Mechcommander Mercenaries

Mechcommander:Mercenaries (MCM) mod converts the gameplay experience of Mechwarrior 5 into a real-time strategy game.  Select and issue orders to your lance and other friendly units throughout Mechwarrior 5’s campaign mode.  Phase 1 of the project is a limited RTS experience that works with most of the base game’s story missions and procedurally generated levels. Additional RTS features, features from previous Mechcommander titles, and compatibility with Instant Action and Co-op will be added later.

This is currently being marked as a beta release.  There will be bugs and a few remnants of ongoing development for future phases that don't work in this version.  See the known issues section for a list of known bugs.  It isn't a comprehensive list, but covers some of the most common potential errors.

Installation:

Unpack the zip file into MW5’s mod folder and activate it via the in-game mod menu. If using a Campaign start mod (for example: https://www.nexusmods.com/mechwarrior5mercenaries/mods/153 Extended Campaign Start), this must be used before activating Mechcommander.  Starting a new campaign (as of version 1. 1) skips the tutorial through the mission where Freeman is acquired by default.  Loading an existing campaign save from that point or later should work for most story missions/quests, and all procedural missions.

New in 1. 4

• []Updated to support DLC 4: Rise of Rasalhauge game update

• []Support for game version 1. 1. 303, Legends of the Kestrel Lancers DLC

  []Stunt double is dead, game update fixed player mech AI for us

  []Added additional bits to keybinds for WASD to avoid conflict with controller support in the base game

• []CRITICAL: pressing mech switch button while in RTS mode will bork the mech switched to

  []Minimap/battlegrid lacks icons and doesn't pan with player movement (updated map is WIP)

  []First person mode doesn't work for the players mech (can swap to other mech while in FPS mode and use them)

  []Mech swapping from first person may not cycle between all lancemates correctly.

  New in 1. 3:

  • []Supports game version 1. 1. 300+

    []See full changelog

    New in 1. 2. 2:

    • []Alt-clicking a friendly unit tile will deselect other units

      []Unit status bars (doritos) now fade out when units are deselected but remain visible

      []Left-clicking an enemy unit now displays their loadout in the top-right of the screen

      New in 1. 2. 1:

      []Friendly fire removed for allied mechs.  Enemies and allied non-mec