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[Mudhutwarrior]

Sjorpha, on 21 February 2015 - 08:40 AM, said:

I have watched a lot of their videos, never seen any team treason so far. Can you link a specific video where this happens or is this another one of your "find your own proof" type accusations?

If anything is stopping PGI from working with "the community at large" it is the fact that it has no coherent position on anything. For example it is sprinkled with haters and conspiracy theorists who just muddle the discussion with nonsense, and apart from that some people wan't battletech purity while others wan't a redesign following modern game design principles and others yet thinks the current mish mash method is a reasonable compromise. If I was PGI trying to listen to "the community" I honestly wouldn't have any idea what to make of the cacaphony of opinions.

I honestly prefer they listen to a number of focus groups that are, at the very least, coherent and sane and combine that with their own judgement. I do believe they could use a new experienced balance designer, not imbued with battletech romance or personal peeves, to look at the game with fresh eyes.

I suggested early on to do polling not here on the forum but on the opening page of the game. Then any subject open to changes could be properly vetted by the community. Focus groups do not reflect the general population as a rule because those brought in will most likely come from the forums which is a much smaller community than the player base.

I dont know if I want to sit through NGNG vids anymore but I recall seeing sever instances of them reporting the last man to the other team to close a match. I know someone posted one in and old TT thread. I will look.

Edited by Mudhutwarrior, 21 February 2015 - 09:06 AM.

[Saobh]

Mudhutwarrior, on 21 February 2015 - 09:04 AM, said:

I suggested early on to do polling not here on the forum but on the opening page of the game. Then any subject open to changes could be properly vetted by the community. Focus groups do not reflect the general population as a rule because those brought in will most likely come from the forums which is a much smaller community than the player base.

I dont know if I want to sit through NGNG vids anymore but I recall seeing sever instances of them reporting the last man to the other team to close a match. I know someone posted one in and old TT thread. I will look.

Thats your team treason ? the last man dragging out a finished match ?

what a delusional troll ...

[omessiaho]

My last game I got two kills, five assists and like 600 damage. Still didn't get a point because there was a disconnected Jagermech at spawn.

[JayKay17]

Game experience was never so bad as during this event.
Matchmaker acting very strange stomps are normality
Hit detetction problem ? There is no hit detction so tzhere could be no problem
People acting strange, kill stealing etc. thats really no fun

[omessiaho]

Met the criteria today and then I check the stat page to see that it thinks we lost the game.

[Mudhutwarrior]

Saobh, on 21 February 2015 - 09:14 AM, said:

Thats your team treason ? the last man dragging out a finished match ?

what a delusional troll ...

Actually it wasn't finished until the timer runs out or all 12 on one side had died. You can call me a troll but I have seen far more lone survivors win or almost win a match to buy into your bull.

There are rules, bending them because your bored is a troll.

[Catra Lanis]

Saobh, on 21 February 2015 - 09:14 AM, said:

Thats your team treason ? the last man dragging out a finished match ?

what a delusional troll ...

It is still team treason.

[Biggest Salami]

I would like to once again register my disappointment with this type of tournament and its point rules. This kind of score criteria encourages greedy individualism and kill-stealing, and discourages and punishes team players and those who focus on support roles.

It disregards a player's skill and simply requires a great deal of hours invested in playing, increasing the risk of eye strain, neck and back pain, and repetitive motion injuries in players.

For me, there is no fun in this kind of tournament. There is only dread. I don't even like to play while they're going on.

Edited by Biggest Salami, 21 February 2015 - 11:41 AM.

[PappySmurf]

After the first one of these stupid challenges where I got a whole 5 points for a weekends worth of play I just said HELLLL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am not doing one of these again.Its not I would have liked to have the free mech or rewards its the fact to many sync droppers and just general trolls make getting the 1 kill 1 assist 1 win almost impossible for 80% of the last remaining MWO players.

If PGI and the devs had any brains they would have made all these challenges based on assists only like 100 assists for premium time 600 assists for the mech and so on ETC for all the rewards.Then players would be trying to pick parts off enemy mechs and not just everyone following the rabbit for a kill.

Most players try to get the kills and forget you need to win the game also.So basically for 80% of the remaining players in MWO this type of a 50 point challenge is a big waste of time.

[Saobh]

Catra Lanis, on 21 February 2015 - 10:45 AM, said:

It is still team treason.

Ok then

Mudhutwarrior, on 21 February 2015 - 10:43 AM, said:

Actually it wasn't finished until the timer runs out or all 12 on one side had died. You can call me a troll but I have seen far more lone survivors win or almost win a match to buy into your bull.

