The Ultimate Laser Atlas - Yet Another Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries Modded Episode 79

[@GaveLJorgensson]

I stumbled upon a strangely fun niche build for the Annihilator ANH-1G It's an alpha build which deletes the CT from just about any mech with a single shot. The disadvantage is that you have to wait a while before firing the rifles again - Low-tech weapons: Four Heavy Rifle, 6 Medium Laser, 4 double-bins of ammo. - 300 Core, IS XL Engine, Mobility Gyro, QS Structure, Reactive Armor - Radical DHS Kit, two DHS in the engine and two Proto and two Compact HS slotted with some Cooling Lines. - TC Heat, Sniper Sensors, SLIC Suite You may try it just for fun. I plan to give this to my lance-mates since they don't fire all that often anyway. Improvements would be Clan XL and Composite Structure for more ammo or cooling.

[@capt.graybeard]

Build the blood asp, that's a beast, that will burn through anything!

[@majortwitched]

So if programs get stuck over all other windows. Once you crl+alt+del and start task manager, if its on the wrong screen you can move it using windows key +shift +arrow key. If you only have one monitor, with task manage as the focus type the fist few letters of the task, then hit "delete" key. In this case "mec" would be enough to get the game selected for a forced end task.

[@Acaios1]

Good info! What happens though if the task manager freezes too? :) I had that yesterday (on a different game). I had to restart using the PC's button. Not even Windows' "restart/shut down" were working! Anyway, is there something that has changed with YAML or the other mods? Because I've noticed many lag spikes that I hadn't before. Even in Baradul's better PC than mine there are, that I don't remember them in the first episodes.

[@majortwitched]

@@Acaios1 I don't think I has seen task manager lockup before without the whole computer just not responding. But windows will try to "gracefully" close all programs during shutoff or restarts to avoid data loss. So if its not shutting down try checking if there any large tasks still running.

[@solwindp78-1]

I can also recommend using the Super-F4 program, useful for this purpose of closing programs when everything is frozen up.

[@Acaios1]

@Major Twitch ​ @Solwind P78-1's Preliminary Aerosol Monitor ​thx, both of you

[@Jay-ql4gp]

Nice! Currently I'm using the K3 Atlas with four Heavy LL and two ER LL with five improved jump jets. And with it's jump quirks...that thing practically flies. Steiner scouting at it's finest! (Yes...I know the K3 is Kurita, but they stole the idea from Steiner! lol)

[@wolf_of_korriban8567]

The sheer destruction that build causes is just too fun,I gotta try that one asap

[@younger544]

I don't know what it is exactly, but I just love it when he says "laser beams".

[@trevorreniger5670]

Another suggestion to give, ASRMs a chance. 😁 If you don't lock on, they cluster tighter than LBX. Dumb fire for quick assault kills, lock on for flyers or fast lights.

[@mikedittsche]

Clan Heavy Large Lasers are my favourite build, I have made a 4x HLL Mad Dog in Roguetech but this 6xHLL Beast is even more deadly. Awesome to see the heaviest kitted out mechs just collapse.

[@creightonc8147]

Atlas’s are hard, they are all designed for balance load outs and the lack of Omni bays holds them back. Great armor, great structure, but your always stuck with a ballistic bay and missile bays. I like the Boarshead as a can opener with pulse lasers. Not your favorite weapon, but better pinpoint than standard lasers, PPC’s are good as well. But low mounted arm mounts hold it back no matter what you do. He large laser build works best in the arctic biome on a good hill, can do tons of damage. Head shots all day as the enemy walks towards you.

[@jong2359]

You are right... LP Lasers, even lvl 5 inner-sphere variety... will outperform the heavy lasers in the boar's head.

[@dazley8021]

Try activating arm lock on the atlas. It should help with the compact actuators' sluggishness

[@chodie4u]

I love heavy lasers so this build speaks to me, I loved watching you slice enemies in half on the battlefield, good stuff!

[@itsmehendrics]

The whole episode I was waiting for him to turn in that Cantina mission... never happened 😂

[@dieSpinnt]

Also in the last episode and the others before ... ... because that would mean he had to turn in a (configured) Mech that he doesn't want to, to fulfill that cantina mission. Maybe you missed that in a previous episode. Who knows, in the future he well get part or loot the goal of that cantina mission.

