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[aGentleWarrior]

Well after i finished the event I tried to play some more battles playing lights carrying cells...

In one battle maybe I made someone happy, I delivered one cell, made nearly 300dmg and got killed carrying a 2nd cell as last survivor of my team.

But in the other battle I got killed by multiple enemies lasering me to death while I tried to picking up a cell in my Jenner IIC.
So... maybe these guys were already lucky or not so clever...

Edited by aGentleWarrior, 25 April 2017 - 12:43 AM.

[ProfPyro]

PGI, gotta say that this isn't your finest event. Putting out the new gamemode was great and it's fun when I get it, but when not all maps are compatible with the mode it makes it damn near impossible to get it to come up. Please make it more common if you're going to make it a requirement for a challenge.

[Steel Raven]

I give up, got work tomorrow.

I got allot out of this event so it's not a wast but no way I could finished with my work schedual and the match maker suddenly giving me bulk conquest matches on my one day off.

Not a bad event to break in the new game mode but building a entire event around one game mode is something to avoid in the future.

Edited by Steel Raven, 24 April 2017 - 11:32 PM.

[Lupis Volk]

Had a match where my team allowed me in my Nanuq and a centurion to break into the enemy base and wreck house. They sold their lives well.

Also Nanuq is love, Nanuq is life.

Edited by Lupis Volk, 24 April 2017 - 11:46 PM.

[xSleeZyx]

Man isn't it ironic
Struggled all weekend to fix all challanges, after alot of struggle i did manage.

Then decided to lvl locust v1 with the single lpl, first incursion game i got into, i got battery carrier by accident without even trying.
Maybe that's the secret, don't try to hard like i always tend to do and just go with the flow...
The first day i died so many times overextending trying to get that kill, now when i didn't need it i got it... Oh well.

It's plenty fun to grab fuel cell rush into enemies and kill circling untl someone gets a kill. Alot of the times the enemies almost kill their own teammates in their rush to kill the squirrel.

But atleast i make em work for it but still give em the chance. Just go straight in and die is abit rude twards your own teammates though.

[SPNKRGrenth]

The main real problem with Delivery Failed, besides the Incursion game mode being so infrequent, is you have to specifically KILL the fuel cell carrier, instead of Kill or KMDD like the others are. If it was Kill or KDMM, instead of kill ONLY, it would be much better I think.

[Valdemaar]

Manthor, on 24 April 2017 - 11:12 PM, said:

i'll be looking for your name. if you are on the other side in an incursion match, i will contact you to meet in an out of the way area to get a free kill. gonna spend the next 10 hours in my fastest mech to run in, grab then run away with a battery. forget the base. free mechbays for all!

You're a saint. I've been offering the same and asking if anyone would help out but no takers.

[Catra Lanis]

groves226, on 24 April 2017 - 06:01 PM, said:

so many people that want a prize... just like the sky crane game, not everyone gets the toy

Are you unable to comprehend that it's not about the mechbay? It's frustration that people can't even try. They have to slog through 6 matches in other modes before they can even hava a small chance. Then no one will pick upp a fuel cell or people won't play as intended or simply go out of their way to troll their fellow players in order to remove the already miniscule chance.

There are a lot of people who want to complete it just to avoid a red x. I don't care about the mechbay, I have bought stuff from PGI. When I need a mechbay I'll buy it, simple as that. Hell just let me complete and you can keep your mechbay.

[MrKvola]

If the event gets extended I will try to log in and give away a few battery kills. Sadly did not get an incursion match since I finished the challenge yesterday. Took me about 4 hours to do so.

Thank you, good person, who helped me.

[ProfPyro]

inb4 an extension/gimme is announced.

[Jeronimo25]

Ok, almost done all of them, only real problem is the Delivery Failed. I'm pretty sure i've killed a stormcrow with battery icon on HUD (apparently a battery carrier) and yet no info about delivery failed and event site doesn't show that one completed, what the hell?

[xSleeZyx]

Jeronimo25, on 25 April 2017 - 01:09 AM, said:

Ok, almost done all of them, only real problem is the Delivery Failed. I'm pretty sure i've killed a stormcrow with battery icon on HUD (apparently a battery carrier) and yet no info about delivery failed and event site doesn't show that one completed, what the hell?

It'll take 1 hour before ur event page will update.
If u've not gotten it by then, then ye wth :/

This is also one reason i usualy always try to record all my matches, esp during events. So i can go back to double check and / or show others etc incase it's needed.

[Fireeagle]

ok that Event sucks for one good reason: we don´t even got the choice of the game mode we played today 8 matches and did not even got a single inclusion match!!!


inclusion- the mising game mode...

Edited by Fireeagle, 25 April 2017 - 01:54 AM.

[Aramuside]

Hawk819, on 24 April 2017 - 01:43 PM, said:

I still can't believe a Catapult tried to deliver a fuel cell to my team's base. What a smart move that was! So killed him, and completed the "Delivery Failed" portion of the event. Seriously, though, teams must keep an eye out for where they're going. One does not deliver fuel to the wrong base.

