388 replies to this topic

[Mystere]

Survival is not required and at the same time being a Death Star will not be rewarded? Meh!

[Jagger225]

Thanks PGI for dangling the golden carrot of another beautiful mech, but since I probably won't even play 30 rounds I will enjoy the premium time when I get it!

[Sparkymarkyp]

This challenge?

Now this, this looks like a job for my King Crab.

P.s. ends Monday? Bloody hell pgi not long to skin 30 victories..... I accept your challenge.

[Brizna]

I appreciate the challenge, I do. But why do all challenges have to be mostly about grinding? Get 30 points... that's in average 60-70 matches for most players. Skill is not that significant in this type of "challenges": while higher skilled players kill more likely they also play more skilled players resulting in a close to 50% win ratio, so I doubt skill accounts for much except in the higher and lower skill levels, with on of those groups being in the top of the "food" chain while the other is in the bottom.

May I suggest some new criteria for real challenges? 5 kills in a match, 1000 damage or 120 match score.

[Pz_DC]

Great challenge... But why did You remove "survive" criteria?! Give it back! "To the Victors" was so good (as for me it was best one so far) and now You make next challenge worse instead keep it on same level...

P.S. Guys what about other rewards then mechs? Cammo paterns, colors? What about random/let players choose mech?

P.P.S. Thx a lotorno "do X damage" critria...

Edited by MGA121285, 16 January 2015 - 08:55 AM.

[dr lao]

Im in !!
I love these challenges all ways wanted to try a CTF that I can configure then just the trails and a champion at that . cant wait .

time to pull out my best mech's !!

Edited by dr lao, 16 January 2015 - 08:17 AM.

[Alexander Leandros]

It would be nice to see these things be week long, not just weekends... not all of us get weekends off and we can't play these events.

[I_AM_ZUUL]

Dimitry Matveyev, on 15 January 2015 - 11:58 PM, said:

I'll have to do min 50 games to get this one. No thank you, I'll pass this time...

Play a Hunchback-4G... or anything with an AC20. Hard to steal a kill from that mech... i dropped in it during Victor for the survivability aspect but it still has the punch to drop a cored mech and get the kill.

[jper4]

might just do enough for the premium time. 30 wins in a weekend that i can only play a couple days of is a bit much for my schedule. especially once i get on one of my traditional 5+ losses in a row runs. for some reason these streaks also coincide lately with my "guess i'll get my token 2x win for the day in the tbolt 9S" matches

[Fangry]

Am I dreaming or is this the best event ever. The xmas grind was pretty meh at the end since the prizes were so random and bad. But 3 days of prem+the one of my favorite mechs in champion variant... mm-m-mmmm

[draiocht]

Wonder if they did data analysis to project an equivalent average time as the Victor challenge... or if they took these more lenient rules and simply slapped 10 additional games to the minimum. Mmmm, grind.

[I_AM_ZUUL]

Brizna, on 16 January 2015 - 08:03 AM, said:

I appreciate the challenge, I do. But why do all challenges have to be mostly about grinding? Get 30 points... that's in average 60-70 matches for most players. Skill is not that significant in this type of "challenges": while higher skilled players kill more likely they also play more skilled players resulting in a close to 50% win ratio, so I doubt skill accounts for much except in the higher and lower skill levels, with on of those groups being in the top of the "food" chain while the other is in the bottom.

May I suggest some new criteria for real challenges? 5 kills in a match, 1000 damage or 120 match score.

Grinding means more matches... that's how Free to Play works, either you pay for Content or you are Content. This should take 60 drops or so if PUG, less in group if +8 man on comms. For that, being Content instead of paying for it (and I was really considering buying this mech last sale but just couldn't do it.) I get a 3D(C), mechbay, and 1.5 mil cbills when I sell my other 3D. You could always skip the event and being Content of the weekend and just pay for the same Content with cash.

[Desintegrator]

Great challenge !

Lets play a few hours and then the Cata should be mine !

[Jeffrey Wilder]

3 days is too little given that some folks have little time over a weekend.

Can only play about 3 hours, guess that's too bad.

[kka]

PGI, would it be possible to number the games in "Your progress" list? Now it is really difficult to count how many games you have played.

Edited by kka, 16 January 2015 - 10:33 AM.

[Lily from animove]

wait, this is not limited to pug queue, so we can make this in group queue as well?

[ilKhan_OrHan]

Too bad the patch loop bug makes grinding this moot.

[Bigbacon]

So much for a fun weekend. the stupid play will be rampant until monday now.

no way in hell I could manage 30 wins, not going to happen. would take me over 100 rounds of play I bet to get this anyway.

Edited by Bigbacon, 16 January 2015 - 11:20 AM.

[Codestar]

PGI Slight oversight...

How can I get an assist if its 1 vs 2 and I have done no previous damage due to chasing the battle for the whole game. I ended up with 2 kills and 0 assists. Surely 2 kills 0 assists is > 1 kiill 1 assist. A kill is an assist that went too far!

Cheers

Codestar

[Deathlike]

If you hit any and every enemy target, the chances of you not getting an assist is ridiculously low (outside of a total roflstomp).

Edited by Deathlike, 16 January 2015 - 11:43 AM.