Is there a discord?

No, you must keep them safe.

is it possible to repair leopards? I have not seemed to have found a way yet

could there potentially be naval assets added in the future? I know in lore there's a few full on ships but at least stuff like the monitor would be a cool addition, along with more variety in air and tank units

It triggers randomly when a unit takes a hit.

Its an explosion that can happen every 1s and damage a unit and its components. It is more likely to happen on vehicles and mechs can avoid it completely if they move.

btw: what's "critical hit"? and how does it work?
criticalHit=<some value> — probability of crit?

and I suppose that damage less or equals 5 doesn't damage components, right? (if not critical hit maybe)

I know 😇👀

You can also make the mechs free... Oh, and be aware that any changes you make to the default layouts, the enemy will use as well.

Yes, you can put 3 Arrow-4 on a Locust.

.....aaand..yes! If you manually edit *.ini files you can actually put any weapon into any slot (+ incompatible). Game won't complain 😇

LOL... edited Turkina.ini, put Gauss into each slot:
Expectations: ==ERRORR!!!==
Reality: INSANE BUILDING DEMOLISHER!!!
Sold all guns, got 84 available tonnage!!! (44 by default), so....I guess...that... available tonnage depends on initial mech loadout.
Didn't try to put big guns into small\med\wrong slots, etc..... yet.

Uh... sad..
I'll have to modify each one manually... and inherit existing mechs for different loadouts (don't know how but I'll try 👀)

@Opaliwur

Has been asked before, you cannot. You CAN go in and modify the default loud out though. Is what I have done.

Great mod! You can even play vs impossible bots with ease ☺
Btw, is it possible to make the ability to save mechs' custom loadouts for future use?

my dumbass is too overwhelmed for this mod

Nevermind, just occurred to me I can just use the Jade Falcons as a generic Clan invader in skirmish.

Holy crap, this is pretty much the closest we could get to some unofficial sequel to Mechcommander.
Wish there were maps and missions made for it. But skirmish works nicely!

I know there's already a battletech mod set during the clan-invasion, but I really like how this mod does this, so I hope in the future you might make one set in the clan-invasion.

After less than 20 minutes they start making mechs.

@SUSHIMAKI I will purposely let the matches run for over an hour and the AI mechs aren't spawning so no, I am not defeating the enemy AI too quickly.

And just like someone else has said, the infantry is a constant problem. Please adjust them.

It says it can detect units outside of range.

I didn`t know the one about probes, could it be added to the tooltip?

Active probes will also randomly reveal infantry.

Well they can't swim. Mechs can bypass everything if they have jump jets. The trick against infantry is setting up a good patrol net. If they are spotted, any unit in range will shoot them.

I do kinda hate how infantry is just a constant thorn in the side because you have to be on top of them to even see them and they do too much damage for what they are and how they just bypass all terrain like it doesn't exist

If he finish a match before he can afford mechs, then it makes sense the ai don't have time to get any out.

@OldPayphone The new "barriers" and "caltrops" almost work as passive defence, but to waste masses I usually use the basic tank (AC5 + MG) or the basic helicopter (MG).
If you want to avoid losses a light/ medium mech with good speed (0.81 the minimum) armed with MG and/or flamers + AMS if it has slots, this requires quite the micro tho
For AI not using mech it somewhat inherited from vanilla (not using costly stuff but spamming cheap), the modder would have to insert some hefty (and finniky) scripts to make it happen frequently
You could also try playing the Sandbox mode where you can give commands to all AI players

In all my games, the AI doesn't even build any mechs. They just spam infantry because they are so cheap and powerful in groups that they make mechs entirely irrelevant. I am able to beat a very hard AI quicker with elemental/infantry spam versus using mechs. That's a genuine balance issue. The elementals for example have SRM's that go way beyond the range indicated when you select them. The are practically very overpowered cloaked artillery. Their micro lasers also destroy absolutely everything when they really shouldn't.

Overall infantry need a huge nerf to their cloak and their weapon range, and damage to mechs if not using rockets. Elementals need to move much faster since they have jump jets.

@darksider1995 I appreciate the tips, I really do. I'll make sure to use the AMS walls but while yes the infantry are squishy, it's annoying how I am basically forced to run up on them, taking massive damage from their rockets to even kill them. It just feels like there is no counter to infantry spam.

