Lock-on Weapons (LRMs) in Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries | Full Mission Gameplay

[@Artificer1911]

"We're gonna take the D" -Baradul, 2019

[@miguelcerero7383]

13:00 the locust.... hahahahahaha

[@Alecto117]

Found the easy way out of being a locust pilot lol

[@LexTexaco]

WHY WON'T ANYONE KILL MEEEEEEE?!? lol

[@Inerrant1]

Like a moth drawn to a bugzapper. Or a locust, at least.

[@imwithstupid086]

It just needed someone to end its misery.

[@RascheTheRabbit]

You're a very charming, well-spoken dude Baradul. Glad I found your videos!

[@byronswain7569]

Challenge: A full lance built with only short ranged weapons: Machine Guns, SRMs, Small Lasers and Flamers. Can it work with the right mechs?

[@stefanamacker]

Start of the Mission: Hey Commander, you have to defend the farm. End of the Mission: Good work Commander, the farm is save! Me: OK....But the Farm is ash ^^

[@thefearhawk8805]

Sometimes you have to destroy the farm to save the farm...

[@stefanamacker]

@@ohthreefiftyone My comment is a joke, you genius.

[@philtkaswahl2124]

Replace farm with "Inner Sphere and Periphery" and you have Battletech history in a nutshell. :V

[@ColonelTacki]

It's a scorched earth policy!

[@maniac19k14]

So for people wondering why some of the mechs in the demo have access to double heat sinks, it’s because of the campaign timeline. It’s starts in 3015 a time when people didn’t know how double heat sinks worked much less how to mass produce them. Some of the great houses had research projects dedicated to rediscovering them and by the early ‘20s had some prototypes. Nevertheless running into an individual mech with dhs was like running into an animal believed to be extinct. However the campaign is said to extend up to 3049, two decades after the dhs was rediscovered and mass production could begin again. I believe their limited use in the demo is just to show the player base that they’re in the game, and so we can see their effectiveness.

[@gigaslave]

So, will we get to go to Helm and save the Grey Death Legion?

[@imwithstupid086]

Given the timeline, I'm guessing Operation Revival's gonna be the first DLC. Then FedCom Civil War.

[@josefgasidlo291]

Dmg output of enemies seems low to me. How can you face lance of assaults and not lose a single mech.

[@bloodred255]

last mission I watched him play the expected tonnage was 270 and he went with 310 or 320 tonnage, obviously the additional tonnage makes it easier. if you want to lose units drop the tonnage this mission was 400T and he lost 2 100T units and half of his own MEC.

[@danilooliveira6580]

@@bloodred255 he did face like 3 lances of heavy/assaults. its a bit ridiculous that he didn't lose anything. if he had 8 mechs on the field there I would understand, but just a single assault lance ? come on. also I hate how the enemies just drop in the middle of the zone randomly in waves instead of coming at you all at once as they should if they have a entire company at their disposal... oh wait, Leopards is the only dropship that exist in this world.

[@deepakmdev512]

@@danilooliveira6580 In Roguetech, you routinely face a lot of enemies and still come out of the mission without any losses. If MW5 was like MWO, then after every mission, you'll be spending a fortune repairing and refitting your mechs, not to mention suffering from serious downtime. Yes, the AI could use some reworking and could be more accurate but there are mods for that later on.

[@sadlerbw9]

Watch near the end when he is 1v1 with a griffin. Watch it’s PPC shots. It is missing horribly, multiple times, at close range. For whatever reason, the AI in the demo is tuned to have bad aim. It would likely be much harder if their aim capabilities were turned up, which I’m sure it will be in some missions of the full game.

[@Bartschinator]

@@deepakmdev512 mods? like steam workshop? lol

[@michaelmurphy3273]

I really can't I really can't believe you survived that was a miracle I love that giant glowing hole in the back of your head at the end you're like so durable you were like Rasputin

[@logirex]

I know this is the standard 3 or 5sec emergency shutdown but I really feel the game will need a 10sec emergency shutdown to avoid blatant abuse and make it vital to keep heat under control.

