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[Commander A9]

Yeah, prizes made it worthwhile, really.

Definitely frustrating to no end, but...I'm glad it's over, and I'm glad those who won were properly honored/are in the process of being honored.

[Nephoros Sradac]

Best thing about this event is it's over!

[Lunatic_Asylum]

EasyPickings, on 22 September 2015 - 01:19 PM, said:

I think the DC constraint was removed from the conditions (probably because of so many unintentional DCs).

I hope that PGI is using this opportunity to weed out cheaters.

The disconnection rule was taken out only because those who disconnect will get reported and banned or warned anyway.

I really loved the event (no sarcasm). The prize was TOO high, and the random element was required so that few get the prize. I was really unhappy about lowering the standards (from 300 and 400 to 200 and 300) on the last day of the event, and I could not understand why PGI did it.
We just play, enjoy, and may get a prize. Not everyone should get it. Nor everyone should lose his sleep or his precious time. Just enjoy and play!

Did you see the top prizes? You could win them without not getting one or two maps.

Please stop complaining. This is embarrassing.

P.S. The funny fact is that you can get the same 2,000,000 from T1/Map rewards for walking for 1 minute 30 seconds in the tutorial! Hah! PGI messed up the tutorial, not the event.

Edited by Lunatic_Asylum, 22 September 2015 - 09:10 PM.

[MaxFool]

Lunatic_Asylum, on 22 September 2015 - 09:01 PM, said:

The disconnection rule was taken out only because those who disconnect will get reported and banned or warned anyway.

It wasn't really that disconnection rule was taken out, but they simply could not track it because the disconnection counter was totally broken and giving false positives from such things as canceling search or exiting match after dying. When majority of counted disconnections were not from breaking rules, they could not count them at all.

[Nephoros Sradac]

Lunatic_Asylum, on 22 September 2015 - 09:01 PM, said:

Did you see the top prizes?

Yes, it was an IS peace of junk, when was the last time PGI gave a Clan mech away for a prize or an event that was based on a Clan mech?

[MaxFool]

Bastardinc, on 22 September 2015 - 09:40 PM, said:

Yes, it was an IS peace of junk, when was the last time PGI gave a Clan mech away for a prize or an event that was based on a Clan mech?

This year they have given Adder and Warhawk as prizes.

[Tywren]

Bastardinc, on 22 September 2015 - 09:40 PM, said:

Yes, it was an IS peace of junk, when was the last time PGI gave a Clan mech away for a prize or an event that was based on a Clan mech?

Warhawk, Battle of Tukkiad.

[Airmikee]

Bastardinc, on 22 September 2015 - 09:40 PM, said:

Yes, it was an IS peace of junk, when was the last time PGI gave a Clan mech away for a prize or an event that was based on a Clan mech?

What MaxFool and Tywren said, as well as the Nova and Executioners being given away for the 2015 Customer Appreciation.

kka, on 22 September 2015 - 08:26 PM, said:

So did they give away double prizes? I thought I would only get one.

Thank you PGI!

Yeah, was definitely a classy move to give away Tier1 & 2 prizes together, as well as lowering the standards. The randomness of the maps was the only real challenge to this.. challenge, so ensuring everyone that was able to get Tier1 qualified for both prizes really made the frustration of sitting through yet another Forest Colony until getting River City finally completed worth it.

Thank you, PGI!

Edited by Airmikee, 22 September 2015 - 10:36 PM.

[Nephoros Sradac]

Which was in April - 5 Months ago.

Since then - in no particular order - based on IS junk : MWO Anniversary 50% off all hero mechs!, Original's Sale 35% of selected IS mechs, We can be hero's leader board event (had 2 parts), Viva LA resistance, Phoenix Rising....should I go on?

[The Unstoppable Puggernaut]

Come on PGI please extend this for a week. People really want to do the challenges but no time !

[John Werner]

On the fourth Account, i got the last needed Map for Tier 2 to late (37min after Event ended)

[s0hno]

Still 60 pages of flaming!
Hey, we're giving away free stuff, all you have to do is play our free-to-play-game!

result: shitstorm.
lol!

[DrnkJawa]

Well, time was wasted, but i walked away with a few mil earned (7mil or so just from playing poorly)

[Chaosbarbarian]

hmmm

They have the most sales/offers (ie useful ones) of any MMo, MMoRPG that I have ever played.

They have the most events.....by far.....

Its eventually all free content....

Play to get free stufff, not just in game currency...

EQUALS WHINING?

Thank you PGI - sincerely

Edited by Chaosbarbarian, 23 September 2015 - 01:30 AM.

