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[Akkuflex]

The most obnoxious event in MWO that I've had the misfortune to participate in.
It's like PGI took most of the bad aspects of the game and made an event around those.
Lurms and narc everywhere, people running around like headless chickens in 3rd person.
Challenges like the TAG-laser stuff also played very much into killstealing and all that suffering through conquest capfests in hope that your cap assist gets registrated wasn't less frustrating, either.
incidentally it was very buggy, I've done the "No, not cool" far more often than just three times and it kept not recognizing that I've overheated with override on and survived the match.

Edited by Akkuflex, 07 September 2016 - 12:12 PM.

[Tsar Bomba]

Akkuflex, on 07 September 2016 - 07:58 AM, said:

people running around like headless chickens in 3rd person.

Technically, they were running around like extra long necked chickens.

[LightningStorm]

there's 11 games that i got capture assist which i counted from the list on the tournament page, but it still says 10 games

[unc00l]

Ugh, they just really didn't give you enough time for this event... Especially since they made it so that you could only achieve one counter of a certain challenge per game. I was gone for labor day weekend, came back with only one day to grind this out... I don't mind achieving ridiculous stuff but not for 11 games, I'd rather just do it 3-4times each game instead.

[Kurni]

Its me or the "Monster Hunting" item prize isnt injected/changed?
Today checking my inventory I have 0 "Claw Necklace", but my MC webpage report 11x11 MC injections

[Pz_DC]

Ok, its ended. As I told before - no thanks for event from me this time - at 1st rules was terrible, 2nd - registration was terrible. Bad job this time guys, sorry.

P.S. 36 hours in quick play. 0 defensive kills. 1 of 5 'overrides' counted. More then 50% of games was lost because 3p viev...

Edited by MGA121285, 07 September 2016 - 09:19 AM.

[Appogee]

90 minutes of playing in 3PV ... being dropped with potatoes who couldn't win a single match.

Can't do the 3PV Challenge unless your team wins. Can't win because always dropped with potatoes.

Well trolled, PGI. Once again you taught me why I shouldn't bother trying any challenge which relies on an element of luck.

Edited by Appogee, 07 September 2016 - 09:50 AM.

[Kael Posavatz]

The 3pv event had issues in that it is quite easy to get bumped into 1pv inadvertently.

Defensive Kills are so situational that you can easily go ten hours without an opportunity to make 3 of them.

Also, the over-heat mechanic had trouble tracking.

Most of the issues, however, come from that the challenge criteria were just really poorly worded or explained. (Long post on this in pg25 for those interested, not going to repeat it0.

[noiRaven]

aaaaaand as always when event is end I have NARC kills, cap assists and other.... bad luck....

Edited by noiRaven, 07 September 2016 - 10:12 AM.

[Kargush]

Poorly worded, bugged tracking, 3rd person having issues of its own, this was very poor. Probably because it was (or so it seems) a rush-job. And a shoddy one at that.

[Silver Wraith]

Why would it end at 10 AM? I started the day, to go do the 3rd person thing, and nothing would update... and then I realized the event ended. AND I HAD SO MANY good matches where I would have gotten it :I

[Kell Aset]

Well thanks for the event and the free stuff, it was somewhat interesting with increased presence of tag, narc and lrms, not much of a problem really. I must say tho, I was kinda annoyed when my last cap assist that I required for one of the challenges didn't register maybe like twice (I played like 10 or even more games to get that last assist) but I played some more and finally got it. Didn't have the time to complete all of the challenges but oh well.

Edited by Kell Aset, 07 September 2016 - 01:18 PM.

[Tigven]

Quote

Feel free to let us know what you think of some of these new Challenge Goals; we are very interested to hear what you like, what you don't, and what else you might like to see in future Challenge Goals.

