level 2. These hulking mechanical monstrosities have the best armour, the most weapon slots, and the best potential range. Welcome to Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries DLC "Call to Arms" playthrough. 2 ppcs in torso's + 1 ppc in arm. King Crab: Assault Mechs; Awesome: Assault Mechs; Victor: Assault Mechs;. Reference: MechWarrior 5:. Not really sure how to load it out. Step 4: Jump to Fukuroi in Kurita Space. Named Florentine, this variant is a virtual mini-King Crab, mounting an UAC/5 in each arm supported by a left-torso mounted LRM. $14. Argent Leviathan was commissioned by ComStar in 3060 as an exploratory upgrade to existing King Crabs. Feb 12 @ 5:19am. Several Hero mechs have XL engines, ES, and/or FF that makes them far more effective than even upgraded base variants. A dropship lands an archer and a centurion. s. The tier list does not take into account how good a mech is in the hands of or together with lancemates. The KGC-000(L) was offered as a loyalty reward BattleMech, featuring a unique skin and a 30% C-Bill bonus. Finding the Hero Urban in the Early Game. . Conceived in secret between Cosara and the Terran Hegemony, it was an attempt to produce a deadly command 'Mech by mounting a pair of newly. #1. Welcome to Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries DLC "Legend of the Kestrel Lancers" playthrough. Frontline Support Davion Part 2 - Panther PNT-9R (Reputation 5 Campaign) Frontline Support Kurita Part 2 - Spider SPD-5K (Reputation 5 Campaign) The Conspirators Part 4 - Hero Rifleman Diana RFL-DNA. Done in minutes. As for the Archer itself, the Agincourt is well worth it. range isnt an issue either. Depends on the loadout but the King Crab is definitely more of a fun vs optimal versatile mech but I run the 4x balistic slot version to run 4x LB 10-X ACs, iirc but it's been a while. The head hitbox is huge, so you’ll spend a lot of time restarting levels because your King Crab suddenly keels over. I use my King Crab or Atlas, give Freeman a hero Orion, then fill the rest in. Threads: 9 Messages: 21. 2. TP-1R The predecessor to the original Flea FLE-4 model, the Trooper TP-1R prototype was built in 2475, by Toddlette Industries, on a primitive chassis and maintained ground speeds of nearly 100 km/h. 1: If you find something (anything you would buy), make a new save to mark what you found. Outreach HPG is a discussion hub for Mechwarrior Online and Mechwarror 5 Mercenaries, stompy robot games by PGI. #12. It's possible to get away with using AC-20-BFs, but you'll likely chew through your ammo too quickly. Unlocks Black Inferno, Comstar, Independent, Outlaws, Periphery and Taurian Concordat color schemes based on existing skins. Usually a Black Knight with the cheaper weapons on the arms and more expensive weapons on the torso. MW5 also doesn't necessarily follow canon and it. For the Marauder 2, I plan on chopping it to bits, lol. Look at high risk high reward missions (Google). What's worse is, the King Crab actually really needs the ability to melee, because it barely brings any ammo with it. CryptoAS7-D [mwo. Mods. XD. The 'b' suffix inficates a royal SLDF 'mech and IIRC the Royal King Crab has an XL engine and Ferro Fibrous armour. MechWarrior 5 will. Light Mech. It was meant to be a short to medium range -mech "that can destroy another 'mech in a single salvo". The 'Mech carries as its primary weapons two Magna Hellstar PPCs and replaces the Autocannon/5 of the original Marauder with a Magna Mk III large laser. I'd probably buy a hero King Crab. chevron_left. . chevron_right. I saw them plenty in Taurian space prior to the last mission. "KAIJU CRAB IS GREAT CRAB!". Hero King Crab *ow, hot*. Makes quick work of anything. MAD-4A The 4A Marauder II is built using technology available in 3012 when the design was first constructed. Anyway, the -4P isn't even a hero mech. Edit: I was mistaken. For a MechWarrior life is war and the only true peace is death. It's head is square right in the middle of the Center Torso, so it tends to eat a lot of shots that were bound for the CT. Each of the hero mechs will spawn randomly. View all games. Strayed Jul 17, 2021 @ 8:38am. MWO King Crab for 3D printing is an active assembly model and its moderation and adaptation for different types of 3D printers took the Gambody team 30 hours in total. I did find about 