or more agile mechs with flamers.
This game got me to get a mouse with 2 extra buttons. I hate sticking to 2 weapon groups or hitting 3/4 and I found out holding a button keeps refiring which is especiallly useful with machine guns
A big difference I found that helped me was to definitely hire mercenaries really helps to divide and conquer. Awesome vid fam have a blessed one and stay safe
I recently picked up this game and this helps a bit. MW5 has a lot of nuance at times at how some mech's, and loadout's can make the difference, I wasn't sure what the value of flamers, and MG's were with massive mech's armed with ppcs and missle's. Little wiser now.
Another good tip is that the starter Centurion CN9-A is a very good medium mech in early game for those who want a heavy-mech feel, and holds its own even later down the line. I've only seen a few others who can match it in free tonnage (after max armor) and decent hardpoints. (Some of those are the Hunchback, Trebuchet, and Vindicator). Running an AC-10, 2 M Lasers, and a SRM-6 ST works very nice. It's slow, but most heavy mechs you'll get into later are the same speed, so it feels like a smooth transition from any CN9 to a heavy.
Another good idea once you start getting multmission jobs is to have backup mechs so you can hot swap between missions if something gets banged up. Can always take damage coverage as well 1 point is like 500k covered so can start repairs between missions and use the backups
best tip i can give is play instant action a lot. Play with all the combinations you can make, and try all mechs and weapons aavailable. Do this so you can learn how all mechs can work, wich ones are usefull for certain situations, wich ones are garbage, wich ones work better when you are using them and wich ones are better when your lance is using them. In that way you can get an idea of wich mechs and weapons you have to buy instead of spending tons of money on mechs that arent as useful as they look at first.
From what I've seen online and in game the AI pilots don't obey your weapon groupings. They fire each weapon as they enter the max range of that weapon. I've been building my AI mechs around weaponry with similar max range limitations for this reason
This is game I’ve always been interested tried it a few times but could never get into it fully, this vid helped me become addicted to the game now lol
in my experience the AI automatically groups things based on component location and or range.. and rarely do I have to change it. You cannot actually swap out types of hard-points for another so groupings should be rather automatic.
I want the vulture in the game!!!!! Me and my friend just bought this on Xbox and man the last time I played was mw4 vengeance and I miss the vulture from the cutscene
Game is dope don't listen to critics most are paid to shit on things I have always been a diehard fan but to tell you the truth I felt alone until TH-cam showed me my mech brothers and how tough our bond is
Repair armor in CONFLICT ZONES goes ok if its just an armor damage. I've found a strategy to have 12 mechs in dropship and complete missions of my lovely factions on 5 planets in a row. Repair mechs armor but leave most crippled ones for repair in Industrial HUBs. It helped my to survive the CBill crisis around 4-7 reputation level in the career.
Get more mechs, just get max rank with a faction and put all negotiation points into salvage and hope one of the mechs you kill becomes salvageable if there’s one mech in mission that you want but it doesn’t show up just reload and replay the mission, after that it’s just a case getting enough mechs for the tonnage of the missions you’re wanting to do and a case of planning for if they’re multi mission contracts
I just started playing this Friday. Somehow I missed that it was available on Xbox One. My main problem is the movement. I played the computer mechwarrior games several years ago as well as the Mech Assault games on the original Xbox. I've also played a lot of War Robots over the last few years. All of those games moved better than this one. The way the legs keep turning instead of just moving you in the direction you want to go is frustrating as hell and nowhere near as seamless as things used to be. Are there any control options i'm missing to change that? I'm using the arm lock option because otherwise you get these radical swings with the target reticle when the legs rotate past a certain point. Also, for the love of God, why has Xbox never done additional sequels to MechAssault??? That seemed like a no brainer.
I dont use a controller so I cant talk about that. Just a reminder that your torso twists independant of the legs. Arm lock is allright if you dont have arm weapons. Arms have a greater range of movement letting you shoot higher or further to the side.
there is an option to enable auto centering, where it tends to move your torso where you are walking, That was added to help for controller play, think its called counter rotation in the options. might help i think
A few MUST HAVE mods there are in the category "Why there is not in the game?": * Xenopax Optimization + Xenopax Art Optimization = free FPS boots without any visual changes. Game is not greatly optimized and modders are fixing that! * TTrulez AIMo - improves enemy's and ally's AI. Should be in the game by default! * Mech Attribute Viewer - self explanatory. Once you've installed it - you could not live without it! * PurchaseSalvage - you could purchase salvage at the end of the missions. DO NOT make game easier but less frustrating! * StarMapMouseOver - adds information on the star map about jobs when you mouse over it. Saves SO much time! * Mod Options - mod so other mods could work properly. If you REALLY don't like mods - install just optimization ones ;-)
@@badacyborg It's the perfect game for it, there aren't enough VR games where I can sit and relax. Imagine if you could actually press buttons and pull levers in the cockpit with motion controllers 😯.
@@00Clive00 Agreed. I remember playing Steel Battalion on the original XBOX thinking how awesome it felt to utilize all the extra buttons, switches and joysticks. With VR we could do the same without actually having to use plastic and money to manufacture the peripheral controllers. VR is the most logical step for mech games going forward.
