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[ThirtyOughtSix]

Been thinking about this all weekend. PGI, has some things up their sleeve. I think they wanted to see what would happen if every player (or most) got onto CW. What do you think they are attempting with this weekends event?

Personally I think PGI learned they can rebalance CW simply by making all players play. Gives them insight into our communities. (Spoiler I'm reading into this via the planets gained from IS.

[Burktross]

inb4 this was all just Tukkayid and we didn't even know

[Bishop Steiner]

Hyper99, on 30 March 2015 - 11:24 AM, said:

Been thinking about this all weekend. PGI, has some things up their sleeve. I think they wanted to see what would happen if every player (or most) got onto CW. What do you think they are attempting with this weekends event?

Personally I think PGI learned they can rebalance CW simply by making all players play. Gives them insight into our communities. (Spoiler I'm reading into this via the planets gained from IS.

I don't think any truly meaningful data was gleaned.

Whenever a "Point Event" weekend happens, you end up with huge number of point farmers/suicide rushers in match. Thus, when players play only to get their 80 pts, then suicide rush to get into the next match and get their next 80 score, it totally skews data and the actual game.

It happens every single event, with people just rushing to get their match points and such.

The other thing CW shows, mostly is which side has the most teams dropping at that point in time.

[Rhaythe]

Multiple reasons I can guess.

1) Get players into CW (advertise it).
2) Collect stats on CW wins/losses (IS vs Clan comparison).
3) Load tests

[Corbenik]

They just wanted to throw the CW players a bone with an event because people some players were asking for a cw event.

[Mirumoto Izanami]

Its a decent CW event. Pretty Easy. Got me thinking more seriously about CW.

[Rhaythe]

Mirumoto Izanami, on 30 March 2015 - 12:12 PM, said:

Its a decent CW event. Pretty Easy. Got me thinking more seriously about CW.

Mission accomplished. I would imagine more than a few public-queue peoples got interested in the game mode. Personally, enjoyed dropping with my small unit. Got a metric arse-load of videos recorded of it too.

[Xetelian]

Bishop Steiner, on 30 March 2015 - 11:31 AM, said:

I don't think any truly meaningful data was gleaned.

Whenever a "Point Event" weekend happens, you end up with huge number of point farmers/suicide rushers in match. Thus, when players play only to get their 80 pts, then suicide rush to get into the next match and get their next 80 score, it totally skews data and the actual game.

It happens every single event, with people just rushing to get their match points and such.

The other thing CW shows, mostly is which side has the most teams dropping at that point in time.

You can't suicide rush in clan war, you're locked out for the full duration.

[MandyB]

unless you have multiple drop decks.

[Yokaiko]

MandyB, on 30 March 2015 - 02:24 PM, said:

unless you have multiple drop decks.

You won't get the defend/attack button if you have mechs in a CW drop, only the same planet, and only rejoin are the options.


...which is a good thing really

Yes, I do have multiple drop decks.

Edited by Yokaiko, 30 March 2015 - 02:26 PM.

[Chuck Jager]

Just having enough folks in Que to dilute the big teams that have the Meta/gameplay memorized and their fan boy sheep in stock loadouts. I have zero problems with folks being good, but there has to be something between steam roll and ranged derp. This weekend had enough players to fill in that gap to a degree. I did get plenty of the the first 2, but with shorter waits and a broader range of skills I also had more than a few really fun games. Sorry if I am trying to see the half full glass.

[MechaBattler]

If nothing else they have been trying to gauge the stress level it would have on the servers.

[MandyB]

Yokaiko, on 30 March 2015 - 02:26 PM, said:

You won't get the defend/attack button if you have mechs in a CW drop, only the same planet, and only rejoin are the options.


...which is a good thing really

Yes, I do have multiple drop decks.

Wait really? I thought you could do a whole new drop if you left your previous one? Or was that only working when matches bugged out?

[Hillslam]

Event was a non-event for me. Didn't play one single CW drop.

[Abisha]

what event the CW? thanks but no thanks.
care to much about my death/kill stats to get farmed by premades.

so basically it was a nobrainer.

[Yokaiko]

Abisha, on 31 March 2015 - 12:36 AM, said:

what event the CW? thanks but no thanks.
care to much about my death/kill stats to get farmed by premades.

so basically it was a nobrainer.

CW stats aren't tracked.

.......and out of 10 or 12 solo drops I lost one.

[Joseph Mallan]

Hillslam, on 30 March 2015 - 08:31 PM, said:

Event was a non-event for me. Didn't play one single CW drop.

I was almost as bad. I had a busy weekend hanging out with my wife and friends. But I did get in a few matches and won more than lost even if I only scored one 80 point game.

[Mirumoto Izanami]

Yokaiko, on 31 March 2015 - 03:18 AM, said:

CW stats aren't tracked.

Which is a damn shame, because my Panther 9R did phenomenally well in CW, exceeding all expectations.

Save for that one match were I yolo'd in to spur my team onward into the breech...leading to victory!

[LordSkippy]

Mirumoto Izanami, on 31 March 2015 - 04:26 AM, said:

Which is a damn shame, because my Panther 9R did phenomenally well in CW, exceeding all expectations.

Save for that one match were I yolo'd in to spur my team onward into the breech...leading to victory!

You lead the charge in a Panther? I hope the assaults on your team that wave learned a lesson in Bushido.

[Malckovich]

I don't particularly enjoy CW in its current form, but I am planning to finish the event today. I think PGI just wanted to get more data on CW in general so they can work on some changes.