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[Dee Eight]

FryFry, on 28 December 2017 - 07:19 PM, said:

I play all the time. I was away for a week with my family. I get penalized for not cutting my trip short. Not very festive. I dont post on the boards very often but these 2017 holiday events were poorly executed.

How is executing events during the holidays going to happen to please EVERYONE ? They put the big holiday give away on a day that wasn't christmas eve, christmas, or boxing day, new years eve, or new years day. They announced in 2 1/2 weeks in advance also.

[arcana75]

Horseman, on 29 December 2017 - 06:57 AM, said:

And those clan players aren't wrong - IS SRM/SSRM splat builds are brutal up close but lack range, so if you have a mech that can keep them at distance and fight while they're unable to put their weapons to use, you will dictate the terms of engagement.

Another thing you'll want to note is that Clan SSRMs have a 25% greater range than IS equivalents. If you can use that range advantage to stay in the 300-360m range band, you can spam your own streaks with relative impunity from enemy streakboats.

The clan range thing is worthy of note. Ingame I advise my teammates to make full use of jumpjets to poptart SSRMs vs IS Bushwackers, and to jump to height to break locks if focused down. Range is another useful point, my SSRMs do 385m, but my Huntsman will need changes to speed/skillnodes if it wants to keep out of IS range cuz the Bushwacker also does 81kph ootb, and battle dynamics (eg lighter mechs in the enemy team) will mean it's near impossible for a Huntsman to stay out of range. Which leads to....

...the "dictate terms of engagement" thing.... is pretty much advocating the Clan Scout meta being a fast ranged mech, eg erLL, LRM, instead of the SSRM Huntsman.

[Horseman]

arcana75, on 29 December 2017 - 08:37 AM, said:

...the "dictate terms of engagement" thing.... is pretty much advocating the Clan Scout meta being a fast ranged mech, eg erLL, LRM, instead of the SSRM Huntsman.

It's advocating the Clan Scout meta being not intentionally rushing into an IS streakboat's weapons range.
The only reason the SSRM splatwacker is effective in the first place is that so many clan players cannot resist the urge to facehug it.

Edited by Horseman, 29 December 2017 - 09:54 AM.

[Buenaventura]

NRP, on 29 December 2017 - 07:15 AM, said:

Suggestion for future "loot bag" events: give supply cache keys as possible loot, in addition to all the other stuff (GXP, consumables, etc.).

I'd even say INSTEAD of the MC consumables. I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but I don't use them at all, not even the cbill ones.

[MovinTarget]

Buenaventura, on 29 December 2017 - 10:18 AM, said:

I'd even say INSTEAD of the MC consumables. I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but I don't use them at all, not even the cbill ones.

Temped to agree, but after cashing in on all the MC consumables i had hoarded over the years, only to have them refunded with the skill tree for about 3k MC

[Horseman]

MovinTarget, on 29 December 2017 - 10:32 AM, said:

Temped to agree, but after cashing in on all the MC consumables i had hoarded over the years, only to have them refunded with the skill tree for about 3k MC

Which, for all you know, will never happen again.

[Matt Newman]

BONUS LOOT BAGS IN FACTION PLAY!
SEE CHALLENGE PAGE! https://mwomercs.com/events/74
STOCKING STUFFER LOOT BAG PAGE HERE! https://mwomercs.com...=201712stocking

A minimum FP Match score of 50 = 1 Loot Bag (50 total)
A minimum FP Match score of 100 = 1 Loot Bag (30 total)
A minimum FP Match score of 150 = 1 Loot Bag 20 total)
These Bonus Loot Bags go towards unlocking the Pick a Prize!
Also
The 250 match score for 2 loot bags still applies! https://mwomercs.com/events/72
In one match you can now earn a maximum of 5 Loot Bags if you earn 250 match score!

[Jonathan8883]

Noice.

[Jonathan8883]

Not sure the bags are carrying over from the new event page to the old event page. New page shows partial completion, but old page does not show any bags to open.

[Dee Eight]

Well that'll depopulate FP faster at least... instead of me needing another 25 matches on my alt and 30 some on my main, I can reasonably be done in 10 and 15 respectively. Then all the complainers in that 13 page thread in the general forum can go back to clubbing other units...

[Ultrabrutal]

is it really so hard to get 250?????