5 Hero Catapults though. Left mouse button and right mouse button for their respective PPCs and mouse button 3 for the mediums. Forums > MechWarrior Online - Build Section > Assault - Inner Sphere > King Crab All custom builds and discussion, related to the King Crab, are posted here. The torso on a king crab, by lore, doesnt actually twist. ago. It may be a good chance to take your new King Crab out for a spin! This mission is a straightforward assassination mission. The whole time, vtols will continue to send swarms in waves. I cant remember what I took in, believe it was my Stalker (4mplas,2erllas,4srm6), Black Knight Partisan, Warhammer 6r, and Grasshopper hero. 24. Crab’s energy load out will teach good heat management and be useful for prolonged fights. ANH-1E or ANH-1X depending on whether you want energy weapons or Ballistic. The AI chews stuff up with this mech, it is slow though, so you have to wait for it to catch up with the rest of your lance. All mechs, including hero mechs, are stock loadouts from MWO converted into MW5 terms. 4 PPCs, an LRM-15, and a UAC/5 is a lot of gun tonnage to fit with a standard engine. The waddling deletion machine AKA King Crab hero with quad AC/10 Slugs. The AI mostly ignores the SRMS and just uses the LLs but it's pretty deadly with 3 LLs. Step 6. The other hero king crab is a mission series reward, and Carapace is very much worth doing the series for. MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries. It can really reduce overall damage. with two tons of reloads in the right torso and an LRM-15 with a single ton of missiles in the left torso. Welcome in MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries. The King Crab Chassis Radiates Power With MechWarrior 5 being out, and all the hype for the King Crab that has been generated by it, I think that the player base would be ecstatic to have a new King Crab variant be introduced, particularly a Hero 'mech that harkens back to that aura of power that the King Crab on the MechWarrior 5. Celebrity. MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries The year is 3015. MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries. Light Mech. My experience playing higher difficulty missions with a king crab, Annihilator 1A and 1X and an Atlas. SRM6's in the hands is a good move, but in the AI hands you might end up losing them. Will get back to this soon. King Crab Hero, Carapace. Quick, 6 mg's, one ppc, and 2 medium lasers. I don't know of anything Mechwarrior 5 specific, but if you don't mind a firehose of information,. Mechwarrior 5: Clans Steam page is up: Elaborate Clan Smoke Jaguar mission campaign, 5 player co-op, new Clan mechlab, Clan mechs, and more. The King Crab is in the RED Zone in the North in the hubs Hendron/Mcalistor and so on. Welcome, r/MechWarrior is a constructive space in spirit of enjoying any and all MechWarrior games to their fullest while fostering the continuation and promotion of the. This King Crab is an imposing warrior. In this video I will show you the gameplay of a full missions as well as. If you get the new KCG-CAR with the hero quest, I cannot recommend quad mounting Heavy Rifles enough. It comes with 2x UAC10s, 2x streak srm6s, and 2xMPLs. There's 4 actually. I like the Carapace far better than the Kaiju since I like ballistic weapons more. The popular opinion is you have to do a minimum of a 250k jump for things to reset. But slow as hell and a big target. Forget what it has exactly, saw one, didn't buy it. Posted 14 June 2017 - 07:21 AM. . Bring Her Home - High Reward Quest - MechWarrior 5: Heroes of the Inner Sphere. The whole time, vtols will continue to send swarms in waves. So basically its 000=FF, 0000=nothing, 000b=FF+ArtIV. Many of them are later in the timeline but there are also some rare and hero mechs you can get anytime. Both missions are high rep, 400 tonnage drop limit affairs. Heroes of Inner Sphere DLC campaign playthrough. MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries Kestrel Lancers Missions details the unique campaign featured in Legend of the Kestrel Lancers. . All three variants come with the same stock weapons configuration. Weapons i use lbx solid for DPS, Artemis Srm6 , and 2 PPC I think. They can do assassinations in a pinch. LocoRenegade. King Crab: KCG-CAR (Carapace), KGC-KJ (Kaiju) Grasshopper is a