Strongest Brawler Mechs | Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries | Full Campaign Playthrough | Episode #44

[@ScreamerRSA]

If you run out of space in your Mech Bays, just sell any mech with its loadout and everything. Then buy /sell everything you want and then buy back the mech you sold for the same price you sold it. Then there is no need to rebuild a mech just to make space.

[@Axhole11]

I run my stalker with 2 ER large las for long range targets like helps or chipping mechs, and when I close the gap I have 4 m las to deal with turrets and tanks, and four regular srm 6 for mechs. Full of double heat sinks. It works at all ranges, kills in 2 or 3 salvos and can deal with all the small targets

[@ANIMOUS8]

Your battlemaster will still run hot as you forgot to add the 4 heat sinks. :)

[@nicholasklein8615]

Cheers to the greatest lance commander out there. Thank you for all the fantastic and entertaining content.

[@robertmerker6587]

I know this is an old video, but I wanted to let you know you are doing a great job. I have started watching all your videos throughout the Battletech games. Thanks for what you are doing.

[@slate613]

Mech building collaboration insanity. Baradul and TTB. German Mechgineering taken to 11!

[@bradhedgehog12]

I had Won the main Campaign of this game. But it is darn amazing that you can do more contracts and missions. No need to worry of starting over. I love this game. My lance is A mix of range and melee Weapons.

[@brothergrimm9656]

My tip for playing a brawler is take advantage of the bad AI, let your lance mates grab aggro on the enemy mechs by having them shoot first, then you can just casually maneuver behind them since they will ignore you as they trade volleys with your lance (seriously it's like being invisible) then take advantage of that weak rear armor and just core them. The enemy AI is as bad as the friendly AI when it comes to threat assessment.

[@KBBF3]

Use the cyclops as an SRM brawler. Imo it has better capacity, cooling, speed, and torso twist thancthe stalker. Plus all its torso mounts are so closely mounted convergence is great. You dont even need Artemis. It has less mounts but it's ok because CD on srm is insane; you will have no problem vomiting missiles until your overheated.

[@rjpx947]

This reminds me a bit of the Stalker I built in MechWarrior 4 Mercs back in the day. I had 8 smalls on it for knife fighting, but the bulk of the weaponry was a pair of Arrow IV launchers, and three LAC-2. It worked PvE, and it worked in puretech PvP where I could tear up even Clan assault mechs.

[@jamesgregg3466]

I know the game has changed radically from when I played it many,many years ago, I can recall building an Battlemaster AC Boat with extended Med Lasers as proximity defense But the Shadowcat was my ultimate goto as it was so flexible. this was Mechwarrior 2. :)

[@1969kilroy]

I hope it comes up for sale soon, I want this game after watching your videos. I have not played since MW2, tried to get 4 to work but none of the tricks I tried worked for my win 10.

[@JeepWranglerIslander]

This is how I got it working not the other day: www.reddit.com/r/mechwarrior/comments/7y3twy/how_to_run_all_mechwarrior_4_games_on_windows_10/

[@MichaelSantangelo]

For the Stalker-3F I like Mediums instead of the Small Lasers, but this still looks crazy effective. I've also sometimes swapped in Larges or ER Larges just to have some long-range weapons on it. Maybe ER Larges + Smalls for better heat management. Otherwise, agree, the Stalker is a brawling beast.

[@sambarney5100]

My favorite stalker 3f build is 4 reg srm6, 4 med lasers, and 2 large lasers. Stuff as many Dbl heat sinks into the torso (I hate filling arms with Dbl heat sinks), 5 or 6 tons of ammo? (Can't remember which), and the rest regular heat sinks. It definitely can and will run hot, but the large lasers give it some flexibility.

[@watcherzero5256]

Same build ive been rocking for a couple of weeks, heavier mechs just cant compare with that DPS.

[@sambarney5100]

@@watcherzero5256 The only problem, asides from the obvious fact that it gets toasty, is that the Stalker is fairly squishy... but, yes. Definitely a great mech.

