Building new mechs

[MegaHeat]

Feeling dumb on this.. I left the tutorial, have 2/3 mechs. I have lots of mech parts, even building more parts in the Workshop on mobile base - but how do I get a new mech built from these parts? Every mission is just giving me the two i start with and I am not seeing where to add a third.
what am I missing?

[RENGOKU]

Go onto your workshop and you can select a new frame for 300 resources I believe.

[Flavalicious]

Originally posted by MegaHeat:

Feeling dumb on this.. I left the tutorial, have 2/3 mechs. I have lots of mech parts, even building more parts in the Workshop on mobile base - but how do I get a new mech built from these parts? Every mission is just giving me the two i start with and I am not seeing where to add a third.
what am I missing?

So you need a Mech Frame to start a new build. Think of it as the exoskeleton that you attach all the parts to. Your workshop can build them (waste of supply imo), just hit some patrols and in the salvage screen if you forced an enemy to eject or knocked him out you can toggle a box to salvage their chassis, then you can use the parts you have to get your 3rd mech up.

[MegaHeat]

Originally posted by RENGOKU:

Go onto your workshop and you can select a new frame for 300 resources I believe.

Found it.. finally... lol..

[MegaHeat]

Originally posted by Flavalicious:

Originally posted by MegaHeat:

Feeling dumb on this.. I left the tutorial, have 2/3 mechs. I have lots of mech parts, even building more parts in the Workshop on mobile base - but how do I get a new mech built from these parts? Every mission is just giving me the two i start with and I am not seeing where to add a third.
what am I missing?

So you need a Mech Frame to start a new build. Think of it as the exoskeleton that you attach all the parts to. Your workshop can build them (waste of supply imo), just hit some patrols and in the salvage screen if you forced an enemy to eject or knocked him out you can toggle a box to salvage their chassis, then you can use the parts you have to get your 3rd mech up.

Thanks for the tip!

[MegaHeat]

Originally posted by MegaHeat:

Originally posted by Flavalicious:

So you need a Mech Frame to start a new build. Think of it as the exoskeleton that you attach all the parts to. Your workshop can build them (waste of supply imo), just hit some patrols and in the salvage screen if you forced an enemy to eject or knocked him out you can toggle a box to salvage their chassis, then you can use the parts you have to get your 3rd mech up.

Thanks for the tip!

...actually - you would have to turn on "Salvage Mech Frames" in difficulty for this right?

[systemchalk]

Originally posted by MegaHeat:

Originally posted by MegaHeat:

Thanks for the tip!

...actually - you would have to turn on "Salvage Mech Frames" in difficulty for this right?

I believe yes, but to be completely honest this changed between builds on me, so I'm not sure how the pilot ejecting scenario is handled. I believe with the default difficulty you can only build frames.