These Special Mechs are AWESOME - Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries DLC: The Dragon's Gambit Episode 4

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.
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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[@MattRedinius]

Nightstar small energy head slot is begging for a TAG system. Especially now that you have a missile boat or two

[@TheDubDisciple]

TAG really doesn’t fit a mech like the Nightstar. Those Gauss rifles are too vulnerable to be moving into close range like the TAG needs you to be not to mention 48 kph isn’t great for closing distance quickly to sight for fire support The Crab in any variant but specifically the 27SL is much better for this role and not quite so painful to lose components on

[@herpderp9774]

Battlemaster, the MVP for all round fighting in vanilla with the speed to get you into and out of trouble, love it!

[@docthorr]

The 1st assault mech I got on my 1st playthrough ever, kept it untill the last mission ❤

[@DIEGhostfish]

@@docthorr In YAML the melee battlemasters are hilarious.

[@acehigh79]

Usually don't like battle masters but this build I love

[@marksoler7338]

Finished it last night. Seems like the difficulty curve peaks in the middle of the series..... It was fun!

[@vincevassallo5385]

That was my feeling as well. Just completed last night.

[@warrenbonin6175]

On that mission green light beacons ment what you had to pick up , but the red light beacons were your extra loot pickup and you missed one .

[@Bassplayermane]

When you said the battlemaster was super, I instantly got the song Super Gut by Mo-Do in my head. Now I have to play it whenever I take the BM out on a mission XD

[@robertsandvegine4469]

I've had success with the Mauler as a brawler. 2 x Large Pulse Laser, 2 x SRM6, 6 x Machine Gun. 1.5 tons of ammo for the Machine Guns. 2.5 tons of ammo for the SRMs. Fill the rest with double heat sinks. If you can get tier 5 Machine Guns, they do 2.4 damage each before upgrades.

[@WeirdPros]

It kinda fits that the non-Germanic House Kurita would pronounce Steiner incorrectly.

[@hohohaha999]

When i see that longbow, I'm all "nyan nyan, nyan nyan, nihaaaao nyan, gorgeous, delicious, de-cu-lt-tu-ru!"

[@MisterNi]

Another good video Bara. The campaign so far is okay. Kind of shows why a lot of people don't like House Kurita but it does seem challenging so far.

[@l.everetttalbottjr.275]

Oh my God, that's a Mauler!

[@TheCobraCom]

The Mauler could run as a Black Widow+. Double PPC, double SRM6 (maybe Art.), the MGs ... a shredder. Or maybe try 6 Light Rifles, for fun. It´s an evil punch and very fit for using cover. As mentioned, close range though.

[@LordAlisdare]

That Mauler with your longbow Battle Master and Dragon is a devastating lance suppression fire as you close then just pop the cans. I do like having to play what's available but I'm also always working towards that command lance. For full assault switch the Dragon with the Nightstar. With Tag. Massacre

[@tapioperala3010]

[@christiankirkenes5922]

"unfortunately that death will be for NAUGHT if we cannot exploit the gathered information"

[@FARBerserker]

on the battlemaster you could replace the ppc with a large laser and the SRM6 with an LRM10 or 15. 6 medium lasers are enough for close range and you save on both heat and tonnage with the ppc to laser swap wich allows you to take more armor or something.

[@DIEGhostfish]

The Fat Thud.

[@liljohn3877]

I tried the exact same thing with AC2s maybe five minutes before it showed up in your video🤣 Then arrived at same build. Keep up the good videos.

[@Completely-Hatstand]

Enjoying your play throughs as usual

[@elcry1920]

the new variants are super cool looking and actual reasonable loadouts

[@andrewmiddleton3487]

except for the Battlemaster variant with *7* tons of LB-10X ammo, lol

[@davehill8541]

Please consider quad light rifles for the MX-90!

[@kevynhansyn2902]

Indeed!!!!! That's what I do.

[@zangy3748]

The enemies at the end were also kicking my butt really good. That Lance was pretty brutal having a Stalker, Thunderbolt, Orion and JaegerMech. Also running into them in melee range was also ugly

[@valor1omega]

Really? My missile boat BattleMaster, 2 Atlases, and Rifleman Dana didn't have much issue with them. I had a harder time with the black inferno.

[@canadiancustomcockers6377]

Great vid, thanks!