[@watcherzero5256]

My main mech for quite a while now has been that same stalker model but with 6 medium lasers and normal SRM. Ive found its armour acceptable, and Ive been really disappointed that it massively outguns anything heavier (with the exception of twin heavy ballistic slot mechs but they usually lack many missile/energy weapon slots). I found about halfway through the game I always gravitated to the same builds (1 LRM for sniping aircraft/turrets/vehicles behind obstacles, 4+ medium lasers, 2 either LBX/AC20 for brawling or PPM/Large Laser for range and then fill up with SRM)

[@michaelmurphy3273]

Always a pleasure watching you liquidate the enemy..... The comments the game play the headshots I don't know what I like more

[@gypsyfromthesatelliteoflov5425]

Just in case no one has mentioned it, if you need extra space in your mech bay, you can sell your mechs temporarily, use the empty space, then buy the mechs back at the same price (just make sure to buy them back before you enter a mission, which will reset the price to the marked up value) Also, in my experience, the srm4s are at least equal in power to srm6s because of their reduced spread... Do try a Stalker 3f wth 4 srm4 artemis, 2 large lasers, 4 med lasers, 4 to 6 tons of ammo and the rest double and single heatsinks (strip some armor from legs and head for extra heat mngment) My build only has 4 tons of ammo but its more than enough for missions and has 3.0 cooling

[@totalutilitarian3292]

Thx for the tip with selling a mech! I should have realized that but never put 2 and 2 together...

[@Icebaron2012]

the Battlemaster comes out of shutdown faster than the Stalker does when you overheat. Stalker packs more missle punch but Battlemaster can reach out a bit further and go a bit faster. Pick the mech that best suits the goal in mind. Shortie sorties go for Stalker. Longer reach and need to move faster take the Battlemaster. Zues suffer the same as the Banshees do - heavy tonnage but little to no weapon slots. If it gets introduced - Heavy Guass Rifles..the 600m giant middle finger of death.

[@bernardoheusi6146]

Victor is better than the Zeus.

[@MrGrimsmith]

Oddly enough I was tinkering with an SRM Battlemaster as I saw this and went for 4 x SRM4 without Artemis straight off, I just don't see much use at the ranges I'm using SRMs at. Plus the spread from standards helps hit the little speedy buggers! Hate them! I still keep going back to my Marauder BJH though. Slower? Yup. Gauss Rifle on top? Also yup! Backed up with a pair of ER large lasers and a trio of mediums with all the heatsinks I can fit I *love* this thing! :D

[@jamesdenney9653]

24:30 They must be mining Unobtanium there, cuz the rocks do tend to float in mid-air.

[@alexanderbenkendorf688]

Used that for the most part of the game with 4srm6+6mlas. Crazy firepower.

[@rjpx947]

Wow...a Stalker with a great heat curve. Never thought I'd live to see the day, but I made sniper/brawler in MW4 Mercs that worked in PVP. Paired Arrow IV, 3 LAC-5, 8 smalls. Puretech. Killed Clan assaults dead with it.

[@rjpx947]

Also ran with respectable heat...

[@845SiM]

Looking to buy this on the steam release. This looks good. Binge watching your videos👍

[@murgel2006]

ther should be an option to save the loadout before you put a mech in cold storage and it should either be that mechs can only be sold from cold storage or there should be 1-4 special slots for buying and selling only.

[@naomy1701]

i get to like the Battlemaster more and more again, thx for this nice showcase ^^ i still recommend u to check out the mod for NewGame+, that would give u the chance to keep what u worked for, but also to run lighter mechs again, which would be interresting to see. lets be honest, as fun as Med and lights might be, in this enviroment with droplimit 400 and 90+ difficulty, they simply arent viable anymore, even most Heavies struggle with that. and u could ofc keep this safefile stored (just in case) and make a copy which u then use for NG+

[@Baradul]

I was actually thinking about the opposite. Starting from scratch again ... but without the campaign.

