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[Gruunok]

I should have had this challenge but as i was finishing it, (less than half to go and had gotten most of my points today) I got the endless loop patching error so i got screwed out of this challenge imo. so im trying to reinstall for the 4th time and maybe i can get it finished....

[Amethyst Blade]

I gave up on the Victor challenge, which was MUCH harder. You had to survive the match. In this challenge I found that, I would make sure I racked up some assists, just shoot at several enemies a little, and then pick one poor soul and run him to ground - sometimes putting myself in a bad spot doing it and dying. Yes, I did kill steal a few times, twice I believe, both times in my locust. I also avoided shooting when I had my kill, and it was obvious that we were winning.

Playing with the Falcons and just playing, I have learned a lot about this game. And I have 3 decades of BTT experience. There is a LOT of stuff to learn and the difference between an effective 'Mech and a pathetic 'Mech is significant. And what is effective can change with each patch and what people tend to play. So much clan stuff isn't as effective anymore. PPCs and Ultra AC's are basically direct fire LRMs doing scatter damage. Sure you yellow every spot on the enemy but they don't go down!

The question PGI has to ask is if they want a game with such a high learning curve.

I did the challenge in about 70 games and I honestly think it made me a better player. I was forced to be aggressive. You wing someone, you chase them down and finish them off. You don't duck back and avoid fire to get your next good shot. However, I over extended lots. I'd chase some fellow and turn a corner and face 6 enemy 'mechs. So it also gives you an appreciation for thinking and planning. Sometimes you CAN get out of that situation. You torso twist and go for the nearest cover.

What really helped; The SECOND I died, or the game was over, I left the match, grabbed a new 'Mech and moved on. I didn't think about the loss. I moved on right away. I tried to not make the same mistake. I didn't stick around and complain. It made the grinding faster.

My advice to everyone is to find a team and it they don't spend time teaching you, find another team.

Mark Charke

[The Boneshaman]

I have been meeting all the requirements. but one........... win the match. I'm at 17/30 don't think ill get this mech. well at least one thing I grinded enough C bills to buy the king crabs when they come up for sale for C bills.

[Kai Allard Liao]

2 Hours -> 9 Points



The Survive-Thing was more Fun!
And yes, this Event was pretty hard!

Made 60 Points on 2 Accounts.

16hours left. 9 Points - np. I will do Prem-Time on 3 or more Test-Accounts.


Thx PGI - and pls, let me buy a dmg-Counter as Cockpit-Item or putable on a Screen in my Cockpit. I would pay much MC for that. Will be cool to know how much dmg i did while i m playin.

HF & GL, Kai

Edited by Kai Allard Liao, 18 January 2015 - 06:20 PM.

[Sepkio]

Thank you Piranha even though it was a pita...and I will not do another grind (challenge) like this again..

[Sonny Black]

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.

What type of cheese would you like with that whine?

[White Bear 84]

Scharfschiesser, on 17 January 2015 - 09:43 AM, said:

been away from MWO for well over 2 month (mostly because of rigged matchmaker/elo-sytem)
saw this, thought "well, you could try again..."
played exactly 20 games
achieved exactly 0 points (losing 16 out of 20 games...)
uninstalled MWO for good

Thanks for sharing.

On another note - if you are getting intentionally team killed and its blatant, just report it!!

Only 7 points to go after about 60 matches. Will.not.let.this.one.slip

On Appogee - worse when you get 1K 1A and then the team loses or your team wins and you miss out on the kill

[R E T I]

All these challenges do is bring out the missile boats. Thats the only way most of em can get a kill

[Flaming oblivion]

Only saving grace to this challenge is the fact all luck no skill. And the mechs pretty bad anyways

[TripleEhBeef]

Well, including last match I'm only at 14 points.

I don't think I'm going to get this one. No joke, this evening has been curbstomp after curbstomp, and I've been on the curb end much more that I would like. Things were going pretty well earlier this afternoon.

On the plus side, the Premium time helped me basic my new ON1-K fairly quickly. Which is nice considering I currently have a miserly 0.38 K/D with it right now. I do pretty well in my basic'd VA so I'm going to write that off as a result of the severe ass kickings I've been receiving all night.

[Stormtempter]

I liked the challenges that were score based. Assists, kills, spots, flank, formation, etc. You know, points for working as a unit with teamwork and everything. The more you were a team player, the higher your score and if you hit the threshold for the challenge, boom, point.

