MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries TOP 10 Tips 

When this game first came out I didn’t even want to try it, because of all the mainstream people doing negative reviews, saying it was too simple and all that. I saw it on gamepass these days and thought: hey, wouldn’t hurt just trying it out. Man, I wish I’ve played this before, it is such a great game, so much customization and strategy involved, I’m loving this so much! Thanks for the video as well!

I've played through this game like 3 times now, here's some stuff I've learned: 1. If you're going to do Demolition missions, expect to take more damage than you would on, say, a Defense mission. I like to do the Cantina jobs and Demo missions are a good one to do Treasure Hunter jobs on. You can usually go find the treasure package before you aggro the base, without having to fight much of anything. Also, on Demo missions, I usually buy 1-2 air strikes of available. Two air strikes is often overkill, but in the heavier weight classes, your mechs are slow and you'll need to get the base destroyed that much faster. The air strikes might not be the most money-efficient way to take down a base, but they make the base destruction part of your job way quicker, so you take less damage, in theory. One air strike can do like 25% or more of the damage to the base for you, which is a lot, and in some cases its like 50% when you get lucky. 2. Warzone missions are good ones to help you complete the Wardog Cantina jobs. You can destroy stuff to complete the mission, then stick around and fight more waves of badguys, and hopefully they'll throw more VTOLs, Harassers, Missile Carrier tanks, etc at you as part of those waves. This makes that "Kill 25 Harasser" go faster. Having said that, the heavier the weight limit of the mission, the more mechs they throw at you and this means probably fewer tanks, so I tend to expect ths adds to be tanks and VTOLs in the 200-300 ton range and more mechs in the heavier weight class missions.. And be careful because by the time you've racked up like 500k worth of additional kills, you will eventually have to face the inevitable "you better run now" fight where they drop more stuff on you than you're really able to handle. THE easiest Cantina jobs to do are the "Kill X VTOLs" jobs, because it's usually only like 8 VTOLS and you can get all 8 of them in one mission often enough. 3. The vast majority of Cantina jobs that require you to "collect X number of mechs/weapons of a given type" end up being completed if and only if you either A) have the required stuff in inventory already, or B) have enough C-Bills to buy the stuff they want you to give them. These jobs generally cost you more money than they give you back when you complete them, for this reason, but that's not to say that they're to be completely avoided. If there's an upgrade you want in that track, you can work your way up to it, but it will probably cost you money to do so. That said, you might also want the guns/stuff they're going to give you too, so there's that. 4. In my experience, the "Collect X number of Mechs of a SPECIFIC variant" Cantina jobs are not worth pursuing. The stuff they will promise you looks great, but the job is just short of impossible to actually do and will definitely cost you C-Bills to complete it. 5. When you do a Beachhead mission, there will generally be some number of artillery guns on the map that you do not see on the battlegrid until they start shooting at you. Annoyingly, even THEN there may be MORE artillery guns that they're keeping in reserve that won't start shooting at you until later on. I personally like to sweep the ENTIRE map for those artillery guns first, before doing anything else, and I try to avoid the main base while doing this, but I do take out the satellite uplinks where possible. Once you're sure you've gotten all of the artillery, you can then proceed to finish off any satellite uplinks you didn't destroy while you were hunting down the artillery guns. THEN you can proceed to take down the base and wait for the wave or two of adds to arrive and blast them. Also, while you're doing the sweep for artillery, the artillery will be shooting at you. Your mech needs to have a speed of at least 64kph to be able to outrun the artillery guns, so don't take any of the slow 40 KPH Atlases etc for this type of mission, I prefer a good Battlemaster, personally. 6 Upgrading mechs is pretty expensive, so I'd save it for the heavy and assault mechs you intend to use from like level 8 through the end of the game. I always max out the armor and structure with my upgrades, because it helps keep lancemates alive linger and they lose less components that way, one hopes. 7. When you put a weapon on an arm, you're risking losing it when that arm get's shot off, which happens WAY more often than getting torso weapons destroyed. I generally like to have at most a replaceable medium laser or SRM 4 on the arm, or maybe a large laser. I will sometimes play the high-risk game of mounting two really good guns on a special mech like a Victor Basilisk or a Corsair, but that's the exception to the rule, and even then I only put those loadouts on mechs I personally will drive. Lancemates should only ever be given mechs with cheap, easily replaceable weapons on the arms, and then maybe better ones on the torso. 9. If you put a mech in cold storage, you will not have to pay the freight on it when traveling around, but doing this stripes the mech bare and removes all Upgrades you might have had on it, and replacing those upgrades is really costly, and takes a long time, so I would recommend NOT cold-storing any mech that you've done upgrades on, and therefore I would not do upgrades on any mech that you're not going to use for a long time, which is basically your favorite heavy and assault mechs. 10. When doing Defense missions, try as hard as you can to avoid actually going into the base itself, because you and your lancemates will destroy parts of it as you trample through on your way to the fight. For this reason, Defense missions tend to favor faster mechs with longer range weapons so you can hit stuff without having to run through the base to do so.