[@Paul_Hardy]

In MW4/Mercs if you went into emergency shutdown you were often done. It doesn't even seem like an issue in MW5.

[@wulfgrumheimfjarl3346]

it is actually based on heat you are shutdown until your heat goes under 100 however due to the massive dumbing down of the mechlab you kinda have to intentionally take no heatsinks to get a long shut down.

[@depthcharge126]

Sounds like you thought about this longer than PGI...get this Heretic boys!

[@philtkaswahl2124]

No, Baradul, by keeping your unit there long past mission objectives were done, it was YOU who killed Kenny! * dramatic lightning strike *

[@nymalous3428]

10:27 PPC should not only scramble sensors but also get rid of your lock-ons? I was actually just thinking that right before you said it. I wonder if it's possible to implement it at this point though.

[@dadoogie]

I love your chanel dude. I came for mech warrior 5, I stayed for the overheating shutdowns

[@meadball1]

Do they have an Artemis IV Fire control system in the game? Gotta tighten up those LRM 20 groups!

[@screamingcactus1753]

I really like how this game is looking! A few issues, but over all looks like a lot of fun. I wonder if you could show off some of the other weapons? MRMs, PPCs and Gaus Rifles are what I'm interested in seeing. Maybe a laser boat, too?

[@Egaleswoop]

I really love the Stalker, it's just a mech that you can feel can be really strong, even in MWO, it's a good assault for myself mainly. I mainly use heavies, but if I run an assault it's usually an anni, stalker, or Mauler.

[@noneofyourbuisnessseriousl6623]

Reliable fat boy's you piloting in mwo.

[@CrizzyEyes]

I just can't get over the fact that it's a walking egg.

[@walt_man]

Why do the missiles look like fireballs!? Even MW4 had a two or three polygon missile.... it doesnt look good at all.

[@SAVikingSA]

I clicked on this to point out the thumbnail

[@Andrew85or]

Same

[@Steelmage99]

As did I.

[@aaronkeeth651]

the missle animation is badass

[@kapella1987]

6:55 nice helicopteranimation 10/10 ...xD

[@slammedc2003]

The game really looks great and I hope the campaign/career mode is as extensive as Battletech's, this game will compliment Battletech perfectly for when you want to fight on the field instead of turn based!

[@Dumbeltication]

Hey Baradul, what do you say about the default controls in this game? Did you change anything?

[@blitzhacker6981]

Streak LRM's btw don't have minimum range, and are clan tech, but you lose the ability to fire indirectly. Lighter and easier on damage per tonne for ammo. I'm hyped for this new battletech/mechwarrior release, last mechwarrior I actually played was Mw2mercs. .and that was a life time ago. This atleast is looking good, I hope the game play stacks up.

[@ukspawn666]

Hey Baradul. Thanks for the videos. I have been watching a lot of MW5 content from various Mech-tubers like yourself and TTB and I have a few questions and was hoping that you could show in your next video the available commands that you can give to the AI team mates. I see that you can press F2, F3 and F4 to select the team mates individually. What commands can you give? In co-op is it possible to split into 2 "2-man" teams and each take their own AI? Can you instruct them to hold position/defend individually in different places etc? Thanks in advance

[@Artificer1911]

I think only the host of a game can control the AI

[@TimopheyPaperhead]

Maybe sniper pcc (or large laser) panters, that jumping a lot?

[@petersmith6513]

Question: Are the Leopard dropships destructible and are they armed?

[@Artificer1911]

The NPCs will shoot at it, haven't seen an effect yet, though. I also have not had one shoot at me, either.

[@philips.5563]

I, for one, welcome the return of Stackpoling to games. It discourages slow mechs from facehugging and it lets me go on my rant about hating how Stackpole writes dialogue.

[@Artificer1911]

Stackpole?

[@philips.5563]

@@Artificer1911 reference to Michael Stackpole. There are optional rules for reactors going critical and through-armor crits in the table top game.

