Well, considering this game is set during the Fourth Succession War, then the Clans being hinted at the end mean the game is right at the height of the Conflict. Right when the lore says the Clans invaded.
Glad I looked up the ending. I stopped playing MW5 after about 6 hours in thanks to the repetitive mission design. I was hoping PGI would look at MW4's mission design since it's honestly the best in my opinion. Each mission had meaning and while every system had a set amount of missions, they were all somewhat different from each other. It's sad that PGI just went with the copy/paste method :(.
Missions do really get repetitive and despite the Procedural generation of planets there are only about 4 environments... so even that gets repetitive. "Oh we're on a desert planet this time, or snow, or forest..." all of which have zero affect on heat despite the AI's repetitive remarks. My biggest irritation with the repetitive missions is no unique dialog... it's all the same shit with different voices, or even the same voices despite a different "Thumb nail" person. Ya after about 6 hours, or even the 40 I put in... the mechanics are mostly fun, but my god it gets dull... the last mission is the ONLY one with this endless wave stuff(defense not really) and it wasn't done that well. Meh? Modders are at least fixing shit PGI didn't.
Comstar, the most advanced, powerful faction of the time period wants you dead. Sends a lance of trash mediums against your 4 assaults in the first wave. C'mon now...
@@jurgen4466 There was only 1 jumpship (probably a Starlord class) carrying 6 dropships. They all arrived at the same time. Should have dropped all 6 at the same time, a full battalion.
Thanks for the vid. After a few hours playing mw5 was too much for me. The gameplay became a monotonous grind with poor writing/dialogue, lack luster mission types, and bullshit spawns. Most of the time the spawns made me flip my shit. I would like to see modders just recreate mw3 and mw4:mercs in this games engine if it is possible.
I've tried out several tactics to check if there's any better outcome of that mission than losing 8 millions in hardware. Possible, but tricky. Clairvoyance helps a bit :-) Eventually I managed to complete the mission only losing 1 arm on the atlas I was piloting - it gone with 1 tier 4 medium laser and two double heatsinks. My fault and could've totally been avoided. It would've been easier if I knew upfront the last checkpoint is going to be at the dropship. My lance was 4x Atlas AS7-D AFAIR. The strategy that worked: pilot a brawling setup with AC/20-BF, 2x SRM-6 and 4x MP lasers. The rest of the lance mixed range setup with some SRM, LRM, AC20 and gauss. Balance more toward short range though. Important part: go to the higher ground (before even Spears tells you to), order the lancemates to keep position and keep an eye so that no one walks down the stairs or stays down in the first place. Wait for the enemy mechs to walk upstairs and crush them one by one as they do so. Sometimes they will need an incentive AC burst to the face. If they do, go alone, engage from distance and back up. When they come close, keep yourself in first line and draw most fire when possible. When possible, activate the repair bay, but don't use it unless armor goes really thin. If possible use the lower repair bay just before heading toward the top terrace. Same for the second repair bay on the top - activate when possible, use when necessary. Keep an eye on mates armor, if one gets hit too many times, order them to swap places with the back rank. Lastly: when timer goes down ~1 minute the overwhelming amounts of assault enemies will come in close range - don't get killed and keep an eye on the timer. When it goes down to 30 seconds left - head to your dropship both 1. alone and 2. immediately. Don't return fire. If you've done everything correctly your lance should have more than enough spare armor to draw fire just then and cover your retreat for half minute. This is where I screwed up - I engaged the assaults when they popped up on the top terrace and headed to the dropship only when the objective marker appeared on it. It costed an arm.
@@itcamefromthedeep Stalker with quad SRM-6 punches hard, alpha strike is high, but so is DPS. My problem with them is they lack survivability, even with max armor they lose arms way too fast and that's half dps down. Perfect for assassination missions, not for warzone like this.
@@krzysztof_jablonski Stand at the top of the ramp. Enemy mech comes up - you press a button - it has no CT armor left - your lancemates finish it - rinse and repeat.