@@badacyborg I remember see the Steel Battalion controller in game , it looks awesome. Have you tried Vox Machinae, only proper VR Mech game I've heard about, just waiting for it to go on sale.
This very limited on PS4 be time soon for a PC because mods and more.still have lot of fun on console tho! Great tips man ,I will take that and use it!
I just started playing it and one thing i was wondering about: Sometimes you get to salvage Mechs from the battlefield and I wondered if I have the points, but my four bays are already full, can I still get that Mech? Like is it stored somewhere else? How many Mechs can i store? I'm talking about Singleplayer btw.
Holy crap.. I seriously need to re-do my AI's weapon groups.. no wonder they are not firing that much. Question, does the Firing group you choose save, so you don't have to re-configure it again, even if you put it in storage?
No. This is because you remove all equipment from the Mechs. This also includes upgrades so be warned since it is extremely expensive and time consuming on mechs with 6 or more slots.
It can work, but SRMs and AC20 have the same range profile, so you're pretty much guaranteed to hit with both at 270 meters. This game tends to favor brawling over range a lot of the time, and SRM/AC20 is one of the highest damage combos in the game, SRM missiles do a ton of damage and that ramps up with an AC, often enough to either completely strip armor off of heavier mechs in 1-2 shots or even outright kill smaller and lighter mechs outright. LRMs not being able to fire if the enemy is within a certain range of you heavily stunts their damage output, as a lot of times if an enemy wants to get close, they often do.
Hello mate. I start Play but i dont know how Play on low lvl difficulty. Play 4,5 missions and next 8,9-12 lvl difficulty, i cant win This missions. Can i fly on map ani Search low lvl missions difficulty? How Play?
Before heroes of the inner sphere came out i noticed that the ai didn't like to fire LRMs all that often and found that putting them in weapon group one made them more likely to use them and also found that the ai was also more likely to want to prioritize the weapon(s) in firegroup 1 but if what you're saying is true it seems like the ai use of weapons has been fixed so to speak
So how do you cancel a job? And how do you make sure a "collect [item name] from [conflict zone]" is for a conflict zone that has mission available to be able to collect the item in?
Little late but go into operations then objective log to cancel missions. Just look there is always a mission with a possible drop you just have to mak e sure you are in the correct zone.
Having a issue.. I've played a ton of missions for this faction and my rep with said faction.has not moved up. My rank is 9 now...but my rep with this faction is only +1 n hasn't moved in forever. What mi doing wrong?
Have you also done missions where your preferred faction was the enemy? If so this will reduce your reputation. Good reputation gives you better job rewards, cheaper equipment and Mechs. However it may limit the missions you want to take as you strive not to annoy your preferred employer (such is the life of a Mercenary). Getting the balance right is personal choice but a good rule of thumb is to get a single faction up to a high level. Then you can occasionally take jobs against them without loosing all the benefit you worked hard to build-up. Tip: Before you jump to a planet read the planet information. If all the enemy mechs found there belong to your favourite employer the missions will be against them. You might want to find a different planet to visit.
Hi, I've been playing MechWarrior 5 for 3 days, but I don't know how I can get a bullet into Autocannon/10. So I replaced it with a Heavy Rifle because I found it in the Black Market and ammo too, but I don't know how to upload it. "Equipped weapons have no ammo (Heavy Rifle, Autocannon/10" I use a Centurion CN9-A ...:S Can you help me? Thanks in advance! :) My English knowledge is poor.
If you're getting the "Equipped Weapons have no ammo" warning, it means that there is not slotted ammo in the 'Mech build. So like how he showed slotting in Heat Sinks at 5:05, for weapons that require ammo - those being Ballistic and Missile weapons - you have to make sure you slot ammo for them. Hopefully this helps!
DO you have enough salvage points to get everything? Make sure you look at the top of the salvage screen to check how many points you have to use, mechs cost ALOT of points to salvage so you may need to assign more negotiation points to salvage when you at accepting the contract.
not quite. it's not that the AI (as in the AI pilots) ignore the settings you've made. he said when you make changes to the mech in the lab (!), sometimes the weapon group settings go back to the default setting.
Inventory management should be a bigger part of the game. Having to buy armor and ammo and make sure you have these in stock in order to repair and reload your mech adds SO MUCH more value to the game.
@@HoverCat 1. There are only two mods that come close to this kind of functionality, Reloaded and Merctech. Reloaded is not getting updated for the latest update/DLC and MercTech is a dramatic overhaul that changes far more than just mechlab/inventory management. 2. I'm a modder and just no. This is functionality that should be in the base game.
@@colbyboucher6391 It would require a dev team that does more than the bare minimum... or "minimum valuable product" as PGI tend to call it.. I´ve never seen them fully commit to any features they added and I doubt it will ever happen... I have the enormous , probably irrational hope, that now that Microprose came back from the dead, they might get the BattleTech Universe licenses back...
The game is on easy from that alone. I could not imagine how much my actions would change. Run out of LRMs after 2 missions.... Also my cold storage is now about 50 mechs. Update is generous with salvage points and mech chassises.
