For those raid missions you'd be better off going solo. The reason is that the AI will follow you and not fight so your allies will just be running after you the whole mission, getting shot at by every turret you have activated and every mech you have passed. They won't kill anything, but they will get shot to pieces by everything. In general any mission where you are going to just abandon your lancemates you'd be best just not bringing them.
Yeah, recon missions are seriously easy money and only one mech to repair. If you spam them, you can easily get enough money to go to a higher level zone and buy a heavy/assault mech early on, after that go back to easy zones and do whatever you want while saving up money.
I love it when you start from the beginning and have to work your way up you have so many challenges and yet most of the time you just blow right through them. Thanks for the excellent content!
Brutal, feels like being a construction contractor with no one paying what they owe you for months while your bills just keep stacking up... with lasers.
Expect Major Resistance if you stick around too long. Know that guy from my time in the military. Is he still around? And what is he doing in MW5? Do Major Damage and General Error also show up in the game? So many useless officers... And my favorite mission in MW5? Infiltration with a drop weight of 400 tons, go in with a Steiner scout lance and turn the whole place into a parking lot. Stealth is optional and the best recon results are about what the opponents used to have.
I recently started the same thing with YAML zero clan stuff and with health to 1.0, games really enjoyable with the amount environs u can play in and the interactions with all new content like the mercs and dlc campaigns. YAML makes it complete.
The best Sort of Missions in very early game to get huge C-BILLS vs investing minimal time and risk of destruction of mechs, are Infiltration Missions 😃😉
Early game is the ONLY time to enjoy Infiltrarion missions. Passed 30 difficulty they become impossible to do stealthily because of the 50% kill auto alarm
When using the Light mechs Speed is Armor.. don't stop, and don't trip over anything that will slow you down. Personally I do the Raid missions solo in a Spider. Try matching the speeds of the Mechs in your lance so that all mechs are capable of keeping formation with you, and avoid crossing the terrain with the //// over it on the map as your allies have a difficulty pathing there. Likewise be aware of the non jumping mechs in your lance and don't leave them behind. Focus fire by targeting and tapping F1 twice.
If you want real challenge, change your damage multiplier back from 2x (default) to 1x, so you only do the same damage as enemies. BIG difference when you can't just overwhelm an equivalent mech like its a toy compared to you. This is a settable value in MercTech and the biggest reason I use that mod. I love the fair fight dynamic. Not sure if any of the mods you use support it, and I'm pretty sure it is only settable at the beginning of a new game.
Something I've noticed with lancemate AI in MW5 is that they're really good with PPC's. Giving them as many as possible, especially in the early game, makes life a whole lot easier.
In the last mission (forest) I recognised the bird calls, they sound like New Zealand native birds. The two beat owl call was a Ruru (Morepork) and the higher scale scatter of notes was from a Tui
Good video Bara. I'd suggest you pick up a Flea and preferably the Flea-17 and do non-stop Recon missions. You only need to take the Flea and you can use MASC to outrun anything chasing you and probably won't even get a scratch on your 'mech unless you were unfortunate and got cornered into a fight. 🙂
I agree, but don't forget that jump jets are a thing. As crazy as it sounds, the humble urbie downgraded on weapons to up-engine and add some jump-jets is amazing at recon as you can do rear facing shots while racing across the open plains
@@StrangeUncle01 Urbies are good early-game 'mechs, yes. I've only ever played MW5 in Vanilla or with one or two quality-of-life mods and not the super modded games Bara plays, so I play with Vanilla ruleset restrictions. Also, I've noticed that most people who run an Urbie usually like to fit a large Autocannon and as many lasers and machine guns as they can fit within the weight limit and life with so-so speeds, while the Flea is designed to be speedy and also be cheap to buy and that's lore accurate too. Jump Jets on an Urbie or really any 'mech does make it more mobile yes, but considering how many Urbies and light 'mechs I've sniped out of the air, that's something I refrain from doing personally. 😄 I'd say Poptarting is probably the most you'd want to do in a light 'mech, and even then, it can be dangerous. In MWO, I have a Firestarter FS-9-H that I sometimes use to Poptart and there have been several times when I got picked off or lost most of my armor because someone hit me while I was in the air.
Love the videos! I have a suggestion for this playthru to really challenge you to show your mech piloting skills. Use whatever equipment you want, but limit your maximum mech tonnage to 50 tons, 200 tons for the lance. Use hero mechs, whatever crazy combination you want, but 50 tons max. Then work through and beat all the campaign missions from all the DLCs. It isn't impossible but it will require beyond elite level of piloting, which I believe you can achieve.