great mech. My go-to for minimizing salvage cost is chop off a leg, slice both the torso's off, then if its still moving, headshot or cut off the other leg. Iirc in a unmodded game it's a more mobile black Knight with less large energy slots and jump jets. F. can carry a lot of missiles and shoot them all day. comstar is well on it's way to hating me so, i'll nail them a few more times and see what they give up. And damn, this thing is indeed a monster. MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries. close. Mod list:Advanced ZoomBetter Lighting Hangar Minimal FogCockpit GlassCockpit LightCoyotes MissionFake IDField RepairsLore-based Mech VariantsMax TonnageMech. I make a Full Star map with where you can get the Rare and Hero. Designs vary wildly alongside the different classifications, with lightweight mechs like the Javelin fulfilling just as useful a role as something gigantic like the King Crab. GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. . Outreach HPG is a discussion hub for Mechwarrior Online and Mechwarror 5. "Melee has never been done in a MechWarrior video game, but it's a huge component of the tabletop game, Battletech, that the series is. Not great for a quick look, but useful for an overview. I've loaded it with 4 SRM6, 2M laser SB, and a UAC/5. 99. I thought I was dead, but my lancemate in a KC of his own landed 2 gauss shots center torso, followed by a barrage of probably 100 LRMs from my lancemates, because I like my lancemates to be able to provide indirect fire and go overboard with LRMs on their mechs, lol. There were so many mechs swarming, I might have missed a few. The King Crab is already an inferior LRM platform - using the variant with the best ballistic quirks to do it just adds insult to injury - if you must waste a King Crab on LRMs, Use the Quaddo. Several mechs have the UAC/5 part of the default chassis. And as the 3M has a small laserpoint, large laserpoint and a large missile hardpoint. Take the King Crab and give it two of your most powerful AC-20s. Quirk name: CRB-FL Crab Hero Armor The Crab Hero comes equipped with higher density armor ; Center torso armor bonus: +8 ; Right torso armor bonus: +6 ; Left torso armor bonus: +6 ; Right leg armor bonus: +12 ; Left leg. However the arm mounted AC is a drawback compared to the better armored RT AC on the HBK. · 3y. See it live in action in this video preview! :) 🥳Atlases are ok. Its weaponry was mounted in fully articulated turret-style pods, and only consisted of two small lasers in the left arm, a. Kugelschreiber16. It doesn't make sense from a design standpoint to make the cockpit exposed on assault mechs but embedded and very hard to hit on medium. King Crabs are found in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska, and south to British Columbia, Canada. With mods, especially YAML, you can basically make any mech exceptional however, so you have much more freedom when building stuff. Looks like 000B and 000 have slightly more armor when maxed, while it weighting about 2 tons less than 0000. Absolute destruction. Limping around like that was intense, and eventually the King Crab reached me. While not consistent you can typically find a Crab on Terra, in particular the 27 models which are Star League models which are worth getting. Similar to the hunchback grid iron, and a few other mechs, it’s one of a few mechs that can reasonably have as much firepower (or more for some mechs) as. I missed out on I take this mech on solo low tier story missions and it’s a blast! I love this Mech. Bills had issued a ruling as. 00:07 King Crab Carapace KGC-CAR 01:47 Briefing 04:23 Mech Selection 11:47 Mission: Defense 22:49 Debriefing 23:54 Briefing. Many players tend to configure the King Crab Carapace with four of the same ballistic weapons, especially quad UAC/5 or AC/5-BF or quad Heavy Rifles. Lance 3 (assassination): 2 BJ-As, Quickdraw, and Grasshopper. Systemwork5 • 2 yr. I think at end game, most mechs are viable hero mechs even more because the are just better. I thought the hero mechs would have a hero pant job too. The rotary 5s are the main source of dakka, the. "92 tons", not "95 tons". Absolute destruction. I think at end game, most mechs are viable hero mechs even more because the are just better. Frontline Support - Reputation 7. It's silly. It is ton for ton one of the better