[@n00bfishie]

Ah ... the King of Tier 5 build. I’m a little sad that the missile volleys hit the enemy CT so hard. Almost every enemy here is getting CT cored very fast with their limbs and STs intact. I would have preferred that LRMs distribute their damage a little more randomly, like the tabletop, to encourage people to use direct fire weapons.

[@shooter2224]

in release version lrms are trash

[@juliomontega2868]

Is there any other weather condition in this game? All your vids were done on different maps, but the weather always is cloudy and thus everything looks very triste and washed.

[@GamerCthulhu]

Full game has multiple weather conditions in the procedural generation. The demo has set mission set ups that don't change.

[@tomk7837]

Thanks as always for the great videos I think we need a case study on PPC's. they don't seem to have a minimum range. they do seem to splash their scramble effect in a wide (maybe 90m area) to the point I can scramble myself with my own ppcs - Flying Blind

[@ColonelTacki]

In tabletop, you were still able to hit with PPCs below minimum range. Hell, every weapon could still hit at minimum range if you rolled well enough. The 0 damage PPC is only an MWO thing.

[@shauntempley9757]

@@ColonelTacki Because MWO is not in lore. It works in a different way from games like STO, where you are in universe. Here, you are playing in the universe, at a time before the Clan Invasion, so PPCs in this game should have no minimum range.

[@makegaminggreatagain3907]

Awesome video, You KC seemed a little underwhelming in terms of battle performance but looks amazing, the Atlas that went down fought harder and did more, I've just started a fresh play through of Battle Tech but am super interested in this game.

[@Xeonzs]

Finally gameplay with a competent pilot in the mech. Too bad it's only on Epic Lame Store.

[@cronotekk9193]

Why do you care?

[@Xeonzs]

@@cronotekk9193 Because it means I gotta wait a year for it to be on steam?

[@cronotekk9193]

@@Xeonzs Why do you care what free launcher it's on? They're pretty much identical

[@noneofyourbuisnessseriousl6623]

@@cronotekk9193 sorry to burst your bubble buddy but steam is way more easier and more advanced than epic store in terms of search engine and security.

[@cronotekk9193]

@@noneofyourbuisnessseriousl6623 Alright? Luckily I don't use game launchers as search engines so I think I'm ok

[@user-rg7gd9bu1q]

is this scenario selection a beta thing only, because the 15 minute gameplay video IGN released a year ago showcasing the mech selection looks completely different and more polished.

[@FerreusVir]

Man, I know missile boats are considered ez-mode but this looks like so much fun. I wonder what a dedicated SRM build would be like.

[@Artificer1911]

I did a 5 Streak2 build on a Kintaro paired with 3 mpl. I wanted to test out the effectiveness of the weapon in large numbers. It did great in the mode I was playing. Very high damage, lots of kills.

[@frshunter]

So anyway to play the demo? pre-order? Great job as always!

[@bloodred255]

is it just LRM or do we have thunderbolts or something cool? your missles don't seem to lose lock when you shut down. they should.

[@HellBrYnger]

great thumbnail :D

[@RaphYkun]

Can you shoot the dropships down before they unload?

[@grav4315]

Hey Bara can you show burst fire AC’s next or gauss?

[@amgironworks9091]

Id personally be interested in a cannon build. Maybe some of the ubx guns (not sure if thats right)?

[@sadlerbw9]

Thanks for the video. It showed exactly what I wanted to see! There is more I want to know, but we are hitting the limitations of what you can do in the demo. Here are some of the things I still wonder about, though I’m not sure if you can test them in the demo: Is back-shotting big, slow mechs viable? They seem more agile, especially in terms of torso twist, than MWO. Are there alternate vision modes? Seismic? Is it viable to keep stock armor levels, or do you really need to max out like in MWO? Can you mix single and double heat sinks? Are light mechs fast enough to evade LRMs in a useful way, or are the LRMs too agile? Tag? NARC? Do they exist and do anything useful? Given how fragile they are, can you use buildings and trees as cover? I’m very curious about the repair economy, and how much mechlab customization will affect the campaign. Also, I have a few comments about what I have seen so far: Buildings are too easy to walk through. The armor part of the damage silhouettes is too thin. It is hard to tell at a glance anything other than it is red or not red. Vehicles seem too easy to kill. They don’t need to be as tough as mech, but not one-shot either. Having parts of the paper doll flash when hit becomes overwhelming when a brawl is going on, or a stream of missiles is hitting. The flashing ends up hiding just how much damage is being done. Torso speed on assaults and heavies might be a little too fast. Getting hit with a PPC seems like it should break or at least interrupt missile locks. I miss the weapon group pips next to the reticle in MWO that would change color when one of the weapons in the group was in range. That was much more effective than having to look at the weapon display in the bottom right, or trying to watch the range finder. I’m sure I’ll think of more, but that is what I’ve got for now!

