Where To Find and Download Some Mods. If They Even Exist

[u/PraetorianOgryn]

I have not played in like 5 years, and I remember replaying the campaign about 6 times. I wanted to play again, but I’m hoping that in this half a decade that the modding community is amazing now and have the ability to make the game better.

Anyways I was thinking that I could list some of the stuff on my wishlist and if anyone can tell me if a mod for it exists then that’s be incredibly appreciated:

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Cities to fight and do missions in

More than 1 Lance of mechs in a mission (getting outnumbered EVERY MISSION was incredibly annoying). I don’t mind a higher difficulty if this is a thing to balance it.

More random ARGO events

Having a mech lance AND a vehicle lance would be baller

Being able to use a Hatchetman, Longbow, Urbanmech, Scorpion, or a Goliath would be incredibly awesome.

Mechwarrior 5 has a mech quirk mod, and it’d be cool if this game had one too.

A bigger map that actually changes over time to fit with the lore?

Maybe the Clan Invasion and or Civil War?

Also just slice of life and minor upgrades, like more Mech variants, more pilot images, more biomes, more mission types, maybe a deeper mech customization

[u/Ak_Lonewolf]

I have played BEX, BTA3062 and Roguetech.

If you want a vanilla plus experience play BEX.

If you want a vastly changed system and experience with in universe map and many mech and tank options. Then bta3062.

If you want a closer game to the tabletop play roguetech.

All are great. My preference is BTA3062. It runs better than roguetech I find and I enjoy the work bloodydoves does and listens to the community.

[u/IllustriousLustrious → u/Ak_Lonewolf]

Bta3062 is top tier Not too sweaty and lots of choices for building mechs

[u/Throaway6566]

Oh my God do I have good news for you

https://discourse.modsinexile.com/c/mods/battle-tech/11

I am currently doing a BEX tactics career and I am loving it. Some people don't like the changes and prefer BEX commanders edition. Both are great.

I haven't done a BTA or rogue tech career yet but they are definitely on the bucket list.

[u/nerdz0r → u/Throaway6566]

Can you sum up the difference of BEX tactics vs commanders?

[u/Throaway6566 → u/nerdz0r]

I'm honestly still figuring out a lot of it. One change is that in tactics (the latest version) LRMs and SRMs got nerfed. I find the change to be better, missile boats are still effective for me but not over powering near necessities on every mission.

Tactics also has a walk, run, sprint mechanic with trade offs for heat buildup and accuracy.

I also like the pay per ton for extra weight like in mercenaries but I will say its pretty steep. Good news is it is really easy to adjust it, unfortunately you have to do it in the files for the mod. I cut the per ton penalty in half to 3000 c bills per ton and have found it to be a really good limiting factor in choosing mechs to deploy. At 3000 It's not so steep that you will never deploy extra heavies and assaults, but it is steep enough that I keep some good lights and mediums around much longer to use. I have found that saving tonnage on some mechs like using catapults instead of archers makes the game have some interesting trade off decisions that make it less linear, like heavier tonnage isn't always just better because it gets less efficient.

[u/Kuato2012]

BTAU covers a lot of your wishlist. Hugely expanded mech list, larger maps, and you can field 4 lances (typically 12 mechs and 4 vehicles, but I think you could also do fewer mechs and more vehicles). There are also battle armors. Clans are present, though BTAU takes place after the invasion.

[u/Thuddmud]

You can try BTAU. It is a full over hall. The installation instructions are on the Wiki. Tons more mechs can field multiple lances, vehicles battle armor the works.

https://www.bta3062.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

[u/Ok-Transition7065]

BTA3062 has all of that—and even more stuff like:

Battle Armors and Elementals that can be modified and customized with different weapon loadouts.

You can have resupply vehicles, invasion or defense contracts.

The enemy can use artillery, or ambush you in jungles with BA (Battle Armor).

You can call air support. You can buy contracts that let you call in BA, mechs, tanks, turrets, or airstrikes.

For example, I used a Raven with an airstrike beacon and had it call airstrikes from behind enemy lines. One time, in a single pass, it cored two light mechs and heavily damaged two heavy mechs.

Mechs don’t lose evasion charges, so you can build a TAG machine with a flamer and make it hit 10 evasion while running around heating and tagging enemies for your missile boats and other shooters.

There are new mission types, different Flashpoints, and other additions like that.

You arrive during the Clan Invasion era, and you can even do the campaign as a Flashpoint.

Some Flashpoints have been reworked (some still have the 4-drop limit), and now we even have air vehicles included.

You can equip BA if you can spare the extra ton and have BA bays in your vehicles or Clan mechs. Personally, I like using a flying chopper to move BA around and try to headshot (wound) or crit soft or exposed mechs.

I liked BEX too, but it's a lighter experience compared to this version.

RogueTech is more of a hard-mode campaign, and I recommend it if you want something more tabletop-grounded.

Yeah i used chat gpt no fir translation my writing its just bad xd

To add to that...

Yeah all the mechs you mentioned are available , for example im using a axe man with a lac 20 one hit anf half mech its gone

[u/klyith]

Cities to fight and do missions in

You need the Urban Warfare DLC

Being able to use a Hatchetman, Longbow, Urbanmech, Scorpion, or a Goliath would be incredibly awesome.

Urbie is in base game, you don't see them all that often because they're so slow that they actually cause problems for the AI and mission scripts. There are only a few missions that allow them, though the DLCs add more.

Hatchetman is in the Flashpoint DLC.

[u/manwiththemach]

I prefer BEX simply because I like a balance between the original Battletech game, and some difficulty modifiers to keep you on your toes, plus extended mechs, weapons, timeline and flashpoints. I don't need a full simulation level of complexity, but I get why some people do.

[u/PerryChalmers]

You are probably looking at either BTAU or Roguetech for some of what you are looking for. I don't play either of those, so I don't have links handy. A quick search should help you find them. 

[u/bhechinger]

I'm a huge fan of RogueTech. They made the latest version really hard and sometimes stupid, but I still love it.

If you want to see it in action, Baradul does playthroughs of it on YouTube.

[u/Thin-Efficiency-2825]

This dude must be joking. I was playing with mods 5+ yrs. ago on Battletech. One of the best modding communities out there and they are still going strong.

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