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[TK TikTok]

Todd Lightbringer, on 08 November 2016 - 01:50 PM, said:

Hmm, too bad it's faction warfare only. I would have participated :\

Don't worry, there is no Faction Play going on much with this challenge. You aren't missing much except NUMEROUS Scout Ghost drops that don't earn you any points/rewards for anything!

[MovinTarget]

FerretboysRevenge, on 09 November 2016 - 04:12 PM, said:

I have to say right now I am not thrilled with the Event set up. I totally missed the Loot Bag event that was hidden in the crappy Daily Attendance event. I have health issues and family that make it almost impossible for me to complete any of those events as they are structured. I was happy with the Challenge events as they were. I even miss the Win 5 get a Free Mech events.

Hope the family/health issues get sorted out. Just focus on the non-crab/nova aspects. You could make enough mc just in time for the mechbay sale for two mechbays.

[NighthawK1337]

Murchinson just got 100% on intel gathered. Yeah Novas vs Crabs are really unbalanced. At least I'm getting Stormcrows on the team back, I guess people switch mechs after they get the kills and kmdds. As for me I'm still on my Nova.

Sky Hawk, on 09 November 2016 - 01:57 PM, said:

Ok.. I can't figure out, which Nova variant is on the Event Page...

- LT - 2E ??
- LA - 2M ???

It's the Clan Hero variant "Breaker", its not out yet.

Edited by NighthawK1337, 09 November 2016 - 05:29 PM.

[banana peel]

Am i correct by saying you can accomplish both challenges for Nova and Crab and get cockpit items twice? If so, right now i am - as a no-unit pugger - in a favorable position to loyalists, because i can grab poth prizes by scouting as a freelancer or creating a one-day unit, whereas the loyalist (who must be encouraged by the game) cannot do so. That's kinda silly, isn't it?

[Blind Baku]

banana peel, on 09 November 2016 - 05:28 PM, said:

Am i correct by saying you can accomplish both challenges for Nova and Crab and get cockpit items twice? If so, right now i am - as a no-unit pugger - in a favorable position to loyalists, because i can grab poth prizes by scouting as a freelancer or creating a one-day unit, whereas the loyalist (who must be encouraged by the game) cannot do so. That's kinda silly, isn't it?

If you can accomplish the momentous task of using a crab as a counter to novas...

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MovinTarget, on 09 November 2016 - 04:14 PM, said:

Actually just attack another clan... if you attack IS they will continue to feast on puggles. If you attack GB, only GB could defend...

if you attack IS they will continue to feast on puggies - right.
If you attack GB, only GB could defend - wrong

Wolf and Smoke Jaguar can help to defend, just like in IS, the other IS Factions can help to defend.

But most of the times the clans are attacking, so they don't have the time, or don't even recognize that they could help to defend GB (in this example). So there will not come many defenders. IS has forgotten how to attack, and is used to defend only, so there will be more PUGS helping to defend an IS-Faction.

Edited by tee5, 09 November 2016 - 07:04 PM.

[MovinTarget]

tee5, on 09 November 2016 - 06:22 PM, said:

if you attack IS they will continue to feast on puggies - right.
If you attack GB, only GB could defend - wrong

Wolf and Smoke Jaguar can help to defend, just like in IS, the other IS Factions can help to defend.

But most of the times the clans are attacking, so they don't have the time, or don't even recognize that they could help to defend GB (in this example). So there will not come many defenders. IS has forgotten how to attack, and is used to defend only, so there will be more PUGS helping to defend an IS-Faction.

Not sure that's how it works...

I can't get online atm but I am pretty sure that if you look, if any IS faction is attacking another IS faction, can you defend for that faction if its not your faction?

[tee5]

MovinTarget, on 09 November 2016 - 06:48 PM, said:

Not sure that's how it works...

I can't get online atm but I am pretty sure that if you look, if any IS faction is attacking another IS faction, can you defend for that faction if its not your faction?

oh boy, I think you are right. I will mark this in my previous post. But Clan vs. Clan, and IS vs. IS happens so infrequent, that I almost forgot.

[MovinTarget]

tee5, on 09 November 2016 - 07:03 PM, said:

oh boy, I think you are right. I will mark this in my previous post. But Clan vs. Clan, and IS vs. IS happens so infrequent, that I almost forgot.

It is infrequent so yeah i have seen situation where it happened and it is pretty effective at killing an attack phase...

[James Argent]

Minor quibble about the structure of the event page. It would be somewhat helpful to have, on the hourly update, a running total of how many qualifying scouting matches you have for the day. It isn't by any means hard to count to four, but a string of really bad matches that don't qualify (yeah, that new build didn't work out anything like I thought it would) can throw you off if you're trying to do your matches and help unit members/friends with theirs. Maybe in the box, the open padlock can be replaced with 1, 2, and 3 before putting the checkmark in on 4.

[Commander A9]

Even this event isn't conducive to playing Faction Warfare...

Event emphasizes Scouting more so than Invasion.

Dailies too easy. Reward isn't flashy enough. We've been offered the Nova already, and the Crab. Still struggling to form a damn 12-man. :/

Edited by Commander A9, 09 November 2016 - 08:46 PM.

[Tier5 Kerensky]

Did I understand correctly, that Crab is consided weak? I got those 6 kills and KMDD easily on the trial Crab on first day. Won most of the scouts missions too, which was no requirment. Getting either a kill or KMDD with good amount of alpha is not really a lot.