@@itcamefromthedeep Good for you! Yeah, that sounds like a plan at least for the early waves. Does it still hold when assault boys come close? That's where my tactics started falling apart. Have you managed to wipe out all invaders? Also relevant: mods or vanilla?
@@krzysztof_jablonski I played vanilla and beat the final waves without losing a mech while my Nightstar was stuck derping on the wing of the Leopard (so only me and my Atlas and King Crab were firing). Maybe I'm missing some important detail here because others are describing a very different experience in terms of difficulty. I don't understand the disparity. Maybe when I played that part some assault mechs of theirs were stuck on a rock at the back or something? ¯\_(⊙.⊙)_/¯
I really liked this comstar twist in the story, everyone complained that it was some basic revenge plot... which it initaly was... but then evolved into something more interesting. I liked it, even though it was rushed.
Sit back and snipe build usually end up getting your lance mates killed half way through the mission. A speedier SRMs spam mech like Kintaro with enough speed to cycle the OP is much more efficient but each to their own. Piloting a Kintaro 18 with 2x SRM 6 in torsos and a SRM4 in the arm, rest of lance are atlas D and Ks , found Atlas K are perfect at mixed range engagement with 2 PPC in arms and AMS for LRM defence, my Kintaro prevent any light from chewing my lances ass and allow them to maintain formation and concentrate fire on the heavies and assaults. Kintaro on its own can take on any assaults and kill them with ease if you can cycle and spam SRMs, nothing last more than 4-5 round of 16 SRM missiles up close.
No pilots can eject on the last map as the dropship is grounded, future wise just good to bring garbage pilots, also really nice shooting the amount of cockpit kills you did should give you higher rep but it doesn’t but was nice too see someone use the mech weapon systems correctly. Thing that bothers me the most is how shitty the radar is in this game telling me something with heat signature of a nuclear power plant also stands taller then a house and still can’t detect till line of sight or 750m if mission allows it to include along the line with lack of lrm defense or coolant flushes. But once again nice work with those shots.
Nice. For me though I opted with either the KGC-0000 with twin Tier 5 Gauss, and 1 Tier 5 ER PPC... I replayed this mission with an ANH-1A sporting 4 tier 5 LBX 10 Slug. Man, 2 perfect torso shots with that ANH meant certain death even for assault mechs. So I finished that final mission with 0 lost mechs, but a few damaged Tier 5's :(
The Nightstar with twin Gauss is a freaking head-hunter! I just did this mission with a similar build but with an ER-PPC and must have snap-head shot 5 or six mechs.
It is the only mech in this game I like Dual Gauss on besides the KGC and that's just too low mounted... Only thing I don't like about the mech is how easily the cockpit takes damage.
I honestly have mixed feelings if they will ever update and improve upon the campaign. But it's still worth the $50 to give it a shot. There is bound to be some sort of Clan DLC as both the campaign stops progressing just before the Clan Invasion, and of course the just port MWO models in.
There might be some DLC by the time it launches on Steam as a completed game /sarcasm. I still don't know why they didn't have "time" to import the entire IS mech line from MWO....
@@FakeJeep Yea, it's part of why I'm not confident in them understanding the SP related market. The last interview just seemed like they haven't thought beyond release much.
I just beat this mission with my dual Gauss Rifle King Crab, another quad-Ultra AC/5 King Crab among lancemates, one Atlas previously damaged that I used 1 repair bay to fix mid-this-mission, and a Corsair (95 ton Mech) with dual AC/20's. I lost all my lancemates and their mechs. I see you lost all your lancemates in the end. Nice mission strat, but ultimately that just means this mission is insane.
About 25 hours into my campaign playthrough and the repetition is slowly getting to me, so had to see what the payoff looked like. And honestly it looks pretty bland to be honest. But i guess i cant expect anything less from an already mediocre game. Really wish they had done more with it so much wasted potential. Thanks for the video.
And it's nothing but that after you finish. Maps quit updating. Your actions have no affect on the maps. Weapons and mechs continue to be random in shops. At the end the only 15 difficulty areas are on the four corners and require you to fly across the Galaxy to go from each... Otherwise the lesser difficulty areas don't pay as much.
