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[IllCaesar]

Racerxintegra2k, on 10 March 2018 - 04:16 AM, said:

I've actually enjoyed this event. Playing with/against mechs you don't see very often.

Playing a SSRM12 Catapult against all of these other Catapults are fun. They think its a stalemate at first when I catch them out in the open but once I open fire their "oh ****!" center of their brain activates.

Definitely enjoying seeing more variety. Having these events revolve around the trial mechs is a smart move as when everybody can participate more people do participate. Lots more mech variety short term from the event and long term from people trying new mechs and going "I like this, ANOTHER!" before smashing the purchase button in the in-game store.

[Xaat Xuun]

okay, less then 24 hours , and we'll get a very large target to shoot at, or be shot at . . KingCrab

I will purchase the BlackJack owned 'em when I first started playing, sold 'em to make room, only own 3 of the 16, hmm, might look into purchasing one other, but will try the trial version first, so pretty much same boat as Phase one, only own 25%.

my alts are a different story, they only own one, if I really want them c-bills for them that means I'll need to play 15 trial mechs

I don't think phase 2 trials are as bad as the Phase 1 trials

I think phase 2 will have a better experience for those that don't own the chassis and wanting to complete, will have it easier in this phase

Edited by Xaat Xuun, 11 March 2018 - 04:50 PM.

[JC Daxion]

Bud Crue, on 10 March 2018 - 04:26 AM, said:

So carry on PGI! Carry on. Entice us into playing crap mechs! Shine a light on the mediocrity of these under performers and your own past assertions that they are balanced! And then, by god, try and actually make them worth playing without the bribery of some extra c-bills and a camo pattern.

Are you seriously trying to tell me the reason why people on my team do stupid things.. and sometimes yea that is me, is because of a event?


The only thing in QP that leads to bad teams is people not listening, not communicating, or just doing stupid crap.. The mech they are playing unless horribly built is so far down the list of why you didn't win it's not even funny..

[Carrioncrows]

Huh, these are like all my favorite mechs, panther and zues especially.

[Kaeb Odellas]

Piloting my Jenners has been a depressing experience.

[Dragonporn]

I don't get any complaints about this event tbh... Personally, barely even noticing it. You get 1 million c-Bills and ugly looking pattern, that's it. There's absolutely no reason to be killing yourself over it. You get same amount of c-Bills in 4-5 matches on average in Mech you enjoy to pilot and having fun.

From whole 1st stage event, I have only SHC, and I casually finished it, without even realizing it was in the event at all, until recently... I'm really getting surprised when I see players going in matches on Trial mechs, while hurting team with utterly garbage builds they have, and I'm sure hurting their own fun factor. That's crazy torture for 1kk c-Bills if you ask me...

[Asym]

CFC Conky, on 10 March 2018 - 01:05 PM, said:

Pretty much all the mech chassis are available for c-bills so it's not like you have to spend real $ if you don't want to. The event might get a lot of players out of their comfort zone, which is not a bad thing.

Good hunting,
CFC Conky

My comfort zone is quality game play; with quality game mechanics; with quality match making; and, playing with team mates with roles and responsibilities so that each and every planet we contest, we win the fight....

Oh, that's right, sorry, senior moment: that is another game....

Yes, they are available but, who in the heck wants to GRIND until you have a nervous breakdown for the mech to be combat ready? Yes, I as many others, have hundreds of millions in c-Bills and really don't need another mech for an event that is non-value added? After all, there isn't any MC or give-a-way mechs.....

We don't play the game actively anymore because it just isn't fun.....winning cool stuff or large amounts of MC are fun.

Comfort zone? Seriously? Let me see: nerf, nerf, skill tree change and a huge Exodus, nerf, update with a huge nerf, own mechs that have been degraded to unusable and then, more out-in-left-field nerfs no one understands why they occurred?
My first team left completely and as of tonight, my current team, has only three players actually playing MWO in the 2 weeks....

