Our Weapon of Mass Destruction - Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries Modded | YAML + The Dragon's Gambit 41

The new Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries DLC "The Dragon's Gambit" has arrived. Let's take a look at all the gameplay aspects, story, new Mechs and weapon systems together. In this playthrough we will start a new career as a Mechwarrior thrown int o a conflict against our will.
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In the aftermath of the Fourth Succession War, the Davion/Steiner Alliance dealt a devastating blow to the Capellan Confederation, leaving First Prince Hanse Davion eager to replicate this success against the Draconis Combine.
Gunji-no-Kanrei Theodore Kurita, fully aware of the encroaching menace posed by the FedCom Alliance, has taken decisive action to fortify the Combine's defenses against an inevitable war. As tensions rise, a unique opportunity presents itself - to unite with the Draconis Combine and rally behind Kurita's audacious and unexpected plan.
Embark on an epic quest line as your mercenary company joins forces with the 5th Amphigean Light Assault Group. Together, you must defend the Draconis Combine against a massive invasion by the FedCom Alliance. Brace yourself for the largest handcrafted campaign yet, spanning 15 thrilling missions, and prove your mettle in the face of this formidable threat as you strive to safeguard the future of the Draconis Combine.
The gameplay of Mechwarrior 5 is split in two different parts. On the one hand you will have to manage your resources, hire new crew members, outfit your Mechs and travel through the Inner Sphere star map. But the action starts as soon as you get into the cockpit of your Battlemech yourself to fulfill contracts on the battlefield to earn more C-Bills and progress the story. I will review the weapon systems, battlemechs, show you how to build the loadouts and train your pilots and take a look at all the different mission types and upgrades of the MW5 Heroes of the Inner Sphere DLC.
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[@Finleymcg]

Updated tally of stuff to be done: * Find Medium Scrap Rifle Ammo - IN PROGRESS * Convert more low tier weapons - IN PROGRESS * Rebuild Locust LAM - LIGHT RIFLES AND OTHER THINGS TO MAKE IT LESS SQUISHY * Add AMS to all heavy mechs - IN PROGRESS * Collect parts for Stormcrow - MAY NO LONGER BE RELEVANT * Mount GUARDIAN ECM on mechs - IN PROGRESS * Add ROYAL JUMPJET to all Heavy mechs - IN PROGRESS * Put Clan XL into Black Knight - IN PROGRESS * Find upgrades for ASF - IN PROGRESS * Rebuild Atlas - IN PROGRESS * Rebuild Annihilator - DONE * Install Gatling Guns in a mech - IN PROGRESS * Experiment with Grenade Launchers * Put TAG on missile mech - DONE * Get another Aerospace Fighter * Install ARTEMIS in a missile mech * Rebuild Orion for all he bonuses - IN PROGRESS Strange mission but the Annihilator has come out of it powerful. The Orion looks like you may have to balance ammo for alpha strike damage.

[@vikingtenfifty]

I think that the bonus applies to all missiles in the mech, thus use a pirate bin of 1200 for volume and a couple +3 bins for damage. The pirate ATMLRM's and SRM's work with the standard inner sphere weapons and the Clan Invasion mod weapons only. The newer clan weapons only use their own ammo.

[@thegreatlarry9454]

One of the biggest problems with these mods is the insane prices for some of these mechs/weapons. You literally have to farm hundreds of millions of c-bills. The other option is to do missions to fight and kill enemies with those weapons, but then you have to remember that they will be firing those weapons at you in the mission, and they hurt a lot.

[@uhbyr1]

It's not THAT long actually, if you put your mind to it - a 400 rating 4-mission contract can easily favour you around 20kk by credit value, or if you fight that in clanspace - taking the lootpool can grant you even more. I had a full YAML+evey submod run around the new year, and was able to grind 100k-ish every day while playing 2-hours or so at most. Yeah, the grind is still there, but it's quite bearble, cause the stuff that costs 100kks is usually bonkers for fun...