Are you sure? Mw4 for all its faults had varying missions from tiny battles to full on warzones, blowing up anything from boats to fricken dropships, but most of all there was a semblance of reason in enemy and objective placement (enemies were already loaded on the map and not just lazily random spawning douches). And Mw3... well that's Mw3 it doesn't need an explanation why it's better.
Ya... it better because the ending just pissed me off. "Oh wow... a derelict jump ship untouched for 200 years.... oh wow an abandoned base... oh wow a 200 year old mech in working order.... aaaaaaaaand credits...." I felt like I was at the halfway point... not the climax. /(._.)/ l____l
@@FakeJeep Well to be honest a lot of mechs in the battletech universe are 200+ years old. You'd need mw6m for clans it would have to be a completely next game to do them justice, some dlc of is mechs to keep everyone sane till the clan stuff comes out. Just love" i don't know how comstart found us" It's comstar that's what they do.
@@Shadowdrag00n yes but it also began production at the beginning of the civil war and wasn't seen again for 250 years where it began production again. So if we take the game to be canon you just found a mech, first generation, untouched, since the civil war. So at some point after your actions the mech becomes Mass produced again... If we take the game to be canon.
My experience was a little different than what was stated above. The timeline continues to advance, the market continues to change with the time period, and the territories keep shifting around. I saw the introduction of St. Ives Compact and the merging of the Federated Commonwealth after I beat the campaign. Certain new tech became easier to find later in the timeline, and certain mechs (like the Atlas K) I didn't start seeing until after their appropriate time. I did find 2 tier 5 weapons on the market so far but that's after a LOT of playtime, they are very rare outside the story.
The fade to black pissed me off the most. Like. I literally yelled "Are you fucking kidding me? Fade to black?" Like they're the sopranos or something.
They gave 32 points or so for salvage? What the heck?! You should have like a hundred plus points which should go up for every mech you lose. In the board game a Merc unit could claim ALL SALVAGE if they met the objectives. The contractor didn't get a choice if they wanted the base defended by a respectable merc unit or what have you. I don't like how the all the contracts are all ironclad deals that never benefit you even in the high end level of the game with high reputation. You get what you pay for. I can understand it with a rookie unit but not an elite unit.
It at least seems like they didn't finish this bit. Your shares Max at 32 and some things can cost 36 or more... Which if it's unobtanium it shouldn't even be displayed. The game was clearly rushed.
@@Zyprus depends on your play style though. If you can't head shot then an ac20 will out dps dual gauss as well as other combinations. Srms at brawl range are as broken as a 10srm marauder in mwo while as dual gauss at brawl range will get you killed.
Kintaro with truck loads of SRMS in the face and back of this thing and tell me who is OP, not to mention the rate of fire of the SRMS, this is all done cycling you at 81km, try and head shot or land shots consistently on a fast moving mech. I knew because I've tried all builds and ended up settling for Kintaro SRMs till end game, it's the most damaging mech of my assault lance (record damage was ~3000) mission after mission.
Eh. It doesn't matter really... You have to build rep with every faction to get salvage rights. You then have to put points into salvage and nothing else... Even at max salvage there are mechs that exceed your salvage perks. So, to this day I've not gotten a single assault from a salvage. That said it's an "ok" way to earn money in the game since most mediums can be resold for 1.5m or so.
I played a campaign where I ONLY used salvage--never bought any mechs or gear on the market. Headshots do seem to increase the chance of a mech appearing in the salvage available. However, to get the salvage, you need to have negotiated enough points, which is best done by taking multi-mission contracts. Remember, you don't have to finish all the missions to get the salvage from the parts you DID complete. Find a multi-part contract that starts with an assassination, and try for headshots. EDIT: At time of writing, assaults mechs are all 26 salvage points. That is the minimum number of salvage points you want to aim for if you want to have your pick. This will seem like a huge number early on, but it's quite possible in the late game.
It's really not. If you try to use it on anything other than the canopy the fire rate and damage is slower than an ac20. It's however pin point and doesn't drop like an ac20.
