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[MahKraah]

10+ matches need to be played to get one of the 3 maps that i have not qualified already.
60% of the matches are on forrest and river.... caustic never came, hpg and turmaline just once in 5+ houres straight playing.
i give up for today

[shopsmart]

Lights got the shaft today. Lots of LRM to.

[Frytrixa]

shopsmart, on 18 September 2015 - 03:15 PM, said:

Lights got the shaft today. Lots of LRM to.

Bro... it's meta weekend -.-
clans only 5mlas+gauss...

[Kodyn]

Frytrixa, on 18 September 2015 - 03:22 PM, said:

Bro... it's meta weekend -.-
clans only 5mlas+gauss...

Not necessarily always gauss...I started having better luck than in my IS mechs when I switched to a Scrow with classic vomit, CERLL + CERML.

[Wild_Alaskan]

Matt Newman, on 18 September 2015 - 09:09 AM, said:

And that is a screen from the Caustic Valley update.

Can you guys PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do Frozen City next? That map is completely unplayable for me because of how much it makes my FPS drop!

Edited by wfischer, 18 September 2015 - 03:37 PM.

[Kodyn]

wfischer, on 18 September 2015 - 03:37 PM, said:

Can you guys PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do Frozen City next? That map is completely unplayable for me because of how much it makes my FPS drop!

Don't get your hopes up...that shot of Caustic looks a bit foggy, we might be looking at yet more FPS-killing fog effects on newer maps, rather than less, especially if Forest Colony is anything to go by.

[Zolaz]

shopsmart, on 18 September 2015 - 03:15 PM, said:

Lights got the shaft today. Lots of LRM to.

Dont forget the Mediums. Match score is mainly based on damage. That is why you see so many Heavies, Assaults and the of boating LRMs and SSRMs (if you are clan). A shame that PGI doesnt have a more inclusive scoring system for smaller mechs.

[Grayson Sortek]

After looking at most of the comments here I see that others are having the same experience.

Well it's the first night in a long time where I actually have nothing to do and was going to get in some matches... Nope. Not after the last 2 hours getting murdered by LRM rain and having team members yelling and screaming at each other.

I've been playing pug queues for a long time, and I remember how yelling and screaming was a problem around a year ago. Then it vanished and people chilled out for some reason, but now it's exactly like it was. Why would I want to deal with that again?

Dammit PGI I thought you were going to improve things and make things fun again, improve your CW and make some kind of interactive story element. Nope, instead I've got the Battlefield and CoD kids coming out of the woodwork screaming at each other over kills & damage, and grown men berating their teammates because the enemy team out-flanked us. Lots of ECM and LRMs out tonight, never know if you are going to be the unlucky team that has no ECM while hell rains upon you. Holy shazbot, why would you do this?

I'm out, someone let me know when the bs is over.

[Rushroca]

Depending on the match maker to let you play on all the maps makes this challenge pointless.

[PT1]

The server disconnected me again last night. Guess the stability is still an issue.

[William Slayer]

This question may have been answered somewhere already...

Why on the Announcement and Rules page does it say we need a 200 match score and a 300 match score to get Tier 1 and 2 for Solo games.... but when I log in to see my scores that qualified it says the needed Match Scores are 300 and 400?

[Sereglach]

I hate to say it, but these tournaments kind of turn me off from wanting to play. The reason for this is because they boil down to playing matches for the sole purpose of trying to get that perfect storm, where your score just happens to skyrocket through the roof and put you that little bit higher, because everything just fell in place. You end up playing 100's of matches just to get those perfect 10 or so.

That's not really a tournament . . . that's spamming matches for the best score possible . . . or another way to put it is just manipulating probability in your favor . . . by laws of probability, overwhelming quantity trumps consistent quality if only the 10 best from each list count.

Here's another way to look at it . . . anyone can pull the lever enough times on a slot machine and eventually get the big payout . . . especially if there's no consequences for all the times you lose.

I'd say the #1 biggest thing they need to do is find some way to limit the tournament and control the utter spamming of matches, which dilutes the quality of the tournament. The competitiveness just dies (at least for me) when all you're doing is trying to bump your lowest match off the listing. To me that's not a real testament of your skill . . . that's just gambling on a "perfect match".

For two possible solutions either 1: Limit the number of matches that count (maybe the first 20-30 from each day) or 2: Start inflicting penalties on score for every 100 matches or so. That way you're not stopping people from playing the game, and people can still try to push the limits for those perfect matches. However, someone who plays 100's of matches will probably end up with a similar scoring to someone who only played a handful of very quality matches.

Just my 2 cents. I'm sure there are plenty of people who disagree with me and think these are the best things ever. That's fine. Everyone has their own opinions and tastes.

[Void2258]

keep getting caustic over and over.

[Tywren]

If you are going to do challenges like this, then you need to give us the ability to choose the maps we play. I've been playing for 2 days now, and i've yet to get a score on Caustic Vally, HPG, or Tourmaline because these maps haven't come up for me sense before the event started.

EDIT:

However like the poster above me i DID get River City 8 matches in a row last night! Seriously, something needs to be done about this.

Edited by Tywren, 18 September 2015 - 06:05 PM.

[Void2258]

Alexander Garden, on 17 September 2015 - 02:48 PM, said:

The Leaderboards are Top 10 and the tables will start populating properly once matches start running. Until then, this is the reward structure both Leaderboards will follow:

1st Place - Marauder Collectors Pack + Hero 'Mech
2nd Place - Marauder Collectors Pack
3rd Place - Marauder Standard Pack
4th Place - 2000 MC
5th Place - 1750 MC
6th Place - 1500 MC
7th Place - 1000 MC
8th Place - 750 MC
9th Place - 500 MC
10th Place - 250 MC

So in other words since match score depends on using large numbers of consumables and modules which you can mostly only get if you spend lots and lots of money, the top 10 among the biggest money spenders in the world get to have free stuff and the rest of us will be lucky if we can break 300 match score, let alone 400, on any significant number of maps.

Edited by Void2258, 18 September 2015 - 06:00 PM.

[Wild_Alaskan]

Void2258, on 18 September 2015 - 05:52 PM, said:

keep getting caustic over and over.

Tywren, on 18 September 2015 - 05:56 PM, said:

If you are going to do challenges like this, then you need to give us the ability to choose the maps we play. I've been playing for 2 days now, and i've yet to get a score on Caustic Vally, HPG, or Tourmaline because these maps haven't come up for me sense before the event started.

EDIT:

However like the poster above me i DID get River City 8 matches in a row last night! Seriously, something needs to be done about this.

[RustyBolts]

Tell you, I think it is utter BS! that we have players who get a couple kills and then hide in the back, just to inflate their score hoping the rest of the team can carry them to victory. Even had a 3 from the same team drop in lights, rush up and get a kill then go hide the rest of the match.

[Moshi]

why would people base rush in CW at the minute? just had a game where literally 3 people in their team got over 100 match score, compared to 2 people in our team who had less than 200. i feel bad for the people who were trying to actually get points

[Tywren]

wfischer, on 18 September 2015 - 06:35 PM, said:

Yes, and that's a problem. an event where you need to play all maps to make the top scoreboard shouldn't have the ******* maps on an RNG!

Edited by Tywren, 18 September 2015 - 07:03 PM.

[Simbacca]

Appogee, on 18 September 2015 - 06:03 AM, said:

1 kill, 9 assists, 448 damage. But no, still not enough to make 300 match score...

I have to agree trying to get 300 score is proving extremely difficult. I pretty much gave up trying to use heavies or assaults due to the queue.