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[Sepkio]

Dimitry Matveyev, on 18 January 2015 - 03:06 PM, said:

Man, reading all this I'm glad I've passed this time. This suppose to be fun, not a weekend long grind-o-thon.

Yea this is a pain in the balls. I would have been done yesterday morning if it weren't for the wins.

[Void2258]

If I play to win (aka normally) I don't get kills. If I play to get a kill, then win, we always lose. I haven't gotten a single point in over 4 hours. I'm winning more than half the time, but as far as the challenge is concerned it is worthless to win without a kill, which is exactly counter to the way I normally play (I'm the guy who constantly gets 12 assists and 900 damage but no kills every match).

Edited by Void2258, 18 January 2015 - 03:18 PM.

[Greenjulius]

It took me 58 games to get it. Not overly hard; the kills weren't a problem. I only had 4 games where I won, but didn't get a kill due to either dying early, (Locusts do that) or losing kills to stealers.

It was the forced losses that made it tough. I would get teams that died within 5 minutes, leaving me to try and take on the remaining full or still packed team. That's silly. I know that we can't win every time, but I wish the matchmaker would at least balance teams in such a way that it wouldn't be 12 Goods vs. 10 Bads and 2 Goods. It makes you feel helpless to the odds.

[Sepkio]

The thing is that they know statically the avg player will have to play x amount of hours to get the 30. Which I'm guessing is around 30 hrs.

Greenjulius, on 18 January 2015 - 03:26 PM, said:

It took me 58 games to get it. Not overly hard; the kills weren't a problem. I only had 4 games where I won, but didn't get a kill due to either dying early, (Locusts do that) or losing kills to stealers.

It was the forced losses that made it tough. I would get teams that died within 5 minutes, leaving me to try and take on the remaining full or still packed team. That's silly. I know that we can't win every time, but I wish the matchmaker would at least balance teams in such a way that it wouldn't be 12 Goods vs. 10 Bads and 2 Goods. It makes you feel helpless to the odds.

Lol i'm at like 100 with 23 points

Edited by Sepkio, 18 January 2015 - 03:27 PM.

[Fenris Kell]

As usual, many of the people posting here need to look up the definition of the word, "challenge". This must be the result of a generation of kids getting an award 'just for showing up' :-P.

[Sepkio]

Fenris Kell, on 18 January 2015 - 03:34 PM, said:

As usual, many of the people posting here need to look up the definition of the word, "challenge". This must be the result of a generation of kids getting an award 'just for showing up' :-P.

I don't find it a challenge when I got 10 matches with plenty of kills and KA but no points because my team can't seem to win....Challenge.. more like rng pita

I mean seriously I had the NFC championship game on in the background and had not one win the hole time.

Edited by Sepkio, 18 January 2015 - 03:39 PM.

[Void2258]

The problem is it's an individual challenge in a team game. So much of your ability to perform in this challenge is out of your own hands that a large factor in it is pure luck with teammates. There is a reason that hockey teams don't pick up random people and judge them on who scores goals, even if their skill in the game is not in shooting.

Edited by Void2258, 18 January 2015 - 03:44 PM.

[Nutlink]

Fenris Kell, on 18 January 2015 - 03:34 PM, said:

As usual, many of the people posting here need to look up the definition of the word, "challenge". This must be the result of a generation of kids getting an award 'just for showing up' :-P.

Or maybe they could balance challenges out so they're actually difficult and not just a long, long grind.

[Uncle Totty]

I DID IT! I GOT THE 30! I CAN NOW GO BACK TO PLAYING THE GAME!

[VixNix]

I have to say from a personal perspective, this was the worst challenge I have participated in.
People coming out of the woodwork to kill steal and even shoot you just to get a hit.
I was a victim of plenty of FF for being between the "friendlies" and the enemy.

Maybe next time do a challenge for getting 6+ assists instead of something like this.

Thank you very much for the premium time, mech and mech bay.

