MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries/High Reward Quests

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries/High Reward Quests

Overview

Half-way between the common procedurally generated Contracts and the story progressing Campaign Missions, High Reward Quests are partially pre-scripted missions with increased dificulty and enhanced rewards.

Similar to the BattleTech video game's Flashpoints, MW5's High Reward Quests are mini-campaigns, ranging from one to multiple missions tied together in a single story, relating to background topics from the BattleTech universe or mercenary moral quandaries related to the conflict between duty to the contract or honorable conduct. Unlike Multi-Mission Operations, each High Reward Quest mission does not have to completed consecutively and will generally take place across multiple systems inside the same Conflict Zone. High Reward Quests will list the C-Bill and Reputation rewards they offer openly, but will hide any enhanced additional rewards until the completion of the final mission - though the list of them below exposes this.

While most quests are for a single employer, some quest strings give the player the option of completing missions via one of two opposing employers, for example two of the warring Great Houses, with the player warned they will only be able to select one to pursue. Some quests additionally have this choice to change faction in the middle or at the final mission, again the player can only select one path to take.

Though High Reward Quests feature scripted lines from the Cavalier Operations Offier Ryana Campbell and specific events, they are not fully scripted like the campaign missions so still have a degree of variability in map design and enemy 'Mech selection in each playthrough or even if a mission is restarted.

Much like the Campaign Missions, High Reward Quests require the player to reach the specific Reputation Level of zone in which they are hosted. However, unlike the Campaign missions, High Reward Quests are entirely optional and can be skipped. They do not expire so it is possible to return to them later, indeed even after the Campaign is completed, though their rewards, difficulty and tonnage restrictions do not scale and are static.

A list of the available High Reward Quests in MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, broken down by Reputation level, follows:

Reputation 3

"Armed Robbery" - Pascagoula - Mercenary Row Conflict Zone

• Mission Brief: With numerous mercs pulling out of the Mercenary Row, Sebastian Spears of Interstellar Expeditions offers the Cavaliers a contract to strike one of the withdrawing Harlock's Warriors 'Mech repair depot for much needed supplies for his clients, attempting to overcome their reservation about hitting a fellow mercenary unit by offering the desperate Cavaliers a healthy cut of the resale value.
• Rewards: 78,125 C-Bills, 70 Reputation, LCT-3V Locust, one Tier 2 Medium Laser.
• Mission 1: 135 Tonnage Limit 7 Difficulty Assassination Mission on Pascagoula to kill the much despised Harlock's Warriors' head of security Anders Willman, which will convince the rest of the Warriors to bug out.

Reputation 5

"Frontline Support - Davion" - Marlowe's Rift - Davion/Kurita Frontline Conflict Zone

• Mission Brief: The Federated Suns is seeking Mercenaries to engage in support missions for their invasion thrust into the Combine.
• Rewards: 348,500 C-Bills, 260 Reputation, PNT-9R Panther, Tier 2 PPC
• Mission 1: 230 tonnage limit Raid Mission on Marlowe's Rift against First Amphigean Light Assault Group defended communication towers to assist the Davion offensive.
• Mission 2: 230 tonnage limit Demolition Mission on Misery against a McGee's Cutthroats firebase to end their raids against Davion supply lines.

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"Frontline Support - Kurita" - Marlowe's Rift - Davion/Kurita Frontline Conflict Zone

• Mission Brief: The Draconis Combine is seeking Mercenaries to engage in support missions for their defense against the Davion invasion thrust.
• Rewards: 348,500 C-Bills, 260 Reputation, ?, ?
• Mission 1: 175 tonnage limit Demolition Mission on Bergman's Planet against a 41st Avalon Hussars command post.
• Mission 2:

Reputation 6

"The Traitor" - Ronel - Davion Borderlands Conflict Zone

• Mission Brief: The Draconis Combine hires the Cavaliers to track down and kill two high value defectors who have crossed into Federated Suns space to show the fate of those would betray House Kurita.
• Rewards: 337,250 C-Bills, 450 Reputation,
• Mission 1: Assassination Mission on Ronel to kill Tai-i Hester Troy, now serving in the Blue Star Irregulars mercenary unit.
• Mission 2: Assassination Mission on Tigress to kill Sho-sa David Osumi, now serving in the Crater Cobras mercenary unit.

