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[chaas]

chaas, on 18 April 2014 - 12:12 PM, said:

Having a nervous breakdown because the mechlab is useless sometimes

Nevermind, I learned something today. Seems the mechlab let me put an XL engine in there when I did not have the critical slots available to post such an engine. Would be nice if someone would look at those alerts though as it told me literally nothing.

[Sug]

Phyrefli, on 18 April 2014 - 12:03 PM, said:

Managed it in 2.5 hours, while streaming,

It's almost funny at this point. Just about 4 hours and I'm at 2 wins and 21 losses.

[Mecha-Gamera]

How do I get my free mech? It says go to the challenge page after I won 5 matches. I've gone there, but it just says that I won the challenge, but there's nothing to click to get the mech or the mech bay.

[ebichu]

Took me 16 games :/

To all those people saying that 5 victories is too easy, you want me to play 50+ games in a single weekend when I don't even play that many in an entire month? Good luck with that.

5 is a good number, 10 victories would be my absolute maximum with anything more making it a grind. This game does not need any more grind.

@Robert Sager
it's not instant it might take half an hour to get the reward after completing the challenge.

Edited by ebichu, 18 April 2014 - 12:30 PM.

[Gas Guzzler]

Exarch Levin, on 18 April 2014 - 12:11 PM, said:

Wasn't working for me on Mordor when we were getting LRM'd to death behind cover via spotters or a UAV. ECM is a rare commodity in the matches that I've been playing. I've noticed in my "microcosm of the meta" that most everyone sports an AMS. That helps, but not when the warp-speed LRMS (which even lights still can't dodge all that well) are coming in like the arrows that "blot out the sun" in 300.

To make matters worse, the Tbolt's stock loadout is crap so I'll have to go into the mechlab, a place I've dreaded going ever since UI 2.0 killed it, in order to make the mech usable.

I love going into the Mechlab, but if you really don't like it, mess around in smurfy's then go in an do exactly what you want in game. You still think LRMs are bad? Once in a while I get LRM spammed and it sucks but its almost always my fault, or just in the wrong place at the wrong time. This kind of thing can happen and doesn't indicate an error in the game. Whether its 4 LRM boats or 4 6 ML Jenners (either one your screwed if they are all concentrating fire, although the 4 LRM boats can be evaded if you just find cover, while the Jenner's will wolf pack you wherever you go, so LRMs are actually underpowered in this scenario), there will always be a bad situation once in a while that just leaves you helpless.

ANYWAY, back on topic. So glad I got this mech without paying for it, only a couple matches so far but it seems fun. It and the 9SE are easily my favorites.

Thanks for the event PGI!

Oh and I lucked out big time. It took me 5 games to get 5 wins

Edited by Gas Guzzler, 18 April 2014 - 12:29 PM.

[Sug]

Robert Sager, on 18 April 2014 - 12:25 PM, said:

How do I get my free mech? It says go to the challenge page after I won 5 matches. I've gone there, but it just says that I won the challenge, but there's nothing to click to get the mech or the mech bay.

Might take a bit to be delivered, might have to exit the game and reload. It will show up like an achievement.

[LowSubmarino]

Hey, this is pretty awesome what you guys are doing. I also love it that you release more and more mechs and at the same time continue to tweak and change older mechs, their hardpoints, hitboxes and so on.

All in all the game has been a lot of entertainment even after having played it for quite some time. Not many games manage to do that. I for one enjoy the game a lot. Though lately I get this weird memory allocation error a lot. But Im sure it will be fixed at some point.

Good stuff!

[Gas Guzzler]

Robert Sager, on 18 April 2014 - 12:25 PM, said:

How do I get my free mech? It says go to the challenge page after I won 5 matches. I've gone there, but it just says that I won the challenge, but there's nothing to click to get the mech or the mech bay.

It will show up eventually in game after a few minutes, you don't have to do anything. Maybe logout and back in.

[Reported for Inappropriate Name]

i was gonna sell it immediately, but with dual ams...

maybe i'll experiment with dual ppc ac/10 or something

[Helmer]

chaas, on 18 April 2014 - 12:12 PM, said:

Anyone else having this issue?

I've never had issues with invalid loadouts until yesterday. It's happened twice where the build gives me loadout errors, yet doesn't say what the error is. Both times I needed to strip the mech, save it, come back and rebuild the 'mech.

Both times I was somehow over the tonnage limit for the 'mech. One of the times I know I added an AMS to a 'mech, unfortunately I don;t remember all the changes I made during the errors.