[@marcothommen2484]

After all, Sir; your Stalker...... will keel!

[@matthewwolff6013]

Dont forget, conflict zone multipliers affect time as well as cost. You might find your repair times stretching out to 60+ days per mech or more easily.

[@michaelp1979]

Hey just a suggestion if you are refitting most of the components on a battlemech (new or damaged), simply put the mech in cold storage. The game mechanism strips everything at no cost and time. You simply drag the mech back from cold store and install components you want. Shortcut.

[@totalutilitarian3292]

It does not remove destroyed Equipment for me...

[@michaelp1979]

@@totalutilitarian3292 it does, but it's only useful if you are totally going to gut the mech. After a battle where you just want to repair and maybe replace a broken component it may not make sense. Where it seems to make sense is in war zones if you get a new mech, where you have a penalty for repairs. CAUTION - cold storage doesn't do well with uneven armor (have not experimented exactly), but say you sent something with 3 structural points left in an area. Cold storage will round down and force you to completely repair that part. You will see something like this when you take completely good mech into cold store and in cold store their armor is yellow.

[@Cenot4ph]

Just yesterday bought a Mauler with small ballistic mounts , grab it if you see it. It's a fun Mech

[@sendoh7x]

Cenot4ph its basically an assault Black Widow mech

[@andrewpantke1533]

Brawling with a Banshee 3S can be terrifying.

[@scrpnsting8276]

I had an awesome Kintaro that had 3x SMR 6s and 2 med lasers. It 1 or 2 shot most mechs in the back. You should try it!

[@sadlerbw9]

I’ve played that build. Can confirm: it is a beast.

[@patricknapier8902]

The Golden Boy (Kintaro hero) can do 3 medium lasers, 3xSRM6 and 2xSRM4. It is an absolute monster. If you see it, buy it!

[@mdoule]

Baradul you should really stick to one faction and build it up to hero standing. I think at R15 from trusted standing you get double heatsinks offered as well as some rarer mechs. Up in Rasalhgue republic i found AS7-K, MAD-5D, down in Marik space i found HGN-HM. Might be luck, but i feel like standing at very least increases chance to get something like that and definitely opens things like DH.

[@fubarme]

He ho i am -5 Kurita but Mythic.(3083) still get Atlas-KR, Annihilator, Nightstar and double heatsinks in Kurita space have to pay more but still and now i know that you get your Atlas-K where i got my i now the spawn position of the mechs are the same for every one still rng that there on market butt the position is good enough. Have a nice day Greetings from Berlin

[@Cenot4ph]

@@fubarme I haven't seen any Annihilator's for sale anywhere, I've already finished the campaign and in the 3040s. Perhaps they get sold later on in the game? The only one I got was a salvage from one of the later campaign missions

[@Vendemiair]

@@Cenot4ph Annihilators aren't very rare later in the post-campaign period, so you'll probably just need to progress later in the timeline for more to appear. I'm not interested in Annihilators though (I have only one in cold storage and never bought any more after) because it's slow as molasses.

[@Vendemiair]

@@fubarme I'm already at year 3061 with a net worth of 275M C-bills but I haven't found another Nightstar yet outside of the campaign reward. So I'm just unlucky that I haven't found it sold as a rare 'Mech? Also, I think I found 2 AS7-K's in Kurita space, so maybe the mech spawns aren't as random as we think.

