Constant Artillery Fire - Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries Modded | YAML + Rise of Rasalhague 24

[@mptesteroni]

Good Bara: I want to do less damage to the enemies, and be on equal terms! Evil Bara: Puts an AC-20bf and five medium lasers on a 65 ton Clan Mech with full armor and an AMS, rides it under an ECM umbrella

[@fovarberma752]

I like evil Bara more. Mission where you go 100 tons below what is allowed and prevail are fun!

[@macbrown99]

Your pilot skills are probably making the difference in terms of how much damage you're taking. That and the fact that you always max your armor while the enemies often have significantly less.

[@stevensavage9491]

Base builds never take enough protection. Unless it's an Awesome.

[@leem.9934]

This is exactly what I was going to mention. Piloting skill and equipment are making the difference in shredding enemies quickly.

[@slate613]

Imagine if the modders building missions started using builds from players like Bara and TTB!.

[@killcat1971]

Also the armament mixes, they tend to be Jacks of all, rather than focusing, also you tend to end up brawling so those long range mixes don't work so well.

[@kazahani]

Yep this is it. Base builds almost never take full armor, and even with YAML the IS opponents rarely run endo/ferro/XL builds.

[@MisterNi]

Happy Easter! Baradul. 🙂

[@gamerkevin1985]

I love the immersion into the battle. I honestly wish there was more of it in the vanilla game. As for the damage human piloting fires more often then the AI pilots do even with the mods and more focused on particular components

[@roush243]

On the damage question, I have noticed that their armor is very low. I mean, they often only have half of their max armor. It doesn't take much to punch through only 34 armor on a heavy mech's right torso. When they have more optimal builds, you can see the increase in time to breach the armor. I think that as you increase in difficulty ratings you will see better builds by the enemies.

[@dieSpinnt]

And if in doubt?: YAML Mod Settings. You can alter exactly what Baradul wanted to achieve. Just RTFM! (Its always rtfm ... hehe)

[@SpriGgEx]

you saw that with elite enemies, they had rly good builds and tough pilots that had high shielding and evasion skills.

[@theredbeardbard]

When I watch you play, I dig the smoke and all the intense battlefield effects. When I'm playing on my own game, I want to be able to see. So, I vote that you keep all the "dirty" effects that you like so much. :)

[@kred4849]

Regarding the damage discrepancy question in the beginning: it might be that it's because the enemies' equipment is more standardized when they are in battle. So, yes, they might have a Clan instead of a IS laser, or an LBX instead of a regular Autocannon, but maybe they just have tier 1 always?

[@christophermzdenek]

Additionally, max armor vs. standard load.

[@One_Hot_Stove]

Keep the smoke, it makes the battlefield feel intense. Keep up the great work.

[@Acaios1]

23:30 You can pick the cantina missions, and dismiss them in the "Objectives" tab. Do a mission, and when you come back, you`ll have 3 new available cantina missions to choose from. A star system with a cantina+multiple missions=profit

[@Resdayn]

Love the smoke and high effects on weapons which helps to keep it realistic, would hate a laggy experience where you couldnt follow the movements on the battlefield at all.

[@LordAlisdare]

Smokes fine, lets people get a feel for how to utilize the sensors and or view settings. Damage output is just weak pilots vs you. You can see that just letting you squad go on enemies, they take forever . It'd be cool if you could give more detailed commands like "headshot"

[@bigsarge2085]

Holy Crab!

[@LuesTarda]

Please keep the smoke! It's really immersive

[@vertexedgeface3141]

Something to consider is that the endgame doesn't necessarily mean heavier mechs. With better equipment you can afford to use lighter, faster mechs even on 100 difficulty missions. My endgame mechs are usually 55-75 tons with masc, superchargers, and hardened armor. Speed is much more valuable than firepower for most missions.

[@davidasteed]

Baradul: stomps around with an AC20 BF at full fire rate, racking up big kills and virtually ignored by the OpFor heavy metal. Walks away with some yellowed armor. Me: kill a few somethings in a row and the whole battlefield shifts to Look At Me. Ends mission with seriously eaten up armor. ...maybe I need to stop hoarding DPS for myself to build more of it into my squad. Big LRMS mounts may be the ticket, since they let the squaddie rack up lots of vehicle kills....

[@GaveLJorgensson]

0:59 I think it comes down to pilot skills (avoidance, shielding, and weapons). Enemy pilots have lower skills in these and therefore do less damage and take more damage than yours do. It goes back to when you jumped right into a new game for Rise of Rasalhague. Your pilots had much lower skills than someone who had started a game and worked their way to there. Therefore, you got hammered and had to fight for your life on several occasions. Edit - others are mentioning armor and optimized builds. This is also true.

