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[Xaat Xuun]

Terra Therma
sometimes it just happens in spurts, and followed with a long dry period, which can last more then 3 hours.

I just vote for it every time, partially because it's my favorite, the other is to help those that have only a hour or 2 of play time (during the event)
nothing happening in CW, so guess I'll be in Quick play to get my trick or treat bags, and voting for Terra Therma

[ERescue]

@All: I am only at tier 5, but Terra Therma seems fairly common, even though it does not get picked every time it comes up as an option. For example today, I have played about 3 hours and already had TT multiple times and have it ticked for all 10 days so far.

The most difficult part of this event was definitively getting the kills / KMDDs on the Huntsmen... Luckily I am done with that part as on four days I got the needed result in the last or second to last game possible during that day's counter and utterly failed on three days. Which meant LONG evenings... as for me the event day ends at three in the morning... ZZZZZZ.

[G SE7EN7]

Dislike this daily play ********, if i have a day free would prefer to be able to smash out a challenge than have to try squeeze in matches where I can just to get enough matches in everyday. Especially for a grab bag challenge.

[MovinTarget]

The good news is I can confirm that you *can* win more than one mechbay in this event!

[Morggo]

Terra is definitely coming up a decent amount in T3 for me, T5 for the wife all week.
As mentioned above, we see the highest uptick between 8pm - 10pm EST (people that ether haven't finished are trying after the daily flipover or people that have are voting to help them out... I do that too)

As for Daily vs. Weekend format, if the forum responses are generally held as any reasonable polling, folks that do not like this new Daily format are not going to be happy as it's been very positively accepted from all I've been reading the past two passes.

Personally, I LOVE being able to sit down for 20 - 60 minutes after dinner, knock out my dailies... no stress then if we want to keep playing, go to bed, watch the game, etc. I also get to go back to rotating through my mechs and leveling since I am not dependant on running only my "best" performer to make the challenge goals. It's been great to not miss out on events because life happens on weekends.
So, yeah, I'd be extremely surprised if they went back to 'weekend-cram-it-all-in-all-day-gaming' challenges.

#shrugs

[Groutknoll]

G SE7EN7, on 28 October 2016 - 03:51 AM, said:

Dislike this daily play ********, if i have a day free would prefer to be able to smash out a challenge than have to try squeeze in matches where I can just to get enough matches in everyday. Especially for a grab bag challenge.

If PGI could set it so that a high match score could net multiple grab bag pulls then the event reduces the 15 game grind ... so if you end up with a 1200 match score then in 1 match you would get the full 15 grab bag pulls ...

[Dee Eight]

Own a lot of mechs? Just taking out the highest dps builds one after another into QP....go in...do 200 damage or more...die...repeat. Might be possible to do 15 in an hour that way.

[MovinTarget]

Dee Eight, on 28 October 2016 - 11:52 AM, said:

Own a lot of mechs? Just taking out the highest dps builds one after another into QP....go in...do 200 damage or more...die...repeat. Might be possible to do 15 in an hour that way.

Kinda cheezy but true. Best to take a high alpha assault or light as the queues tend to be shorter for these.

[SgtKinCaiD]

Thank you for this ******* event : i don't know who put this wacky Hunt the Huntsman challenge but it clearly shows that PGI don't have a clue on how their game works ...

[Groutknoll]

StefanMewa, on 27 October 2016 - 11:35 PM, said:

As for 'hunting the new chassis' events, maybe it'll be good for PGI to actually choose one variant and make it trial mech for a period of event - as a 'demo' mech. People would check it out, some of them may like it and buy the full pack afterwards (or not). Also it'd significantly increase the availability of targets to hunt for

NO ... just no ...

Just think back to when you where new to mwo and how would you feel if the entire red team kept focusing you first every time you dropped in that trial mech?

If there was a way to 'lock' trial mechs to a minimum tier, then yeah ... you know what you are signing up for. But until then, no

[Dee Eight]

Except for the daily matches for grab bags, I'm done with all the other event goals, so now i'm at the spending c-bills stage. I started with buying another KDK-3 since I wanted to have seperate ones for my UAC build and my Shotgun build. I may buy a 3rd for a particlegoose build.

Edited by Dee Eight, 28 October 2016 - 07:38 PM.

[Desintegrator]

There are no Huntsman in the matches now !!

Man I cannot fulfill the challenge...

[Peter Townsend]

StefanMewa, on 27 October 2016 - 11:35 PM, said:

As for 'hunting the new chassis' events, maybe it'll be good for PGI to actually choose one variant and make it trial mech for a period of event - as a 'demo' mech. People would check it out, some of them may like it and buy the full pack afterwards (or not). Also it'd significantly increase the availability of targets to hunt for

No no no no

[PFC Carsten]

So, the Huntsman Pilot challenge is over the leaderboards fixed. The grand prize this time was a uniform hanging item. And interestingly enough, none of the obscure accounts at the top that you've seen so regularly, when 1000 MC or so could be earned.

Now, of course you could say too little incentive for the really really good players to participate. Or you could say that no group farming could be organized for this low a prize. Either way: I like it much better this way (not owning a HMN).

[Aramuside]

PFC Carsten, on 28 October 2016 - 11:52 PM, said:

So, the Huntsman Pilot challenge is over the leaderboards fixed. The grand prize this time was a uniform hanging item. And interestingly enough, none of the obscure accounts at the top that you've seen so regularly, when 1000 MC or so could be earned.

Now, of course you could say too little incentive for the really really good players to participate. Or you could say that no group farming could be organized for this low a prize. Either way: I like it much better this way (not owning a HMN).

I don't know I saw people like Proton etc but they were all in Locusts etc.

[Dee Eight]

I really like the concurrent 2 week event formats. Russ alluded to this in a town-hall podcast I listened to a couple months ago. Hopefully we'll see concurrent QP and FP events announced and running over a month span like he talked about in that podcast.

[Blood Rose]

An odd question here, but can you only score one point for the Terra Therma challenge per day? I only ask as I needed two today, and have played two matches, both of which qualified, but I have only received one point.

[Aramuside]

Blood Rose, on 29 October 2016 - 09:19 AM, said:

An odd question here, but can you only score one point for the Terra Therma challenge per day? I only ask as I needed two today, and have played two matches, both of which qualified, but I have only received one point.

Yes 1/day.

[Blood Rose]

Ahh bummer, well one more day to play then

[Aramuside]

Blood Rose, on 29 October 2016 - 09:27 AM, said:

Ahh bummer, well one more day to play then

Ditto.