Most Novas very pretty easy, and skillscrows were obvious nuisance but that Crab is able to spread damage pretty well. It seemed there were quite a lot of not so seasoned FP players playing due to the event. I think usually the scouts missions are more difficult, though I usually run them with Mist Lynx or Shadow Cat, neither which are good brawlers with my configs.

[Commander A9]

An event that focuses on CW...and no one's playing CW...

This...is a problem.

I'm struggling to scrap together a 12-man as it is now...people are so burned out after the monthlong October challenges...

If I don't close this competition with 6 Invasion matches, it's not because we're underskilled...it's that there's no people to play said matches!

Edited by Commander A9, 09 November 2016 - 09:31 PM.

[Dee Eight]

Anyone else notice or not notice that the MWOWC Warhorn in the rewards IS NOT the original one from when they announced the $10 for 10% bonus world champ packs six months ago, but the alternative warhorn that was supposed to be in the now cancelled/refunded second regional finalists supporter pack debacle last month ? So far the only people with access to those were the ones who bought those packs before they were cancelled and were allowed to keep them after their monies were refunded.

[Hawk819]

Count me out for this event.

However, if they can reset the event by making it optional for either CW or Quick Play. Then. . . yes, I'll play the event. As it stands. . . not no, but hell no. I'm sick of running up against Streak-Crows or some such meta build that the Clans are running. So forget it. Until this event is changed [read opening statement].

[Dee Eight]

Lastnight I ran a NVA twice and then a pure streakcrow twice. Tonight its a different crow (3 streak / 4SPL), Tommorow I'll run a laser vomit crow maybe. I got a couple huntsman I could use. Also have a shadowcat I like for scout missions. The requirements for the 50MC are so low, all you need is like two good SRM volleys and presto...40 match score, 4 matches of that. Done. But complainers will complain because its the only thing giving their lives meaning and purpose.

Edited by Dee Eight, 09 November 2016 - 11:21 PM.

[Bongthrower]

This is the 2nd event where Loyalists just get assjammed by eventdesign. Give away either IS OR Clan rewards. Not getting both just cuz you're a Loyalist really sucks, we should get a extra prize instead of beeing the stupid fucktards every time -.- I'm really not getting the point O_o hope ppl will have that in mind when creating the next CW event...

Edited by Bongthrower, 09 November 2016 - 11:54 PM.

[Aramuside]

Pariah Devalis, on 09 November 2016 - 08:52 AM, said:

MPLas Crabs can chop legs pretty well, actually, but there are three problems I've seen in scouting mode:

1. People refuse to leg. Your enemies will leg you, it is much harder to protect your legs when they are being focused on, yet people refuse to shoot for their legs. Absolutely refuse! They are all but literally handing the enemy team a win, because a team that intends to leg will beat the team that refuses to.

2. People scatter to the seven winds. Instead of sticking together, focusing fire, possibly using the in game VoiP to coordinate, people take their four mechs to 8 different grids and get picked off one by one.

3. People are fearful of committing to a brawl. They take long range weapons, LRMs, LPLas, PPCs... then try and stand off from the enemy mechs. All the wrong weapons for 4v4. There is no front line to hide behind. There is precious few bits of armor to share between the four of you. All four mechs are needed up front, knife fighting. If you are not taking SLas, ERSLas, SPLAs, IS MPLas, IS AC20, or non-streak SRMs, you are, simply put, doing it wrong. Flamers and MG are acceptable backups to those big hitters, but do not take streaks, and do not take long range weapon systems. A brawl will happen 99% of the time. Bring the right tools for it!

At least in earlier Euro time zones I've not had much problems with coordinating our scout 4 mans (all of us solo dropping). I dropped 5 times and 5 times everyone did whatever anyone calling said - movement, target calling etc. I was quite surprised but its my first time dropping with CSJ so maybe that's a difference there. Not many CSJ players I notice though until the US TZ logged on!

We were utterly crushed in the two invasion attack matches against the IS though. Didn't have much motivation in one of those admittedly as we had an Aussie abusing everyone non stop (while thinking they were trying to coordinate) for 20 minutes on comms... then suiciding his last mech and logging to merciful relief.

The biggest mistake from scouting was the sheer number of LPL etc armed crabs even among organised target calling 4 mans as we just worked ourself to brawl range then destroyed them in rapid succession. We easily won 4 of the 5 battles with at most 1 loss and the 5th was mainly lost because one shadowhawk single shotted two of our mechs in succession within about 5 seconds at most.

Edited by Aramuside, 10 November 2016 - 12:49 AM.

[Aramuside]

mesmer7, on 09 November 2016 - 11:12 AM, said:

The rewards are too imbalanced. No players on Invasion. 100 on scouting. Pls fix. Scouting is a boring boring game mode compared to invasion.

Curious why you think that as I find the opposite - fast and exciting brawls vs usually painfully drawn out one sided matches.

[Kshat]

PGI hasn't impressed me much this year and after they set energy draw on hold, this year will be over with the gaming getting only cosmetic changes and no real clues on future game development (even the switch to a more modern engine/technical overhaul had been announced a year ago with nothign to follow up).

But how they handled the affair regarding the team support packs & decals (and the "behaviour" of some teams, as it seems) instills some hope that they're still on fire to make this game as great as the playerbase deserves it.

And handing out the otherwise cancelled warhorns is a great move.

But please... don't incentivize non-loyalist contracts by handing ot stuff twice if yous witch factions.
And make assets like these warhorns a regular price on coming competitions, please.