This and the Victor's challenge as many have pointed out, has brought out the worst in players, and worse players, lol. It also makes it a much larger grind overall, because you have to win, so 12 people are eliminated per match immediately. Then of 12 possible points, if someone kills more than one or someone suicides on the losing side thats another player out of the running each time. So each match you're looking at maybe 6ish points? While in the scoring challenges, if you participated in a non-derp way, you'd get a point so each match could have 12 or more points available.

[Stunner]

The fact that you must win the match still makes this challenge a little more difficult. I don't mind needing 30points but since a win is tied to earning that point that's a little excessive. I remember previous challenges had much less wins required.

It's a big time sink which prevented me in participating in community warfare.

[Gyr Falcon]

I had fun withthis challenge. Sure it was difficult, sure it was frustrating sometimes but I worked at it and yes I did a lot of grinding but I succeeded!

[I_AM_ZUUL]

Void2258, on 18 January 2015 - 03:43 PM, said:

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.

If you are having that bad of a time (and sure I had 8 straight losing games on saturday which SUCKED) and cant carry your team with the help of one other good PUG on your team. go to Comstar ts and join a group.... if you are a good player than you'll do fine in the group queue. if you cant hack it in the group queue than you have nothing to complain about.

That's what I was still doing this afternoon after getting my 30 points in the solo queue cause I could, still haven't been able to get a match score above 200 though...

Edited by I_AM_ZUUL, 18 January 2015 - 10:34 PM.

[Rear Admiral Tier 6]

Took me 12 hours of gameplay to finish this challenge,i played pretty much the way i usually do,also saw surprisingly low number of lrm boaters compared to Victor one.

Imo that is reasonable,considering how awfully frustrating the victor challenge was.

[Flaming oblivion]

I'd love to see officially stats on how many people out of the entire playerbase and the ones that participated actually got the 30 points.

I would wager heavie money its below 30%.

[Kodyn]

Good god, am I glad to be done with that...

Yes, I had a lot of fun the first night, and I think it was a lot better than the Victor challenge, but man...that was rough.

Group queue went great on Friday, some of the most fun I've had in MWO period, great games, close games, even the losses were fun. Then Saturday became a bit of a slog, tougher games, better opponents in group. All in all, got 14 wins the first day, I think 3 on Saturday...all day, plus most of the night.

Then Sunday, oh ye sweetest of MWO days(sarcasm engaged), spent from about 1pm to 4 am finishing the last 13 wins, with long, long stretches of some of the worst games I've ever seen in any game, ever. It was almost as if people were trying to lose...spreading out, sitting still, not even kill-stealing or team-killing, it's like no one was trying at all to even play whatsoever at times.

Finally, I lucked out, and started getting my former PUGs as opponents, and I got to kill those same people as they literally did next to nothing. It was a massive relief, because I need some sleep...

Was all this worth it for a mech I already own, and a mech bay? No, in retrospect, probably not...but I always forget that when these events start, and only remember it halfway through...

Good hunting out there.

EDIT- 107 games approx. total.

Edited by Kodyn, 19 January 2015 - 01:05 AM.

[Codestar]

79 Matches to get the 30 points.
60 of those had 1 or more kill and an assist but thirty of those the team overall lost the match.
1 match where someone stole my solo kill and I completed the match thinking I had the kill and didn't destroy any other mechs, just damaged them for others, ended with assists only.
1 match 4 kills 0 assists. DId not qualify!
Quite a few matches I stomped in early and took 2-3 kills and helped put the team in front but then the team folded when the enemy push came. So started holding back a little.

Earned more than 12m C-bills over the weekend which will go towards a new crab!

A lot more fun than the victor challenge.

And it also involved "The best match ever!"

Cheers PGI

Codestar

[I_AM_ZUUL]

Flaming oblivion, on 18 January 2015 - 10:36 PM, said:

I'd love to see officially stats on how many people out of the entire playerbase and the ones that participated actually got the 30 points.

I would wager heavie money its below 30%.

Probably... its a free to play game, Pay for Content or Be Content. I had no trouble getting points while group dropping and only had a few games where I died immediately & dropped out or the 1 game where I lasted to/near the end without a kill. It was just playing the PUG lottery this event. The only event I didn't finish was the 50 solo match wins, gave up at 24 since that one was a nightmare where I couldn't go group drop and farm the points when i got tired of the bad solo queue mismatches.

Edited by I_AM_ZUUL, 19 January 2015 - 01:06 AM.

[G SE7EN7]

Done in 81 matches. The last round I took 5 kills just to make sure we won lol.