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[Rhaythe]

Sweet, 52% congestion in the Assault mech queue again this weekend.

[Alex Warden]

Alistair Winter, on 14 August 2014 - 04:40 PM, said:

I'm expecting another "Kill twenty slimes within 48 hours to complete your quest" challenge. Maybe they replace x kills with y victories or z kill assists, but basically another grind for a $2 reward.

Prove me wrong, Nico. Give us a real challenge!

grind? it took me 14 matches.. in a Battlemaster

[Lance McRaven]

I guess I will need to buy a new mech and level it up, just like I did last challenge. Let's see...what mech to buy?

[FDJustin]

Alistair Winter, on 14 August 2014 - 04:40 PM, said:

I'm expecting another "Kill twenty slimes within 48 hours to complete your quest" challenge. Maybe they replace x kills with y victories or z kill assists, but basically another grind for a $2 reward.

Prove me wrong, Nico. Give us a real challenge!

New challenge get: Headshot 10 Atlas-20-D-DC in any Merik mech.

[Bigbacon]

I'm going to try it again in a locust if there is a marik one (assuming 1M?)

took forever during the steiner one and I have up at the end and use KTO-18

[John1352]

The selection of sale mechs is really good, I think everyone with 10 mechs will have one of the right ones. I'm going to have to choose if I want to buy an atlas or stalker though.

[Alistair Winter]

Alex Warden, on 15 August 2014 - 04:39 AM, said:

grind? it took me 14 matches.. in a Battlemaster

The point is, getting 20 kills within 48 hours is not a challenge. It's like when parents tell their child "Let's see how quickly you can put your clothes on for school! Go!" and then the child tried to be as fast as possible.

No one cares if you do it in 5 matches or 15 matches, or 50 matches. It's just a matter of time. Even a five-year-old can get 20 kills in 48 hours. So where's the excitement?

FDJustin, on 15 August 2014 - 04:53 AM, said:

New challenge get: Headshot 10 Atlas-20-D-DC in any Merik mech.

Well, 10 headshots on any mech within the end of the weekend would be a cool challenge. That would be pretty hard, I think. Even 5 headshots would be pretty hard. A bit too hard for such a small reward.

But I'd prefer to see a challenge that was a bit too difficult for me, rather than a challenge that anyone and their mother could do.

[FDJustin]

Yah. I wanted it to sound easy, be extremely difficult. Atlas-D-DC might be the most common variant, but they've got ECM to hide their approach, and have a tiny eyeball you need to focus on. And if it's only one specific mech, it will be very rarely played during the challenge.

[Macksheen]

You know what would be funny?

Kill 20 Marik mechs ... while piloting a Marik mech.

Because, Free Worlds fluff.

[Deathlike]

The mechs on sale is already up on smurfy's.

Many of the same ones are still there, but no Champions on sale thing time around.

The Raven-3L and Cicada-3M make an appearance.

The complete set of Orions are on sale (minus the hero).

[Mott]

Macksheen, on 15 August 2014 - 06:33 AM, said:

You know what would be funny?

Kill 20 Marik mechs ... while piloting a Marik mech.

Because, Free Worlds fluff.

Oh, i see what you did there... that's sharp.

And... i had no idea you were a fluffy bunny.

[Onmyoudo]

Macksheen, on 15 August 2014 - 06:33 AM, said:

You know what would be funny?

Kill 20 Marik mechs ... while piloting a Marik mech.

Because, Free Worlds fluff.

This. Which would work, because everyone else would be running them too. I'll be disappointed if it's not this.

[BloodStar]

Wait, so can this be done in ANY mech?

EDIT: Nope, I found the list.

Edited by BloodStar, 15 August 2014 - 09:16 AM.

[wanderer]

Let's put it this way. Niko was amused at the concept of a challenge that was something besides "Kill X".

http://mwomercs.com/...hbay-challenge/

But there you go.

[waterfowl]

CycKath, on 14 August 2014 - 04:35 PM, said:

A free Mech Bay for every faction challenge??? Not complaining, well not really, but does seem a tad weird they are being so "nice". Hopefully it'll a different from 20 kills and perhaps something easier for newer F2Ps to get.

Mech bays really aren't that impactful, because they get filled up so quick

[Starbound]

This is a good challenge, not so much competition for the kill shot as you can complete with assists. This I like, and a good selection of mechs. I had only 3 or 4 of the Steiner capables but here I have many more and I can pick up the Cicada 3M at discount... hazzah!

[Gooner]

I also like that its kills and assists. I didn't get chance to play last weekend's challenge because I was busy playing Watchdogs but I'll definately put some time in this weekend. Thankfully I'm well covered with mechs because I own an Atlas, 2 Stalkers and a Battlemaster from that list

[Bigbacon]

assists make this great as long as you arne't on a team that gets stomped 12-0

Edited by Bigbacon, 15 August 2014 - 10:05 AM.

[Sandslice]

wanderer, on 15 August 2014 - 09:16 AM, said:

Let's put it this way. Niko was amused at the concept of a challenge that was something besides "Kill X".

http://mwomercs.com/...hbay-challenge/

But there you go.

That is amusing... I'll take it.

Now, the only "sad" thing is, Jenner-D (my main light,) Griffin-N (my main medium,) TDR-9S (my current grind-heavy) and AWS-8Q (my main IS assault) are all part of the challenge, so I don't need to *buy* any 'Mechs.

On the other hand, it would be a handy excuse to end my refusal to buy a godbox Raven, as that one IS in the challenge. Or a godbox Cicada, perhaps.

Edited by Sandslice, 15 August 2014 - 10:08 AM.

[Cion]

WM Quicksilver, on 14 August 2014 - 04:16 PM, said:

Model numbers generally tell who produced it.

M = Marik (CDA-3M, AWS-9M, etc)
L = Liao (RVN-3L, CTF-3L, etc)
S = Steiner (BNC-3S, LCT-3S, etc)
D = Davion(AS7-D, CTF-3D, etc)
K = Kurita (AS7-K, FS9-K, etc)

There are some other ones that I don't remember, but none that are important to MWO.

*my brain just exploded (internal ammo explosion) after overloading (overheating) from this *

Edited by Cion, 15 August 2014 - 10:40 AM.