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[Son of the Flood]

Nice challenge and is fun for me so far! Gave me an opportunity to dust Sarah's Jenner off and bring her out of the mechbay a bit. It also reminded me of my lack of skills as a light pilot. Hoping to knock out the other IS challenges this weekend. Keep em coming!

[D V Devnull]

Son of the Flood, on 10 March 2018 - 06:15 AM, said:

Nice challenge and is fun for me so far! Gave me an opportunity to dust Sarah's Jenner off and bring her out of the mechbay a bit. It also reminded me of my lack of skills as a light pilot. Hoping to knock out the other IS challenges this weekend. Keep em coming!

It's been a while since I heard of one of those special subvariants. I hope you had fun with it, and I hope you're enjoying the other parts of the challenges.

By the way, I didn't see your 'Like' on my post @ the end of the previous page until a minute after you put your post up. I added something to my post in the five minutes since the original part of it, and thought you might like to have a chance to re-read, just in case your 'Like' no longer applies for some reason. Any which way you feel about it, I wish you an enjoyable read of it.

~D. V. "Have fun, both here and out there!" Devnull

[Dee Eight]

Lawrance Frang, on 09 March 2018 - 08:26 PM, said:

how did the shadow cat that's in the trials, become a Champion Build ?
it is no where near to qualify with the (C), why place a SCH-A arm on, if you're not going to use ER's ?

At the time that became the champion version, the LPL was 10 heat for 13 damage with a 600m optimal and 1200m maximum range. Its amusing though...PGI altered the Cheetah champion loadout sometime after the great SPL nerfing last year from 6 SPL to 6 ERSL and three additional heat sinks. They also adjusted the HGN-IIC-C champion after they removed the Full Body Armor quirk to correct the otherwise lack of rear torso armor.

[Son of the Flood]

D V Devnull, on 10 March 2018 - 06:24 AM, said:

It's been a while since I heard of one of those special subvariants. I hope you had fun with it, and I hope you're enjoying the other parts of the challenges.

By the way, I didn't see your 'Like' on my post @ the end of the previous page until a minute after you put your post up. I added something to my post in the five minutes since the original part of it, and thought you might like to have a chance to re-read, just in case your 'Like' no longer applies for some reason. Any which way you feel about it, I wish you an enjoyable read of it.

~D. V. "Have fun, both here and out there!" Devnull

Thanks Devnull, enjoying it so far! No need for me to recant my like. I enjoy folks on here who are passionate about continuing to improve the game and challenges with constructive feedback. I am glad we have challenges much more frequently than in the old days. Well done on slogging through phase 1!

[Lexandro Wolf]

The KMDD was a joke, right...?

[Buenaventura]

Funny thing is, I have way more problems getting at least 1 KMDD in the Zeus than in lighter mechs.

[MrKvola]

Buenaventura, on 10 March 2018 - 05:01 PM, said:

Funny thing is, I have way more problems getting at least 1 KMDD in the Zeus than in lighter mechs.

Get the ZEU-6T, slap on some ASRM6s and MPLs, easy.

[latinisator]

Buenaventura, on 10 March 2018 - 05:01 PM, said:

Funny thing is, I have way more problems getting at least 1 KMDD in the Zeus than in lighter mechs.

This thing works for me, not mastered yet. Go full armor, full cool run, firepower left side (all missile swag). Nets me 2 KMDD per match on a regular basis. Do not brawl unless forced to. Mid range poke.

https://mwo.smurfy-n...243220bd6099392

[Anton Fetladral]

A bugged event featuring stale mechs that no one wants to play. "Fixes" than can only be described as "Fudge".

Another sign that MWO is turning into just another game where no one gives a crap.

Edited by Anton Fetladral, 10 March 2018 - 09:48 PM.

[latinisator]

"stale Mechs" you say? Well, it is fun driving them and recognizing that they are not that stale.
About those bugs, yeah. The hell?!

[Horseman]

Buenaventura, on 10 March 2018 - 05:01 PM, said:

Funny thing is, I have way more problems getting at least 1 KMDD in the Zeus than in lighter mechs.

9S2, MRM40, UAC10, 2xML, huge LFE.

Edited by Horseman, 11 March 2018 - 12:43 AM.

[D V Devnull]

latinisator, on 10 March 2018 - 10:31 PM, said:

"stale Mechs" you say? Well, it is fun driving them and recognizing that they are not that stale.

Eh... A couple of them could use a revamp of their loadouts, possibly more. Keep in mind, most (if not all) are from before the 'New Skill Tree', 'Engine Desync', 'Volumetric Rescale', and/or 'Grand Dequirkening' changes. Heck, some of those things in the 'CPLT-A1(C)' Trial Mech should be in the Side Torsos, not the Legs/Arms, given the changes to equipment health and other stuff.

latinisator, on 10 March 2018 - 10:31 PM, said:

About those bugs, yeah. The hell?!

OKAY EVERYONE, YOU'VE ASKED FOR IT.

Yes, I saw a number of those kind of posts before this one. Sometimes my brain keeps track of a situation's score when I don't want it to.

Now pinging Matt Newman to let them know we're probably in need of a HotFix Patch...

Matt Newman, on 06 March 2018 - 11:58 AM, said:

The real Fix would have been a hotfix with downtime and a patch and most likely a restart of the event and reset player progress. The Stat should be fixed in the next patch.

...because this Event is really turning into a headache for many (myself included, even though I got through All 8 Challenges) from that one Criteria Handler not functioning as well as it was originally meant to. It would appear that fixing this issue is best before 'Phase 2' begins, and the Downtime would be perfectly fine if a Minor Time Extension (About 4 Hours More, in order to ensure most will be able to load the HotFix Patch and get rolling again...) was provided to 'Phase 1' to compensate for the lost time in Downloading & Patching, plus all Current Player Progression was somehow not lost in the process.