heavy mechs. You take command of a mercenary company and try to grow your income, salvage Mechs and hire Mechwarriors. There aren't any that are released that late. Recently added 64 View all 2,563. Though Mason prevails and even destroys the entire Black Inferno base, Yamata escapes, using Kane as a distraction. The torso and limited arm rotation is still accurate, and is why you do not melee with a King Crab. Also you can get on from one of the campaign missions as a reward. Minimal repair bills on 70ish difficulty missions. Ren. MechWarrior 5: Heroes of the Inner Sphere. I've been playing this game for a good two days now and managed to slap together what I think is a decent King Crab build; I liked the crustacean aesthetic and saw someone in QP running it with dual rotary 5s so I started there and went with my gut. And holy crap is this thing awesome. Visit Cantinas to pick up jobs from the Inner Sphere's shadiest characters. That's all I could tell. . . Latest: KGC-KJ "Bi-Claw" (1xAC20, 3xBLC, 3xLPPC, LE325) Remover of Obstacles, Aug 27,. MAL-MX90-S A variant of the re-named Daboku exclusive to the Otomo, while the LRM-10 racks are retained the standard Large Lasers are replaced with Extended Range models and the autocannons are exchanged for a trio of machine guns in each side-torso. I haven't seen one yet. The best part is that those mechs have all the benefits of those upgrades without taking up crit slots. At least you get good value out of the head armor every drop lol. MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is a. Introduced as of 3045 in the Heroes of the Inner Sphere DLC, this version of the Cyclops was built around an XL engine and Endo Steel frame. King Crab CAR (Carapace), quad medium ballistics (can be acquired through special missions that have 5 parts), Victor BSK (Basilisk), dual medium ballistics on a 80 ton mech (same as CAR, just another mission), Rifleman DNA, dual large ballistics on a 65 ton mech (same as CAR, just another mission),King crab has 2 gauss mount King crab hero has 4 ppc + 1 gauss mount (using him for now) Marauder has 2 ppc Awesome can have 3 Black knight has 2-3 ppc too. I just ran a demo mission to find this lost son solo in the Blackjack hero. This 100-ton assault-c. That thing is an insane medium brawler. Whether you need help with entry level mech builds, would like to share your own creations, or wish to have. 32GB RAM. So now I’m always checking the detailed mech info on the salvage selection list. Big Mod Development News! vonHUD for Mechwarrior 5 will get a top-down style interface called "vonCommander" to order Mechs around with mouse clicks. de] (this last one is special in that the lasers are not just backup, but will actually be used) Overall the AS7-D wouldn't be my first choice for an Atlas, but i assume you bought it on the sale for cheap, so i think i'll add a budget. Roughly. This one I pilot myself. 3. The D, K, and hero models are pretty good. In this video I will show you the gameplay of a full missions as well. There are two hero King Crabs, the Carapace and Kaiju. Have one mech with a ECM Guardian and if possible one AMS in the group. Yea, the King Crab is practically a barn door with legs. $11. Fendelphi. Mechwarrior 5: Clans Steam page is up: Elaborate Clan Smoke Jaguar mission. I'm looking for your favorite inner sphere and clan load outs for King Crab 0000 and 000B variants. In this video I will show you the gameplay of a full missions as well. MechWarrior 5: Call to Arms. Whether you need help with entry level mech builds, would like to share your own creations, or wish to have a discussion about game mechanics, we've been the primary unofficial MW:O community since 2012. The game does have the option of co-op play, with three friends of the host able to take the place of the AI pilots and assist. . Ugly. King Crabs can do AC20+lasers or SRMs+lasers brawling setups, but I don't think the chassis is particularly. 