You wouldn't believe how wonderful and helpful this video has been. Thank you very much. I've only just got Mechwarrior 5 in the sale for Christmas, and I was about to pack it in almost instantly because I had no clue what I was doing, and the only "guide" is that stupid long winded codec. There's no way I'm reading all that. How f*cking boring is that. I'd like to learn by doing things, trying things "on the job" as they say, not reading endless monotonous shite. Shame on them for doing it like that. It's absolutely backwards and ridiculous how the most simple games have tutorials, yet this one which is super in depth and vast, they have bloody none! It's retarded 🤨😐 It makes me think of a person's first day on the job. They tell the worker to come in. And when they get there, and they're all ready to go, enthusiastic to get stuck into the job, then some arse wipe wheels in a cabinet full of documents and just dumps them in front of you. Then they say "here you go, read all that first"... 😳F*CK OFF! I'll set fire to the lot of it! 😠😡🤬👉 Cheers again 🤭😅😆🤣
Not that i have heard of in my like 30 years of gaming. as a single Battlemech requires and we mean requires at least 1 tech to keep running and supplies and store and a whole host. It is designed as a Military war machine.
Nope. But good idea💰💰💰. Pitch that along to Microsoft. I can see that in the future. After 31+ years especially this old school style of gaming was on & off from PC to console wondering when is the next one coming out and if it's going to be FPS or RPG Tactical.
there used to be old xbox titles called mech assault lone wolf where you used to be able to exit the mech and hijack other mechs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MechAssault_2:_Lone_Wolf
Put my a.i. in my strongest mech, i used my 2nd best, worked great till we fought the target.... we were all beat up but my a.i. ally was better of then me... i kept telling it to attack and it kept say "i cant do that.." can u guess why....? Well.... i blew up.... i kicked the devil and my big brothef jyst watched me get the shyt kicked out of me lol. Turns out.... he had all his weapons broken during the fight lmao
When this game first came out I didn’t even want to try it, because of all the mainstream people doing negative reviews, saying it was too simple and all that. I saw it on gamepass these days and thought: hey, wouldn’t hurt just trying it out. Man, I wish I’ve played this before, it is such a great game, so much customization and strategy involved, I’m loving this so much! Thanks for the video as well!
Funny thing I saw a bunch of reviews saying it’s was too complicated and too hard when I downloaded it today to try it out and I agree with you it’s a pretty good game wasn’t expecting it tbh
AI spawning right behind you was the biggest issue for me, I bought the game on Epic Games store so I could mod the game, modders fixed all the issues and could customise exactly how much you get rewarded from side missions, made the game a lot less of a grind.
It's soooo much better now than on release.
I played it fairly early and it was kinda trash, they've improved spawns immensely and AI lancemate behavior, lots of quality of life improvements. It's fun now and that's not something I could say before.
Could someone help me? I'm not receiving salvage after missions? Whats going on?
you woudnt want to play it at release, trust me. The gamepass is the ''fixed version'' of the game. the vanilla game its a mess with out any mods.
I've played through this game like 3 times now, here's some stuff I've learned:
1. If you're going to do Demolition missions, expect to take more damage than you would on, say, a Defense mission. I like to do the Cantina jobs and Demo missions are a good one to do Treasure Hunter jobs on. You can usually go find the treasure package before you aggro the base, without having to fight much of anything. Also, on Demo missions, I usually buy 1-2 air strikes of available. Two air strikes is often overkill, but in the heavier weight classes, your mechs are slow and you'll need to get the base destroyed that much faster. The air strikes might not be the most money-efficient way to take down a base, but they make the base destruction part of your job way quicker, so you take less damage, in theory. One air strike can do like 25% or more of the damage to the base for you, which is a lot, and in some cases its like 50% when you get lucky.
2. Warzone missions are good ones to help you complete the Wardog Cantina jobs. You can destroy stuff to complete the mission, then stick around and fight more waves of badguys, and hopefully they'll throw more VTOLs, Harassers, Missile Carrier tanks, etc at you as part of those waves. This makes that "Kill 25 Harasser" go faster. Having said that, the heavier the weight limit of the mission, the more mechs they throw at you and this means probably fewer tanks, so I tend to expect ths adds to be tanks and VTOLs in the 200-300 ton range and more mechs in the heavier weight class missions.. And be careful because by the time you've racked up like 500k worth of additional kills, you will eventually have to face the inevitable "you better run now" fight where they drop more stuff on you than you're really able to handle. THE easiest Cantina jobs to do are the "Kill X VTOLs" jobs, because it's usually only like 8 VTOLS and you can get all 8 of them in one mission often enough.
3. The vast majority of Cantina jobs that require you to "collect X number of mechs/weapons of a given type" end up being completed if and only if you either A) have the required stuff in inventory already, or B) have enough C-Bills to buy the stuff they want you to give them. These jobs generally cost you more money than they give you back when you complete them, for this reason, but that's not to say that they're to be completely avoided. If there's an upgrade you want in that track, you can work your way up to it, but it will probably cost you money to do so. That said, you might also want the guns/stuff they're going to give you too, so there's that.
4. In my experience, the "Collect X number of Mechs of a SPECIFIC variant" Cantina jobs are not worth pursuing. The stuff they will promise you looks great, but the job is just short of impossible to actually do and will definitely cost you C-Bills to complete it.
