The Early Game Struggle - Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries MercTech Episode 2 

I want to attach to this to echo something another in the comments said; this game definitely requires you to play around with settings. _And_, you'll want to actually do a bit of research into the core mechanics of the mod.

Someone had said somewhere, don't remember where I read it, that you had taken your mod off of Nexus, yet when i looked at it it showed that the latest version of it was uploaded 2 days ago.

@@Cytl-bu3nq PirateTech is not on Nexus, MercTech is. PirateTech can be found in moddb or steam

Is it just me or are the sounds the same "HighFleet" (great game btw) uses? At least the reloading and AC sound exactly the same.

@@magnumforcegbmw5modding395 I cant find PirateTech on steam. Only Merctechv2

Easy to forget that death via engine damage is a thing with merctech.

Hatchet King!

Hatchetman is coming in the new DLC in about a week.

The most satisfying of bonks.

@@BlitzkriegOmega Indeed.

been struggling against those Igor (artillery) things in my firestarter

I got absolutely dumpstered

Is that Flutter Fett?

@@56bturn of course

Think the idea is you’re getting a distorted version of enemy comms, due to frequency differences.

@@madmaxx426 Amazing.

Hahah... Best. Analogy. Ever.

It's more realistic that way (meaning it sounding very loud)

I really like to see this as well!!

It's about time! Now he can finally see what everyone is so happy about

Do you prefer longer TTK? Been playing I with the extreme munitions damage model at 300% damage for all, trying to bring it in line with lore damage, ppc will one shot a light mech if it hits CT. Have also played with 50% damage for all and had minute long brawls with mediums. So far preferring lore TTK

@@Elluwrath I am probably not normal, but I like a little bit longer TTK model for two reasons that probably don't apply to every fight. 1) late game assault mechs and even some heavies have loadout capabilities that can one or two tap mediums with overwhelming alpha damage, which often feels disappointing from a gameplay perspective. After a while the player can begin to view anything other than another heavy as just a waste of time or a slog to get to "the good fights". We see this being overcorrected a bit in the creation of the deadly tanks mods that try to beef up all the random armored units to be more worthwhile opponents instead of fodder. 2) having a longer time to kill means that we get these more visually appealing "knife fights" between mechs where positioning and gyro stability and weapon reach or accuracy matter more than the vanilla experience where you just want to alpha something as quickly as possible and move on. It also makes armor feel weighty and meaningful since it has to be ground away slowly and precisely, or in a chaotic haphazard mess, rather than losing an entire side torso to one shot. Slowing down combat and making each unit more meaningful to a battle turns the vanilla experience on its head, because the devs basically only considered "more junk" as the way to scale combat difficulty instead of looking at higher quality individual fights. In my opinion, throwing 30 units at a single lance on a defence mission is both a childish way to tell a story, and a poor execution of difficulty. I guess I look at it the same way I look at some young writer's fanfiction, "and then after killing 10 super deadly guards, even more guards rush into the room, and then even more powerful guards come". With longer time to kill, you can have fewer individual units in a fight that feel more impactful and create that adrenaline rush for the player as they are trying to fight. This is all just my opinion though. Weapons should still feel weighty and impactful, but that goes into a whole rant about game design and aesthetic choices being carried over from the 80's that really should have been modernized. TL;DR - you know how some action movies the protagonist fights and kills like... 20 guys effortlessly but then struggles with the one skilled bad guy for a while, and the fight gets interesting. Longer time to kill with fewer enemies feels like more scenes with the skilled guy and less scenes with the useless fodder getting pasted. And I find that to be more compelling gameplay.

So the ai spawned thumper Vtols in low level missions from the earliest part of the game, just to slap around the new players? Seems legit

@@glenmcgillivray4707 I raised the intro level and they still appear, so I made the thumpers inline with the damage models. Before even if you set the enemy damage modifier to 10%, they will still do full damage.

@@magnumforcegbmw5modding395 hmmm. I wonder if we could make their damage scale with mission difficulty. I originally wondered if the linked quest was a significantly harder quest than the original, based on what spawned and when. Although the squad of allied mechs was helpful our hero tried to battle it out as a front line weapon instead of using them as bait and focus on support.

There's been a hotfix to prevent them from spawning so early, because Thumper Cannons on LightMechs or something like an overhauled Loader King is just brutal.

Many companies have discovered that if your business depends on a small number of people, many of whom have qualities that aren’t easily replaceable, then pissing on them and telling them how lucky they are it’s raining is going to come back on you.

@@williamopry7967 I'm sorry, this is referring to what exactly?