DLC 9 Announced: Ashes and Ascension

Arctic cheetah 3 variants, arctic wolf - 5, Ice ferret - 5, hunchback-iic - 5, huntsman - 5, nova cat - 4, sun spider - 4, marauder-iic - 4, warhamer-iic - 4, blood-asp - 4, supernova - 3, stone rhino - 7 and bane - 3.

Afaik, key art variations were done by Matt Leigh, the cinematics director

TIME FOR A NEW GAME BOIS. Hello 18 mission campaign and hello 2cs and especially hunchie 2c.

Edit: Im at work and somebody beat me to it lol.

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https://mw5mercs.com/dlc/ashes-and-ascension

A good chunk of the hype for the blood asp is from people like me who grew up with games like mechassault 2.

But if you look at this things loadouts we have some really interesting stuff to work with.

To start, the blood asp is 95 tons of “screw whoever is in that direction” and sprints at 64kph. Combine that with the canteen boosted top speed increase upgrade, meaning this thing is pretty quick for how heavily armed it is.

(Edit: 90 tons. My bad😅)

We are getting 4 variants. The prime, the b, the d, and the sa

The prime has 2 Gauss rifles, one in each shoulder. to back this up you have 2 heavy medium lasers and an mp laser in each arm and in case anything survives long enough to get close a streak srm 6 in the center torso.

The b has 2 Lrm 20 art IV, one in each arm. as well as a guass rifle in the shoulder and 4 mp lasers in the other shoulder.

The d is both weird and interesting. It features 2 er large lasers and 2 heavy medium lasers, one in each arm. It also has a Gauss rifle in the shoulder. (You
Might be noticing a them there) finally it has 3 ultra auto canon 2’s in the other shoulder.

Lastly there’s the SA. I’m honestly not sure what this could Be as I can’t find any existing information on a variant with that name anywhere. I assume SA stands for star adder in reference to the clan that designed and built this monster. Regardless I’m sure this variant will be really cool.

Anyway thank you for letting rant about my beloved blood asp!

It’s finally happening! My beloved!

Is how will they solve the size issue for the Stone Rhino. YAML has to rescale all the mechs just so that the Stone Rhino can drop without getting stuck. I wonder how the devs will do it AND, I wonder if YAML can than put the rescale option back in, since my friends don't like using YAML because of the rescale.

2 variants the PRS-P1 and PRS-P1B
https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Perseus

I wanna bring my scarred up blood named Ghost Bear girlfriend to glorious federated suns 🥰

Just a reminder that in Battletech, Ascension has a very special meaning for a faction that takes a very prominent role after the second Whitting conference...

It's just a question of whether it's for Mason, or his enemies....

Taken from the page:

- Adjusted rewards for all graduate programs, especially the “big four”. Added new Gunslinger Program with corresponding graduate trait.

You see, the pilot traits keep getting touched every DLC since their inclusion. However, I feel like we've already reached the point where Mason is the bum in his own lance once you get pilots with good traits.

Reason being, since the traits are technically applied to the mech you assign a pilot to, you can just put the mech and pilot who's traits you want on said mech into slot 2, and then switch to that mech at the very beginning of each mission. And bam, you can now, as the player, use pilot traits for yourself rather than the AI.

I really think Mason's lack of traits needs to be addressed, and a system needs to be implemented to allow him to acquire traits of his own somehow. Ideally, I think Mason should be the one pilot in which the player can directly choose the traits on via some sort of progression system. Like, getting to choose a new trait as Mason's skills (each type of pilot skill, as in, energy weapons, missiles, ballistics, evasion, defense, and heat management) increase, with different traits being unlocked for selection depending on how high your skills are, with everything unlocked once you reach 60/60 on Mason.

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They are always getting stuck some where or they juste run in circle …

And its always very far away and not visible from you, why ?

New mechs and scenarios are great, but the best stuff out of DLC8 were the playability changes. 4x Zoom was a gamechanger. That being said heres my hopefuls for playability fixes in DLC9.

1. Let us change the name of the unit. Its WAYYYY too easy for the crappy GUI to get the name/symbol wrong on the first(and only) attempt.

2. Let us swap to the career map without having to import to a new career start. And while you're at it just swap all the periphery nation warzones to Zone 15 on the career map also.

3. For gods sake, fill in the holes on the map. Restore the Luthien industrial zone and zone out near the Diamond Shark base. Add the Coventry-Arc Royal zone.

What else can you add?

Was really hitting the limit on Active mechbays in CR; I could really use another 20 bays, to branch out and diversify my options. I would gladly pay 15 million a quarter for an extra lance or five.

Than a Gauss kill right in the cockpit. That is the peak MW5:M dopamine hit.

I've got the game on sale not long ago and enjoying it so far, loosely following the story while doing lots of side content. I don't intend to play online or coop. I've seen announcement of DLC 9 today, are there any recommendations for order of buying DLC for new players?

I honestly haven't played any MechWarrior games since I was like 11 years old on my dad's pc. I didn't understand the fact that I was piloting walking tanks, so all I ever did was the Instant Action feature and play with god mode on.

Fast forward 25 years and I picked up MW5 Mercenaries on sale, then became addicted to it. I know next to nothing about the lore so when I saw "hero mech on market" I was like okay I don't know what this is, I'm gonna get it anyway. And now I'm sawing apart Assault Mechs with this little 45 tonner like they're wet paper dogs... Did I do something right? (I'm playing on factory default normal settings)

Also can someone point me to a good starting point for the BattleTech lore? Thanks so much in advance

It’s 3120 in my campaign. I’ve got all DLC (no mods) and finished all the campaigns and quests. I’ve bought every hero mech I could find and have every variant of almost every mech.

But I still can’t find the Atlas Kraken, the King Crab Kaiju, the Mauler Knockout, and the Annihilator hero (Mean Baby?).

It’s driving me absolutely crazy. I have so much money that I use to just fly in and out of the Terra industrial hub. I know I’m flying far enough out, because when I fly in the quests and rare mech notifications reset. But I’m just not seeing any more hero mech notifications.

I know that my mech hangar is full of awesome mechs including lots of Daishis. And I’m sure these unacquired mechs will, one can argue, not be worth the effort.

But I can’t help it! I want them all!

The game just won’t give it up!

And what’s worse, I just know I’m going to get DLC9, which means there will be no mech variants for me to find. Because I know I will want them all!

Should I be traveling to all of the other industrial hubs? I thought the Terran hub would have the highest chance of spawning a hero assault mech.

Should I buy every rare mech I find? Does that make hero spawns more likely? Trouble is, I already have all of those rare mechs.

Do I just have to terrorize the Clans and Wolf’s Dragoons more? I may just have to do that since they are becoming a convenient target for my frustrations!