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Maharet

Oct 18, 2024 @ 12:28pm

Co-op change pilot selection?

How do you change which pilot you are in Co-op?
I was in Co-op helping a friend, and they bought a Mech for me to use, but the stats don't match up. The Mech had energy weapons, but the pilot I'm assigned was good at LRMs.

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Grand Poobah of Bees has MechWarrior 5: Clans

Oct 18, 2024 @ 12:53pm

In the Mechbay you can swap your pilots around. You can't change your slot but you can change which slot the pilot is assigned to.

Qwaar Oct 19, 2024 @ 8:57am

How exactly? I just went into my singleplayer game to try and move the pilots around in the bays, and there is no way to select them, only the mechs, and selecting a mech in a bay and assigning a different pilot to it just moves the mech to that pilot, not the pilot to the mech.

I'd dearly like a way to move pilots around because in my buds Co-op game I'd like to be playing one of the pilots with missile specialties considering I want to use the mad dog/vulture later, and Mia is not a good fit for that.

Swiftor Oct 19, 2024 @ 9:14am

my understanding is that you can't move pilots around, but you can move the mechs. so step one, find out which character your friend is - for me, my first co-op pal was Mia, and the 3rd in our group was ezra.

then move the mech to the pilot they are (you have to drag the mech to the pilot slot)

i gotta say, im pretty disappointed by how barebones and unintuitive the co-op is. at the very least, everything seems to work great when you're in a mission.

Qwaar Oct 20, 2024 @ 9:40am

its just frustrating when I'm playing this with exactly one other person, and I'd like to be using missiles and lasers primarily... but the game puts me as Mia every time so all of her pilot bonuses dont fit that at all.

Axis of Lint Oct 20, 2024 @ 1:29pm

Originally posted by Maharet:
How do you change which pilot you are in Co-op?
I was in Co-op helping a friend, and they bought a Mech for me to use, but the stats don't match up. The Mech had energy weapons, but the pilot I'm assigned was good at LRMs.

You can't, at the moment, it's on their patch notes as 'we're working on it for possibly next patch'.

If you have more than one co-op partner, you can juggle people around as the order the invites go out in, determines which pilot they get (I believe). Mia (Ballistics) > Ezra (Energy) > Liam (ECM/Missiles) > Naomi (Missiles).