[@Vision1100]

​​@@uhbyr1also to mention If you use the purchase salvage Mod you can pay fees to Go over you salvage right and often you can get complete mechs and Weapons equip so you can increase your money flow drasticly... As an example after finishing the dragons Gambit Mission i salved enough parts to build 8 complete Victors - 9B star league relic mechs. Each is worth more then 4 Million c-bills... But if you are to greedy with this mood you ending up with negative Money Balance cause you can go over your Balance in the loot table. My time ingame is Dez 4 3040. Money Balance 85+ millions and i have more then 93 complete mechs in my cold storage. Over the Status it goes: Overall money included Gear and mechs/mechparts 1 billions+ so with the right mods and a carefull calculation what to pick and how much you can have no money problems. If its fun you have to decide for your own. For me it feels more realistic cause no merc outfit would leave salvage behind. Even If you pay extra as imagined repair costs.

[@uhbyr1]

@@Vision1100 you don't even need that mod that much - just find a 4-mission with battlefield in the end and don't spend salvage before that (unless there is something rare) - you'll have at least around 100 salvage points then and there for the big showdown

[@Vision1100]

@@uhbyr1 as explained above i like the Mod. Feels more real for me. And i Just mentioned it as an option. Not everyone likes to play multi-missions.

[@nicolascrema6612]

If I could, do you know from which mods came all this expensive items ? I can"t manage to find the same mod with the same weapons (like crap rifle...)

[@iOnlySignIn]

Good to see you in good health again!

[@MisterNi]

Welcome back Baradul. Glad you're feeling better and looking forward to MW5 videos. 🙂

[@normanred9212]

New DLC comin on March 14th, should be a good update

[@Benjamin1George]

Remember that you can autokill any Mech in YAML with the keyboard command "kill current target" keybind CTRL-ALT-F8. This is great for those Mechs that won't die in game or worse get spawned under a building or base.

[@Vision1100]

Thats a good advice. Thx!!!

[@WarriorcZe]

"WARNING! NUCLEAR MISSILE LAUNCHED!"

[@benfubbs2432]

you could say the turret is retracted, or that it is stowed.

[@monostripezebras]

needs more drame: "Swallowed whole by the earth!"

[@benfubbs2432]

@@monostripezebrasSwallowed whole/regurgitated is definitely more dramatic!

[@sebastiannagel8003]

Super, Baradul ist wieder da, ist wieder da :-). Gut, dass es dir wieder besser geht. Ich hab deinen Videos entgegen gefiebert.

[@Tom_Foolery324]

Glad to see you are feeling better. All these wacky pirate weapons look like a lot of fun, but I think the novelty of point and delete will wear off at some point. I'm looking forward to finding more goodies and trying them out at least once, and with a new DLC and a new RT season coming up I'm excited to see what is coming next. Thanks for all your hard work putting out these videos for us.

[@raveins]

I am really glad you are feeling better thanks for the awesome content

[@monostripezebras]

It´s the brave little urbie, that ends: running up to the lance big heart with trash can intelligence because solo he won´t stand a chance

[@TheRealBDouble]

The Annihilator is one of my favorite assault mechs. It looks cool, you can throw all sorts of AC's on it, it's got a cool backstory. Just cool as hell

[@TrinanKocht]

100tons with 135 km/h sound fun xD

[@Johny40Se7en]

27:02 Seeing an Annihilator move at 136kph is just bonkers and awesome 😆😄 I'd bet that would be one heck of a creepy sight if you saw such a thing coming toward you 😳😬😅

[@dazley8021]

The scrapper also has heat of 80! and cooldown of 999,999..... you sure you want it?

[@smoffitt4289]

The Annihilator is so fast normally, given enough time it can out manouver a static turret

[@zangy3748]

Glad you're doing better again.

