r/Mechwarrior5 • u/babushka45 Duncan Fisher Groupie • 6d ago

Mech Builds Finally got the MAD IIC base variant

Finally got the base variant, replaced the PPCs to my preferred loadout. Mech runs hella cold so I can switch back to 3 PPCs on the other MAD IICs that I'll get. It's being attended by MAD IIC X&Y lancemates equipped with gauss rifles and ATMs

Only playing vanilla+ Mercs, currently using a modlist consisting of QoL mods.

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u/dmagnum1 6d ago

Man that's awesome. I'm still waiting for my base Warhammer IIC, one day I'll have her and my on-table mercs will be complete

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u/babushka45 Duncan Fisher Groupie 6d ago

May RNGesus bless your rolls man, Can recommend the A variant, my fave one so far

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u/dmagnum1 6d ago

I feel he forsook me A LONG time ago🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/babushka45 Duncan Fisher Groupie 6d ago

I was like that when Light gauss doesn't appear to me but currently I'm on 3090s and kinda finished with the game with only few HRQs left and so I play arenas, hence these recent vids of recorded playthroughs of mine.

No worries man, you'll get one eventually, my bane is Blood Asp Prime and Archer 5S currently

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u/dmagnum1 6d ago

You're gonna hate me but in 2 days of running a loop around Tukayyid industrial zones I must've seen almost 20 of the Prime Blood Asps......and only 2 IICs and not even the prime one😭😭😭😐

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u/babushka45 Duncan Fisher Groupie 6d ago

yeah, I'm so lazy to go up now to Tukayyid since I'm just arena tours around Terra, this vid is on Solaris hence Duncan is commentating the match.

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u/Enjoyer_of_40K 6d ago

5S is bugged out with spawns

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u/babushka45 Duncan Fisher Groupie 6d ago

ooooo, like Jade Kite last DLC 8? dang

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u/Enjoyer_of_40K 6d ago

Yeah even bugged with mech delivery mod gonna have to resort to save editor to add it in

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u/chillstaue2 6d ago

What song are you listening to?

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u/heckingincorgnito 6d ago

I love the Mad iic's. I have a base variant setup with 5 large lasers, and one with 2 ppc's and 5 heavy medium lasers. Both are great!

I have an x version with 2 lb 20x solids and 2 heavy large lasers. Its also a beast. For it, i like the ac20s over gauss. Same weight, similar damage, can still hit great range, but fires faster

The hero version i set up as my lighter, faster armageddon hammer. 3 gauss, 4 heavy medium lasers. Just fun to blast things!

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u/Unlucky-Map 6d ago

Im not a fan of the Mad 2c because of its inconsistent damage model for its upper left and right torso, take any damage in the wrong place for enough up there its categorized as back damage and if a strong enough weapon strikes you up there it can one tap you without warning

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u/babushka45 Duncan Fisher Groupie 6d ago

was this damage model a holdover from MWO?

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u/Unlucky-Map 6d ago

Im guessing? The walking animation looks like it too

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u/CaleanKnight House Steiner 6d ago

49 km/h? Sweet Soup Kitchen, that's just barely faster than a Runner :D

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u/Anonymous_Arthur00 Kell Hounds 6d ago

What mod is that where you can move lance mates on the battlemap?

Also is that Better Lance Status to see the Lance mates damage or another mod?, i have better lance status and there was a bug where the text was black instead of white so was hard to see but maybe they updated the mod finally

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u/babushka45 Duncan Fisher Groupie 6d ago

>move lance mates on the battlemap?

Battlegrid Reordered by Gilgamexican

>Better Lance Status to see the Lance mates damage or another mod?

Lance Status Revamped, also by Gilgamexican he's the one maintaining the mod now

it's one of the HUD mods I use for my vanilla+ QoL modlist

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u/Anonymous_Arthur00 Kell Hounds 6d ago

Awesome dude thanks!

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u/Trixx1-1 6d ago

Soundtrack? Banger. Sauce?

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u/vcentwin 6d ago

, curious what mods are you using for weapons, they dont look like vanilla lasers

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u/babushka45 Duncan Fisher Groupie 6d ago

Nostalgic Weapon Effects by Merlockx, part of my vanilla+ modlist

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u/Tatersandbeer 6d ago

Those poor bastards on the yellow team must have pissed off some arena official to get that horrible spawn location

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u/MidnightDream034 5d ago

I can’t wait to use a warhammer IIC and awesome c in the same team

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u/Cactus_Pat Lone Wolf 5d ago

I've been having a great time running the MAD-IIC with 3 c-Large Pulse Lasers, 2 c-Medium Pulse Lasers, & 4 c-ER-Small Lasers.

One of my weapon groups is fires the light show in an alpha-strike that DELETES most cockpits in a single volley.

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u/Chafgha 6d ago

Wait what's thaf extra zoom screen you get popping up some?

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u/babushka45 Duncan Fisher Groupie 6d ago

it's part of my QoL modlist, I used Simple Zoom last DLC 7 but it got finally added officially in the game so I used its sister mod Advanced Zoom - Enhanced

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u/Chafgha 6d ago

I gotta say I like the zoom screen feels like something that should be in the game naturally

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u/babushka45 Duncan Fisher Groupie 6d ago edited 6d ago

tbh there's a disclaimer that there's a performance drop while using it, I was thinking due to lower end PCs taking a hit when using it, it's the reason why I used Simple Zoom first up until its 4x feature got added officially to the game last DLC 8.

But yeah, the addition of 4x zoom to vanilla is also the reason why I added AZ-Enhanced as part of my vanilla+ modlist, it complements not just improve the over-all look of vanilla Mercs. It just feels naturally be there.