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[Johnny Z]

Khobai, on 18 September 2015 - 01:07 PM, said:

I dont mind challenges being hard by why is it RNG? You can play for 8 hours straight and not even see all the maps....

1) challenges should not be RNG ever. That means not map dependent, not dependent on your team winning, etc... anything beyond the players control should not be part of a challenge.

2) challenges should be based on personal merit only. Only things the player has full control over should effect the challenge. If a challenge requires your team to win thats not a good challenge. Because a player has no control over that.

As for getting 300-400 match score... its pretty easy in a dire wolf

Yes but 3 matches today and first 2 were wins and third was a loss. FIrst two matches under 300 and the loss was 450. Alot of random elements in this challenge.

[Saint Scarlett Johan]

Lord Scarlett Johan, on 18 September 2015 - 10:53 AM, said:

I'm a total of 8 hours into it. I still haven't seen HPG yet.

Eleven hours into it, no HPG still.

What the actual ****?

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

Khobai, on 18 September 2015 - 01:07 PM, said:

I dont mind challenges being hard by why is it RNG? You can play for 8 hours straight and not even see all the maps....

1) challenges should not be RNG ever. That means not map dependent, not dependent on your team winning, etc... anything beyond the players control should not be part of a challenge.

2) challenges should be based on personal merit only. Only things the player has full control over should effect the challenge. If a challenge requires your team to win thats not a good challenge. Because a player has no control over that.

As for getting 300-400 match score... its pretty easy in a dire wolf

they have to be RNG or the people who make dropships would be out of a job. We have to replace them after every drop because they crash every orbital insertion (IE they crash and we get no choice in map selection)

It goes like this:

[L3mming2]

cdlord, on 18 September 2015 - 01:22 PM, said:

I have to wonder, if you get 400 pts your first go on a given map, does it count for BOTH tiers simultaneously?

yep

[Yellonet]

I've managed 300+ in one of 15 matches... it's just meta meta meta everywhere.

Nothing like an event to bring out the worst in MWO

[Deathlike]

PGI is clearly bad at math.

What's worse is that, I didn't think the math was this serious.

For CW, you can mostly get the maps you want, but only if you dedicate a few days dropping with a large group on a planet hoping that the opfor is a bunch of rainbow PUGs and hoping noone else is helping out.

I'm sure CW Phase 3 will just be as minimally viable as this event.

[El Penguin]

Lord Scarlett Johan, on 18 September 2015 - 01:40 PM, said:

Eleven hours into it, no HPG still.

What the actual ****?

Same boat but with Caustic Valley

[C E Dwyer]

I gave up on playing tonight, its to damn frustrating just trying to grind mech's, in pug land and not going to subject a group to an unelited assault.

usual bull **** during events the lurms, the hanging back and the k/sing

might try logging in after work tomorrow, see if I can tollerate playing with the weekend warriors more then

[PurpleNinja]

It's a bit sad to say, but I gave up.
Played around 20 matches last night, end every single one was 12-2/12-4 under five minutes, and the only match I scored beyond 400 was piloting an LRM boat, because they do damage, zero kills, but lots of damage.

[AssaultPig]

haha yeah, my little HBK-4J has been my most reliable score-maker so far (spots and tags seem to be a good way of farming match score)

I actually did pretty well last night; got 400+ on 3/9 maps. Kinda dreading finishing it up, though

[ShinobiHunter]

I gave up on trying to complete the challenge. I'm running an ECM mech to help fend off a few lens and maybe help my team win.

[Kodyn]

ShinobiHunter, on 18 September 2015 - 03:26 PM, said:

I gave up on trying to complete the challenge. I'm running an ECM mech to help fend off a few lens and maybe help my team win.

You're a good person, Shinobi

[FireDog]

Factor in the Assault maps where some Bozo lights run straight for the cap and caps the game out before any players on either side get a 300 score..... Deleting Assault for the weekend.

Edited by FireDog, 18 September 2015 - 04:17 PM.

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

Yellonet, on 18 September 2015 - 02:37 PM, said:

I've managed 300+ in one of 15 matches... it's just meta meta meta everywhere.

Nothing like an event to bring out the worst in MWO

This is actually why none of my friends play on weekends. Because of the ppl events like this brings out

[Lady Adahna]

This event has been a nightmare for me. 4 kills 5 assists with 500 damage nets me below 400 score. What else am I supposed to do? I hate this event.

[Joseph Mallan]

I'm in 13,555th Place after 3 mtches. I thought we didn't have many players?

[Kodyn]

Kittyrawr, on 18 September 2015 - 06:10 PM, said:

This event has been a nightmare for me. 4 kills 5 assists with 500 damage nets me below 400 score. What else am I supposed to do? I hate this event.

It makes no sense and I hate to advise it, but farming components rather than kills is a far better way to go. Go around legging everyone, taking arms, and you'll get a higher score than kills + assists. This also applies to making CBills in general under the new system. It doesn't reward efficiency, team play, or playing smart, but it can be taken advantage of.

[Sabertooth1966]

The last match I played before stopping we rolled them like 12 to 2 and I don't think 5 people out of all 24 got above 300. I ran a thunderbolt punched the hole in the enemy lines got 1 kill, 8 assists and just shy of 500 damage, match score of 234. That has been the highest match score on any map so far. From what I have seen last night and today 5 to 6 players at most out of all 24 are getting the minimum match score, usually less than that.

[Lady Adahna]

Kodyn, on 18 September 2015 - 06:16 PM, said:

It makes no sense and I hate to advise it, but farming components rather than kills is a far better way to go. Go around legging everyone, taking arms, and you'll get a higher score than kills + assists. This also applies to making CBills in general under the new system. It doesn't reward efficiency, team play, or playing smart, but it can be taken advantage of.

Well there goes my fun this weekend.

[Truesight]

Yeah, you are not rewarded for actually playing good. My SRM builds seem to get high match scores, i even got 2 maps above 400 Score with my SRM Shadow Cat.

Other than that, i dont really care about the event. Got enough MC and Premium banked up.