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[Aramuside]

7 votes over TT today... 0 won...

[Willothius]

I have about 20 unequiped warhorns*, all from challenges (this Halloween one included) and I don't get the fuss about winning one or not.. I mean I did get it, but only because of regular playing for the 'usefull' parts of challenge: MC winnings.

EDIT: MC winnings AND lootbags... Except the lootbag gods seem to be very much against me this time: only gotten 50MC total so far after 4 days and not a single MechBay. Mostly GXP, Cockpit items and Tricks, some CBills

(*there's only a few I do like, like the superannoying lunchtruck and other "TOOOOT! My Urby Just Killed You!"-warhorns, but most are really lame sounding...)

Edited by Willothius, 30 October 2016 - 05:05 AM.

[Moerderhoschi]

yesterday i saw that an event is running but all players with less than 3 points by now are screwed for achiveing the Terra Therma Redux Challenge ... i have only one point by now

Edited by Moerderhoschi, 30 October 2016 - 01:19 PM.

[Xaat Xuun]

got the Zombie mech yesterday, placed in a mech that does not have a standing item . . and needed to remove it right after the first match with it .. kept thinking there is a mech, and I keep turning to the direction to shoot that mech flanking me on my right, just to discover . . it's just that zombie Mech.
annoying little bugger

[Dee Eight]

I put the zombie mech into my archer that is prone to turning other mechs to zombies.

[G SE7EN7]

Was the ratio of good stuff turned way down this time? Normally PGI shows us how much of each prise has been won.

[BodakOfSseth]

G SE7EN7, on 01 November 2016 - 04:11 AM, said:

Was the ratio of good stuff turned way down this time? Normally PGI shows us how much of each prise has been won.

They have not yet finished the tournament, and people have until Nov 5 to open them.
If they wish to show the prizes, then all of the data is not yet in.

That said, I'm probably not going to get any more prizes.
I won't get home for at least 8 more hours, and the event ends in 9 hours.

On the up side,
4,337,500 C-Bills
4,800 GXP
430 MC
1 Mech Bay
4 Days Active Premium Time
11 Misc consumables
2 Flamers
1 Machine Gun
2 Small Lasers
4 Cockpit items (meh)

-- I'll take it.

Edited by ScottAleric, 01 November 2016 - 06:57 AM.

[DGTLDaemon]

Well, with the event nearly over, it's time to try and take an objective look at all the individual challenges

Daily Match Score Challenge: Easily accomplished by playing just 2-3 matches per day, good rewards, plenty of time to complete it even if you miss a couple of days. Nothing special about it, just some free MC for little effort, which is always welcome

Terra Therma Redux Challenge: Didn't like that one at all. The warhorn is kinda cool, but there were two bad things about this challenge. First, an individual player has only limited control over map selection, which means that completing this challenge is partially out of the player's hands. Second, the map itself is very controversial, a lot of people hate it, including myself. Not sure if I want to see a challenge like that again.

Hunt the Huntsman Challenge: A good example of how an excellent idea can be turned into an abomination. In the previous events, you only had to score a single KMDD on a specific mech over the course of the event, which added a very nice twist to the way these weekend challenges were normally played. However, this time PGI pushed it way too far. Having to hunt one specific mech for several days in a row with 11 other people on your team gunning for the same target was simply not fun, even after the bar was lowered from 10 to 6 points total. It literally ruined the games for me for the first six days of the event, and even the rewards which were quite nice could not offset the sour taste this challenge left.

Trick or Treat Event: I'm kinda on a fence about this one. Looking at my loot bags for the past 8 days + 20 bags from the pre-order bonus, the rewards weren't bad at all: I got two mechbays, a bunch of MC, C-Bills and GXP, so overall it's a pretty decent haul. However, playing 15 matches per day for 8 days straight was simply too exhausing, now I need a break so bad that I literally can't look at MWO. Come to think of it, the criterion for getting one of this year's loyalty rewards was to play 100 matches over the course of an entire year - compare it to playing 120 matches in 8 days... Plus, the rewards were too random. It was so frustrating at times, pressing the buttons one after another in hope of getting some decent stuff, and finding a ton of useless consumable crap inside the loot bags instead. And I never got the grand prize In my opinion, fixed rewards would be much preferable to this kind of lottery.

Well, that's about it. I hope PGI will look at the player feedback from this event, and make the right conclusions

Edited by DGTLDaemon, 01 November 2016 - 10:26 AM.

[Void Angel]

(OOOH! I forgot about the loot bags. BRB!@)

Anyway, I enjoyed all the challenges - the only suggestion I would make is to possibly not paint a target on my back for half the month the next time I buy a 'mech pack. I still had fun playing my Huntsman, but I already own a Locust - watching the entire team drop everything to chase you down gets old, especially if you top out at 87kph.

[Penrose Willoughby]

I'll second that 15 games per day was a LOT, especially given that in my time zone a new day starts at 8:00 PM. I get home from work at 6:00.

So I had to basically play nonstop to get my 15 games in every day. I like MWO, but that's a bit much.

I don't own a huntsman, so no comment on that event. The hunt the huntsman event was a bit silly, I try to blow up all the enemy mechs, and I can't control what they bring to the field.

I get why they did the terra therma event, but that map is just terrible. Horribly dark in some areas, then ABSURDLY BRIGHT LAVA!!! Seriously man, that map gives me headaches.

[Appogee]

I thought it was a good event.

Harsh on Huntsman customers, however.

[D V Devnull]

Looking back at this Event, I wish PGI had made catch-up of missed things possible to be done, but only once you had completed the Current Day's Set. It really would have eliminated certain forms of stress that people encountered from this Event which PGI didn't foresee happening.