5. When you do a Beachhead mission, there will generally be some number of artillery guns on the map that you do not see on the battlegrid until they start shooting at you. Annoyingly, even THEN there may be MORE artillery guns that they're keeping in reserve that won't start shooting at you until later on. I personally like to sweep the ENTIRE map for those artillery guns first, before doing anything else, and I try to avoid the main base while doing this, but I do take out the satellite uplinks where possible. Once you're sure you've gotten all of the artillery, you can then proceed to finish off any satellite uplinks you didn't destroy while you were hunting down the artillery guns. THEN you can proceed to take down the base and wait for the wave or two of adds to arrive and blast them. Also, while you're doing the sweep for artillery, the artillery will be shooting at you. Your mech needs to have a speed of at least 64kph to be able to outrun the artillery guns, so don't take any of the slow 40 KPH Atlases etc for this type of mission, I prefer a good Battlemaster, personally.
6 Upgrading mechs is pretty expensive, so I'd save it for the heavy and assault mechs you intend to use from like level 8 through the end of the game. I always max out the armor and structure with my upgrades, because it helps keep lancemates alive linger and they lose less components that way, one hopes.
7. When you put a weapon on an arm, you're risking losing it when that arm get's shot off, which happens WAY more often than getting torso weapons destroyed. I generally like to have at most a replaceable medium laser or SRM 4 on the arm, or maybe a large laser. I will sometimes play the high-risk game of mounting two really good guns on a special mech like a Victor Basilisk or a Corsair, but that's the exception to the rule, and even then I only put those loadouts on mechs I personally will drive. Lancemates should only ever be given mechs with cheap, easily replaceable weapons on the arms, and then maybe better ones on the torso.
9. If you put a mech in cold storage, you will not have to pay the freight on it when traveling around, but doing this stripes the mech bare and removes all Upgrades you might have had on it, and replacing those upgrades is really costly, and takes a long time, so I would recommend NOT cold-storing any mech that you've done upgrades on, and therefore I would not do upgrades on any mech that you're not going to use for a long time, which is basically your favorite heavy and assault mechs.
10. When doing Defense missions, try as hard as you can to avoid actually going into the base itself, because you and your lancemates will destroy parts of it as you trample through on your way to the fight. For this reason, Defense missions tend to favor faster mechs with longer range weapons so you can hit stuff without having to run through the base to do so.
You my friend are a real one.
Cheers 👍😉
Maybe the devs should have had you to do the codec. That thing is a right tedious chore, and I only got about a third the way through before seeking out this video.
well said, appreciate it
Mate, champion effort!
Wao
Another good tip for Destroy missions if you don't want to lug around MG and Flamers. You can use your own mech as a wrecking ball by running at buildings/over structures. With the exception of walls most things will be destroyed on impact and you can keep charging through without taking damage.
Also Air strikes. They really are not necessary in missions but they help if used right. A single air strike can flatten a base and heavily damage mechs inside its perimeter.
Was about to say! Airstrikes do make those easier.
Very helpful, thanks! Just started with Mechwarrior 5 and I'm a bit rusty - it brings back many memories from my MW2 days in the 90s.
An exception to your repair in conflict zone exception: It can still be beneficial to repair mechs if the overall cost and time is less then what you made in a mission so your still in the black. Doubly so if you're in a multi-drop mission set. On top of that, max 3 drops is generally the best as by the point you can do these you should have enough mech to grab a fresh lance for each mission or repair the first batch for the final mission.
ANOTHER THING: Cantina Collection missions don't care if you've grabbed the required item as salvage or as store items. So you can game the system a bit by just buying the required items and just completing the quest to get the mech quirks for more customized mechs.
Adjusting my AI weapon groups was a game changer. I gave Freeman my old favorite Warhammer with a good spread on his weapon grouping and he sometimes top-frags now!
As of today, this game is 100% better than at launch. With the right mods, it's absolutely incredible with a high end GPU.
Just started this and loved it. Got all the DLC expansions and it is AMAZING! Love it!
200+ hours in and I didn't know about the lancemates using weapon groups.. thanks!
I really wish there was a way to view a mech's hardpoints before buying it from the shop.
Like MechWarrior Online
usually you get a rather good feel by just looking at the mech.. the real issue is when you have large and medium lasers in the arms/torso and you cannot tell which is which.
overview lower right corner gives you a slight idea.
vanilla wasn't there, the dlc changed that I think.
thats why you have instant action with all the mechs available at once. So you can try all the mechs and all the variants and see wich ones are useful to your play style and wich ones are not.
@@ShadrackMeduson that's not a good resolution
You can edit weapon groups while piloting as well. Use arrow keys to nav, I believe CTRL to select an deselect, and backspace to set chain fire on or off :)
In co op make sure you put your friends in mechs their comfortable using. I love fast scout mechs while my buddy likes assault mechs.
Thank you for this. By far the best tips I've seen for starting out, and nicely presented too. No fluff or waffling on about the game to start - just straight to the point. This has given me the confidence to try some stuff out and start making cash!
8:50 That Starship Deck... takes me back. That's when you know you are truly "old".
I just started playing MW 5, recent steam sale, and it looks a lot like my younger self imagined MW2 would look with better graphics.
