u/Beth_76

Hello to all the Clanners and to my fellow Sphereical people in the sub. I'm four days into MWO and I'm having a great time, but I wonder about a few things:

-is it considered a faux-pas to bodyrush an opponent after having my weapons shot off while fighting at close range? I'm not really sure how heavy mech headbuts factor into zellbrigen
-what determines the faction voice over the radio when on a mission? Is it just the kind of mech we choose, either Clan or Inner Sphere, or is there something else?
-LRM builds: I'm not great with them though I am having a lot of fun, but are my allies and opponents? I want my Vulture/Mad Dog to be hated due to it's enviable successes in battle not due to any accidental trolling
-does anyone else think the Catapult looks like a tyrannosaurus with missile pods on it's shoulders? In a good way, I mean
-are there any weapons or gear to avoid? From spectating others it seems like every single weapon (aside from flamers) has some kind of use in some kind of build but the game's been out for a while and there has to be something that's been heavily nerfed or just doesn't work like it was intended to after so many updates and game changes
-is Faction Play still a thing? I'd love to rank up enough to get a free mech bay or two but it doesn't seem like a very lively feature

I'm trying to change the appearance of one piece of armour to look like another. Both pieces of armour are in the game and need no modifications or editing: my goal is to make both suits of armours look the same using the GECK

All the tutorials I can find make it seem like a far more difficult process than it is in the FO4 Creation Kit; they usually involved extracting textures from
the game without explaining how and then spent some time talking about how to edit those textures. I do not need edited textures, vanilla is fine. I have started looking through the GECK wiki for tutorials on changing armour appearances and my searching skills have failed me, and every time I have found another person asking this kind of question in the past the answers were always "check a tutorial" which is less than helpful in my situation as the tutorials all seemed to be for different goals than I had. As well my Reddit searching skills were subpar today as checking out this sub gave answers to far more complicated modding issues than I'm dealing with. Legit just need to swap a texture and have very limited knowledge of the GECK

Is it possible to change the texture of one suit of armour to appear as another using the GECK?

We absolutely need an Engine Visual option that completely disables engine trails, or even just makes them so small and faint that we cannot see them. It seems so strange to me that in a Star Trek game of all places there are a variety of engine trails that cannot be deactivated when there were so few shown on the shows