I poked through and only found some minimal support. I enjoy playing MW5 and recently installed Reloaded (and a bunch of other mods like the TTrulez AI ones.) I had some questions. (currently still only Rep 4 with 3 light mechs.) 1- General Guide/Help Forum? - I got in there and the additional customizability is amazing. However, its hard to balance mechs essay writer when your only experience is the simple mode. Is there a Reloaded Forum where you can ask build questions? For instance, I got a Phoenix Hawk, I put in an XL engine but I can't seem to make up total tonnage anymore (maxxed armor, can't add enough heat sinks to fit bigger guns effectively) I was hoping there was a general forum for kitting out effective mechs but I can't seem to find one. 2- Spawn Difficulty - I saw the Reloaded exchanges tank/heli spam with fewer and tougher opponents which I love (the tank spam was just super annoying) but I noticed on Warzone and Defense missions the wave counts are still the same. This seems to up difficulty more than I'm used to (i.e. instead of 1 mech and 4 tanks, I get 2-3 mechs per wave) I think that's fine but the 20 max count makes the missions much harder to get through, especially in those final waves where heavier mechs spawn.) Is that intended and I just need to man up and learn to make killer Reloaded Builds? I feel like I lose components every mission now and I want to exclusive take assassination missions since the difficulty there seems WAY easier. 3- Bigger grind? - I feel like I'm going to hang out in the each region much longer because the cost of buying/repairing Mechs is much higher. The salvage value of a mech seems like a lie (usually because its partly/mostly destroyed) so kitting out a salvaged mech is still very expensive. Especially when I lose weapons/components more often now in missions. the insurance feels weird because it will say I took $200,000 damage but replacing the destroyed Tier 5 Gyro is $180,000 by itself. I could be anecdotally misremembering too I suppose. Will try to calculate those better. Thanks for the help!
Copy/paste of a reddit post of 2 days ago. Are you the same person? https://www.reddit.com/r/Mechwarrior5/comments/jij9kj/reloaded_helpguides/