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[Kaletti]

Thank you for the event PGI, but the time given is much too short.
For casual players its nearly impossible to accomplish both parts of the event.
Maybe it was already mentioned... sry

[invernomuto]

I am now 2 scout victories from finishing the scouting part of the event. This evening I'll get my Nova, probabily. I'll try to get as much as I can of the invasion part of the event.
Some other observations:
- Long Tom: When it was first introduced, I tought it could be a game breaking feature. PGI needs definitely to tone it down. Make it destructibile as a secondary objective (as someone suggested in this thread) OR tone down its lethality. In its current form, LT effect on gameplay is that it empties the queue of the side suffering from its strikes. Yesterday evening on a planet attacked by Clan Wolf against FRR (IIRC) there were more defenders than attackers but attackers numbers were good.
When FFR achieved the Long Tom, the queue went 11-12 brave clanner warriors vs 99+ "I-want-to-win-easy-mode" IS players.
- StormCrow: Great mechs, probabily one of the best medium mech in the game. But if you aim their legs sistematically, they will go down. It's the best tactic against them and it works (and I am not a very good pilot)

[Insufficient Skill]

The hardest part was actually getting all 20 games together for the invasion challenge (cannot be bothered with 4on4 skirmish dubbe "scout", sorry. Scouting should be something completely different, where gathering Intel points actually contributes to the match score and not only the same ****** formula exaggerating damage importance).

Finished it almost spot-on though, with the 20th game only one match behind the 10th victory. All 100% pure PUGiness.

[Krellshand]

Absolutly No way for me finishing this.

Shiftworking, so Thursday, Friday, Saturday were work days, as are Tuesday and Wednesday this week. Finishing this event in one and a half day is impossible, or at least not very sane.

40 Matches CW events should be at least two weeks long, otherwise its just the hardcore kids who can play 8 hours straight

[Wibble in a Clan can]

Cant complete event with ghost drops..............why oh why PGI do they still exist. The auto win is STUPID. I wait 10+ mins I want to fight----and so do at least 11 other players.

At least give us a free for all with option for ppl to opt out (as exact numbers for FFA don't matter and some comp teams/players are looking for planet wins. But many of us are not fighting for planet wins, but for fun. You know- actual fun?).

Then at least we get to test our dropdecks against other pilots and earn some faction rep/Cbills.

CW map thingy is NOT a MW game---Fighting in mechs is. Did you forget that PGI?????????

Edited by WibbsScrapMerc, 04 July 2016 - 02:51 AM.

[aGentleWarrior]

Kaletti, on 04 July 2016 - 12:10 AM, said:

Thank you for the event PGI, but the time given is much too short.
For casual players its nearly impossible to accomplish both parts of the event.
Maybe it was already mentioned... sry

Both parts ? For casual players it is nearly impossible to accompish invasion.
You will mostly face organized drops and you just wont win ...

[Fiona Marshe Pureborn]

Tonights Invasion mode looks like a bust.

2.5 hours to ceasefire (and bed time) and huge wait times for anything as the IS have packed up and gone home.

Glengarry; all Red, 34/17 (a few IS pilots generating matches slowly)
Jaumegarde; all Blue
Unukalhai; all Blue
Yeguas; all Blue

The occasional match as the IS pilots pull together a team but you have to be lucky to non-ghost (or even get a ghost; no contested sectors = no match = no progress on missions played).

[Monodominant]

I just finished the Scout event. It was doable and it taught me that many fear the Stormcrow but the real threat is the Nova. That thing is a leg eater... with 11 ERSLs it is just crazy. Accurate (unlike SRMs/SSRMs) and deadly... just a bit slow.

The invasion... it is hard. Long Tom was more a bane than a blessing when dropping with a 12man... it would kill around 10-12 enemy mechs a game which means 10-12 less Kill assists / KMDD / Damage Dealt etc. etc... so even if we were winning... getting the event done was very hard.

On top of that, I would like to see such events go over 2 weekends... not all of us can play a lot during the week itself so even if it starts Thursday and finishes Wednesday I only pretty much get 2-3 days of playing steadily.

[James Revenant]

It's impossible to WIN a match with IS at this time...is unbeliveable!!!!
Scout with IS is same of scout with Clan but invasion...it's another story...Clan win is lose every time!

[shameless]

if you want to actually get matches, plan to be around just after ceasefire. that's when you'll get the most matches with the least waiting. no BS longtom to worry about. I finished the whole event in 2 evenings. Yes, I belong to a unit, yes I was in TS coordinated drops. So what, THAT is how FW is MEANT to be played.trying to run solo, you're going to have shite waiting times, (just to see once I was done I did this, wait was 25min) Joining a unit isn't all that difficult, really its about finding a unit that's playing when you are.

[Rkshz]

PGI ty vm - it's the best event of all time!!!
1. two events in one
2. lots of different cool prizes
3. and the most important thing = you can choose the grand prize - Clan or IS mech

[MovinTarget]

James Revenant, on 04 July 2016 - 04:31 AM, said:

It's impossible to WIN a match with IS at this time...is unbeliveable!!!!
Scout with IS is same of scout with Clan but invasion...it's another story...Clan win is lose every time!

