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[IllCaesar]

ERescue, on 21 December 2017 - 12:47 AM, said:

@Shi No Kami: I seem to recall that in the distant past there was some event where the criteria for success was that you had to win, survive AND score at least one kill in several (20?) matches. If my recollection is not entirely false, I played over 40 games and succeeded exactly ZERO times.

I remember that. 2014 was full of many dark days, and those events were part of the highlights of that year. Really.

[Apollo777]

I belive PGI asking 250 ms for fp because he don't want us finish the event in scouting mode!
Just exclude the scouting mode from the event instead of punishing the whole community.

[LordFatman]

Apollo777, on 26 December 2017 - 09:10 AM, said:

I belive PGI asking 250 ms for fp because he don't want us finish the event in scouting mode!
Just exclude the scouting mode from the event instead of punishing the whole community.

or as some else said make it so you need 5 Assist and match score no way to do that in scouting then we would not need a 250 match score

Edited by LordFatman, 26 December 2017 - 10:03 AM.

[Godfrey Kasparov]

yeah , the QP is fine but theres no way to get it in faction scouting and i don't have time to spend tens of hours playing 100 faction team games .
lower the weight on clan and then bring out OP for faction play bushwhackers ..
gg
edit spend more time waiting on drops than scouting matches

Edited by Godfrey Kasparov, 26 December 2017 - 05:21 PM.

[NocturnalBeast]

Remember the event times are normally UTC, so the Holiday bonus Event is up right now for most of North and South America, I have already redeemed mine, thanks PGI!

Edited by Ed Steele, 26 December 2017 - 05:35 PM.

[Apollo777]

LordFatman, on 26 December 2017 - 09:50 AM, said:

or as some else said make it so you need 5 Assist and match score no way to do that in scouting then we would not need a 250 match score

Or make the goal 1000 damage for FP.
I mean there are other ways to exclude scouting from event than asking 250 ms!

[Grottenolm]

This is ridiculous !
Today i made 6 FP-Matches and 6 Scout-Matches and got 1 stocking. In all FP-games we needed 12-20 Mechs to just stop the first Clanmechwave and then we could only watch how the rest of them played with us until it was to boring to continue.
no way to get even close to 250 MS.
So PGI: keep your free mech and next time i will go clan like all the other winning-team-joiner.

Edited by Grottenolm, 27 December 2017 - 07:31 AM.

[PraetorGix]

Do I have to do anything else other than clicking the redeem button to get the 2 free Heroes? (and yes, I know they come out in March I just wanna be sure i get them)

[Ferrum Corde]

250MS doesn't even exclude scouting, I did my 15 250MS FP matches for Tharkad in scouting and while it was an entirely unpleasant experience it's within the realm of possibility. That said, I can't imagine actually sitting through enough scouting to get 38 scouting matches at 250MS, you would have to be a pretty hardcore masochist.
Makes you wonder if they actually play their own game for these events or just think up numbers.

[Fox the Apprentice]

PraetorGix, on 27 December 2017 - 08:36 AM, said:

Do I have to do anything else other than clicking the redeem button to get the 2 free Heroes? (and yes, I know they come out in March I just wanna be sure i get them)

That's all I did, so if you're missing something, then you aren't the only one.

[D V Devnull]

Okay, my tipping point for being forced to Rate an Event has been reached. I wanted to go silent this time, but I've been pushed to having no choice left.

Holiday Epic Bonus Event -- As previously noted in the other thread for this item... 25.0/10 ... kind of hard to beat giving that much for just one weak match, given that all you had to do was really give a try.

24-Day Advent Mini-Events -- Somebody thought it was funny to use 'Solo Kill' Requirements, instead of throwing in 'Savior Kills' as a metric. I got a headache from the first, but tried to think hopeful on the 12 days that had not been posted prior to the Monthly Patch. Unfortunately, I was severely let down on my hopes of PGI, as they did two more 'Solo Kill' Daily Challenges, and made my headache far worse. It also got to the point where I almost missed one of them, and I'm rather lucky that I happened to come upon a Disconnected Assault Mech... Rating? 5.5/10 ... and leaving this with a recommendation to avoid 'Solo Kill' as a metric in the future. Use 'Savior Kill', because that needs TeamWork in order to be achieved.

2017-2018 Stocking Stuffer III Loot Bag Event -- Well, this unfortunately is going to get my worst rating by far. Anything dealing with Faction Warfare has been turned into a 'Trudge of Self-Punishment' of the absolute worst kind. I don't mind a challenge, but this has gone beyond that by too far. New players are the ones needing Mechs, but the way this Event has been set up more than cuts them off. It also blocks them from a severe number of Loot Bags that they really needed to get into the game. On top of this, if PGI wants the Community to grow, they are doing an excellent job of driving people away instead. As it stands for me, I've tried too many times (beyond more than I can count, likely upwards of 45 games) in both Invasion and Scouting now, and I've only got 18% (9 Games / 18 Bags) of the Faction stuff. This will mark my third failed "Stocking Stuffer", and the worst outcome of all three that I've tried. Setting a 250 Match Score Requirement for earning, when the Formula in the System is set up to dock for every single Mech lost, is an awful and sadistic idea. I've personally reached the point of thoughts of IRL Suicide crossing my mind, and I can only imagine a lot of other people have felt the same way, or at least have a lot of anger towards PGI right now... I'm sorry, but this gets no better than a...