31:00 I would have sold the walking coffin Locust, bought a new engine for the Javelin, and with the rest of the money start repairing the Urbie. Also, when/if possible leg some mechs for the potential engine to be salvaged.
Just found my new favorite mission type. GroundWar. It's like an endgame mission without being an endgame mission. Tons of mechs. You need to be smart and let your allies do some of the heavy lifting. Love it
Yeah the grind is rough. I started up a new one as well. What turned around my gameplay was getting an Urbanmech with missile and energy hardpoints that is using an SRM 4 and 6 Inferno and the reputation gains. So I've been overheating mechs and making the fights more breathable. Plus the awesome salvage from overheating and doing head shots on that mech.
@@jukahri It's true though. At least for the starting bit. This Urbanmech has decent armour, 72 kph and a supercharger to hit 109 kph. Great in the early game.
I love Cicadas early game! Giant Jenner! Then it's a 3C and only had 1 energy harpoint. So I sold it and keep a Flea instead because it can at least deal damage. More armor doesn't matter if I die because I have negative 2 DPS. 😂😂
derwish srm mech would help really well right now . medium laser build at your current stage would better than flamer . you can also find 2 light mechs in one of the asteroids close to one of the planets
Early game IMO demolition and raid missions are the best. Just go in with 1-2 flamer/machine gun mechs, break everything, and bug out. Maybe kill a vehicle or two on your way through.
Love your stuff Barabrother, just a thought, the engine for that urbie should be pretty cheap, so it may be cheaper to bring online than the javelin. You should have the weapons to make a decent one too.
@baradul Get better mission choices. Let's you increase the number of missions available and also the percentage of systems that have missions. just put it higher (almost last) than all the YAML stuff. works with it.
was not sure why you do not do the 8v8 duel and use the friendlies as bullet sponges and extra firepower duels and picking off enemy 1 at a time is my preferred early game run
You need 6 or 7 reputation to get Coyote so it's not free stuff by any means, by that point you've probably got better mechs than a couple Cicadas anyway.
Hi. Can I ask, what kind of controller do you use to play in MW5? Simply, I have only two-buttons mouse and this is hard to manage weapon groups with this, so I think to but something else
Eh, a lot of economy based games like Mechwarrior, Battletech, x-com and such have a reverse difficulty curve. Your start is very hard, but once you get to medium mech tier, it's more or less smooth sailing. I mean I like the power fantasy thing, but it would be nice to have those high tension missions later in some way. Also I admit that I play with tank stomping :D
a mod that might help out the stream (Travel cost 10k). you could always shut it off say at rep 4. just for the beginning of a play through, think of it as an inheritance from dear ole pa. ?
hey bara, i comment to remind you that starting at 3015 makes so that only the most basic tech is available (no double heat sinks, no XL engines, no endo, no ferro unless scavenged from hero mechs, if you're lucky to find them), and it will be quite a slog to wait until all that tech is available to you and make the game more fun i'm not against this level of tech, but the game becomes very slow that way, and you will only have "fun" OP builds when you get to assaults, making it the same as every other playthrough in the channel it's a bit painful, but it would be better to use the rasalhague start and start again to gain access to better parts, or at least not wait as long to see better tech btw, i love light mech builds where every slot and ton counts, i'm specially fond of a 8 medium sb laser fire starter, it melts through every other thing on its weight class, and it's very fun to play, but you really need endo and double heat sinks to make it work
The classic mechs mod doesn't care about introdates and adds quite a few mechs I think. Or something got updated, because after deactivating it and getting new versions of coyote and clan invasion I didn't get any more chimeras, hellbringers and so on during this time. I also lost a chimera and an uziel, which makes me think that classic mech mod is the culprit. I mean Bara sees Hollanders which shouldn't be there and can loot them and the stuff they are carrying.
If they can just add Solaris, more Inner Sphere weapons, more mechs, more variants, more biomes, more mission types, and just MORE the game will stay relevant even after Clans hits
The only thing that lets this game down is the ridiculous number of enemies you have to face, so much more than in the tactical PC game or the tabletop game. It feels so cheesy and arcadey.
those hollander spawns are BS I tells ya. That mech wasn't even debuted until 3054 and was a Lyran specialty, there's no way there should be even one in Liao space at this year.
flamers are terrible, equipping the firestarter with all lasers is better, also more armor up front (4-5 back armor is enough) my go to in early recon missions are to just run 1 mech, saves money on drop tonnage and armor dmg
I know I'm a little late to this video (new sub) but unless you turned off with a mod (scary tanks) you can at least just step on turrets to instakill them.