There are rules, bending them because your bored is a troll.

Frankly when its a locust running around half red vs a pretty well off enemy team ? no its the the guy who is on the locust who is wasting everyone's time because he doesn"t want to hurt his glorious K/D ratio ...

And how about you actually back up your claim and find the video ? because if you can't its pretty much then just slander.
And if you can"t be arsed to do such a thing ? "troll" you will stay.



Back to topic :
Its been frustrating, as people have been spreading out and ... "Squirrel !" a lot more. But on the whole if you just play and forget the event parameters you have a much better time.

I am using my ecm kit fox a lot more as teams without ECM get totally paralyzed by the lrm rain (even when its light ...)

Edited by Saobh, 21 February 2015 - 11:57 AM.

[Korak18]

Getting beyond stupid......... fighting a Jaeger in corner of map..30-40secs..teammate ( use term loosely) runs in front of me just before fatal shot (not on me) steals kill and then (this is priceless) comes on voip and raggs me out for friendly fire...sigh X3. Cannot make this sh*t up...

[Biggest Salami]

Also, why is "Kill Most Damage Dealt" not be utilized in this event? It would drastically cut down on the kill-steal problem--players who's kill was stolen would still get points, and people wouldn't struggle so hard to be the one to get the death blow.

Edited by Biggest Salami, 21 February 2015 - 12:20 PM.

[Leidulfr]

Sigh*

Wins are such a gamble in pugs.

I don't have 100 hours available to get 50 wins.

[MFZ]

Nocturnal Link, on 21 February 2015 - 12:24 PM, said:

I don't have 100 hours available to get 50 wins.

The challenge doesn't last 100 h.

[John Werner]

Finally i got 50 Points.

Didnt sleept much last Night :S

Maybe i m the first Finisher in this Thread?


:-)

[Dorci]

Honestly, this challenge is close to impossible, plus, it totally ruined the weekend.
Kill stealers everywhere and LRM wars, everyone loses their minds during this event.
(for example, I cored someone alone in my Cicada, a random teammate suddenly appears and steals my kill... but same happens in other owned mechs... some players make more than 1-2 kills, totally not caring about the remaining players who didnt get any points yet)
I think you should change this "make 1 kill" to "most damage dealt" to avoid these kill-stealers.
Plus, you should give us more time, +1 day isnt enough. Many people goes to work / school on weekdays, they wont have enough time to finish the challenge. We should get at least one more weekend.
Me and my boyfriend are doing this challenge since yesterday, more than 24 hours, and we dont have more than 7 points yet. We are old and pretty good, experienced players, so its enough ridiculous... Its difficult for old players too to earn points in this event, I dont want to mention the newbies... Ill attach his progress, my profile is still remaining, but if it keeps going like this, Im afraid I cant make it in time. I dont have time and I dont want to sit in front of the screen all day, I think Im not alone in that.
Please turn this event into a fair game (without stealers, or at least remove the "win" condition and give us more time)

Since I made this screenshot, we made more unsuccessfull matches. (and of course there are more tries from earlier, in this picture there are the latest results only.)

Edited by Dorci, 21 February 2015 - 02:18 PM.

[MFZ]

John Werner, on 21 February 2015 - 01:40 PM, said:

Finally i got 50 Points.

Dorci, on 21 February 2015 - 01:52 PM, said:

Honestly, this challenge is impossible, (...)

Hehe :-)

[Flaming oblivion]

got my raven in 71 games. 34 of which were wins just didn't get the kill ...........

Not happy with the w/l but it always goes substantially down on tournament weekends due to gameplay it encourages.

PGI -Yes its doable , But please change the requirements for a point in future, Win and kill send the wrong message to players and makes the game god awful to play.

Your not encouraging people to stay playing with such frustrating challenges.

And frankly I woyld heavily bet this challenge format is impossible - near impossible for newer players.

[PappySmurf]

Flaming ;And frankly I woyld heavily bet this challenge format is impossible - near impossible for newer players)


Honestly I don't think the Devs or PGI staff give a dam about new players or casual players in MWO!!!!!!!!!!!

As long as the small manority keep feeding them $USD it will never change for new or casual players in the game or challenges.

Edited by PappySmurf, 21 February 2015 - 04:06 PM.

[it1uk]

Im having a nightmare with this event. 15 games and only 1 win which lucky enough i got a kill so that gets counted. Hate these types of scoring events.

I like the fact that with the event you can get something out of it but you just cant seem to have any fun when its like this, im almost at the point of giving up till after the event before i play again.