I started playing this on a whim because a friend had started playing it. And honestly thanks to game pass for allowing me to play it because after getting over the bit of jenk its alot of fun. Has abit of oldschool mixed in with the newer gaming things.
I've been playing MW since MW2 came out on Playstation 1 and every one since on PC, I absolutely love this series, and I'm _fairly_ happy with this game. It's got it's quirks and I can see it being a little repetitive for people who don't love it though, the mission design is a little, shall we say, condensed. I think a bit more story telling and scripted scenes would have benefitted the game greatly, they start the game out with this badass CGI cutscene that leaves MW junkies drooling then sprinkle in a few generic story missions where you do _exactly_ what you did in _every single other mission._ Like I said, I love the game and I'm not giving up on it but it could have been so much more. And damnit I want to see some timeline progression, where's the Clan mechs and weapons at? They were a goal to work towards, endgame OP powerhouses that wiped the field. I want my Mad Cat MkII AC boat like I had in MW4 mercs, I used to smear anything that came at me if I could get in close without being sniped in online play, it had (I think🤔) two AC20's and three AC10's, either that or one AC20 and two AC10's, can't actually remember off the top of my head, it's been a while lol. Anyways, I want my Clan mechs damnit!🤣
Or just omni points, plus if you have a large slot you should be able to put multiple weapons in that slot. Just saying it would make sense if you have room for an A/C 20 there should be room for multiple A/C 10's, 5's, or 2's.
The Clans don't arrive until 3050. o.o
OMG that first mission you used for Tip #1 is the exact mission I fail on. This tip will definitely help me! thank you!!
Flamers and Machine Guns are OP as hell against buildings, but generally suck against everything else.
@@KP762a Nope, MGs generally strip mech armor like crazy, even on heavy mechs. I've played the hardest missions with a Hero Blackjack with 6 fully upgraded MGs, one Large SP Laser and two medium Lasers. This thing will strip ANY mech of it's armor in two 360 mg bursts, then my lance with it's heavy guns take em out with 2-3 good placed shots on the torso.
Flamers on the other hand are made to overheat the enemy mech, they won't deal that much of damage but can be a major harassment for laser based mechs especially when there a two or more agile mechs with flamers.
This game got me to get a mouse with 2 extra buttons. I hate sticking to 2 weapon groups or hitting 3/4 and I found out holding a button keeps refiring which is especiallly useful with machine guns
AC/20 and SRM’s in the same group…interesting choice.
I believe projectile velocities between the two are equal in mw5.
It's the only choice
@@rhubot721 thanks for the info
@@grell666 not necessarily
Great for linked fire
A big difference I found that helped me was to definitely hire mercenaries really helps to divide and conquer. Awesome vid fam have a blessed one and stay safe
I recently picked up this game and this helps a bit. MW5 has a lot of nuance at times at how some mech's, and loadout's can make the difference, I wasn't sure what the value of flamers, and MG's were with massive mech's armed with ppcs and missle's. Little wiser now.
Another good tip is that the starter Centurion CN9-A is a very good medium mech in early game for those who want a heavy-mech feel, and holds its own even later down the line. I've only seen a few others who can match it in free tonnage (after max armor) and decent hardpoints. (Some of those are the Hunchback, Trebuchet, and Vindicator). Running an AC-10, 2 M Lasers, and a SRM-6 ST works very nice. It's slow, but most heavy mechs you'll get into later are the same speed, so it feels like a smooth transition from any CN9 to a heavy.
To meet an enemy Centurion is sometimes a butt pain. It is very hard to kill even if you are on heavy
Oh nice...I even learned something... didn´t realize there was a chainfire option for the weapon groups :)
Really really appreciated this. The detailed module upgrade breakdown was SOOO useful! Thanks so much!
Excellent game! Been waiting so dang long for another Mechwarrior game.
Yes! This my friends, is a very well done video. Bravo!
I jumped on this game after I started reading Battletech novels. It's good stuff, both game and novels.
And the most important tip of all: wait for the modders to fix it!
Yeah shit is fucked up right now. Can't use any mods without the game crashing on start.
@XSAVIER busy on pc they took away alot of mod support and features. So that's why people are annoyed.
@@mattyice2099 makes me happy I'm still a console peasant I guess
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Another good idea once you start getting multmission jobs is to have backup mechs so you can hot swap between missions if something gets banged up. Can always take damage coverage as well 1 point is like 500k covered so can start repairs between missions and use the backups
I had no idea there were firing groups for AI mechs. Thumbs up for this vid.
it´s one of the most important things in MW5... Helps alot with your team mates shooting better
I loved in old times (MW2 and on) how I could take the least expected route and ambush and\or tackle enemy Mechs before power-up
Just bought this game two weeks ago , absolutely having a blast . I highly recommend this game for a older title check it out!
best tip i can give is play instant action a lot. Play with all the combinations you can make, and try all mechs and weapons aavailable. Do this so you can learn how all mechs can work, wich ones are usefull for certain situations, wich ones are garbage, wich ones work better when you are using them and wich ones are better when your lance is using them. In that way you can get an idea of wich mechs and weapons you have to buy instead of spending tons of money on mechs that arent as useful as they look at first.
