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[PocketAces]

Or you are having connection problems, mechs running on the spot in game. At the moment the game is unplayable for me.

[Creovex]

I love this event.... It was simple to hit the first 10 wins.... amazing how if you tell pugs it's about the W and give them a strategy they will do it due to this event... ran 10 wins out of 14 matches last night.

Far from 1 sided, had a match where 4 of us capped, while 8 players sacrificed themeselves to keep the enemy busy.... we won ny cap but ended with a 4 of us vs the enemy having all 12 players still alive.

Edited by Creovex, 23 August 2014 - 04:23 AM.

[PanzerSmurf]

Sorry to have to correct you, but the quote is : "The sinews of war are infinite money"
by Marcus Tullius Cicero. Roman Proverb.

And while he was a senator, he was also a field commander, so not just a bureaucrat.

You should totally hire me for accurate and real historical quotes

Edited by PanzerSmurf, 23 August 2014 - 04:28 AM.

[MonkeyCheese]

First hour was all losses with plenty of derps and suicidal trial mechs. Regardless of what I did or what tactics I typed into chat.

Really starting to get sick of this matchmaker and the fact that I see new people in trial mechs at all. I will try to get to my 10 wins for the mechbay then I will just give up for the weekend I think, derp levels seem to be lower on the weekdays.

[redruMfloW]

The servers are probably overloaded because half of my games ends in time paradox, lag and WTF

[Mazrix]

I'm literally not winning ANY matches today. I'm pulling 350+ dmg matches with tons of spots in my Locusts, but I just cannot ******* win. It's not happening. What the heck is going on? I literally only want to get the first wins in on the wastes of money and move on.

[Son of the Flood]

It took me 18 matches to get to 10 wins (after an 0-3 start!). There were a few stomps in there on either side and a few nail biters, but all in all most matches could have gone either way half way through the match.

I do like mixing it up from the last two challenges, and the tiers are great, but 50 wins is out of reach for me...just not enough time to play the 100 or so games it would take me. I'm glad its in there for those that are able to get it, however (kudos to them!).

One good thing about the last challenge that included assists is that almost anyone can get at least an assist each match, so you always were progressing toward the goal. For the next challenge, I'd suggest a hybrid of the last 3 that took into account kills, assists, wins, and even losses (maybe a loss is something nominal like worth 0.25 wins) so that you keep progressing toward the goal even if you have a bad game or a great game that resulted in a loss. The more tiers the better!

Just my 2 cents, now to pick up another 10 wins this weekend!

[Ryvucz]

I'd love information about how many matches I've played total while attempting to reach 50 wins. (41 wins currently with around 18~ friggin hours of gameplay)

[noise gate]

previous challenges took me 2-3 hours to complete. This time it took me 2 evenings to get a mechbay.
I want personal skills be awarded, not just random team.

[BLOOD WOLF]

noise gate, on 23 August 2014 - 05:52 AM, said:

previous challenges took me 2-3 hours to complete. This time it took me 2 evenings to get a mechbay.
I want personal skills be awarded, not just random team.

Can't always have it one way i suppose.

[Mazrix]

Well, could be worse. Could've been War Thunder's summer Madness event: Get 40 wins where you place first on the scoreboard from both teams to get a single premium vehicle.

In other news: Abandoning trying to do this in my Locusts. Rolled out the good'ol Thunderbolt and got 4 wins in a row.

[igavemymomkoolaid]

6 hours later. Done with 10 wins. Had tears in my eyes, not only because of happiness but burning eyes from trying to end this challenge. I wasn't interested in the mechbay, I have enough but I wanted to finish the challenge like all challenges since I registered. Now I finished the first step of the challenge and I am done with it. No more MWO this weekend. No more MWO this week.

10 wins, more than 40 losses. I dont want to be unfair. You can't do 10 matches and finish this challenge. You have to calculate 1,5 hours for 10 wins and 1,5 hours for 10 losses. But 6 hours? Lots of roflstomps? Losing streaks of 10 matches and more? This is not fun to me and how I wanted to spend my weekend.

Could really need this C-Bill reward. I have bought a DragonSlayer for MC and I would have bought my second Victor. Assault mechs are really expensive. I will never reach this goal to get 50 wins this weekend and I won't try it. It's impossible. If this goes on, I need 250 matches for it.

Didn't choose my best mech but also not the worst. Remember lots of highest match scores in this matches, I did not die too often, but certainly at last when I was the last mech alive. I was desperate most of the time I played this challenge. I had this feeling of being a complete noob. But it has nothing to do with good luck or bad luck. Even a really bad player can win every second match. It's disgusting to be a experienced player and got beatings like this.

This matchmaker is broken. I did not have fun. Watch this thread. I am not the only one.

Edited by igavemymomkoolaid, 23 August 2014 - 06:49 AM.

[Sir Trent Howell]

Good God the level of terribad is awful.It's not even a challenge, it's a slog through the players who look like they've never touched the game before and they all end up on my team.

I mean it's getting to be a sick joke at this point. Oh look, 2 AFK Assault Mechs on my team, Mechs with flamers as their only weapons, one idiot charges the enemy alone in the opening seconds.

