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[Evan20k]

I cannot for the life of me win games of skirmish it seems.

[SOL Ranger]

I had this issue in the Autumn Harvest Event just before Tukayyid, I couldn't get the last victory in Conquest for the life of me, It got so frustrating that in the end I just ragequit and wrote on twitter asking Russ to change the requirements, to change them to more reliable requirements but requiring more time, the RNG really messes with your head and takes any fun out of it.

This time around I just played so much anyway that I didn't even think about the event at all, and suddenly I had completed it fully, honestly it was now too easy as the RNG was on my side.

Lets hope they make the requirements more generic eventually, getting stuck in quite arbitrary conditions isn't fun for anyone, they could easily make them a bit grindier with justification if they make progress more reliably linear.

Edited by SOL Ranger, 20 December 2015 - 09:48 AM.

[Evan20k]

I don't think 3 Skirmish Wins is unreasonable though. I chalk this up to a combination of assault getting voted a lot and the fact that this was done in 8-10 games. I feel like this event was more or less perfect and everything I wanted to see from an event. Relatively fast, colors+MC as rewards, and generally fast-paced solo queue fun.

[SOL Ranger]

Evan20k, on 20 December 2015 - 09:50 AM, said:

I don't think 3 Skirmish Wins is unreasonable though. I chalk this up to a combination of assault getting voted a lot and the fact that this was done in 8-10 games. I feel like this event was more or less perfect and everything I wanted to see from an event. Relatively fast, colors+MC as rewards, and generally fast-paced solo queue fun.

It's about the worst case scenarios, even if the average is only a few hours to complete the whole event the worst case scenario can be up to days or infinite mathematically even if unlikely, RNG is the issue, not the average time required.

Edited by SOL Ranger, 20 December 2015 - 10:01 AM.

[Ultimax]

Evan20k, on 20 December 2015 - 09:31 AM, said:

I cannot for the life of me win games of skirmish it seems.

You won two already, you're almost there.


Get your best solo queue carry mech, something fast with good firepower (like a heavy mech).

Keep choosing skirmish or farming map mode multipliers when its not available.


You'll get there.

[YakkSlapper]

completed all 'personal' and never new it until i looked, in what? day or so and NOT trying to? just playing with no goal but to kill "them". (and the only 'voting' i do is, AGAINST skirm 100% the time, and for bog 100% the time, (unless its voting against peaks/therma/forest, will vote anything thats against those)

Edited by YakkSlapper, 20 December 2015 - 01:09 PM.

[PurpleNinja]

I suffered the same with the Conquest win. The prize is ****, I know, but it's just OCD things.

[Levi Porphyrogenitus]

2 of my 3 accounts have exactly that same situation. The third I've only just started working on the event.

[Evan20k]

There, Dakka Mauler led my team to a glorious victory for Skirmish. I think getting the final win took about half as long as the rest of the event.

[Chuck Jager]

SOL Ranger, on 20 December 2015 - 09:58 AM, said:

It's about the worst case scenarios, even if the average is only a few hours to complete the whole event the worst case scenario can be up to days or infinite mathematically even if unlikely, RNG is the issue, not the average time required.

RNG is always the issue in life, and especially combat. I just treat it like "immersion".

[LordNothing]

when the event popped up on the the launcher after a crash i had found that i had already competed about 80% of the event before i knew there was an event. shortly there after i killed it off.

[loopala]

still can't win a conquest game

[Funkmaster Rick]

Evan20k, on 20 December 2015 - 09:31 AM, said:

I cannot for the life of me win games of skirmish it seems.

I'm sure there are other strats that work fine, but personally, I find that killing all of the enemy 'mechs is a fairly solid way to win skirmish matches.

[FallenDevil]

Maybe i'm just lucky,finished the event in the first day,took 1 hour to finish it. Praise the RNG god

Edited by FallenDevil, 20 December 2015 - 06:51 PM.

[KrazedOmega]

I was in the same boat with my last win needed for skirmish. I played for almost two hours before I finally got it. Conquest popped up way too often.

[Quintus Verus]

It's conqest for me that is being difficult, but i'm leveling crabs, so I may have to bite the bullet and pull out a mastered mech.

[Jackofallpots]

I did them all in an Urbie.

Thanks for the carries, team!