Super Strong King Crab Build - Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries DLC Legend of the Kestrel Lancers 26

[@digbick1663]

Just got back into battletech with this game, god its such a wonderful power fantasy to stomp along in an assault mech and unleash total destruction

[@xGamermonkeyx]

As always loving the videos Baradul! If you haven't had a look at them yet I'd highly recommend grabbing the WarFX mod and the 'Sounds of the Succession Wars' mods. They're both just cosmetic but they add SO MUCH to the game, making all the sound effects so much more satisfying and impactful feeling, and WarFX making it so fire and smoke stays on the battlefields way longer. Super satisfying to turn around after wading through an enemy base and seeing a trail of destruction in your wake! And get VonBiomes already! It's one of the best mods out there!

[@antoninvyslouzil8159]

Amazing content as always!! Love the way you talk in your vids, so informative, incredible insight and just packed. I have been playin around with quite a few setups and found what I see as absolutely broken :D Heavy rifles, 4 of them on Banshee (BNC-3E), in case you ever get bored and just want to point and click :) With Upgrades (25 and 50% faster cooldown on balistics) you get to 30+ rounds p.m. Every 2 - 4 seconds a mech basically. As my defense to even think of something 'unclean' as such build is that darn generetad mission which you also encountered a while back. The one with the repair stations at friendly base. Once I destroyed certain amount of units all hell broke loose (40+ helicopters and a LOT of mechs showed up out of the blue). It even made you load the game.... I ended up doing the same after about six attempts. Hope you come back to this at some point but if not its ok, enjoying the battletech vids also. Thank you for everything sir!

[@Gozza71]

Please train your pilots Barra!

[@orbitalbutt6757]

I’m going to throw a parade when he finally trains his pilots lol. I’m talking confetti, fireworks, elephants, the works

[@Cytl-bu3nq]

You really need to get the advanced zoom mod; it really helps a lot. it gives 4x and 8x zoom and you can adjust the size of the scope you would need the mod options mod to go with it though.

[@timsulley2817]

Love the shirt! Foxes are the best!

[@DIEGhostfish]

3:13 that's a Space version of the Warrior. The game SHOULD only spawn Space Warriors on moon maps, but it still spawns normal helicopters too. I mean there's enough atmosphere you can hear weaponfire the same volume as ever and you don't get the MASSIVE heatsink penalty of a thin-to-no atmosphere like Martian and Airless moon biomes in HBS Battletech, So I guess a normal helicopter (Or the ground effect hovercraft) could still work. But why make the space VTOL model at all? Maybe they originally wanted airless rocks but the lack of sound and horrible heat were too unfun to play?

[@ronniefogg313]

I love your stuff, Baradul! I have an idea for a possible future MW5 campaign. The Hero Run. I'm getting back into playing with the new expansions and saw that you can start a new career with your mechs, equip, pilots, etc from a previous career/run. The idea is to start out a 2nd career loaded with pilots, equip, mechs, but you can only use what you start with to go through the entire second career. If a pilot dies, you can't hire new ones, if a mech is destroyed (red not yellow from damage), you have to sell it off (simulating it is destroyed forever). I'm conflicted regarding being able to buy equipment through the 2nd career or not. So here's the challenge: 1) You can only use hero mechs (load up on them from the 1st career!) 2) You can't hire new pilots when they die 3) If a mech is destroyed(red), you have to sell it (it is really destroyed forever) 4) You are allowed to salvage mechs from missions, but they must only be sold off for C-bills 5/optional) You can't buy new equipment for the 2nd career. You need to load up on what you think you'll need in the 1st career, then make it all the way through a 2nd. Just a though. I'm curious what you think about it.

[@hibiki54]

If you want more damaging LuRMs you should use LRM Stream. Better missile convergence. You can also cheese the salvage and cancel the assembly to get different variants.

[@docthorr]

How do you cancel the assembly ?

[@hibiki54]

@@docthorr You select it and it shows you what you can build, then cancel, repeat.

[@archerbascha8757]

34:47 *Other repairbay is wide open* The gamer blindness strikes again!

[@scout-1728]

I just started the game a week and a half ago, got mediums and light Mechs to my name and then I see this 😳😳😳😵awesome vid bruh ☺️👍

[@DIEGhostfish]

9:40 that's why I get simplezoom and Mod Options for 4 or even 8x zoom.