[@fubarme]

^He ho back from work so i just looked i am in the year 3109 i could get a the Annihilators and the Atlas-KR in the kurita industrial hubs with 1 Cadiz ,2 Luthien in it . The Nightstar i get(2by now so i have 3) in the kurita hub with Matamoras in it . My 4 Atlas-k i go all from the Rasalhague hub with Gunzburg in it now clearly marked as Clan space but not mentioned lol. SO it must be the time to remember I AM 3109 by now and not to forget even when you in the right system there is still RNG if the mech is on the Market(tip i got from aTTB komment IS bevor you enter a Ihub stay away about 4 systems and save the symbols for Rare and Hero shouldnt be on the map NOW jump in to the hub and if you arent find what you wanted load and try again becaus RNG) not that i get the doubleheatsinks and good Mechs around every corner but i have a bit over 200 spare Dheatsinks by now and so on(T4 or better Gauss still rare). Hope this helps every one a little bit still got many question myself . SRY for the wall of text. Have a nice day Greetings from Berlin

[@adamrandell7946]

Got an Atlas KR not long ego, 2 ERPPC's, Gauss rifle, LRM20's and I think 2 mediums. So far my favorite mech, next to the Warhammer BW anyway.

[@Vendemiair]

AS7-K is better than the Kraken because the former has identical hardpoints compared to the latter BUT it sports an AMS slot, while the Kraken doesn't.

[@artembasenko2762]

Позитивный товарищ, и мехами хорошо управляет.

[@teenytinymaracas33]

You visited Lancaster!!!! Welcome to my hometown!

[@ricardopena8315]

shine on you crazy diamond

[@steevan]

" I heard you paint houses "

[@dsfallenangel4014]

Build request: pure Laser vomit builds(No PPCs), things like HBK-4P, Hero Thunderbolt, Black Night, Awesome-8Q, Firestarter, brawler sniper or versatile. feel free to think outside my mech choices the theme primarily being laser vomit.

[@gotomar5]

love the srm build. One day thet will fix the artimis bug one day. good vid

[@pronstorestiffi]

I kept a Stalker like this throughout the entire game. I just used 4 medium lasers instead of the small ones. Outperformed any other Mech i had in time to kill.

[@stefanw6665]

i did mine witrh 2 ppcs/lls instead of the lasers, some range support for sniping tanks and helis and 4 srm6s are a lot of heat on their own anyway.

[@KBBF3]

Used cyclops on my story. Had better speed, torso twist and capacity. It also was my highest dmg dealing mech.

[@Clusterflak]

Stalker 3F - 2 LL, 4 ML and 4 SRM6. Use override but it blows at 150 heat 😆

[@Xhaleon]

Marauders, Warhammers and a lot of old man Unseens have paper thin leg armor.

[@SimonVA99]

SRM brawlers are great for legging light and medium mechs. Larger mechs you can just plant the whole load in their face og torso (erhm...)

[@Genesis23OPB]

mech innuendo is best innuendo.

[@travisspencley9386]

“Now that’s POWER”😂

[@Friedbrain11]

Long range Stalker is not a good way to go. That Stalker with srm and medium lasers is glorious! Are you going to let your wife play M5 too? Had a lot of fun watching you and her play MWO.

[@Angeldust19800]

Add a tag to your srm brawler and use lrm boats on your teammates

[@social3ngin33rin]

@1:07 I know which star system is the craziest in the mapped galaxy >_>

[@travisspencley9386]

Love the gameplay! Lmao

[@kingofpoland88]

To make the stalker work better you have to do double LRM15s and 10s

[@vincep2549]

Does anybody know what time mark the color combo was from? I love that red.

[@totalutilitarian3292]

If you look at dmg per heat the SRM4 are worse than the SRM6. Combined with heavier reactor for speed and you using Medium instead of light lasers of course your battlemaster has worse heat.

[@gypsyfromthesatelliteoflov5425]

Altho srm4s produce less damage per heat, the srm6s will still produce more heat per shot. In my experience, the srm6's spread nullifies its damage advantage over the srm4s, which will produce almost equal damage to the targetted component because of reduced spread (unless you are point blank) at a lower heat per shot

[@bradhedgehog12]

Say Bara. Any chance you did the Solaris Expansion yet? I have man it’s fun

[@richardvaldes3959]

Srms for the win

[@Fattoxthegreat]

Local Florida Mechwarrior mounts Long Tom artillery to Mech.