[@jerehelenius523]

because its baras hero assassin so he doesn´t want to use it on the cantina mission lol

[@itsmehendrics]

​@@jerehelenius523 I did miss that, thanks for the info!

[@itsmehendrics]

@@dieSpinnt I did miss that, thanks for the info!

[@richtigger]

Everytime were there is no escape pod flying to the sky it is a headshot, many pilots lost their lives or went to the medbay today

[@Acaios1]

I think there's still a chance for the mech getting cored, and the pilot dying (30%?) hence the "improved life support" thingy to put in the head. I don't know though if that's depicted as he puched out, but still didn't make it, or he didn't punch out at all.

[@andrewx8888]

You know what's funny, This is my exact build in MWO, but with a super nova.

[@Eric-1879]

6 large lasers is also my go-to build. I love the carnage half a dozen large lasers can cause. Going to chem lasers and there's almost no problems with heat at all, even on hot biomes.

[@MrSubsonicc]

i dont play this game,never have and i keep seeing this dude and must say good job man,good content :D

[@helcome2well507]

For real, same here

[@psychreapland]

My Atlas-BH has 6 Clan Heavies and a 1 HAG40, dropped the missiles for cooling and Damage enhancing equipment. Put in a bloodhound active probe and and Clan ECM. Modular targeting with Heat and Laser BC. One shots everything in its path.

[@sethsonnier5843]

Yes, I just bought this game yesterday. I'm an atlas main, wanting to get an atlas as my primary focus.

[@frankiesan_FT23]

That can take some time :D took me ages to get my first in vanilla.

[@sethsonnier5843]

@@frankiesan_FT23 I'll get it quickly

[@frankiesan_FT23]

@@sethsonnier5843 I accept your confidence :D

[@sethsonnier5843]

@@frankiesan_FT23 I actually got my first atlas 3 hours after your original comment 😜 I almost went bankrupt. It was like 1800-2000 days in game maybe 15 hours of real life game play it wasn't hard. The hardest part was resisting compulsive shopping on the mech you encounter before your real purchase. I managed to resist temptation 😋

[@frankiesan_FT23]

@@sethsonnier5843 You're a strong commander than me :D I see shiney, i must collect. Well played sir.

[@victorlapin2080]

Getting into optimal rage for them PPC capacitators 😊

[@bigsarge2085]

✌️

[@klaussfreire]

I wish heat vision and night vision was tied to actual cockpit items, like enhanced imaging, night vision etc. That would make so much more sense than having them on all mechs all the time.

[@ChadKanotz]

Watching that battle in the canyon is what I imagine it was like for Aidan Pryde fighting to his last at Tukayyid

[@FrelanceEQ]

game super needs a mode like EldenRing where you face opponent lances with player builds

[@Khazandar]

You mean like Mechwarrior Online?

[@VyseSolo]

Yah ...no the game doesn't need pvp. MWO is there for that.

[@docthorr]

Players builds controled by IA

[@grolsch973]

@@VyseSolo Nah MWO is not for that, MWO is balanced (more or less), we want batshit crazy :)

[@joelv4495]

Perfect timing... Just wondering about a new Baradul video, and it was uploaded 1m ago!

[@lukek1219]

Hey Bara, i gave the coyote missions mod and the YAML clan mechs a go recently after seen how cool they are in your videos. a lot of the coyote missions keep causing my game to crash and i was told it had to do with the clan mechs addition, you dont seem to be having the same issues as often so i was wondering if there is an additional mod or setting that you are using that fixes this. Thanks in advance and Fantastic video as always!

[@thegreatlarry9454]

Sometimes my game crashes as well. Usually in long missions or warzone that I stick around too long. Probably has to do with so many units spawned, killed, wrecks on the field, etc. I think my RAM usage gets maxed out and the game just stops working, and can take a while to end task with task manager on the applications tab. I'll go into processes and just kill the MW5 process and that usually cancels it real quick.

[@lukek1219]

@@thegreatlarry9454 I thought that too when id happened so i upgraded to 48Gb of RAM and the problem still persists. Most of my crashes are instantaneous, it finishes the animation panning around my lance then as soon as i have control of the mech it crashes. Some errors are like you described when things spawn en-mass but very rarely.