Sorry, it's not your fault and you've always been helpful. apologies.

[Wil McCullough]

I don't play during events because all the potatoes come out. And considering there's a new event every week, i guess that means i just don't play anymore.

No one "plays" during events. They're not playing smashy robots. They just... chase an arbitrary stat so they can get the promised shiny. I found out the hard way last time. You know why people don't listen to calls, target focus etc.? Because they're not chasing wins. They're chasing particular stats. And if standing on a wall of hpg with a 2erll raven, swiping lightsabers over the whole map will help them with their assist counter, they're going to do it, your calls be damn.

[PocketYoda]

November11th, on 11 March 2018 - 02:03 PM, said:

1, I didnt quit.
2. I wrote that to hopefully stab russ in the eye and get some kind of positive change.
3. Papaspud does nothing but ***** on the forums abiut how the game sucks without doing, saying or providing some kind of solution.

I've seen a fair few whine threads from you as well.. glass houses and all that.

Kaeb Odellas, on 11 March 2018 - 07:50 PM, said:

Piloting my Jenners has been a depressing experience.

Same here but Shadowcats and Griffins.. god it was disheartening to know i paid money for those Shadowcats...

Wil McCullough, on 11 March 2018 - 09:39 PM, said:

I don't play during events because all the potatoes come out. And considering there's a new event every week, i guess that means i just don't play anymore.

No one "plays" during events. They're not playing smashy robots. They just... chase an arbitrary stat so they can get the promised shiny. I found out the hard way last time. You know why people don't listen to calls, target focus etc.? Because they're not chasing wins. They're chasing particular stats. And if standing on a wall of hpg with a 2erll raven, swiping lightsabers over the whole map will help them with their assist counter, they're going to do it, your calls be damn.

Thats because thats all this game has become man.. Stats BS "Stompy robots" takes a back seat to maths, Jarls list retardation, meta and grind.. PGI effectively murdered Battletech and turned it into competitive garbage.. Like every game these days must have competitive BS strapped onto it like bolt on gonads to an atlas..

Edited by Samial, 11 March 2018 - 10:07 PM.

[Wil McCullough]

@samial

I like competitive games. Because everyone has the same over arching goal - to win.

During mwo events, if potatoes need a large number of assists or kmdds quickly, you're going to see a metric ton of suicidal lights dropping an airstrike, running in and suiciding to move on to the next match asap.

All just so they can get a swanky new warhorn.

Edited by Wil McCullough, 11 March 2018 - 10:15 PM.

[Teenage Mutant Ninja Urbie]

yup.. I don't have any fun anymore, either (in QP). thx to the event.

please note: I don't blame PGI for this (this time); they've done A LOT to make this event beginner-friendly; you don't have to own any mechs, there are trials, there are discounted mechs and even heroes - there's no overly specific thing to be done and so on.

people on the other hand..
you can lead a horse to the water, but .. if 23 horses decide to hide under a rock..

no fun. thankfully, I'm through with everything bar the jenner - and that's just too much "work" and no fun for me.

..really wish we could do our stuff in FW; too.
FW is so much more enjoyable for me than this "bet I can hide better than you" QP we have during -every- event.

Edited by Teenage Mutant Ninja Urbie, 12 March 2018 - 07:00 AM.

[CFC Conky]

Asym, on 11 March 2018 - 09:06 PM, said:

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Sorry, it's not your fault and you've always been helpful. apologies.

No apologies needed my friend. I've been playing MWO for a year now, and reading the forum, I get the impression that most of the complaints about the game come from boredom. Without a doubt, the game is repetitive, as first-person shooters tend to be. I mean really, look at the premise, my team of stompy robots vs your team of stompy robots. Hard to get much variety out of that after a while. In the end, I don't think you can take a turn-based, tabletop game and make it into an online pvp shooter while preserving the depth of the original game. In my opinion, MW2, 3, and 4 did it better because of their offline campaigns.

