MW5 Clans is out. Pls buy t. Russ

MechWarrior Online (Now regularly updated):
http://www.mwomercs.com/

Mechwarrior Living Legends:
https://clanjadewolf.net/mwll/
http://www.mechlivinglegends.net/

Living Legends Server Stats (Use this to check if anyone is playing):
http://stats.spikx.net/mwll.html

Clam Invasion:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2000890/MechWarrior_5_Clans

Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries (Now on Steam & Gog):
https://mw5mercs.com/
https://www.nexusmods.com/mechwarrior5mercenaries/mods/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Fj7x8sC7iE-bLd9xEl580PPIri-1kdst6pnn9LkijI8/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15fQCjkxjECs3Jvhv-YA1ZP147SuEP2olkPzLJCLAFmQ/

Anyone else have fucky interface issues with Clans? Clicking in menus is very hit and miss.

Also, my bindings refuse to take.

>>1472042

Can we post invite codes here to play co-op with others?

>>1477687
Of course you can. Actually getting players will probably be difficult though.

Why is Perez always so angry?

>>1471927 (OP)
Please stop making these threads. Thank you.

You guys aren't actually still playing this almost 13 years old game, right?

>>1478651
Sorry, you did not ask me in advance so I will ignore you

WHOA! Nice thread, Kakos!

In 2011, we were on /tg/.
In 2012, for a brief time, we were on /v/ and /tg/.
In 2012, just after the board was made, we became a fixture on /vg/, and we stayed there until 2023.
In 2024, we are on /vm/.

Where will giant robots go next?

>>1481416
Take refuge in /m/ macross threads, with little luck they won't be able to tell battletech mechs from their own

When will we be blessed with another one of these?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVhw6T8p2lI

Which reward mech should I choose from the list? Got back into MWO cuz Clans gave me the mech bug again and I got this by buying some reinforcement pack for a mech I bought years ago.
I already have the Night Gyr and Marauder II (don't remember how I got the NTG, the MAD came from the MW5 preorder IIRC)

>>1484081
I personally went for the Atlas K3, but I kinda regret not getting the King Crab 000 (I bought one lately because it's on sale).
I'm currently running 6xLMG, 2xLPL, 2xMRM30 on a Light Engine 300 and I've had a few games where I'd rack up over a 1000 damage given AND received.

It's pretty much a "it's up to you, my man" sort of a question.
Go on MechDB and play around with them with what looks appealing to you.
Just remember that in the end that they're just a special skin you're getting on top of a 'free' mech.

>>1484150
>It's pretty much a "it's up to you, my man" sort of a question.
Fair enough, in reality I have so many mechs I never play anyway from packages over the years as well as impulse cbill buys during sales where I'm like "gosh I really want one of [mech]".
Probably gonna go with KGC, just cuz I like the KGC but don't have one yet.
All that said, I was incorrect, have to wait for the daily update but that reinforcement I mentioned buying only got me a COU variant, I think. To get the Prime choice I'd need something more substantial. I'm torn between just getting a Platinum 2-pack (only 7 bucks), or going a bit more and getting either Rivals or Otomo for the bonus money and items and/or having 6 mechs, respectively.

>>1484357
The Crab is good. Everyone usually focuses putting power weapons on the claws, but the real hidden power of the crab are the high missile/energy mounts.

>>1484357
Samefag
Really leaning towards Rivals, desu. 30 days of premium + 3000MC + some cbills and GSP is worth more than 10 bucks by itself
And then I get two mechs to go with it

>>1484380
>>1484150
Samefag once again, talking to the two other people (maybe just one, idk) who actually come to this thread:
I bought the 5 dollar 13x mech bay bundle and it counted for unlocking the Prime reward. Ended up just getting the jump Atlas because it had the highest C-bill cost so it represented the greatest value in terms of saving myself grinding time if I ever wanted it in the future
Not even a big JJ guy, I usually stay on the ground on 99% of my builds, but I guess it's kinda lol to have an Atlas that can take flight

>>1485208
The funny thing about that Atlas is that it can fit an 400 engine in there.
Speed is war.

_ h_t_ my t__m

Got myself a free kit fox (C) out of the event and I'm liking it so far.

Knot foxes were always trash.

I love my team.

the hero locust is such fucking cancer, if you use one you're an unskilled bitch
try playing the game with a mech that doesn't play the game for you

Haven't played MW5 yet but I've got mercenaries installed right now with the turkgerm mutt's modlist downloaded and ready and Clans installing right now.
What am I in for? Should I start with Clans or Modded mercenaries?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2859785987
For reference.
>inb4
pirated both

>>1497931
mercs end where clans begin
both are shit though

>>1498209
Honestly I've been quite enjoying clans.
Even though it runs like shit on my PC, the voice acting is on the shitty side and the writing is a little cliché. I don't mind the limited roster since it's in service to the ambientation and the gameplay's alright.
Actually getting to see full scale scripted battles in Mechwarrior is pretty cool!

>>1501102
It's literally just the same as mercs but without the mods and some dlc updates. It has zero replay value too.

>>1501117
Haven't played mercs either, I'll do after I'm done with clans, it'd probably be underwhelming to play freeroam with mods and stuff before playing the linear campaign with no mods.

what's a good event light besides the meme adder, the rest all kinda blur together

>>1501890
mist lynx if you want mobility, it's also one of the trial mechs if you wanna check it out without making a decision yet

>>1502160
don't actually have any mg mechs incidentally so that does sound reasonable
cool, I'll check it out

I don't understand how to position effectively so I can't break 200 damage on MPL Crab. How do I into Crab?

>>1502909
>How do I into Crab?
just remember the basics of CQC

>>1502990
I wish you could CQC, punt them lights in the teeth

>>1503001
I had a light mech hide by hugging my legs and I couldn't see him from my high-placed cockpit.

Imagine not being able to fight lights.

>>1503172
This is why COCKpits are superior.

>>1503263

ey, pssst
redeem code VILEGOLD, free hero shadcat
some discord thing I dunno

After years of MWO and MWLL, i am deeply dissatisfied with the MW5 experience and the AI being dumb as all fuck and fighting worse than even the freshest of noobs.
Tried modding, tried various AI improvements, nothing makes my lance not utterly retarded, no target prioritisation, can't comprehend range brackets and the concept of keeping a distance at the cost of not firing all weapons, bumble around like drunk toddlers and run towards the first contact that they see.
They see an AC20 and run towards it.
It's 2024 and my lance acts the same as it did in MW4, maybe even worse.
Thank you for reading my blog.

>>1503700
ai is definitely a weak point of the games, target prioritization can at least be manually assuaged by mashing f1 f1 to sick your star on your target or f1 f3 to plant them at the correct distance or in good cover to stop them suck starting AC/20s, but those are obviously bandaid solutions

I remember playing this game in my 20s.

>>1504119
>>1503700
There are guides how to set up mechs for the AI to not to act retarded. Merc also has mods that somewhat fix it.

clans was alright

I swear to god that playing trial mechs in mwo finds you a match quicker

>>1504769
Probably some sorta bump to matchmaking priority, the more games you get F2Ps to play, the more likely they'll crave more content enough to spend money

>>1505227
Trial mechs also have a hidden cbill bonus that you can see at the end screen

>mfw i took a break from MWO this whole weekend and I just logged in and found out about the silly mutator event going on that's pretty much over
well this fucking blows

>>1505275
Double armor infinite ammo event sounds like a bother to play. Plus there's specific chassis requirements and sometimes drop decks being used.
While I skipped out on it myself, I don't think I missed out on much outside of the cash bonus.

