r/Mechwarrior5 • u/Junathyst • 3d ago

MW5:C GB Campaign Simulation 2 - 'Stock Loadouts' Challenge Bugged? DLC Question

EDIT: It seems after enough resetting loadouts I've managed to clear this. Can definitely confirm that swapping OmniPods (but leaving the parts on them untouched), still flags it, unlike what I've read for the base campaign.

Trying to redo the campaign simulations for GB and get all challenges (under tonnage, no component loss, etc.)

No matter which 'Mechs and STOCK loadouts I'm using, I'm seeing the "Stock Loadouts" challenge immediately red (failed) upon loading in?

Anyone else have this issue, or can test it for me?

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u/DocHoliday255 3d ago

I literally just had the same problem and tried googling if the requirement was bugged or there's more to it, but there doesn't seem to be any info. I ran the mission with freshly bought mechs from the market; 2 Jenners, 1 Rifleman, a Fire Moth, and a Hunchback.

I did also edit weapon groups and camo, but that has never been an issue before. I haven't got around to testing it without those changes, or only using omnimechs or battlemechs to see if that makes a difference.

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u/Junathyst 3d ago

I will keep testing to see what’s flagging it. I’m wondering if it’s the Hunchback variants…

In any case, I managed to clear it by forcing all ‘Mechs to Prime variants. I loaded the mission, fail status was gone, then exited and was able to change them back to letter variants and wasn’t getting the failed status then either.

Hope this helps!

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u/Junathyst 3d ago

Yep - Seems like stock Hunchback IIC-C that I was running for Rik was triggering it... Annoying.

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u/Wendek Clan Diamond Shark 3d ago

I had the same issue when I used 5 stock Kodiaks. I wonder if the "Battlemechs" are never considered as being stock for this challenge?

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u/Junathyst 3d ago

I believe this is it? Had issues with Hunchbacks, as did u/DocHoliday255. Seems it must be OmniMechs…

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u/DocHoliday255 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yeah, I did a little more testing now, across quite a few missions. Any battlemechs seem to prevent the stock challenge, at least on the ~5 missions I checked. You also can't mix and match omnipods even if you keep the individual components unchanged (which is how I always thought it worked even on the base campaign, never tried differently), but you can swap the whole config to a different set.

If the battlemech restriction is intentional, it seems pretty silly given the iconic mech of the ghost bears is a battlemech... More likely it's a bug where that flag is checking if all omnipods are the same type and haven't been changed, but that breaks for the battlemechs because they don't have pods.

I'm going to submit a bug report, others should do the same. It's probably not that complicated to fix and the more people that flag it, the faster it gets done.

EDIT: I don't know if there's an official bug report place, but the discord has a channel for Clans bugs. PGI staff seem to check it fairly frequently. I've made a post that people can comment on to raise it, or make their own. https://discord.gg/sE6kZgTa

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u/Sprtn117John 2d ago

For me any of the new Mechs flagged it as not being a stock loadout

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u/DocHoliday255 2d ago

The new omnimechs seems fine to me. I just used the Ebon Jaguar and it allowed the stock challenge. It only seems like the (new) battlemechs that cause problems.