[@Bergwacht]

this ding hier runs at 😁😁😁

[@DARKDUDE187]

I was wondering what your thoughts were on a batchcall. You probably wouldn't want to do this to your campaign but in instant action you could easily. So how many ton will it take you to completer a 400 ton mission ? Could you do it with 300 or maybe 250? If you weren't required to take a full lance but just took 2 or 3 so you could keep your individual tonnage up? Could yo do a 400 ton mission by your self? The only problem is that instant action only gives you tier 1 weapons but it is a level field. You are a good (possibly great) player. How good?

[@Vendemiair]

400-ton, 100-difficulty missions are easily doable using a 3-mech lance of 290-300 ton weight since I do these routinely. Easiest way to make a lot of C-bills is to go for multiple mission contracts, and I take the 4-mission ones of 95-100 difficulty all the time, using 3 mechs per mission. I rarely end up losing any components, though the 'Mechs can get beat up. 2 mechs is likely doable, but you'll need favorable maps (high elevations, long line of sight so none of those blasted foggy environments or those full of trees that cover tanks, not too many vehicle/flyer swarmers). Soloing 400-ton missions is doable under special circumstances. I've done so "in theory" a few times, when I asked all my lancemates to stay put and I ventured solo to do scouting and eventually fighting; these are invariably assassination missions where you only need to kill one or a few 'Mech(s). The perfect scenario is clear weather with high elevation and long distance from the targets. The trick would be to close in until the AI "generates" or renders the Mech(s), then hit them from extreme distance using dual Gauss rifles (plus ER PPC if available, e.g. using my Nightstar). A lot of the time the 'Mech(s) will dumbly start to move around the base aimlessly. Sometimes it/they will start to move towards you, which I find better (easier targeting) though if an an entire assault lance moves together you're screwed. For the latter scenario, it's still possible because I've gotten one where all of them moved concurrently/staggered and it was possible to pick off the 'Mechs one by one. Lastly, another 400-ton mission that can likely be done solo are raids where the targets go down easily (e.g. radio towers). Using a very fast mech just do hit-and-run tactics without stopping to engage, unfortunately you can't predict the raid targets unless you're in the mission itself. If the structures are tough (e.g. HQ buildings) then this tactic might not be feasible.

[@DARKDUDE187]

@@Vendemiair Batchcall

[@MasterChiefPettyOfficer]

Why does your UI looks so different than mine? Do you have a mod enabled for the UI while in dropship menus? Or did the Devs changed something? (Bought the game some days ago)

[@esteemedscholar5969]

Jah! Jah! Oktoberfest!

[@Cepharim]

On my Battlemaster 1S I run 4 med lasers, 3 lrm 5s, and an srm 6. Usually an ai pilots it.

[@Cepharim]

Don't recall tiers for weapons, sorry. Maxed out armor as well.

[@nicolasneilson5348]

Would is your PC specs looking to upgrade and I want ultra and 1440p 60 fps and rtx 😐

[@ThatTaytoGuy]

Has anyone ever said you look like Leo from Frog Leap Studios? He does class metal covers.

[@Baradul]

Leo and I were separated at birth. (fun fact: we already had the beards back then.) - love his music!

[@ThatTaytoGuy]

@@Baradul I wouldn't doubt the beards for a second 😂 Loved the MW5 series BTW watched every episode and was convinced I had to buy the game after your first episode.

[@chrisg2739]

I wonder if they plan on adding voice attack support for this game and Track IR.

[@apokalypsecow9756]

There's a profile for Voice Attack available on NexusMods

[@Clusterflak]

You have to talk like the bad guys for it to work. The good news is you basically just shout gibberish into the mic and it fires all weapons.

[@totalutilitarian3292]

Is it just me or is the spread of the standard SRM4 vs the Artemis SRM4 Battlemaster build actually better or at least just as good? Maybe you should check if the SRM6 build of the Stalker als just saves tonnage without artemis...