Sorry you are having a rough go of it. It *IS* possible, but you have to:

1) make sure you are in the best mech(s) in your possession.
2) Do your best to surround yourself with good players
3) communicate.

Do these three things and its not only possible, it can be fun.

This is the endgame mode of MWO, it requires teamwork and dare I say.... synergy (copyrighted to Mech the Dane?)

To put a parallel on it: You typically don't just "drop" into the current endgame raid in World of Warcraft. No, you build yourself up, surround yourself with other dedicated players, research the tactics and strats AND THEN you drop.

Its really not all that different here.

[Palerider Recon]

Anyone know where I can get a copy of the art used in the event banner? It's a sweet image, and I'd like to see if it would make a good wallpaper.

[Ian G]

StarSauron, on 02 July 2016 - 12:58 AM, said:

10 victories is too much, lol, you never get this


can this
Invasion Victories, each with a Match Score of at least 80

be replaced with something else ?
I mean it almost impossible to get.

The 10 Victories were very easy to get, thanks to all the people in Kurita TS. We played 9 games, got Insta Drops because we were 12 man and won 7 outa nine. What a nice Sunday. The other wins i got with my unit and one with a group o pugs, when i took the effort to coordinate them. So, now i need to get enough games, dmg and Matchscore in. And that's the real challenge here.

Mirage Jenius, on 02 July 2016 - 04:05 AM, said:

What are you talking about? Get Griffin 2N, go for the legs and you'll see that the streakcrow is a piece of crap. Cry more instead of finding a solution that works like a charm.

http://mwo.smurfy-ne...fed0fc00c2c1bf7

Here, use this build. Shoot legs, have fun. When fighting against Streakcrows, just twist and see damage spread all over your mech. You know, because with streaks you can't aim for any component. You shoot three times, when they only shoot twice (because cooldown). They spread dmg all over your mech, you spread them over both legs.

Don't complain if you can't do it. I did the scouting challenge in two days, with gametime spread over six hours. It's called challenge for a reason. I can't do it shares a room with i don't want to.

[MovinTarget]

Ian G, on 04 July 2016 - 07:16 AM, said:

The 10 Victories were very easy to get, thanks to all the people in Kurita TS. We played 9 games, got Insta Drops because we were 12 man and won 7 outa nine. What a nice Sunday. The other wins i got with my unit and one with a group o pugs, when i took the effort to coordinate them. So, now i need to get enough games, dmg and Matchscore in. And that's the real challenge here.



http://mwo.smurfy-ne...fed0fc00c2c1bf7

Here, use this build. Shoot legs, have fun. When fighting against Streakcrows, just twist and see damage spread all over your mech. You know, because with streaks you can't aim for any component. You shoot three times, when they only shoot twice (because cooldown). They spread dmg all over your mech, you spread them over both legs.

Don't complain if you can't do it. I did the scouting challenge in two days, with gametime spread over six hours. It's called challenge for a reason. I can't do it shares a room with i don't want to.

That 2N is a bit slow for my tastes... I am currently running a 3M with srm4s and a XL355 so the only thing that can truly get away (i.e. is 150kph+) is a max/near max engine jenner

The only thing you have to be careful about is being initially faster than your team... if you run 4 of these, you can really react/intercept quickly.

Oh, and the 3M is tanky as all... +12/+13 structure to every component. If they are spreading damage, it makes you even harder to kill...

[Tiantara]

Palerider 1976, on 04 July 2016 - 07:01 AM, said:

Anyone know where I can get a copy of the art used in the event banner? It's a sweet image, and I'd like to see if it would make a good wallpaper.

- Seems you can get it here.

[Tiantara]

- If you have no Griffin 2N, you can use Hunchback HBK-4G.

[Dan Skara]

finally, both grand prize, phew

[MovinTarget]

Dan Skara, on 04 July 2016 - 09:30 AM, said:

finally, both grand prize, phew

Gratz

On any other weekend i would have time, but gotta do stuff with the fam...



Like blow things up...

[DAYLEET]

The positive things about the Events.

The prizes, new people will be happy to get a new mech, if they can manage that. I was happy to get a mechbay.

The score board on the tournament page is the best so far, all it is missing is win/loss but it has all the good info and the layout is great.

Game ID 'Mech Match Score Kill Most Damage Damage Done Kill Assists C-Bills XP Intel Collected Disqualified* Time
I love it, just missing win/loss.


Every drop i asked for someone to lead and all but 4 had a leader. This makes winning easier and losing also easier to swallow. I only lost 5 out of 21 match. Always ask for a leader, if someone else do it before you then reenforce him, it might be the push someone need to go "ok this pugs want to win, ill do it"

Do use the chat for quick input like, "they r pushing at xx"or "i only saw one guy there so they probably are over xx" and the ever useful "dont chase now" when the first wave is destroyed easily you always have people who want to suicide and even the odds for the Opfor.

Don't psych yourself, i had pugs utterly destroy a 10man.

Edited by DAYLEET, 04 July 2016 - 10:12 AM.