A lot of people have been picking them up deliberately to help people get the award.

[Jeronimo25]

Aramuside, on 25 April 2017 - 02:15 AM, said:

A lot of people have been picking them up deliberately to help people get the award.

So far i keep seeing bloody Locusts as carriers, picking up fuel cell , then running away before you can shoot them....

[Grinster]

My focus has been on the Roughneck Leaderboard (with moderate success)

One good side-benefit of the "Incursion Challenge" is seeing a lot more lights in the other modes as well. Always a good thing for mixing up tactics.

As for bad play, I have only seen a few examples of out-of-the-ordinary stupid behaviour. The most baffling was someone deliberately suiciding when he was last man-standing, rather than making a stand defending the base.

[Jeronimo25]

Grinster, on 25 April 2017 - 02:47 AM, said:

My focus has been on the Roughneck Leaderboard (with moderate success)

One good side-benefit of the "Incursion Challenge" is seeing a lot more lights in the other modes as well. Always a good thing for mixing up tactics.

As for bad play, I have only seen a few examples of out-of-the-ordinary stupid behaviour. The most baffling was someone deliberately suiciding when he was last man-standing, rather than making a stand defending the base.

Funny thing, i've seen today a lot more incursions matches than in the last 3 days in a row. Also somehow getting a kill or kmdd on Roughneck is harder than is sounds , because the damned things keep hiding, forcing your team to push....

[SaintLucifer]

Well 6 hours left and nothing on PGI side. I`m leaving for work again and honestly i doubt they will say anything about the almost 400 complaints on this thread by the time i'm back. Also for the curious, last tally on the event count:

- 75 incursions
- 8 / 9 challenges, still missing "Delivery Failed", which i will never get since i can't really play 24/7 anyway.

[D V Devnull]

@ Event Thread---
Finished the Event here, but only because I got dragged in by a Drop Group that decided to stage it for me. I normally like to get these all done entirely with my own level of skills, and only broke down because I was on the threshold of insanity after numerous failed attempts. This unfortunately tells me one thing... PGI HAS FAILED AGAIN WITH SOMETHING ON AN EVENT... There was no real bearing for Skill to factor in on something that has way beyond too many Luck-Based Requirements... Just to give you a rundown, the following says it rather nicely...

elde, on 24 April 2017 - 04:59 AM, said:

If you're lucky, a map that supports Incursion comes up for the match.
If you're lucky, players vote for Incursion, and it wins.
If you're lucky, the other team doesn't just march into your base and destroy it.
If you're lucky, you see a mech pick up the energy cell.
If you're lucky, you have the range to shoot at the mech.
If you're lucky, you deal the killing blow.

...which means that PGI's idea of something coming through "Natural Organic Play" goes ENTIRELY OUT THE WINDOW, as the "Delivery Failed" Challenge is BURIED UNDER SIX LAYERS OF LUCK!!! This Event's "Delivery Failed" Challenge should have allowed both KMDD and Kill Assist along with the Killing Blow, because it's insanely, impossibly, flaming hard to actually land a shot on a fast-moving Fuel Cell Carrier. It's feeling too much like PGI was trying to laugh in the Community's collective faces, and make it virtually impossible for anyone to complete the Event. Either you had to be insanely lucky, or willing to break down and stage the completion, which is simply NOT how an Event should go.


PGI, there is only one thing I can tell you... QUIT MAKING THE MISTAKE OF BURYING AN EVENT CHALLENGE UNDER MULTIPLE LAYERS OF LUCK. You only hurt your Public Reputation and your $$$ Flow, and I know you HATE to do that to yourselves.


Now, everyone, excuse me while I go and do something to blow off this overload of anger boiling within me. It was bloody hard to keep it from pouring into this post, while still pouring the simple truth into this post at the same time. Heck, 'Event Rating'? Sure, why not. Only '6/10' this time. Why? PGI screwed up an Event Challenge, and enraged the Community.

~Mr. D. V. "I'm probably PGI's harshest critic right now, short of those users of foul language..." Devnull





(p.s.: I hate to think what "Zero Punctuation" might say about MWO if they reviewed it right now.)



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Edited by D V Devnull, 25 April 2017 - 03:04 AM.

[Aramuside]

Have to say overall I enjoyed the Incursion games and the event rewards were good - lots of MC only items - just stressful to get due to the inability to play the mode. A few points though - it was ridiculously easy to kill the base and almost impossible to stop people doing it if they were willing to die to do it. I get that the primary defense should be our own mechs but at that point you're suddenly playing defensive and I can't see that working as you all play defensive or split the team. Secondly, the timers on picking up cells were very frustrating. Lastly, all the items except radar seemed fairly useless. Despite those things it was REALLY nice to see lots of lights in the queue.