Another good tip for Destroy missions if you don't want to lug around MG and Flamers. You can use your own mech as a wrecking ball by running at buildings/over structures. With the exception of walls most things will be destroyed on impact and you can keep charging through without taking damage. Also Air strikes. They really are not necessary in missions but they help if used right. A single air strike can flatten a base and heavily damage mechs inside its perimeter.

As of today, this game is 100% better than at launch. With the right mods, it's absolutely incredible with a high end GPU.

An exception to your repair in conflict zone exception: It can still be beneficial to repair mechs if the overall cost and time is less then what you made in a mission so your still in the black. Doubly so if you're in a multi-drop mission set. On top of that, max 3 drops is generally the best as by the point you can do these you should have enough mech to grab a fresh lance for each mission or repair the first batch for the final mission. ANOTHER THING: Cantina Collection missions don't care if you've grabbed the required item as salvage or as store items. So you can game the system a bit by just buying the required items and just completing the quest to get the mech quirks for more customized mechs.

Very helpful, thanks! Just started with Mechwarrior 5 and I'm a bit rusty - it brings back many memories from my MW2 days in the 90s.

I really wish there was a way to view a mech's hardpoints before buying it from the shop.

And the most important tip of all: wait for the modders to fix it!

8:50 That Starship Deck... takes me back. That's when you know you are truly "old".

AC/20 and SRM’s in the same group…interesting choice.

Adjusting my AI weapon groups was a game changer. I gave Freeman my old favorite Warhammer with a good spread on his weapon grouping and he sometimes top-frags now!

Excellent game! Been waiting so dang long for another Mechwarrior game.

A big difference I found that helped me was to definitely hire mercenaries really helps to divide and conquer. Awesome vid fam have a blessed one and stay safe

Thank you for this. By far the best tips I've seen for starting out, and nicely presented too. No fluff or waffling on about the game to start - just straight to the point. This has given me the confidence to try some stuff out and start making cash!

Really really appreciated this. The detailed module upgrade breakdown was SOOO useful! Thanks so much!

Another good tip is that the starter Centurion CN9-A is a very good medium mech in early game for those who want a heavy-mech feel, and holds its own even later down the line. I've only seen a few others who can match it in free tonnage (after max armor) and decent hardpoints. (Some of those are the Hunchback, Trebuchet, and Vindicator). Running an AC-10, 2 M Lasers, and a SRM-6 ST works very nice. It's slow, but most heavy mechs you'll get into later are the same speed, so it feels like a smooth transition from any CN9 to a heavy.

200+ hours in and I didn't know about the lancemates using weapon groups.. thanks!

You can edit weapon groups while piloting as well. Use arrow keys to nav, I believe CTRL to select an deselect, and backspace to set chain fire on or off :)

OMG that first mission you used for Tip #1 is the exact mission I fail on. This tip will definitely help me! thank you!!