Is MWO still worth playering?

>>1505572
No, play MW:LL

>hibernal meme
>guy launches UAV over a trench
>pings 5 enemies
>says on comms "hey the enemies are at Dwhatever coming this way"
>stay with backline
>need assistance!
>everyone locking on
>lose a few mechs
>lighter mechs harass them while retreating
>enemy spotted!
>enemy catches up to the oblivious frontline after an entire nascar lap of destruction
>one of them types out "they flanked us well played" like they got the drop on them
yes I started tard fighting but in the moment my rage overrode my higher faculties you must understand
yes it was T5

I love my team.

>poking through grimmechs and mechspecs to get a taste of how people build the free mechs
>mechspecs's direwolf section
>one autist has been spamming every build he could imagine for nearly a decade and on recent pages makes up 90% of posts there
the weird shit you stumble onto sometimes

>>1507373
Just wait until you meet Pardo.

I keep getting gaslit into thinking that Clan medium mechs are good.

>>1507692
A clan medium is about the equivalent of an IS heavy/assault.

>trial RACwhacker
>-100% jam chance k9 for some reason
>some RAC fire rate buff I can't remember them adding ages ago
game is literally fucking unplayable
no RACs aren't that op but I'm getting a fucking migraine, it's like if each MG hit played a ppc sound

Bring back open beta AC2 cockpit shake.

>3 days after update
>still no in-game sale
they milked everyone, announced further milking and didn't even get anyone a treat afterwards

Bring back closed beta knockdown.

>>1509462
Knockdown, punching and kicks.
Make lights think twice about leg-humping.

>>1509462
>>1509537
Are you guys saying that ramming actually had a point back in the day?

>>1509585
yes, crashing increased a knockdown value (weight based I'm sure) and once it cleared a threshold it ragdolled you and you had to slowly get up, it was broken and one of the devs refused to listen until a coordinated gang got into one of his games and stunlocked him nonstop until timeout

>>1509585
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=987P-mTkQXk

It was not fun.

>>1509391
sales up, it's eh, urbie IICs if you care about them

>>1509642
Looks like it'd be great retarded fun in singleplayer, maybe not so much multiplayer
Still, no reason they haven't put it back in for the recent SP games

https://files.catbox.moe/g47l6i.webm
https://youtu.be/eLljYFtu-k0

heh

>>1513691
Political implications of this?

>>1513691
dark age confirmed

>>1513966
>>1514316
this is literally just another tuesday for typical FWLeaguers

>Mercs' first DLC was their most extensive (Career Mode + Cantina/Upgrades) and they only got more and more dogshit from there
>Clans' first DLC is absolute garbage and will likely only get worse
bad time to be a mechwarrior fan friends

>>1514573
It's been like that since 2012, my mechwarrior fan friend.

>>1514573
ideally, this shit was them polishing up some barely cut content to completion to get a cheeky bit of profits in like the fags they are, and now they HAVE to at least produce something for dlc
they can't have that much more stuff that missed the deadline
now what they produce who knows, probably shit

>>1514928
The issue is that single player content is way harder to make than some DLC in mercs. Like they can maybe drop a few missions, but everyone is expecting the story to go to Tukayyid, and maybe even back to Huntress after that. I don't think anything less than that is going to go well.

>>1514937
I mean mercs dlc added linear missions, better than the base game's sometimes
and definitely better than remixed hardpoints on existing mechs, an un-cut horde mode, and temu MWO (at least for this price)
I don't doubt we'll see Tukayyid in a much later grand dlc they hype the shit out of (and charge more) but even lacking that I believe that a mission pack and something like the firemoth or IICs would actually go over well, especially if the missions are novel.

autumn sale on, specifically only for cash shop/steam purchases, the in game one is still the same
10 bucks for a hero and battlepass, I dunno man buy mercs dlc or an indie game
or a nice sandwich meal

>>1516615
oh and the jews they are, they left everything released from behemoth or newer off sale, god forbid someone save 5 bucks on those dumb partial wing mechs

>matched into losing streak
>weeks of work annihilated
I fucking hate this bar, I fucking hate these arrows, I fucking hate my useless teammates that I'm expected to carry through 3-1 odds when I'm not that great myself, I fucking hate teamstacks (coordinated killteams on red, retards trying meme comps on blue), I can't enjoy the fucking game anymore until I see a fucking T3 or T2 up there and I'm never associated with these forced positivity 07 spamming glhf retards again

>>1516738
the most important part of quick play is to have fun and be yourself

Imagine not being in the 99.8 percentile on jarls.

>>1516738
>implying tiers matter in soup queue
lol
lmao

>haha hey guys i'm in a missile boat so hold locks for some MASSIVE fire support
whenever a lrmboater explicitly lockbegs i refuse to press the r key that entire match

>>1518933
>hey guys I got some thunderbolts so if you could hold a lock for me :) o7
R key: unbound
Automatic target acquisition: turned OFF
Back armor: MAXXED
Yeah, It's gaming time.

>>1518820
It does, you want it in the higher mid tier, so you don't see the absolute retards or the tryhards. Too bad casual gaming is dead.

MWO was never a casual game.

>>1518933
I luv me catapult, one of my fav mechs in the franchise, so I built a C1 as the most traditional vanilla+ twin LRM build
I have walked the LRM path, and I still don't get these people, friendly locks are so fucking inconsistent that if you're not out there doing it yourself half your ammo will be wasted on lock - launch - lock vanishes - miss lmao, think of them as a nice treat when a solid one happens not your main strat

>>1484081
Of those? MAD-IIC if you want to he serious. Otherwise whatever you like most.

Uhhh, hello?

>>1523607
AFFERMATIVE

Are you dutch?

I love clicking on light mechs

I love my team.

>>1526187
>FNR-5T
>Light mech pops out to puke his little lasers on me
>apply 50 damage cockpit ventilation
>mfw

Remember when people were scared of 40 damage alphas and large laser DPS boats?

When the voice from the shadows calls you
When the wind whips past your ears
Will you stand when the weight is upon you
Or will you go to your knees in fear?


There's a chance, though. I know it's a long shot, and the general is out of time.
All for naught if your fingers stop shitposting, 'cause you're the only one that keeps it alive.
Nozomi, keep it alive!

Kong truly was built to last.

Sale! C-bill bullshark! MC behemoth and Ferroblast! Balances! Luthien!
Rest of the winter event in 2 days though

New map is mid-long range heaven. Digging it so far, but if you get swung on you die

MW5 clans feels whack. I have a lot of time in MWO and like 200 hours in MW5 but Clans just feels off. I can't really put my finger on it but it's just not doing it for me. The menu design is ass and the writing is awful.

>>1526534
Thanks!

I hate my team now.

>>1540008
Negative.

Is there a point to playing the game if you're stuck at T5 after a couple hundred hours? Lost most of my xp bar going for that headshot objective, and it's set in how many hours of effort just got undone. How many more hours of anger and being insulted it'll take to slowly creep towards a tier for normal people. Won't make me any less retarded but at least I won't get reminded constantly I'm as deficient as some flyover state boomer with 2 kids.

