Bara is the ONLY mechwarrior in history to go "I want to get into that urbanmech"

@Acaios1

9 ай бұрын

Nah, I like them too. At least the YAML ones :D

@vonseitentv

9 ай бұрын

I take an urbie if I can get one - they are amazing mechs. Or turrets :D

@bjorntrollgesicht1144

9 ай бұрын

Urbies are a force multiplier for early battles. Plus I highly recommend watching Bara's old playthrough where he takes on three assault lances with a lance of Urbies and wins. Butt- clenching suspense that one!

@Kirkmaximus

9 ай бұрын

I've made plenty of Urbie kill squads. Not only is it great for the meme's, but with YMAL they hit FAR above their weight class. ^.^

@bjorntrollgesicht1144

9 ай бұрын

@@Kirkmaximus they're extra tough with their quirk and bite hard. Not much of a danger later on, but those buggers will chip off some of that precious armor on your fancy assault mech!

That blackjack at 28:11 is a thing of beauty. A salute to the the maniacal designer and a farewell wave to the poor readymeal of a pilot

Hey Baradul! Here's a tip for those Resource missions: In the early game, ABSOLUTELY take a battle buddy. Keep in mind, your drop ship comes equipped with about 3 large lasers, and 2 LRM 20's so it is by no means defenseless. If anything, the lance mates you leave with the ship are sitting around doing nothing because enemies are nearly dead since the drop ship hits them well before they reach range. Take 1, or even 2 of them with you. BUT, leave at least 1 with the ship to ensure firepower when enemies get TOO close. This way, your lance mates get free training, you get more armor with you when you loot, and you can raid more locations when you have more friends!!! Hope this helps you in future resource missions!

@SpriGgEx

9 ай бұрын

i keep them at my side for the first 2 bases or so, or let 1 slower heavier Mech behind the drop ship because of the big Air Attack that you usually face and that the drop ship alone cant fend off fast enough. They also seem to have nerfed your own drop ship, for the armament it has, it doesnt rly do that much damage. But for the last Bases i either go alone or with one Buddy in faster Mechs and leave the heavier slower ones back at the Ship.

Sound seem perfect for me, just the right balance between you and the gameplay

If you want a decent light mech get a Firestarter. Replace the arm mounted flamers with small lasers, delete jumpjets to max the armor.

this is why the early game is so good, your happy you got an urbie! sadly once you get in a heavy all these good times will be a memory

@Cenot4ph

9 ай бұрын

They'll finally be good times, mediums is where this game really starts imo

I really enjoy Kh0rns sound overhaul. PPC "pew" sounds like a "wapew crack!"... Not sure typing out the sound helps, but all the weapons sound like they have the impact to take on several tons of mechanical monstrosities.

Hey bara, if you don't want to spend all your money at once when repairing or refitting a 'Mech, just do some parts at a time so that you still have a cash cushion. Then you can do more missions for more cash and more repairs, etc.

Good video Bara. I also like Wolfhounds and saying Blackjacks are the most okayest ''mech in the Inner Sphere made me laugh for some reason. 😄

In Exploration missions position your mechs directly in the blue circle. They will move out from time to time, but while inside, they prevent the dropship from being captured just by standing there :-)

@Acaios1

9 ай бұрын

They sometimes get stuck at the dropship. I place them just close enough.

I'd recommend a bit of insurance coverage in the early game- it may seem like it doesn't do much, but saving those C-bills for important stuff- like a mini fridge for the Urbie - can make a real difference to cash flow. After all, 400k in covered damage repair is cash you dont have to spend.

My brother in Christ that firestarter is quirked to boat flamers, change everything to flamers and machine guns, then aim for cockpits at point blank range and you will be able to 1v1 assault mechs.

I got my hands on an urbie lam and it was more or less fully intact after reassembling it. It's so fun But don't underestimate the whitworth. It's a solid mech. Lrms and medium lasers at this point of the game are massive. And i just saw my favorite type of mission: GroundWar. It's huge and messy and amazing

With Firestarters, I usually slap on 4 medium lasers and 2 machine guns, then try to up armor it some. It puts them on par with Jenners. . . Makes them a little warm like Jenners also, but you can whittle down the JJs for more heat sinks. I don't know why they(a mod?) added the extra armor to Urbies, but it makes them pretty valuable early game.

@Acaios1

9 ай бұрын

Probably because every little base in raids or so, has by default an urbie. To increase the challenge

Sound is perfect!!

That Urbie looks awesome.!! can't wait to se it in action...

Gotta get a Hollander, a walking gauss rifle in the early game ought to be great fun

The Urbanmech looks like a stormtrooper with the new paint job. Maybe name it Trooper?

@Acaios1

9 ай бұрын

haha, indeed

Loving the light mech game play.