This game got me to get a mouse with 2 extra buttons. I hate sticking to 2 weapon groups or hitting 3/4 and I found out holding a button keeps refiring which is especiallly useful with machine guns

In co op make sure you put your friends in mechs their comfortable using. I love fast scout mechs while my buddy likes assault mechs.

I've been playing MW since MW2 came out on Playstation 1 and every one since on PC, I absolutely love this series, and I'm _fairly_ happy with this game. It's got it's quirks and I can see it being a little repetitive for people who don't love it though, the mission design is a little, shall we say, condensed. I think a bit more story telling and scripted scenes would have benefitted the game greatly, they start the game out with this badass CGI cutscene that leaves MW junkies drooling then sprinkle in a few generic story missions where you do _exactly_ what you did in _every single other mission._ Like I said, I love the game and I'm not giving up on it but it could have been so much more. And damnit I want to see some timeline progression, where's the Clan mechs and weapons at? They were a goal to work towards, endgame OP powerhouses that wiped the field. I want my Mad Cat MkII AC boat like I had in MW4 mercs, I used to smear anything that came at me if I could get in close without being sniped in online play, it had (I think🤔) two AC20's and three AC10's, either that or one AC20 and two AC10's, can't actually remember off the top of my head, it's been a while lol. Anyways, I want my Clan mechs damnit!🤣

I started playing this on a whim because a friend had started playing it. And honestly thanks to game pass for allowing me to play it because after getting over the bit of jenk its alot of fun. Has abit of oldschool mixed in with the newer gaming things.

Oh nice...I even learned something... didn´t realize there was a chainfire option for the weapon groups :)

Thanks buddy this helped a lot.

I recently picked up this game and this helps a bit. MW5 has a lot of nuance at times at how some mech's, and loadout's can make the difference, I wasn't sure what the value of flamers, and MG's were with massive mech's armed with ppcs and missle's. Little wiser now.

REALLY HELPFUL VID! Also appreciated that you didn’t make menu/game navigation CPU/Console specific.👍

Yes! This my friends, is a very well done video. Bravo!

I wish the larger buildings actually came down and then caused damage to the surrounding area. The creating an obstacle

I had no idea there were firing groups for AI mechs. Thumbs up for this vid.

This helped me allot as I had to restart because I was so clueless

I jumped on this game after I started reading Battletech novels. It's good stuff, both game and novels.

this was super helpful. i didnt know AI couldnt change their weapon groups.

This is game I’ve always been interested tried it a few times but could never get into it fully, this vid helped me become addicted to the game now lol

Thank you for this!

Another good idea once you start getting multmission jobs is to have backup mechs so you can hot swap between missions if something gets banged up. Can always take damage coverage as well 1 point is like 500k covered so can start repairs between missions and use the backups

I loved in old times (MW2 and on) how I could take the least expected route and ambush and\or tackle enemy Mechs before power-up

Love the vid, man. Great info for beginners and breaks down the learning curve nicely. 1 question though, why are you wearing a cap indoors? :-P

Great tips, thank you! I feel like I"M the one doing the most damage to my Javelin with those jump jets! :D

Just bought this game two weeks ago , absolutely having a blast . I highly recommend this game for a older title check it out!

Another good tip large lasers on arm mounts make very effective anti air weapons

I always enjoyed the older MW games and this is fun. A bit of nostalgia for me.

This very limited on PS4 be time soon for a PC because mods and more.still have lot of fun on console tho! Great tips man ,I will take that and use it!

Thanks for the vid. Liked. Too bad co op is screwed.

From what I've seen online and in game the AI pilots don't obey your weapon groupings. They fire each weapon as they enter the max range of that weapon. I've been building my AI mechs around weaponry with similar max range limitations for this reason

in my experience the AI automatically groups things based on component location and or range.. and rarely do I have to change it. You cannot actually swap out types of hard-points for another so groupings should be rather automatic.

good video thank you, will you please do more?

best tip i can give is play instant action a lot. Play with all the combinations you can make, and try all mechs and weapons aavailable. Do this so you can learn how all mechs can work, wich ones are usefull for certain situations, wich ones are garbage, wich ones work better when you are using them and wich ones are better when your lance is using them. In that way you can get an idea of wich mechs and weapons you have to buy instead of spending tons of money on mechs that arent as useful as they look at first.