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And with that, I'll see the rest of you on the Battlefields. I've already found a color combination for one of my Mechs to use the Urban Block Camo. I'm thankful to have earned that one from an Event, even if I can't fully use it on all my Mechs. I'll leave you all to guess which one.

~Mr. D. V. "Trial Mech Revamps, a Ping to Matt Newman for Need of a HotFix, and Camo Enjoyment..." Devnull

[Toek]

This KMDD in lights is really annoying. Why couldn't they just modify the event and let KILLS and KMDD count?

Edited by Toek, 11 March 2018 - 04:38 AM.

[D V Devnull]

Toek, on 11 March 2018 - 04:37 AM, said:

This KMDD in lights is really annoying. Why couldn't they just modify the event and let KILLS and KMDD count?

Dude, you're way behind. The "Trial By Fire" Event was originally set up for both Kills and KMDD, but a BUG kept the Kills from registering. So the Requirements were adjusted for a lesser number more acceptable to asking for KMDD Only. Unfortunately, things have turned into a giant headache anyway for many, so I've pinged Matt Newman by quoting them in my previous post on this thread that happens to be just above yours. Right now, the only way to fix this completely is to knock everyone offline and make us all load a HotFix Patch before we can resume play in the Event. They were trying to avoid doing that, thus the adjustments for KMDD Only. This issue is impossible to fix purely on the Server side of things for some reason, as far as we've been already told. Please read back through the thread, particularly to where Matt Newman explains the type of bug that happened, and then have some patience. I rather much expect they won't see this thread until Monday Morning @ 8 AM PDT... It will take time after that to get a HotFix ready to load.

~Mr. D. V. "It's already a known fact that the Event System has an issue... Please wait for the HotFix..." Devnull

[FallGuy0815]

The start of the the event was annoying, yes. But now that it is clear that only KMDDs count and the threshold has been lowered, i am perfectly fine with it. Getting 12 KMDDs is still way more trouble then 24 Kill+KMDDs, true. But we are talking just a million c-bills for each challenge (and a paint job). I can skip the ones i have trouble with. For mechs you actually own this should be a breeze anyway, for trials... well as i said, you can skip them. Paint job does you no good if you do not own the mech, and a million c-bills can be had in 4 good games without premium time, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I definitely have other things to get a headache about than a video game, and pushing a hot-fix just to "repair" the event would be blowing this thing out of proportion in my eyes. Just get it (finally) right for the next event, dear PGI, i would suggest

Edited by FallGuy0815, 11 March 2018 - 06:44 AM.

[Neutron IX]

Finally managed the Jenner (what a headache that one was) and Mist Lynx (that one was actually pretty easy, so I guess we need a ballistics Jenner or something? ) last night. All that's left for me is Shadow Cat and Orion IIC, which feel like less of a bother.

Though truth be told, for me, none of them offered quite the level of challenge that the Jenner did for some reason.

I don't know about the rest of y'all, but the one that finally worked for me was JR7-D (Sarah's) with XL300, Max Armor, 4 SPLs, 2 SRM 4s, 2 tons ammo, 2 JJs, and Arty Strike (normally I like to carry UAV in my Lights, but was getting desperate for those KMDDs).

Good luck everyone still working on it! I believe in you!

And actually, that Jenner ended up being kind of fun to pilot. Might even do it some more after the event...

[Buenaventura]

Used trial Jenner and Zeus (don't own those chassis yet) for those parts, worked okish. That trial Zeus isn't a good ad for its chassis, but I did have some fun wrecking havoc in an enemy LRM/ATM line. Getting KMDDs in the GRF-2N or CPLT-K2 was a lot easier.
Not sure about phase 2 yet, only own The Arrow of those. I'll see what I can do with those trials.

[Peace2U]

I am a terrible pilot.
Trying for the event goal with the trial catapult, and got 2 KMDD in over a day of playing time (need NINE for the event).
It has 2 LRM 15's and 2 srm 6's with an XL engine. The DPS with this build is very low, and it's difficult to sustain lock without having your torso melted off, which doesn't work very well with the stock XL engine.
Did great with the other trial mechs.
End result, I must be a terrible pilot.
Hope you other players are having better luck.
Peace.

[Rhialto]

Peace2U, on 11 March 2018 - 02:30 PM, said:

I am a terrible pilot.
Trying for the event goal with the trial catapult, and got 2 KMDD in over a day of playing time (need NINE for the event).
It has 2 LRM 15's and 2 srm 6's with an XL engine. The DPS with this build is very low, and it's difficult to sustain lock without having your torso melted off, which doesn't work very well with the stock XL engine.
Did great with the other trial mechs.
End result, I must be a terrible pilot.
Hope you other players are having better luck.
Peace.

I don't think it's you... it was difficult for me also with the CTPL. A few time I was able to spot a solo to rain on it to score the KMDD. I don't know what Tier you are but with experienced players when you get spotted it didn't take long to die as they know this Trial comes with an XL.

I previously had a CTPL long time ago and didn't want to buy one now only for this event so yeah it took longer then with a K2 or any other properly tuned.

Well the day I'll get another one I will have a camo for it!

[Rhaezor]

12 KMDD with zeus? really? I easier to do KMDD with mediums.

And the assists... 5 required?!!?! I HAVE 100 to get 12 KMDD, do we play the same game?

Edited by Rhaezor, 11 March 2018 - 07:01 PM.