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[Jun Watarase]

Aside from the fact that FP wait times are longer because everyone is going nuts over 500k c-bills and a cockpit item, QP is full of people just rushing into short range with ballistic boats. It's pretty much just two teams just rushing head on at each other because everyone wants to get the challenge done ASAP.

And whichever team has more people using underpowered weapons like clan ACs usually loses...

[stealthraccoon]

Jun Watarase, on 27 September 2017 - 04:15 AM, said:

...QP is full of people just rushing into short range with ballistic boats...

This is why Gauss/PPC is popular - it takes skill to lead your shots and compensate for projectile drop. Maybe with all the data from this even we could get a velocity boost across the board.

[adamts01]

I'm all for players actually engaging, that's been the fun part of the challenge. What I hate are the crap builds that were hodgepodged together to get an LBX5 challenge finished. My mechs were mostly crap, as it wasn't worth the 1-mil to go from ferro to standard and back, which also shouldn't be a cost once you own it. But it was refreshing having something besides laservomit. And screw CW.

[ScrapIron Prime]

Fortunately for the IS, the Jagermech exists. This mech is capable of mounting 2-4 of anything ballistic. (Except Heavy gauss and LBX-20, which is what the Warhammer 6R is for.) Slogging through the event with a Jagermech is easy, and means you never have to field a truly sucky build.

As to the clanners and the standard autocannons... my condolences. But at least you don't have to buy 3 different kinds of Gauss rifles or find a way to boat 11-space weapons...

[Dogstar]

adamts01, on 27 September 2017 - 05:00 AM, said:

What I hate are the crap builds that were hodgepodged together to get an LBX5 challenge finished.

I threw 3xLBX5 in the Ilya Muromets as a hodgepodge and it worked really nicely, I was pleasantly surprised.,

[Lily from animove]

Jun Watarase, on 27 September 2017 - 04:15 AM, said:

Aside from the fact that FP wait times are longer because everyone is going nuts over 500k c-bills and a cockpit item, QP is full of people just rushing into short range with ballistic boats. It's pretty much just two teams just rushing head on at each other because everyone wants to get the challenge done ASAP.

And whichever team has more people using underpowered weapons like clan ACs usually loses...

but the cockpit item has a {LT-MOB-25}-pit

wow what censorship just based on a - in the word cockpit

Edited by Lily from animove, 27 September 2017 - 06:43 AM.

[Trissila]

Yeah, I'm glad this thing is over. At least now I won't keep getting placed on teams that get rickrolled because they're running garbo event builds while the enemy's playing the game normally.

[LordNothing]

event is running longer than it needed to, and it should have allowed fp games to count. i hate fp killing events, because once you are done there is no reason to play. you just dont make enough cbills in qp.

Edited by LordNothing, 27 September 2017 - 07:26 AM.

[Khobai]

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This is why Gauss/PPC is popular - it takes skill to lead your shots and compensate for projectile drop.

not so much anymore

Gauss/Laser has largely replaced it because they dont share ghost heat groups and can be fired together

plus lasers are superior to PPCs in almost all other regards except frontloaded damage, which you cant fully abuse with Gauss/PPC anyway because of the ghost heat linkage

im not sure why people are so eager to go back to everyone using gauss/laser vomit. thats not any better than the ballistic challenge.

the challenge sucks. but the regular meta sucks too. at least the challenge is something different though.

Edited by Khobai, 27 September 2017 - 07:42 AM.

[CFC Conky]

Hello all,

I only completed the challenges for weapons owned at the start of the event. I enjoy weapons-based goals as they make me use weaps I don't normally use, in particular the Gauss rifle. I always stayed away from them but gaine a new appreciation for their power while doing the Clan Gauss challenge and will be using them more often in the future.

Good hunting,
CFC Conky

Edited by CFC Conky, 27 September 2017 - 08:05 AM.

[CFC Conky]

Dewd, on 27 September 2017 - 08:13 AM, said:

I loved the challenge. I had a chance to build some challenge-specific builds, grind out some bills, buy moar guns, and get some fun play time in against something other than 60-80dmg laser alphas all night. Loved it! I am glad it is over now because I'm hoping we see more events like this, just a little more simple and quicker, but otherwise I thought it was a great event.

I imagine we'll get some laser challenges next; heavy-class laser bolts will fill the sky, lol!

[Stf Sgt Marblez]

CFC Conky, on 27 September 2017 - 09:45 AM, said:

I imagine we'll get some laser challenges next; heavy-class laser bolts will fill the sky, lol!

I'd be fine with that. Better than a challenge that requires use of streaks. Just saying.