>>1541499
If course there is, just have fun. If you really care about tiering up, you're going to need to build a couple of meta options for scoremaxxing. For me, a laservomit TBR, laservomit BLR, and UAC boat MCII did the trick. Ymmv.

>>1541499
If you have any semblance of sentience you'll move up in tiers naturally.
(If you want some not dogshit build probably check Grimechs)

If you're actually stuck in t5 then you probably belong there

>>1529920
Kong was almost 13 years ago, and we still don't have Act III.

how do I shoot head good, pray for a lobotomite in a cyclops and run dual h-gauss?

>>1546251
Git gud.

>>1547087
THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKING YOU DOUBLE FREEBIRTH

>>1547088
Just put the crosshair on the target, and click.

>>1547087
>retards standing still
>>1547222
>not even headshots
ebin

>>1547286
Shhhhh.

My MWLL Frag movie is out
https://youtu.be/mcLBsOZa7M0?si=Q2VE8BbYPlpOw9Td

>>1549591
always an honor to have 30% of the remaining LL playerbase visit us

>>1549591
Epic meme music, bro.

This is the fourth time in the past 12 years that Hawken has died.

>>1541499
I tiered up just suiciding into the back of the enemy team's Assaults in a Flea for 30 matches. How can you unironically get stuck?

>>1541499
Tiers don't matter you goofball. If you play during American hours then my username is wontonphantom if you ever want to play together.

>>1560278
don't just call someone a goofball you nigger that's mean

Uhhh, don't call out the fucking americans during american hours, because that's rude. They can't help that they're part of the F-team.

>>1560957
obsessed

Uhhh, I'm gonna have to ask you to show me your jarls if you want me to take you seriously.

Kong!!
Stong!!

I can't fucking believe that there are konglings and KLORDS still posting in this graveyard. 13 years have now passed, and Kong is still somehow strong.

can I get a qrd on the clams game?
+clans shitstomping early spheroid shitmechs by the dozens make the plot and the gameplay align correctly for once
-niggers in the trailer, dozens of them
-gameplay seem to be the same thing for the third time with zero innovation and MW5 was already bland and boring
-jags are cringe

>>1562892
it's literally called MW5, no shit it's gonna be MW5, you can micromanage your tards better though
the niggers have been there since before you dodged abortion
early game roflstomping in your gang of omnis is fun, by lategame you're pushed into using the same multi direwolf sweatlord stars since the weight limit never varies from the upward slope and they stuck to the very first (very limited) lineup of omnis sans firemoth
if you're not sure just wait until more DLC and the mod tools drop and/or pirate the fucker

>>1562239
Of course there is a BT mod for stellaris, how is it?

>>1562239
>independent Andurien
There are many mistakes that need to be amended.

>>1562931
It's not really the niggers, it's like a Lando/Finn thing, though in this case anon is wrong on that account too, but the game certainly has woke pandering in it, the SaKhan is essentially the strong black female lead that's in dozens of video games, like the exact same face.

I also don't see them making DLCs for it, they already made the paid multiplayer one free, and at most they'll release one already in development and then mech packs.

>>1566209
I guess, but the jags have ALWAYS been the nigger clan and that sakahn has been a stronk black woman for years, so they at least didn't shoehorn them in, while your mc is a blue eyed aryan chad portrayed as the one competent star commander (which IS shoehorning, as the jags don't have those :^))

>>1566607
Yeah, it's hard to tell if it's on purpose or just bad writing, often it's the same thing anyway, but unfortunately battletech has been pozzed for years now.

Battletech was pozzed before pozzing was even a term. The series was invented by fucking aids niggers and faggots.

>>1566770
I didn't realize you created Battletech

>>1550334
Dont like Kafu?

>>1565500
I made it myself because someone started but then abandoned it
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/static-map-with-pre-existing-empires.1471537/
https://mega.nz/file/uw4xCZCY#pF8VkCe6oL0AvBKIr0nbEoez_3Yc04-Dv8Btm_QT8Aw
>>1565500
They started out as part of the Free Worlds League but left so fast I had to check to see if I set it up properly

>>1471927 (OP)
>Living Legends Server Stats (Use this to check if anyone is playing):
I already know, lol

>>1566758
>it's hard to tell if it's on purpose or just bad writing
Hmm yeah, I wonder what it could be, it's impossible to tell

>>1566758

>>1575930

>>1566758

>>1566758

>>1566758

Trannyverse was the finest of all the pig war memes.

What’s the better game, MW5 Mercs or Battletech? What is going to satisfy my mech itch better?

>>1579425
MW5, vanilla bt is incredibly badly balanced, and you can get tactical mods for mw5 turning it into mech commander.

>>1541499
tiers don't matter and I believe there is no difference between tier 1 and tier 5 you can meet brainless retards everywhere

Is it worth picking MWO back up these days? I quit when Thunderbolt missiles and the new weapons were released because everyone used the same minmaxed mech builds but I love BattleTech and want to take some of my favorite mechs back into action.

Oh no

>>1597597
>Is it worth picking MWO back up these days?
Let's find out!

>>1603802
You madman. I'm all eyes and ears now.

Right from the start I get "please come back CBT addict who hasn't played since 2013" loot.
I like that it starts in 1280x720 for maximum vintage effect.

Ahh, my shitmechs, just the way I left them: with missing engines and heat sinks, because I stripped them all out due to my desperate poverty.

Playing this game 13 years later is surreal. All these new maps and game modes that never existed and the ones that did exist warped beyond recognition, but the HUD and cockpit animations and sounds are the same. Except for the weapon sounds, because that would be a good thing and we can't have that in MWO.

I would also like to reiterate that I am just as much of a shitter as I was then.This is actually on the high side for me.

>>1562607
Not all of us.............

Why is this thread not on /vg/?

>>1617315
because one post a week is not enough to keep it alive

>>1617471
kek

>>1617471
I don't agree with you, I'll tell you why next week.

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-qLokwTpDI

Hello??????

>>1630190
Well?

>>1652263
https://youtu.be/pkjfXQaEnsk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcVO4bX1vf8
Is this what you wanted?

>>1519669
it really doesn't, i'm at the peak of tier 1 on multiple accounts. tier 5 niggers are at least open to listening to someone who commands them in a strong voice, tier 1/2/3 retards will insist you go left instead of right and fucking crumble when the murderball hits them then blame everyone else

>>1656698
I'm terminally in tier 3 and feel like I see the worst mix of both. It's entirely random if you'll get a team that can watch what others doing and coordinate to any extent, an absolute mindless shitshow, or some mix of both.

I love MWOs slow mech gameplay. It's unique from similar games like Tank games and it's not insanely flashy like Mecha. It's more about the attrition, tanking hits, hitting hard, that makes it all so crunchy. And the stompy prelude to it all.

But I hate MWO and I wish some better game would just put it out of it's misery.
On one hand it has decent source material, on the other it fundamentally limits mech design and game design possibilities.

12-2 stomp game's still the same
queue time was a couple minutes
some more weapons and mechs
game runs fine until you go to shop and load a buncha mech models then it slows

rip frens

These new Gauss are very effective and make a lot of sense from a game balance perspective.
Fixed one of my favorite meme mechs.
Now it has a lot of precise damage.