[Jonathan8883]

Update: They showed up. Odd that one page populates faster than the other.

[B L O O D W I T C H]

Matt Newman, on 29 December 2017 - 03:41 PM, said:

BONUS LOOT BAGS IN FACTION PLAY!
SEE CHALLENGE PAGE! https://mwomercs.com/events/74
STOCKING STUFFER LOOT BAG PAGE HERE! https://mwomercs.com...=201712stocking

A minimum FP Match score of 50 = 1 Loot Bag (50 total)
A minimum FP Match score of 100 = 1 Loot Bag (30 total)
A minimum FP Match score of 150 = 1 Loot Bag 20 total)
These Bonus Loot Bags go towards unlocking the Pick a Prize!
Also
The 250 match score for 2 loot bags still applies! https://mwomercs.com/events/72
In one match you can now earn a maximum of 5 Loot Bags if you earn 250 match score!

Really Reeeaaaally niceu~!

[Wuffel]

Since when is this extra FP lootbag thingy in place?

And, does it work for Scouting?

[LordFatman]

thanks

[arcana75]

Wuffel, on 29 December 2017 - 04:54 PM, said:

Since when is this extra FP lootbag thingy in place?

And, does it work for Scouting?

Yes it works for scouting.

[Dee Eight]

Yep...just got a 400+ match score in scouting and 5 loot bags for it. However I may be wrong about this emptying out FP sooner... because these new bonus bags also are capped at 100 total. So we will likely get even more pugs in there going just for the extra loot bags (nevermind they get the free mech at 200 total bags) and chasing the extra bonus MC.

Edited by Dee Eight, 29 December 2017 - 06:28 PM.

[SFC174]

And that will bring a big middle finger from me to PGI. Quit trying to bribe people into faction play! Just let them play what they want and get their loot bags that way instead of mandating FP participation for full payout.

All this does is prove that PGi was wrong, everyone who pointed it out when the event conditions were announced was right, and PGI still don't understand the community or why they play the game.

So much hate....and I just bought the SunSpider pre-order too. Yoink?

[Nanostrike]

Matt Newman, on 29 December 2017 - 03:41 PM, said:

BONUS LOOT BAGS IN FACTION PLAY!
SEE CHALLENGE PAGE! https://mwomercs.com/events/74
STOCKING STUFFER LOOT BAG PAGE HERE! https://mwomercs.com...=201712stocking

A minimum FP Match score of 50 = 1 Loot Bag (50 total)
A minimum FP Match score of 100 = 1 Loot Bag (30 total)
A minimum FP Match score of 150 = 1 Loot Bag 20 total)
These Bonus Loot Bags go towards unlocking the Pick a Prize!
Also
The 250 match score for 2 loot bags still applies! https://mwomercs.com/events/72
In one match you can now earn a maximum of 5 Loot Bags if you earn 250 match score!

Thank you. This pretty much fixes my complaints about needing the 250 score. Now someone who did well but didn't get MAX DAMAGE + 2 KILLS can still get something.

[Myndflayer]

Matt Newman, on 29 December 2017 - 03:41 PM, said:

BONUS LOOT BAGS IN FACTION PLAY!
SEE CHALLENGE PAGE! https://mwomercs.com/events/74
STOCKING STUFFER LOOT BAG PAGE HERE! https://mwomercs.com...=201712stocking

A minimum FP Match score of 50 = 1 Loot Bag (50 total)
A minimum FP Match score of 100 = 1 Loot Bag (30 total)
A minimum FP Match score of 150 = 1 Loot Bag 20 total)
These Bonus Loot Bags go towards unlocking the Pick a Prize!
Also
The 250 match score for 2 loot bags still applies! https://mwomercs.com/events/72
In one match you can now earn a maximum of 5 Loot Bags if you earn 250 match score!

Thanks Matt & PGI for this, much appreciated. This should be welcome news for those who:

(1) Were reluctant to put in the time for the rewards offered (it has been a serious grind).

-or-

(2) Could not put in the time due to real life (which happens this time of year).

-or-

(3) Were unwilling to put in the time because the achievement limits were too high (which they were).

I completed it before these changes, and it was seriously hard work. Fortunately I, unlike most, had few family commitments to adhere to.

Regardless, better late than never. Thanks.