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[Kodiak Jorgensson]

need more info on the event, like if i die and the team still wins does it count towards the reward?

[Joseph Mallan]

Sandpit, on 21 February 2014 - 11:46 AM, said:

Awesome promotion this weekend! Win 5 matches and get a free Centurion Champion mech complete with mech bay! Get out there and start pew pewing everyone.

Should be an Easy Centurion to get. And I like the Cent. So even easier.

[Sephlock]

Kodiak Jorgensson, on 22 February 2014 - 06:40 AM, said:

need more info on the event, like if i die and the team still wins does it count towards the reward?

Yes.

[Deathlike]

Sandpit, on 21 February 2014 - 12:24 PM, said:

I hope all the "UI 2.0 sucks!" crowd members take note that this is directly because of the new UI because it couldn't be done under the old one.

Technically, it would be doable with the older UI. It just won't be as elegant as it would have most likely required you to logoff and log back in for the rewards. There would simply not be a nice obvious indicator or message saying "hey, you got new stuff".

That was how a lot of the older promotions kind of worked like Sarah's Jenner for instance)and tourney winnings.

Edited by Deathlike, 22 February 2014 - 10:59 AM.

[Joseph Mallan]

cSand, on 21 February 2014 - 12:39 PM, said:

Some people have no class!

btw I'm loving our anti-hater knitting-circle we got goin' on here, but let's be positive and focus on the good stuff.

Get out there and get your Cents people!!

It's hater season HAHAHAAHAHA.

I look forward to winning a Cent if I can today! 5 WIns is not that many, and I want one for Anton as well as Joe.

[OldGrayDonkey]

Ok, lol, so yeah, I'm one of the ones who got suckered back by this promo. A new centurion! Whoot! I have 2 centurions and was saving up the 8M to buy the third one so I can unlock elite skills, now they're giving me one for free! I was so happy, I bought a new Awesome with the money I'd been saving up so I'd have another new mech to get my 5 kills with. Wow, what a great day, got my fifth kill and I can't wait for my new Cent to show up in the bay.

You might start detecting the sarcasm by now.

So I get my shinny new Centurion, and low and behold, it doesn't COUNT AS A CENTURION!?!??!?! So no skill tree, just a mech. My savings are boned, no Centurion elite skills now for many many moons, and the whole skill tree is still a piece of you-know-what, the lore part of the game is still missing, the new 3D-lol mechbay still sucks, nothing has changed since I got bored with this game a while back, and they sucker me back for a day and then as usual, let me down. So much promise, so little delivery.

I will say the mech combat is great, well, maybe not getting cored right at the start of every other battle, but everything else still bites. I know many of you love the game, great, I'm happy for you. Maybe someday they'll get it right enough for me to log back in again.

If it's a bug, well, I hope they put out a decent announcement in email, cause I'm not bothering with it anymore.

[Sephlock]

Darkstang, on 22 February 2014 - 06:26 PM, said:

Ok, lol, so yeah, I'm one of the ones who got suckered back by this promo. A new centurion! Whoot! I have 2 centurions and was saving up the 8M to buy the third one so I can unlock elite skills, now they're giving me one for free! I was so happy, I bought a new Awesome with the money I'd been saving up so I'd have another new mech to get my 5 kills with.

Why would you do that instead of buying another Centurion, getting 5 WINS with that, and then grinding them up to Master level?

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So I get my shinny new Centurion, and low and behold, it doesn't COUNT AS A CENTURION!?!??!?! So no skill tree, just a mech. If it's a bug, well, I hope they put out a decent announcement in email, cause I'm not bothering with it anymore.

Sounds like a bug to me.

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Also, forgive me, but... Centurions and Awesomes?

You're like one of those girls that keeps dating the wrong kind of men... choose your rides carefully .

[Joseph Mallan]

So WOW what a difference in Elo! I played 4 Matches PUG in My (F)Atlas. 1w/3l Then played along side 3 of my fellow Lawmen.

Lost the next 7/8 Matches. I switched to the Champion Stalker around the 5th-6th game, since one of the guys is a pretty dang good Spotter. Jumped my numbers up to over 400 Damage and a High of 11 Assists and 0 Kills. Great game for fire support!