[@WayneWatson1]

I did this set of missions last night. It's gonna be interesting

[@michaelrossel7339]

Repair-Options are that thing I miss the most in Mechwarrior 5. You're fightiing 1000s of tons of enemy equipment. Sometimes whole companies of mechs. Granted in a Steven Segal/Bud Spencer kind of way but attrition kills you over time. Having some repair bays at least before larger fights in the campaign would help. In the original I think, there were only 2, one where you got your first ally pilot and 2nd in the final mission with the depot where you're battling against an overlord full of mech with one assault lance.

[@michaelrossel7339]

Also in MW3 there was your mobile hq with you on the map which you could send to specific locations and set up a repair station. Way better in the long missions!

[@blackforestguy9649]

There is a Repair Bays Mods available, but only works in Normal Missions as far as i see

[@hurd136]

I found that a machine gun build brawlers wreak bases, although the repair bill, eek. In short quick c-bill demolition mission it's wonderful, long salvage battles it should be avoided.

[@creightonc8147]

They put a bigger engine in the Mauler MX90s, so it’s to heavy to run the standard load out of 4 AC 2’s, 2 large lasers, and 2 LRM 10’s. At best you can run 2 LRM 10’s, 2 large lasers, and 1 AC2. It’s a bad design, 55kph doesn’t do anything for you, the machine guns are ok. Strip it and you can run 5 AC 2’s but will lack ammo. It’s a weird design. I use it as a support mech on demolition missions. It also wants to run up to everything to use the machine guns. Machine guns, PPC’s and SRM 6’s Mack it a decent brawler.

[@etherd]

I just can't go back to playing this game without mods.

[@trentpeterson3495]

So when I got the battle master it's torso was full of ammo even as it only had two ammo consuming weapons. I took it out blindly and got smashed so fast. I rebuilt and it ran much more durably.

[@DIEGhostfish]

26:33 That's SUPPOSED to be "For NAUGHT" as in "For nothing."

[@acehigh79]

Got through the first base ok. The second was a different story. Think I hit a glitch because as soon as the enemy mechs spawned the friendly mechs spontaneously combusted....all 4 of them. I was sniping the onion with the nightstar guass rifles and it was immune to damage. Very strange turn of events. My lance got wrecked.

[@manjujuju]

22:56 you missed the red loot cache which contains tier 5 parts 🥴

[@DIEGhostfish]

Tier 5 Lostech at that.

[@Crimsondragonblade]

Keep it up dude! Loving your content, right now trying to catch up on RogueTech lol

[@FARBerserker]

going well enough, just came out of the bathtub to see you once again uploaded when i was not on my computer

[@gregshimmin5334]

Yay, more new stuff!

[@unseraustralien7965]

I hit (hitted?) always the timeline till the next mission came up to get as much repair time as possible. I‘m not sure if it really had am effect but who knows anyway. I bought an Atlas at the end because I ran out of assault mechs.😂

[@trevorreniger5670]

"Mechs in disrepair." Yeah, okay. "Disrepair." MechSpecs? More like MechWrecks! 😆 PS: Battlemasters and Pulse Lasers are one of my favorite 85t combos. Stacked up MPLs are so underrated.

[@blackforestguy9649]

You should install all YAML Mods again, they work for DLC5 now

[@saemonno-suke9959]

"hey stalker, get wrecked" lmao finished the playthrough a while ago and it seemed like to me the Thunderbolts were way beefier then i ever remember. they pretty much were the bane to my armor.

[@aaronhedgcoth609]

This DLC is going to be AWESOME with YAML

[@Dragonicefire197]

Longbow head small laser slot wants to be a tag

[@billt4394]

I watched this video after Playing MW5 myself and I kept wanting to hit the space bar to continue..

[@herpderp9774]

Hey Baradul, I don't know if you read your comments but if you do, would it be possible to make the screenshot you took for the thumbnail for this video available for a wallpaper?, it looks so damn cool!

[@txsscubadiver]

Loved it

[@quizinovag4556]

It’s been a solid 6 months since I’ve been shooting up some mechs. Looks like it’s time to return. Only downside is most of the mods I had, have probably not been updated

[@Dazzxp]

You using Raytracing? Just wondering I don't remember seeing flare glare. The longbow needs to quirks like a BAP, reduced minimum range, faster lock on times and a little projectile speed for missiles. They said they were gonna add something post launch for the Longbow soooo.

