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Last three packs go to:
Ace Selin with a clean sweep of the the Kodiak-3, the Nova-S and the Arctic Cheetah-A.
La Jefa with the Kodiak-3 and the Summoner-Prime.
JJm1 calling the Warhawk-Prime.
Zieten, Gotshotalot and Rick Wildstar all picked the Kodiak-3 as well but I chose Jjm1 as the winner of the final pack because picking the Kodiak to be nerfed was like picking the sun to rise in the east in the morning.
Special thanks and a mech pack to Karmen Baric for reminding me that I had done this.
So Ace, La Jefa, Jjm1 and Karmen, PM me and let me know what you want.
If anyone knows these folks and sees them around please let them know what's up.
Thanks for playing all.
Edit:
With the patch notes we have an arguable nerfing of 5 mechs via increases in their UAC jam chances:
The Jagger DD, the Enforcer 5P, the Shadow Hawk 5M, and the Nova-B and the Warhawk-A.
The theme of my little contest below was to mock of the arbitrary nature of nerfs in this game, and PGI has not disappointed. These nerfs are a new special kind of WTH? By being so arbitrarily arbitrary only a single participant managed to identify a winning mech:
L3mming2 called out the Jagger DD for punishment. Congrats. If yu are still around, you get a mech pack.
However, in light of having budgeted for 5 winners, I am going to keep this going to the next nerf pass. More entries welcome, old entrants feel free to make new ones. I'll just ignore everything before post #72 from here on out. So please keep your guesses coming and remember PGI doesn't seem to have a clue of what mechs are problematic, imbalanced, being played or are even remotely "OP"...keep that in mind when you put up your entries.
Oh and PGI: Just bravo for this pass. It was a validation of everything I expect from you. So just a superb "well done". Despite the absurdity of it, I am sincerely thankful for the iterative nature of it. No giant leaps in any direction is appreciated. Finally a pat on the back for managing to not break anything for almost three months; well done.
End Edit.
A few people in discussing the incoming goodie crates mechanism have suggested that the mechanism is nothing more than gambling. In light of all the nerf passes over the last year, I for one, consider the purchase of mechs to be a gamble as well.
So in that spirit, I thought we might play a game of "guess the nerf". The rules:
You get three guesses as to which individual mech variant will be nerfed next.
If any one of your guesses comes to fruition in the next nerfing pass...lets limit this to a few months out and go out to November maybe end of the year? Surely they will nerf something between now and then? Anyway, if any one of your guesses are right I will buy you a basic mech pack of your choice.
Limit to 5 winners. If more than 5 people win, then in the spirit of the goodie crates and the dartboard of balance, I will choose winners at random.
The game is over the moment anyone from PGI lets slip any indication to "change" any mech in the game via any source (twitter, here, reedit etc.). I will trust that no one with inside information from PGI will participate.
Caveat: I don't see how this would be a tos or coc violation, but you never know around here. But if the thread is deleted I will assume that this little game is verboten and then all bets...I mean guesses...are cancelled and the game is done with no winners.
So to get things started, my three guesses are:
There will be a nerf to the Grasshopper 5P.
There will be a nerf to the Cataphract IM.
There will be a nerf to the Hunchback 4SP
So place your bets! I mean, give me your guesses.
Those are my guesses. Yours?
Edited by Bud Crue, 11 November 2016 - 05:37 PM.