Loading times feel bad for a game this game
Game graphics overall looks like it was made in a warehouse a decade ago
Wish MWO2 was made and just ported everyone's accounts. Use mostly the same assets but polish the client (I crashed in 2025, loading is bad, clean up the game). Monetization is understandably difficult. Most of the money comes from boomers and the game's IP seems a bit limited now in what sort of things they can add to the game.

>>1660873
for a game in this age*

>>1660838
>override engaged
>gauss primed
>pulse lasers primed
>ya it's gamer ti-WHY IS IT SO FUCKING HOT IN HERE AAAAAAAA

>>1660838
>>1660787
>>1660785
Saw you online earlier t. renamed to generic mechwarrior name by pgi

>>1660374
It shouldn't be, tank combat is extremely quick, it's basically sniping, I'd much rather a semi realistic WT like gameplay.

RAC5+2ML Urbanmech is so good
People fear my RAC.

>>1661780
>RAC 5 urbanmech
Say no mo

thoughts on the grasshopper?
thinking grabbing it cause I want an IS laser vomit mech
Im thinking 2LL6ML should be fine with a big STD engine and lots of heatsinks

>>1665228
Grasshopper is my Laser boat on tabletop and in MWO. Dependable mech.

/gerg/ revival pls

I really hate mechs when they have no weapons in their arms and the end of their arms are just stubs. Like the Warhammer. At least the Roughneck has claws.

next match I also found a Stone Rhino with only LRMs and solo'd him xd

>>1661780
My favourite urbie build on MWO is the 5 medium laser one with the biggest engine you can fit. I have more than enough space left for heavy armor and it's pretty fucking fast. It's the perfect little ambusher with the 360 twist bonus.

>see IceGryphon in-game
>die first

im sorry bro...

4,194 days since the fall of GONK. Ser Greggules the 17th, in his search for the rightful heirs of Rutherford Darshing, has gone missing. Contact with his lance was lost several months ago upon his descent into Butte Hold. With his fate uncertain, we bide our time within the L O N G H O U S E as the pillmongler divines a possible future. Kakok Makako de Kokok's whereabouts are unknown. As the viking lords continue to wander the Inner Sphere in search of stompy robutts, all ventures have thus far borne no fruit. There are no deals left to grab, and no harukos to haruko. Only the malformed neo-nu-Gonklings, a ragtag group of sibkos under my personal guidance, remains. We are steadfast, but who is to say when our time will come? Nozomi, guide me! I fear their morale will someday fade, and that the L O N G H O U S E will fall akin to the slaughtered Piggy-- their prattling oink, oink, oink, echoing through time, slowly morphing into a harbinger of our own fates...

Glory to GONK.
Blessed be Nozomi's finest.
The L O N G H O U S E provides.

Nozomi... Nozomi, Nozomi, Nozomi! Through my teachings, the whole survives. I will not fail you, Nozomi.

Downloading MWO again. God have mercy on my soul and on my enemies.

>>1667300
okay dudebot

If you see me online (once a month) lets play this game t. Mechwarrior414712 formerly I O O% Konglord

I'm looking for a high quality shitmech with giga quirks to create fond memories of stomping Mech Dads with, something like an Orion or Skokomish but a little newer. Any recommendations?

how do roads work

having fun with this sack of shit. anyone with a brain could figure out that it's running XL and aim for the guns, but i keep getting away with it.

https://mw5clans.com/dlc/ghost-bear-flash-storm

We are so back bros

Saw a few primordial GONK Lords online this week, was pleasantly surprised. Personally I'm just farming credits with the free premium, trying out some of the new shitmechs and calling it once it's over.

I miss having people to play with

>>1670378
Mad dog bandit set of 8 which is practically new because there was absolutely no reason to own this mech before, Stone rhino 1, any legend thats released for MC specifically Exe legend

>like slapping RAC5 to make IS mechs good
>Hellspawn doesnt have a single ballistic variant

reeeee

Glory to GONK.
Blessed be Nozomi's finest.
I have accrued 30 million C-Bills to purchase the finest of obsolete shit mechs PGI has to offer in their dead as fuck old man bloated zombie corpse shit game. I am left in awe, as even in the inescapable death of the pig, the servers remain online, eternal monoliths for the nu-GONKs to behold, study and learn from.
Nozomi watches over me.

its over
i dont even wanna play mwo anymore
without friends

Are Banes any good? I didn't know there was a 14 Ballistics mech until now, tempted to buy it.

>>1678775
Medium Brawlers are rough to pilot, but that's the only thing you can really do with it.

>>1681155
:(

RAC2s go BRRRRRRRR
Grug enjoy

I am why the piggy squeals.
I am the blade that LRM boats fear.
I am the mech that goes stomp in the night.
I am the only player with more than two KMDDs on my team, because apparently that's too much to ask these days.
I am Nozomi's finest.
I am the keeper of the L O N G H O U S E.

I am... the final GONK Lord.

>Russ saved Battletech at its darkest hour
>couldn't save the pig
ironic

how do I put the giant shield on my mech? I saw a centurion with it on. Does it actually block extra bullets?

>>1686948
there's a Centurion and Black Knight variant with a massive shield
they have like 150 armor so they actually work
kinda p2w? idk but I think they have less agility

>>1687444
Neat! I redeemed the Black Knight from the event page, you can get one free hero of any kind if you play enough games. Got another 12 days of premium time out of the free bags too. Didn't see any other heroes that were interesting so may as well get the gimmick shield.

>>1687753
Update: it's kind of shit, lol. Like, the shield is good, but the Black Knight is as big as an Assault mech without any of the armor or quirks. I regret redeeming it, although to be honest I still don't know what hero is actually worth getting instead of this.

>I regret redeeming
[the pig purrs contentedly]

>

>>1688068
ANY hero? Couldn't you have gotten something like a Sleipnir?

>>1688577
Yes I could have. However, the good news is I already had it.

>Incubus
>slap SRM or whatever missiles on it's arm
>missile dot/pods at incredibly tiny

>slap same weapon on Cougar
>missile dot/pods are 10x the size

I hate this "weapon size/hardpoint" disparit/consistency

>>1688927
piggy phoned the entire game in from start to finish, look at the disparity in old vs new map quality when it comes to lightning and overall fidelity and it's plainly obvious
luthien looks like an alpha test map

>>1688068
Final update: mech is okay. It can run snub SRM brawl and also binary lasvom, but I settled on this instead. IS laser vomit feels anemic and brawling in quick play is a nightmare, but this plays fine. Not perfect, kind of hate the XL, but it's fine.

what mechs are good with heavy lasers and xpulse?
from my understanding the best heavy are ones with limited energy hardpoints

>>1689056
crusader is extremely good for IS heavy vom, good hitboxes and two high mounts in the torsos. for clan there's a lot more options that are essentially the same build: HLL/LPL + ERML

hellbringer, cauldron borne, mad iic for clan** among others

ilfi (GONKlord) killed me...

>play light
>get oceanic server
>rubberband
>lose all my leg armor

>>1689085
playing lights is suffering, i wish they were consistent but unless you're doing something dumb like 2x LL + ECM it's a coin flip most of the time

>>1688927
PGI hates anything that looks decent and will even rape a mech's hardpoint placement to accommodate their "dynamic" system that puts weapons in bad spots intentionally

ggs all, see you tomorrow

>use RACs
>play amazing, multiple KMDDs and killing blows each game, always ranking up even when my team loses
>play anything else (even meta builds)
>choke hard, barely 600 damage most games, feels like I'm throwing
I don't get it

What skills do you think are mandatory? So much good shit.
Is Radar Derp mandatory? Used to be considered mandatory.
I like to take Torso Twist nodes and Torso Pitch for torso weapon mechs.