[@ShatteredAce]

From my experience here: 1. Yeah, it can work. I did a locust challenge on the assassination mission, and I could duck a lot of damage and do hit and run attacks without being hit by the mech. 2. Not sure, probably not. 3. You can keep stock armor, sometimes it matters, but usually it doesn't. 4. Not sure, in the demo right now we can only take the heat sinks available in the mech. Most are single, only a couple are doubles. We'll know in the full game 5. I can duck most LRM's in a light. However, if you have helicopters overhead firing at you too, dodging them all is kinda hard. 6. TAG and NARC are in the game, but I haven't used them yet. 7. Buildings yes, trees....Probably not. 8. Same here, I'm really questioning if the mechlab we see if the final variant. I know baradul has asked this too, but the more I think about it the more I swear we aren't seeing everything.

[@michaelmurphy3273]

You've got to know we want more of that more and more and more of all of that

[@c182SkylaneRG]

Fade-to-black in the middle of combat? Aw man! I was hoping they'd directly simulate the Leopard, INCLUDING having to run into the 'mech bay and power down to end the mission, either under-fire (with the potential for the Leopard to be damaged and require repairs after a combat evac), or after having cleared the field, but I was still hoping every mission would be the full out-and-back from the dropship...

[@domongart9331]

Regarding the SRM carrier. On Sarna there is an SRM 60 Carrier, packing 10X SRM6. So maybe they nerfed it for MW5?

[@domongart9331]

www.sarna.net/wiki/SRM_Carrier

[@gf6368]

play co-op with ttb and 2 other germans playing 4xJagermech while drinking jägermeister, ttb's down for it

[@_ENOVA]

May I ask to make a video where u checking AI. Woulld like to see how intelligent the AI and what he able to do, teammates and enemies

[@Zul_H]

i just love the LRM long range action

[@erikrodrigues2733]

Is there RACs? what about something double racs like a mad 3r?

[@petkofuchalski9809]

There are RAC 5's i believe, but i am not sure. There are also different variants of the weapons which will be interesting.

[@Artificer1911]

No, no RACs. This is set before the clan invasion.

[@jasonames145]

Baradul is gonna make his game crank the ai to max and throw assault mechs at him by the fifth drop mission :)

[@SetzarothTV]

How do you get locks so fast?

[@JoshuaPritt]

I like how the lasers aren't very bright just like a real laser weapon would be.

[@Caelum_NLD]

Feels like MW4's Vulture :) Love it.

[@Человек-Вархаммер]

Can You show us an flamer-things? Can enemy be owerheated to death?

[@TheDarmach]

Could you show Mad Cat, or Vulture?

[@Baradul]

No Clan Mechs in the game......yet

[@LiveLNXgaming]

This is very much my style. I love missile boats.

[@dashwoodfox]

How did you get double heat sinks?

[@Xeonzs]

it's a demo version, everything is unlocked and unlimited.

[@dashwoodfox]

@@Xeonzs So he has a different demo version from the rest of us on closed beta? My demo gives me no option to add double heat sinks to the Stalker 3H. Other than those double heat sinks it looks like he's running the same closed beta as the rest of us.

[@noahbingley8078]

It's a bug, but if you uncheck the "valid only" box it lets you have them and use them. They are supposed to be available, but they had a mistake. He's not on another version.