[@thegreatlarry9454]

@@lukek1219 As, you mean when starting a mission and it's showing your lance to you, then you hop into the pilot's view and you crash? I can say that's never happened to me before. I play the game with some mod conflicts in the mod list, but it still runs well. I'm pretty sure you have a different list of mods and load order than I do, so that might also be it. I guess try updating your mods, sounds like the mission is loading up, but maybe when it tries to load up the enemies or maybe even your own mechs, it's running into some sort of conflict and crashes.

[@lukek1219]

@@thegreatlarry9454 How does one change the load order? I'm not using the steam workshop like Baradul but nexus and the mod folder built into the game files.

[@Cenot4ph]

No issues whatsoever, perhaps you manually set the load order? Let the game manage it

[@darklizard45]

The heat vision looks so cool, don't bother if you are forced to use it.

[@johnbrooks2122]

Got get a PC to have mods so kickass,don't get me wrong I love my PS4 but dam videos like this push my goal faster lol!!!

[@robertdavidson316]

I had a blood Asp with 2 Heavy Large Lasers per top hard point and then 3 Heavy medium lasers per arm...loved this mech so much and now it is not in my bay.....just rips things open!

[@WayneWatson1]

All my builds now go black carapace and endo-composite. Adding a single heatsink reduces weight by 10 tons for each one you use. Could be a mod I'm using and it drops cooling by 2,not .2 and I can hold my lasers down for constant fire. I have more cooling than heat generation. I got 169 alpha on one build and 180 on another. Also, look at ER L laser(c). 1 slot and 4 tons. If you got the hard points, you can load em down. I run 400 engines. I just hold the button down and head shot em down in no time 🤣

[@wytfish4855]

sounds like one of the mods that makes single heat sink have -1 tonnage with bonkers cooling. a funkier way to play is simply turn on weightless and no critslot weapons in YAML and go ham. cheaty as hell but also fun as hell

[@WayneWatson1]

@@wytfish4855 Yea, I found it in my list. I can make some killer mech killers. 184+ laser damage and no heat issues. Makes light work of missions running several of those mechs in a Lance, but sure is fun watching mechs drop after one burst to the head 🤣 I run solo a lot of times. 10 lasers in an 85ton mech

[@Avtbro]

I think while you are having fun you can also try to focus on the missions, there are a lot of upgrades you want like 15% more speed behind those annoying to do missions.

[@hgbugalou]

Do a big pulse laser build like this. Maybe throw in some xp's too.

[@thefactory7221]

Heavy Large Lasers my beloved If you ever find the Energy variant of the MADIIC, it can fit 8 Heavy Large Lasers. Mimnmaxed, the Mech by itself has an alpha of 200. gets toasty without ProtoHS tho.

[@sethsonnier5843]

😅

[@JaytheOstrich17]

Would you mind please moving your camera down an inch on the left, so it clears the objective list?

[@Thor_Asgard_]

Are the high rep Battlegrounds and so on not available in story mode ?

[@FARBerserker]

Ooh RT Patch finally done? Have you decided what you are going to do where? Solaris on Twitch and something else on KZbin?

[@brianhechinger8715]

I've been testing the dev branch of HHR for about two weeks now. This last save breaking change they made (about a week ago) I decided to try a Solaris start. It's definitely interesting and has been fun but I'm worried it's not going to make such great KZbin content. Lots of the same battles over and over with little in the way of progression other than having lots of money for Argo upgrades and implant/shunt operations.

[@sethsonnier5843]

Does he have a mod that allows the large energy hardpoints and XL engine orrrr?? What is that extra stuff? Laser insulator?

[@Baradul]

Yep. That's all modded. Check the description for mor information.

[@thomasgreen9513]

I'd appreciate if anyone can answer my question. I've the same mods as what Baradul is using here, but I've noticed that the smoke on the battlefield is GPU intensive and when very heavy can slow my frames. It is also very obstructive to my line of sight and I cannot find out how to utilize thermal vision as the button for it activates nothing. If someone knows something about these things, I'd appreciate it on relaxing strain on frames (as the settings for smoke are already low) and or how to get thermal working.