2.5/10

...from me, with a severe and scathing recommendation to lower the Match Score requirement for Faction stuff to somewhere from 150 to 200... Most people do not have the time to waste on having their heads smashed to hell repeatedly! And yet somebody thought it funny to force people to 'No-Life' in order to have any damned chance at all! That doesn't even speak of trouble with Quick Play, where it should NOT have been higher than 125 to Qualify for earning. Like, geez....... THIS IS THE HOLIDAYS!!! WHERE ARE YOUR BRAINS AT, PGI?!?!? YOU DON'T PULL OUT THE MOST PUNISHING SETUPS DURING THE END-OF-YEAR HOLIDAYS!!! THIS IS NOT A TIME OF YEAR TO BE MEAN TO PEOPLE!!!

~Mr. D. V. "I finally hit my point of meltdown... PGI feels like The Grinch to me right now... Enjoy the read." Devnull




(p.s.: I'm NOT doing a Grand Average of the Holiday Events. They're NOT meant to be handled in that manner, and each needs a separated Rating.)





[Quick Edit by Post Author for a Missed Thought.]

Edited by D V Devnull, 27 December 2017 - 06:18 PM.

[NRP]

It is too bad one has to play FW to get the mech. I have absolutely no desire to play that mode.

[Argoz]

The 250 MS requirement is just so disheartening to aim for. Faction warfare is so unbalanced it's either a stomp one way or the other way. So one team gets all the required points and the entire other team fails. What's the point of that, just feels like a pointless grind that makes you NOT want to play the game at all.
An accumulative score of 25000 match score of points would have been better or accumulative damage dealt. Exclude scouting for the event if you don't want the players to use that game mode for the event.

The loot bag event is so awesome and i enjoy every one EXCEPT the faction ones because they make NOT want to play this game. That's how un-fun it is.

[Argoz]

PraetorGix, on 27 December 2017 - 08:36 AM, said:

Do I have to do anything else other than clicking the redeem button to get the 2 free Heroes? (and yes, I know they come out in March I just wanna be sure i get them)

go to this page https://mwomercs.com/profile/content
It'll show eligible.

[Dee Eight]

MovinTarget, on 15 December 2017 - 12:21 PM, said:

I don't understand why there is an expectation that every single reward must be attainable by the casual player?

This is akin to having participation trophies but no gold medal...

What is wrong with having achievements that are hard, if not *all* of them are hard?

FFS you just show up on the 27th and you get stuff...

Yesterday morning I had a fellow honking over voip blaming PGI running these events on his constant losses, whereas I said its more likely his hiding in the back thinking he's playing the role of overwatch caller/sniper... when he's doing neither well is the reason. I chimed in after he singles out the annihilator driver (which was I) for turning right when he was apparently screaming over the mic to turn left... of course from the front lines of a fight...I'm NOT going to turn a slow assault mech to expose its weakest end without the guns... I also managed 600+ damage before being taken down by turning into the enemy. He meanwhile, about 240ish out of a twin PPC ecm shadowcat after letting the whole team tank for him in a forest colony conquest game. Last player...should be capable of 30 damage every volley...couldn't make match score for a stocking stuffer.

After the match, I looked up his season stats...laughed...then looked back eight months. He usually players 1000+ matches a month, has never broken past a 0.62kdr, and has a legendary founders tag. Oh right...forgot that bit...he started his ranting because of it supposedly being a T1/T2 match... which ended 12 to 6 for the enemy team. There seems to be this ongoing belief that tier has anything to do with skill...when all it is, is an total match score status bar. Also a lot of players who bark orders/directions over the mic...because no sounds from the game are coming from their own speakers (when they're not firing) seem to think the players busy actually fighting and shooting...with game sounds playing...will hear them.

WE WON'T.

Edited by Dee Eight, 28 December 2017 - 04:26 AM.

[Fox the Apprentice]

Dee Eight, on 28 December 2017 - 04:24 AM, said:

[...]
Also a lot of players who bark orders/directions over the mic...because no sounds from the game are coming from their own speakers (when they're not firing) seem to think the players busy actually fighting and shooting...with game sounds playing...will hear them.

WE WON'T.

Not disagreeing with the rest of the post, but you should adjust the game audio balance. Being able to hear your teammates' calls is an important part of teamwork.

[Necrosaur]

My advice to new players/unseasoned Just enjoy the quickplay + lootbags and ignore faction play you'll just get farmed by mungrels in a premade with a lot more game time under their belt than you.

I'd be lucky to get 250 once in 10 fp games, the grand prize is an easy ignore. They're only giving those mechs to guys who already have those mechs , with lots of mech slots anyway and play in premade teams. Thats fine for them to be doing that just be clear thats what they're doing. They're NOT giving those mechs for participation in FP.. just be real about it and it wont phase you anymore.

[Dee Eight]

Grottenolm, on 27 December 2017 - 07:28 AM, said:

This is ridiculous !
Today i made 6 FP-Matches and 6 Scout-Matches and got 1 stocking.

So in reality you didn't play any at all and are just claiming to have done something (like a certain celebrity politician is known to do) in order to justify complaining about PGI and the event rules...since the reward is TWO stockings for every 250 match score game in FW.

Edited by Dee Eight, 28 December 2017 - 09:06 AM.

[Buenaventura]

I really liked the loot bag event in ... June? or something like that, where you could get some colours, patterns and warhorns at certain stages BEFORE you got to the final prize. Really nice, didn't make it to the final reward, but the stages made it way better than the current one.

[Roodkapje]

NRP, on 27 December 2017 - 09:11 PM, said:

It is too bad one has to play FW to get the mech. I have absolutely no desire to play that mode.

I do but the waiting times are always soo insane high that I usually move to Quick Play instead...

So now I am going to abuse this Event period for some HOPEFULLY long waiting time free Faction Warfare game time

The free Mechs are /care for me since the score system is bugged IMHO and I always score just under 250 each round anyway!