Infantry is super squishy, you can counter LRMs with walls upgraded with AMS
As for turrets I guess the dev doesn`t want players to turtle too much? Still you can spam them, a 3*3 square with 1 ammo depot in the middle with 8 AC turrets is quite dangerous

@OldPayphone I see only 2 possibilities: you didn`t get economy running or you didn`t recruit Mechwarriors. For n1 you should spam the Solar Farm building (from the large foundation) 15-25 should give you enough income. For n2 Mechwarriors are recruited from the Mech factory and require a bunch of money (like 2M) and infantry population. You are not supposed to rely only on the HPG relays for money

@darksider1995 Nice stupid assumption. I have played multiple matches. Still the same awful balance issues and the inability to spawn mechs.

@OldPayphone Have you experimented a bit, or did you just launched 1 match, didn`t get the logic and now you`re complaining?
Because the mod is not vanilla, it`s a Total Conversion

My goodness. This mod is so incredibly unbalanced. Troops are insanely overpowered. Their cloak paired with their game breaking huge range makes them way to OP. LRM's have way to far of range and needs to be dialed back. Turrets are so incredibly weak and useless. Their damage is a joke and they should have the ability to detect the troops if they are nearby. At no point during my games could I make any mechs. Just tanks and helicopters. Why?

Should be possible yes.

I like the random neutral enemies that spawn on the map with this mod, is it possible to make a version of that system for vanilla?

best mechcommander we have for now keep calm and MECH ON

@BigTimeGamer Mechcommander Series is pretty damn good. Old now, but I played the first one over and over.

in summery, 3067 out of 10 mod, worth more than the whole lot

bruh, this mod is like magic how can a human do all these things with a game as simple as this, and if anyone knows a rts battletech game as good as this mod , msg me cuz i never knew battletech could work as a rts rather than a tbs

So, two things, mech with ECM, or given ECM, loose them randomly. Sometimes I install one and it lierally burns to death in the mech, while still in the mech bay. Assuming bug, not feature?

Second, I don't see the AI making many of their unique mechs, mostly just Awesome, Marauders, Centurions and the smaller stuff. Never seen Jade Falcon pull out a clan mech. Could just be me being blind, but I noticed it enough to mention.

Still wish we could save custom loadouts somehow. Be so awesome to not have to give all my Mad Cats AMS instead of MG's.

That actually seemed to help. I just loaded a game on VH and waited on 5x speed to see if the AI changes its behavior. Thanks!

Don't use Impossible ai, try Very hard and they should be better. Impossible ai is erratic and don't work well with mods.

Is this still being updated?

I ask because the AI is quite passive even on Impossible.

I would sit around and just build up while the AI just sets up 5 or so outposts then just launch piecemeal attacks at me. I'm playing on a map with resource pods literally all over the map and the AI just uses a handful.

Is there anyway you can make the AI more expansive and aggressive? Especially on Impossible?

U are a man!, thank you very much, if I succeeded, I will contact you
thank you very much once again

I suggest you go on the official Rusted Warfare Discord. A user called General Airon also made many video tutorials i believe. I think he got 2 youtube account General Airon and Aironium. The discord server is the best place to learn modding and there is actually a google document with all the code lines you can use. Modding is really easy once you grab the basics.

and if it is possible to help you promote this work of art, send me the link

Dude! Can I ask you something?
How do you change some things in the game, like adding more resources, like energy, oil/gas and nutrition? I wanted to make the game more about collecting, like a small truck picks up supplies from a distant area and has to deposit them at the main base, so the game would be even more challenging. Like, I could continue using credits (C-Bills) to buy things, but with the addition of these elements, and if I were to pay only with credit, it would be a mercenary construction (but the time and price would be double or triple to produce the unit). I really wanted to be able to do that, but I don't know how to do programming commands (I tried about 20 times and failed miserably every time). If you can (I know it's kind of selfish on my part), but could you send me a video of how to make these new resources and how to hire new people in your mod? I believe that my 13 hours of gameplay were only with your mod. I don't even think about playing vanilla anymore.

I think my favourite mechs would be the Wolfhound, Dervish, thunderbolt and Zeus. In weight category. Also, warships in Battletech remain in space and bombardments are very limited by the Ares convention and the general need to preserve infrastructures intact (On ground but also the battleships themselves are too valuable to risk). Thats why ground battles are dominant. Eventually, i would like to further differentiate factions by having more faction specific air units too.

Also I wanted to say the godzilla in the sandbox mode is pretty funny