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[DemonRaziel]

Funnily enough,I've found the Meds challenge more Light friendly.

There wasn't as many Skill-'Mechs looking to farm all the Lights that are inevitably going to show up, but there was enough 'Mechs that didn't pack an army's worth of armor and weaponry, so the Lights had enough decent targets and a bit of wiggle room, since everyone and their mother and their pet turtle wasn't able to one-shot them...

On the other hand, this is probably a good spot for the Heavies that are able to easily shake off the streaks and can in turn farm the streakers, that were build for a single purpose.

[Aethermech]

Mirage Jenius, on 28 July 2016 - 04:03 PM, said:

Getting into top 75 is pretty doable for a good player and that's a bunch of free consumables at least. Top 50 isn't that hard either. Anywayz good luck everyone and remember to leg the skillcrows.

I'm gonna start calling them lack-of-skill-crows. I have yet to feel any fear from the streak/splat/laser builds in QP in any of my light mechs. Most of the time they are running from me so I'm already winning.

[PraetorGix]

Mistydove, on 28 July 2016 - 02:02 PM, said:

Supply Caches and Keys are a waste of time . Remove them . If I want to gamble I would go to the Pub and play the pokies .

The worst part is that they reduced the MC prize by half only because they are giving you these crappy caches. The MC I used to win in these events will not ever go into a cache key, so why are they replacing one with the other is beyond me.

Of course they don't have to give you anything. Unless they really want to keep any sort of playerbase in the not-so-long run.

[Colonel ONeill]

D V Devnull, on 29 July 2016 - 01:28 AM, said:

Maybe PGI is trying to gather data in order to rebalance the Mech Quirks? Having an Event would help them to do so. Maybe they will finally see now how OverKill their Quirk-Nerfs were on the Catapult and Nova, and many other Mechs? Wouldn't that still be a winning proposition for you? Come on, dive in, give them some feedback already! Maybe we can get things in that regard to be fixed!

~D. V. "Play-To-Repair (P2R), perhaps?" Devnull

It is not a good idea to balance a mech of his score in some event.

[Weeny Machine]

Colonel ONeill, on 29 July 2016 - 11:50 PM, said:

It is not a good idea to balance a mech of his score in some event.

True. However, it is amusing to see these "op lights" fare in an even good environment (less heavies) for them. So far the scores are underwhelming.

[YakkSlapper]

pah, one more 'event' that should have been sent to the abortion doctor.

[D V Devnull]

Early Final Review, 2016 July/August "Lights Fight Leaderboard and Personal Challenge Event" ---

Well, things turned out like I thought they might. I succeeded in earning the available Personal Challenge Rewards, and PGI definitely succeeded in maintaining Active Player Retention as I was hoping they would do. So I can say the Personal Challenge hit right on the button.

As for the LeaderBoard, I can't really give a useful Review at all. Its' formula is too bloodthirsty, and my skill level is barely high enough that I'll only be able to do mediocre-to-well with a Mech when a team that I've been placed with doesn't leave me out to dry. So I can't really rate this properly.





On other notes, I have learned an unfortunate-yet-rather-important lesson from this event. The lesson is that other people are unable to realize when they need to turn around because they're being backflanked by the opposing team, even if they're being notified of the change in situation by a Support-Style Pilot. Supports like myself will effectively be left to die to Light & Medium Mechs, because nobody will communicate their directional intention to the Support-Style Pilots. Even further, the "NASCAR Strategy" is useless when the queue is loaded mostly with Light Mechs, and yet there are people who will still not understand this and blow the round for several of their teammates by causing their death through not listening.

I have also learned one more nasty lesson. Catapults and Novas are way beyond too squishy with the recent OverKill Quirk-Nerfs to their Chassis. Being easily mowed over by an SRM Locust or SRM Jenner-IIC which can sneak up behind them all too easily is simply something that should not happen to those Heavy & Medium Chassis. It's just like I thought, 25% of the Mechs which I have put in severe effort to earn have instead been rendered useless and put out from under me. At least those two Chassis which I have mentioned need a 50% undo to their last Quirk Changes, or they're going to end up unused by a fair number of pilots. I know that I will still be forced to have to use them anyway, and likely die over it, for they will be the only options that will be fitting at certain points in time.





Anyway, see you all at the next Event. Excuse me at this point, because I'm worse than severely depressed by the wipeout that I just took in the last round I was placed into. It was what you would call a 'Spirit Breaker', as I got to do effectively nothing in the round which I happened to be placed in. Being wiped out by Light Mechs in a manner that negates your being able to do anything while in a Heavy is never funny.


~Mr. D. V. "I've earned what I can... Checking out for now." Devnull





[Edit by author for paragraph reflow and wording issues...]

Edited by D V Devnull, 30 July 2016 - 05:21 AM.

[Rebel Ace Fryslan]

Well i'm finding out the FS9 is pretty down smacked.
Used to work great with all variants.
Now there slow, sluggish, and very much up to quick death.

dmg and precision are gone only doing 20-33% from before downgrades.

from the "litlest helper".



PS: why not do a leaderbord on matchscore.

Edited by Rebel Ace Fryslan, 30 July 2016 - 06:48 AM.

[Dee Eight]

Kodiaks fall pretty easily, as do banshees (which have no structure quirks at all) to my kit fox. If I put myself point blank to a Kodiak, I'm below his waist and can pitch upwards to hose him thoroughly while he has a hard time pitching down enough to get me (especially when I focus my fire towards the side torso and blow the corresponding arm off). KDK-3 pilots universally tend to put the AC ammo in the legs, so its a good spot to shoot to get an ammo explosion.