It's just insane. I can't even believe the level of idiocy I'm seeing out here.

Am I on some sort of PGI **** list or something?

Edited by Sir Trent Howell, 23 August 2014 - 07:10 AM.

[Chrithu]

Hmm. I guess I'll have to be on sick-leave on monday .

Anyways it will be a long night tonight. I'm at 11/50 after roughly 6 hours of playtime and 25 matches.

[xCico]

oh my God PGI you ****** this matchmaker up so badly, looool

[BLOOD WOLF]

Sir Trent Howell, on 23 August 2014 - 06:59 AM, said:

Good God the level of terribad is awful.It's not even a challenge, it's a slog through the players who look like they've never touched the game before and they all end up on my team.

I mean it's getting to be a sick joke at this point. Oh look, 2 AFK Assault Mechs on my team, Mechs with flamers as their only weapons, one idiot charges the enemy alone in the opening seconds.

It's just insane. I can't even believe the level of idiocy I'm seeing out here.

Getting 2-3 kills a match means nothing. This challenge is seriously ticking me off.

[LordLosh]

You guys are a bunch of whiny kids! Grow up. Or go ***** about something more productive here is a list for you:
Clan wars still not out
No ELI support
Clan mechs OP compared to majority of IS mechs *think this is how they want it though with clan wars and 10 v 12 maybe?
Weapon mods will either be a requirement grind XP and C-bills with no heat or suck with heat
Dsync issues out the ying yang
server still sucks
hit boxes on maps are a joke with the terrain
etc.. lots more productive things to ***** about!

Kids they are giving you free stuff for just playing the game. 50 is high but considering 6.5 C-bills cost you 4,000 MC = $20 real dollars it should be. If you cant win 20 games in 3 Fing days you need to reevaluate your play-style and tactics and quit blaming others.
Watch some of the pro players streams. Check different builds on smurfy and mecspecs.com. ask for help in game. Join a group/Faction. don't rage QQ on here. Or do, i don't care that much just trying to help and or not have to listen to as many babies...

[Ryoken]

Appogee, on 23 August 2014 - 04:09 AM, said:

It kind of demonstrates why Elo is such a crappy way to balance team matches in this game.

You have fantastic individual matches, you get the highest damage and the most kills, you spend your time frantically typing strategic and tactical advice to the team ... and yet, your team still loses, and you are no closer to the challenge target.

That is far more frustrating then when you personally screw up and personally get a bad score.

+1 and quoted for truth!

The biggest cause of frustration in PUGs is that you loose despite doing a good game because someone else screwed it up!

Now with the challenge it gets even worse, as you try even harder, yet some noobs do ruin your game.

PGI take that as a lesson. Please base challenges on the players individual achivements. Maybe even get rid of the win/loss boni at all as jumping into a PUG equals to flipping a coin.

[Bromineberry]

I love the challenge, just for all the QQ of people who suddenly have to learn to not rely on their teammates on comms and suddenly need like 50 games to get the mechbay. Welcome to pugland.

Edited by Bromineberry, 23 August 2014 - 07:26 AM.

[101011]

LordLosh, on 23 August 2014 - 07:17 AM, said:

You guys are a bunch of whiny kids! Grow up. Or go ***** about something more productive here is a list for you:
Clan wars still not out
No ELI support
Clan mechs OP compared to majority of IS mechs *think this is how they want it though with clan wars and 10 v 12 maybe?
Weapon mods will either be a requirement grind XP and C-bills with no heat or suck with heat
Dsync issues out the ying yang
server still sucks
hit boxes on maps are a joke with the terrain
etc.. lots more productive things to ***** about!

Kids they are giving you free stuff for just playing the game. 50 is high but considering 6.5 C-bills cost you 4,000 MC = $20 real dollars it should be. If you cant win 20 games in 3 Fing days you need to reevaluate your play-style and tactics and quit blaming others.
Watch some of the pro players streams. Check different builds on smurfy and mecspecs.com. ask for help in game. Join a group/Faction. don't rage QQ on here. Or do, i don't care that much just trying to help and or not have to listen to as many babies...

Sounds to me like you are the one QQ'ing. Just because PGI has other problems with their game does not mean that we can not give feedback on what they do have (this challenge sucks big time). Yes, it is free stuff, but the method of delivery is severely lacking. I, unlike some, have other things to do this weekend, and as such, it is more like "50 wins in 2 days". Now, you go ahead and do that, and I will shut up. But you will not. We (or at least I am not) are not "blaming others" for being unable to win 20 matches (which I have already, by the way), but we are telling PGI that these challenges suck because of their random nature. Assuming that every one who dislikes this challenge is a bad player is both arrogant and presumptuous. I consider myself a fairly skilled player, and in ten matches I have a KDR of 3 and a W/L of 4:6. I am awarded nothing for a 5 kill 800 damage game, and that is what frustrates players. (Oh, and assuming an average C-Bill income of 150k on a win, you will have made over 7.5 million c-bills just getting the 50 wins)