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[MrKvola]

MFZ, on 16 January 2018 - 02:16 PM, said:

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

Artemis...

[Iron Lemur]

MovinTarget, on 16 January 2018 - 02:09 PM, said:

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

To be honest, I didn't find it that hard. Ran almost exclusively lights and low-end mediums with 4+ MGs. Had a few crap games, but I think I got the whole thing done in 8. And... I actually enjoyed the whirling machine gun melee. It was fun.

[DarkFhoenix]

I am loyalist with two accounts one IS and Clan and yeah I too keep my mechs separate . clan account was no problem bought a locust got the challenge . Sold it and bought another locust that holds two energy and missile points for the later challenges . I do sort of regret selling my Canada day Battlemaster prize . I could have used him for this .

Cannot pull that trick off on my IS account . Clan mechs are just way too pricey to toss cbills around like that

Not complaining , this is the reason I have two accounts , I always win .

Clan accounts have an advantage because of the battle mech price difference . I think a 50 percent discount on light clan mechs running at the same time as this event would help even the playing field .

Edited by DarkFhoenix, 16 January 2018 - 02:48 PM.

[Carkorak]

while im all for the fun events, its a disheartening thing when your account is bugged and no damage you do gets tallied up for you, after my first 2 matches which only totalled abotu 140 damage, i gave up, now this was with 4 lmgs on an urbie, but reading through posts here people have been saying lmgs and hmgs have counted for them and not counted for them.

and to all you haters out there, you need to suck it up and buy/acquire mechs from the other faction, its not going to burn your computer up, its not going to crash your hard drive, and your not going to die a fiery death just for owning a jenner, or a dire wolf *facepalm*

[Radkres]

O.o Never understood the whole their mech our Mech thing when reality captured Equipment was used during wars all the time. o.O

[Ralph Edwards]

Jonathan8883, on 16 January 2018 - 04:57 AM, said:

and this might point us towards a Vulcan or something similar in the near future (6+ MGs, high maneuverability, JJs, 30-35 tons).

I personally would love a Vulcan but it is 40 tons

[Morggo]

What I don't get is the violent leap to bash people who find enjoyment in loyalist play (be it for lorem roleplay, preference for omni's, separating factions, etc .. whatever reason doesn't matter). I haven't seen a single reasonable argument why simply splitting the MG event into IS, 500dmg MG, 50MC, 1x50 cal item and a separate Clan, 500dmg MG, 50MC, 1x50 cal item.

Simple, rewards mercs with both, allows loyalists to get 'there share', and there's no more work to get the whole payout than having them combined.

/shrugs

[MrKvola]

Carkorak, on 16 January 2018 - 02:45 PM, said:

while im all for the fun events, its a disheartening thing when your account is bugged and no damage you do gets tallied up for you, after my first 2 matches which only totalled abotu 140 damage, i gave up, now this was with 4 lmgs on an urbie, but reading through posts here people have been saying lmgs and hmgs have counted for them and not counted for them.

and to all you haters out there, you need to suck it up and buy/acquire mechs from the other faction, its not going to burn your computer up, its not going to crash your hard drive, and your not going to die a fiery death just for owning a jenner, or a dire wolf *facepalm*

LMGs and HMGs do NOT count. All of the people in the thread confirm this. Your account is not bugged.

[MovinTarget]

Morggo, on 16 January 2018 - 03:06 PM, said:

What I don't get is the violent leap to bash people who find enjoyment in loyalist play (be it for lorem roleplay, preference for omni's, separating factions, etc .. whatever reason doesn't matter). I haven't seen a single reasonable argument why simply splitting the MG event into IS, 500dmg MG, 50MC, 1x50 cal item and a separate Clan, 500dmg MG, 50MC, 1x50 cal item.

Simple, rewards mercs with both, allows loyalists to get 'there share', and there's no more work to get the whole payout than having them combined.

/shrugs

Granted, it may have been fairer if the challenge was simply 1k total MG dmg instead of 500/500. Still a bit of a Challenge, but then you'd have the people crying that they don't own a mech with more than one ballistic hardpoint or something like that.

I think the response were to people that impose limitations upon themselves and then wonder why not all challenges are still obtainable for them...

We've seen it before with people that don't own a mech of "type X" that is eligible for a particular challenge... "A CHALLENGE FOR LIGHTS ONLY?!?!?!? OMFG PGI YOU HATE ME B/C I HAZ ONLY HEAVIEZ!!!!!!!!"

Edited by MovinTarget, 16 January 2018 - 03:19 PM.

[SuperMCDad]

Anyone know if any of the Clan trial mechs have ER Mediums or non-Artemis SRM6's?

Will have to figure out whether it is worth the spacebucks to convert an Artemis IS mech to regular for this. I think the only thing I have with a non-Artemis SRM6 is a Panther, and getting that damage with a single launcher on a light is going to take awhile.