From what I've seen online and in game the AI pilots don't obey your weapon groupings. They fire each weapon as they enter the max range of that weapon. I've been building my AI mechs around weaponry with similar max range limitations for this reason
REALLY HELPFUL VID! Also appreciated that you didn’t make menu/game navigation CPU/Console specific.👍
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in new campaign/tutorial you actually NEED jump jets to progress
I managed to complete it without jumpjets, jsut steered left and climbed over the slope..
It's just for that one tutorial mission. Jumpjets can very much be useful, but a lot of the time are not necessary.
This is game I’ve always been interested tried it a few times but could never get into it fully, this vid helped me become addicted to the game now lol
I wish the larger buildings actually came down and then caused damage to the surrounding area. The creating an obstacle
I always enjoyed the older MW games and this is fun. A bit of nostalgia for me.
I do not know if PGI fix it but AI lance mate could not utilize chain fire.
Haven't tried chain fire on AI lance mates but they don't use jump jets, so make sure to remove those and put in more armor/heat sinks instead.
@@7Rendar No dude, now they use them but not so much. Enemies use them more.
Do days actually matter? As in do I have finite days? I've been fast forwarding days to repair mechs, to do missions. Wondering if there's a downside.
Another good tip large lasers on arm mounts make very effective anti air weapons
in my experience the AI automatically groups things based on component location and or range.. and rarely do I have to change it. You cannot actually swap out types of hard-points for another so groupings should be rather automatic.
I want the vulture in the game!!!!! Me and my friend just bought this on Xbox and man the last time I played was mw4 vengeance and I miss the vulture from the cutscene
game starts in 3015, right? so you are 34 years too early to get a look at Vultures :-)
Game is dope don't listen to critics most are paid to shit on things I have always been a diehard fan but to tell you the truth I felt alone until TH-cam showed me my mech brothers and how tough our bond is
Best tip for me is to setup weapon groups! Damn, that should be in game hint, as I though bots are doing it by themselves!
Repair armor in CONFLICT ZONES goes ok if its just an armor damage. I've found a strategy to have 12 mechs in dropship and complete missions of my lovely factions on 5 planets in a row. Repair mechs armor but leave most crippled ones for repair in Industrial HUBs.
It helped my to survive the CBill crisis around 4-7 reputation level in the career.
Thanks buddy this helped a lot.
this was super helpful. i didnt know AI couldnt change their weapon groups.
This helped me allot as I had to restart because I was so clueless
So one mech 46 days and the other 13 days for repairs , how do you play the next mission ?
Get more mechs, just get max rank with a faction and put all negotiation points into salvage and hope one of the mechs you kill becomes salvageable if there’s one mech in mission that you want but it doesn’t show up just reload and replay the mission, after that it’s just a case getting enough mechs for the tonnage of the missions you’re wanting to do and a case of planning for if they’re multi mission contracts
Good sht my bro awesome timing just bought this amazing game highly recommend it to anyone that wants something besides stupid call of duty
Great tips, thank you! I feel like I"M the one doing the most damage to my Javelin with those jump jets! :D
I thought weapon groups didn't matter for lancemates, damn gonna need to adjust that for them as well
Best tip vid by far and omg weapon grouping for ai i had no idea mind blown dude sub simple as ha ha
It's Science!
One thing I've learned is to pilot each mech personally. This will tell you what to adjust
I just started playing this Friday. Somehow I missed that it was available on Xbox One. My main problem is the movement. I played the computer mechwarrior games several years ago as well as the Mech Assault games on the original Xbox. I've also played a lot of War Robots over the last few years. All of those games moved better than this one. The way the legs keep turning instead of just moving you in the direction you want to go is frustrating as hell and nowhere near as seamless as things used to be. Are there any control options i'm missing to change that? I'm using the arm lock option because otherwise you get these radical swings with the target reticle when the legs rotate past a certain point. Also, for the love of God, why has Xbox never done additional sequels to MechAssault??? That seemed like a no brainer.
I dont use a controller so I cant talk about that. Just a reminder that your torso twists independant of the legs. Arm lock is allright if you dont have arm weapons. Arms have a greater range of movement letting you shoot higher or further to the side.
there is an option to enable auto centering, where it tends to move your torso where you are walking, That was added to help for controller play, think its called counter rotation in the options. might help i think
@@mikea4169 thanks for the tip!
May also help to turn on throttle decay so you don't keep going in the direction your legs are pointed if you let go of the movement keys.
A few MUST HAVE mods there are in the category "Why there is not in the game?":
* Xenopax Optimization + Xenopax Art Optimization = free FPS boots without any visual changes. Game is not greatly optimized and modders are fixing that!
* TTrulez AIMo - improves enemy's and ally's AI. Should be in the game by default!
* Mech Attribute Viewer - self explanatory. Once you've installed it - you could not live without it!
* PurchaseSalvage - you could purchase salvage at the end of the missions. DO NOT make game easier but less frustrating!
* StarMapMouseOver - adds information on the star map about jobs when you mouse over it. Saves SO much time!
* Mod Options - mod so other mods could work properly.
If you REALLY don't like mods - install just optimization ones ;-)
I really hope they would add VR support for this game, it was rumoured during development but I think they have abandoned the idea now.