Vix~

[That Dawg]

Dimitry Matveyev, on 18 January 2015 - 03:06 PM, said:

Man, reading all this I'm glad I've passed this time. This suppose to be fun, not a weekend long grind-o-thon.

it was fun, I have no idea how many battles it took, but I think I remember 5 being really unbearable...in other words, typical night on Pugville road.


got mine, thanked all the team mates and played about 6-7 battles in the phract, WHICH I have mastered out months and months ago, left it stock, not a bad brawler.
now, I've returned to help others get their kill.
Legging, pummeling, sacrificing the last few hours of premium in a pay it forward attempt.
You'll know me, I painted it banana yellow

[Amethyst Blade]

Finished! Now buyers remorse. But I earned around 12 million c-bills this weekend.

I was kind of choked. My Win/2 kills/0assists didn't count. So now we are punished for being effective.

Mark Charke

[Uncle Totty]

VixNix, on 18 January 2015 - 03:59 PM, said:

I have to say from a personal perspective, this was the worst challenge I have participated in.
People coming out of the woodwork to kill steal and even shoot you just to get a hit.
I was a victim of plenty of FF for being between the "friendlies" and the enemy.

Maybe next time do a challenge for getting 6+ assists instead of something like this.

Thank you very much for the premium time, mech and mech bay.

Vix~

Then you would have people being punished for getting kills. So no.

[Void2258]

What we need are challenges that fit the game type aka reward TEAM play and not individual play.

[Prc]

nvm got it now thx for mech & bay

Edited by Prc, 18 January 2015 - 05:07 PM.

[Zolaz]

Void2258, on 18 January 2015 - 04:52 PM, said:

What we need are challenges that fit the game type aka reward TEAM play and not individual play.

That was this challenge ... your wish has already been granted. Feel free to send a Thank You letter to Feedback and Support. I am sure they would love to hear from you, after their quick turn around time.

[Void2258]

109 games in slightly over 48 hours and I still could only get 20 points. I can't do this anymore. This is hands down the worst experience I have ever had playing this game, and I was here when touching someone with a light mech was instant death as you watched a fallover animation. Even obsessive compulsive disorder can't carry me through to actually winning this. It's just too counter to the way I play the game and to all my mech builds. I don't get kills, I get massive assists and help my team win. If I try to get kills we just lose all the time. I have over a 50% win rate in the matches I have played during this event but I just can't win this. Being a team player just doesn't get you points in this event, only being a complete ******* and screwing over your team just enough to get a kill but not enough to lose the match does.

Edited by Void2258, 18 January 2015 - 05:31 PM.

[GreyNovember]

Welp. 10m CBills from the Premium time. Just barely made the point requirement.

Can't help but think that other players would appreciate it more if they had the same hero bonus. It's hard to be upset when you're rolling in Space money after a decent performance, win or lose.

[Flaming oblivion]

Don't worry pgi will learn from this.

They got the victor challenge wrong changed it

They've got this wrong will change it.

They will lose players through this like the victor but not to worry.

CW proves they can implement things in a timely fashion so in around about two years we will have a beta of semi decent challenges.

GG.

[Aesthir]

Void2258, on 18 January 2015 - 05:25 PM, said:

109 games in slightly over 48 hours and I still could only get 20 points. I can't do this anymore. This is hands down the worst experience I have ever had playing this game, and I was here when touching someone with a light mech was instant death as you watched a fallover animation. Even obsessive compulsive disorder can't carry me through to actually winning this. It's just too counter to the way I play the game and to all my mech builds. I don't get kills, I get massive assists and help my team win. If I try to get kills we just lose all the time. I have over a 50% win rate in the matches I have played during this event but I just can't win this. Being a team player just doesn't get you points in this event, only being a complete ******* and screwing over your team just enough to get a kill but not enough to lose the match does.

This is pretty much exactly what I came here to write.

The whole event highlights all of MWO's failings at the moment. There's so little actual content that the only reason to play is the promise of free stuff. It's just this horrible slog of a grind that makes you hate the game and the people who made it.

I know I've been shouting "Give me a REASON to play!" but this isn't it, guys. This is the game design equivalent of giving people cash for eating bugs.