[@Ronin0609]

hi Baradul love the content my favorite is KGC-CAR Hero King Crab 2 LBX 2, LBX slug and LRMS

[@timholmes5650]

Need to find a Marauder II 5A...6 large chem lasers and 2 heavy rifles, lays waste to most enemies :D

[@TommyBoyee123]

@baradul new subscriber here. I bought DLCs for MW5 for you. Is there an end game clan invasion?

[@ronyberret5632]

Can you option out from doing the Lancaster' campaign

[@MrPrelude98]

That was a awesome run great build!!👍👍 On that Mech Regen building or health station I only seen it once on one mission. Are they available on most missions dealing w friendlies cause they are life savers when you got a 3rd wave or more coming in. This will be on PS4.

[@JPG.01]

I'm having some trouble with the Battleground missions from Coyote's mission pack. For some reason, I can't finish the Battleground missions. I don't get the order to extract for some reason.

[@bunkermaster4623]

Hi guys. Quick question. How I can open the full minimap? I just have the small minimap in the cockpit.

[@trzy]

I have the Kestrel Lancers DLC (but not Heroes of the Inner Sphere) and I don't see engine components, armor, etc. as salvage or purchasable components. Is this part of the Heroes of the Inner Sphere DLC? I've never come across a Long Tom either.

[@BBRodriquez22]

Isnt that part of the Yet Another Mechlab Mod?!?

[@trzy]

@@BBRodriquez22 Ah, I see. Does this also include the chem lasers? I'm not too deep into the community for lack of time so I didn't realize mods were needed. One more question: how do people find each other for online play? I'm quite dismayed that in 2021 there isn't a lobby built-in for hosting and finding games.

[@igorbukovy4313]

Yeah, that was a new type of aircraft, I do not remember in which DLC the new aircraft came out, probably the 2nd.

[@tapioperala3010]

I really need to buy Mechwarrior 5: Mercs. I really do.

[@darrenpask]

I wish we could use mods on series x . They did it for skyrim so it is possible ?

[@Hafiyhs]

I love King Crab! She looks so seeexyyyyyy!!

[@DIEGhostfish]

You know what's crazy when you get into the very late timeline with YAML and Yet another Weapon Clan? HAGs. HAGs seem impossible to balance in realtime. If you give them too much spread you're not being honest to how long range they are. Too LITTLE spread and you get the obscene hyperbeam effect. I wonder if that's why MWO never pushed the timeline further?

[@marshall104]

That's exactly why they pushed towards the "Dark Ages", they were getting too close to a proper "high tech" future. The entire premise of the early years of BT was that Mechs were ancient and getting closer and closer to a lost technology with every conflict, then the Helm core is found and clans come around and all of a sudden technology is moving forward again with very powerful weapons and Mechs showing up that basically broke the core of what made BT interesting.

[@DIEGhostfish]

@@marshall104 No. The Dark Ages were higher battlefield tech than anything before, just lower equipment numbers and no more HPGs. In tabletop Hyper Gauss are heavier but colder Clan LRM alternatives basically. But in a Mechwarrior game they're very hard to model the "Splashed damage" spread at range.

[@combativeThinker]

Who gives a fuck about “balance.” That shit kills what’s really important: fun.

[@DIEGhostfish]

@@combativeThinker I mean HAGs would be unfun in MWO, but they're hilariously fun in MW5.

[@CrazyGecko]

Still believe Baradul should try the Double Thumper King Crab. That's a blast.

[@GrayFolxy]

Does baradul mods list is up to date ? I really want to try a full campaign without PGI breaking it

[@Siddich]

Captain Rector, Captain E.Rector that is…

[@farminginthehighlands1205]

Can anyone suggest a good tutorial on how to install these mods on Mechwarrior 5 I can't seem to find why none of them are showing up in the installed mods section of the game?

[@adjustus11]

Hay Bara, finally catched up to the latest episode of this playthrough. Do you have any plans, when you are continueing your playthrough with Mechwarrior 5? And and another one: I just got patron of yourself. I was wondering, why the latest patron-only Content is nearly 1,5 years ago? Just out of curousity. I'm glad that I started to support your work. Stay Awesome and take care of yourself! :3 Btw: I've sent you a message on Patreon.

[@blood_and_fire1127]

Hey, Bara. Sometimes TSM has some troubles and doesn't take any additional slots. And you could have TSM on mech with only 1 slot =) Clan invasion is coming =) @ Wait for C-UAC/20, it's devastating.