As I've mentioned in many previous posts, my main gaming experience comes from combat flight sims. One of the sims I play regularly (IL2 Sturmovik) came out in 2001 and it still has a very active community today. The series offers excellent offline content, online play, and most importantly, user-made content. Re-fighting historical battles gets boring too after a while but when players can create scenarios, the variety increases exponentially.

In a perfect world, MWO would have some offline missions/campaigns and a mission builder, but that's not going to happen until MW5, at least for the offline content.

Personally, I'm not bored with MWO yet, I enjoy the chaos of quickplay in the lower tiers, even though I drop the odd f-bomb during egregiously bad play. I work in a very structured job so the chaos of T4-5 is in a weird way, relaxing. I also like futzing around in the mechlab, and the game's 'economy' also appeals to me. I have two f2p accounts, one Clan, the other IS, and since I'm not that good of a player, I'm forced to be very careful how I spend my c-bills. My main account is full of mechpacks and purchased MC, but let's not talk about that lest some folks here get triggered .

You have valid complaints, as do the others on this forum. I see the game a little differently, I try to adapt to the changes PGI makes, not always understanding the need for them, or liking them for that matter. The changes have not yet reached the point where I no longer enjoy playing.

...For now

Good hunting,
CFC Conky

Edited by CFC Conky, 12 March 2018 - 10:08 AM.

[Bud Crue]

JC Daxion, on 11 March 2018 - 05:45 PM, said:

Are you seriously trying to tell me the reason why people on my team do stupid things.. and sometimes yea that is me, is because of a event?


The only thing in QP that leads to bad teams is people not listening, not communicating, or just doing stupid crap.. The mech they are playing unless horribly built is so far down the list of why you didn't win it's not even funny..

Not at all. Events merely further encourage folks to do stupid things. Give people an encouragement to act stupidly and “force” them to do it in bad mechs, and the appearance of folks being REALLY stupid becomes more noticeable than normal.

[Nesutizale]

I didn't notice any differance. Sometimes I have people who play pretty good, sometimes not. Its pretty much the usual in QP.
Only differance is that, while some field the trail mechs others play the optimized builds and there is a gap in power between them. So the team with more stock mechs is mostly at a disadvantage.

Maybe they should introduce stock only events, though I doubt that we would have much participation as people like their costum builds.

[DeadEye COTP]

If they fixed their bug where kills don't count and you can only get KMDD the event would be more tolerable. But as classic PGI goes, they just remove it instead of addressing the issue.

[Electron Junkie]

I just started making huge alpha strike mechs, as high as a chassis will support. Run in, fire twice, die in a blaze of glory (or meltdown). Rinse repeat, get new camo.

Stupid event gets stupid loadouts.

[Exilyth]

Play Oxide - it's a Jenner and still sucks.
Play MLX - matchmaking gives the enemy two MLX and a streak huntsman.
Play ACH - matchmaking gives the enemy a lance full of streakcrows.

I'm happy I'm done with the light portion of the event (won't do the Panther), last kmdd on the ACH required ~2 hours.
Now on to the streakcrow...

[Vellron2005]

I did almost the whole Clan side of Phase 2 in a single night, all except the Arctic Cheetah, cose' it was almost 1AM and I had to get up at 7 to go to work..

I'll do the IS side with trials if I get the time, but won't bother too much over it.. Might pick up a King Crab if I can spare the cbills.. but keeping in mind that we all have 2 special original mechs coming in left over from Christmas, I might need to save cbills for that too..

[PocketYoda]

Gave up on the ACH its just unable to do enough damage to warrant a KMDD at least for me. I thought the Shadowcat was bad, the ACH is just garbage now, definitely lost its title of best light a long time ago..

And to those i said its great my apologies don't buy any. Way too weak terrible hitboxes now and cannot carry jack and the icing is the engine dsync made it slower..

Edited by Samial, 14 March 2018 - 04:16 AM.