The audio & visual was good for the video. Also, I will overlook Baradul's greed since he takes good care of his wife and fights for the under dog of the Inner sphere: House Liao. o7 Also, that last planet just screams "Waaaaagh!" XD

My sound mods I use are Mechwarrior 2 Betty Ultimate, Sound of the Succession Wars 3.0 and Mechwarrior 2 music pack. Another good one to use is Mechwarrior Online sound replacement pack which is as it says brings the MWO sounds to MW5.

On a new playthrough and currently have 2 Urbies with PPC and 4 machine guns apiece, in the process of building one more and then will use a medium missile mech as a "Center piece"

Use vonHUD :D And vonMissions just has been released for DLC5, bringing Solaris 7 to MW5. Sound Mods: Nostalgic Sounds Redux (NSR) is good, and also Sounds of the Succession wars - you can also use both, the one overriding the other is the main one, and if it has sounds missing, the other one is used. Btw: I saw you have Ultravisualsweather in your mod list - as it is (also) a lighting mod, it is incompatible with vonBiomes. vonBiomes has its own dynamic and extended lighting system built into, with sun classes, distances and more.:)

I'll take Blackjacks and Hunchbacks all day, my two favorite mediums.

I feel like exchanging the urbie for one you find in a shop would still be in the spirit of the run

Damage coverage! Even just 1 point helps!

Sound is fine imo, but the Green Night Vision is Super Bright for me. But I am Watching on an HDR 600 Display so things are brighter for me anyway.

100 kp/h . . on an urban mech . . THE HELL DUDE?!? Even if you go 50 you are still almost twice as fast as standard urbie. AND you have the tonnage for the Armor and Firepower it is known for.

I wonder how fast Baradul will get superheavies if he did a no mech salvage playthrough unless it's for them...

Might want to install higher tiered versions of weapons on your mechs. You can scoop up machine guns and small lasers for cheap and upgrade them.

frankenmech foray is a really good mod, hasn't been updated since 2022 but it works atl last dlc adds frankenmechs with unique quirks that have an upside and a downside to them and they have amazing models

🤣I dont know why but showing that fried turd you were building at the beginning of the video cracked me up.

You can have clearer vision with flamers in termal imaging mode. It will even show you the mech's heat level.

Baradul, a small suggestion for the Urbie: Increase its (kinda low) back armor. 10->15 for the CT and 7->10 for the side torsos.

@Acaios1

9 ай бұрын

49:00 Uh, and the machine gun ammo in the legs :)

Enjoying this playthrough I forgot I had this only on Game Pass so don't think I can mod it, still I enjoy it now I can play on a better PC I have and not on Console lol, not as good as you and don't know what I'm doing but still great watching you, have you seen MW5:Clans coming next year.

You should try the Purchase salvage mod. I don't know how many times in how many vids I've watched you where you're 1 or 2 salvage points short. If it feels like a cheat then set a personal limit to what you do like only 1-3 points bought. It still costs money and you can set the value of it to make it cost more as well. Just a thought.

Heyo Bara, (again) nice video series! I would like to suggest that you give your Urbie more armor on the back LT/RT. 7 points is not much, 10 should do. I know, the Urbie torso can spin like a propeller, but just in case ;) And final question: is the Urbie your current M.I.L.F (Mech I'd like to field)? :D

sorry i didnt watch as soon as it came out, but im loving the series :D

The Urbie might have more armor but is a slow walking target! I'd rather have speed and close range firepower. Two medium lasers and two SRMs with speed is way more deadly than a slightly mobile turret any day. All variants of Assassins suck but the better variants are still better than any Urbie model.

your firestarter can go 200+kph using its jumpjets. Good for traveling distances.

I’ve just tried VRwarrior mod…..piloting a mech in vr on my varjo aero…AMAZING….

If there was a sound mod for the lasers, replacing them with the MWO sounds, I'd suggest that. Both the regular lasers and pulse lasers sound brutal.

Keep the assassin It's fun to fight with

I refuse to pay the travel cost, Mod your game with "Faster & Cheaper Travel" it works perfect....

Bara you should install the machine gun extended range mod. Gives a tier 4 over 400 meters range. It makes them way more useful.

You've got to take into account that speed is armor. Sure, the Urbie packs more armor. It has to, it is only a pace or two faster than a turret. Even the worst AI pilots will hit it. Not so much with the Assassin. Its speed keeps it from getting hit all that often, so in effect it probably has the same amount of effective armor as the Urbie...and doesn't slow your lance down at all.