[@АлександрЯгло]

I want to see a gauss build

[@Baradul]

Coming soon!

[@Fattoxthegreat]

What determines whether or not an engine explodes like that?

[@excessmaterial]

Yeah wondering that too. It seems kind of random?

[@petkofuchalski9809]

Probably random. The lore explanation is that if you hit the mech's reactor really hard, it will go critical and detonate like a nuke bomb. It's not the first game that pulls this off, it can happen i MW LL as well.

[@kedolan4992]

Maybe you have to do enough critical hits to the CT before killing it, or something? So when the mech finally gives out, the reactor loses containment or something, as opposed to just breaking? Or a certain amount of "overkill" to the CT?

[@Janihavik]

i want this game so bad :D

[@shadeling6717]

i'd like to see some other weapons, flamers, gauss rifles or anything like that.

[@screamingcactus1753]

Flamers wreck the frame rate in this build. It's something that's already been fixed for the release build, but their really cool visual effects aren't properly optimized here.

[@NikolaiMihailov1]

Seeing as that was an SRM carrier,it was supposed to be armed with 10 SRM6's Not 4 SRM 10s. SRM 10s don't exist(Packs only come in 2-4-6. LRMS come in 5-10-15-20) www.sarna.net/wiki/SRM_Carrier And seeing as SRM carriers tend to vomit their fire in one big volley,and have enough ammo to do it for a bit(4 tons)a well protected surprise ambush by an SRM carrier is more than enough to cripple,if not outright destroy most mechs. I dunno why PGI created their own frakentank with that though.

[@JaySharp604]

So dang close to the release! "Merry Christmas to me! Bought Mech 5 Mercenary! I'll disappear into my computer room, goodbye my family!" hahaha

[@benwilson2099]

i am surprised he hasn't played any supreme commander games

[@alby910]

Why cant we have tgese weapong effects and distructive buildings in mwo

[@danilooliveira6580]

double heatsinks ? ins't this game after marik civil war or something ?

[@apatheticjesus4147]

Y'know The 'lost tech' part of Battletech has a few problems for me. Ok not having the tech to make super fancy armors and intense ECM suites makes sense. Forgetting how to build a GD refrigerator(which is all a heat sink is) and basic radar scrambling devices, while utilising radar, and having FTL? Come on. At some point my suspense of disbelief hits a hard no.

[@danilooliveira6580]

@@apatheticjesus4147 we don't know how complex is double heatsinks, maybe it uses materials and designs that they don't have access to. radar scrambling is not easy though, it something that is still reserved to the most advanced war planes we have today, and they don't hide the plane like ECMs do. and they have no idea how FTL works, they just hope the jumpships don't break. only comstar knows how to fix those things. the idea of lostech is purely balancing, its because some techs are clearly better than others, so either they make some tech ridiculously expensive for whatever reason, make old tech reserved to super cheap design and expensive tech common, or they say they are almost impossible to find, and having one is like finding Excalibur.

[@apatheticjesus4147]

@@danilooliveira6580I get that lost tech is a balancing mechanism for the tabletop. But as for just being a fanciful universe in which to tell a story, some of it just gets a 'hard no' from my imagination. Which I can assure you is quite expansive. I can buy a radar scrambler at Walmart. The wide spread use of radar suggests that there is a good understanding of the technology in universe; ergo ECM should be well understood. Granted there are levels of ECM/radar capability. That's why low level ECM in universe makes sense. But, ECM is not stealth, and even stealth in universe does not make the 'Mech invisible. I get that jumpships are heirlooms, same as the majority of 'Mechs. But reverse engineering is a thing. Yes, some material science may have been lost, but the pieces of the puzzle are there. With how much the different houses are trying to one up each other, one would think they'd be putting more effort into tech development and reverse engineering the stuff they don't understand. And at this point IRL refrigeration is about as mature a technology as it's going to get. It's not a complicated thing. (Whoever wrote the Sarna wiki is a bit off in their understanding of what a heat pump is and how they work, by my estimation).So double heatsinks are b.s. to me. If they didn't take up more space while somehow not weighing more than single heat sink, then I'd let them slide. Except then they'd have to be magic so I would have a whole other problem with them. But I get it as a balancing mechanism, but only on tabletop. I think Battletech is a great universe and I really enjoy the majority of it. But there are some parts I can't not call out. Don't get me started on Kerensky and the Clans (space Nazis). MF could have stopped all the war he wanted to avoid if he'd just stepped up and taken control of the Star League.