[@bodey420]

On one or 2 mechs I almost always run ams shooting down most of the missiles saves so much on repair costs

[@ix8750]

Man I really love the way King Crabs look but i still havent figured out a build i like a lot for any KC chassis yet (In MWO)...

[@fritzmierow8346]

Have you tried 2x AC20 with 2x Large Lasers? I personally like that build because the lasers let me engage at long range and over ramps while advancing to AC range. Then I can use all my weapons in a brawl without overheating too bad.

[@dennis3905]

Hey kann ich die Fps irgendwie cappen? Meine Karte wird total Laut wegen den 380+ Fps und ich benötige nur 60 mit meinem Monitor.

[@arakheno4051]

Vtol Warrior Mlas and 2 SRM2s .. interesting..

[@DIEGhostfish]

1:10 A 400 ton assassination? I hope you don't have YAML Mechs because ho boy that arty

[@stillstartreking]

Bara Vonbioms please!! it adds some much to the base game

[@Trajann]

Hey @baradul - I really recommend revisiting the sun spider AMB new hero mech. I have been getting amazing plays with it - 4x medium pulse lasers in the chest, and 2x large pulse lasers in the arms with the rest going to double heat sinks and armour. Such an amazing poke mech with high mounts 😄👍

[@haroldbenton979]

I have a stalker that I have mounted a pair of Arrow 4s onto it. Can you say freaking destroy the enemies in a hurry

[@timtank3669]

Is leg destroying not means end of any mech anymore? Im from MW-3 XD

[@zevynozevyn4102]

Hum you built the atlas a little too quick when you build another mech click on it it'll show you what you can build then if you back out and click on it again it'll give you a different option you can specifically build the one you want you just got to click on it go back click on it go back in tell you find the one you like

[@gqbabydragon]

Yes plz before you use your salvage parts to build a new mech you can select what variant you want. Just press ESC button until you get to the right variant.

[@ChadKanotz]

With XL engines, the Cyclops 10-Q can be an SRM brawl BEAST

[@Thor847200]

I have noticed that if I do NOT target anything or only target 1 enemy at a time, my AI allies almost always try and go for my target. BUT, if I quickly target each of the enemies in front of me my AI allies start trying to kill anything that I have already targeted.

[@RegulationGamingHP]

Are you going to do more MercTech? For my money, that's the best mod, and along with TTRulez AI, makes this one of the best mech games ever

[@Cenot4ph]

MercTech dakka is so overpowered, but it is fun to play

[@RegulationGamingHP]

@@Cenot4ph i mean nothing in life is perfect. It's still a spectacular game

[@combativeThinker]

@@Cenot4ph You say that like it’s a bad thing.

[@Cenot4ph]

@@combativeThinker i mean it does get easier

[@-eligos-8670]

Had a wonderful dream last night that the “next-gen” versions got mod support like Fallout 4. Woke up sad.

[@retrosquadchannel2.050]

But the cockpit in Atlas is in RIGHT eye.

[@Isplodethings]

You really should stop sleeping on the thumper. In my career mode Mr. Krabs has double thumpers, Double LRM-10 Magpulses, Hardened armor, clan extra light engine some heat management and clan endo. So really you just stand off facing directly towards the enemy with 1200ish armor launch mini nukes and force shutdowns with magpulses. It has got to be the cheeziest mech in my arsenal. Double thumpthump ftw.

[@DIEGhostfish]

I only ever do Beacheads with my amped up faster-than-tabletop-legal mechs ideally with jumpjets. I hate artillery.

[@JS-mh9uu]

Think i did 7 LRM5s and 3 Large Lasers with that Cyclops.

[@HammerFell-]

"Steiner scout lance"

[@alenvire]

I head snipe with heavy rifles. I don't have a easy way to shut them down since I am un modded. I can only imagine with infernos.

[@failingup71]

Hey my first first comment!

[@Friedbrain11]

They slowed down the speed of PPC's :(

[@Cynnister-vy5tl]

Second. Sad.

[@l0rf]

I cannot believe the airstrike sound is STILL this horrifying mess of non-balanced soundlevels. As a headphone user it is unacceptable, it is completely overpowering the game sounds.

[@robertagren9360]

Yes, the marauder... a trash glorified by lore

[@francescofiorini436]

horrible game