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[Eagle01]

This is recording properly. I had my suspicions, so I tested it with a mech I haven't used in the contest yet. I got 3 "kill most damage done" in that match. And it recorded 0.

Jeffrey Wilder, on 15 January 2016 - 01:00 AM, said:

Yup, if you die, non of which will be counted; I lost count of how many I lost this way. There was a match where I did 5 max damage but died, not to mention other games which I am the top scorer.

In other words, this event promotes the same problem with the Victor event; Cowardice.

Wait... no where in the rules does it say that if you die, none of you KMDD would count. Or did I miss something?

[tee5]

Eagle01, on 15 January 2016 - 01:25 AM, said:

Wait... no where in the rules does it say that if you die, none of you KMDD would count. Or did I miss something?

Russ posted it on Twitter:
"So by way of update we think there is a bug where KMDD rewards are not submitted to the DB if you get the KMDD after your in match death"

[Frytrixa]

Can't find the color "Moegi" under the color section "Greens".

Many times it happens that I know the name of a color but can't find it because i dont know the exact category - this camo spec thingy really needs to be improved.

[Fisslag]

tee5, on 15 January 2016 - 02:28 AM, said:

Russ posted it on Twitter:
"So by way of update we think there is a bug where KMDD rewards are not submitted to the DB if you get the KMDD after your in match death"

so, did he also say anything about fixing this? if not i have to change my playstyle... already lost enough points because of this bug

[G SE7EN7]

Even if there is a bug, this challenge is very easy to finish,

[aGentleWarrior]

I would favor a tournament based on match score, because you can get a high match score also with lighter mechs which don't have heavy weapons, but getting KMD with these is hard...

[Scandisk]

Jeffrey Wilder, on 15 January 2016 - 01:00 AM, said:

Yup, if you die, non of which will be counted; I lost count of how many I lost this way. There was a match where I did 5 max damage but died, not to mention other games which I am the top scorer.

In other words, this event promotes the same problem with the Victor event; Cowardice.

Completed all the 40 points in less than 5 hours with a king crab alone, standing in front of my team everytime because i'm not a sissy assault (and dying a lot too).

This event is really easy, even with some bug here and there

[Grey Death II]

Just realized some games in the challenge are not counted correctly:
In a game on HPG Manifold i did 240DMG and 2 Kills most Damagde delt, but tournament site counts it as this: 707673473527899202 TBR-C 167 0 2016-01-15 12:29:40
Think problem was that i used an Arty in the moment i died that hit 3 enemies i allready hit before. So tournament site uses the stats in the moment of dead not the stats at the end of game.

[DeathDream]

I completed this event last night. I died plenty of times when getting my KMDD and those games counted. I am pretty sure it counted most if not all my games. If we won/lost it didn't matter.

Now all my mechs are bright "shoot me" neon green lol

[AdamBaines]

Grey Death II, on 15 January 2016 - 05:15 AM, said:

Just realized some games in the challenge are not counted correctly:
In a game on HPG Manifold i did 240DMG and 2 Kills most Damagde delt, but tournament site counts it as this: 707673473527899202 TBR-C 167 0 2016-01-15 12:29:40
Think problem was that i used an Arty in the moment i died that hit 3 enemies i allready hit before. So tournament site uses the stats in the moment of dead not the stats at the end of game.

I don tknow if thats right. For me list night I was on Caustic and 1-on-1 with a King Crab, me in my MX90 Mauler. He and I are duking it out, and right as I am about to core him (he is all red, missing arm and rt torso), he gets me. I'm dead. At this point I have not attacked anyone else. So as I watch my mech smoldering I see an AC on my team come up to the KC and in one shot of od small lasers, takes out the KC.

I still got the Kill Most Damage Done. I was dead when the AC got him.

Maybe it was just the fact that you used Arty to kill them? That because its not direct fire from your mech that it did not count the damage to the KMDD?

[Tvrdoglavi]

Jeffrey Wilder, on 15 January 2016 - 01:00 AM, said:

Yup, if you die, non of which will be counted; I lost count of how many I lost this way. There was a match where I did 5 max damage but died, not to mention other games which I am the top scorer.

In other words, this event promotes the same problem with the Victor event; Cowardice.

That is not correct. In the last match I played last night I faced of another mech and did a lot of damage to it but died before that mech was destroyed. I saw the mech get destroyed a few second later by the rest of my team and I did receive the KMD for it.
If you do most damage to a mech you will get credit regardless of your survival status at any point during the match.

[Lhunara]

The KMDD counter is wonky, sometimes it counts even when I die. Sometimes it doesnt.

Some matches it counted partially (1 out of 2 KMDDs)

[Kodyn]

The only part about this whole event I find surprising is that players are actually surprised there's coding issues, and expected an event to go off properly.

C'mon, we know better at this point. Expect nothing of PGI and you get to be pleasantly surprised when they do something right.

[GenJack]

I really enjoy this event! Been the most fun thanks to a man with a soundboard!

Star Kitsune forever!

[testhero]

Monkey Lover, on 14 January 2016 - 09:37 AM, said:

I wonder if this will be good for cw.