I thought weapon groups didn't matter for lancemates, damn gonna need to adjust that for them as well

I just started playing it and one thing i was wondering about: Sometimes you get to salvage Mechs from the battlefield and I wondered if I have the points, but my four bays are already full, can I still get that Mech? Like is it stored somewhere else? How many Mechs can i store? I'm talking about Singleplayer btw.

Is there a way to check your standing with all the factions at once?

Best tip for me is to setup weapon groups! Damn, that should be in game hint, as I though bots are doing it by themselves!

Repair armor in CONFLICT ZONES goes ok if its just an armor damage. I've found a strategy to have 12 mechs in dropship and complete missions of my lovely factions on 5 planets in a row. Repair mechs armor but leave most crippled ones for repair in Industrial HUBs. It helped my to survive the CBill crisis around 4-7 reputation level in the career.

Finnaly... my question About 1st Person On Hangar Mechship Actually Still Work. Hope For the best Next

I want the vulture in the game!!!!! Me and my friend just bought this on Xbox and man the last time I played was mw4 vengeance and I miss the vulture from the cutscene

Good sht my bro awesome timing just bought this amazing game highly recommend it to anyone that wants something besides stupid call of duty

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in new campaign/tutorial you actually NEED jump jets to progress

What an awesome game!

Do days actually matter? As in do I have finite days? I've been fast forwarding days to repair mechs, to do missions. Wondering if there's a downside.

thx

Game is dope don't listen to critics most are paid to shit on things I have always been a diehard fan but to tell you the truth I felt alone until RU-vid showed me my mech brothers and how tough our bond is

Question is there any reason to repair arms that don't have weapons on them?

One thing I've learned is to pilot each mech personally. This will tell you what to adjust

Best tip vid by far and omg weapon grouping for ai i had no idea mind blown dude sub simple as ha ha

Having a issue.. I've played a ton of missions for this faction and my rep with said faction.has not moved up. My rank is 9 now...but my rep with this faction is only +1 n hasn't moved in forever. What mi doing wrong?

Hello mate. I start Play but i dont know how Play on low lvl difficulty. Play 4,5 missions and next 8,9-12 lvl difficulty, i cant win This missions. Can i fly on map ani Search low lvl missions difficulty? How Play?

I do not know if PGI fix it but AI lance mate could not utilize chain fire.

If you're looking for a fun game check this one out it's got Co-Op it's got loads of mods. More importantly it's got giant stompy robot

Holy crap.. I seriously need to re-do my AI's weapon groups.. no wonder they are not firing that much. Question, does the Firing group you choose save, so you don't have to re-configure it again, even if you put it in storage?

I just started playing this Friday. Somehow I missed that it was available on Xbox One. My main problem is the movement. I played the computer mechwarrior games several years ago as well as the Mech Assault games on the original Xbox. I've also played a lot of War Robots over the last few years. All of those games moved better than this one. The way the legs keep turning instead of just moving you in the direction you want to go is frustrating as hell and nowhere near as seamless as things used to be. Are there any control options i'm missing to change that? I'm using the arm lock option because otherwise you get these radical swings with the target reticle when the legs rotate past a certain point. Also, for the love of God, why has Xbox never done additional sequels to MechAssault??? That seemed like a no brainer.

As a noob, followed the advice on removing the jump jets… FYI you need jump jets to complete the first mission, lol!

просмотрел весь ютуб,Ты реально первый блоггер который нормально обьяснил как же работают улучшение mech

I really hope they would add VR support for this game, it was rumoured during development but I think they have abandoned the idea now.