That would be so fucking rad.
@@badacyborg It's the perfect game for it, there aren't enough VR games where I can sit and relax. Imagine if you could actually press buttons and pull levers in the cockpit with motion controllers 😯.
@@00Clive00 Agreed. I remember playing Steel Battalion on the original XBOX thinking how awesome it felt to utilize all the extra buttons, switches and joysticks. With VR we could do the same without actually having to use plastic and money to manufacture the peripheral controllers. VR is the most logical step for mech games going forward.
@@badacyborg I remember see the Steel Battalion controller in game , it looks awesome. Have you tried Vox Machinae, only proper VR Mech game I've heard about, just waiting for it to go on sale.
@@00Clive00 I haven't heard of it but I'll def look it up. I only have the oculus quest which doesn't run very demanding games but one can dream.
This very limited on PS4 be time soon for a PC because mods and more.still have lot of fun on console tho! Great tips man ,I will take that and use it!
I just started playing it and one thing i was wondering about: Sometimes you get to salvage Mechs from the battlefield and I wondered if I have the points, but my four bays are already full, can I still get that Mech? Like is it stored somewhere else? How many Mechs can i store? I'm talking about Singleplayer btw.
As a noob, followed the advice on removing the jump jets… FYI you need jump jets to complete the first mission, lol!
Love the vid, man. Great info for beginners and breaks down the learning curve nicely. 1 question though, why are you wearing a cap indoors? :-P
Finnaly... my question About 1st Person On Hangar Mechship Actually Still Work.
Hope For the best Next
Holy crap.. I seriously need to re-do my AI's weapon groups.. no wonder they are not firing that much. Question, does the Firing group you choose save, so you don't have to re-configure it again, even if you put it in storage?
No. This is because you remove all equipment from the Mechs.
This also includes upgrades so be warned since it is extremely expensive and time consuming on mechs with 6 or more slots.
You can update your own firing group during a mission now. Managed to save myself a restart with that.
good video thank you, will you please do more?
Question is there any reason to repair arms that don't have weapons on them?
I prefer LRM in combination with a strong AC
It can work, but SRMs and AC20 have the same range profile, so you're pretty much guaranteed to hit with both at 270 meters. This game tends to favor brawling over range a lot of the time, and SRM/AC20 is one of the highest damage combos in the game, SRM missiles do a ton of damage and that ramps up with an AC, often enough to either completely strip armor off of heavier mechs in 1-2 shots or even outright kill smaller and lighter mechs outright. LRMs not being able to fire if the enemy is within a certain range of you heavily stunts their damage output, as a lot of times if an enemy wants to get close, they often do.
Hello mate. I start Play but i dont know how Play on low lvl difficulty. Play 4,5 missions and next 8,9-12 lvl difficulty, i cant win This missions. Can i fly on map ani Search low lvl missions difficulty? How Play?
просмотрел весь ютуб,Ты реально первый блоггер который нормально обьяснил как же работают улучшение mech
Thank you for this!
If you're looking for a fun game check this one out it's got Co-Op it's got loads of mods. More importantly it's got giant stompy robot
Before heroes of the inner sphere came out i noticed that the ai didn't like to fire LRMs all that often and found that putting them in weapon group one made them more likely to use them and also found that the ai was also more likely to want to prioritize the weapon(s) in firegroup 1 but if what you're saying is true it seems like the ai use of weapons has been fixed so to speak
Could you help me scorpio? I never am able to recive salvage after a mission. Whats going on? How can I fix this?
Is there a way to check your standing with all the factions at once?
Thanks for the vid. Liked. Too bad co op is screwed.
So how do you cancel a job? And how do you make sure a "collect [item name] from [conflict zone]" is for a conflict zone that has mission available to be able to collect the item in?
Little late but go into operations then objective log to cancel missions. Just look there is always a mission with a possible drop you just have to mak e sure you are in the correct zone.
Having a issue.. I've played a ton of missions for this faction and my rep with said faction.has not moved up. My rank is 9 now...but my rep with this faction is only +1 n hasn't moved in forever. What mi doing wrong?
Have you also done missions where your preferred faction was the enemy? If so this will reduce your reputation.
Good reputation gives you better job rewards, cheaper equipment and Mechs. However it may limit the missions you want to take as you strive not to annoy your preferred employer (such is the life of a Mercenary).
Getting the balance right is personal choice but a good rule of thumb is to get a single faction up to a high level. Then you can occasionally take jobs against them without loosing all the benefit you worked hard to build-up.
Tip: Before you jump to a planet read the planet information. If all the enemy mechs found there belong to your favourite employer the missions will be against them. You might want to find a different planet to visit.
Tab is a cheap way for creating borning home bases that are unique and loveable to walk around over and over again.
I may be wrong here, I always put my heat sinks in the feet, because in mwo it would cool faster. (I think)
in mw5 it doesn't seem to matter alot. I loose legs the least, so I put my ammo in the legs.
Thank you update for 2024 please new player on ps5
You still need to sort out your VTOL atribution.. rotor craft on the Exo Moon Biome in space, hm?