[@Genesis23OPB]

srm4 have amazing spread. close up they kinda tend to shotgun but then close at about 150m

[@bretth6393]

You mentioned that the small lasers were cooling down at different rates. What causes that? The location of heatsinks?

[@Baradul]

On their weapon level (the small white boxes)

[@bretth6393]

@@Baradul I see. Thanks for explaining that.

[@benlaskowski357]

A 15-year-old keyboard? Wow. You take good care of it.

[@Genesis23OPB]

hey bara i think there went something wrong with the heatmanagement on the battlemaster bc they have the same tonnage and the battlemasters armament is lighter. so the should be about the same in terms of heat.

[@matthewwolff6013]

Less heatsinks. Higher speed means more engine tonnage. Lower weapon and heatsink load.

[@amanraze]

Are you playing and recording in 1080P? Could you do 1440P 60?

[@walmartninja]

BRONGEST STRAWLER

[@mem5000]

Baradul, have you tried anything with NARC pods? They worth it? I just bought a rank 5 one... but not sure if it's worth the $$$ i just blew...

[@murgel2006]

I think they might be worth it in CoOp playing

[@stephenhill5986]

Is it just me or is it the easiest to just shred the legs on every mech when I only have a couple med lasers?

[@RangeDz]

hunt markets for CPLT-BB. srm6x4 + 4 ml

[@JCV11B]

8x Flamers really wrecks also x8(hardpoints)(mech BJ-1X) Flamers 600 RPM (10Shots a second x 2Dmg x 8Hardpoints) = looking at 160 dmg a sec at 100m range

[@jamesgreenrod4360]

Do the still offer the original "Battle Master" or only that heinous redesign.....

[@COOKIEMONSTER90]

I use logitech g11 too =)

[@theyetirulrs]

Wait… they actually sell red paint?

[@mikhailchuev8715]

Bara, I am curious to know if it is possible to run a high-threat raid mission with a light mech (like a hero firestarter or commando) and 3 assaults. You, as a light mech, focus on destroying the base while your AI lance mates draw the fire on them. Would that be more efficient or quicker than 4 assaults? And are flamethrowers any good in destroying the base (flame DoT)? P.S. Still waiting on 3 TAG challenge.

[@smalx135]

It's possible to run them with just the light mech. I've only tried it with the spider hero variant Anansi but it's much much faster and easier than slogging through with all assaults. Highest I've completed is a 95 rating raid with just the spider.

[@GewalfofWivia]

There is a good chance that one among the 30 vehicles and 12 heavy/assault mechs on the field targeting you at the same time will eventually land a hit or two on your paper mech and you go poof.

[@smalx135]

@@GewalfofWivia ditch the jump jets, max out the armour and you're quite survivable as long as you keep moving. You will take a few hits but you won't go poof.

[@Clusterflak]

@@smalx135 Just interested to know if this takes longer to complete such a mission?

[@smalx135]

@@Clusterflak in my experience a solo light makes the mission a lot faster as you're just running through ignoring anything that isn't the target buildings.

[@DemTacs]

Where do we get Red paint from? Me: looks at his bottle of viking blood mead.

[@johnkennedy827]

You killed 2 of your friendlies. Lol

[@TableTopNerdCast]

I'm up for a co op campaign if you are?

[@venomousgoose5023]

13:00 😂🤣😐🤔😂😂

[@МихаилСтрокотов]

Double AC20 solid please

[@TassAdar09]

Warum machen eigentlich, die guten Gamer für MechWarrior, Videos in Englisch? Das is schon bisschen AA.

[@igorbukovy4313]

Jesus, mixing different tier weapons, that is bad.

[@MlSHKlN]

13:00 i am thoroughly disgusted by this ablest comment, shame on you, next you will be calling this a blind playthrough

[@michaelkihlthau7164]

Armored core is better.:(