I feel like the missions are extra hard because your expected to use all the assets they offer you. You can go without but we are just going to see you get steam rolled for maybe 10 episodes.
This is not a struggle. You need to adjust your starting mechs to very hard in YAML and start with what I had. Two Urban mechs, Locust and a Commando. That's a hard way to start.
in the 30 some odd years if been playing the battletech universe, i've never heard the phrase "the cicada is the tank for the team."
I love the start of these zero to hero series, the grind is real!
For those raid missions you'd be better off going solo. The reason is that the AI will follow you and not fight so your allies will just be running after you the whole mission, getting shot at by every turret you have activated and every mech you have passed. They won't kill anything, but they will get shot to pieces by everything. In general any mission where you are going to just abandon your lancemates you'd be best just not bringing them.
Yeah, recon missions are seriously easy money and only one mech to repair. If you spam them, you can easily get enough money to go to a higher level zone and buy a heavy/assault mech early on, after that go back to easy zones and do whatever you want while saving up money.
100% this. I take the SPR-A with twin AMS and run like a madman at 129KPH and jump jets. Super fun.
Pressing F1-F1, from time to time is not that hard
@@Acaios1 seriously, that's how I handle those types of missions. I target something, F1 - F1 for my lance, and then I run off to another target.
This is great advice for those people who don’t know how to command their lance
I love it when you start from the beginning and have to work your way up you have so many challenges and yet most of the time you just blow right through them. Thanks for the excellent content!
Brutal, feels like being a construction contractor with no one paying what they owe you for months while your bills just keep stacking up... with lasers.
Expect Major Resistance if you stick around too long. Know that guy from my time in the military. Is he still around? And what is he doing in MW5? Do Major Damage and General Error also show up in the game? So many useless officers...
And my favorite mission in MW5? Infiltration with a drop weight of 400 tons, go in with a Steiner scout lance and turn the whole place into a parking lot. Stealth is optional and the best recon results are about what the opponents used to have.
I recently started the same thing with YAML zero clan stuff and with health to 1.0, games really enjoyable with the amount environs u can play in and the interactions with all new content like the mercs and dlc campaigns. YAML makes it complete.
Baradul: We have decent brawler potential.
Baradul One Minute Later: Oooh no.... we ignore EVERYTHING
The best Sort of Missions in very early game to get huge C-BILLS vs investing minimal time and risk of destruction of mechs, are Infiltration Missions 😃😉
Early game is the ONLY time to enjoy Infiltrarion missions. Passed 30 difficulty they become impossible to do stealthily because of the 50% kill auto alarm
Starter areas are all single digit difficulty. He's making the game that much harder starting in the mid teens.
I just bought the game with all the DLC the other day, and the struggle is super real, lol. I love the game, though
When using the Light mechs Speed is Armor.. don't stop, and don't trip over anything that will slow you down. Personally I do the Raid missions solo in a Spider. Try matching the speeds of the Mechs in your lance so that all mechs are capable of keeping formation with you, and avoid crossing the terrain with the //// over it on the map as your allies have a difficulty pathing there. Likewise be aware of the non jumping mechs in your lance and don't leave them behind. Focus fire by targeting and tapping F1 twice.
If you want real challenge, change your damage multiplier back from 2x (default) to 1x, so you only do the same damage as enemies. BIG difference when you can't just overwhelm an equivalent mech like its a toy compared to you.
This is a settable value in MercTech and the biggest reason I use that mod. I love the fair fight dynamic. Not sure if any of the mods you use support it, and I'm pretty sure it is only settable at the beginning of a new game.
Something I've noticed with lancemate AI in MW5 is that they're really good with PPC's. Giving them as many as possible, especially in the early game, makes life a whole lot easier.
In the last mission (forest) I recognised the bird calls, they sound like New Zealand native birds. The two beat owl call was a Ruru (Morepork) and the higher scale scatter of notes was from a Tui
What I like is that as your reputation rises the rewards from the caches does get better
Good video Bara. I'd suggest you pick up a Flea and preferably the Flea-17 and do non-stop Recon missions. You only need to take the Flea and you can use MASC to outrun anything chasing you and probably won't even get a scratch on your 'mech unless you were unfortunate and got cornered into a fight. 🙂
I agree, but don't forget that jump jets are a thing. As crazy as it sounds, the humble urbie downgraded on weapons to up-engine and add some jump-jets is amazing at recon as you can do rear facing shots while racing across the open plains
@@StrangeUncle01 Urbies are good early-game 'mechs, yes. I've only ever played MW5 in Vanilla or with one or two quality-of-life mods and not the super modded games Bara plays, so I play with Vanilla ruleset restrictions. Also, I've noticed that most people who run an Urbie usually like to fit a large Autocannon and as many lasers and machine guns as they can fit within the weight limit and life with so-so speeds, while the Flea is designed to be speedy and also be cheap to buy and that's lore accurate too.