Terrible game. I just uninstalled it cause I was sick of the bullshit it throws randomly at you. Its a DPS contest from start to finish. Theres no strategy at all. My last mission was a campaign mission and for ONCE, everything went fine. Just lost a leg to my King Crab, everything and everyone else was fine. Dropship comes to pick me up, loading screen ....aaaaand game freezes there ....for the first time in my 60h played. Reload ....have to start the mission over. Do it again, have 2 mechs left to kill, some Hunchback comes out of nowhere to my right and since radar isnt a thing in 3042 (it would seem since its only line of sight in this shit game) I dont see it and he rapes my with his shoulder Gauss rifle and I die. I said to myself "Nope, not a third time, fuck you Im done till a Steam release, mods, and fixes from the community" ....Certainly not PGI whos gonna fix this shit since they have done barely anything since release.
J E Yeah credit costs due become tedious. Trying to do math to figure out if you can make the jump when you have a full lance of Assaults XD Anywho how are you enjoying to game? I’m having an absolute blast!
Oh no. I agree. It loses replayability end game and after you beat the campaign there's no reason to continue playing. Maps don't update or change, weapons and mechs are random so finding a useful mech end game is near impossible... I didn't find a jester with dual ams until after i beat the campaign and it's useless now. Equally any conflict you take part in does nothing to the star map, as in you have zero affect on anything. I still haven't found an Atlas k with ams, or any assault. Plus they didn't even put all the is mechs into the game for some reason? So not only are clan mechs not a thing, nightstar excluded, only about half the is mechs are there. It's just thoroughly disappointing.
@@FakeJeep yeah im not so lucky but owell the game markets pretty dry even the good titles today are lacking content or something i think im gonna get a emulator going and start playing snes again xD HAHAHA
I played this game for 50 hours or so. 6 Atlas, 5 Kingcrabs , 2 Anihilators, lots of epic weapons and over 200 double heatsinks. I miss 2 things in this game: 1. A (much) higher difficulty in endgame (lvl 15 missions feel like all other 400t missions in my opinion) 2. PvP! Really, it sucks so hard not to be able to play this game against other people.. but it is understandable why there is no PvP in this game. The big plus: The battles are glorious, i love this game 🤘
I 100% believe at this point after them giving explicit permission to use MWO assets that they wanted modders to finish the job for them. They released a half ass game for as much as 120 dollars on a platform no one wanted or asked for, and couldn't be bothered to finish it with the millions they got from China.
you have an autoaim MOD?! 4shots4 kills at 14:30 ..thats unreal an 1 milliard of C-bills .. cheater and yes the game sucks sometimes .. difficult 40 and I got killed in 2 minutes and a difficult 50 is a bluming walk at the beach
There is no aimbot mod to my knowledge. This is a 100 difficulty mission. You haven't even begun to encounter hard missions yet. Head shots are something you will NEED to practice as I stated on the video details. You will get swarmed by assault mechs on many missions and if you can't head shot them you will lose. You can NOT brawl your way through every mission. To be said there are certain assaults with the cockpit on the very top that are prime for easy head shots while others like the Orion are just frustration trying.
@Marco Sternberg Wow, rude much? I watched this whole thing after having done this mission myself (more than once cause it's hard AF). Those shots are pretty much the norm with careful aiming with this mech. Autoaim my @$$. =/
@@FakeJeep I basically brawled my way through everything. CT shots most the time. Had an Annihilator - loaded it with 4x LB10X SDL - it would mow lances over in short order. Rest of lance in either Cyclops 10-Q or Atlas D and enemy lances would disintegrate. The last mission I played with the Nightstar just because I wanted to try it. Considering what was thrown at us it handled very well.
@@rationallogic5325 Ah... the suicidal approach. lol Early to mid I used all SRMs and only moved to ranged weapons when I started hitting assaults. Ya shame we didn't get that mech until endgame... should have got it midway through imo.
@@FakeJeep I notice your pilots were all like 20/20 or 23/24. When I ran this mission I had buddies who were at 50/60, 53/57, etc. You get access to muuuuuch better lancemates in later industrial hubs.
