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[Electroflameageddon]

Kompleks Ognevoi Podderzhki 320, on 24 September 2017 - 02:25 AM, said:

Guys, are you serious? I read your comments and do not know where I was. I see a herd of enthusiastic players on the forum and hear a great amount of discontent when I play with pilots in the TS what's going on? =) Are you getting paid?

Here's what I've heard on TS.

Like the new reward system. Thinks that the requirements were a little high for this ballistic challenge. Different people hate the requirements for weapons they are not good with. Not exactly discontent, but not exactly bliss.

I and many others on this forum like having the event on a web page. We asked for it and PGI put up the Clan Hero challenge on a page. I thanked them.

I didn't like grinding out some of the challenges, but some of them seemed really easy, like the HMG and the AC20. Granted, I have two mechs that I've optimized for those weapons that I use frequently.

As of yet, I have not received a payment of any kind from PGI. Don't think I ever will, as getting a Work Visa in Canada as a US citizen is extremely difficult.

Edited by Electroflameageddon, 24 September 2017 - 06:24 AM.

[Marius Evander]

Ok heres my contribution to constructive feedback.

I looked at the event and went, what are we getting for doing this ?
A new cockpit item (rocket girl) and worksite warhorn stood out for me, wasnt even really interested in Kodiak warhorn (dont like it dunno why)
Then I realised, rocket girl was tied to the worst weapons, you couldn't get it through multiple methods, you had to do ALL standard AC's, the damage required for AC20's was rediculously high, AC5's should probably have had highest damage req, I had to buy some weapons to get it done, spending 1.5 mil on weapons to get a cockpit item and 0.5 mill in rewards ? meh, its a new event system ill make an exception and do it this once since its something to test/try out.

Didnt bother with MG's or LBX for either side or rotaries for IS , rewards not worth bothering.

Cant remember if i did UAC's for either side, I dont think i did.

Did gause rifles (had to buy some light gause rifles (again spending more than cbills reward) Had fun with 4 light gause rifles on a mech. heavy gause sucked. I had a lot more fun doing just gause rifles on Clan MKII than rebuilding and doing 3 gause weapon types for IS side.

Loved having some unique games with so much dakka and dakka mechs, was a great change from the norm, I look forward to a laser and missile event, just please dont encourage lurming and please do a better job with requirements to rewards, a Do 4000 damage with any AC even listed as a seperate event option with seperate reward would have been much better IMHO than making us buy and use all AC weapon types.

To do AC's on Clan Side i needed to buy them all, I think i bought 3 ac5's 2 ac10's 2ac20s and 3ac2's +3 tons of ammo for each? someone do the math on how much that was spending to get a rocket girl cockpit item and 0.5 mil cbills.

Everyone else has already said about needing info about event if not tracking to still be on website.

I wont be making that much effort for a new cockpit item again. made the extra effort to try a new system.

I do not think this event was very new player friendly.

Edited by Cadoazreal, 24 September 2017 - 07:20 AM.

[Le Bum]

Stahlherz, on 22 September 2017 - 08:23 AM, said:

Matt Newmann: "FYI I am also planning on doing a “Lrmageddon” type event (...)"

A very cold shiver just ran down my spine.

I'm going to make such a Ridiculous amount of cbills with my triple AMS Kitfox when this happens

[clan hope]

Fox the Apprentice, on 19 September 2017 - 06:20 PM, said:

???
There's a clan and IS challenge...

i found that out but the news feed only show is weps and says is the why i thought is was only that

[ET3Locutus]

For awhile now I have relied on Events as the only means to reliably build up my Cbills. The skill tree, mandatory use of consumables (to even stand a chance) and rebuilding mechs cost enough to keep me poor. Faction is just an exorcise in feeding faction units free wins at the expense of 40 minutes of my game play (connecting, waiting in lobby, playing, disconnecting).

So, in order to fulfill this event, I have had to rebuild and then buy several weapons that i do not own nor will use again. The cost for this is more then the rewards. Even small things like changing your armor type cuts deeply into the rewards.

This event feels like busy work and the rewards should are not enough to cover the cost of buying the weapons we are forced to use. This does not make me feel hopeful about future events.

