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[Pz_DC]

Great even, thanks a lot! And its wery plesed to see some of my ideas work (i.e. "events with prices that player can choose itself" - offered this few events ago and now its here.. great feeling even if pgi did it by itself while my post was ignored).

P.S. and by the way - while this event lasts it looks like we got more then allways "oldschool" players here so CW games are more fun even when we are losing

Edited by MGA121285, 29 March 2015 - 02:33 PM.

[Cold Cash]

20 games 20 80+ matches and 2 days play and 1 mechbay and 5 million cbills richer(not counting the 3 million i made playing. Successful weekend.

NOW LOOKING FOR SKILLED TANK HAVE WIFE AGGRO!!!!!!! PoWER LEVEL OVER 9000!!!!!!

[DrKronic]

just trying to figure out how to pick my award, I liked this event alot, and I'm a total PUG, just lucky to have alot of homebrew crap mechs to choose from lol

[Averen]

DrKronic, on 29 March 2015 - 03:02 PM, said:

just trying to figure out how to pick my award, I liked this event alot, and I'm a total PUG, just lucky to have alot of homebrew crap mechs to choose from lol

You mean the reward mech? Just go to http://mwomercs.com/tournaments

[Corbenik]

I don't always CW but when I do I have to pug it and well only took me almost 15 hours to complete it :X wasn't so bad then again I lvld up some in pug queues so I carried my own weight.

[delushin]

Very good to see the numbers this event bought to CW, I hope this at least leaves some reminisce to the number of people playing.

[Simbacca]

Arduous experience to finish the Weekend Challenge. Played 21 matches (1 did not count), of which only had 3 wins.

Losses: 18
Wins: 3
Matches Against Clans: 20
Matches Against InnerSphere: 1 (On Skye as defending against Merik invasion)
Average Score for Qualifying Matches: 170
Lowest Score for Qualifying Matches: 80
Highest Score for Qualifying Matches: 256
Non-Qualifying Match Score: 61

Funny thing is, all 3 wins against the Clans were on Grim Portico map. And in all cases we (InnerSphere) only won because the Clan side had a single disconnected player.


I chose the Stormcrow-Prime as the prize (even though I already have one from my Clan Wave 1 package).

Edited by Simbacca, 29 March 2015 - 05:09 PM.

[2Slice]

Thanks for a great event! 20/21 games, I can live with

CW got some shine, and hopefully this will lead to better things!

Cheers,

2Slice

[Sagamore]

Fun event. I don't normally play CW but this encouraged me to do so. Darn ghost drop tarnishing my perfect score. Lots of fun this weekend. Leveled up my faction rank twice over these games too leading to more stuff.

[Averen]

Simbacca, on 29 March 2015 - 05:08 PM, said:

Funny thing is, all 3 wins against the Clans were on Grim Portico map. And in all cases we (InnerSphere) only won because the Clan side had a single disconnected player.

I played both IS and Clan during the tournament, and portico strikes me as the most balanced map yet. Guess because it allows relatively easily to negate the range advantage and has a lot of dense cover, which is very benefitial for slower mechs. Still won most of my clan games there by a notable margin.

Fun map in any way, my favorite in CW, really rewards situational awareness. Couldn't find any abusive strategies or design-pitfalls yet.

Edited by Averen, 30 March 2015 - 12:33 AM.

[Kissamies]

Really fun event. Felt far less grindy for me than some of the previous ones. Somehow managed to get 2 unqualified ones in a row even though I take getting at least 80 pretty much for granted, so 20/22. I don't usually even do so much damage, just pop an UAV in a good place and get bunch of points for negating all those Hellbringer ECMs. Have been starting to carry my weight in kills more and more, though.

I play IS mech fairly exclusively and this Stormcrow feels like a beast for me, even though you good players probably scoff at the notion. First time I took it for a spin I got 5 kills. Normally I feel lucky if I get 1 or 2. Thanks for free stuff, PGI.

Edited by Kissamies, 30 March 2015 - 01:21 AM.

[PFC Carsten]

Thanks for the free stuff (not counting the dangling things, but the cash, the mech and the bay (through house promotion)), PGI.

My experience for the play-20-get-1-free weekend was very mixed. In short:
• still too long waiting for a game. 10-15 minutes not playing is waste of my precious free time, IMHO
• 1 match with very friendly, very patient 10-man pre-made from a well known unit on my team
• 1 match with - excuse the term - 8-man pre-made a-holes* from another (unknown to me) unit on my team
• some very nice PUG vs. PUG matches - we even beat the clanners once in a while
• some lessons learned about meta
• some tricks learned about CW strategies
• The new map is very nice. The short distances help gameplay a lot.
• learned that this was not a tournament but a give-away for playing 20 CW-matches, since 80 points is ridiculously easy.

