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[SharpCookie]

Another exciting, creative, and motivating event, with criteria that has been copied and pasted at least a few dozen times over, is upon us! HOORAY!

I'm glad that the event was was thoroughly fleshed out and designed to increase participation in CW from both solo and group players! PUGs will have so much fun on their way to reward criteria amounts, such as 15 invasion wins or 10m CB, that they're likely to play over a 75 matches! I can't wait to get started! Meanwhile, group players will be breeze through all the requirements and likely finish in under 20 matches and still have time to spare for a sunset stroll at Seal Beach every afternoon. I hope they continue to play CW even after getting their free mech!

See y'all on the battlefield!

[LowSubmarino]

Havent played cw in a long time.

I wanted to get the rewards and see if cw is more fun than it was the last time I tried.

Joined clan Jade Falcon.

Got destroyed 7 times straight in brutal slaugthers. 80 % of my team runs single file into a well defended position to die instantly. We are down 10 mechs right from the start.

In the end and in each game I have 2 or 3 mechs left and my team has to wait for me to spawn and insta die so the game can end.

Its no fun to play with absolute noobs and get annihilated in long grueling defeats.

Cw is not for me haha.

No more.

I just play normal games.

[DAYLEET]

oneda, on 29 April 2016 - 11:02 AM, said:

and see if cw is more fun than it was the last time I tried.

Nothing was added to CW beside incentive to play it in the form of mc rewards and a split queue that is said be removed or already is removed. No actual content was added.

[xWiredx]

SharpCookie, on 29 April 2016 - 10:31 AM, said:

Another exciting, creative, and motivating event, with criteria that has been copied and pasted at least a few dozen times over, is upon us! HOORAY!

I'm glad that the event was was thoroughly fleshed out and designed to increase participation in CW from both solo and group players! PUGs will have so much fun on their way to reward criteria amounts, such as 15 invasion wins or 10m CB, that they're likely to play over a 75 matches! I can't wait to get started! Meanwhile, group players will be breeze through all the requirements and likely finish in under 20 matches and still have time to spare for a sunset stroll at Seal Beach every afternoon. I hope they continue to play CW even after getting their free mech!

See y'all on the battlefield!

Looks like you missed the part where to complete both the scouting and invasion portions of the challenge you need to play 90 matches total so there's literally no way to complete it in 20 matches.

Keep trollin'.

[Monodominant]

Did you try leading the PUG group? DId you go to your clans TS and try to organise a group?

PGI is not failing you. You are failing your clan.

Proof incoming shortly on FW forums.

[SharpCookie]

oneda, on 29 April 2016 - 11:02 AM, said:

Havent played cw in a long time.

I wanted to get the rewards and see if cw is more fun than it was the last time I tried.

Joined clan Jade Falcon.

Got destroyed 7 times straight in brutal slaugthers. 80 % of my team runs single file into a well defended position to die instantly. We are down 10 mechs right from the start.

In the end and in each game I have 2 or 3 mechs left and my team has to wait for me to spawn and insta die so the game can end.

Its no fun to play with absolute noobs and get annihilated in long grueling defeats.

Cw is not for me haha.

No more.

I just play normal games.

Your experience reminds me of most pre phase 3 CW games. But now with phase 3, we have separated the PUGs and groups so that all the games will be more fair. There should be no more stomp and farm matches that you speak of. Meanwhile, the event rewards are fantastic, easy to accomplish, and compels us to play CW so the population will increase. I don't see any reason to quick play.

Edited by SharpCookie, 29 April 2016 - 11:59 AM.

[Mystere]

SharpCookie, on 29 April 2016 - 11:50 AM, said:

Your experience reminds me of most pre phase 3 CW games. But now with phase 3, we have separated the PUGs and groups so that all the games will be more fair. There should be no more stomp and farm matches that you speak of. Meanwhile, the event rewards are fantastic, easy to accomplish, and compels us to play CW so the population will increase. I don't see any reason to quick play.

Ahem! Didn't they just merge the solo queue back into group queue?

<sarcasm meter on the fritz>

Edited by Mystere, 29 April 2016 - 12:09 PM.

[Tennex]

I see you havent been in any Long Tom matches

[Bannok]

Drop in a fast game. 10 from one unit, 2 from another on opposition. 12 pugs go off to fight, Longtom kills 9 people. Few players chain eject. rest just get camped and die. Clearly, well planned and executed.

[SharpCookie]

Mystere, on 29 April 2016 - 12:07 PM, said:

Ahem! Didn't they just merge the solo queue back into group queue?

<sarcasm meter on the fritz>

I'd say it's off the scale...

xWiredx, on 29 April 2016 - 11:29 AM, said:

Looks like you missed the part where to complete both the scouting and invasion portions of the challenge you need to play 90 matches total so there's literally no way to complete it in 20 matches.

Keep trollin'.

You might want to read it all over again because you missed the point.

First person to reply got it, and gave nice description of what was to come.

[Davers]

Mystere, on 29 April 2016 - 12:07 PM, said:

Ahem! Didn't they just merge the solo queue back into group queue?

&lt;sarcasm meter on the fritz&gt;

Did they do that already? I thought they were going to wait until after the event to evaluate it?

[SharpCookie]

Davers, on 29 April 2016 - 06:31 PM, said:

Did they do that already? I thought they were going to wait until after the event to evaluate it?

Straight from yesterday's hot fix notes:

• Solo and Unit Queues have been merged. More information regarding this change can be found in a dedicated section of this post.

[Davers]

SharpCookie, on 29 April 2016 - 07:09 PM, said:

Straight from yesterday's hot fix notes:

• Solo and Unit Queues have been merged. More information regarding this change can be found in a dedicated section of this post.

