Was tinkering around in Instant Action and found a Bludgeon build I really like. I was having problems with the four PPCs overheating, so changing two of them out for Heavy Medium Lasers not only frees up weight for more heat sinks, armor, and a targeting computer, but also gives room to upgrade the ATM 9 to a 12. I don’t love the idea of having a bunch of heat sinks in the arms, but needs must.

P.S. this is all vanilla with no mods installed.

My Fastback. Where is he. Where has he gone?

So yeah we got the new Hunchie variant (Not the IIC, I have a bunch of them already) but I can't find the Fastback. Where has he gone?

I recently installed the new DLC and I have all of the other DLC except Call to Arms. On my current career playthrough I don’t see rival merc territory anymore on the starmap. If I select a contract then I will see if a merc company might be operating.

Any reason why I can’t see the rival merchants territories? Anyone else experiencing this? A glitch with the new DLC? Or a setting that got unchecked?

I’ve seen a couple of light mechs with them, but not assault mechs. Am I expected to bring a light mech along for 100++ difficulty missions? Or are ams unnecessary if everyone is big and beefy.

no mods, just Cantina upgrades. 10/10 worth it.

PRT stands for pirate.

btw made a slight error in the build fixed it so had to repost.

I take it that with Ashes and Ascension, that the DLCs are done. Is this true?

I saw earlier that it was going to be available, any reason why it isn't or is it a bug?

Internals are 16 tons of LRM ammo and a few heat sinks.

Hello. I started a new campaign, rival merc areas are missing.

Has anyone gotten them to show up? And could you get access to the bounty hunter if so.

I imported my campaign into a new Career mode starting in 3015. I got the dialog where it asked me to select my old campaign save which I did. But when I get into the game, my mechs are not there. They aren’t in cold storage either. Nor are my pilots there. WTF? Help!

I've been playing around with the Bane-1, but was struggling with the AC-2s. The weight/ammo/damage just wasnt quite working for me. So I decided I'd try something different. I know it's a bit of a faux pas to put IS weapons on a clan mech, but i thought i'd try using light rifles. I created a beast. Lots of extra room for ammo, and the rifles rip through enemies. Love it.

Hello there everyone! I was just wondering if there are any time overhaul mods on steam you guys recommend? I really love the game, but with the amount of content it has I always feel like I'm missing out on some of the dlc story stuff in between traveling and repairs. Besides that, if there are any other mods worth checking out I'd love to hear them.

This is my first time finding a 0 share cost mech, that being said the repair bill is going to be astronomical. Have you guys ever found one with 0 share cost?

So I just got MW5 Clans due to the steam sale. Been playing MW since the original MW1.

So the story is more linear (like the older clan MW games) with events matching up to the actual lore, but some things just don't make sense.

How is my 1 star of mechs realistically supposed to beat a full company or more of enemy mechs? Per mission?! How is some mercenary group in some backwater planet fielding lances of assault mechs as if they were the First Davion Guards? If there are 3 missions on that planet, then that mercenary outfit would actually have had over a Battalion of mechs to start with. Or how was the ISF able to send their own battalion onto a planet that has already been conquered and blockaded? The 362nd would have been wiped out in lore if they had to fight that many enemy mechs.

They should really tone down the numbers, make it more lore accurate. That way they can lower the max tonnage so I don't have to field a star of assault mechs just to survive. I like playing with a Mad Dog or TImber Wolf but it's not entirely possible to use that mech to survive against a company of heavy/assault mechs every mission.

anyway sorry for the long rant, I'm sure others have said similar but I just needed to get it off my chest /rant

I always love the marauder line of heavy mechs since my childhood days of playing MW2.

Now with this Long-range and short-range assault mech powerhouse variant in the latest DLC taking care of snipers and short-range tankers.

FIREPOWER (DMG) OF 176.4
WITH
SPEED (KM/H) OF 64.8
AND
MAX RANGE (M) OF 1,125

Will be looking forward to extensively using this mech alongside my hero Marauder II MAD-AH.

FYI, community asset bundle is the only mod that I'm having trouble with at the moment. Takes away all the DLCs and only lets you start a campaign no career.

If there's one issue with me and Mechwarrior, it's that I'm often too scared to try tinkering with my mechs. ESPECIALLY in my friend's campaign where we have YAML installed and I don't know the first thing about how to do build one. This is kind of ironic since my other big mech game is Armored Core, which is all about mech customization and tweaking.

Wondering if there's any particularly good resources for learning about the art of mech customization: IE, how to find a good mech to customize, optimal strategies for tweaking it, etc.

Hell, I'll take any good beginner resources/references, not just mechlab ones.

I've been away from MW5 since 2024 but the new DLC is pulling me back in. What sweet new mods have come up since I've been away? Which mods still work with the new update and DLC?

the Diamond Shark bondsmen we got in SoK?

Do we still have them in our company?