[@jamessilva1259]

Cool as always, got to get back in that game!!!! When I Mod my game. I will use the Mods that will REMOVE time penalty for repairing or arranging Armor!! Costs will remain. Hopefully I will find one that is compatible to the mod you are using! 😁 Both in Table top, RTS, Turn Base Strategy, AND Lore!!!!! Unless the people are doing it by hand, and NOT using the GIANT WELDING Arms in the garage! Repairing Armor damage or changing Armor Value can be DONE on the same day.... Mech garages you find to use during missions. EVEN IN THIS GAME VANILLA! always repair armor and add Ammo in mech in minutes. NOT A MONTH!!!! Only structures and internal damages Remain damaged. Also, this is supposed to give players a possible way, to do difficult consecutive missions, that all needs to be done on the same day. but in vanilla, it's pretty much impossible.🙄 But for some STUPID NON CANON reasons. They wanted Armor to take the most time to change value or repair!🙄 Now changing Armor type, non-ferrous Ferrous, or vise versa. I have np their.

[@battlesbattle998]

OMG! IT STACKS! Now I need to play around with it.

[@wandyrful]

The Build I use for the orion-YAJ is 3x clan LRM15s, 2 large lasers, and a tag laser in the LT, along with the traditional stuff like endo and XL. I don't find that it struggles for providing fire support and the AI Pilots understand how to pilot it with TTRulez.

[@darkyshooter]

ahni timeee

[@philtkaswahl2124]

Anni, are you okay? So, Anni, are you okay? Are you okay, Anni?

[@jokajive]

Anni running smooth to be a criminal 😅

[@foobar1735]

Glad to hear you're doing better Bara! The question is whether the mechlab's numbers are just wonky with the LRM ammo, or if those are actual values the game is going to use...

[@mso1911]

The Scrapper seems to be a one-shot-weapon (999,999 cooldown)

[@endersblade]

Y'know, I never understood why the Leopard drops you off via side doors, while all the enemy ones drop from the bottom.

[@nick_alderman]

Welcome back, get even more well soon.!!! Maybe 4x LRM 10's...?

[@Jacklangefeld]

I was missing MW5! Thanks for keeping it going.

[@juangonzalez9848]

You have the same amount of kill capacity, but it hurts much more when you miss. Not sure if that’s worth it. Like on MWO, I can get 4 LRM 20s on the Warhawk B with a backup of 4 medium pulse, or I can get a lot more ammo and downgrade them to LRM 10s. I prefer the 10s to even 15s because I can last the entire match before running out of ammo. If I’m running with a good/consistent team I might think of switching to larger launchers, but that is because I don’t run through all of the ammo before the end of match. Yeah Alpha strike is a thing, but the clans lost because they couldn’t sustain conflicts.

[@MrTalvos]

On your orion baradul check and see if you got an xl gyro itll save you more tonnage and see if you can uograde your xl engine to a clan or better that should give you the option to add as much ammo you want.

[@ChadKanotz]

I tolerate the MWO videos, but I live for the MW5 vids. Kidding. I just haven't played MWO yet.

[@RobTheSquire]

I think with the mission objectives being completed enough manually aborting the mission was a legit work around and the game allowed it.

[@roadside_fury2631]

Was that Annihilator going 136 KPH?!?! Suddenly, the turret is no longer stationary.

[@foehammerE419]

I've had a YAML mission spawn in friendly mechs that I was supposed to kill.. I had friendly fire off but I managed to kill them with airstrikes to get the mission completed.

[@henrystrietzel5265]

Moin Baradul, ich glaube das Wort das du gesucht hast für die verborgenen(eingefahrenen) Turrets ist concealt

[@FunkThompson]

Those pirate LRM bins want LRM 15's. Best overall weight ratio, as it is known :D 2x LRM-20 is 20 tons for 40 missiles, plus the LRM-10 so 25 tons for 50 missiles. 3x LRM-15 is 45 missiles for 21 tons.

[@FunkThompson]

4x LRM-10 at 20 tons would probably be overall best DPS ratio, due to RoF.

[@FunkThompson]

Having finished the video: If that info on mech lab is right, that is broken AF. You'll be doing what, like 12 damage per missile? Base 1 plus the 3x +3 Pirate, and then +2 from HE?