[James Argent]

I finished the event for both sides last night. My thoughts on it follow.

Re: Damage requirements/hated weapons. If it doesn't challenge you, it isn't a challenge. Boating 20s of any kind of AC was a slog, but that's what made it a challenge. I do agree that unless the idea was to promote the use of regular ACs over Ultras, the requirements for the two seemed backward. But that works both ways, and the event designer missed the mark on some really ridiculously low damage requirements on the lighter (longer range, easier to boat, and most importantly faster cooldown) versions of the particular weapons, which could easily satisfy the entire requirement on the first enemy mech encountered without even getting a KMDD on it. I was pleased to have it this way, but only because the vast majority of my time had to be spent on the 20s. If this was the intent, I suppose it balances out, but it seems really awkward to breeze through the 2 and 5 levels in one match each, play some normal matches with the 10s (which I already use most and wouldn't really notice), and then hit a wall on the 20s. I dunno, maybe the 20s were the event map's 'large central feature' about which the entire event was designed to revolve.

Re: Expense of weapons vs. rewards: Challenges are not always for wallet-padding...again, it's a challenge. This was simply another part of this particular challenge. If you choose not to maintain adequate funds in reserve to dedicate to events, if you sell all weapons you don't expect to use so that you can get instant gratification on something you want right away and keep your C-Bill balance below 8 figures, you'll have to accept that some events will be harder for you to complete. This was just a case of ants and grasshoppers.

Re: Event page visibility. Completely inexcusable to release a system this dysfunctional, and worse yet to not immediately put the webpage tracker back in until the bugs are worked out. If anyone asked for the webpage to be replaced by an in-game tracking system, I certainly missed it. PGI gets ZERO credit on this total ****-up, and several players here need to realize that this ISN'T a good system merely because they didn't encounter the problem themselves. But for me personally, multiple workarounds sufficed. I started off having to open the event page from the MechLab, then when that stopped working, from the Store, then finally the Faction screen. Once I even had to go to the Comp Play screen to be able to see it. If the event had been larger with more things to check (like some of our previous events, such as grab bags), I don't know if the workarounds would have lasted till I was finished.

[VerKa]

Is PGI going to fix the event browser before the end of the competition? Some of us have no way of knowing what is going on. Put the events back on the website as a quick remedy.

[PanzerTC]

The sale was truly the best part for me. I spent 70 Million C-bills on mechs I was waiting for and some new equipment for them. I am still grinding through the challenges that I want some stuff on.

[ZortPointNarf]

Kompleks Ognevoi Podderzhki 320, on 24 September 2017 - 02:25 AM, said:

Guys, are you serious? I read your comments and do not know where I was. I see a herd of enthusiastic players on the forum and hear a great amount of discontent when I play with pilots in the TS what's going on? =) Are you getting paid?

Not at all, the feature is pretty nifty (sorry about the ones who are having trouble with it, hope they resolve it, and if they can't I hope they reward you for the entire event, fair is fair).

The behaviour of players in game though is the problem, some muppets only chase their damage target and go out in a blaze of glory/cesspool of stupidity and screw over their team. Very little that can be done about that.

Event is fun, and those damned AC20's are a pain in the ***, but now that I've played them, and the others I have discovered that I quite like LBX20's

[arcana75]

ET3Locutus, on 24 September 2017 - 09:04 AM, said:

For awhile now I have relied on Events as the only means to reliably build up my Cbills. The skill tree, mandatory use of consumables (to even stand a chance) and rebuilding mechs cost enough to keep me poor. Faction is just an exorcise in feeding faction units free wins at the expense of 40 minutes of my game play (connecting, waiting in lobby, playing, disconnecting).

So, in order to fulfill this event, I have had to rebuild and then buy several weapons that i do not own nor will use again. The cost for this is more then the rewards. Even small things like changing your armor type cuts deeply into the rewards.

This event feels like busy work and the rewards should are not enough to cover the cost of buying the weapons we are forced to use. This does not make me feel hopeful about future events.

Are you new? I am new. What I did was do all the MG challenges and the IS rotary challenge. Ignored the rest. With my support pack I will earn 3m c-bills and 6 cockpit items. I am cool with that. I bought a Bushwacker High Roller during the sale and the RACs are a keeper something I would buy anyway so I guess I came out of this event benefiting.