I liked most of the challenges and rewards, but I disliked the following Challenge Goals:

"The Flea" -- too frustrating, crippling Quick Play matches, too poorly worded*

* "and not disable it during the match" ---> "and not disable third person mode during the match"

"No, not cool." -- did not register some times

"I'm the Monster", "Monster Hunting", "Like a Ninja" -- did not like this, as these weapons systems are highly situational. Also did not like the hidden extra requirements. I would like if those had some sort of alternative advancement goal or lesser rewards (C-Bills, not MC).

"Castle Byers" -- this is extremely annoying, as I've done dozens of "Capture Success", but failed to get enough Assists, which apparently require you do fail capturing. Why should I actively try to fail to capture??? This challenge should count Successes too!

"Keep it locked down." -- defensive kills are extremely situational, this should never be a challenge.

[paws2sky]

So, while the rewards looked pretty good (need more warhorns), parts of this event were really very frustrating.

I spent a lot of time on the TAG and NARC challenges. Like, waaaay more than I would have liked to have done. TAG Stealth was easy. I got it without even really trying. NARC and TAG kills... not so much. I had some of my best RVN-3L matches ever and zilch, nada, zip. 7 out of 11. Wheeee.

I broke down and brought my mastered Stalkers out of the mothballs instead of working on levelling unmastered mechs. I pounded several mechs into the ground with TAG and LRMs. Melted some into slag with LLs (and TAG, because why not). I got nowhere close on the TAG kills. 4 out of 11.

What gives!? Was there some secret thing that needed to be done to qualify for those?

The 3PV challenge was astoundingly bad. I've never bothered with 3PV except to hill peak. And honestly, if all goes right, I will never, ever enter that view mode again. The snap-to of the targeting made precision shots nearly impossible. Heck, shooting what I wanted to shot was impossible. UAVs were magically unhittable, despite the fact that I was within range (and the range was showing in the targeting display). Oh, and I apologize to everyone that got shot when my reticle suddenly snapped into some unknown, predetermined position.

I'm glad that you can track more things, PGI. That's great, really. Maybe the extra data will be useful for mining certain things... whatever they might be. Maybe you can permanently disable 3PV so no one is every afflicted by it again?

-paws

P.S. I think someone is a little too fanboy/fangirl about Stranger Things. >.<

[The Yeti]

Figured i would try my hand at that third person challenge last night. got one match done, all in 3rd person, got one kill and survived, we won. alas no challenge. tried again, same mech, stalker 5m, crimson strait. Got 3 kills thanks to assisting from a teammate's narc. Survived and we won. Got excited i did well in 3rd person mode. still no completion on the challenge. i assumed it was one of those that needed time to pop. checked today and it was still not completed. a bit disappointed that i did not get the challenge part as i never (and never will again) use 3rd person. i set in my options to start in 3rd person and never touched the f4? key (i heard it changed, not sure) .

[Mycroft000]

How many people have done the math on what the 11mc is worth?

[MrKvola]

3PV was a bad joke. I tried exactly once, got snapped into 1pv because of a wall. Did not try again after that.

Overheats did not register properly.

Did not do the TAG and NARC challenges since I do not like these weapons systems. As is with LRMs.

Definitely not enough time. Almost had a couple of goals done but did not manage to get a sufficient number of drops in.

Also, the number of potato groups in the puglotto today was astounding...

[Daemon04]

post event edit:
I only did the ones giving away MCs. Some of them were hard to achieve due to being rolled quite a lot times but it was a nice challenge.
GG LRMS. I never liked lrms so far. gotta vent somewhere.
I never liked the 3PV tbh, steals all the immersion. I wanna sit in my cosy cockpit and feel my lasers heat and my gauss' discharge and pour holes in enemy mechs.

[Commander A9]

Well, I got all of 'em, including 1 3rd person kill to get me 3 days of premium time, but only 1 defensive kill.

This was tricky, and annoying, and frustrating...

Much as I appreciate an event, I am hoping the next one won't be so damn convoluted.

Edited by Commander A9, 07 September 2016 - 06:15 PM.

[Rhialto]

3PV (along with R/SHIFT-F11) is only good for taking decent screenshots, not to play.