[@younger544]

Small laser chargers never fail to make me laugh. I can only assume something just doesn't translate well since they ARE actually lore accurate.

[@ronnieschuette9182]

Have you thought of stacking a few heatbanks with the TSM? You will stay hot for longer to take better advantage of the TSM and have a high heat threshold for slinging damage...

[@leem.9934]

This could work really well with a mix of an ER Lg Laser, Med Pulses, and an autocannon or two.

[@nphil93992]

As others have said, additional armour, higher tier weapons and upgrades will all have an effect. When you get your alpha damage up into the 60+ range and enemy mechs only have 50-60 torso armour they are going to die pretty quick. Get the Alpha damage into the 90 plus range and you can one shot a lot of mechs

[@Houck54]

Love the Dodgeball movie reference lol

[@Kaibable]

I usually leave my lance in the base to cap and take out the artillery myself. lance doesnt get targeted by the guns

[@naomy1701]

i think the smoke adds to the feeling of being ina warzone, and honetly, if u ever saw the smoke of a burning car/maschine/house, u know that smoke is dirty and particle rich af and not possible to see tru the slightest bit, so honestly its fine the way it is imo ^^

[@igorbukovy4313]

Love the sound of AC20BF. I like dual AC20BF Sleipnir.

[@DeTnUking]

Optimized builds, Leveled Gear, Leveled Pilots, Max armor and the ever capable Baradul sending out orders? It's No wonder you aren't feeling much pressure from your enemies. May be time to start running some Difficulty 100 Missions. Or some 70+ endgame missions.

[@thebigdb1]

You so need to install the"purchase salvage" mod!

[@Jacklangefeld]

Check your YAML settings. There are damage modifier settings in there.

[@mikewhitaker2880]

in terms of damage, don't forget you tend to max armor... also sure piloting is a thing too... you also tend to TRY and take out the bigger damage makers before they can hit you... just like Han shot first... also having TSM's is good, but still nice to know you can cool a mech if needed too... think of it like a ice ballet, you don't need to do the triple twist, but nice to know you can if need be...

[@slate613]

I want to see the Hellbringer with the (I think) digital camo in his blue/black/grey colors. Should look sweet.

[@christianhennebold8274]

mir gefällt der Raucheffekt, ein Schlachtfeld ist nunmal unübersichtlich und die Mechs tauchen schön überraschend auf^^

[@trevorreniger5670]

If you can find ER-MPL(c), I think it's exactly what you're looking for. It's higher DPS than the Inner Sphere ER LLas-SB for less weight. My Battlemaster is unstoppable when I boat them. 😆

[@tha_dealler4811]

Baradul: does alot of missions against the Clan yet barely gets anything cool Also Baradul: fights for the clan and the Federated bring way cooler Clan tech Game Logic right there

[@MrGeiermaier]

don't mind the smoke , play as you like :)

[@tspangs23]

You should have grabbed a few of those AMS half bins

[@Dakaboi]

The pilot skills are probably the reason why you have a step up on your enemies since I think the ai is trapped at a max of ten in each skill while your pilots can go higher than that

[@perry92964]

not sure about modded games but in vanilla it seems the mercs will come more often on target kill missions

[@glez13gt]

The default setting of the games is that only the player does rated damage. All npcs do a percentage of rated damage. Also you have to take pilot skill into consideration, that also changes values.

[@azurehelix2269]

There's some mods to up the difficulty! On Nexus there's "Heavier Enemy Lances" and "Better Enemy Weapons".

[@D415YCU773R]

The yaml-settings have a damage modifier in them, I think it's 50% to player lance by default, these are the ones that you reach directly via the main menu, not in the mod settings.

[@kazahani]

If I'm not mistaken those are only for tanks, VTOLs and vehicles. It's a part of the Scary Tanks mod I believe

[@Jay-ql4gp]

@Baradul If you ever download Yet Another Clan Invasion...it's a bit overpowered, but they have Locust LAMs!!! It's just hilarious.

[@dieSpinnt]

Thanks for the suggestion!:) It's title is called "Clan Invasion Mod". The "Yet Another Clan Invasion" moniker only visible on the Download section of nexusmods and is not searchable. The other term is. Just if someone has problems finding it.

[@michaelbarnard8529]

I was going to say something like “Instead of outfitting a humanoid mech with transformer bits, why not start with something that already looks aircraftish, like a Jenner or Locust.

[@tyrindel]

pilot skills higher than enemies , and if i recall npc weapons are treated a tier 0 for dmg calc even if tier 5

[@FrikInCasualMode]

Baradul starts with maximizing armor on all his Mechs. Then is mystified why his Mechs don't take as much damage as unoptimised AI machines. 😁 How to increase difficulty of fights? Cut your armor in half.