* I should clarify: Those people that were using VOIP or in-game-chat were very arrogant, impatient with noobs and thus downright a... Those were mainly 3-4 people of the pre-made.

Most importantly: (read this PGI, this is important!!!)
• CW-experience really seems to have improved from the influx new players FOR new/non-competitive PUGs
• 80 match score seems to be a valid possibility to prevent light rushes.

Edited by PFC Carsten, 30 March 2015 - 02:02 AM.

[latinisator]

Fun event, once rofl-stomped by NKVA, once I derped hard. 20/22 is ok for me. Got myself the TDR-9SE(C) just for giggles. Would it have been a nice Clan Reinforcement Mech my choice would have been different.

Thank you PGI, for the free stuff!

@ PFC Carsten: 80 match score to prevent zerg rushes? Hm, in this event yes. Under normal conditions I would prefer a minimum drop weight of 600t for either side.

[GutterBoy5]

Great event PGI.hopefully this boosts CW numbers onwards & upwards.

Cheers

[Rushin Roulette]

latinisator, on 30 March 2015 - 03:04 AM, said:

@ PFC Carsten: 80 match score to prevent zerg rushes? Hm, in this event yes. Under normal conditions I would prefer a minimum drop weight of 600t for either side.

Release the Kraken Omega

http://www.sarna.net...ega_(BattleMech)

[CycKath]

Non-comms pugging and got my 20 off 23 games. Would play CW more often if the wait times were as reasonable was they were now. Much worse outside of this challenge and just waiting what little time I have to play the game.

[HelBound]

This was a great event, the Steiner groups really pulled together we has 12mans dropping Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It was grand. I did 20 matches for my 20 points, figure about 6hours in game. The quality of gameplay was great as well, good show clans you put up a good fight.

I believe I went 18/20 win/loss over the weekend, huge props to Steiner drop commanders Bront & Count. Match scores were averaging 180 for me. This event really helped my flesh out my drop deck as well.

It was a good test of the CW system, when the bodies were there the games were great.

I took the thunderbolt, its my first of the chassis.

Suggestion:
Perhaps in light of this event the salvage portion of CW needs to reward actual gear to players. Such as ammo, weapon systems ETC. This is cannon of course and runs with supply catches and salvaging downed mechs. Stands to reason a group holding territory or protecting an orbital weapon platform would have a supply catche.
As such the team attaching in such a case would claim those salvage rights.
Awarding players random things (but aligned with IS or Clans) such as ammo, weapons systems, engines (low chance) or omni pods (low chance) would certainly bring in the community. The experienced players drop CW for the competition, the newer players would certainly drop for the chance of gaining gear in additional to the usual Cbill, XP etc.

Anyway thanks PGI

[Motörhead]

20/20 all solo.

Ended up half of the matches with the 228, cheers guys.

My scoring :
487568949476953607 2015-03-27 17:27:58 164 486443118289589133 2015-03-27 17:45:50 91 486443706700116598 2015-03-27 20:11:44 311 487006794092493319 2015-03-27 20:40:23 210 487569984564085595 2015-03-27 21:21:05 352 486729167406525093 2015-03-28 09:15:40 162 487573502142342396 2015-03-28 09:39:21 179 486449818438659665 2015-03-28 18:35:27 306 487575941683803889 2015-03-28 19:16:35 234 487576165022105604 2015-03-28 19:51:56 246 486454701816531811 2015-03-29 10:23:58 248 487017754849170342 2015-03-29 10:58:11 272 486736455966121116 2015-03-29 11:35:34 168 486456050436283012 2015-03-29 15:58:40 245 486456363968899137 2015-03-29 16:54:42 308 487305728111476087 2015-03-30 08:07:12 189 487305788241020072 2015-03-30 08:39:07 189 487024674041574245 2015-03-30 12:00:52 207 486461809987500645 2015-03-30 12:29:26 191 486461887296913947 2015-03-30 12:59:14 205

So yeah, welcome Mr. TDR, soon I will get you 2 brothers !

[TheLuc]

I must be the minority then, as for me it was just aweful. The event is ending soon and no time to do the minimal points

3 points so far and 23 matches done in CW

[dr lao]

lots of fun a ton of ECM;s I stopped using my favorite mech Hunch Back i call HAIL STONE couldn't get locks