[@Ky40291MJ]

11:14 could have changed one of the lrm 20s to an lrm 15.

[@adrianwilson7536]

Did I misread screen, I thought the basic pirate ammo bin had a lot more but +3 had the same amount. Thought it was a way it balanced high alpha of +3 was

[@jidlan1884]

3:00 "The Scrapper", dps=0, cooldown=999'999 secondes 🤨

[@kindasupersonic7114]

you can say Deployed or Not deployed .. for the turrets

[@richardgray7480]

or "undeployed"...

[@tristanjosephbaldeo7145]

Hope to see a super heavy on mercenaroes

[@thegreatlarry9454]

careful what you wish for. Some of these mods bring superheavy pirate mechs that will obliterate you in one alpha strike. Even their "normal" mechs are so over-tonnage with gear/weapons that their dps is insane

[@perry92964]

maybe reyana didnt pick you up cause you dropped with -2.3 million c-bills......she wanted that money before she would pick you up

[@HonestAlthalus]

Just started watching, and man... don't bother with the shredder mg except maybe if you find something that boosts it. It was honestly a lag bomb for me. Thing had so much spray and so many projectiles, it just wasn't worth the headache to me.

[@osu7356]

i suggest you try the anni with heavy rifles. with the -50% reduced ballistic cooldown upgrade, it becomes a one-shot beast.

[@billt4394]

Popped out / Merged in

[@benfubbs2432]

no, merging means combining multiple things together into one. deployed/stowed extended/retracted

[@andysell6348]

Wait till u get the atlas a or the missile atlas then u have a monster of a lrm boat

[@Darkmjoan]

I'm going to have to try aborting the next time I get the no-evac bug. I've gotten it two or three times now, and the only advice I can find online for it is simply to revert to before you played the mission

[@sugarbear5369]

I have a pirate locust with 2x rapid LRM15s and 5k rounds of the lrm+3 ammo... Totally unfair build that is possible with these mods 1200 ish range...

[@SpacemanSpliff101]

Rating !

[@pizzamechman8380]

Is that annihilator running ?

[@FARBerserker]

going like shit. i am sick -.- head pounds, throat hurts, coughing, nose runny like a faulty faucet, sneezing often x.x

[@maximilianschultz8244]

I know you are concerned with fairness and not using OP options in the game. Using a 2 ton LRM double bin to give you 1100 shots of ATM ammo, that normally weighs 4 tons for 440 shots, seems kind of cheaty.

[@stuartharvey7677]

XL clan man

[@SpriGgEx]

Man we rly have to wait ages currently for new MW5 Content.^^

[@zeitgeist9420]

Broken balance and no challenge at all :( Adding +3 ammo to LRMs just makes other assault mechs useless. There is no way you can loose with this crazy Orion with no minimum range and missiles which just shred everything in peaces with 1-3 salvos

[@GR3YD3ATH]

lol

[@FARBerserker]

a 136kph annihilator is sacrilege x.x

[@FunkThompson]

I think you mean blasphemy? ;)

[@Johny40Se7en]

Get outta here, it's insanely awesome! 😅😆😃😄

[@baldbd64]

no difficulty = no fun :(

[@rhubot721]

It kinda reminds me of when I was a kid. A friend was playing Goldeneye on N64. One of the levels took place in a scientific laboratory that lost containment on... something. Could have been a virus or radioactive material. The important part for my friend is that he discovered that the level would endlessly spawn unarmed scientists. They would spawn in, attempt to run away from the lab, only to be gunned down, "Fuck you, science!" he'd scream, then giggle. I left the room to see what other friends were doing. I'd come back every twenty minutes or so, and he'd still be cackling at his sadistic collection of virtual corpses. He kept this up for hours. I don't get the appeal of that sort of content. But it does have an audience.

[@manjujuju]

That's cheating 😂

[@frankseu]

Anyone have any tips for performance issues in mechwarrior 5? I have a good pc, but experience extreme lag on some maps.