Swarmed but not Outgunned - Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries Modded | YAML + The Dragon's Gambit 27

The new Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries DLC "The Dragon's Gambit" has arrived. Let's take a look at all the gameplay aspects, story, new Mechs and weapon systems together. In this playthrough we will start a new career as a Mechwarrior thrown int o a conflict against our will.
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In the aftermath of the Fourth Succession War, the Davion/Steiner Alliance dealt a devastating blow to the Capellan Confederation, leaving First Prince Hanse Davion eager to replicate this success against the Draconis Combine.
Gunji-no-Kanrei Theodore Kurita, fully aware of the encroaching menace posed by the FedCom Alliance, has taken decisive action to fortify the Combine's defenses against an inevitable war. As tensions rise, a unique opportunity presents itself - to unite with the Draconis Combine and rally behind Kurita's audacious and unexpected plan.
Embark on an epic quest line as your mercenary company joins forces with the 5th Amphigean Light Assault Group. Together, you must defend the Draconis Combine against a massive invasion by the FedCom Alliance. Brace yourself for the largest handcrafted campaign yet, spanning 15 thrilling missions, and prove your mettle in the face of this formidable threat as you strive to safeguard the future of the Draconis Combine.
The gameplay of Mechwarrior 5 is split in two different parts. On the one hand you will have to manage your resources, hire new crew members, outfit your Mechs and travel through the Inner Sphere star map. But the action starts as soon as you get into the cockpit of your Battlemech yourself to fulfill contracts on the battlefield to earn more C-Bills and progress the story. I will review the weapon systems, battlemechs, show you how to build the loadouts and train your pilots and take a look at all the different mission types and upgrades of the MW5 Heroes of the Inner Sphere DLC.
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[@jameslincoln4154]

In multi-missions, you can repair the mechs and as long as the damage is minor(ish) and only takes 3-4 days, the mech will be available for the following mission (not on the next one, obviously) so, as long as you have mechs you can switch between, you can get them repaired and not run the risk of losing them or their weapons as much.

[@RincetheWind]

It tells you how long the full mission is. Divide that by the number of missions and you'll know how each battle is.

[@hundebubi1410]

​@@RincetheWind Thanks for the Info. I did not know this.

[@juangonzalez9848]

“We don’t even have the ability to take another heavy mech” yes, yes you do. It’s called multi missions, or back up for when your main gets damaged and you don’t want to leave the planet for repairs because the other missions are right proper juicy.

[@Finleymcg]

Updated tally of stuff to be done: * Investigate Medium Claws - Work well but where do they fit? * Find Medium Scrap Rifle Ammo - IN PROGRESS * Find out what Trader Supplies does * Convert more low tier weapons - IN PROGRESS * Check Raven rebuild * Build a LAM - Locust LAM IN PROGRESS * Build a Nova * Build Black Knight - IN COLD STORAGE * Build Crusader - IN COLD STORAGE * Add second AMS to Grasshopper * Add AMS to all heavy mechs * Collect parts for Stormcrow * Rebuild Thunderbolt for more LRM ammo * Build an SRM 6 (c) mech build Beautiful timing of the team mate to blast the billboard while you're reading it.

[@Merlin_Mryddrin]

The trader supplies is just the only way the coyote mission mod can track that bara betrayed the traders. It has no use in game can't be seen or sold it's basically a flag. Might stop any future trader missions spawning or have an event such as a kill team etc

[@Thor847200]

There is a Longbow with 12 Missile Hardpoints. Load that up with 12 SRM6 Clans and you've got yourself a Mech that will either 1 or 2 shot nearly everything on the battlefield.

[@SurpriseOrange]

yo urbie LAM is my fav, it can carry an arrow and its great just popping from rock to rock flinging cruise missiles

[@foobar1735]

Saturation rocket launcher: "mechs incoming from the northeast!" "Roger that, destroying the northeast"...

[@SurpriseOrange]

lmao at the billboard being blasted

[@Commander_McFluffypaws]

Forgot to mention that the quirked missiles are additive. Not sure if you're already aware, but if you add "X" pirate bins of +3 ammo (SRM, LRM, Art, etc), then the additional damage becomes +3X. Same with the HE ammo, so +3 bin and HE bin = +3 HE ammo. HE ammo seems to add more damage per ton, but takes 2 slots and weighs less than the +3 bins. This also works with mixing the +2 and +1 bins in, so a +3 bin with a +2 bin will result in +5 ammo. I'm not sure about the clan/pirate ammo interaction, I'm still only in the 3020's so I haven't seen much clan tech in my run.

[@swanky2202]

4x4 achievement means you have built 4 mechs with full tier 4 weapon slots. For some reason in vanilla it only affects mechs without arm weapon slots.

[@nick_alderman]

"Hey! I was reading that!!" - You were elected to lead, not to read...!!!

[@dakkath414]

21:00 The Comedic Timing by the lancemate was perfect! LAM has 8 armor on one arm and 12 on the other

[@slate613]

Bara: "It's gonna be okay." Me: "Careful what you wish for!" lol Hollander took some damage on the first mission due to walking into your LRM barrage like a dork. lol

[@foobar1735]

I like how the LAM has the urbie K9 lights :D

[@MisterNi]

Good video Bara. I'm really looking forward to how that Locust LAM is going to turn out. 🙂

[@alphapu6644]

the LAM Locust is like a cheat code for Stronghold Defenses for me. It can zip around the map for the bonus DP, can easily get into the back of enemies for some shoot and scoot and it also opens up more tonnage for your sniping lancemates. At one point I theory-crafted a build with 2 Scrap Guns for it, could not test it though because it would have needed like 4x Patchwork T3 plus some more T1's, Clan Endo, XL Engine and a slight core downgrade Edit: Oh, about the quirks for the Locust LAM. I highly suspect that that's a bug in the Clan Invasion mod (where the LAM is from). I checked the mechs.json file in the "Resources" folder of the mod. The Mech is listed there as "LCT-LAM (P)", while ingame it shows up as "LCT-LAM". Removing the " (P)" part in the .json solves the struggle.