[MrKvola]

MovinTarget, on 16 January 2018 - 03:16 PM, said:

Granted, it may have been fairer if the challenge was simply 1k total MG dmg instead of 500/500. Still a bit of a Challenge, but then you'd have the people crying that they don't own a mech with more than one ballistic hardpoint or something like that.

I think the response were to people that impose limitations upon themselves and then wonder why not all challenges are still obtainable for them...

We've seen it before with people that don't own a mech of "type X" that is eligible for a particular challenge... "A CHALLENGE FOR LIGHTS ONLY?!?!?!? OMFG PGI YOU HATE ME B/C I HAZ ONLY HEAVIEZ!!!!!!!!"

I think the best way would have been to split the goals up, 50 MC and one item per faction.

Since the system can not combine 2 separate weapon types to add up to the same score (and IS and clan MGs are separate weapon types) your suggestion is not possible with the current system.

[G 4 R R E T]

Well, I had a blast with this event, at least on IS side. I may even leave the PHX-B at this configuration, it worked surprisingly well. On Clan Side with less than an hour remaining it was feeling something like a grind at the end, but i still learned a lot about the MG-mechanics overall.

And to soothe all the upset people, the events for the next 3 days are a no-brainer. Everything after that can now be planned in advance. In general: Stop whining, have fun ;-)

[Iron Lemur]

SuperMCDad, on 16 January 2018 - 03:17 PM, said:

Anyone know if any of the Clan trial mechs have ER Mediums or non-Artemis SRM6's?

Most of the Clan trial mechs have ER ML. Adder, Hellbringer, or Nova would be the most bang for the buck, depending on play style.

You're SoL for SRM 6s.

[TheFourthAlly]

James Argent, on 16 January 2018 - 01:12 PM, said:

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.

No, I agree, the naming is correct regarding the specific in-game name, but it still confused people, because in reality, there's a tendency to tend to call any LMG, MG and HMG, plain MGs when discussing them. I'm just glad I caught the heads up from others in this thread before running around with my ERML - HMG Urbie with no effect (on the challenge as such, the effect on enemy mechs is still very much there).

It's a perfectly doable event once you're sure which gear to use and can throw a few matches at it. My concern was with 1) Initially not being entirely sure about the parameters and 2) the relatively late announcement. Both put people on the backfoot unnecessarily imo.

[GamerPro4000]

I don't understand how can people who love mechs can be so discriminating on the mechs they own. If you love mechs, you would try to own mechs regardless what tech they are. It is also doing yourself a huge disservice in enjoying this game an what it has to offer.

Any way I have been making my mech arsenal to be diverse as possible so I have all my bases covered regardless on what event it is. For example I try to get a mech from each faction with all different weight classes that specializes in each weapon hard points.

Gauss/Dakka/MG builds (heaviest to lightest)
IS: Mauler,Cataphract,Blackjack/arrow,Spider
Clan:Kodiak,Night Gyr, HunchbackIIC,shadowcat,Myst lynx, Kit Fox

SRM/LRM builds
IS:Cyclops,Archer,Quickdraw/catapult,Assasin,javalin
Clan:Scorch,Timberwolf,Linebacker,Huntsman,Kitfox(L)

Laser Vomit:
IS:Battlemaster,BlackKnight,Hunchback,Firestarter
Clan:MarauderIIC,Hellbringer,Nova/hunchbackIIC,Arctic Cheetah

These are my main mechs i use for these specialties. I hope people who would like to diversify thier arsenal can use this as a reference.

Edited by GamerPro4000, 16 January 2018 - 03:55 PM.

[Zh0u]

Promessa, on 16 January 2018 - 03:03 PM, said:

So, I think 500 damage was nice for the mg's. Each one took me about 3 matches. The srm6 challenge can be completed in 2 or 3 alpha strikes. The medlasers are also really easy. Day 1 was the hardest challenge.

Agreed. I gave up on Day 1, but other days seems so much more achievable.

Btw when it mentions SRMs, it is without Artemis? :/

Edited by Zh0u, 16 January 2018 - 04:05 PM.

[D V Devnull]

Well, time expired while I never had a chance because of Real Life. I was right in my dismal post back on page 4. There wasn't even a time extension to compensate for the late announcement. Is it even worth trying now after that? Screw ratings, this Event sucks!

Edit: Throwing in the towel entirely on MWO. If you see me again, it's pure randomness.

~D. V. "Wondering if I should even use my brain towards it..." Devnull

Edited by D V Devnull, 16 January 2018 - 04:09 PM.

[SuperMCDad]

I figured that was probably the case with the Clan SRM trial mechs. Who takes SRM6 without Artemis. That's crazy talk.

[MWHawke]

No pre-announcement of the event? What is going on? Very poor planning. Very lousy execution. And I thought you could not sink any lower than you already have.

Just as you start to redeem yourself in the eyes of the players, you go kick yourself in the b4tt again.

HAVE YOU NOT LEARNED ANYTHING??!??

[Mikayshen]

I haven't logged into the game yet today, is the cbill medallion reward for Day 2 just something that looks pretty?