>>1691680
also do you guys bring AMS? only for mechs with spare tonnage?

>>1691680
Cool Run, Heat Containment, Heat Gen, the armor and structure nodes, +1 consumable

>>1692548
what about radar derp and AMS

>>1693067
I don't run either personally, would rather use a wall to handle LRMs and bring extra weapons/heat sinks.

>say hi to ilfi
>crash

>>1693480
LMAO rip

Man.
I appreciate that there are new maps, but the quality level is so fucking bad now. Canyon Network and Mining Collective feel like the only polished, well-designed maps in the game. What the fuck were they on when they shaded Luthien and Hellebore? They look AWFUL.

Shit game aside, man it's still so satisfying to drop and pump out a 1200 damage 3+ KMDD game.

>buy exclusive HERO shitmech
>it's worse than the free ones
>but it comes with a 30% cbill boost so I'm tempted to keep using the inferior mech
no.......................

>>1693530
>the maps with trees that block your view
>you can't even laser them down

shit game

>>1693530
The guy that made them was fired

im so lonely bwos

>>1694548
I played hours of MWO tonight and wish I had had more fun. The new weapons really changed things up and the game feels insanely meta chasing now.

AHHHHHHHHHHH I WISH MWO WASNT SO FUCKING SHITTTTTTTT WHY CANT SOME DEVELOPER JUST KILL OFF PGI FUUUUUUUUUUCKKKK THERE'S NO OTHER GAME LIKE MWO REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>shit client/UI that could be cleaned up
>long initial load for a hangar/garage
>dumb matchmaking formula
You pick a mech and then you're dropped into a map. Pick Brawler -> Get Polar Highlands
Ideally you setup a drop deck, join quickplay matchmaking, vote for a map, and then you can pick which mech you want - or the game defaults you to your first mech or some specific option QOL feature if you're super lazy. Like
>pick cold map
>game loads my coldmap.dropdeck and picks my first mech in that pile

One thing they did good is allowing players to VOTE for the map they want to play. While other similar quickplay games just toss you and other players into shit maps. At least we can avoid shitmaps to some degree. But then again most maps in MWO are also shit and/or unoptimized in some way. And some shittiness would be alleviated by picking mechs after. Got Terra Firma? Time to run a cooler mech instead of laser vomit.

This build feels bonkers, just had a 1300dmg game. I use FireCtrl to fire 4x MPL at a time. 56 damage at 300 range on high damage/heat efficiency and 26 heatsinks. ERLL is on the super high mount, good for long range needs, and adding even more to alpha damage.

>>1694688
Needs more heat sinks, you can cut from your engine and legs to fit more on that bad boy
Wubs are great though yeah, hard to go wrong

Shitmech, or good mech? Doesn't break heat scale and has 80 damage sand blaster at range.

I decided to buy an SR-6 for maximum laservomit instead. It's okay, a little fat and slow but it's the only mech I saw rocking >100 damage on their burst.

>>1695728
I'd cut the lasers for more ammo if MRMs are your main weapon. 17 shots seems kinda low.

I can't decide on a hero from the free event reward. I already have Sleipnir, IV-4, Legend Killer, Lacerator
Thinking of the Ultraviolet for value, but at the same time I don't think I'd even play it.

>>1696000
I heard Sovereign was good for dakka builds, hard to go wrong with a SExecutioner.

>>1696005
you can't get the 2ballistic arms though
if the sovereign had hsl1 for uac20s Id get it, because the alternative Boiler is too shit looking
otherwise idk how to play a slow tall shitmech like the Executioner given the hardpoints the omni parts have

apparently Sovereign's PPC HSL counts for Gauss
it can use 2x Gauss 2x ERPPC

it should be illegal for retards to pilot LRM assaults

Dirty custom Sunspider.
Sight line and weapons are perfect for peeking and tagging. HMGs are great for defense if people think they can abuse ATMs min. range. Kills the fuck out of lights too.
Ghost heat penalty is minimal, worth the heat/tonnage to use an ATM12 instead of a third ATM9.

Vapor Eagle may be the best poptart but this feels great for regular ATM play.

>>1697163
LRMs as implemented is PGI's biggest sin, no other MechWarrior had this stupid share locks indirect fire bullshit

got the UV
it's got dakka but man is it slow

>>1698938
Enjoy the arms. Ironically it's only really good for arm swaps or long range AC2 builds lol, have fun sniping. Too fat for its own good.

hit me up for games, will be grinding unskilled (below 91 pts) shitmechs most of the weekend while i still have free premium time
t. ilf

>play well
>lose
>rank goes up anyway
it's nice that this game at least keeps track of this kinda thing

>>1699028
waiting for you to be undeployed

>>1699058
match just started, let me suicide and hop out

>>1699060
dont suicide bro i can wait

i was thinking about buying that 8x fafnir so i could put light ac5s and rac2s on it, but holy fuck that thing is fat. i think i'll wait for the bane...

will swap after this match, i think double assault is fucking up our queue times

>>1699104
I think it's cause the playerbase is going to sleep desu

#GONKlords

The very current and very absolute state of GONK in 2025 (no one else survived)

RAC2s and a medium laser... or maybe... RAC2s and two large x pulse lasers... or maybe... RAC2s and four light AC5s... or maybe... RAC2s and ten rocket launchers... yeah, I think I'm cooking a feast tonight.

thx for games nerd

ggs better than pubbies no complaints

>find new build to build
>buy new shitmech
>mfw NINETEEN MILLION C-BILLS for mech, engine, endo/dhs and weapons
>for ONE MECH
fuck my life

-8kph from 154 to 146 but gain AMS on Locust y/n
not ECM Locust

I know it sounds but, but it's cute.....

>>1699262
sounds ok but may give away your position

New shitbuild just dropped. 37 DPS while peeking, fully lopsided for maximum torso twist shielding action. Higher burst DPS than the Annihilator and with better hitboxes too. Yeah... I think we're back, brother.

>no AMS

>taking AMS instead of learning the maps

ilfi group?

>>1701688
relaxing today, just logged in to kit out a Rival I bought on sale. happy hunting.

tfw spent 16m buying minmaxed ngine sizes and minmaxing skill trees

I thought about Alpine Peaks, Conquest, and Alpine Peaks Conquest and made myself mad on my day off.
Holy shit I hope they castrated whomever shipped that God awful wasteland.

efficiency

>play assault
>team doesn't follow you
>get left behind
>die

>anything else
>assaults don't push, are always the highest health, or are sniper cowards and LRM boats

>>1702741
The biggest tip I can give you for Assaults is to know in advance where you have to be and crank it hard and fast to The Good Spot come Hell or high water, usually counter clockwise near the center behind a hill is the pick but it changes based on spawn.

luv my mechs
wish I had friends

>play normal map
>not that big
>cover everywhere
>fair spawns and sight lines
>have a good time

>play Alpine Peaks
>10 kilometers across
>completely flat minus one mountain with one way in
>one side has a huge advantage (the east side)
>have a bad time

worst map in the game, nothing will change my view on this

>>1703917
at least it runs fine
Solaris, River City and Crimson Strait run like shit

>>1703942
true. Solaris fucks up my PC even though it's pretty new.