30% OFF $10 $7. Arguably one of the best mechs. Humanity has colonized thousands of systems across a vast region of space splintered by centuries of conflict. Almost twice a "regular" Ultra AC/5. best faction reputation : r/Mechwarrior5. IIRC, the latest hero mech to get released is the Mauler KO, which comes out in the mid to late 3040's. From MechWarrior 5: The Dragon's Gambit Expansion Pack:. Torment charged into the opposing pack of mechs, grabbing a Trebuchet with its huge right-hand claw while simultaneously knocking a Jenner over, the smaller mech rolled over twice breaking its leg actuators and shedding both of its side pods on the ground. Not 100% sure about the non hero mechs, but it seems like those are just area level dependent. KGC arms get blown off way too easily. Other mauler variants are also very good. I also note that the NightStar is capped at 345 (3 DHS max) and has hand actuators so I can't imagine it being better than a King Crab. The drawback of low reload is mitigated at higher weapon tiers and with mech upgrades. Advertisement Coins. It's silly. Both options are fun. You have to fight around 12 mechs (up to six at one time plus some are heavies) in total plus tanks, turrets and the VTOLs etc and then when you find the mech you need to fight FOUR untouched mechs including. I can imagine SRM6 wrecking everything, especially on that Kintaro hero mech. The Annihilator is the best, but walking 33kph across a huge. A workhorse design that failed to live up to its expectations, the Quickdraw nevertheless managed to thrive in a turbulent galaxy where many other ‘Mechs didn’t. Each King Crab has its ups and downs. More balanced hardpoints that the other two variants Three high mounted energy hardpoints in the RT Slightly better at hill climbing than the Atlas, even though both are 100 tons. Assault Mechs - MechWarrior 5 Mech stats. . The heroes are a random spawn from the available hero mech pool (so date locked, no duplicates with player inventory, etc). #9. Sarna has a good overview about all the quests, especially the quests where you get a Hero Mech at the end. Also you can bounce between those two repair hub zones that straddle the deep conflict zone. ago. 0 coins. If thats higher than the limit than I likely brought in the crab hero with TAG and a catapult in place of the Warhammer and Grasshopper. Some rare variants and mech types can only show up as rare mechs, such as the Nightstar, and as a rare mech in Tera industrial zone shop is where I got mine. We've added a new option to your Content Blocking settings which enables adult content but blurs out the tiles and images by default. I was specifically looking as I just got the quest based Hero King Crab that has the 4 UACs and 2 15 st LRMs, just wondered what the heat sink/ammo balance was exactly (and weapon loadout before I found the in-game mech index, whatever it's. Put double heat sinks in every engine slot for every AI mech. The 'b' suffix inficates a royal SLDF 'mech and IIRC the Royal King Crab has an XL engine and Ferro Fibrous armour. In this video I will show you the gameplay of a full missions as well. RELATED: Suit Up: The Best Mechs In Video Games, Ranked MechWarrior has always been about customizing mechs to fit each. High Reward Quest: Stop the Launch. 1A - 4 AC10, 4 MLas. MechWarrior Online (MWO), rebranded MechWarrior Online Legends in 2023, is a BattleTech-themed online multiplayer simulation game by Piranha Games for Microsoft Windows. Personally i love mechs with both lasers and dakka. The 2767 genesis of the Nightstar lies in the Amaris Civil War, when it was noticed that unit commanders, most of whom were piloting Marauder BattleMechs, were being targeted by troops loyal to Stefan Amaris. Steam Community: MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries. 48 RPM. Replaces the MW5 Mechlab with an MWO-like, fully unlocked Mechlab, a re-imagination of Reloaded. Marauders are usually pretty good. For sextuple AC2 I would much rather take the Mauler. Better to add Rancors and the like. As with everything else, it depends what kind of build you want. Race over there! CDA-X5, Hero Cicada 🤬To get hero status the mech would have had to have been used so it would have been deployed, most likely in many different places, before ending up on the market. The beast is finally mine but a little disappointing. But there can be only of of the mechs at any time, either in a shop or in your inventory. Has anyone had luck with this mech, just got it as a mission reward. Black knight hero with hardened armor, 1 l pulse, and the rest medium pulse. Big Mod Development News! vonHUD for Mechwarrior 5 will get a top-down style interface called "vonCommander" to order Mechs around with mouse clicks. atlas