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[ProfPyro]

Talos7, on 22 November 2016 - 08:08 AM, said:

Gee, I bought a PS4 for the original sticker price all those years ago and now it is on sale for less than half the price and comes with several games and a controller. I should complain and demand the difference back.
No. No, you shouldn't. You bought it long ago. You used it. You already got something for your time and money with the product that others didn't get.
Granted, if you bought it last week or within the last month (individually, not part of the Mastery Pack) you may have a personal point. And like everyone has said, support is very accommodating to the player base.

This man gets it. It's like my dad would always say when I got something as a kid and later saw it on sale for cheaper. "Well, even though it was $X more expensive when you bought it, haven't you had $X worth of fun since then?"

[Pretty Penny]

What are the rewards for the clan hero leaderboard? just apple jack??

[Dee Eight]

Pretty Penny, on 22 November 2016 - 06:18 PM, said:

What are the rewards for the clan hero leaderboard? just apple jack??

YEP. Just an applejack pattern unlock for top-75 of each clan hero chassis. Potentially that's what... 750MC value each, over eight heroes... 6000MC total if you crack onto all the boards.

[G4LV4TR0N]

I did 'Component' challenge completely and didn't get all MC's. Are we going to get them once challenge is finished?

[BWS2K]

It can take a while to register - sometimes upwards of an hour. Congratulations.

[Dee Eight]

Event results and all website leaderboard info updates just past the top of the hour, every hour. In game leaderboards update as you go.

[G4LV4TR0N]

I finished it yesterday, my total MC is 110. Didn't spend anything, also had like 50 MC's left.

Nevermind, I have found what was wrong - I had Advanced UAV set to refill automatically on my mechs, which was draining my MC's.

Edited by G4LV4TR0N, 22 November 2016 - 10:00 PM.

[Windscape]

it seems my only drive to be on the leaderboard is my own pride with only a camo pattern as an entry-level prize.
Either that or my great desire to PURIFY

[Aramuside]

paws2sky, on 22 November 2016 - 01:08 PM, said:

The structure of this event seems fairly sound. The components destroyed challenge is proving to be a little grindy, but the other objectives are simple enough. With any luck, I'll be able to get the grand prize. As a casual player with a number real life commitments, I can't usually spend hours a day in front of the computer It is very nice to have the ability to make noteable progress in the span of and hour or so. Overall, I've liked the last few events, except the Nova/Crab event, in which i didn't really have the opportunity to participate (not enough to ever get a reward from it anyway). By thr way, the best new-ish challenge criteria: Match Score (1/day) and Kill/KMDD. I'm a big fan of both of those. So... Thanks, PGI! -paws

Agreed, on the good side though as we have to fight for 12 days at least theres not much pressure to get those 150 components urgently.

[Zergling]

Honestly, the clan hero leaderboard rewards are so small they just aren't worth bothering with.

If I get on the leaderboards while I work towards mastery on my clan heroes, then good for me, but I'm not going to actively work towards it.


EDIT: heh, I'm on the Cinder, Breaker and Warrant leaderboards, the mechs I've been playing today.

I thought it took 10 battles in each mech to qualify? Because I've only played 5 in the Cinder and Warrant, 3 in the Breaker.

Edited by Zergling, 23 November 2016 - 01:30 AM.

[ZortPointNarf]

So after seeing all the Salt, i figured it's time to weigh in.

There may be some issues with the game, but they are minor. Bang for buck this game is great, and you don't even need to pay if you don't want to (but you really should, servers are expensive).

This event is super fun, if a little bit easy to do, but that is quite nice. You are not forced to grind 4 hours per day to get it done, you play and hour or two per night and a nice 4-6 hour stint over the weekend days and everything will be attainable.
As for the turkey lovers, I am sorry but the rest of the world does not celebrate gobble gobble day and see no reason why PGI should be super accommodating towards just you and neglect the rest of the world. I know I will miss the Christmas ones as I will be out of town, and you know what that is quite ok, I can live with not getting free stuff, even though I would love to get it (the completionist in me).

The ones crying over not seeing the notices, check the site or subscribe as mentioned by someone else, it's not that hard, really it takes 30s to check the site.

Free stuff, so you guys are bitching about that? Please grow up, I bought a couple of mastery bundles, and would not object to them being prizes, sure if I bought one the week before i would feel robbed, but I would not be upset were the Bounty Hunter to be given away, I paid for it, had lots of fun. It was worth it, it does not devalue it by other players getting it. It's been mastered many moons ago and is just rusting in its bay. Let someone else try it out, they might show me a cool way of playing it that I hadn't given serious thought and i might just fire it up again. I do agree that a the option to pick another mech if you have the GI or only play Clan would be nice for the pokemon collectors that have them all, but seeing as the Clan Heroes just launched it would be madness to give them away just yet, come March they are free game as far as I am concerned and i would not feel at all aggrieved were they handed out like candy on halloween by then.

If I have one complaint/suggestion it would be for PGI to reduce the number of MC handed out and instead increase the number of CB awarded. I want to be able to buy mechs and then buy patterns for them. The grind to get CB is actually slowing down my MC spend. I really don't mind the odd micro to load 15USD (at an exchange rate of 14ZAR to 1USD) of MC and spend away, but I won't use MC to buy CB, the ROI is just too low on that transaction. XP2GXP is a good spend, especially with the double coming up. (I just hope I won't have ragrets on this after the skill changes). Speaking of, the XP2XGP rewards are meh in the mid tier, i will only convert up to the meh rewards as their is no nice incentive to spend into the mid range for conversion (I would suggest PGI re-look into those mid ones as I am sure I am not the only one).

If you don't want the GI, don't play, it's as simple as that, buy the Clan Heroes instead and stop being free loaders that are ungrateful as well (excluding the wales that just don't want dupes, but you could just not complete the challenge or sell it).