Seems like some checksum with the 'mechlab may have broken.



Cheers.

[SortaSane]

Helmer, on 18 April 2014 - 12:38 PM, said:

I've never had issues with invalid loadouts until yesterday. It's happened twice where the build gives me loadout errors, yet doesn't say what the error is. Both times I needed to strip the mech, save it, come back and rebuild the 'mech.

Both times I was somehow over the tonnage limit for the 'mech. One of the times I know I added an AMS to a 'mech, unfortunately I don;t remember all the changes I made during the errors.

Seems like some checksum with the 'mechlab may have broken.



Cheers.

I've seen this before today whenever I try to save a new loadout. The new parts are set in place, but some of the old parts are also left in place when they should have been stripped out. Earlier a CASE and some heatsinks I took out showed up in their old locations alongside the new components I added, putting me over tonnage and in one location over the number of slots. I just removed the parts a second time and saved again, problem solved.

[costi]

verybad, on 17 April 2014 - 03:18 PM, said:

Not fair to people like myself that have no skill. I don't believe one weekend is enough time for me to be on 5 winning teams. I may try in any case however!

If I could do it, you can as well

[Will9761]

I got it, and I love it!

[Hellen Wheels]

Complete.

What's next? CW?

Oh wait....that's "soon"™

Edited by Hellen Wheels, 18 April 2014 - 01:12 PM.

[Gangnail]

Thanks again PGI!

[Noobatron x300]

Why are people saying 3 straight hours 2 wins you say ? I'll tell you why , Ironically this is one of the few games that I've come across that go's above and beyond punishing you for being a new player, It feels like your almost fated to not lose a lot but lose far far far more then you win . The thing is when you do this a lot of new players simply leave and refuse to play a brutal game that punishes them for trying to learn, Leaving you with a game with mostly nostalgic old timers and the very few new players that can stomach staying logged in being forced into a life of cannon fodder for the old timers punishing them even more so. Rant off.

[Appogee]

I won 10 matches - but I only received ONE free Mech!

Edited by Appogee, 18 April 2014 - 01:22 PM.

[fleshwoundNPG]

5 wins in 6 matches.

Was a perfect 5 for 5 back during the Centurion giveaway.

God bless you (fellow) puggies.

[Deathlike]

Sug, on 18 April 2014 - 12:18 PM, said:

It's almost funny at this point. Just about 4 hours and I'm at 2 wins and 21 losses.

Must go premade. Otherwise your experience suffers greatly.

Helmer, on 18 April 2014 - 12:38 PM, said:

I've never had issues with invalid loadouts until yesterday. It's happened twice where the build gives me loadout errors, yet doesn't say what the error is. Both times I needed to strip the mech, save it, come back and rebuild the 'mech.

Both times I was somehow over the tonnage limit for the 'mech. One of the times I know I added an AMS to a 'mech, unfortunately I don;t remember all the changes I made during the errors.

Seems like some checksum with the 'mechlab may have broken.



Cheers.

It's not "broken" but it's not working correctly. I think the game "forgets" a particular transaction - particularly removal. In fact, even the "strip mech" function occasionally fails to strip out every component... so there's an actual issue AFAIK.

Edited by Deathlike, 18 April 2014 - 01:54 PM.

[Sug]

Deathlike, on 18 April 2014 - 01:53 PM, said:

It's not "broken" but it's not working correctly. I think the game "forgets" a particular transaction - particularly removal. In fact, even the "strip mech" function occasionally fails to strip out every component... so there's an actual issue AFAIK.

Got an error yesterday where my mech had 2 engines. First time that's happened to me in UI2.0 but it wasn't that uncommon in the old UI.

Noobatron x300, on 18 April 2014 - 01:19 PM, said:

Why are people saying 3 straight hours 2 wins you say ? I'll tell you why , Ironically this is one of the few games that I've come across that go's above and beyond punishing you for being a new player, It feels like your almost fated to not lose a lot but lose far far far more then you win . The thing is when you do this a lot of new players simply leave and refuse to play a brutal game that punishes them for trying to learn, Leaving you with a game with mostly nostalgic old timers and the very few new players that can stomach staying logged in being forced into a life of cannon fodder for the old timers punishing them even more so. Rant off.

What's weird is that my WLR was exactly 50/50 until the challenge started, now I can't get a win to save my life. Even tried my cheesy LRM boat, 5 kills, 800 damage, and a loss : /