K because it gets ams. Just find some large clusters that you can reveal all at once and go there. The hero mechs added are all especially useful. The King Crab is a wrecking ball to other mechs but is less effective against lots of small targets. Again, double heat sinks, endo, XL, and 2 jump jets. In this video I will show you the gameplay of a full missions as well as. Grasshopper is a great mech. videogame_asset My games. While Randall N. The cockpit is so huge that the AI almost always targets it. Add Cantina upgrades for speed and ballistics damage/cooldown/range to enjoy melting any and all 'mechs. . Highly recommended hero mech via quests: Dragon Sidewinder Victor Basilisk Corsair-Privateer Orion-YAJ King Crab CAR Other great mech chassis: Blacknight / Banshee 3P (the laserboat variant with 8+ energy slots)Welcome to Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries DLC "Heroes of the Inner Sphere" Playthrough. With 2x LRM 5 ST's, 2x SSRM2's and 2 SB Medium Lasers (and rocking above 100kph) this thing is the. Yep. It is ton for ton one of the better heavy mechs. Award. So far no other hero mechs appeared. r/Mechwarrior5 • 2 yr. • •. It's configured with a "perfectly symmetrical" build of 2 x Heavy Rifle, 2 x UAC/5 and 2 x SRM 6-ST + ART IV. Step 6. While Ferro-Fibrous is present and simulated (only in mass, not slots), the difference is 32 points per ton for Standard and 36 points per ton for FF. Archers, in general, are some of the best mechs in the game. In this video I will show you the gameplay of a full missions as well. Proceed to demolish everything in 1 Salvo. Example lance. Cyclops and Zeus heroes are the 2 best (all around) mechs in the game. The King Crab is perhaps the unluckiest mech in the game, one of maybe 2 or at most 3 mechs where hitboxes truly matter. Correction: the Atlas Kraken is the latest hero to come onto the market, in 3049. 3 m lasers. Anyway. Final mission where you storm the beachhead with allied Steiner units, and need to work your way up the ridge to silence the artillery and deactivate the device. MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries. 2A - Very similar to 1A. This build is basically an up-engine version of the stock loadout with some other mod nonsense. Ash828-. Similar to the hunchback grid iron, and a few other mechs, it’s one of a few mechs that can reasonably have as much firepower (or more for some mechs) as it’s tonnage. 4 stars, King Crab, Zeus, Victor, and an Orion V. . When I was level 12 I went back and the mech I saw at the planet was at the other industrial hub. MAD-5A for Marauder II. This doesn't mean I expect you to follow the same path, but rather I think you can pick up some strategies that you can use. Some models do better than others. Tier 5 weapons are crazy. I've tried it so many times and simply cannot beat it. The 3 general builds I've seen for it are either 4x Heavy Rifles for absolutely deleting things in one salvo (just make sure you hit, cuz that long reload is rough), 4x LBX Slugs for consistent and unrelenting damage. Finding the Hero Urban in the Early Game. . 1E - 4PPCs, 4 MLas. Whether you need help with entry level mech builds, would like to share your own creations, or wish to have a discussion about game mechanics, we've. The Wolverine has a few claims to fame. r/Mechwarrior5. CRB-20 Discussion of the CRB-20 variant of the Crab chassis. MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries. Be the first to find out all the latest. Builds for the King Crab Kaiju Hero Variant go here. Atlas head on the shield in the upper right of the 'Mech portrait: Variant is considered a "hero" mech associated with specific pilots from the lore. Location Is Being Obscured By ECM. The Archer Agincourt is by far the best heavy mech in the game in my opinion, and the Victor Basilisk the best period. For a MechWarrior life is war and the only true peace is death. It's a few jumps aw. The 4 ballistics are for 4 UAC5 or AC5. Member. Largely driven by the logistical problems plaguing ComStar's thinly stretched armies, the KGC-AL prototype would carry eight extended range medium. check those places. My favorite shadowhawk to date is UAC/5, SRM 6, 4, 2, 2ML/MPL. • 1 mo. I’m tempted to make this the same but with 4x PPC but I’m not sure about that build. Personally I'd take a black knight over it any day.