As for this...

ERescue, on 27 October 2016 - 12:35 AM, said:

@Devnull: I do not know about you, but I have gotten both Premium time AND a Mech Bay from my bags so far...

I just got around to opening my 120 Loot Bags. I'm very frankly NOT impressed... A measly 1 Mech Bay, but 5 Days of Premium Time! I haven't logged back into the game yet, but if PGI's staff was willing, then I would gladly exchange those days out for an equivalent value of Mech Bays, along with all the other things which I racked up during this Event. It should be, what, about 4 Mech Bays for the value of 5 separate days of Premium Time? Right now, I can't log in without triggering that, and it makes me wish PGI made those days Banked instead, if they weren't going to just provide something else to earn in its' place. I really don't get why they would stick people with Premium Time like that, which forces them to play if they're going to actually make any use of it. So cheap and rude... A slap to the faces of their player base... I'm stuck offline until I'm either ready to use it, or I have to activate it anyway in order to play in a future Event.


And this...

MovinTarget, on 28 October 2016 - 05:08 AM, said:

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

Lucky Damn Stiff... All I got was one, and never got the Zombie Atlas Cockpit Item either!!! I would exchange out this blasted Active Premium Time which I haven't activated yet, just to get a few Mech Bays in equal exchange!!!


~Mr. D. V. "Screwed out of piloting for now..." Devnull

[Rodrigo Martinez]

110 loot bags, No zombie mech but 3 mech bays, 12 cockpit items and 2 days of premium time. I thought that the grand prize should be given for 50-60 loot bags.

[Temu]

the new map is decent... lighting is rough... pretty much used nightvision there.. but i like the new setup. 15 matches was a bit rough with work but i pulled it off.. (last three nights i really didn't get sleep LOL) day two or three i got the special zombie mech thing.. but happier with the three mech bays and all the MC.. all the events combined i made over 2K MC. It was fun. Huntsman just came.. didn't bother to focus on them specifically and still got it completed. I had fun.. looking forward to the next event already (the huntsman did get the "short end of the stick" getting targeted.. but many used it to their advantage.. gotta give'em credit for that)

[G SE7EN7]

Thought the new Terra Therma was excellent, much much better then the old map. Getting the vote on it was easy enough with vote multipliers, dont know how people could have struggled getting that challenge done.

[the darkness in all of us]

I didn't find out about this event until Halloween but I just want to say that I really enjoyed it! I won over 200 MC and cockpit items too so this is really great, especially for someone like me who doesn't have much cash to spend on games.

This was fun plus I got free stuff Thanks!

[D V Devnull]

G SE7EN7, on 01 November 2016 - 03:24 PM, said:

Thought the new Terra Therma was excellent, much much better then the old map. Getting the vote on it was easy enough with vote multipliers, dont know how people could have struggled getting that challenge done.

I like the new layout as well. It's a lot more friendly to varying combat styles. Map still suffers from the ugly heat issues, which is why there are some people still trying to vote for anything else. Which ultimately led to some people having problems, based on things like their time zone, as well as their Real Life schedules and happenings. Add to that anyone who happened to start the Event package late, and it's no wonder that some complained. PGI didn't put in a safety measure to enable people to catch up missed days, so some will ultimately miss out. Thankfully, I got the Terra Therma item, so I'm able to enjoy the Jack-o'-Lantern WarHorn.

~D. V. "I hope that gives you some insight..." Devnull

[Cy Mitchell]

I enjoyed the Event. I did not chase the loot bags after I finished the main event goals. Most of the time I only had to play 1 or2 games to get my goals. The exception was the new Terra Therma map (which I love). One day, it took me 6 games to get on that map and then I derped right into the whole enemy team and got a match score of 55, DOH! There were a few other days that I could not get the map but I managed to reach the goal long before the deadline.

I never actually hunted the Huntsman but somehow managed to get that goal rather easily. Overall, I only played 33 games total but raked in a lot of cool free stuff.

Thank you very much for the awesome event!

[ball0fire]

hmm was ok loot, i like cbills more than anything cos im space poor, mc and gxp is wasted on me


first day was a bust, timezone diffrences + sleeping + working = ZERO



day 2 ok . bunch of bad games but they all passed


day 3 nothing special



day 4 one again sleeping and working takes a huge chucnk of time leaving only a couple hours play, and some truley aweful games, typical of weekends



day 5 other weekend day just as little time and just as ****** games



day 6 not even worth my time trying . 1 really good game, but the rest average . yay pumkin



day 7 blurgh less n less games played as care factor drops



and the last day, today . meh!! *sigh*




all in all
i got
400mc
1.537mill cbills
5000gxp
4x UAV's
3x airstrikes
1x mechbay yay
1 pumpkin
and 1 nervous twtich everytime i see my mwo desktop icon

[KnowMeByTheTrailOfDeath]

Not to sound bitter or ungrateful, but the grand prize roles for the grab bags are a bit broken. I have rolled 80 pre-purchase rolls and 106 game play rolls. Unfortunately, I completed all my available games without the luck or rolling the grand Halloween prize. I missed out on 14 roles between the first 2 days dues to work and family life. I am a bit concerned that after grinding games for over a week during this tournament, there is not a fail safe to ensure dedicated players receive the magic carrot. I would like to think it would be reasonable to expect the random luck generator fall my way at least 1% of the time.

Honestly, I can’t even begin to consider purchasing hero Mechs to continue a futile chase of a single standing item. I would happily trade one of the numerous hanging pumpkins items.

Edited by KnowMeByTheTrailOfDeath, 01 November 2016 - 05:41 PM.