I’ve thought about a company of just light mechs with a bunch of vehicles and battle armor where the goal is to use the mechs as crash dummies and line of sight obstacles. It wouldn’t be something like the urbanmechs, but just mechs like wasps, stingers and spiders.
I'm pretty sure that unlike Mercs, Clans was optimized for console sales from the start. Hence the oversized clunky UI that should be more manageable on controllers.
I remember the example they used to defend how they did MW5's mechlab and it was that without quirks or inflating hardpoints there are plenty variants of mechs that are just straight inferior hardpoint wise with the CN9-A vs CN9-AH being the example since why ever use the AH if you could put an AC/20 on an A, you could also say that whats the point of a CN9-D when you could slap endo/XL on a CN9-A too.
Solved it but then made everything else just stupid. Limiting weapon sizes killed it for certain mechs and honestly just made it feel worthless even trying to make any modding attempts or to go with different variants that you should be able to do but can't because of how limiting the Mechlabs in MW5 is. Since started playing on PC i've never used the vanilla mechlabs ever because it just fucking sucks.
The Masakari Prime may be the deadliest mech in the game, hands down. The TComp gives you not one but four chances for a called shot to the head... and you only need to get it right once.
It’s neutered in alpha strike, but you’re right about it in classic. Targeting computers were neutered in that game and the only things it has in alpha strike are case, indirect fire 0 and overheat long range. I don’t dislike the mech by any means, but I lump it in there with the kit fox and kodiak II as mechs I just don’t want to use that are fine.
Yeah, Yet Another Mechlab is pretty much mandatory IMO.
Pepe the ass blaster.
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Last game I played I was playing against a lance of those metal capellan/liao mechs where they're all named something chinese and the guy decides he's going to just focus on my annihilator. Battletech's a game where players can do something like that where it's 4 vs 1 and the 1 loses eventually, but 2 mechs were demolished and 1 had lost its left leg and both arms.
Early on in a game, I once had a guy march his Awesome through the magical death acid known as depth 1 water, thus putting all hits on the punch table and I opened up on him at long range with a catapult that I spent a pretty penny on to get like a gunnery 1 or 2 pilot. I got enough cluster hits to go above the magical number of twelve and then I proceeded to roll three sixes in a row on the hit tables.
The Sunder hasn't seen a release in any of the other games so that is what I meant by new while the other 9 Chasis that I posted have seen releases in other games but not in MW5 Mercs.
Getting an actually new mech that isn't first released for MWO is pretty big, sales must be good enough for them to put working on MW5 first before MWO worth it. Or its the other way around and MWO's death is imminent.
He's FAT!
Game averages about 5k players a day between all of its ports and sees daily bumps whenever an expansion pops out. When Shadows came out it jumped to about 12k
