Solaris 7 for Mechwarrior 5 has expanded: the new Arena, Kurita's “THE MOUNTAIN” is ready for your battlegrounds! Can you make it on the gladiator world in five consecutive battles? This new Mod update completes the main set of Arenas for every major house on Solaris in a first playable version, and all 3 weight class leagues (Light, Medium, Heavy) have been already extended for all 5 battles.
The new mod version also includes many fixes and improvements.
Spawn points have all been reworked and – at least I hope – there should be no more missing opponents or bad spawns. If you encounter any trouble, please let me know in a comment here or on Discord!
Ideally, please load a save where you can freshly accept the Solaris 7 transmissions to be certain, the mission chains are generated new, and then travel to Solaris 7.
And make sure you also run vonBiomes - most assets are inside the mod, but some are shared to avoid bloating and asset duplication.
Downloads:
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https://www.patreon.com/vonSeiten
As usual: please make a save before you drop into the arenas – it is still possible that there are hiccups due to the procedural nature of spawns and asset placements, and you can reload later for a new version. If you have played arenas already, they should also be available for you in Instant Action under “scenarios”.
What's next:
Solaris 7: Arenas will get more.. specials. I have already started to build moving barriers for The Coliseum and there will be further tests for functionalities like having own kills be rewarded with money. And the Assault Mech league – which will come around the end of the month already.
I will also start to test out the lance team battles soon – a complete new set of Arena challenges for 4 mechs, again other teams of fours. This will also be great for coop!
vonBiomes: with the Kurita's cave-esk "The Mountain" Arena, I have also created new assets for the still work in progress cave biome. I still have it on my "let's not give up yet" list, despite the issues which come from making a complete indoor-ish environment for a game not build for that per se. Let's see. If the tight spaces continue to make issues, an alternative could be a wide open cave – which will also look great visually.
Also, I have plenty of new assets ready for even more randomized backgrounds. New outposts, new landmarks, space stations for moons and more. I am already looking forward to extending the set of random backgrounds further in vonBiomes.
So.. there is much to do over the summer ;) Stay tuned, and thank you so much for your ongoing support! It makes such a difference and enables starting up the MW5 editor almost daily during the workweek now;) Happy cheers! 🍻
Links and stuff for newcomers:
If you have Discord, join up here, and please let me know you are coming from Patreon to get your special user role: https://discord.gg/pbPzX9eyss
Subscribe on my YouTube channel for video updates and preview: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrBTtz2mYt1YbA7dPmmcsfw
I also plan to make a vonMods website soon to have all the information and mod links in a central place. Probably in August or September.
Cheers and enjoy the weekend!
- Jonathan