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[Bandilly]

...to keep up with the new 'event'.

Really it's more like 4 different events. I miss the one week with one simple board of goals/rewards.

[RestosIII]

An event that requires us to be on a specific map. Oh boy.



The quality of matches just dropped by 60%.

[Bandilly]

...and it is a hot map, those Night Gyr owners are going to get good use of their little quirk over the course of this event.

[Mister Blastman]

They should just simplify it and require a single match score of 500, once per day, to qualify. It shouldn't be hard for most people to achieve if they focus, pay attention, and try to play well.

[Bombast]

So... if I'm reading this right... I need to...

• Need to get a total of 500 match score (2-3 matches for badies like me) for 10 out of 14 days
  
• Need to successfully vote for Terra Therma and get off one volley of fire for 6 out of 14 days
  
• Can't do Huntsman stuff
  
• Kill a Hunstman (Kill shot or KMDD) on 10 separate days
  
• Get one volley off in 15 matches per day

The presentation is a mess, isn't it?

[Bandilly]

The 15 matches a day bothers me.

The kill or KMDD a Huntsman on 10/13 days bothers me.

The rest doesn't sound too bad.

[Deathlike]

Making things pretty is not PGI's forte (see initial UI 2.0).

The funny thing is the challenges page in the profile section ( https://mwomercs.com...type=challenges ) isn't used anymore... it's strictly the challenges page.

Oh well, I guess locality is a plus?

[Bandilly]

Bombast, on 17 October 2016 - 10:31 AM, said:

So... if I'm reading this right... I need to...

• Need to get a total of 500 match score (2-3 matches for badies like me) for 10 out of 14 days
  
• Need to successfully vote for Terra Therma and get off one volley of fire for 6 out of 14 days
  
• Can't do Huntsman stuff
  
• Kill a Hunstman (Kill shot or KMDD) on 10 separate days
  
• Get one volley off in 15 matches per day

The presentation is a mess, isn't it?

Looks good for the non-Huntsman owners. The grab bag/15 matches is the second week.

Huntsman owners have two extra events, one runs the whole time and the other is 5 days.

Didn't originally notice that they listed the name of each event at the beginning. There are a actually 6 different events going on at the same time...

[Deathlike]

15 matches per day is like a minimum 3 hour block (assuming you do 5 matches per hour, which is 12 minutes per match).

That might be a problem for a non-weekend day.

Edited by Deathlike, 17 October 2016 - 10:43 AM.

[MrJeffers]

At least the new Terra Therma doesn't look as horribad as the old one in the 2nd half of the huntsman preview video https://www.youtube....?v=nXhAbgW3Ay4.
Still has the central caldera, but looks like there are better entrances and more usable area outside of it to fight in/around.

Edited by MrJeffers, 17 October 2016 - 11:18 AM.

[Bombast]

Deathlike, on 17 October 2016 - 10:43 AM, said:

15 matches per day is like a minimum 3 hour block (assuming you do 5 matches per hour, which is 12 minutes per match).

That might be a problem for a non-weekend day.

Yah. This one wasn't thought out very well - It basically screams 'Rush, Die, Repeat.' Would have been nice if it had been something along the lines of 'Divide match score by 80, earn that many loot bags.' Would give people an incentive not to rush, and make it so people don't have to play forever to get everything.

Edited by Bombast, 17 October 2016 - 10:54 AM.

[Mister Blastman]

Okay, I just read the event guidelines again and well, it reminds me of reading a brochure on annuities.

If you've never looked at an annuity brochure, you probably should. Think bookies in a Vegas back room wearing a green visor, cigarette smoke around felt tables and chalkboards on the wall, surrounded by vintage television sets. In the middle of the table is a fat ledger opened wide, lines across the old worn yellowed pages, littered with chickenscratch etched by a not-so-sharp number twelve pencil filled with decaying lead.

Yeah.

Edited by Mister Blastman, 17 October 2016 - 11:08 AM.

[GRiPSViGiL]

They put these events together like people play religiously like 3 years ago. It is pretty funny. I stopped caring or bother to play the events 2 years ago.

[Deathlike]

GRiPSViGiL, on 17 October 2016 - 10:59 AM, said:

They put these events together like people play religiously like 3 years ago. It is pretty funny. I stopped caring or bother to play the events 2 years ago.

I think there's some level of desperation. There is some retention bleeding that they are trying to mitigate, but that's not helping the level of intelligence or quality of play at all.

People will be turned off by these events over time, as there tends to be no purpose long term... so this serves at best as an intermediate distraction until whatever PGI is complete with whatever surprise projects are being done (mech trees to be announced at Mechcon, probably having done only preliminary work on it).

[WrathOfDeadguy]

Map-specific event? So... lots of douchenozzles suiciding and disconnecting if they don't get Therma for their cookie.

Pass. Will play forumwarrior instead until it's over.

[Appogee]

Bandilly, on 17 October 2016 - 10:34 AM, said:

The 15 matches a day bothers me.

I'm not seeing why I would need to play 15 matches per day.

Which part of the event does that relate to?

[Deathlike]

Appogee, on 17 October 2016 - 12:19 PM, said:

I'm not seeing why I would need to play 15 matches per day.

Which part of the event does that relate to?

It's the grabbag portion (8-day event that includes Halloween Day).

15 matches max per day...

Why couldn't this be a timed event (max 120 grabbags total) instead of forcing a min of 3-hour grinds per day to max that out?

[Appogee]

Deathlike, on 17 October 2016 - 12:23 PM, said:

It's the grabbag portion (8-day event that includes Halloween Day).

Thanks, I didn't realise that.

Urgh, I'm a completionist, but I'm not going to bother trying to do 15 matches per day for 8 days.

[Bandilly]

Yeah the loot bags, one per match and 15/day. Granted you don't have to do 15/day same as you don't have to participate in any particular event, but if you want to max your rewards, and people will, you need 15/day.

[WrathOfDeadguy]

Obvious answer: they want to up player count on a per-day basis and don't really mind if that is detrimental to people who can't play every single day for the duration. Then again, at least the grab bag events don't typically result in the whole game disintegrating into **********, so there's that. I might play some of that one... but it's been quite a while since I could play whole weeks like that. I'm not even in the same area code as my computer much of the time now. There'll probably be one or two days when I can go all day, but three or four when I can't play at all. Meh.