[@danilooliveira6580]

@@apatheticjesus4147 but they are, there are places focused on recovering lostech, like New Avalon Institute of Science. but most of what they recover is experimental or reserved. it was just when they found the memory core that everyone could understand and learn how to reproduce star league technology. you have to remember that the succession wars reduced the knowledge back to the middle ages. they had the equipment, but had no idea how any of it worked or were made, at most they knew how to hammer it back into shape. it would be like giving a smartphone to a WW1 scientist, he may know the logic behind it, how to fix it when a wire gets loose, but he knows almost nothing of what makes a smartphone, he doesn't know half of the materials used in it, he doesn't know how a microprocessor work, he doesn't even have the technology to figure out what a microprocessor even is. he may reproduce it with materials and technology that he has at his disposal, but it won't be the same. its not that easy to retro-engineer something that you don't know almost anything about. and about the double heatsinks, its hard for you to accept it because you are assuming its just a heatpump or a normal heatsink. but we really have no idea of how it even work, it might as well be magic for all we know. so just imagine it to be made from alien composites and quantum technology and it will be easier to digest. remember that they don't work the same way heat sinks work, they can cool the mech even in an environment hotter than the interior of the mech.

[@TheTenshitobias]

Too bad about the single platform release though. (platform is where to buy not pc/console, in this comment)

[@generaldistrust]

Please try to lower the speech a notch, it is extremely loud against the gameplay audio and distorted\clipped. Good video still. Thank you 😊

[@Roguhr]

1:40 yeah Bara, you take that D buddy ;)

[@Baradul]

Giggedy

[@richardlayton7184]

Well to me SRM (Short Ranged MISSILES) should be and is a lock on weapon. In MWO SRMs are used as rockets. A missile is a GUIDED weapon, it's in the definition of missile. To those that believe the SSRM is the guided system wrong, SRMs where always guided. Look at previous MW games and the lore in Battletech. SSRM offers a faster locking with a missile (Swarm) that has a faster flight time and tighter hit pattern. And the primary function is that unlike normal SRMs can only be fired if a LOCK is acquired. This feature is save ammo. Normal SRMs can be dead fired since the missiles are armed in the bay. As for LRMs the most nerfed weapon in the game, a larger targeting rectul for LRMs would be great!

[@richardlayton7184]

Oh and SRMS should have the same range as Medium Lasers.

[@gfarrell80]

Technically any object projected through the air can be called a 'missile'. An arrow fired from a bow is a missile, a hurled stone is a missile. A 16 inch naval canon shell is also a missile. There's only a fuzzy gray area in the 2nd half of the 20th century when we started inventing guided missiles and ballistic missiles. Is an ICBM a rocket or a missile? It's both. If you want to be absolutely safe, just add 'guided' before missile when you're talking about a weapon that can self-correct in flight.

[@domongart9331]

Good point about the SRMs. On Sarana you can read that both SRMs and LRMs were guided, and MRMs were the dumb-fire missiles. An entry on Dead-Fire Missiles explains that the Draconis combine experimented with LRMs and SRMs with guidance removed and larger warheads, but those were superceded by standard MRMs. I guess when you're making the video game you want to differentiate between Streaks and SRMs. They *could* do this with SRMs firing in a cloud, capable of dumb-fire, and a wider spread by default, so Artemis is useful. The streaks then would follow the description in Sarna, and be impossible to fire without a proper lock, and come in a tigher stream, very few of them missing, if at all. In this way SRMs would be very much like regular LRMs, and Streaks would be like SRM + Stream + Artemis, but incapable of being fired without the lock.

[@MrTBSC]

quad ppc build if possible?