Well, that was fast. I guess when things hit their bottom line they get addressed with amazing speed.

[TLBFestus]

SharpCookie, on 29 April 2016 - 10:31 AM, said:

Another exciting, creative, and motivating event, with criteria that has been copied and pasted at least a few dozen times over, is upon us! HOORAY!

I'm glad that the event was was thoroughly fleshed out and designed to increase participation in CW from both solo and group players! PUGs will have so much fun on their way to reward criteria amounts, such as 15 invasion wins or 10m CB, that they're likely to play over a 75 matches! I can't wait to get started! Meanwhile, group players will be breeze through all the requirements and likely finish in under 20 matches and still have time to spare for a sunset stroll at Seal Beach every afternoon. I hope they continue to play CW even after getting their free mech!

See y'all on the battlefield!

What did you expect? The groups are the anointed golden children of the Church of Russ.

Oh...and SharpCookie...you might not have read this, but they are putting the solos back into the group queue in FW.

Edited by TLBFestus, 29 April 2016 - 08:35 PM.

[Leone]

Yeah! finally an event for Community Warefare! I'd been feeling all left out.

I agree, great move. This week'll be a blast.

~Leone.

[LowSubmarino]

SharpCookie, on 29 April 2016 - 11:50 AM, said:

Your experience reminds me of most pre phase 3 CW games. But now with phase 3, we have separated the PUGs and groups so that all the games will be more fair. There should be no more stomp and farm matches that you speak of. Meanwhile, the event rewards are fantastic, easy to accomplish, and compels us to play CW so the population will increase. I don't see any reason to quick play.

Well, this might sound arrogant but it is not intended to. I am a pretty good player. The players I have seen in this faction clan jade falcon were either all complete new players. have never played a pc/video game or are just not very smart. All of them run with one mech into the enemy base. Alone.

Who would do that?

Thats so dumb that they are either 5 year old children or simply not very smart.

You cannot compensate for 8 players suiciding.

They were basically all suiciding. ALl the time.

The entire game.

I sat back, scratched my head, wanted to yell something really vulgar.....and then just disconnected after the 7th game.

No fun.

Not because of the maps, or the game modes or the game itself.

The players are - forgive me all - simply not smart enough. They do the weirdest and dumbest thing which obviously have no chance to even get one kill or take much armor from an enemy mech. They just blindly run ahead.

I dont know what kind of players they are. But the lack of brain power kills cw. I literally had no fun except in one single game out of 7 where it was actual ppl with brains fighting each other. It was a real fight, back and forth, ppl trying to gather for pushes but not running single file.

Id say that in cw one 7th of ppl have some brains.

The rest is so bad that its just no fun.

But maybe other ppl dont care about that or can still enjoy complete stomps.

I dont.

I need a realistic chance and close (er) games where I have the impression that my skills could actually tip the balance or contribute to that effect.

I got 1800 dmg, was in my first mech, had 4 kills in most games......but we were down 1000000 mechs and not even god himself could have changed that. And then you gotta stick with that defeat for 30 mins. One grueling stomp.

Tell me.

Anybody.

Where is the fun in that?

Ill tell you: There aint no fun in that.

If you enjoy that im really impressed. Tell me what is enjoyable about that cause I dont understand haha!

I only play quickgames again. Those are fun and a defeat only lasts much shorter.

[Taffer]

Oh yeah man, screw this. Had mad fun during the solo queue week. Since the merge I've been matched with bad players against good players. Many stomps in a row, not a single win since the merge. I assume Clan Wolf is where all the solos and bads live, it's miserable with merged queue. Broke my allegiance and look forward to not playing CW again until the next time they try a solo queue. Took a fat LP loss, worth it, Thanks PGI

Edited by Taffer, 30 April 2016 - 01:04 AM.

[ArmandTulsen]

I really, REALLY wanted to complete this challenge... But some of the challenges are obscenely difficult, like the complete 15 invasion victories with 100 match score.... Played and won five matches, barely cleared 80. Even destroyed two gens on my own in one game. WTF?

Edited by ArmandTulsen, 30 April 2016 - 04:39 AM.

[Sable]

are you serious? how can you not get a score above 100? Unless you're only rushing generators. Thats terrible. scoring above 100 means you did like 250 damage out of 4 mechs. How can you not do that?

[Monodominant]

TLBFestus, on 29 April 2016 - 08:34 PM, said:

What did you expect? The groups are the anointed golden children of the Church of Russ.

Yes, faction warfare was created for groups/units. You might have your reasons for not being in one and thats ok but THIS game mode was for the Units... or for PUGs who coordinate. Until you can get 11 strangers to follow 1 stranger even if it means sacrificing themselves for the greater good (Tau!) you should steer clear of FW or join a group.

ArmandTulsen, on 30 April 2016 - 04:39 AM, said:

I really, REALLY wanted to complete this challenge... But some of the challenges are obscenely difficult, like the complete 15 invasion victories with 100 match score.... Played and won five matches, barely cleared 80. Even destroyed two gens on my own in one game. WTF?

You dont have to complete all the challenges. Its not competing when there are no 'best player gets X'. There are a bunch of static rewards for playing. If you play a lot you get more rewards. Noone is punished. Those who play more, get more, those who play less - get less.

If you cant get a 100 score in FW you shouldnt be playing FW... 100 score means 200 damage... in -4- mechs... thats 50 damage per mech...

Less in fact given you are bound to get some 'protected XYZ' , scouting, turret kills or whatever.

Edited by Monodominant, 30 April 2016 - 07:59 AM.