damn
why am i playing this shit on a monday morning
my brain is fried

>get legged
>still manage to 1v1 kill someone because they can't aim and I just headshot them

LMAO it was a fucking full health Thanatos too

>>1705075

>>1705147

>>1705147
>>1705149
old men never cease to amaze me in their depravity

my free premium expires tonight; probably won't be playing as much now that there's no incentive. just an fyi

mechs Ive been shitting/wrecking up pubs with, mostly for Cbills

>Stormcrow laser vomit
super agile clan 55 tonner with good hitboxes and armor quirks
feels so good peeking and vomiting high alpha
lots of speed for flanking and finding new positions
using Lacerator hero for cbills
>Jenner IIC 4SRM6 bomber
high damage, but problem is it's not SRM6A, so it's kinda inaccurate
has a problem balancing tonnage for JJs, engine, ammo, weapons
but besides the CT size it has a good armor and a ton of perks
at +120kph it can do bombing runs running past assaults while taking minimal damage, besides poptarting
might get a scaleshot because it has the closest I want in balancing speed/firepower/JJs
>HBKIIC 4SRM6A
more accurate but more poptarting and peeking as it can't simply run past people from cover to cover, lots of ammo and extra heatsinks
>Kitfox 6x ERML 3x AMS ECM
Purifier for farming cbills. Small profile, good accel/decel agility for peeking/vomiting like the Stormcrow.
>Rifleman LEGEND-KILLER
4x AC2s with 32% cooldown.
Solid DPS, range, pinpoint. No one can compete long range and I hold firing corridors or have all opportunities to deal damage. I setup a macro to fire them in perfect interval for better suppression and tracking. It's like RAC's older brother.

>>1707528
>Jenner IIC 4srm6 Bomber
Brother you gotta crank that thing to 6srm6 and still run 130+kph anyways

https://youtu.be/wOmIuZOHgQI?si=9y_ZlFO_LhDtXILQ

>first month back
>pumped out over 350 games
>played like shit half the time
>91% ELO on Jarl's anyway
Neat. And my main man did well this month too, good to see. Managed to climb from T5 back to near T1 so I might polish that off when they release a new event.

im bored
guess ill wait until next sale to binge it and buy some mechs

nofrens to drop with
nogroup to play with
nomemes to shitpost with

New event doko
CBills Bane doko

>>1714224
Battletech MMOFPS never ever :(

>>1714224
>barely any dmg
BT seriously needs a WT damage model, it's what the fluff says anyway

next event doko

I'd play but the 20 minute queue times are a killer. And honestly I don't know if I want to play with people I don't know back from the old days.

Why do the grogs on /tg/ hate mwo and mwll so much? Are they so bad at first person games they just dismiss them completely?

>tfw we'll never have a MWO successor
a game like no other...
it's unfair bros... I love the gameplay... but wish it got polished

also I headshot an Annihilator as an Urbie this event lmao, won 1v1 cause RAC blinded him and he overheated in panic

also loving my Stormcrow, it's perfect at what it does
the agility, tonnage, speed, hitboxes, durability, 2x HLL, 5x ERML alpha
only thing it lacks is hill peeking mounts, but it's corner peeking is unparalleled, and it's agility makes peeking hills fast even if it's CT/hardpoints are lower than it's height

>>1722729
they are retards

>>1723444
>also loving my Stormcrow, it's perfect at what it does
It's important to love your shitmech even if it is shit. Never give up on your Shitcrow, anon.

>>1670562
Looks more like rails.

How do you counter the big laser beam melter in mechabellum

I dont know if this is the place to post this, but has anyone noticed that the quality of games in mwo is far worse in the first week of a month compared to the rest?
like most of my games will be stomps with people arguing with eachother whether we are winning or losing.

and then like a week later it seems to calm down and games are more chill

The L O N G H O U S E has been secured

>>1735809
Glory to GONK. L O R D Nozomi watches over you, brother. Continue to reap the flesh of the fattened swine and feed the eternal VIKING LORDS.

shitting on awful players never gets old

>>1735885
This is what it looks like when an ancient kong lord plays the game

>>1735809
>random name

which GONK lord could this be?

PGI niggered my name away t. Jules

>>1738187
Time to pay up oink oink oink

um PIG? where's the May event and sales?

>>1743627
Massively oversized BANE shitmech soon, can't wait to run 14 PAC2s on it and immediately die because I'm too fucking fat to hide behind anything.

>>1744354
>late july
>soon

>getting excited about a fatter ballistic longbow

Is MW5 Clans or the DLC worth it even a little bit? Be honest.

>>1751964
no lol, just grab a torrent

>tfw it's over

shit-tier sale is up
what do I buy
the black lanners have DOGSHIT quirks, really shameful
>1 missile and 3 energy
>not a single cooldown quirk
really piggers?

thinking of getting a LONGBOW but it is undoubtedly a giga-shit -mech that's BEGGING to lose a torso or arm which houses 1/2 your weapons anyways, it's slow, it doesn't have agility like a Champion
>Longbow, 90 degree yaw, 86 degree/s, 15kph/s accel
>Champion, 100 degree yaw, 139 degree/s, 55kph/s accel
like goddamn
and this is an IS 85 tonner
like there are better SRM IS assault boats, what can the Longbow do that isn't gimped by it's shape/size and lack of agility?
>LRMs

>>1764487
Thunderbolts seem ___fun but you'll never catch me dead in an IS missile boat. Shame MRMs are dogshit, I'd use them all the time if they had grouping equivalent to non-Artemis SRMs

Black Lanner is so sad, it was good in MekTek's MW4 mod. Ran 44 Inferno SRMs and MASC, punched well above its weight.

>>1764495
my problem with MRMs is that their default speed is way too fucking slow for how shit MRM spread is
so you can't use it reliably as a mid-range weapon on a slow assault, it's best on smaller, faster mechs that can get into position to sandblast people

idk how the fuck they're balancing mechs because the lanners look worse after this patch, which sucks because I like jank looking mechs

I bought a Rival somewhat recently because it was highly rated by others and had decent quirks, but 2x ERPPC in a single arm feels so flimsy and anemic compared to what I usually run. Even the UAC20 + 2 HLL setup feels iffy. Kind of regret buying it, although I really want to love the MASC.

new pig event up
FREE spirit bear, battlemaster and bullshark

>>1765659
FREE shit????!? sign me up

I just started playing MWO, having fun with it. Bought my first mech, I don't know much about the meta or even what weapons are considered good, does this look like a decent build?

>>1766017
No, it's a shitbuild.
>Not PRIME, no ECM
>ERPPC, best weapon is low-slung in the arm
>ATM+PPC is a weird weapon combo
Usable but I'm not a fan, especially on this mech with these hardpoints.
>Left arm weapon
NASCAR demands you place weapons on the right as most people circle from the right, so you expose your weapon first to first ASAP, then torso twist to expose your left. You can't torso twist to your shield side with this.

>>1766474
>>1766017
It also triggers PPC ghost heat.
If you fuck up it'll generate 15 extra heat.

>>1766474
>>1766485
Thanks for the tips, I'd rather use ballistics with this mech but everything I've tried so far just feels weak as fuck, what's a good ballistic weapon for this?

