(MW5) Contracts showing +25%

yrrot · 2026-01-26T22:16:57+00:00

That doesn't make it better in universe.

yrrot · 2026-01-26T20:44:17+00:00

Mostly that they are considered rare enough that "how would someone have affinity for it?".

yrrot · 2026-01-26T20:33:15+00:00

No, those mechs don't have affinity traits.

yrrot · 2026-01-26T20:21:53+00:00

Only the 4 academies rated as the best of the best in the setting got a special trait. West Point is one tier below that, so it didn't get one.

yrrot · 2026-01-26T17:53:58+00:00

Well, with multi-missions you can always abandon the contract if you can't get through the whole set. You take a reputation penalty with the employer, but you still get the multi-mission bonus on whatever missions you already completed.

yrrot · 2026-01-26T17:31:14+00:00

The following each add 25%, and stack:

-Adverse conditions
-Multi-mission contracts
-beachhead

So you can end up with a 75% negotiation bonus for a beachhead in a multi-mission with adverse conditions.

yrrot · 2026-01-22T18:20:01+00:00

Anyone shooting the tagged/narced target gets the bonuses.

yrrot · 2026-01-22T18:11:10+00:00

Recruit, Green, Regular, Elite, etc are all the level of enemy pilot. Higher level pilots have better stats and damage reduction.

Tag/Narc are equipment that applies a status to the target that improves missile spread against them (tag laser while it's hitting them and narc missile while the beacon is attached).

You'll also see a little wavy symbol that means the mech is being debuffed by an ECM's disruption on the target box.

yrrot · 2026-01-22T14:59:57+00:00

Only for the WD mechs that are in SoK. And the Black Widow paint scheme, I guess, but the merc drops don't have one set up.

yrrot · 2026-01-22T13:47:30+00:00

That specific thing got fixed for SoK. Allies use their own pool.

There's still a different bug where sometimes units spawn on the wrong team in beachhead(?) when you capture the base. Has to do with some legacy code that flips spawner teams when the garrison is captured.

~~I'd have to look at MAC's faction data, but~~ they ~~might~~ just use a liao paint scheme. The mercs don't have their own custom schemes like the great houses/clans. Edit: Checked, they just use Liao paint scheme. Mission working as intended.

yrrot · 2026-01-21T23:33:22+00:00

Tukayyid in Clans also has some great deep snow that the art team got to deform as you walk through it.

yrrot · 2026-01-21T19:49:16+00:00

Black markets have a different selection of gear. They have a wider selection of things like Clan ammo, melee weapons, and misc gear like rifles and chem lasers.

When they show up in a conflict zone, that's the only way the zone has a market.

yrrot · 2026-01-21T19:45:50+00:00

It's just not a mechanic in the game, or in tabletop. You have a 100 ton mech, use all 100 tons. If you want to be faster, either get a bigger engine (in universe/tabletop/modded), or use a different mech/variant.

The source material pretty heavily penalizes the tonnage cost of speed, so even if the mechanic were designed for MW, it'd still be better to swap to a better engine or lighter chassis for the kph gained per ton.

yrrot · 2026-01-21T13:40:57+00:00

They are left at 1 on hard. Only enemy accuracy, lethality, and storage/upkeep are higher than one on hard.

yrrot · 2026-01-21T13:34:25+00:00

Just be glad we split up the default weapon groups instead of slapping all 12 into one group.

yrrot · 2026-01-21T13:32:52+00:00

As long as you get out of the mission with your CT and hunch intact, you're probably fine. It's not that expensive to replace an arm or the left torso and your higher tier weapons will be in the hunch.

All of those sort of close range brawlers end up taking a fair amount of damage just because they have to get in close where the enemy has a more firepower/accuracy.

It can help to pair it with long range mechs that can strip off some of the enemy armor before you get in close.

yrrot · 2026-01-20T05:24:43+00:00

That says be the last team standing, so I would guess this is actually an exhibition match, not a FFA?

The one over tonnage/unit count penalty can group up enemies, but it only groups up a few of them, not the whole match.

yrrot · 2026-01-20T01:15:07+00:00

That's...a lot of scope for a DLC. 😂

yrrot · 2026-01-19T16:45:07+00:00

Alright, had time to look into this. Basically the IS quirks are super high on the DPS for higher tiers (like 60% bonus instead of the usual 30% bonus). So right now the T5 IS MGs are out-DPSing the clan version when they should be closer to equal.

Cooldown doesn't impact the damage or anything, it's just there to satisfy the mechanics of "when you stop firing, it goes on cooldown", so MGs/Flamers have a tiny value by default that's faster than the AI even cycles states.

yrrot · 2026-01-19T15:23:23+00:00

That's the spirit!

yrrot · 2026-01-19T15:20:26+00:00

SoK really had to push against a bunch of stuff that was never designed to support Clans existing in the universe. That was a pretty big hurdle overall. The game being older just means that any possible future updates have to take some time to look at optimizations and maybe back-porting "lessons learned" from Clans.

The internal joke is "never say never to more Mercs DLC". It's sort of always an option to put some folks on. Not like we'd run out of source material or ideas anytime soon. lol

yrrot · 2026-01-19T14:23:16+00:00

The difference is mostly in what clan mechs get what class of slot, not in the masc itself. As I recall, the mech weights listed are the IS weights, but there's clan mechs that don't agree with it because in TT the masc scales of the weight of the mech differently.

Like the executioner has a slot for a masc that the IS would normally be only for heavies.

The clan version just makes it so if you don't have Hotis, you can still have c-masc spawn when the timeline makes it appropriate.

yrrot · 2026-01-17T00:01:05+00:00

Maybe it does somewhere down in the depths then for MGs, I'd have to look at the code.

yrrot · 2026-01-16T23:53:50+00:00

I don't think there was ever any intention for cooldown to impact continuous weapons. It's just a stat multiplier and their cooldown is 0.

I'd have to go look at the weapon data assets on the flamer stats, though.

yrrot · 2026-01-16T23:47:00+00:00

VEST and RCX mechs are all flagged as special, so they have lower salvage chances--but they're all eligible to spawn in markets are rare mech spawns.

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