[@johndukat8364]

any idea where you get those laser insulators?

[@jerehelenius523]

lol have to say you quite rarely see atlas running over 100 kph lol maybe drop lrm 20 and get masc for even higher speed to get range of enemies for heavylaser lol... (still wondering why bara didn´r buy clan masc marc 2 in the last ep lol just looking for compact actuators and completely missed that clan masc eventough mouse was over it for while...) lol that atlast really likes to run... lol

[@Acaios1]

Agreed, because Masc also helps mitigating a bit the problem of the slower turning speed from speedy leg actuators and the gyro UL advanced, and the arms being glued to the torso from the compact arm actuators.

[@SinnfullDuck]

My game crashes occasionally too. My big issue however is that when I repair in the mechbay, the screen starts flashing black. It neclver crashes but it lags and flashes black everytime. I use the same mods as Bara with the exception of von biomes. It tends to make me crash a lot when used. Anyone else get the flashing like I do?

[@Michael-ek2eb]

Do you have an un-modded playthrough? You’re able to do things and have access to mechs and weapons that aren’t part of the base version so keeping up with you while you play is impossible.

[@Baradul]

Yeah! Check my channel page. There are multiple playlists.

[@Careonovam]

Is the higher walking speed of the Atlas caused a mod ? If so - which one ?

[@youtmeme]

question, in the game, do the Mechwarrior stats come into play?🤔 ty. oh sry I see. when u pick ur pilots.

[@sethsonnier5843]

How to get heat vision

[@Friedbrain11]

I wish I had a heat vision mod for my game. I refuse to run Yaml mods though so no HV for me;( Thats the kind of build I enjoy though. Slice and dice 'em till none left and do it quickly! I hope they fix the gauss rifles...after the last patch, the gauss rifle is about worthless.

[@minard13son]

yen lo wang is a good time for ac/20. i think you can crank it down to almost a 1 second cd

[@jonathan4824]

Who needs DPS when you slice everything open like tin cans?

[@tinkmaster1054]

I'm quite new to MW5 period and even newer to the modded world; I've installed YAML, but as soon as I did I noticed a significant increase in difficulty (I can't even beat the second campaign mission anymore since it now takes three perfect, full-blast quad laser hits to kill a single tank. Anyway, my actual question is, how in the world do you cram so much stuff into a single mech? After installing YAML some of my existing mechs are now literally unusable since I'm left with no available tonnage after installing an engine that moves faster than 21km/hr. Am I missing some mod or did I end up with some misconfigurations somewhere?

[@quasimoto9518]

Get mod options, it will let you balance your game, such as changing the 3x tank/turret hp.

[@mleslie4883]

Off-Button Atlas.

[@perry92964]

if you advance the timeline and there is new cool stuff if its more op then what you have now is there really a point to it?

[@okakokakiev787]

Tier 4 and tier 5 uac allow triple and quad ruple taps. Always take one when I see it in salvage It kinda pains to see you leave two behind

[@jamieglass5826]

Baradul always excited for new video but too many YAML and not enough Rougetech recently..

[@Baradul]

Tomorrow is Patch day!!!! New content Incoming!!

[@jamieglass5826]

@@Baradul nice excited to hear that!! Found you with MW5 and was exact opposite for so long til dived into RT and now looking at new PC to play it

[@DaClamps]

How is he getting so many salvage shares?

[@theviewer1423]

That's odd that it looked like MW5 froze up. I haven't really had the game freeze up on me.

[@merkarion7883]

...As much as I like MW5 ...I would never use Mods that give you Armor and Weapons that not exist (Ferro Lamelar is from after 3067...in which MW5 is not playing) I mostly play Standard Mechs (with minimal modifications) but not so extremly changed Mechs

[@jong2359]

The mod adds quite a few mechs and the supporting equipment to keep pushing the timeline naturally. If anything, not modding the game is far more jarring to the timeline as EVERYTHING just stops after the clan invasion starts.

[@manjujuju]

Ray tracing off 🥴

[@MisterNi]

Last comment I'll leave here until DLC 4. These videos are becoming really boring so I don't really want to say anything.