Just don't touch the autocannon challenges.

[latinisator]

Fun even ballistic weapons balance test. Most times, that is. Doing Clan ACs wasn't that much of an joyful venture. Anyways, thanks for the freebies (also thanks for "making me buy the Sleipnir" - fun Mech, tbh).

Only real complaint I have is that the MechLab is slow as hell again.

[General Solo]

OZHomerOZ, on 23 September 2017 - 04:50 PM, said:

Fun Event Finished IS ballistic event in less than a day Can't wait for the Missile event

Finished the clan event in half a day

[Toek]

Dear PGI, I would propose to increase the rewards for this event. That would be a nice touch.

[General Solo]

HMG seem weak
Their Heavier and have less ammo than regular mg
maybe up the range a bit?

Edited by OZHomerOZ, 24 September 2017 - 10:48 PM.

[Shade Spirit]

ZortPointNarf, on 24 September 2017 - 11:11 AM, said:

Not at all, the feature is pretty nifty (sorry about the ones who are having trouble with it, hope they resolve it, and if they can't I hope they reward you for the entire event, fair is fair).

The behaviour of players in game though is the problem, some muppets only chase their damage target and go out in a blaze of glory/cesspool of stupidity and screw over their team. Very little that can be done about that.

Event is fun, and those damned AC20's are a pain in the ***, but now that I've played them, and the others I have discovered that I quite like LBX20's

I hope so. but who knows. Makes me worry about, how would those with the broken event will do future ones. I mean sure we may not be losing out much on this one but talking about Halloween, Christmas and anything between

Edited by Shade Spirit, 25 September 2017 - 01:22 AM.

[Aramuside]

Jondoeiowa, on 21 September 2017 - 04:03 AM, said:

Tell that to my Unit leader, I vote IS every time, but they all wanna play their clan mechs.

Yeah I do understand as I prefer to play my clan mechs.

Le Bum, on 24 September 2017 - 08:35 AM, said:

I'm going to make such a Ridiculous amount of cbills with my triple AMS Kitfox when this happens

Well probably not as the rewards don't seem that great. I'll happily join you in my triple AMS Nova though.

[Gasoline]

After completing the event yesterday I have to admit it was a fantastic idea and I really enjoyed it. Thank you, Matt! Keep 'em coming.

The clan standard AC challenge was a pain in the bum and took me way longer than anything else, maybe because of the excessive amount of damage you need in comparison to the LBX and UAC. And yes, I bought those things just to get the second rocket girl (damn you Matt ).

To me the IS challenges have been way easier to complete. For the larger ACs just cram one of them into a HBK and slap the largest engine possible on. Worked like a charm for me. Did most of the challenges in my Grid Iron. Larger mechs get focused to much.

I still think there're hit registration issues with clan weapons. I had PPCs traveling right through the CT of enemy mechs, SRMs doing nothing at all other than their firing sound, and Lasers hitting the other side of the enemy mech (I fired on the LT and the RA came off - target was afk) and in one match I fired on the deep red armored CT of a Kodiak from less than 150m with a gauss, 2 ERLL and 3 ERML and nothing happened at all (he shut down overheated, so no movement involved on either side). I didn't encounter anything like that on the IS side.

I kinda disliked that the IIC challenge and ballistic challenge had the same timers (end date). You might want to desync them a little bit.

The missile challenge will be hilarious. LRM assaults and triple AMS cutefoxes everywhere. Polar Highlands on every round.

[AJBennett]

...still no events showing in the browser, I'm calling this event over and done with for me.

[G SE7EN7]

Good event, do like the new implementation of the event system.

How much has this event highlighted that IS gauss just plainly sucks. Easily the most over weight damage per ton weapon in the game, cheers PGI. Fix imminent? lol yeah right.

[Andy Rattlesnake031580]

This way of doing some events is pretty interesting but one thing is that i have been trying to do the going ballistic event since it started but when i go to the event thing it is not even in the events. my event thing does not showing anything. so the event ends on the 27 th and i am still not able to do the event. this is not fair to the people who cant event get into the event. I love playing this game even though i suck lol. But it would be nice to be able to participate in the events.