>>1766595
well that mech specifically is not very good IMO
maybe this is workable

A48M<:@1|KR|KRph0TP7|OC|l^qh0RP7|OC|l^rX0QP7|GC|OCsX0UP7|GC|OCti0VP7|_Rui0WP7|KRvB0PP7w404040

2x AC5 and 4x HML
AC5 despite being low slung shoot out to 720m for longer range, while giving solid low heat DPS. Uses the 20% ballistic CD and ammo quirks nicely.
HML shoot out to 270m for your close range engagement and bigger lower face-time 40 damage alpha.

>>1766628
Thanks a lot anon, I'll give it a try, I might buy the prime for ECM at some point, I really like the look of the Hellbringer

I have freebirth fatigue, guys

Is being a shitter griefing?

>>1766017
Bracket builds aren't great. You want your weapons to all sync at the same range so you just pull the trigger for massive damage. There's a few ways to do it-- all lasers, lasers+ballistics, or certain missiles+lasers (usually on the short range side), but the idea is the same.

If you want zero creativity min/maxed HBR, use something like this. Only weakness here is the low slung left arm (HBR doesn't have a right arm with 2E, so you make do by peeking backwards).

got all three of my FREE shitmechs, just now realizing that all three are kind of shit :( tfw

at least the kodiak has masc, even if its a brawler with barely any alpha

>>1767377
I've had some decent games with the Kodiak, I think it's the better one of the 3

>>1764487
>22.5% heatquirk
>40% laser duration quirk
>full body +billion armor quirk
>dogshit quirks

>>1767608
>totally irrelevant shit
needs cooldown quirks for how shit the tonnage and hard points are

>>1767659
150kph 60+ alpha laservom, which is also fairly cool with turbo health quirks really can't get more fotm than this. You think it should do 20+ dps on top of that?
That full body armor quirk is one of the most OP forms of armor quirks this game has ever seen. Even with 0 armor on your head means you're practically immune to headshots and full body means it goes to your rear too which isn't useless at all. All stray damage now means 0 structure damage done to your torso.

>>1766017
Try using Grimechs to get a general idea of what a mech can do or the various archetypes
https://grimmechs.isengrim.org/Database

>>1768498
Never would have thought to put an ER PPC on a brawler or MASC in the right arm, but it makes sense why they did that on the Spirit Bear. Will give it a go.

>challenge requires me to buy and use ams and an ams mech
impossible challenge, i can't do this

>>1771641
your shitfox?

>>1772674
sold it a long time ago even though I have Purifier pods, 6ERML in a 20 ton Heavy isn't good enough

>>1772701
cause you're a shitter

would i be autistic for doing a rac2 build for the champion apache

>>1773964
You're fucking retarded

>>1773964
RAC2s are only worth it if you can fit all three. Stick to RAC5s for the Apache.

>>1773917
>>1773984
Fuck off P*rdo

Why the fuck do NARC's not provide assists like TAGs?

Gonklords.... Assemble!!

Nozomi was 7 years ago.

>>1682851
Lo Wai?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtNVOJRSXzE

This is all that we are now.

>>1751964
Apparently the story and level design is much better than the base game, but I still wouldn't pay full price.

Raven ac/20 is the better build

>>1780564
I wonder what Fat Gregg is up to now...

Black Lanner with 8 Heavy Medium Lasers and ECM is a lot of fun, you shit out giga burst then dip during the cooldown. Very effective considering the constraints.

Any oldfags around?

>>1786152
One or two. KONG was 99% bitter and jaded alpha testers that loved stompy robots, but the only thing left of them is a handful of stories and archived memes. Still, it was fun while it lasted.
t. former HAWKEN tester + the 462nd person to ever register for MWO

>>1723444
Sucks that most of the higher level players outright disable the blinding effects of ballistic weapons.

>>1787299
you can turn off racs blinding you? that's crazy

>>1781229
He probably grinds VR chat with dudebutt.

Somewhere out there in the vast nothingness of space, Joseph Mallan is still critseeking with his flamers and megaguns, and defending every decision ever made by piggy.

>>1793222
it only took five to ten years for machine guns and flamers to actually be worth using, what a world. shame they're still not as good as racs and xpls.

>>1793251
They'll be good in MWO 2, which will go into closed beta once starcitizen releases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlzSgbfLyZg

>12 years ago.

Link the Make a Build piggy song.

>>1799136
Three full minutes to kill a single Hunchback is fucking insane, I can't believe it took that long. Never noticed this back in the day
Good times otherwise

>>1781229
He has a battletech/mechwarrior discord server.

>>1800074
Did Gregg inherit the L O N G H O U S E?

should I download MWO again or toronto MW5?

>>1806164
neither option is good

>>1806484
...is there even a good option out there?

>Get MW5M on sale
>Just finish the intro, got 2nd pilot and the free wolverine
>First contract I do has like 6 total enemies, only 1 of them being a bugmech
>2nd has constant artillery bombardment and a full lance of mediums
>3rd is a defense with a couple AI friendlies but it's still 3+ lances of mediums and heavies
The fuck am I doing wrong? I grabbed some mods but tried to keep it to graphical stuff and a few QoLs. Only one I could think off that might effect this is BetterMissionChoices but afaik that's only supposed to make more contracts available, not fuck with the difficulty.

>>1809559
Update: Tried an assassination mission and at first it was a couple of meds but then the actual target itself was a fuckin atlas, a banshee, and a heavy I didnt get a look at. Do I just have to jump around randomly until I can find a mission that wont kick my shit in? I havn't found a single mission below 85 difficulty despite it saying "recommended rep 3"

Any news about current timeline and lore?

>>1808580
:)

>>1809559
>>1810108
Use more medium lasers, Swayback is your friend. Other than that it's just strictly RNG for non-lore missions.

>>1810833
I would love a partyback. That or maybe a crab, but that's just cause they look cool.

Unzip the megaguns.

>>1800736
No. The longhouse was destroyed when Norris the usurper committed the Norris heresy and split Kong in half. I'm sure he still has a discord server for his beta orbiters somewhere. Avoid them if you have a conscience, or suffer the consequences. Look into what they did to people in ARK if you have any second thoughts. And if you're having third thoughts look into what his orbiters play now. It has nothing to do with giant stompy robots.

>>1811853
Gonna need a tl;dr lore dump covering the destruction of the discord in 2019 to the present.

Just played MWO again after nearly two years, just before they rebranded. Haven't been keeping track so wtf happened? It was already dying I know but it sat around an average of 1200 players back then, enough to keep things fresh but still see recognizable names. People still spoke in chat and used mics and it was fun. Now there's less than half of that and no one talks. Six games in a row and no one even replied to a Hi at the start or GG at the end. The odds of them shutting down have never felt more real.

>>1811853
The truth is... we are the L O N G H O U S E. You're in it, right now.

>>1814323
mega firings, basically no one is left at the company. the fact that servers are still up is a miracle in itself. all good things come to an end, brother. happened to HAWKEN, happened to Exteel, happened to god knows how many other robutt games. at least there's Mecha Break if you're into that

Reminder that MWO is a game that sneak launched into closed beta in april 2012.
Reminder that this post was made in june 2025.
Reminder that there will never be another game like MWO.
Reminder that you're nostalgic for the good old days when you were in your 20s and 30s in some cases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiSB2Fbw9gs

So... what's next?
That indie mech game Engines of Destruction is looking pretty good, but we'll have to wait quite a bit before it releases.
I remember seeing quite a few indie mech games but they all just kinda died out.
Living Legends is still up, but it's pretty much only active on weekends and evenings.
Titanfall 2 still gets matches, but it doesn't scratch that mech itch as well.
What else is out there?

