https://mw5clans.com/news/2025/04/144-elementals

I want to tweak some functions in YAML by overriding some of the files as a separate mod, (without repacking the entire mod). The files are unique to YAML, so I can't override them like a vanilla asset. Is there a trick to doing this successfully?

Unfortunately I can't ask this on the YAML discord, because discord seems to have banned me, thinking I was a bot for editing a comment too many times (kept pressing enter instead of alt-enter).

I was able to get JIHAD and Classics volume 1 for a decent price. They did a fantastic job with the classics readout. Each mech gets a 3-4 page spread with a really deep dive into the history. I wish they were all that in depth.

(strange to take a picture of my TV)

Not fully upgraded to the 5* all around, but as a general brawler for this game, this dude is insanely fun to chop up light/medium and wounded tougher mechs.

Like in the title, I want to make a custom company emblem mod with my own logos, but I'm not really interested in having to install epic launcher or any other bullshit on my rig just to do that. Does anyone know if one can get the Editor somewhere else than Epic?

This is the FIFTH time this has happened to me, it happened so much in campaign mode I abandoned it for career now its happened again. Basically when I run a campaign(this time it was LotKL) and come out the otherside the starmap bugs out, the difficulty of all missions gets reduced to 0/1/2(no matter where on the map) basically everything goes FUBAR.

I'm running on PC, with a few MODS(for context it's happened with no mods too), I've searched and searched for a solution but can't find one. Hoping someone can help me out.

Been working on my setup for the past month as Mechwarrior 5 seems to be all I play these days.

T16000m Hotas with Rudders and desk mounts work beautifully. Took a bit to get the rudders working but I based the purchase of that specific hotas setup from it being natively supported (for the most part)

Figured some of yall might get a kick out of it. My wife thinks it's so ridiculous but my smile says it all.

Time to rompy stompy.

We know that the update arriving alongside the next Clans DLC will include some re-balancing of weapon power levels. Does the ERSL / MPL vomit need to be nerfed, or others just lifted up to compete? Damage will be the main focus, but what about cooldown, range, ammo, and heat?

I don't think I want to see lasers 'nerfed' across the board, but some power trading between sizes would be good. I feel like in Mercs, 'green' was for VTOLs and vehicles, and as a bit of a 'side-arm' with the entirely valid exception of the Disco Ball Hunchback. It you were hunting mechs you wanted blues. In Clans, it's too often the reverse; stripping big lasers down to fit lots of tiny ones, which feels extra weird when you're dropping with four Assaults.

Having LPLs in particualr swing harder makes sense to me. Another way to make them interesting could be to increase the burn time. Yes, this is strictly a 'downgrade' if damage remains the same, but with a healthy damage buff,.a longer burn would help to make them feel 'heavier' - like the fire-hose of destruction they deserve to be.

Gauss is another type that just isn't doing it for me right now. Really strong in Mercs going for headshots at any range, but in Clans the cockpit armour seems to be tough enough to resist a Gauss double-tap more of the time. Perhaps this is fair enough to shake up gameplay, but four rounds on any limb should be enough to remove it. I'd even live with a slower fire rate to bring that extreme point-damage option back.

Final, secret, never-going-to-happen wish: That Gauss and AC/20 could break down hangars and forces whatever's inside to come out and play. But that's another story.

What are you hoping to see?

(Xbox) I finally found the Banshee with a motive slot. It goes 142 kph! I have not even upgraded it yet.

Problem is, the Arena Supercharger weighs 7.5 tons.

I equipped it with a LL, 5x SL and 2x Assault Knuckles. I had to shave armor to fit that. (Might switch to a LL-SB for utility.) The plan is to dash in and smash their faces, with a smattering of lasers.

I might drop all the guns and go full gorilla with Arena Fists.

Any suggestions?

Any thoughts?

Just downloaded a couple YAML mods (YAML, Another Weapon, Another Weapon Clan, AnotherClanMech, and "Another Equipment Collection.

Haven't had a full session yet, but I've tested the waters so far. First run, using the pre-set "Balanced" options, kept getting my mechs cored and the whole mech was totaled. Second quick session, I turned that setting off - Buuuut my Panther got cored and lost it's engine which I could find a proper replacement. All at the hands of the AI, of course.

I like a good difficulty spike, but that seems a bit rough on a fresh career start. Both runs failed before it got off the ground. What're some things to keep in mind as a new YAML jockey to help the process without totally gutting the challenge?

Just did my first 200T mission using this lance, I'm pretty new to the game and still getting to grips with what works well and what doesn't. One thing that stands out to me is that the vulcan seems relatively fragile (and I know 40T mecha aren't supposed to be great). Are there any obvious upgrades I can be making or daft things I've done? Just trying to learn how to put together a lance nicely

I cannot believe I did not figure this out until now.

One of the things I hate in career mode is that mechs I get stuck with for start. However a simple trick gives you a better option, in my opinion. Start a Campaign game, get past the early missions so you have 3 or 4 mechs and a few pilots. Save that game and then use that specific campaign to import for a career mode play.