[@olivierpelletier9643]

Your shield skills seems to spread the damage evenly on your mech instead of being focused on a single part. The higher it is, the more even it gets. Thats what I noticed at least on my companions maxed out. They get hit a lot but when I check their damage, its all evened out. No parts is damaged more. So my guess is that it does the same to you as a player. The damage "number" you get hit by is the same but spread out evenly. Also, the armor the enemy has depends on its veterancy. If you see a "green" enemy, itll go down way faster than an elite. And lastly, if you command your team to focus fire, again, depending on their skills, they will focus the torso and quickly destroy the target mech. In my playthrough, I could down an Atlas with focus fire with medium mechs in 4-5 secs. My team was maxed out on this weapon skills.

[@tonysauruswrexu4623]

I’ve been trying to find Mad Dogs seemingly FOREVER! Anyone have any tips where I should look?

[@minard13son]

i wonder if mrm and ac/20bf velocity is close. would be a fun BRRRT build aside from racs

[@Drokandforge]

You can tell when you will fight enemy mercs before you even accept the mission. The base payout will be much higher than usual. Knowing this you can farm mercs.

[@MultiMahu]

Hallo Bara! Ich würde den Rauch so lassen, ist halt realer. Bei der Schadensgeschichte denke ich, das du gegen Stockmechs kämpfst. Da ist die Haut immer zu dünn. LG Martin

[@alenvire]

You have a mission to collect a locust and a crab. But you never collect the pieces even though you have seen the parts many many times. Why not replace them with missions that you may complete? I avoid those collect missions unless I have the money or one already collected since I never remember to collect them. lol

[@benfubbs2432]

It would be great if someone made a mod that makes everyone do 10% damage but gives you 10x as much ammo per bin so that the missions take ten times longer.

[@stephanwolfhunter]

Quick Sell - the mechwarrior equivalent of "As Seen On TV"

[@Axhole11]

I have a question. I play on Xbox and I cannot seem to target allies to check their status. There's no option for me to see what condition they are aside from just hopping into their mech. The bar graph on top left is not always helpful

[@nathanielanderson74]

so with the whole you take less damage I'm no coder but the skills of the given pilot can vary with you're damage reduction the enemy's skill with a given weapon and weapon tier. I not sure but I think the weapons for most default mechs are tier 1unless changed for say elite opponents.

[@tomduke1297]

i think smoke is fine, as long as its see through. if you could make that happen, that would be nice. if i was playing personally, i would go with less smoke because i want to see the impacts and the damage they do. shooting on sensors into black smokewalls half the time just doesnt do anything for me.

[@marksoler7338]

First! Good morning Mr. Oliver!

[@capt.graybeard]

I appreciate the smoke maybe a little bit less would be okay, and I would also appreciate it if you turn the volume up on the The chatter between you and your teammates, that would be okay too.

[@Blueden4833]

On the smoke issue, I'm not sure less smoke should mean less immersion. What's smoking on these mechs anyway? They're not burning diesel, most of the weapons are powderless, military rockets are intentionally made not to leave trails that make counter-measures simple . . . so why all the smoke? There would be debris and a smoking crater when a reactor goes up, but mech war should generally be less smoky than war as we know it.

[@jiggs73]

The nice smoke and lighting effects are pointless if you're forced to use thermal vision because of them. I think turning the effects down would actually let us see more of them.

[@WK-gx2zs]

Mech 5 seems to swing wildly no matter the difficulty.

[@georgehadley9080]

no, i believe that it only seems like they do less because they are not alpha striking all the time? we the players all alpha strike, the ai does not due to heat. i have never seen the ai shut down from heat so, i am assuming that is the case.

[@redeagle6603]

If you want the enemy to last a bit longer, play with the settings and set amount of armour and structural to 2x maybe up to 5x ... 5x is a lot of fun, high tear weapons make so much more difference. Also check modifier how much damage are you receiving, is it set to 0.5x or something similar?

[@jamini94]

How do you get the white boxes around your crosshair showing when different weapon groups are ready to fire? I looked at your link with the Steam workshop mods you use and I use most everything you do so I'm guessing it's an option I don't have enabled? Thanks :)

[@tyrindel]

there is a lesser smoke mod out there

[@benfubbs2432]

The best thing for our viewing experience is if you don't use thermal vision, otherwise everything else makes no difference.

[@marksoler7338]

Dirt and smoke is good.

[@Oddball_1943]

pretty sure its because they have less armor, like another comment said

[@donpfoutz625]

Just eyeballing this, you are facing standard mech loadouts while yours are as fully kitted out as you can make them.

[@1990Cookie]

Wegen dem Rauch, konstante Framerates sind wichtiger als Effekte.