[@Artificer1911]

There are a few that can do it. It's strong.

[@KageRyuu6]

No SRM 10s are not a thing, and it was probably just easier for them to program instead of installing 6 SRM 6s, which just means they're lazy as fuck.

[@mwidenst]

I've never heard of LRM Stream weapon systems before.

[@Artificer1911]

Basically what Clan has in MWO

[@dogmeat7486]

My 60 year old mother loves your accent.

[@nonameguy96]

The A.I didnt seem so bad at the end there. They were focusing you pretty hard

[@Guardian179]

I get that it's based on Battletech lore and tech, but it's interesting to me that LRM's really aren't long range missiles by current weapons standards. An AMRAAM, or Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile is capable of engaging targets 30-50km away. Even a Javelin man portable missile launcher is capable of engaging targets at 2.5km, with an MLRS being able to engage out to 70km. Compare that to the LRM's here, that have an effective engagement distance inside 1km, and aren't even individually guided, so they really just impact as a barrage, and it just seems ineffective. On one hand you have these massive walking behemoths that are armed to the teeth with lasers, particle cannons, gauss cannons, and missiles, being dropped off by huge spacecraft and supported by infantry, tanks, and air vehicles. On the other, you have missile technology that seems to be stuck in the 1960s-1970s. Just gotta suspend disbelief, lol.

[@cyberdystopia6029]

Well, most modern weaponry has way longer ranges than Battletech's analogs: machine guns up to 2 km, artillery - around 50 km, electromagnetic cannon prototypes - over 10 km (data murky on that one), laser weapon prototypes - as long as you have visibility. Shortening ranges is just necessary to avoid hour-long slogs over 10000 square km battle theatres. So mostly gotta accept gameplay concessions, but suspending disbelief works as well.

[@Guardian179]

@@cyberdystopia6029 For sure. It was just funny to me that something termed long range missiles can't even be effectively employed at distances a precision rifle or machine gun can be today. We're piloting machines that are 100+ meters tall in some cases. By having even your 'long range' engagements happen within 1000m, you are pretty much turning every fight into a knife fight. It really keeps something like the catapult or other generally ranged mechs from being more effective, since smaller mechs can close inside their effective distance relatively quickly. It also takes away from the idea of having a coordinated lance, where a scout mech is running good sensors ahead of the long range mechs, allowing for accurate, long range, indirect fire. You are pretty much always within visual range of your targets from what I've seen.

[@Guardian179]

@@cyberdystopia6029 I will also concede that I was remembering engagements in MW2 and MW4 feeling longer, but really they weren't, after watching some videos. Still, the tactician in me likes the idea of more specialization that would be given through extending the range on some weapons in a realistic manner.

[@cyberdystopia6029]

@@Guardian179 Well, IIRC MW4 had a beacon that sticks to a target and redirects LRMs to it, also commands meny allows for some tactical decisionmaking, but if you want real working specialisation that ain't happening in a real-time format. BattleTech (2018) is decent for tactical options even if ranges are still compressed.

[@Guardian179]

@@cyberdystopia6029 playing Battletech currently in anticipation of MW5. Don't get me wrong, I'm stoked that Mech Warrior is coming back. One of my favorite series. I was just taking a little bit of a critical look at the terminology of calling missiles that are effective at 900m long range. More of an innocent poke than a true critique.

[@Paul_Hardy]

Hate the way the missiles launch as a batch instead of a stream as they do in Battletech. They look so much more impressive when they impact, one after another than when they do all at once.

[@kedolan4992]

Did you not notice that that's an option? He had 2 LRM20 (the batch firing ones) and 2 stream LRM15 (they fire in, well, a stream).

[@Jaevwyn]

Think streams technically shoot slower as they don’t begin to recycle their fire time until the end of the stream..... but they looks cooler so meh

[@humphrex]

8x srm6 is where its at.

[@Jack-xx3qg]

I hope this is not for educational purpose because u spelled "WEAPONS" wrong in the thumbnail

[@a_teonnai-ki8049]

Thousands of ammunition pcs of missle pod capacity - is due to the game is in a demo stage? Cause it is not very realistic for Battletech universe

[@Atrahasis7]

The mech walking animations are really bad. The Jing Crab looks ridiculous.