[tee5]

John Werner, on 23 September 2015 - 12:42 AM, said:

On the fourth Account, i got the last needed Map for Tier 2 to late (37min after Event ended)

Questions according CW-Challenge:
- with whom you where dropping in CW. High skilled Proffessional Teammates which are in a well known Unit or as solo player with other Pugs?
- What was your strategie to win? Surviving in first mech or playing normal and doing alot alot alot of damage?
- If your strategy was Surviving in first mech, how many of your teammates had the same strategy for wining the challange? (because if more than 1 or 2 guys want to survive in first mech, the whole team loses.)

EDIT: spelling

Edited by tee5, 23 September 2015 - 02:12 AM.

[sabujo]

s0hno, on 23 September 2015 - 12:47 AM, said:

Still 60 pages of flaming!
Hey, we're giving away free stuff, all you have to do is play our free-to-play-game!

result: shitstorm.
lol!

It's understandable that many opinions are reduced to this shallow interpretation of the issue here.

Imagine you are a horse. I strap a cane on your back with a carrot swinging in front of your nose. And you run, run, run, but you never get it because the probability of you catching is dependent on external issues that you cannot control - not your skill. So, you are wasting your time for a promise that only by chance can be fulfilled.

But that was a free carrot!!! How dare you complain about a broken system?

Edited by sabujo, 23 September 2015 - 02:35 AM.

[Radec Scythe]

In the end I have an idea for the future when a similar event is planed. Instead we need the points on a specific map I think it would be better for all that you need the points in 10 ore more (20?) Games so you don't need to wait hours ( in some cases days) to wait for the one needed map. Just an idea because o speak for my case that I had only time enough to achieve public Level 1 price, many of is have a RL with is filled with work, friends, family, hobbys etc. etc.....

So I suggest this as an idea for fairness to all MWO Gamers.

I dont have the time to read all Posts, so I don't know if someone already said/wrote that.

And please don't play Grammar {Godwin's Law} on me, i am writing from my Smartphone right now... And i am german

[Naryck]

no bad without good. while i was waiting for the needed maps i farmed enough CBills to buy second EBJ and earned XP to make basics on second and saved up enough to make elite on the first one. after the injection i got half an EBJ in CBills and then passed tutorials, which gave me the CBills needed to buy a 3rd EBJ. now with premium im making its basics and with XP all i saved for first EBJ i now will master it

great prizes but bad organization of the event. anyway, thanks pgi for the prizes!

P.S. XP was enough to master my first EBJ ))

Edited by Naryck, 23 September 2015 - 03:05 AM.

[Kai Allard Liao]

tee5, on 23 September 2015 - 01:41 AM, said:

Questions according CW-Challenge:
- with whom you where dropping in CW. High skilled Proffessional Teammates which are in a well known Unit or as solo player with other Pugs?
- What was your strategie to win? Surviving in first mech or playing normal and doing alot alot alot of damage?
- If your strategy was Surviving in first mech, how many of your teammates had the same strategy for wining the challange? (because if more than 1 or 2 guys want to survive in first mech, the whole team loses.)

EDIT: spelling

Hi tee5,

For Solopug i didn't played in a Team.

In fact, this Event matches a lot to my way of Playing: I play carefull. I hate Arcade, blind aggressive Walk-ins.

I Keep an Eye for the Mechmovements. If i can calculate how many Enemies in which Condition behind the Corner next to me are, i decide what i m doing (push or change Position). I stay close to for example Buildings. If i m under (lrm)-Fire, i use Cover, immediatly. To answer your Question i tried to do much dmg as Possible - like always even without Event in the Background.

As you can see on the Matchscores on the Screenshot, even as a vey carefull Player, i know how to Brawl if needed: On the Screenshot, you can see Crimson Strait with 766 Matchpoints. I was in a Daishi. The Enemies rushed over the Saddle for Cap. I went up to the Plattfom, hopin to fight 2-3 slow Assaults before the Match and Map ends, cause my Daishi is not fast enough to return to the Base. Was scared, when i arrive i come to late and have no dmg. I pushed forward. On the Plattform i realized, most of my Team uses the Tunnel to turn back to Base.

I was alone with 2 Wingmans against 4 Enemies. Together we killed 3 of them. The last of the Four was a fresh Dire up on the Plattform. I already had jumped down, there had been the Main-Fight. My last Wingman died from the Dire above. While i walked up the Saddle-Ramp, i throw lrm 40 on it to soften him up. But a few Moments later the Enemie-Dire jumped down to me, Face to Face. Dire against Daishi, a very wild U-Autocannon-Firework started. My 3 UAC-5 didn't jamm and also i hit twice 6x Small Laser in his Face (30dmg). My Cockpit was shaking, i was not able to see anything cause of his Fire. My Ears were full of Thunder. I was to busy and to much stressed to watch which Enemie-Components already were broken. While continue fireing my UAC i used my Coolshot 6 and fired then my Laser-Alpha on more time in the middle of the yellow Balls of Fire in front of me.
Suddenly Silence... then my Comstar-Warhorn comes around with a deep satiesfied Sound.

