MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries – Mechs Customize
Mechs Customize
The interface may live a footling confusing at first, but it won’t accept long to figure out just how to instruct your mech loaded out just how yous want.
There are iii ways to achieve the loadout screen:
- Press the Tab cardinal to opened upward the hub, hence select the Battlemechs tab
- Use the Battlemechs panel on the bridge
- Use the estimator station side yesteryear side to Fahad inward the mechs bays
The initiative of all fashion is probable going to live your go-to method of working alongside your mechs, but all iii methods achieve the same place. Your initiative of all concealment volition inquire yous which mech to function with. For this wiki page, all the screenshots volition live of the starting Centurion mech that yous tin privy utilisation get-go alongside the 3rd mission of the campaign, Takedown.
Three buttons volition live close the bottom the screen: Repair, Paint, together with Edit Loadout. Painting your mech is a gratuitous activeness together with volition laissez passer on instantly. Repairing is a one-click command that creates a function gild that, if confirmed, volition accept fourth dimension together with C-Bills to complete. The 3rd command, to Edit Loadout, also volition accept fourth dimension together with coin scaled to how much of an overhaul yous get got ordered.
Editing Loadouts
After clicking the Edit Loadout button, you’ll encounter your mech on the correct side of the concealment together with a panel on the left. The panel on the correct doesn’t offering much data beyond just seeing the weapons together with visuals of your mech. Unless yous absolutely postulate to encounter the visuals, it’s best to toggle the “Weapons/Detail” switch at the travel yesteryear middle of the screen. This volition accept yous to a modular thought of your mech, including all its armor points together with body utilisation slots. The screenshot below shows the Centurion stripped of all armor together with weapons, which are commands that tin privy live executed alongside the buttons inward the top-right corner.
Using the Centurion every bit an example, weapons cannot only live mounted anywhere. Each mech’s specific arms, legs, torso, together with caput tin privy alone accept specific types together with sizes of weapons. This Centurion tin privy accept a medium ballistic weapon on its correct arm, a medium missile weapon on its left torso, together with 2 medium unloosen energy weapons inward its middle torso. Weapons that are smaller tin privy instruct inward larger slots, but non vice versa.
The panel on the left shows the mech’s stats at the top. Below it is a listing of all the gear yous may get got or purchase based on the tabs. In the screenshot above, it’s filtered yesteryear “Valid Only” (only showing what tin privy live mounted on the electrical flow mech), “Equipment” (the lite bluish tab alongside an icon of a footling box), together with materials currently inward the inventory. If yous want to purchase novel gear, yous tin privy switch to the Market tab, hence correct click a slice of gear. Note that at that topographic point is no confirmation when yous produce this; live certain yous know what you’re buying hence yous don’t accidentally mis-click! For the screenshot below, the thespian is looking at the missile weapons inward the marketplace position together with is mousing over the LRM 10-ST; if the thespian right-clicks now, they volition purchase the weapon, but it volition non live straight off mounted.
Once you’re railroad train to mountain weapons together with other gear to the mech, live certain you’re inward the inventory tab. Then, only left-click-and-drag items to their appropriate slots. You tin privy right-click items to rapidly position weapons where they postulate to go, but yous may desire to consider existence exact alongside your placements. For example, when starting the motility you’ll get got ix Single Heat Sink items. You tin privy house all ix wherever yous want on the Mech. However, if yous house all ix on a unmarried limb together with that limb gets blown off, your mech volition all of a precipitous get got no estrus sinks at all. Therefore, it’s best to spread your estrus sinks closed to to brand certain that if whatever unmarried utilisation of your mech takes critical damage, the residual of the mech should operate every bit expected.
Also, consider placing ammo cache items on your torso. Especially on harder difficulties, arms tend to live the initiative of all things blown off, together with at that topographic point is a hazard that plenty impairment to whatever given utilisation of the mech volition termination inward an ammo explosion on that part. If yous position all your ammo on the arms, it’s highly probable that an ammo explosion volition blow the arm off fifty-fifty if it would get got otherwise survived.
Note: All ballistic- together with missile-type weapons postulate at to the lowest degree 1 ammo pod on the mech! Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 small-scale yellowish icon on the Edit Loadout concealment volition state yous if the mech has an equipped weapon alongside no equipped ammo.
The lastly aspect to consider is armor together with weight. The maximum weight of the mech is shown at the travel yesteryear of the left panel. For the Centurion, its maximum weight is 50 tons. Each slice of armor raises the weight, but ammo pods volition substantially heighten the weight every bit well. Pressing the “Max Armor” push clitoris inward the top-right corner volition add together every bit many armor points every bit possible alongside to a greater extent than armor given to the body together with arms than the legs. Depending on what you’ve position on the mech to that point, it may non live real much if yous position besides much ammo or estrus sinks on it.
Weapon Groups
The lastly aspect of your mech yous should consider is its weapon groups. After yous laid your weapons together with other modular pieces, yous tin privy click the Weapon Groups push clitoris inward the bottom left corner to laid which weapons burn when yous press specific buttons. Assuming yous get got default controls, Weapon Group 1 is left-clicking the mouse, together with Weapon Group 2 is right-clicking the mouse. All weapon groups tin privy live activated yesteryear pressing their numbers on the keyboard divulge row, together with some weapon groups may burn if yous get got pollex buttons on your mouse.
Early on, yous mightiness instruct away alongside putting all your weapons on the same group, which would produce a lot of impairment inward a curt amount of time. However, this may also waste materials ammo or, inward the instance of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation weapons, rapidly overheat your mech. Consider your tactical strategy: produce yous desire to lay downwards a bunch of bullets together with follow upward alongside some missiles? Or produce yous desire to get got each weapon burn individually? Maybe for the to a higher house Centurion, it wants to necktie its ballistic gun to 1 laser, together with its missiles to the other laser.
Note that weapons tin privy live slotted to multiple weapon groups every bit well. You could get got 1 grouping dedicated to “fire all weapons,” piece some other grouping is just a unmarried weapon. Also banking company annotation that if yous edit alone weapon groups, it volition live a gratuitous activeness together with non accept whatever toll or time.
There is no “wrong” response to this every bit long every bit it industrial plant for yous together with doesn’t overheat the mech or waste materials ammo hence fast that yous lose command of the mission. The alone fashion yous tin privy uncovering out how good it industrial plant for yous is to experiment together with produce some champaign testing. Remember, yous tin privy salvage whatever fourth dimension betwixt missions, together with yous get got interplanetary space salvage slots to function with. MechWarrior five encourages experimentation!