Jump Jets on an Urbie or really any 'mech does make it more mobile yes, but considering how many Urbies and light 'mechs I've sniped out of the air, that's something I refrain from doing personally. 😄 I'd say Poptarting is probably the most you'd want to do in a light 'mech, and even then, it can be dangerous. In MWO, I have a Firestarter FS-9-H that I sometimes use to Poptart and there have been several times when I got picked off or lost most of my armor because someone hit me while I was in the air.
Bara keeps the delicate balance of very entertaining content and terrible in game choices 😂
Love the videos! I have a suggestion for this playthru to really challenge you to show your mech piloting skills. Use whatever equipment you want, but limit your maximum mech tonnage to 50 tons, 200 tons for the lance. Use hero mechs, whatever crazy combination you want, but 50 tons max. Then work through and beat all the campaign missions from all the DLCs. It isn't impossible but it will require beyond elite level of piloting, which I believe you can achieve.
31:00 I would have sold the walking coffin Locust, bought a new engine for the Javelin, and with the rest of the money start repairing the Urbie. Also, when/if possible leg some mechs for the potential engine to be salvaged.
Just found my new favorite mission type. GroundWar. It's like an endgame mission without being an endgame mission. Tons of mechs. You need to be smart and let your allies do some of the heavy lifting. Love it
Yeah the grind is rough. I started up a new one as well. What turned around my gameplay was getting an Urbanmech with missile and energy hardpoints that is using an SRM 4 and 6 Inferno and the reputation gains. So I've been overheating mechs and making the fights more breathable. Plus the awesome salvage from overheating and doing head shots on that mech.
"What turned around my gameplay was getting an Urbanmech" is not something I ever expected to read.
@@jukahri It's true though. At least for the starting bit. This Urbanmech has decent armour, 72 kph and a supercharger to hit 109 kph. Great in the early game.
The start of the all-Urbanmech build begins..... i hope.!!
That's what you get, playing for Liao 😁
It is really nice of all the flying units in this game to fly close enough to get hit and not just stay far up and hit you with LRMs or ERPPCs :D
I love Cicadas early game! Giant Jenner! Then it's a 3C and only had 1 energy harpoint. So I sold it and keep a Flea instead because it can at least deal damage. More armor doesn't matter if I die because I have negative 2 DPS. 😂😂
i wish you could salvage those SRM10's . .
or even get SRM6 and SRM4 out of the carriers.
SRM launcher opened your CT on Javelin.
The Hobo hours in the Merc life are absolutely the most stressful 😂
Also the most entertaining ones. I always lose interest as soon as I get a lance of assaults.
derwish srm mech would help really well right now . medium laser build at your current stage would better than flamer . you can also find 2 light mechs in one of the asteroids close to one of the planets
I really wonder about the later Clan Invasion mod and how that will maybe continue the struggle mode into the mid-late game.
You shouldn't use Kuritan crowd-controllers on Mechs, ditch them MGs please! :D
Lol Bara replied his addy to his date mid mission 😂😏
as far as the rep goes your in an area where fighting pirates and independents will help, ironically you seem to be maxed with lao
Lol at that Phoenix Hawk. Like, are you playing Shadows of Mordor? But seriously, how cool would a rival system in MW5 be!?
You need more everything, yes :D
just came home, and what do i see?
BARADUL UPLOADED ONCE AGAIN WHEN I WAS NOT NEAR MY COMPUTER! ò.Ó;,
Early game IMO demolition and raid missions are the best. Just go in with 1-2 flamer/machine gun mechs, break everything, and bug out. Maybe kill a vehicle or two on your way through.
Love your stuff Barabrother, just a thought, the engine for that urbie should be pretty cheap, so it may be cheaper to bring online than the javelin. You should have the weapons to make a decent one too.
Drop the engine size in the cicada or xl it to fit 1 ML and dual light rifles very fun and it can still go 90-100kph
I would swap 2 Fs with 2 MLs on FS.
