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[MovinTarget]

Smith Gibson, on 16 January 2018 - 11:28 AM, said:

Crap event PGI, 1/10 on excluding any player that plays true loyalist.

I own no Clan 'Mechs and immediately sell any Clan 'Mech I receive as a prize. I play Inner Sphere only, and because I play the game "wrong" I might as well not even show up.

Okay dude, so they've had TONS of events that reward one side or the other and you are going to gripe about ONE that encourages/rewards players for playing both sides?

I mean, if this were an FP challenge, yeah it'd be kind of stupid, but your personal extreme observance of role playing really has consequences and that you may have to accept...

Lets take your perspective on "true loyalist" for example. Is that game-imposed? I have 3 accounts and just used whatever I have lying about on my IS loyalist and Clan Loyalist accounts... free mechs from past events...

If you are going to choose to go Vegan don't get all salty at the rest of us for enjoying some bacon.

Besides, seeing how "the other half lives" can often be enlightening and help your game vs those same mechs.

[NRP]

Tenacious B, on 16 January 2018 - 09:50 AM, said:

This challenge is amazing. First couple matches were total machine gun brawls.

Yeah, this was some very fun, crazy, "YOLO" brawling. Nice change of pace from the typical game play in QP.

I think the funniest thing I saw was 4 or 5 MG lights and mediums trying to take down the VIP in Escort. Hilariously futile effort, but they were determined LOL.

[WarmasterRaptor]

NRP, on 16 January 2018 - 11:43 AM, said:

Yeah, this was some very fun, crazy, "YOLO" brawling. Nice change of pace from the typical game play in QP.

I think the funniest thing I saw was 4 or 5 MG lights and mediums trying to take down the VIP in Escort. Hilariously futile effort, but they were determined LOL.

That’s what I liked a very dynamic change in behaviors !
Less passive hidey pokey pokey, more of a in your face and all the splosions!! XD

Btw, the rest of the days are up, you can now complain about the medium lasers and the srm6!!

If this is not a balance testing event, I don’t know what it is

[Iron Heel]

Ruin and damnation!!
My day is a shambles!!
I can't earn both the mc and the necklace because I don't own both IS & Clan MG mech and...
Oh wait, never mind.
I do own both.
Silly me.
Catastrophe avoided.. * phew * close one.
Might have had to buy a mech out of anal_compulsion..

[Revenant Kitsune]

Seems to be only regular machine guns. Did the clan side with a shadowcat. Any good suggestions for the IS side of things. I own few IS mechs and most of those are towards the heavier end of things.

[NRP]

Just load up some MGs on something with ballistic hard points and start spraying. The more you boat, the quicker you'll achieve the goal.

[MovinTarget]

Revenant Kitsune, on 16 January 2018 - 12:13 PM, said:

Seems to be only regular machine guns. Did the clan side with a shadowcat. Any good suggestions for the IS side of things. I own few IS mechs and most of those are towards the heavier end of things.

As mentioned before, you can buy an Urbie R60, 4MG 2 ML STD180 engine no other upgrades really needed (but nice) can be bought & kitted out for ~3 million all said so its not a HUGE investment.

Edited by MovinTarget, 16 January 2018 - 12:26 PM.

[Tier5 Kerensky]

Are the damages linked? Because I got 309 damage on both Clan and IS. But I thought I saw initially after first Locust fight only IS counter have increased. Just so very unlikely to get even numbers on both.

[MovinTarget]

Teer Kerensky, on 16 January 2018 - 12:36 PM, said:

Are the damages linked? Because I got 309 damage on both Clan and IS. But I thought I saw initially after first Locust fight only IS counter have increased. Just so very unlikely to get even numbers on both.

You have to rack up 500 EACH SIDE for a total of 1000 MG damage

[Tordin]

Huh. Will we not get Piranha info for each day also? Scaling, quirks, pics, etc?

[Kenny Starfighter]

This was good fun!

[Tier5 Kerensky]

MovinTarget, on 16 January 2018 - 12:38 PM, said:

You have to rack up 500 EACH SIDE for a total of 1000 MG damage

Okay I guess it's just unlikely coincidense that I got 309 damage on each.

[James Argent]

TheFourthAlly, on 15 January 2018 - 08:07 PM, said:

Seems just a teensy bit lacking in thinking the conditions through properly. Both factions have three classes of MGs, so it seems important to me to clearly state which weapons qualify.