[@Typhoontimmy]

Watch the helicopter blades

[@bulletstop100]

you are a fire support mech,so makes sense, but I can't stand 3rd person..

[@juanjomatute445]

Hola amigo, gusto saludarte, tengo un problema con el juego al ejecutarlo me sale un mensaje de DIXI-ERROR_DEVICEDREMOVED puedes ayudarme con alguna solucion.

[@kennethleiton3082]

yeah!!! another video!!!!

[@conorderrick9547]

quad U/ac 10 AN1-X

[@Wolfiexero]

I find it incredibly fucking stupid that you can't fire while in minimum range. If you make a mistake and fire under range, that should be a pilot error. Plus, you could fire at something running away from you while in min range and by the time the missiles hit, they could be in range. What an absolutely infuriating "feature". Can't wait for modding.

[@Merkaba954]

Damn you northern Europeans and your ability toi grow those long as goatees!! I want one but there is toi much British in me apparently even though I'm American

[@XM1nd]

WAEPONS on the preview screen. Please fix it

[@GalmLead]

Personally, the LRMs in MW5 feel very underpowered, in my opinion.

[@amediocrefan748]

GalmLead I’m curious about MRM’s

[@Artificer1911]

@@amediocrefan748 Not in the game yet, I think it is set in 3015

[@IceGeck0]

WAEPONS!

[@tymbregamez3110]

Srm 10s even 100s are canon lol.

[@kenshinhimura9387]

Too bad this game went epic exclusive. Means I won't ever be buying it. RIP mechwarrior.

[@noahbingley8078]

It comes to Steam in a year! I'm buying it then and only then.

[@oldman747]

i beat the warzone map with a assassin with nothing but medium lasers and 2 4 packs of srms.

[@Robot_Joe]

wonder if modders can do anything about this brain dead ai. God it looks so frustratingly bad

[@petkofuchalski9809]

Considering that the A.I is braindead in all MW games, i am not that surprised.

[@Robot_Joe]

@@petkofuchalski9809 that's forgivable for such old games but it's 2019 tho

[@domongart9331]

This game is more like an RPG, in the campaign AI will scale from easy to hard. Probably the demo is set to easy AI, it's a fun sandbox reward for loyal community members.

[@kedolan4992]

I mean, you did notice when he was setting the AI for his team, there were something like 6 levels? I wouldn't be surprised if the demo went out with enemies set to only 1-3 or something, since it's really more of a "proof of concept" type demo, than an actual demo of the full game.

[@DessertMonkey]

Engaging waepons

[@gadenp81]

Find it sad that somehow enemies are so weak and die like paper. After playing Dark Souls and even MWO... Seeing Baradul destroy everything with ease is .... seems like a step backward. Are the enemies sending in paper armored mechs? Are they too poor to add real armor? Also are the enemies mechs being piloted by babies??? Also NERF LRMs! Hate LRMs since 2013 and still do.

[@Artificer1911]

Don't forget that the proper game is going to be campaign based. Individual missions being slightly easier is balanced out by the cost of upkeep and time for repairs.

[@christianwendt7852]

"Weapons" ;)

[@frshunter]

Locust look at little out of scale

[@querbeet2004]

Very static looking mission

[@Artificer1911]

It's basically a survival mode. There are others for a more dynamic fight, utilizing mobility and cover.

[@querbeet2004]

@@Artificer1911 Ok, that is good to know. i was already a bit worried tbh.

[@Skyler2243]

So..... this may be an unpopular comment but this gameplay looks WAY worse than the videos they have posted before. Not that it will keep me from buying it but the graphics in this video seem very different than what was posted from Piranha Games...

[@yosharian]

There is absolutely no reason for LRMs to require the pointing of the mech's reticle on the enemy. I don't understand why nobody talks about this. LRMs should just fire automatically at your targeted enemy without any of this utter nonsense of 'holding a lock'.