Difference between revisions of "MWLL Basics Guide"

1. BA Radar - All friendly units are shown in blue, enemy units are red and neutral units white. Each Battle Armor has a Radar range of 300 meters.
2. Battle Armor Status - This displays both your Armor's health (external layer), and your personal health (the Human silhouette). Health will regenerate over time if you take damage, and note that the BA is far more resistant to damage than yourself; if your Armor is depleted, it is unlikely you'll survive another hit.
3. Timer - Displays the amount of time left in the current match.
4. Buy Indicator - When it's visible, you can access the buy menu with the [,] (comma) key.
5. Buy Menu - After pressing [,] (comma), the buy menu will appear on the right-hand side of your screen. From here, you will be able to buy Mechs, Vehicles and BA Equipment. You can also buy Aerospace Fighters or VTOLs if you've spawned at an airbase. At the top of the buy menu are tabs which indicate what type of unit or equipment is available for purchase. Within each tab, items you can afford will be highlighted, while items you cannot afford will be faded; mousing over an item will show further details about it in the "Selected Asset" box to the left. To purchase any item, simply click on it once. For the purposes of this guide, we're going to buy an Osiris Prime.

After purchasing the Mech, there will be an audible confirmation message, as well as a brief text prompt that will appear in the upper-left corner on your HUD; this prompt will indicate that your ordered Mech is on the way. Once it is built, it will tell you which bay your new Mech is in. You'll have to move out of the spawn area and down into the hangar proper to access the various Mech Bays. When your Mech is completed, an indicator will appear on your HUD, directing you to it; to enter the Mech, press [F] while you're close to and level with its cockpit - you can accomplish this either by running off the catwalk behind it or jumping toward it (tap or hold [space] to use Jump Jets).

1. Crosshair - indicates range to target (green text directly below crosshair), heading (rotation, below), elevation (left), and status of weapons group (around with numbers - green means ready to fire)
2. Mech Armor status - indicates remaining armor of your Mech parts, changes colors along with damage taken. Read more about armor...
3. Radar and status indicators
   1. Main radar and vital systems' indicators
   2. Equipment indicators
   3. Long-range radar and tactical map
4. Weapon list and groups - here you may assign weapons to groups (and by this to mouse buttons) by moving the indicator with arrows and selecting/deselecting it with the [Enter] or [Right Ctrl] key (depending on control mappings, with the former being from pre-0.8.0 configurations). Each weapon is presented in order as follows: Activated weapon groups (1,2,3,4,5,6), Name, Reload status (yellow - reloading, green - ready to fire), Maximum range, and Ammunition (Osiris Prime carries a mix of Medium Lasers and Short Range Missiles, which means the lasers have unlimited ammunition, while the missiles actually require ammo).
   1. Heat/Charge/Capacity Bar - An additional feature of the weapons list, which won't be shown in the Osiris Prime, is individual weapon heat or charge, represented by a green bar behind its respective weapon's name. Certain weapons - often ballistics such as Rotary AutoCannons or Machine Guns - feature this trait. It essentially shows the pilot how much heat the weapon in use is producing, and how many shots before it overheats and becomes unusable or jammed. For some air-exclusive weapons (namely Missiles) this bar also represents how many salvos a pilot can fire before that weapon's "clip" is reloaded.
5. Ammunition supply - some units using Ballistic and Missile Weapons can buy additional ammunition (by pressing [,] (comma) and going to the Ammo tab).
6. CBills counter - displays money currently available.
7. Buy indicator - we are still in the hangar so we may buy some things, like ammo.

For training let's re-arrange the weapon groups. It's always good to have weapons spread between the groups on energy-based Mechs, like this variant of Osiris, to avoid overheating which can power down your mech or even damage it! Use the arrow up/down keys to select different weapons, while using left and right arrow keys to move between a weapon group. You can tell what is currently selected by the box surrounding the current weapon or grouping column. To assign a weapon to a group, pick the weapon and group using the arrow keys, then hit Enter. The number for that group along the weapon's row will turn white, indicating it is now bound to that group. To un-group a weapon, simply select and hit Enter again. The number will go dark to reflect the change.

Many players group their weapons based on range or travel time. In the Osiris Prime, keep your ER Medium Lasers on one group and your SRM6 rack on the other. Placing them all on one trigger can be confusing, especially when you only want to fire the lasers at a target outside the SRM's maximum range.

1. Long-range radar and tactical map - The radar circle on the top left of your HUD (displayed here on the left portion of the image) displays a more general overview of the battlefield. It tells us the location of the Mech in terms of its grid coordinates (also displayed in small green text in the bottom-left corner), tacmap display range (displayed in the same manner as grid location), our mech's radar range (displayed in blue text and dependent on the mech's selected radar mode), and our current orientation. Long-range radar also makes it easier to see some additional radar contacts outside your own radar that are shared via C3.
2. Short-range radar - Displays the location of nearby units, as well as the current torso and leg orientation - the former being marked by the green line (along with view-angle, which is outlined by the thicker green lines), and the latter being marked by the brown line (covered by the green one when the torso faces exactly the same angle as the legs do). Short-range radar only displays contacts up to one kilometer away when in Active mode, and up to 300m away when in Passive mode.
3. Throttle - The thick green line displays assigned speed, while the green fill below it shows actual speed of forward movement. Red symbolizes reverse movement.
4. Jump Jets - displays status of your Jump Jets - these will refuel over time when not in use. Not all of Mechs have Jump Jets - look at the buy menu (or mech variant information on the wiki) for "JJ" in the equipment section for each Mech.
5. Heat - This bar displays the current Mech core temperature. If it goes above the yellow line, the mech will warn you of rising heat levels and may sustain some light to moderate damage; if our core temperature will reach or surpass the red line then the Mech will begin to sustain serious damage from overheating - and will likely be destroyed if the heat isn't exhausted quickly enough. The higher the temperature, the higher the damage (so firing most weapons while above the yellow line is a bad idea, and above the red line even more so). Also to the right there are three small indicators - Core temperature (number value for the heat bar), Exterior temperature (low on ice planets, but high on volcanic planets) and Cooldown rate (higher when cooling in water, lower when cooling while moving, zero while there's no need to cool anything anymore). All temperatures are displayed in Celsius.
6. Coolant - Indicates percentage of remaining coolant, which may be flushed by tapping or holding the [c] key to significantly decrease Mech core temperature. Coolant can be refilled in a hangar bay while repairing.
7. Power, Crouch, and Radar mode indicators. Power can be toggled with the [p] key, while crouching can be toggled with the left [ctrl] key. Radar mode can be toggled with the [r] key. Passive radar makes it more difficult to detect you, but at the cost of decreased radar range (up to 300m).
8. Equipment indicators - Here you will be notified if your mech has additional equipment such as Enhanced Optics, Jump Jets, MASC, or any of the various electronics (e.g. GECM, BAP, C3). The Osiris Prime doesn't have any electronics, but does feature Improved Jump Jets and Standard Optics.