Reputation 8

"The Cerberus Hounds" - New Westin - Sian Commonality Conflict Zone

• Mission Brief: The Capellan Confederation hires the Cavaliers to defends the descendants of the Cerberus Hounds, a group of former Federated Suns MechWarriors who defected from the 9th Avalon Hussars in 2862. After over a century of living within the Confederation, their location has been discovered by the Federated Suns who are now determined to destroy them.
• Rewards: 340,554 c-bills, 1,044 Reputation, five Tier 3 Small Lasers, one Tier 3 Large Laser
• Mission 1: 230 tonnage limit Defense Mission on New Westin to protect the Cerberus Hounds from attacking FedSun forces.
• Mission 2: 230 tonnage limit Warzone Mission on Grand Base.

Reputation 9

"Chasing Ghosts" - Watermael - Vacant Worlds Conflict Zone

• Mission Brief: Baron Ishmael Stroud hires the Cavaliers to follow-up on rumors of the fate of his son, thought lost for over a decade in suspected pirate space.
• Rewards: 20,905 C-Bills, 1,467 Reputation, two Tier 3 Large Pulse Lasers, one Tier 3 ER PPC, one Tier 4 Small Pulse Laser, one Tier 4 Anti-Missile System and three tons of AMS ammo.
• Mission 1: 315 tonnage 67 Difficulty Raid Mission on Watermael to destroy the pirate's storage facilities holding their loot to search for clues and weaken them.
• Mission 2: 315 tonnage 67 Difficulty Demolition Mission on Gouderak to strike at pirates base in the region.
• Mission 3: 315 tonnage 70 Difficulty Assassination Mission on Vakarel against the leader of Ravid's Reckoning - Ravid Stroud himself.

"Defending the Honor" - Kearny - Free Worlds Commerce Hub Conflict Zone

• Mission Brief: The Cavaliers are hired by Gibson-born elements of the Fourth Regulan Hussars serving as the honor guard for Count Derrick Cameron-Jones convinced that traditionalists who view those from Gibson as traitors to Regulus will launch a false-flag attack during a good will tour to prove they are unworthy of the position.
• Rewards: 1,290,905 C-bills, 1467 Reputation, one Tier 3 LRM-15, one Tier 3 PPC, three Tier 3 Medium Lasers.
• Mission 1:350 Tonnage Limit 70 Difficulty Defense Mission on Kearny as the Cavaliers must protect the base where the Count is currently being guarded
• Mission 2:350 Tonnage Limit 70 Difficulty Warzone Mission on Mauripur to stand between the rogue elements of the Hussars and the Count's evacuation DropShip.
• Mission 3:350 Tonnage Limit 70 Difficulty Assassination Mission on Diass with the Count sending the Cavaliers to eliminate lead conspirator Daxa Mahat to teach the dissidents a lesson.

Reputation 10

"The False Flag" - Colfax - Steiner/Marik Border Conflict Zone

• Mission Brief: Following a dual SAFE and Lyran Intellience Corps investigation, the Lyran Commonwealth suspects an unknown party of attempting to provoke a war by raiding both sides of the Free Worlds League/Lyran Commonwealth border using 'Mechs painted in the colors of the other nation.
• Rewards: 305,750 C-Bills, 2500 reputation, one Tier 3 AC/20, one Tier 3 LRM-10 and four Tier 4 SRM-2s
• Mission 1: 340 Tonnage Limit 75 Difficulty Defense mission on Colfax against a "House Marik" raiding force.
• Mission 2: 340 Tonnage Limit 75 Difficulty Warzone Mission against "House Marik" forces on Nestor.
• Mission 3: 340 Tonnage Limit 75 Difficulty Assassination mission to kill the Draconis Elite Strike Team leader Tai-I Jules Tanaka to put a stop to false flag attacks.