@Acaios1

9 ай бұрын

But with YAML you can change the Urbie's engine, so it can get the best of the two (armor+speed)

Dang, you cut off their KZread. No Baradul for them

i like what saiys in your shirt jaaj

AV stuff looks good on my TV i don't think you need to tweak any settings

Pocket Atlas AC-20 BF Urbie when? ;)

@baradul hey whats up man been watching your videos since i xame across mechwarrior 5 in the xbox game pass store. Any iv been mostly a console gamer although id did play MECH COMMANDER GOLD which was a really cool game for the time. Anyway i literally bought a gaming PC because of watching your videos and seeing how much cooler the game can be with mods. I wish they would make mods for console like they do for fallout and snow runner. Juat don’t add graphical enhancements and im sure the series x could handle it. Question I have for you is what are tou running for a gaming PC? What CPU and GRAPHICS CARD and are you running 16gb of ddr5 ram or 32gb. The PC I got has a ryzen 5 core and 3 years ago it was decent a g force gtx 1060 3gb i plan on putting a 3070 in it as it will run really smooth but for now im guessing since the pc is 3 years old it should run mechwarrior 5 fairly well. I don’t plan on adding any graphical enhancements with the 1060 gpu. Thank you for the awesome content and i hope you respond with some advice.

hey bara yaml and scary tanks multiply the tanks hp so u may want to check that out

Hey Bara are you going to finish the Armoured core playthrough

Should have sold the javlin

Maybe you have another source of data, because your youtube comments were pretty in favor of dropping the cicada, putting its engine in the assassin, and seeing if there was anything left for the urbie.

@RincetheWind

9 ай бұрын

They are both 40t mechs, so the Assassin would have the same weight available as the Cicada. Which is 6.5t for weapons and armor, which is actually half a ton less than a Locust. Yes, a 40t mech with a the speed of a Locust is worse than a Locust.

@maximilianschultz8244

9 ай бұрын

@@RincetheWind I carefully avoided saying he made the wrong choice even though that is my opinion. What I said was I don’t see how he reads comments and the majority said to build the Urbie in light of the only double digit comment on his previous video saying he should build the assassin from the cicada. Now if he’s got a discord that has a different narrative, I can concede the majority. For what it’s worth. I favor the assassin for the srms. We all know bara loves srms.

@RincetheWind

9 ай бұрын

​@@maximilianschultz8244 I think the Assassin has the better hardpoints as well. SRMs are OP in this game. :D Just the proposed 320 core is too big. 200, or 240 would be better in my opinion. I often get the impression that he reads comments occasionally, but maybe not regularly. He also prerecords, so the comments he read might have been older than the last video or two.

wait, what year is he playing in? hollanders were made in 3050something

@xJamesLaughx

9 ай бұрын

The one he picked, Liao, starts in 3015 so yeah no where near the date they would be around. The reason is the version of the Classic Mech Pack mod that adds the Hollander on Steam is just the YAML version. There is a YAML LORE version that makes the mechs only show up at the proper years, but he would have to get that from the Nexus site as I do not believe it is on the Steam workshop. Because it is not the LORE version of the mod those mechs can appear at anytime reegardless of their real appearence date.

@RincetheWind

9 ай бұрын

@@xJamesLaughxI didn't know there was a lore version! Thanks! I deactivated it because of all the clan and advanced stuff I was getting.

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Running your mod list, but disabled Clan Invasion because some of the icons in the hangar are blank, and some of the models are really low poly...just look tacky compared to the rest of the game.

would SL not be better on the firestarter instead of flamers?

No, the Assassin and Urbanmech are not good mechs. The Urbanmech for atrocious speed, and the Assassin, for stupidly small and scattered weapons.

@FARBerserker

9 ай бұрын

The Urban Mech is only as good as its constructeur and pilot.

@tacvek

9 ай бұрын

I would say that's true in vanilla, but with the ability to change the engine to something more reasonable and get more weight to work with, it's not the worst mech ever.

@averywhitaker3513

9 ай бұрын

Neither speed nor weapon size is relevant with the mods baradul are running, because those are both malleable (to a point, in the case of speed) The urbanmech is a god of its territory, it's just that mw5 doesn't let it shine because of the nature of this game. Still one of the best light mechs, just not the best mech full stop. The assassin... it's a 40 tonner. The hero is really nice in unmodded. Here? Well, again, it's all about what weapon types (not size) the mech has hard points for. They're both alright.

@Palaschurk

9 ай бұрын

​@@averywhitaker3513well the urbi does shine in this game just not in the hand of the player. Sturdy little shit with a bit of a punch they stay a lot longer in the fight then other light mechs

@RincetheWind

9 ай бұрын

@@Palaschurk Why shouldn't it shine in player hands? It now has the speed of a Firestarter or a Phoenix Hawk and also the armor of about a P-Hawk.

I suggest the Armor Green mod for more visual information regarding armor status.