[@kirkmckelvey3960]

Love the accent. Ive only recently discovered you, going through the back library as i am able. Find the mech warrior/modded mech warrior to be my favorite content. Love the balance of builds and action. Keep up the excellent videos and thanks.

[@EverCr0ss]

You definitely need to get more pilots. Your good pilots are getting bad quirks because you're using them while they're resting/fatigued/injured

[@alexeykaplin3451]

I hope you are well! Thank you for an awesome content!

[@BeastLingo42]

Seems like whichever mod those Hammerhands came from got updated and nerfed the crap out of them because they used to have like 5 really decent quirks. "Hands" down be the best way to lay out indiscriminate autocannon justice in the mid game for me a few months ago.

[@addampaniagua]

I can't wait for Baradul to find medium scrap piles for his Scrap Rifles. They're pretty fun, just need to aim a little high for some odd reason. A HammerHands with 2 rifles is a good time. Heck, the scrap guns are pretty good as well.

[@jacobstevens8935]

Hey, I was reading that!!

[@Commander_McFluffypaws]

I can't believe you passed on the Flashman 8k!!! You can use 7k parts if you don't have enough parts to build an 8k, which is a gem of a mech. It's very mobile, has a quick torso, 8x eye level weapon mounts, and what seems like an OP amount of armor. The stock build that the AI runs has like half the total armor, so you need to drop some firepower to max it, I'm only running 697Armor/237Sruct. It's kind of like a Firebrand JagerMech, but better in every way. I haven't found any clan tech yet so it would be great to see your builds... I'm so jealous it only took you 1 mission to get enough parts... AND YOU PASSED!!!?? Please don't pass on 8k parts, you're missing out on a really good mech

[@CristianBurr]

loled when he bought the 7M cbill LAMS

[@Jin-vx2oe]

Nice! 1k viewer on this one!

[@astrohunter3474]

The trebuchet at 6:00 got headshot by the look of it.

[@user-cy9ue7vk3m]

Rating !

[@DuelPorpoise]

hell of a holla hollander

[@FARBerserker]

ooh new bara vid! *drip drip*

[@perry92964]

oh boy if you lose that laser ams in the next episode its really gonna hurt since you spent all you money on it

[@alenvire]

I was thinking about it, it really seems like focusing repair costs and upgrade reductions is much better then getting bigger tonnage on available. The amount of money seems to be covering less and less as you hit higher difficulties. Anyone who has tested the current state of the game able to say whether it feels like that is the way the modders are steering it? Either way is good I'm just curious.

[@shadowstorm1928]

Can you superjump like in MW4 where if you crouch and jump when you push up on the button? Used to be a shadowcat snipers game in the cities !😊

[@wolfflighttzw]

Grasswalker. hahaha

[@jerehelenius523]

lol around 20 mins... bara reading advertisement in the game and AI pilot decides no reading for bara lol and shots tank through the advert lol

[@chriskennedy1052]

Surprised that you do not take an air strike during demolition missions. Save some ammo

[@michaelbarnard8529]

LAM!!!!!!

[@phforNZ]

Normal rescue will automatically evac, endgame rescue will not

[@KsnypsAdventures]

Hey Baradul, I have a question regarding MechWarrior modding. I recently downloaded YAML since I watched you play it a lot and it looked really fun. The first mission crashed once I made eye contact with an enemy and I had to restart. I flew to a different system and started a new mission, same thing happens. I tried all the versions of YAML, I tried YAML alone, YAML with YAW, mod options, mission pack… still crashes with the same error message. No idea why this happens, I have a pretty high-end PC and I am running the game at the lowest settings possible. Even more crashes happen when I played with YAW, with the game crashing whenever I travel to a new system. For you the mods seem to work just fine, so do you have any methods of fixing the crashes?

[@Merlin_Mryddrin]

Deselect all mods, quit to desktop, restart, select only comparability mod. Quit to desktop, restart, select mods but deselect any that say conflict detected. Play game, if it works fine go back to title screen and add the conflicting mods one at a time (I know it's slow annoying and painful) until you find the one causing the problem. Then you can either leave it out or look for a solution or patch update online

[@KsnypsAdventures]

@@Merlin_Mryddrin That’s the problem, YAML is the only mod I had on, yet it still crashed every time. There was a conflict with the mod options, so I disabled those thinking that would stop the crashing, but it didn’t. There are no other mods at play here. I downloaded every version of YAML available on Nexus and none worked. The mechlabs themselves worked fine, all the features were there, but the moment I spotted an enemy the game crashes. I also had a bug where my cold storage UI didn’t exist and I couldn’t access the mechs there

[@Merlin_Mryddrin]

@@KsnypsAdventures you need the comparability mod for 99% of mods out there. If you are on PC and steam I highly recommend getting all the mods you can from the workshop before Nexus. Most of them are on the though not all.

[@KsnypsAdventures]

@@Merlin_Mryddrin It works better with the compatibility mod but it still crashes after a mission or two. At least I got instant action to work, but no chance for the career. It just crashes when I spot an enemy and it happens in pretty much every mission type. I tried a lot of mod combinations but with the same results. I’m gonna try a little more mods and if they don’t fix it I guess I’m just not capable of playing with mods. No steam workshop option too since I play from GoG

[@user-yi1ey5ve2y]

When you put the regular jump jet in the LAM, it greatly reduced its jump height, a whole bunch of the bar went red.