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[bruceisnice]

ROCKET SCIENCE, on 27 March 2015 - 11:30 PM, said:

I wouldn't even be playing CW if not for this tourney and I might not anyway. Even the games I've gotten 80 points on so far have been stomps against me by premades fighting pugs that always ended in spawncamping, and the others have ranged from similar (except worse) to base rushes where no one in the game got 80 points. Also, ghost matches.

I don't see how this is supposed to endear me to CW or to joining a unit. I don't want to be the one getting stomped or the jerks stomping them, nothing about this experience is fun to me. You can enjoy CW as much as you like but don't tell me I'm wrong for not having fun with it when this is the experience it's giving me.

Well, as a new player (less than 3 months) playing his first CW, I have had the opposite experiences from you tonight. Maybe I just got lucky. I'm up to 8 games today (and calling it quits), I think it ended 4/4 W/L (or maybe 5/3, or 3/5, didnt care much, had fun in pretty much all games).

I had one stomp for, one stomp against. Not that bad imo (you get stomped in pug matches too, and I think the ratio is even worse).

CW gives me another experience that I do not get into reg pug solo drop matches usually. It feels a bit more about the objectives, less about the personnal stats. I wouldn't say the cw system is complete or balanced, but it does give another perspective on the game.

Can they improve on it. OF COURSE. I hope they will. But it does have its charms already, as limited as they may be.

[aniviron]

Nice to see a CW event for a change. The CW queue looked like this earlier this week:

https://i.imgur.com/SH6rcMM.jpg

And now there are planets with 99+ attackers and defenders on each side. A very welcome change indeed- the CW game mode is a lot more fun. At the very least, I would like to see future events not discourage CW drops- for example, if you need points to qualify for an event, a CW game needs to be worth at least two points to a normal drop's one. Usually weekend events completely depopulate the CW queues.

[Taffer]

So um......how do I pick a mech reward?

[dragnier1]

ROCKET SCIENCE, on 27 March 2015 - 11:36 PM, said:

I will, by not playing CW.

It's your choice. It's not that hard to complete this event though. As of now (approx 12hrs) i have 16 qualified and 2 unqualified matches.

Edit : Done in 15 hours, with breaks in between. Wait times in between each battle was long (longest for me was 30+ mins)

Edited by dragnier1, 28 March 2015 - 08:50 PM.

[TheLuc]

I did try 3-4 games of CW and i had a really bad experience in all of them, even if my team won some of the matches. The waiting is far too long and there is somthing really wrong with CW which i cant put my finger on it but it just doesnt feel good playing CW. Playing regular games give more CBills and are faster anyways.

Id hope to farm Mechbays in CW but its so long and bad to play, ill skp it

I remember Warhammer online that had somthing similar and was a big flop, well the whole game actually. I hope MWO wont suffer same fate.

[G SE7EN7]

Awesome event and easy to achieve, got my 80 all but one match and wasnt even in a 12 man for one single match. Love that all the planet drops are like 40+/40+ makes finding games so much quicker.

Great job PGI, more of these type of events please.

Solo guys just man up and get in a group, even a 4 man group is better then solo and you get someone to whinge too that will actually listen

[Eboli]

Yep, well, this tournament might do good and possibly bad for the experience of new players to CW. Get put in a few failed teams and they might not come back again ever to this mode...

[Kobzarrr]

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P.S. Epicaly GREAT event.

Edited by Kobzarrr, 28 March 2015 - 05:38 AM.

[G SE7EN7]

fark.... get in a group mate, sol cw is for whinners

[Kobzarrr]

G SE7EN7, on 28 March 2015 - 05:39 AM, said:

fark.... get in a group mate, sol cw is for whinners

thats exactly WHY this event FOR ALLL players ?

ok , i ignore this event and keep waiting event for all.

P.S. someone find verry fun playing vs 12 clan exploiters team in CW, but if you not in USA (your ping not lower then 150) - this is just fighting vs ghost warriors with tottaly blind (often brainless) teammates.

Edited by Kobzarrr, 28 March 2015 - 05:57 AM.

