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[SoggyGorilla]

wow most people rush the base so you get a 5 minute warfare drop, and a match score of 70 or less. after waiting for almost an hour to get a drop. this IS IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPLETE.

[TLBFestus]

Not impossible but very, very difficult for many solo droppers or small groups.

Long waits, little or no knowledge of whats to be done at the beginning, followed by a steady trickle of pubbies strolling into concentrated fire from orgnaized groups with 6 or more mechs at a go and it's often a roll.

Clan mechs just trudge through everyone to the target and the game is over in the first wave due to their durability, bu mostly the lack of coordination on the losing teams side.

So, from my perspective it hasn't been particularly fun at all. But....it's beta...and beta around here can literally last years.

[Hotthedd]

It can be done, I have already completed 20+ matches with 80 pts or above, all but 3 of them dropping solo.
Defending is easy to get 80 pts, as your job is to kill mechs. Attacking means you need to do a good bit of damage, use arty/air strikes, and UAV usually adds to your final score as well.

[SoggyGorilla]

its just so frustrating to wait for 45 minutes to get a match, then complete it for another 30 minutes, and see your match score of 75.

[Dirty Starfish]

Drop on planets with high numbers of attacker wins. There are more people playing on those.

[King Arthur IV]

i hate it the most! i win!

[crustydog]

Right now, CW simply gives me too much frustration...

I'm just calling it as I see it.

[The Boz]

Doing it solo is frustrating as hell. Small groups hellp, but not by much. Go to the Faction part of the forums, find a large group on teamspeak or something. Queue times down to ~5 minutes if you get sync-dropped with ten people or so.

[Pjwned]

The challenge itself is fine, it's just that unfortunately community warfare is a bit of a mess in a number of ways and that impacts the fun of the challenge quite severely. To be honest, at first I thought it was fairly fun even in its beta state, but now after dealing with atrociously bad queue times and boring, unbalanced matches I'm not going to be playing the mode again until PGI starts rolling out some serious fixes.

I'm mostly just relieved I managed to finally complete the challenge (during which, a number of matches ended in a matter of minutes due to cheesy clan mech base rush tactics after I waited 30+ minutes to get in a game) to get an actually decent chunk of c-bills & GXP so I don't have to grind so much to build new mechs or further upgrade existing ones with new modules.

SoggyGorilla, on 15 December 2014 - 10:25 PM, said:

its just so frustrating to wait for 45 minutes to get a match, then complete it for another 30 minutes, and see your match score of 75.

Are your mechs completely under-equipped if you can't manage to play a match for 30 minutes and earn 80 match score? I understand the waiting part (among other things) being frustrating, but I have to question what you're doing if that's what happened.

Edited by Pjwned, 16 December 2014 - 01:36 AM.

[Curccu]

SoggyGorilla, on 15 December 2014 - 10:25 PM, said:

its just so frustrating to wait for 45 minutes to get a match, then complete it for another 30 minutes, and see your match score of 75.

It shouldn't be that hard to do ~600 dmg with 4 mechs in 30 minutes... really.

[The Boz]

Curccu, on 16 December 2014 - 01:46 AM, said:

It shouldn't be that hard to do ~600 dmg with 4 mechs in 30 minutes... really.

It is if you're attacking, since damage to turrets and generators doesn't count.

[Curccu]

The Boz, on 16 December 2014 - 01:49 AM, said:

It is if you're attacking, since damage to turrets and generators doesn't count.

There is also 48 enemy mechs to shoot.

[The Boz]

But isn't winning more fun?

[Curccu]

The Boz, on 16 December 2014 - 01:52 AM, said:

But isn't winning more fun?

But you can do both ?

[Deathlike]

The challenge rewards are bad once you get past Tier 2.

The only time it is "easier" to acquire the points necessary is when you are actually playing defense.

It is NOT the obligation of the attacking force to "get the points necessary" for the challenge while winning the objective. The objective is NOT about killing all 48 mechs... it's all about destroying the base/gun generator. That's it.

If anything, finishing off the gun ASAP gives one the opportunity to get a "defend planet" while still being the attacker. It's ironically something rather functional.

Edited by Deathlike, 16 December 2014 - 02:05 AM.

[Zergling]

It is almost impossible as an IS faction. Still hard to do as Clan, but it is possible.

[Edelirium]

Here I am at 05:38 in the morning. I've been on since 14:00, and I'm at 19/20 points. My clan has long since gone to sleep, so I'm without my coordinated drops. I wanted to sleep an hour ago, I got a match score of 79 in my last attack run, and now it's a ceasefire.

I just want to be done with this.

[ShadowWolf Kell]

Blast stuff on the way to the generator. Blow off arms and legs. Get both.

[LT. HARDCASE]

Only thing I hate is the queue times. The 80 points feel impossible to miss.

[Tahribator]

I didn't even bother, it's just not worth playing/waiting in the queue for ~10-20 hours straight for 8 million C-Bills and a bunch of GXP I don't need. You can probably make the same amount in the solo/group queue in the meanwhile.