Battletech/Mech Warrior

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yeah it basically has no quirks

i'm just trying to understand buildcraft better

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the majority of builds will slot into one of these archetypes

https://mwo.nav-alpha.com/wiki/build-archetypes

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more looking at how to build mechs

not the archetypes

i'm wondering what regular marauder I should run

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blight is good

3R is somewhat worse at dakka but is passable

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thoughts on 5M?

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fine but not particularly interesting

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@urban shell https://mwomercs.com/news/2026/05/3076-patch-notes-may-19th-2026 interesting patch notes

Shadow Hawk IIC is now available for cbills with this update

I do like how open they are with explaining things

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oof nerfs to dakka

mauler LB30 is dead dead, sovereign got hit pretty bad too

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The arrow nerf explainer is because everyone's mad that AIV is good

TSP mechs look kinda spooky too tbph

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yeah I like the explanations

and how they would've preferred to balance it sooner they just couldn't

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no as in the reason for the explainer is because many people are mad

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cant wait for the mercs update honestly ^^

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is the website down?

yeah the website is down, that's weird

was trying to read the patch note

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god this thing is stupid

oh whoops lol I never got around to responding to this: Clan mechs have an inherent advantage due to better tech but typically will have worse quirks, especially defensive quirks, than their IS counterparts. Also, a lot of clan weapons will do splash damage or fire in bursts (cERPPC, cAC10s, cUAC5s) which spreads damage around while IS autocannons fire single projectiles

compare a HAG40 where it fires in a long burst and does 20% of its damage as splash to a HGR which is 25 pinpoint single projectile

IS also has stuff like snubs that play a very good short range game and there's no clan equivalent

IS LRMs also fire the entire launcher at once instead of cLRM streamfire

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Ironically stream is actually better in MW5 since the missiles don't crowd each other

So they're more likely to hit

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holy shit the defensive stats on the new hunchie

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it's really good! been loving it

-# sry for ping

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MEh_hmWBD0A

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mechwarriors ! clanners ! and mercs of all sorts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqbKv4HomFA

https://tenor.com/view/battletech-batchall-jade-falcon-mechwarrior-gif-23519332

the memes are real and they come in glory

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"I've never heard of your outfit before in my life" Buh-scuse me?

(context: by this stage of the campaign you'll be head of one of the most famous merc outfits in the entire Inner Sphere)

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SPOILERS FROM THE TRAILER SOMETHING A BUDDY NOTICED

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having literally participated in like 1.5 succession wars, and a bunch of other stuff like the Solaris game at the eve of fedcom

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And possibly regularly rolling over lances from other infamous outfits

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Clan Crusader Georg is back.

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so overall, i like the new mechs the dlc added but the missions are kinda ehhh

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I want the new dlc but I'm waiting a few weeks for my mods to get updated

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and here we go~~

cries in fedcom

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You can get all the way to Terra in HBS BattleTech?

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this is mechwarrior 5

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Wait

Fuck

Is this a mod or part of the DLC?

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what in the absolute fuck

also, I like the MAD-IIC

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part of the dlc, we are officialy in the deep shit

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Welp, guess we know what the next DLC is

This'll be the first time we've seen the ||Jihad|| in video game form isn't it?

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so not yet the funny moment

we still have operation bullfrog and ofc, the civil war to deal with

technically the game jumped the game by renaming terra to world of blake.

the next big event is in 3058 with the second star league and beating on the worst clan to ever clan, smoke jaguar, and...well....the long years of pain that me as a davion fan will face

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Thinking, would 2LPL 2ERML 2SRM6w/Art be a good build for a jump-capable Timber Wolf?

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poptart with SRMs for close?

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I was thinking more brawler, but, I guess it'd make a good mid-ranger poptart, yeah.

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probably better off going all in on the lasvom

2SRM6 is less threatening than a lot of light mechs and you'll run into overheating issues if you've been firing the lasers

https://mwo.nav-alpha.com/mechlab?b=a28d8fa7_TBR-A

something like this and its largely chassis agnostic

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Hm.

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if you want SRMs on a timb you want 4x

2x does basically no damage

@urban shell am I missing any notable binds? want to drop the action layer

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hee hee

that thing's going to be goofy

it's mildly more heat efficient with cLRM20+20+15 and the 30% spread is going to be disgusting

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does fairnuff qualify as clanner speak?

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that depends, is that a contraction ? if yes ? DEZGRA

if not ? then sure why not 😄

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I mean quiaff and quineg are fine

which is portmanteau

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see your correct

the clans hate contractions, UNLESS is their contractions

hypocrisy ? in my clans ? more likely then you think

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I mean contractions aren't the same thing as portmanteau

but "we speak english correctly"

and then they use portmanteau is, yep

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Nuff is a contraction of enough I think what Matheus is saying

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I mean so is Aff

though

true!

it should be fairengh

or something silly like that

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Oh yeah Aff is a contraction but on of the kerensky kids used it a lot so it's fine

Or how Bachall is short of Battle Chalinge, but it's compoent conractions are ones that claner culture is ok with. it's one of the several forms of hiporacy that shows up

Like how elementals often dont make it past star comander

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clearly only mechwarriors are suited for higher roles

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trully the joke is to walk into outreach, look a wolf dragon straight in the eye and go

"lovely weather in Strana Mechty quineg ?"

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So, the reason that Clanners seem to be hypocritical in this is that English does not distinguish syllabic abbreviations from non-syllabic abbreviations. They don't mind the former, but hate the latter.

In fact, both German and Russian use a lot of syllabic abbrevaiations.