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Anyone know how to edit hardpoints for my Mechs? For example add large balistic hard point into centurion mecha.

There is VERY little customization at Mech in MW5, like you cant just add 2 small point weapon into one large one as MW4 or in Battletech :{

Atleast King Grap can have both 2 PPC's and 2 Gauss Cannons.

I'm trying to find other version of Atlas to have both 2 PPC's and 2 Gauss Cannons for it, but so far haven't seen bigger ballistic weapon slots on any Atlas as of yet.

If someone could make or find list of all the planet locations selling different mechs and weapons

Ditto I wouldn't mind donating 2000 credits or whatever the point system is to have that done.

sadly, I had to stop using the ppcs, the flash effect gave me a headache, specially when using the fast cooldowns option in trainer, I will stick with the visually low impact lasers, I think I will try for the ER Lasers, they seem my best option. I did notice the game has hero class mechs, I picked up a hero javelin that has 4 med lasers and 2 missiles, space for 6 jumpjets and with a speed of 97 due to it only being a 30 ton mech, its pretty awesome.

[Edited by Ashar, 12/12/2019 4:05:51 PM]

Is there any update on if this is a possibility? it is definately intriguing to have free customization over my mech!

Please use the trainer option request system for requesting new options be added to this trainer and/or vote on options already requested.

This is all badly informed guessing based on a bit of web research and experience with modding Battletech (I know, Unity VS Unreal, so huge grain of salt). If anybody is beyond the research stage and doing actual work, please jump in and let me know how wrong I am!

First, I think modding the hardpoints needs to be done by editing the game files, not thru a trainer. The game has specific graphics it wants to use for each weapon, in each mech, at each location. In other words, a SRM-2 gets a different graphic if it's on a Locust or a Shadow Hawk, but that same SRM-2 has different graphics if it's on the RT Torso or Head of a Shadow Hawk. And of course an SRM-3 will look different than a LRM-5. Point is the game knows how to graphically represent 3 autocannons in the left torso of a Marauder, but if you tell it it's okay to mount 4, then it probably will crash.

That being said, you can mix and match across mech versions. Let's pretend there's a mech that has 2 versions. The A variant only has 2 laser hardpoints in the Left Torso for its weapon loadout, and the B variant only has 2 missile hardpoints in the Right Torso. Since there's data to support it, you can modify the game files to let the A variant have 2 Laser in the LT and 2 Missile in the RT. But you could not add an autocannon to an a arm, since there's no "infrastructure" to support that.

In \MW5Mercs\MW5Mercs\Content\Paks\ there is a 41 gig .pak file that presumably contains all the game assets. I can't get WinRAR or 7zip to read it, so this is all educated guessing. Again, I'll happily defer to somebody who's further along.

As i said its not about more trainer options, its about if someone manage to edit game files somehow.
For examle the previous BattleTech game, it was possible(but prety HC) to edit game files to add some hard point and speed to your mech, or edit weapons trough some file editor.(but graphicaly the mech looks bad, since there was like autocannon pointing into the sky from mech head...)
I m prety sure somebody will manage to do that in time, and this site is about cheating i hope...
Anyway i m quite satisfied with trainer as it is(would add some options but thats about another discusion), if you dont have cheat happens lifetime i would reccomend to buy it, its quite cheap in long run.

About where to find good mechs, look around level 11 battlefield industry hubs, then go for rare weapons/hero mechs icons i found there:

2x hero black knight: 3x L Energy, 3x M energy, 1x M balistic, 1x S missile, 65 speed.

My personal mech is Stalker 3F wich is completely crazy: 4x!! M Missile, 2x L energy, 4x M energy, 49 speed.

(For missile love using LMR+ST+Artemis, they are quite hard to get, but once you get 2 of them, you can memory edit(Search 2, then sell one, search 1, then buy it back...) the quantity to XXXX then have lifetime on them)

BTW: I had to buy new graphic card for this game, now i have twin AMD Radeons, and discovered that after my old GPU, AMD stoped supporting Win8.1..the hell AMD? Last decent gaming OS gone :/

[Edited by Kjubaran, 12/15/2019 6:13:39 AM]