One of the guys Dropped(the Scout) to take care of his life. We picked up a new 4th... We won the next 3/5!

Elo Working as intended.

Got my Shiny New Centurion!

[Noesis]

I now have a third CN9-A(C) to put under a tarpaulin.

Will these "Zombies" awaken in the future, who knows?

[Joseph Mallan]

Darkstang, on 22 February 2014 - 06:26 PM, said:

Ok, lol, so yeah, I'm one of the ones who got suckered back by this promo. A new centurion! Whoot! I have 2 centurions and was saving up the 8M to buy the third one so I can unlock elite skills, now they're giving me one for free! I was so happy, I bought a new Awesome with the money I'd been saving up so I'd have another new mech to get my 5 kills with. Wow, what a great day, got my fifth kill and I can't wait for my new Cent to show up in the bay.

You might start detecting the sarcasm by now.

So I get my shinny new Centurion, and low and behold, it doesn't COUNT AS A CENTURION!?!??!?! So no skill tree, just a mech. My savings are boned, no Centurion elite skills now for many many moons, and the whole skill tree is still a piece of you-know-what, the lore part of the game is still missing, the new 3D-lol mechbay still sucks, nothing has changed since I got bored with this game a while back, and they sucker me back for a day and then as usual, let me down. So much promise, so little delivery.

I will say the mech combat is great, well, maybe not getting cored right at the start of every other battle, but everything else still bites. I know many of you love the game, great, I'm happy for you. Maybe someday they'll get it right enough for me to log back in again.

If it's a bug, well, I hope they put out a decent announcement in email, cause I'm not bothering with it anymore.

It should have showed up after the the pop up window congratulating you on your acheivement. Also... My Cent came to me with already Elite Unlocks as I unlocked the non Champion version already. Can't wait to get this tricked out to be a Centurion again.

Noesis, on 23 February 2014 - 05:40 AM, said:

I now have a third CN9-A© to put under a tarpaulin.

Will these "Zombies" awaken in the future, who knows?

Depends on if you develop any Brains.

Couldn't help the joke man!

[Noesis]

Joseph Mallan, on 23 February 2014 - 05:42 AM, said:

Depends on if you develop any Brains.

Couldn't help the joke man!

Well considering that Zombies only really want to eat brains I'm not sure how that works. Do I need to set up a brain farm? Is that the development?

I might however be more satiated with a "cheesey role" for this medium again though.

[tucsonspeed6]

Darkstang, on 22 February 2014 - 06:26 PM, said:

So I get my shinny new Centurion, and low and behold, it doesn't COUNT AS A CENTURION!?!??!?! So no skill tree, just a mech.

It counts as a CN9-A. They might want to clarify that for the new players, but people who have apparently played this game so much that they got bored with it should be able to figure it out.

I didn't read anything else from this post after "the 3D mechbay sucks trololololol!" because anyone who thinks a big rotational view of your mech is crappy is actively trying to find something to ***** about.

[Zerberus]

Darkstang, on 22 February 2014 - 06:26 PM, said:

Ok, lol, so yeah, I'm one of the ones who got suckered back by this promo. A new centurion! Whoot! I have 2 centurions and was saving up the 8M to buy the third one so I can unlock elite skills, now they're giving me one for free! I was so happy, I bought a new Awesome with the money I'd been saving up so I'd have another new mech to get my 5 kills with. Wow, what a great day, got my fifth kill and I can't wait for my new Cent to show up in the bay.

You might start detecting the sarcasm by now.

Sarcasm? no, but my BS-Meter is blinging like nuts....

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So I get my shinny new Centurion, and low and behold, it doesn't COUNT AS A CENTURION!?!??!?! So no skill tree, just a mech. My savings are boned, no Centurion elite skills now for many many moons, and the whole skill tree is still a piece of you-know-what, the lore part of the game is still missing, the new 3D-lol mechbay still sucks, nothing has changed since I got bored with this game a while back, and they sucker me back for a day and then as usual, let me down. So much promise, so little delivery.

I will say the mech combat is great, well, maybe not getting cored right at the start of every other battle, but everything else still bites. I know many of you love the game, great, I'm happy for you. Maybe someday they'll get it right enough for me to log back in again.