Before heroes of the inner sphere came out i noticed that the ai didn't like to fire LRMs all that often and found that putting them in weapon group one made them more likely to use them and also found that the ai was also more likely to want to prioritize the weapon(s) in firegroup 1 but if what you're saying is true it seems like the ai use of weapons has been fixed so to speak

So how do you cancel a job? And how do you make sure a "collect [item name] from [conflict zone]" is for a conflict zone that has mission available to be able to collect the item in?

I prefer LRM in combination with a strong AC

How come you have up to 6 weapon groups? Is that only on PC, or is to do with the mech, because I only get 4.

After every lvl I play I choose the salvage I want but I never recive it? Is it in a special location? Or am I bugged?

Where can I find high level weapons?

so did i got that right? the AI overrides the players weapon groups sometimes?

Hi, I've been playing MechWarrior 5 for 3 days, but I don't know how I can get a bullet into Autocannon/10. So I replaced it with a Heavy Rifle because I found it in the Black Market and ammo too, but I don't know how to upload it. "Equipped weapons have no ammo (Heavy Rifle, Autocannon/10" I use a Centurion CN9-A ...:S Can you help me? Thanks in advance! :) My English knowledge is poor.

Tab is a cheap way for creating borning home bases that are unique and loveable to walk around over and over again.

A few MUST HAVE mods there are in the category "Why there is not in the game?": * Xenopax Optimization + Xenopax Art Optimization = free FPS boots without any visual changes. Game is not greatly optimized and modders are fixing that! * TTrulez AIMo - improves enemy's and ally's AI. Should be in the game by default! * Mech Attribute Viewer - self explanatory. Once you've installed it - you could not live without it! * PurchaseSalvage - you could purchase salvage at the end of the missions. DO NOT make game easier but less frustrating! * StarMapMouseOver - adds information on the star map about jobs when you mouse over it. Saves SO much time! * Mod Options - mod so other mods could work properly. If you REALLY don't like mods - install just optimization ones ;-)

When it says how many days it takes to repair does that mean in game days?

Catapult with 2 LRM 15 ST, and 4 Med laser no jump with single heat sink

I may be wrong here, I always put my heat sinks in the feet, because in mwo it would cool faster. (I think)

Anyone else find the idea of leaving your lacemates to alpha strike everything very funny

OKay 1 question is it in 1st or 3rd person?

played when it came out on EGS, but got it on steam yesterday and whenever i start the steam version it launches oculus as well, and will crash if i close oculus, anyone have any idea whats going on with that?

So one mech 46 days and the other 13 days for repairs , how do you play the next mission ?

Are you on speed?

I've seen this content creator somewhere before.

Any tips for making your friendly AI teammates not trample through the objectives you're supposed to be defending and failing the mission for you? 😂

You still need to sort out your VTOL atribution.. rotor craft on the Exo Moon Biome in space, hm?

Wife says I gotta help around the house, all I want is salvaged mechs

You wouldn't believe how wonderful and helpful this video has been. Thank you very much. I've only just got Mechwarrior 5 in the sale for Christmas, and I was about to pack it in almost instantly because I had no clue what I was doing, and the only "guide" is that stupid long winded codec. There's no way I'm reading all that. How f*cking boring is that. I'd like to learn by doing things, trying things "on the job" as they say, not reading endless monotonous shite. Shame on them for doing it like that. It's absolutely backwards and ridiculous how the most simple games have tutorials, yet this one which is super in depth and vast, they have bloody none! It's retarded 🤨😐 It makes me think of a person's first day on the job. They tell the worker to come in. And when they get there, and they're all ready to go, enthusiastic to get stuck into the job, then some arse wipe wheels in a cabinet full of documents and just dumps them in front of you. Then they say "here you go, read all that first"... 😳F*CK OFF! I'll set fire to the lot of it! 😠😡🤬👉 Cheers again 🤭😅😆🤣

Is this game like chrome hounds?

party on

So... is the the tutorial that should have been?

This is all good advice, but the game/sim. is still hard. I couldn't get through MW5: Merc. without the help of a trainer. I always end up getting my @ss kicked and run out of money and or parts to repair my mechs. I end up relegated to just playing "Instant Action".