Edited by Dee Eight, 30 July 2016 - 07:24 AM.

[ImperialKnight]

Top Light Mechs Chasis confirmed:

1) Arctic Cheetah
2) Adder (wait what?!?)
3) Locust

[Andi Nagasia]

YakkSlapper, on 30 July 2016 - 03:50 AM, said:

pah, one more 'event' that should have been sent to the abortion doctor.

not really constructive, if you see a problem with it then tell us what you see,
its hard to Discuss what people think, if they dont say anything that can be Discussed,

Dee Eight, on 30 July 2016 - 07:22 AM, said:

Kodiaks fall pretty easily, as do banshees (which have no structure quirks at all) to my kit fox. If I put myself point blank to a Kodiak, I'm below his waist and can pitch upwards to hose him thoroughly while he has a hard time pitching down enough to get me (especially when I focus my fire towards the side torso and blow the corresponding arm off). KDK-3 pilots universally tend to put the AC ammo in the legs, so its a good spot to shoot to get an ammo explosion.

i think it will be good to see how many Lights come out,
it will most likely be a Mess, but a Awesome Destructive Mess,
Lights Running Event = getting Eaten by SkillCrows/Other Streak Hunters,
SkillCrows/Hunters Hunting Lights = getting Eaten by Heavies/Assaults looking for Easy Cbills,
Heavies/Assaults Hunting Light Hunters = getting Eaten by Lights Running the Event,
Everything comes Full Circle it seems,
Edit- Spelling,

Edited by Andi Nagasia, 30 July 2016 - 08:39 AM.

[Calebos]

D V Devnull, on 29 July 2016 - 12:16 PM, said:

I saw it up at 41%+ for Lights. I wonder how much higher it can go.



Lucky shot... LOL



Perhaps they'll fix all these issues by the next Patch? Maybe they're using this event to get data on what mistakes they have yet to correct. Or not... LOL



On other notes, I'm currently finding my Support-Style Catapult CPLT-C4 to be a little too squishy. I wonder if people are failing to use teamwork, and just leaving it out to die.

~D. V. "A little sick of dying in Heavies that should actually be able to battle..." Devnull

They are not able to repair all fok ups they made. It is impossible to remake so much rubbish work they did ... Mechwarrior Connecting.

[D V Devnull]

knightsljx, on 30 July 2016 - 08:14 AM, said:

Top Light Mechs Chasis confirmed:

1) Arctic Cheetah
2) Adder (wait what?!?)
3) Locust

You've gotta be kidding, what with the number of Jenners and their IIC Cousins that I've seen blasting other people away during this event!

~Mr. D. V. "I think you're joking..." Devnull

[Nick Makiaveli]

Leader board frozen for anyone else? And I mean for like an hour or more, not 10 minutes. Restarted the browser in case it was hung but still nothing. And it's everybody not just me FTR.

[Dee Eight]

I am seeing hunchie IIs with streak-6s, skillcrows, and Jenner IICs with streaks. However not a lot of thinking to bring TAG/Active probe along also.

[Nick Makiaveli]

Nick Makiaveli, on 30 July 2016 - 11:50 AM, said:

Leader board frozen for anyone else? And I mean for like an hour or more, not 10 minutes. Restarted the browser in case it was hung but still nothing. And it's everybody not just me FTR.

Update: My status is changing, but my score is stuck at 1203. My lowest score in the top 10 is 159 (Don't judge me). So if all of them were 159 then my score would 1590 right?


Also FTR, I've had better games so my score should be going up. Yet my ranking goes down because it's stuck.

Edited by Nick Makiaveli, 30 July 2016 - 01:52 PM.

[Tier5 Kerensky]

Nick Makiaveli, on 30 July 2016 - 01:47 PM, said:

Update: My status is changing, but my score is stuck at 1203. My lowest score in the top 10 is 159 (Don't judge me). So if all of them were 159 then my score would 1590 right?


Also FTR, I've had better games so my score should be going up. Yet my ranking goes down because it's stuck.

You realise its not match score how its ranked?

[Dee Eight]

He probably doesn't.

[762 NATO]

So I tried. I really did. I ran an Oxide, a 2c and a spider non stop for 3 days. Low 100s on all 3 boards. Hmm, maybe I am not as good as I thought? Jumped into a tier 5 account. Two matches back to back in a squeaky new Jenner -k, unbasiced. 1003 damage the first one with 6 kmdds, 1027 the second with 5. Yep... Very balanced to the player base.

Congrats to Shiax for doing so well on the spider though!! Great work bud!!

[Icantswim]

762 NATO, on 30 July 2016 - 08:55 PM, said:

Jumped into a tier 5 account. .....
Yep... Very balanced to the player base.

If you look closely at the leaderboards, you'll notice that top 5 are mostly tier 1 pilots.

Yet, you're thinking in the right direction.
When you're playing in prime time and see several exceptional pilots on both teams, chances are nobody is getting good scores.
So your best bet is to play at odd times. You'll get less top 5 pilots. And the way matchmaker works, if waiting time exceeds some value, it starts looking for pilots in lower tiers. So you'll probably get easier enemies and less aggressive teammates.
Weekdays are the best in that aspect. I remember there was major leaderboard movement during Monday morning-afternoon period. And that movement came to a halt when people started coming home in the evening.

Edited by Icantswim, 31 July 2016 - 12:11 AM.