Play hawken reborn.

>>1815094
meh, it will be alpha mwo again
I can only hope that something like war thunder happens to mechs

>>1815094
>no arms

embarassing

>>1815043
I wonder what the baby mech pilot is up to these days. they left pretty early on. already forgot their name.

>>1815403
i thought that shut down already? insane if it didn't

>>1815094
wait for Armored Core 6 DLC or play Mecha Break, there isn't really anything else exciting.

Now that the dust has finally settled, can we all agree that Limeray was easily the most overrated of the protoKLORDS?

>>1818302
who

>>1818314
Poptarting russian.

>>1679307
Underrated post.

I slay bigots!

>>1819138
Is that the official skin?

>>1819138
Whoa! Nice shitmech, Kakos!

>>1819138
would love to drop against this bloated undergunned shitmech. would be as fun as killing a golden dire wolf

UrbanMech posters really piss me off.

MONKEY BONE!

>>1471927 (OP)
>>1478021
>Actually getting players will probably be difficult though.
Heh, reminds me of a personal experience.
>open beta player
>always refillled minimum post-match ammo reloads to save cbills, until that got removed.
>built new PC for open beta
>kept Windows 7 in operation because newer OS versions are horrible under the hood and quite unconscionably designed.
>PGI kills W7 support sometime last year or so, leaving me queuing in a completely empty lobby because the game updater/launcher version can not update any higher.
>Install MWO on a W10 computer,
>Never even played it, not even during "free mech" events.
At least MWLL still works on W7.
Renegade X just gives javascript errors on their latest launcher update, it's sad.
Too bad I am non-social online, due to dead internet theory, so there is nobody to complain to.
RIP gamer, to the sound of silence.
Join my shitcord.

>>1824641
Is this Vass? It sounds like Vass.

>>1824678
That's clearly Jules.

>>1824641
>>1824678
>>1824761
>vass
>jules
Both incorrect, I am a non-guildmember newb who happens to be from open-? beta, but it might have been close to closed beta because I think it was 2012ish and I was seeing prototype MWLL footage on tubesites.
Maybe I could namedrop, but anons are hard to actually vet or verify when I don't ever check PMs or DMs.

This remains my favorite stompy robots video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pyCsu0QRO0

Plexi's "All Systems Nominal" is also entertaining, but it was so obscure I might as well be talking about the 1970s animated adaptation of "Watership Down".

The game peaked during the P2W clans release.

>release new paid only shitmech
>interested
>look closer
>it's worse than the original version they released ten years ago
Why do they keep doing this
It's like they don't understand what makes the Shadow Cat or Bushwacker good

>>1828944
it's letting the wacker do something successfully other than RACs, the builds I've tried so far have both seemed shockingly pretty good (6ml + 2mrm20, and 3mrm20) since, as it turns out, taking a mech with incredibly good hitboxes and giving it ecm access, inherent masc, and up to 11 energy hardpoints is actually pretty alright

>he gave pgi money in 2025

>feeding the pig
>any year after 2012.

Absolutely shameful behavior, gonklings.

>>1831201
When Nozomi sends their people, they're not sending their best. They’re sending Gonklings that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing Mech dads. They’re bringing LRM boats. They’re shitters. And some, I assume, are good people

>>1829459
>letting the wacker do something successfully other than RACs
speaking of, does anyone have any fun builds for the bushwacker?
I've been testing a twin LGAUSS build on my X1 and honestly it seems better than the numbers would suggest

>>1831929
>does anyone have any fun builds for the bushwacker?
X1 does pretty much any Dakka or Gauss vomit setup well (AC5s, UAC10s, Heavy Gauss) but if you want to go full retard, you can do this for more DPS than RACs with no jamming:
https://mwo.nav-alpha.com/mechlab?b=1a9273f4_BSW-X1

>>1832007
>Full retard build
Intriguing. Tell me how I should play such a build? Like do I flank, when do I engage, etc?

I haven't seen a movie in a while, and coming back to mechwarrior I started wondering:
Are there any worthwile /gerg/ movies out there?

>>1832349
You play it like a brawler, catch idiots that are out of position and whack them down with your fat dick DPS.

>Killed a streamer and got a warhorn
>Try to lookup streamer after the match
>Has no Twitch or Youtube channel
Grim.

10 medium lasers! How could something be bad with ten medium lasers??

>>1816302
>I can only hope that something like war thunder happens to mechs
Yeah. At least WarThunder still installs and runs on my Windows 7 computer. Can not say the same of MWO after launcher 1.0.86.4 sadly.
My last working installable version of MWO launcher 1.0.85 continued to function for a while until an empty lobby event a year or two back when I stopped playing.

The L O N G H O U S E stands, defiantly, even now.

The L O N G H O U S E was the greatest prediction.

I miss Greg

play living legends

>>1841394
haruko................

>>1842172
Remember when Greg was dating that old Asian lady IRL to upset Haruko?

>>1842625
HAHAHA, yup. Good times.

>>1815094

>>1844671
>eastern mecha
>third person
>ALL REVIEWS: Mixed (14,243)

>>1844671
It's OW but with mechs.
Actually it's OW2 but with mechs

>>1844830
OW?

>>1844764
also
>Chinese
>predatory monetization

>>1844893
Overwatch.
>>1844764
Honestly I'm surprised it's only mixed with that many reviews. Robot sickos will probably tolerate the bullshit, but I think I'll pass.

>>1471927 (OP)
Give me clankino outside of MW5 clans

Playing casually and I still can't believe these new maps were given the green light. Literally no fucking lighting and the same tree copy pasted three hundred times. Minimally viable all the way to the fucking grave.

>>1845558
If only they made a DLC for MW5 Mercs that required you to own Clans too, giving you access to the Clan invasion from the IS side.

where's my free bags, piggy
where's my FUCCKKKINGG bags, you greedy FUCKS

mmmmmm..... you love to see it

>>1855094
>hey remember that IP we bought? let's bring it back except make it exclusively that one mode that nobody played
eternal reminder to have fun with games cause they will inevitabely get turned to shit and forgotten eternally by everyone

>>1855094
Piggy wishes they could make a game half as bad as herken reborn.

Shaq 2C looks like shit, change my view

The powerlevel of any given shaq variant is proportional to its shittiness, which is why it was favored so highly by the ur KLORDS during their crusades to experience ever more perverse forms of brawling and kill securing.

I was the odd one out but I preferred the Crab the most
Great armament, slim profile that is good for torso twisting, fast, what more do you want?
I also enjoyed the Grasshopper and Nigger Knight (Mandatory KLORD pick)

Ah, you think the pig is your ally? You merely adopted the pig. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't play good video games until I was already a man, by then they were nothing to me but blinding!

>>1845558
does clans get better?
MW5 has been a soul sucking experience so far, but I'm just at the point of having a full medium lance

>friend puts me onto mechwarrior online
>too late to experience the game at its peak

I'm miserable.

>>1867402
If it's any consolation, it was never truly good even at its "peak". The fun you're having with friends is better than anything the game can offer. Try not to overthink it.

>>1866806
Bane?

>>1868362
9 UAC2 Bane is very fun, almost makes up for the extreme dogshit hitboxes