The Dire falls to the Ground. I checked my Health, i was hitten everywhere - but only down to yellow and deep-yellow Components. WTF, did he shot with UAC2? Maybe a Trial-Dire? Whatever, at our Base my Team looses the Fight, the cap had stopped at 50% but now they start to cap again. I went over the Saddle as fast as possible. 7-10. While i was walking to our Base, i start shootin' LRM on a Jagermech far away at our Base. Finally my other last Teammate at our Base finished him: 8-10 and got directly killed by the last 4 Enemies after that: 8-11.

I choosed a Way between the Buildings cause of Cover. Three of the Enemies at our Base, Cap was at ~75%. I watch around the Corner, a Arctic Cheeter and a Banshee or smt. like that (can't remember, sorry) I open Fire to the Cheeter, cause he is fast and a bigger Problem for my Daishi then a slow big Enemie-Target. But unluckily the Cheeter didn't die and run scared away. I change Target and start to fight the Banshee. Then a heavy Cockpit Shake. WTH? Another Jagermech from my left side! I shot back and move forward to get the Base between the two Enemies and me for cooling down and a little bit Cover.
Also there was a Medium in the Water, 200-300m away from our Base throwing LRMs on me. Not many but constandly. In this Moment i realize that the Target-Info showing me, the Jager was cored. My Rear Amor start to get pulled of. WTH? Ah, the Arctic Cheeter was back and now behind me. I ignored him and walked wild twisting back to the side of the Base with Jager and Banshee as fast as possible. They open Fire.

The Banshee was shotable first and i did it. Then i was able to shoot the Jager. UAC5! Miss. Damnit. Laser! YES, my Warhorn appear. I still ignored the Cheeter, my Amor was gone, he start to eat my Structure. I took the Banshee under Heavy Fire. Die. Die. Die! DIE! BAMM. It feels like waiting for Hours but finally the Banshee exploded. I love my Warhorn...
My Structure was orange, my Cockpit still shakin from LRM10 or smt like that. I turned around to the Cheeter. He start to run around me while shooting at me, but my UAC5 followed him all the time. Then the Enemie-Pilot tried to jump above me. I knew where he will land. I turn around ~140 Degree. One Moment of Silence. Then he falls down. ALPHA-strike. All Autocannons and 6 Small Laser open Fire with a brutal Roaring, which Ends with the beautifull Sound of my Warhorn.

The half broken nerving IS-LRM Medium in the Water was left. I walked directly to him, open Fire with UAC5 and Laser. Ammo depleted. wtf? Ok, no Problem i still have my six Small Laser and LRM40. Again Enemie-LRM Alpha in my Face. But they didn't explode. ??? Ah, under 180m! - Ok, forward forward forward. The Enemie-Medium tried to pass my right side. His Shoulder is open. Finally, one last Laser-Alpha on it and my Warhorn appear the last time this Match. My Team won 12-11. Everyone was happy (not the Enemies).
Ouch, my Center is cherry-red-cored. Time to calm down, Hands are cold and shaking...

Scoreboard appear... 1276dmg.

_
CW, on Steiner -BO- helped me (many thx to that Unit) the last 4 Maps.
The second CW completly puggin. When my Team was winning, i won in the first Mech too. Mostly you can see after the First Wave if you are on the Loosing-Side. Then u can t save your first Mech anyway. If i saw we butthurt the Enemies, i shot till no Ammo left and used my Laser till i was risky unhealthy. My Team leads 30-9 or smt like that anyway, yes, then i decide to play carefull in the last row. The Last needed CW-Map, Grim Portico was a Pain in my Ass. Took me and my Girlfriend ~17 Hours of grinding. Got the Map 3 times. 2 times a Fail. Then, when i was really mad and sad, i dropped luckily together with my big Friend Dvon_Kahn and three of his Unitmates. And Dvon made a very good Lead. Everyone listen to him. Dvon protected me and told me not to die. We won the Match but it was not easy. And i survived with shamefully low dmg - but Tier 2 Matchscore. Thank you again, Dvon!!!

After that, i startet solopug on the third Account. That's the Screenshot.


Sorry about my English, it's horrible cause it's not my native Language (I m German).

Edited by Kai Allard Liao, 23 September 2015 - 03:13 PM.

[Kerttuli9000]

TBH what puzzles me the most by now is the evident lack of damage control on PGI's part. 64 pages and still sizzling, they should be all over this like horny wasps on meth.

A lot of VERY pissed off customers here.