In The Pit (DLC8) - Cockpit Camera Reposition

What it does

MW5 puts the first-person camera almost on top of the canopy glass. You barely see your own cockpit, and on ultrawide it's worse — the cockpit frame sits outside your field of view entirely.

This moves the camera 14 units back and 6 down, measured from the pilot's body, so you sit properly behind the controls with the frame, console and canopy in shot.

Rebuilt from scratch against game 1. 14. 390 and covering all 90 'Mechs from the base game through DLC8 — including the full Clan roster, which no previous camera mod touched.

One value works everywhere. The pilot body attaches at exactly

(0, 0, 0)in all 90 cockpits and the seated pose is identical across chassis, so every cockpit shares the same reference point. No per-chassis guesswork. The offset was then tuned in game against the pilot's measured eye position.

Installation

Install through Vortex, or extract the folder into

<install>\MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries\MW5Mercs\Mods\and enable it in the in-game Mods menu. Fully restart the game — MW5 only reads mod mount order at startup.

Load order is 60, deliberately late. It only needs to beat MercTech, and loading last is safe because no other mod ships cockpit actor assets.

Ultrawide users — do this too

Not part of the mod, no files needed. In

%LOCALAPPDATA%\MW5Mercs\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\Engine.iniadd:

AspectRatioAxisConstraint=AspectRatio_MaintainYFOVThis is the "Hor+" fix — vertical FOV is held and horizontal expands, instead of ultrawide just cropping the top and bottom off a 16:9 image. Without it your ultrawide shows you less, not more.

Compatibility

This touches only `<Chassis>_Cockpit.uasset` — nothing else. Every installed mod's pak was scanned directly for overlapping asset paths, and the only mods that share one are MercTech and the original In The Pit.

Verified zero shared assets with `CockpitGlass`, `Cockpit_HD`, `Cockpit_light`,

`GlassBreak`, `BattleFXEnhanced`, `Beam_Effect`, `More_Effect`, `Impacts`,

`Brighter_Laser`, `MechShaderV2`, `UltraVisualAndWeatherV3`, `hud_effect`, `vonHUD`.

`CockpitGlass` sounds like it should clash but ships glass meshes, not cockpit

Conflicts with the original In The Pit (disable it — this replaces it), any other cockpit camera mod, and MercTech unless you use the MercTech version.