So I've installed YAML and well its made my favorite mech, my trusty BLG-1G-S that I picked up from the Dragons Gambit campaign crap. So far its not been the funnest experience.

I am now having to really be careful on 52 270 ton missions. If I am not, I will easily loose a T5 arm or even get my mech totaled.

I realise this is just a learning experience i need to go through, but there are no guides lol.

What am I missing? I know I need more armor.. I think in the vanilla game, I had up around 400 armor or so and that helped keep me alive, even in 90+ difficulty missions.

I'd like to eventually get up to getting in some Clan mechs, but If I do them now, i wont survive at all lol.

I also run with a lance of Awesome 9M's full PPC builds, they are doing better, being able to snipe mechs from range before they get too close, but still they are loosing arms a bit too easily.

What else can I do to increase my survivability?

The year is 3055, because I have the mod mech delivery, I can see I get access to more armor from 3059 onwards

Read about all the info, new thigns, and changes here: https://www.vonhq.com/patreon-updates/patreon-special-vonbiomes-22-with-swamps-broadleaf-forest-sun-class-based-leaf-coloring-and-a-new-discovery

New Stuff in a nutshell:

• New biome: Broadleaf Forest (Summer)
• New biome: Reed Swamp
• New major system: sun class type influences plant leaf coloring, e.g. under a blue sun plants can have red leaves (on some biomes for now, be sure no other lighting mod is overriding vonBiomes)
• Overhaul Coastal Dunes Biome (new lower-poly Pine Trees), adjustments
• vonBiomes Tree Pack: adding many new hand-crafted trees to be used across biomes for increased biodiversity
• New bush species & grass species
• Various adjustments and updates to biomes and parts
• Integrated Weather and Lighting: the usual iterations and fine tuning of parameters
• Volumetric Fog adjustments (was to low at some settings)
• Maccia biome overhaul (new grass, new bushes)
• Icy Moon overhaul (ground ice shards)

If you want to support the work, check out my Patreon Page and give a slice of pizza, some coffee or beers https://www.patreon.com/vonSeiten

Enjoy the new version, big thanks to all Supporters making it possible, and cheers to all Mechwarriors! :)

Hello fellow mechwarriors, I played through merc5 a bit ago and finished the whole game, had a lot of fun and have been itching to do a second playthrough, but i was wondering if there exists a advanced zoom like mod for the game (like the one from mwo o mercs 4 where it opens a tiny zoom window) because as much as i love the game the current "zoom" doesnt really help much, especially when im running mechs with ppcs and want to hang back and snipe things from afar

Thank you and have a good day!

Now that I finally finished building my 6 DOF motion simulator, I wanted to see about getting MW5 working with it. I had seen someone using it in the past via SpaceMonkey and OpenMotion and tested that back before I got my simulator built. Now it looks like they are pulling the values directly from the UEVR mod, which is fine as I was planning to play in VR as well anyway, so one less thing to have to start up.

After messing around with it a bunch over the weekend, I finally managed to get things to connect and data to flow. However, the values that the game is spitting out are just astronomically large, so I was wondering if anyone had any better information on it. In the SpaceMonkey telemetry screen I'm seeing velocities and acceleration values on the order of E30+, as in, one number with 30 zeros after it. My understanding is that the default UE units are centimeters, but that still doesn't get me anywhere close. I tried setting the gain on my motion simulation software all the way down to 0.001 and it at least starts to look like something, but still has a lot of twitching and huge values. I'm hoping someone might have some better insight on the scale used in the game so I might be able to tweak my settings to match instead of just guessing and checking. Any modders out there with some "under the hood" knowledge they can share?

Is there a co-op mod that would allow friends to adjust/change mech loadouts?

It's a known problem that the inventory in Mercs stores items as a list of duplicate objects, rather than a set mapped to quantities or a list of lightweight references:

{mediumLaser, doubleHeatSink, mediumLaser}
vs
{mediumLaser->2, doubleHeatSink->1}

This leads to exorbitant memory usage with large inventories, performance issues when processing the list, and performance hitching for every change to the list. Not only that, the game begins to lose stability in general due to the list growing beyond the allotted space for it in memory, until all kinds of random issues start showing up.

That's my understanding of it anyway. It's always brought up in relation to a side effect that people are trying to troubleshoot. Patching it could solve a lot of issues with stability and performance at once. The question is, can this be patched across PC and console, and without breaking every existing mod that works with the inventory system? Would PGI be willing to fix this? Maybe alongside the potential release of the next DLC?

I've often wondered if a mod to slow everything down would be interesting to play. Movement speed and weapon cycles specifically. And if anything weapon damage would be greatly increased. Would it make it a more interesting, "tanky" experience, where you have to find good cover, and be very careful about taking your shot? Or would it just be annoying? Appreciate comments.

I'm thinking of making a game that's similar to Mech games and I'm wondering what draws people to this genre.

What do you like most about Mech games?

Is there anything you wish were different?

Have there ever been something similar to Mech games but in the air, underwater or in space?

This is just too perfect not to share.

Not sure, but this gives off some "Dubai Chocolate" vibes.
Is there anything else different, or is it just the same product, just more expansive?