Catapult with 2 LRM 15 ST, and 4 Med laser no jump with single heat sink
Any tips for making your friendly AI teammates not trample through the objectives you're supposed to be defending and failing the mission for you? 😂
Tell them to go to point X, F1 then point somewhere safe and F3. Can also put LRM mechs in better firing positions.
Hi, I've been playing MechWarrior 5 for 3 days, but I don't know how I can get a bullet into Autocannon/10. So I replaced it with a Heavy Rifle because I found it in the Black Market and ammo too, but I don't know how to upload it. "Equipped weapons have no ammo (Heavy Rifle, Autocannon/10" I use a Centurion CN9-A ...:S Can you help me? Thanks in advance! :) My English knowledge is poor.
If you're getting the "Equipped Weapons have no ammo" warning, it means that there is not slotted ammo in the 'Mech build. So like how he showed slotting in Heat Sinks at 5:05, for weapons that require ammo - those being Ballistic and Missile weapons - you have to make sure you slot ammo for them. Hopefully this helps!
@@HazopGaze
Thanks, I already realized :D
Where can I find high level weapons?
OKay 1 question is it in 1st or 3rd person?
Either. :)
After every lvl I play I choose the salvage I want but I never recive it? Is it in a special location? Or am I bugged?
DO you have enough salvage points to get everything? Make sure you look at the top of the salvage screen to check how many points you have to use, mechs cost ALOT of points to salvage so you may need to assign more negotiation points to salvage when you at accepting the contract.
When it says how many days it takes to repair does that mean in game days?
Yes
Is this game like chrome hounds?
so did i got that right? the AI overrides the players weapon groups sometimes?
not quite. it's not that the AI (as in the AI pilots) ignore the settings you've made. he said when you make changes to the mech in the lab (!), sometimes the weapon group settings go back to the default setting.
Anyone else find the idea of leaving your lacemates to alpha strike everything very funny
Are you on speed?
thx
How come you have up to 6 weapon groups? Is that only on PC, or is to do with the mech, because I only get 4.
Pc thing
Inventory management should be a bigger part of the game. Having to buy armor and ammo and make sure you have these in stock in order to repair and reload your mech adds SO MUCH more value to the game.
MODS ;)
@@HoverCat 1. There are only two mods that come close to this kind of functionality, Reloaded and Merctech. Reloaded is not getting updated for the latest update/DLC and MercTech is a dramatic overhaul that changes far more than just mechlab/inventory management. 2. I'm a modder and just no. This is functionality that should be in the base game.
@@colbyboucher6391 It would require a dev team that does more than the bare minimum... or "minimum valuable product" as PGI tend to call it..
I´ve never seen them fully commit to any features they added and I doubt it will ever happen... I have the enormous , probably irrational hope, that
now that Microprose came back from the dead, they might get the BattleTech Universe licenses back...
The game is on easy from that alone. I could not imagine how much my actions would change. Run out of LRMs after 2 missions....
Also my cold storage is now about 50 mechs. Update is generous with salvage points and mech chassises.
You wouldn't believe how wonderful and helpful this video has been. Thank you very much. I've only just got Mechwarrior 5 in the sale for Christmas, and I was about to pack it in almost instantly because I had no clue what I was doing, and the only "guide" is that stupid long winded codec. There's no way I'm reading all that. How f*cking boring is that. I'd like to learn by doing things, trying things "on the job" as they say, not reading endless monotonous shite. Shame on them for doing it like that. It's absolutely backwards and ridiculous how the most simple games have tutorials, yet this one which is super in depth and vast, they have bloody none! It's retarded 🤨😐
It makes me think of a person's first day on the job. They tell the worker to come in. And when they get there, and they're all ready to go, enthusiastic to get stuck into the job, then some arse wipe wheels in a cabinet full of documents and just dumps them in front of you. Then they say "here you go, read all that first"... 😳F*CK OFF! I'll set fire to the lot of it! 😠😡🤬👉
Cheers again 🤭😅😆🤣
Wife says I gotta help around the house, all I want is salvaged mechs
Also, in relation to the jump-jets... If you don't use them, remove them! Why pay for repairs of items you never use.
Am i too late to start getting to work on this game? 😆😁🤔
Is there an open world game where you pilot a mech? You can get out of your mech, etc...🤷🏻♂️
Not that i have heard of in my like 30 years of gaming. as a single Battlemech requires and we mean requires at least 1 tech to keep running and supplies and store and a whole host. It is designed as a Military war machine.
Nope. But good idea💰💰💰. Pitch that along to Microsoft. I can see that in the future. After 31+ years especially this old school style of gaming was on & off from PC to console wondering when is the next one coming out and if it's going to be FPS or RPG Tactical.
GNOME, but that’s a very very old game lol
Mechwarrior Living Legends might be the closest to what you ask for.
there used to be old xbox titles called mech assault lone wolf where you used to be able to exit the mech and hijack other mechs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MechAssault_2:_Lone_Wolf
Put my a.i. in my strongest mech, i used my 2nd best, worked great till we fought the target.... we were all beat up but my a.i. ally was better of then me... i kept telling it to attack and it kept say "i cant do that.." can u guess why....? Well.... i blew up.... i kicked the devil and my big brothef jyst watched me get the shyt kicked out of me lol. Turns out.... he had all his weapons broken during the fight lmao