There is no more specific name for it than 'Machine Gun' that can differentiate it. They don't call it a RMG for 'regular machine gun.' The official nomenclature is literally just 'Machine Gun.' When one sees the words 'machine gun' without being followed by the parenthetical words 'any class' one's thinking should default to the regular machine guns we had before the HMG and LMG existed.

And just to be clear, I'm not bagging on you for it...I myself ran a couple of matches with a mech armed with LMGs before I noticed what I was doing. There just isn't anything PGI can do to make a Machine Gun any different from the machine gun class of weapon without treating us like children.

[James Argent]

Accumulate 600 Matchscore 0 / 150

Hmm...the way Day 7 looks, you have to achieve 600 MS 150 times. Now I know that's not right.

Edited by James Argent, 16 January 2018 - 01:20 PM.

[Revenant Kitsune]

Smith Gibson, on 16 January 2018 - 11:28 AM, said:

Crap event PGI, 1/10 on excluding any player that plays true loyalist.

I own no Clan 'Mechs and immediately sell any Clan 'Mech I receive as a prize. I play Inner Sphere only, and because I play the game "wrong" I might as well not even show up.

That was the choice you made friend. That's not really PGI's fault. I started off Loyalist for FP but I still had a couple IS mechs laying around because they were favorite designs from my child hood. Only recently joined up with a Merc unit and trying to get more IS mechs but either way. No one made you get rid of those other mechs than you yourself.

[Iron Lemur]

Round up of thoughts, based on the thread:
1. More advanced notice would have been useful. I have a family, so I'm not glued to the computer (unless I know an event is coming. Cue negotiations with wife). I found out about it this morning, with 12 hours to go, and then I had to go to work. That said...
2. It took me slightly over an hour to knock Day 1 out. I had MG-based mechs that I could easily tweak to meet event requirements. The point here is I was prepositioned to grind this one out.
3. Having to do both IS and Clan for a single 100 MC and 2 hanging items reward seems ... odd. If I was being charitable, I would suggest that the intent was to have two completable items, and "something" happened in the setup.

[MovinTarget]

Iron Lemur, on 16 January 2018 - 01:37 PM, said:

Round up of thoughts, based on the thread:
1. More advanced notice would have been useful. I have a family, so I'm not glued to the computer (unless I know an event is coming. Cue negotiations with wife). I found out about it this morning, with 12 hours to go, and then I had to go to work. That said...
2. It took me slightly over an hour to knock Day 1 out. I had MG-based mechs that I could easily tweak to meet event requirements. The point here is I was prepositioned to grind this one out.
3. Having to do both IS and Clan for a single 100 MC and 2 hanging items reward seems ... odd. If I was being charitable, I would suggest that the intent was to have two completable items, and "something" happened in the setup.

The good news is that honestly, this has to be seen as the "hardest" of the equipment-based challenges in this set.... the other ones are only 150/150 dmg and 250/250 dmg with weapons players are (typically) more comfortable with... ER Med Lasers and SRM6...


BUT...

ASRM6 is legit??? o.O

Edited by MovinTarget, 16 January 2018 - 02:10 PM.

[Revenant Kitsune]

MovinTarget, on 16 January 2018 - 12:22 PM, said:

As mentioned before, you can buy an Urbie R60, 4MG 2 ML STD180 engine no other upgrades really needed (but nice) can be bought & kitted out for ~3 million all said so its not a HUGE investment.

Thanks, I actually ended up grabbing my Legend Killer I bought back during the sale and cleared the IS side of the event with it. 4 machine guns, 2 snub PPC's, 2 medium lasers. It actually performed decently even in my less than skilled hands. Cleared the event in under 2 hours so it's not too hard for those of you that whined about it being too hard to clear the event. Just put effort into it. I'm far from a skilled pilot so if I can do it, you can do it too!

[MFZ]

"[color=#EEEEEE] (using Artimus with IS or Clan SRM 6 will not count)[/color]"
TF is "Artimus"?

[Dee Eight]

Righter8, on 16 January 2018 - 09:00 AM, said:

Skimming through the posts, I noticed one thing. People who didn't have issues with the event appear to be Mercs. Those who had an issue with the event are primarily Loyalists, whether Clan or Inner Sphere. I think that spotlights the issue some people are having with difficulty in completing this: Lack of mechs from the "Other Side" (That is, besides the announcement being an afterthought)
Personally, I don't plan on spending a couple million c-bills to buy and load out a mech I am unlikely to play ever again for what amounts to 56 cents worth of MC. (I have enough cockpit items to decorate my mechs 10 times.)

Loyalist means little on a forum when people break loyalties to chase mech bays for different factions all the time in FW.