If it's a bug, well, I hope they put out a decent announcement in email, cause I'm not bothering with it anymore.

And now I know why....

[TehSBGX]

Sephlock, on 22 February 2014 - 06:10 AM, said:

Run an XL engine in it. If enough of us do it, maybe we can trigger a massive wave of simultaneous heart attacks in all the "Zombie" players, bringing some much needed sanity to the forums .

Oddly Enough I used to run an XL cent o.o I got rid of it when my S-Hawk started filling it's Niche though. I could try something Really out there and do LRMS. :3

[Dirty Dawg]

This is a pretty cool promotion. I hope they continue to do stuff like this from time to time.

[Joseph Mallan]

Joseph Mallan, on 23 February 2014 - 05:36 AM, said:

So WOW what a difference in Elo! I played 4 Matches PUG in My (F)Atlas. 1w/3l Then played along side 3 of my fellow Lawmen.

Lost the next 7/8 Matches. I switched to the Champion Stalker around the 5th-6th game, since one of the guys is a pretty dang good Spotter. Jumped my numbers up to over 400 Damage and a High of 11 Assists and 0 Kills. Great game for fire support!

One of the guys Dropped(the Scout) to take care of his life. We picked up a new 4th... We won the next 3/5!

Elo Working as intended.

Got my Shiny New Centurion!

My Anton Alt took 7 matches to win 5 times. Can we have a Griffin Giveaway Weekend? 'm a Lyran player and a Griffin is the quintessential Lyran Medium.

[Atlasian]

This is the best promo I come across so far. Thanks PGI. The best part: a Champion variant and a free Mechbay! Strangely enough this got me thinking of buying some MC to get more Mechbays to ramp up my collections.

Just got my Cent and my 5-year old is so excited about it. This will be his main ride for testing ground.

[MeiSooHaityu]

It is a cool little promotion. Got my Cent this weekend...So now, how do you sell a mech with the new U.I. system? I couldn't figure it out.

Really though, I tried a few things with the Cent, and just couldn't find a setup I liked. I could use the extra GXP aspect of it, but it just seems too slow and too hard to mount a good loadout with a standard engine.

I'll keep the Cent, but I really would need to find a good loadout. If anyone has any ideas on loadouts, let me know. Besides, It is SORT OF a gift from PGI, so I hate to sell it right away LOL.

Edited by MeiSooHaityu, 24 February 2014 - 09:07 AM.

[Bilbo]

MeiSooHaityu, on 24 February 2014 - 09:06 AM, said:

It is a cool little promotion. Got my Cent this weekend...So now, how do you sell a mech with the new U.I. system? I couldn't figure it out.

Really though, I tried a few things with the Cent, and just couldn't find a setup I liked. I could use the extra GXP aspect of it, but it just seems too slow and too hard to mount a good loadout with a standard engine.

I'll keep the Cent, but I really would need to find a good loadout. If anyone has any ideas on loadouts, let me know. Besides, It is SORT OF a gift from PGI, so I hate to sell it right away LOL.

Inventory screen.

[Mawai]

Sandpit, on 21 February 2014 - 12:24 PM, said:

I hope all the "UI 2.0 sucks!" crowd members take note that this is directly because of the new UI because it couldn't be done under the old one.

Lol ... give me a break. Although overall I like the look and feel of UI2.0 better as well as some of the features like the ones related to sales and events ... I don't think anyone can deny that UI2.0 has some significant and severe shortcomings when it comes to usability.

- no descriptions or details on any of the items you can buy in the store (including no idea what a mech comes with or what items a bundle package contains).
- huge icons and small fonts cluttering up the page making it difficult to read and assess what the items do
- no details on loadouts and modules on a mech without actually going to the configure screen and looking at the relevant mech section - this makes it extremely difficult to find any module, engine or other item that you may have left equipped somewhere ... this gets extremely painful after you have a few mechs and for those with 20 or more mechs it is a nightmare to find something if you don't remember where it was last used.
- no integrated inventory listing everything you own as opposed to everything not equipped

... there are many, many more usability issues with UI2.0 that should never have seen general release, So, as much as I appreciate the "challenge" to earn a mech ... I would have preferred a better designed implementation of UI2.0 far more.