[@FARBerserker]

put both LB-X10 into the KGC, put the UIAC5 into the Marauder?

[@perry92964]

why dont you put a tag on the longbow? it has 1 energy slot right?

[@JohnDoe-tj8lj]

dope new dlc

[@arckangel777]

Let the AI use the mauler with MG...it will go nuts and destroy everything and get lots of headshots!!

[@Akalon3001]

Bara messed up in that last mission. He missed the load of tier 5 weapons in the first base he had to destroy. Other then that, he's now past me in this campaign.

[@dognationgaming172]

Are Otomo variants strictly obtainable in campaign?

[@Hunter_312]

Hey Baradul, what cosmetic mod are you using to add those smoke trails to LRM's?

[@Kirkmaximus]

Is it really profitable to ask for salvage shares when you use Longbows and aim for center torso?

[@DIEGhostfish]

You're more likely to actually be able to afford a cored mech if you roll well enough that it actually shows up on the loot table. The system's really dumb and punishes clean kills.

[@jleejj42]

Have they fixed the AI bug where an LRM mech with 2 SRMs causes the pilot to constantly run to the front line?

[@Primearch-GG]

Baradul, any chance you call TTB and do a Co-op second run for this DLC after the mods are updated?

[@Sqwallbg]

Does anyone know if Otomo variants can be acquired outside of getting them as rewards in the champing? My save file is past the date where i can start the DLC...so is there any way to get them? Used to have 100% database, would be kind of a bummer if i can no longer have that.

[@vullrath]

is this online only or is there a single player story mode? campaign?

[@MrOrdosan]

I dont remember if it exist yet...but I do hope we get the Longbow with the ballistic arms.

[@RG-uk8cy]

would love to see that

[@bigsarge2085]

👍👍

[@Cenot4ph]

4 ac2s on the mauler would work, but I guess the BF variant would be more optimal

[@kevynhansyn2902]

I used all Light Rifles. Less weight and more ammo and armor. They just wreck Mechs as I suppress with my energy arms. I am more of a Back massager or a Knee Capper, and those Light rifles also the job extremely nicely.

[@Cenot4ph]

@kevynhansyn2902 yea thats probably the most optimal build

[@kevynhansyn2902]

@@Cenot4ph I have done several run through with different variations of it. AC2/BF, AC2/Normal (with Medium Lasers) just so many. I have more higher tier AC2 than Light rifles, but indeed an Alpha Strike from all of those LR's puts a hurting on something. And I don't normally do Alpha's unless I need to take the aggro away from my Lancemate before he gets another pilot of mine killed.....Damn you Rob!

[@valkyrie1689]

Can you put med rifles in there?

[@jwoellhof]

Would selective repairs to the most damaged part of your mechs get them back on the field faster, albeit with light damage to the rest of the mech?

[@andrewmiddleton3487]

that's really clever. i forget that you don't have to just hit the 'repair all' button. just, ignore the structural/weapon damage, go in and repair armor (or even to specific parts!) and call it a day? I love it.

[@EverCr0ss]

Baradul completely ignoring his best energy pilot who was 6/9....

[@tstaake]

what does artemis do exactly?

[@tyrindel]

red crates are t5 gear

[@radoslawstudniarek7373]

Bara rules!!!

[@Spartan____0]

[@armandoestrada9085]

I wish the game didn’t punish u if died and lose all ur money 😢they should keep it like armor core 6 I miss mech warrior 3 on pc

[@adrien5834]

Shred is regular. I am shredded/being shredded, not shred.

[@ozjohnno]

ADVENTURES IN THE OUT HOUSE SYSTEM...... what a shithouse place

[@HalIOfFamer]

dude the mechlab in this game is soooooo bad. I am not asking for the stuff we have in mods(tho its within their competence to make it and more) but at least kill the slot size requirements. I get that in lore those mechs have this because they are not omnimechs so refiting them is difficult, but difficult does not mean impossible. make it expensive or take a while I dont care just allow us to make our mechs our own.

[@TheGantus]

Longbow aka overrated piece of garbage

[@darkyshooter]

first comment

[@phforNZ]

Two minutes late there bud