[Kobzarrr]

SAHIL 619, on 28 March 2015 - 05:59 AM, said:

Which mech will give me more C-bills STORMCROW or

THUNDERBOLT

tdr - champion mech = champ bonus , but easy to win on crow

[Asmosis]

Interesting event so far. I'm normally the first person to jump on the pug vs premade bandwagon, but it been mostly good today getting 10/10 on eligible matches today.

Had 3 complete stomps where our side managed about 10-15 kills total. 4 moderate losses where we got 20-30 kills, 2 really close losses with 40+ kills and one win.

Whats made CW more enjoyable (somewhat) for this event is your actually getting pug vs pug fights. Problem is, after the event ends pug players dry up and your back to matching 12-man teams again.

I still think these events should be spread over the week, it seems like PGI's evil scheme is to force you to play MWO for the entirety of the weekend so that you cant do (or play) anything else. that leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I don't mind the time investment needed for the events, just the time per day they demand.

Edited by Asmosis, 28 March 2015 - 06:08 AM.

[Pitiful]

Playing is fun, waiting for match is painfull. I like to play games, not sit around waiting to play a game. So if you want to know why everyone leaves and goes back to regular mode...they like to play vs wait.

[Demonic]

15 min to join a match, you want defend and pop a counter attack, Im forced to attack when I want to defend? Your team is full of pugs with low skills, somebody of them disco or messing around, the whole team afraid hidding behind a rock, In front a premade, a premade clan is the worst thing, they hitting you from 800m with 40+ damage, you have to kill them 2 times (one side torso and then the other), the 10tn advantage is a fkin joke. And the worst thing is that I have to spend 30min of my life for this, a game that is supposed to be fun and even I have paíd for it...

A game that have no room for solo players have no future. I dont want to join a unit, I have not much free time to traín every day and I dont speak english so well to join a ts.

I come from a small unit 5-6 active members currently, It seems there is no room for us either. We where more than 15, you have to admit something is wrong with this game. People that comes from MW2, fans of battletech, hardcore players that loves mech fights quit the game for play Lineage 2 or Warcraft... Seriously..Im sad.

You have a chance to solve this PGI, but the time pass and you dont have many, day by day MWO loose players and the new ones that try the game get terrified of the farming needed to be competitive.
The maps are poorly designed, small, neck bottle, no tactic possible, CW warfare is a joke, no role play, no resources management, no táctics, just arcade fights, even NBT automation did better 10 years ago with a development team of 2 unpaid amateurs. And even MW4 did better with a 10 years old engine.

Just keep relasing mechs PGI, get the money from us and then start another game project with our money.
Now ignore me and act like everything would be fantastic. I know plenty of ppl thinking like me and I know Im not alone.

Edited by Demonic, 28 March 2015 - 07:34 AM.

[PPO Kuro]

CW against clans defending in a pug is getting my rage up. And almost nobody is using the Viop in this game. Or at least not in the games I'm in.

[PFC Carsten]

Let's just play along nicely. This is an event for the premade clanners.

[Averen]

PFC Carsten, on 28 March 2015 - 08:34 AM, said:

Let's just play along nicely. This is an event for the premade clanners.

As if the IS premades are any better. Last match was a pile of **** including a well coordinated bunch, 12 firestarters and a pathetic amount of planning how to deal with pugs.

I think i'm done with this bs for now.

1000+ players at the same time? Don't make me laugh PGI, this way you're going to show them not to ever play this mode again.

/rant

To add at least something constructive: Don't make full pugs attack full premades. That should never happen.

Edited by Averen, 28 March 2015 - 09:20 AM.

[draiocht]

Hoping PGI is getting some useful data from this weekend's event, even if it's otherwise obvious about fixes needed for maps & gameplay (as they're already working on a queue fix, if I read right).

However, in midst that data, there are some players/units trying to farm through 80pt matches as quickly and/or conveniently as possible, and that makes some things weird.

[PFC Carsten]

Averen, on 28 March 2015 - 08:48 AM, said:

As if the IS premades are any better.

Probably, but CW in general favors Clan technology.

[B L O O D W I T C H]

one go, one night. also meet two group of pretty cool aussie players.

*edit: pic cutoff

Edited by LOADED, 28 March 2015 - 11:31 AM.