@baradul Get better mission choices. Let's you increase the number of missions available and also the percentage of systems that have missions. just put it higher (almost last) than all the YAML stuff. works with it.
was not sure why you do not do the 8v8 duel and use the friendlies as bullet sponges and extra firepower
duels and picking off enemy 1 at a time is my preferred early game run
can't you put AC2s and Medium Lasers into the Firestartet for a bit more punch and reach?
6 medium laser fire starter is enough to be quite punchy although very hot, AC2 are too heavy without endo and/or ferro
I look forward to your vids everyday!!!!
You need 6 or 7 reputation to get Coyote so it's not free stuff by any means, by that point you've probably got better mechs than a couple Cicadas anyway.
Hi. Can I ask, what kind of controller do you use to play in MW5? Simply, I have only two-buttons mouse and this is hard to manage weapon groups with this, so I think to but something else
Eh, a lot of economy based games like Mechwarrior, Battletech, x-com and such have a reverse difficulty curve. Your start is very hard, but once you get to medium mech tier, it's more or less smooth sailing. I mean I like the power fantasy thing, but it would be nice to have those high tension missions later in some way. Also I admit that I play with tank stomping :D
🎉❤🎉BARATECH!!
a mod that might help out the stream (Travel cost 10k). you could always shut it off say at rep 4. just for the beginning of a play through, think of it as an inheritance from dear ole pa. ?
hey bara, i comment to remind you that starting at 3015 makes so that only the most basic tech is available (no double heat sinks, no XL engines, no endo, no ferro unless scavenged from hero mechs, if you're lucky to find them), and it will be quite a slog to wait until all that tech is available to you and make the game more fun
i'm not against this level of tech, but the game becomes very slow that way, and you will only have "fun" OP builds when you get to assaults, making it the same as every other playthrough in the channel
it's a bit painful, but it would be better to use the rasalhague start and start again to gain access to better parts, or at least not wait as long to see better tech
btw, i love light mech builds where every slot and ton counts, i'm specially fond of a 8 medium sb laser fire starter, it melts through every other thing on its weight class, and it's very fun to play, but you really need endo and double heat sinks to make it work
The classic mechs mod doesn't care about introdates and adds quite a few mechs I think. Or something got updated, because after deactivating it and getting new versions of coyote and clan invasion I didn't get any more chimeras, hellbringers and so on during this time.
I also lost a chimera and an uziel, which makes me think that classic mech mod is the culprit.
I mean Bara sees Hollanders which shouldn't be there and can loot them and the stuff they are carrying.
For the new DLC how does it handwave Kurita's whole "Death to Mercenaries" thing that was going on then?
Soldiers and politicians don't always see eye to eye on policies.
I prefer the steiner start for annoying challenge in basegame. 50% of the mechs you meet early are ac20 or burst AC10 urbies
If youve got a lot of time, i usually start with medium mechs cause i prefer to get to the experimentation part a bit quicker
If they can just add Solaris, more Inner Sphere weapons, more mechs, more variants, more biomes, more mission types, and just MORE the game will stay relevant even after Clans hits
The only thing that lets this game down is the ridiculous number of enemies you have to face, so much more than in the tactical PC game or the tabletop game. It feels so cheesy and arcadey.
Do these mods update for some time?
You cant just go to terra and get 2 free cicadas btw, its locked until rep 8 ;)
those hollander spawns are BS I tells ya. That mech wasn't even debuted until 3054 and was a Lyran specialty, there's no way there should be even one in Liao space at this year.
flamers are terrible, equipping the firestarter with all lasers is better, also more armor up front (4-5 back armor is enough)
my go to in early recon missions are to just run 1 mech, saves money on drop tonnage and armor dmg
That flamer and machine gun build makes no sense when you need to avoid damage.
Just run over the turrets, yes they might hurt your legs a bit, but it’s easier to deal with them that way
I go for the guns on Urbi
I know I'm a little late to this video (new sub) but unless you turned off with a mod (scary tanks) you can at least just step on turrets to instakill them.
Do recon mission solo with a fast mech, take money instead of salvage.
I feel like the missions are extra hard because your expected to use all the assets they offer you. You can go without but we are just going to see you get steam rolled for maybe 10 episodes.
I resart but i take my mechs. But i only use my favorite fkr many many missions. Dragon side winder
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This is not a struggle. You need to adjust your starting mechs to very hard in YAML and start with what I had. Two Urban mechs, Locust and a Commando. That's a hard way to start.
that's just masochism brother, better yet, 2 locust, a flea, and a commando
Did you get a haircut?
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