[@Tigerbear1981]

i Want you to keep the Immersion

[@michaeldragicevich820]

should have purchased some AMS 1/2 tone ammo

[@kvernesdotten]

Ok i feel old now. I recognize mechs but not the name. Turns out what i thought was a vulture is now a mad dog and what i thought was a mad cat is now a timber wolf? Whyyy?

[@durgan5668]

I want to see the action, but that's just me.

[@Friedbrain11]

Beach heads are fun ones. Just step up the difficulty factor instead of making the game harder for the rest of us. I am fine with the game as it is myself.

[@Incognito413]

I think I'm just bad at it, because I feel the exact opposite when it comes to damage.

[@Abband0n]

0:45 lmao -100 with the clans. They hate your guts, it would have been super funny to just ask for all money lol. They would be so pissed off. Your killing them all the time and then your just some dirtbag merc doing it for the c-bills lol.

[@Abband0n]

1:52 Its gotta be totally baked into the game. Your suppose to win. The enemy has crap accuracy. Is there damage logs that show how much damage you take from what?? But yeah I had the same thought a bunch of video's back. For the player if your in one weight class and your attacking something above your weight class there should be some heavy damage mitigation in favor of the enemy going on so its harder for you to kill them, and not that it would be easy for them to kill you but because it plays out longer you would take more damage.. Another way to go about it would be a simple player DPS nerf slider. You could equip all the cool stuff and tiered equipment you want but it would just do less damage overall. You could slide it around until It did "feel right". In Mass Effect 1 I liked to keep my squadmates with just crap guns and killer armor. They were there , they were shooting, but I got to do all the killing lol.

[@Abband0n]

4:00 OMG that hellbringer is awesome!! I get very sleepy watching these sometimes, I don't remember you building that one. I forget what you had on the first one... LBX 10?

[@Abband0n]

21:30 Man you should have kept pushing, you are gonna get so many picks!!

[@Abband0n]

25:28 ooo would be good for your hellbringers. I notice they get legged a lot.

[@Abband0n]

Did the marauder you got have that +50% sensor perk. That thing should get those awesome sensor boosters giving it even more range.

[@FARBerserker]

i prefer seymour over the dirty field

[@ChadKanotz]

I'm not a fan of the smoke as is, need to see.

[@Chewie260]

Pilot skills like a couple of peeps mention + lore friendly loadouts are kinda garbage.

[@KrautGoesWild]

Happy Elongated Weekend, Everybody 👋😀 (As an Atheist, I do not celebrate 'Jesus Recycling Day'... or is that rather 'Respawning' 🤔?)

[@SRTifiable]

Originally it was to pay homage to Eostre, a pagan goddess of fertility and crops 🤷🏻‍♂️ It’s really just a spring festival to celebrate the end of winter. Fun fact, we used to celebrate the New Year in late March because it was the Vernal (Spring) Equinox.

[@stevensavage9491]

Happy zombie Jesus day!

[@dieSpinnt]

@@SRTifiable Yeah, but please exchange the term "fun" with arbitrary. Not meant seriously!:) Just a view here from something called history and reality: When humans give or gave meaning to dates or observation (like religious goat herders) then it is simply arbitrary and interchangeable and has no value compared to other mysticisms. In contrast, f.e. the course of the earth around the sun and the reason for the seasons, including the essential and vital timing of the sowing is not mysticism arising from delusions, but an important, observable and real fact (while explained by delusional stories ... and THAT is fun!). @KrautGoesWild You mean that "Zombie Cult?" It's Zombie-Bunnies-Day;) Well ... if "god" would ask me to die and as a result all my fellow humans would be relieved, happy and healthy, etc. (that's for what is everyone is still waiting for? ... but they are going to celebrate anyways, ) AND in the process I would return from the dead and get an "upgrade" to be a god on her side ... Where do I have to sign? Hehehe. As a fellow atheist I think that Jebus isn't that selfless, brave and heroic figure that everyone thinks he is. So it's not a sacrifice at all if you already knew beforehand that you will be resurrected anyway and also become a god. Was die Leute für einen absolut unlogischen und sogar in sich unstimmigen Stuss glauben geht auf keine Ziegenhaut... Frohes Fest, ihr Pfeffersäcke!:)

[@SRTifiable]

@@dieSpinnt No no, see, the fact is still fun (maybe not objectively, but relative to my perspective, because I think it’s fun 🤷🏻‍♂️). But yes, we as humans tend to align our perception of time based on what we deem important. I don’t know that I would refer to using the changing of the seasons as “arbitrary” as at the time it was established, it indicated the start of the planting season and food is rather important to survival. Basing it on an individuals religious beliefs however, definitely arbitrary.