All the Guys regularly in on House.Marik.Enjin completed the cicada winning portion of this event in the first few hours.
One guy I dropped with won it in 3 drops so it is just a blip and 'so long and thanks PGI for all the fish!' to the middle to higher tier CW players.
The only difference we are noticing so far is that the casual CW players that fill up the holes in ques are off getting KMDD's in the PUG Que so drops for less than full twelves are slightly longer as there are less filler mechwarriors.
Reinforcements joining from Calls to Arms might be just slightly down also but that is much harder to determine.
Should even out over the competition period as everyone redeems the prizes they want anyway.

Bob Jenkins, on 14 January 2016 - 10:59 AM, said:

doesn't say that a win is required, but not getting recognition for games not won (despite kill most damage by and 100+ match score). This really screws over T1 pilots in solo Que.

If you are Teir One this challenge should be no problem. Select a no tags, No label Mech and kill it!
less than an hour would be my guess.
There is a rumor of solo duels behind the drop-ship port in river city.

627, on 14 January 2016 - 11:37 AM, said:

looks like you have to win, too.

My very first match today was 2 KMDD and 500 damage but a loss so no points. second match I won with 1 KMDD and that counted.

Nah some of the guys got multiple points after a defeat.
Lost an Assualt on Caustic to capture by the last enemy Mech, one lance-mate had 3 KMDDs entered and redeemed the first prizes on exit

Bolter01, on 14 January 2016 - 05:14 PM, said:

Well I just had another match with approx 4 'Live' mechs each side and it finished before the Win conditions were met.

Someone suggested the servers are made of cardboard ~ I'm not sure if they were joking or not?

Had one of those myself (canyon N.A.server) appeared to finish with 3 enemies still kicking.
Either the last 3 simultaneously died which was improbable but not impossible as they were widely scattered and running like they kicked over a beehive.
Or put it down to crazy server overload glitch primetime.
My game was in the bag anyway and sound like yours was too so no real harm done

aGentleWarrior, on 15 January 2016 - 03:49 AM, said:

I would favor a tournament based on match score, because you can get a high match score also with lighter mechs which don't have heavy weapons, but getting KMD with these is hard...

I have become KMDD fodder for lots of ACH's (and a Raven) so far and expect to be back shot by few more this competition.
As a previous poster stated. Kudos whosoever you are!
Aim to take out the side torsos and you get credit for everything outside that in the arm too.
If you are choosy XL engined IS mechs would make the best targets as you get the kill also meaning no one can gazump you.

So saying..I gotta go dust off that clan-mech with Fly swatting guns I have lingering around here somewhere.


THe new percentage ring displays on the page profile challenges are excellent, a vast improvement on the previous Yes no tick boxes
https://mwomercs.com...type=challenges
Thanks visual widgets team!

Edited by testhero, 15 January 2016 - 08:15 AM.

[chewie]

Jeffrey Wilder, on 15 January 2016 - 01:00 AM, said:

Yup, if you die, non of which will be counted; I lost count of how many I lost this way. There was a match where I did 5 max damage but died, not to mention other games which I am the top scorer.

In other words, this event promotes the same problem with the Victor event; Cowardice.

Its not cowardice that is the problem with these events, its cheese builds, vomit builds, griefer builds etc.

the 6 uac5 Direwolf
the 6AC2 Mauler
the 4 uac5 Crab
etc etc etc

Any build that either at range or up close, will put out very high rates of fire while being so easy to use, needing only 1 tirgger to be pulled for maximum effect.

Granted there are lots of LRMs too, but hey, its all part of it and to be expected with these contests.

[Ironically Ironclad Irony]

chewie, on 15 January 2016 - 09:33 AM, said:

Its not cowardice that is the problem with these events, its cheese builds, vomit builds, griefer builds etc.

the 6 uac5 Direwolf
the 6AC2 Mauler
the 4 uac5 Crab
etc etc etc

Any build that either at range or up close, will put out very high rates of fire while being so easy to use, needing only 1 tirgger to be pulled for maximum effect.

Granted there are lots of LRMs too, but hey, its all part of it and to be expected with these contests.

Phew, good thing my SRM36 Jenner IIc does not fall into that category...

[Big Tin Man]

chewie, on 15 January 2016 - 09:33 AM, said:

Its not cowardice that is the problem with these events, its cheese builds, vomit builds, griefer builds etc.

the 6 uac5 Direwolf
the 6AC2 Mauler
the 4 uac5 Crab
etc etc etc

Any build that either at range or up close, will put out very high rates of fire while being so easy to use, needing only 1 tirgger to be pulled for maximum effect.

Granted there are lots of LRMs too, but hey, its all part of it and to be expected with these contests.

What's entertaining is those "Cheese" builds you have listed can be wrecked by one arctic cheetah if and when the deathball ditches them. Not that hard to eat the rear armor of a lone DWF and stay out of the firing arc. Problem is the light pilots ran for the hills long ago. I'll probably be back in my wolfhound smoking bad assault pilots after I get the cicada, just need 6 more points.

And I'm honestly seeing more splat streak/srm builds and some awful lrm builds (more than 1 LRM60 TBR, ugh) than big sustained direct fire mechs. Then again, I haven't played exclusively pug queue for about a month.

[Frank Burns]

trash event. not counting my KMD when I die in the match.
L2Code PGI

[Luminis]

Bug or not, was easy enough. Even though I haven't been around for months, it only took me two evenings, so I'm definitely quite happy with the prizes

The colours are great, by the way. Was close to buying the AJ Light Orange a few times, but couldn't bring myself to pay that much for a cosmetic item...