Some beta players are butthurt about promises not kept or the game not going the way you wanted it, but the new players like me, quite enjoy it, EXCEPT for the constant negativity of a small very vocal sub group. If you hate the game so much, so play something else, you don't need to play it. You had your fun, or you wouldn't still be around. If you didn't why are you still here. Move along, these might not be the mechs you are looking for, but for me they are the right one.

Giant robot stompy stompy shoot em in the face fps, what's not to love, it's mindless fun.

[latinisator]

I did not read the last page but this whining is just pittyful.
I spend around a grand on this game already (Resistance I, Wave I - III, Origins, MAD, WHM, RFL, ARC, PHX, Viper, LBK, 2 Clan Heroes, lots of MC, some IS Heroes) and guess what:

I COULD NOT CARE LESS IF PGI WOULD JUST GIFT THE LIVING HELL OUT OF THOSE PACKS TO ANY ACCOUNT.

For I wanted to support PGI to "make MW great again" and, imho, they succeeded.

As for "I want challenges and rewards, that I have been almost physically working for so my real life can bite me"...lousy tryhard attitude imho. Do not use your Metamechs, challenge.
A guy in tier 4 will have a hard time getting all rewards, so just chill.

You want a reward you have been working for? Join development assistance and move to Africa and help out the people in desperate need of help to survive. Thank you.

[MovinTarget]

BWS2K, on 22 November 2016 - 08:35 PM, said:

Post reported. Enjoy your day!

I hope you reported him for poor spelling and grammar as well....

[DGTLDaemon]

latinisator, on 23 November 2016 - 02:15 AM, said:

Do not use your Metamechs, challenge.

There's no reward in it HOWEVER, if PGI ran a "stock mech challenge", that would be a different thing. We're currently running a stock Zell tournament in our cluster, and it's a ton of fun

BTW, I've posted an event suggestion in the corresponding section of the forums which is closely related to my posts above. If you feel like it, please check it out and leave some feedback. I hope this cross-linking does not violate any forum rules; if it does, I apologize and kindly ask the moderators to remove the link.

Edited by DGTLDaemon, 23 November 2016 - 04:21 AM.

[Toxicresidue]

Bios303, on 22 November 2016 - 07:13 PM, said:

PGI your game become a pure peace of shi$#$#

Dee Eight, on 22 November 2016 - 09:23 PM, said:

Event results and all website leaderboard info updates just past the top of the hour, every hour. In game leaderboards update as you go.

damn why are the top spots in the leaderboards populated by megalaggers and eastern Europeans. hmmmm you packet dropping mother lovers, and then they brag and say "git gud". stop dropping the packets BAD SANTA !! bunch of savages

[Rhialto]

G4LV4TR0N, on 22 November 2016 - 09:32 PM, said:

I finished it yesterday, my total MC is 110. Didn't spend anything, also had like 50 MC's left.

Nevermind, I have found what was wrong - I had Advanced UAV set to refill automatically on my mechs, which was draining my MC's.

I know this suck, happened to me also. It happens to me because of the free consumables we get with events, then I want to drop the number to zero by using those but it's risky to have the refill on because of exactly this. They should add a warning when we use the last one and MC will start to be used from now.

[invernomuto]

Bios303, on 22 November 2016 - 07:13 PM, said:

PGI your game become a pure peace of shi$#$#

Why you're still here then?

Edited by invernomuto, 23 November 2016 - 05:03 AM.

[paws2sky]

MovinTarget, on 22 November 2016 - 02:07 PM, said:

If you think about it almost all of the challenges correspond to skills that will improve your team/individual play:
The components one is a grind, but if you start focusing on components better that is a good thing.
Stick with your lance? (Usually) a good thing!
Lighter mechs escorting the bigger mechs, fighting together? OMG its almost like teamwork...
I know its naive but its almost like they are trying to show us all how to be better players*
*Individual experience may vary. There may be situations where staying with your team will lead to death in a fiery blaze. Proper gameplay is not a substitute for common sense and only sometimes protects against stupidity. If you experience a Lance Formation lasting longer that 4 hours, call your doctor immoderately.

They need challenges that involve pressing R, voice chat, and using the command wheel. Shooting down UAVs, too. Well, that should count toward an achievement, but whatever. ;-)

Seriously though, you're absolutely right. It's like on the job training for mechwarriors.

I kind of wish they're use the marquee in the mechbay to remind people that events are happening. It could be annoying, but three days into the event and I was still hearing/reading people saying, "There's an event going?" Maybe scroll the event message in green or something some people don't think it's a server outage alert?
-paws

[paws2sky]

Zergling, on 23 November 2016 - 12:15 AM, said:

EDIT: heh, I'm on the Cinder, Breaker and Warrant leaderboards, the mechs I've been playing today.
I thought it took 10 battles in each mech to qualify? Because I've only played 5 in the Cinder and Warrant, 3 in the Breaker.

Your best 10 matches are counted toward the leaderboard. In theory, you could get on the board with 1 extraordinarily match, if no one else had done better. You just won't stay there very long...

-paws

[C E Dwyer]

invernomuto, on 21 November 2016 - 04:12 PM, said:

Right now I am using my beloved Tempest with 2ALRM 20 + BAP + 4MLs + XL300. I know, not a meta mech and not so efficient build, but for me it worked very well in terms of component destructions.

After seeing your post, I gave this a whirl, as I hadn't tested LRM20 since the patch 21 damage short of a 1k game 2 kills but sadly only 5 components.

If guests can see that section the screenshot is on Skye rangers forums under the title of So this guy says FFS don't bring LURMS

When P.G.I use a website where I can upload a picture without phaffing around using 3rd party clouds sites I'll start posting them here.

I.E never..