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[SPNKRGrenth]

Unfortunately it seems like they reverted the C-Bill boost back to an XP boost on the champion mechs. Which is a real shame, since after XP got devalued champion mechs should all give C-Bills instead of XP now to even serve a point. I was excited to see the C-Bill boost, thinking maybe it'd finally be worth buying some champion mechs I like as they'd finally serve a purpose. But no, PGI doesn't want that much of my money, so back to a now mostly worthless XP boost it went.

PGI, change the champion mech bonus from XP to C-Bills and I'll start buying them! Or an even more appealing idea to part me of extra cash, keep the XP boost and add the C-Bill boost ontop of it.

Edit: I'm bad with words. I'm not saying champion mechs used to give a C-Bill bonus in the past, they never did. I'm talking specifically about the free Uziel champion mech that was bugged for a few hours to give a C-Bill boost instead of XP.

Edited by SPNKRGrenth, 21 April 2018 - 01:42 AM.

[Mikayshen]

SPNKRGrenth, on 20 April 2018 - 11:02 AM, said:

Unfortunately it seems like they reverted the C-Bill boost back to an XP boost on the champion mechs. Which is a real shame, since after XP got devalued champion mechs should all give C-Bills instead of XP now to even serve a point. I was excited to see the C-Bill boost, thinking maybe it'd finally be worth buying some champion mechs I like as they'd finally serve a purpose. But no, PGI doesn't want that much of my money, so back to a now mostly worthless XP boost it went.

PGI, change the champion mech bonus from XP to C-Bills and I'll start buying them! Or an even more appealing idea to part me of extra cash, keep the XP boost and add the C-Bill boost ontop of it.

I've only been playing the game for a bit over a year, but when did Champions give cbill instead of XP?

[EnemyMind]

Besten Dank!

[Nelos Kniven]

mad kat, on 19 April 2018 - 10:59 PM, said:

My Yen-lo-wang was swatting them like flies last night!

Funny... My Uziel was the one swatting....
Also, ITS FREE STOP WHINING OR STOP PLAYING

[Steve Pryde]

SPNKRGrenth, on 20 April 2018 - 11:02 AM, said:

PGI, change the champion mech bonus from XP to C-Bills and I'll start buying them! Or an even more appealing idea to part me of extra cash, keep the XP boost and add the C-Bill boost ontop of it.

Sorry to say that but champion mechs never gave c-bill boost in the past. You're just wrong.

[Rhaezor]

Iam still shocked that this mode drops mediums against assaults and heavies. And people are just thrown into it. Those 7 slides to "learn" teach nothing important.

[Alan Hicks]

Thanks for the free mech PGI. Hope the Uziel is a good medium to try.

[Jay Leon Hart]

Alan Hicks, on 20 April 2018 - 02:31 PM, said:

Thanks for the free mech PGI. Hope the Uziel is a good medium to try.

If you like Light 'mechs or fast Mediums, with a focus on peaking, poptarting, skirmishing or harassing? Should suit you well.

If you like tough gunboats that can take a licking and keep on kicking? Not so much.

[SeDevri]

I logged in yesterday and played a few matches, then logged back in today and i don't see the mech. Suggestions?

The mech has now shown up, Thanks for the freebie PGI

Edited by SeDevri, 20 April 2018 - 04:08 PM.

[Alan Hicks]

Jay Leon Hart, on 20 April 2018 - 02:34 PM, said:

If you like Light 'mechs or fast Mediums, with a focus on peaking, poptarting, skirmishing or harassing? Should suit you well.

If you like tough gunboats that can take a licking and keep on kicking? Not so much.

All right, thanks for the heads up. I already know the mech is frail and the community did not liked it that much.

[shameless]

Still not seeing mine..

[Nishivion]

Man, I was hoping we would get to keep it as a C-Bill boosted 'mech.

To PGI, I feel bad that you guys can never catch a break, you could have given away all 7 trial 'mechs and someone would be upset. I hope that it doesn't dissuade you from doing more things like this. Free is free, however I would say that XP doesn't have the impact it used to anymore, so keeping them as Space Bux would be a good idea. Maybe not 30% like Heroes and Specials but maybe 15% or something like that.

Rhaezor, on 20 April 2018 - 02:25 PM, said:

Iam still shocked that this mode drops mediums against assaults and heavies. And people are just thrown into it. Those 7 slides to "learn" teach nothing important.

The 'mechs are grouped pretty well. It's 1v1 or 2v2. A light vs a single assault is actually fair even just accounting for mobility.

[Spare Parts Bin]

Thank you PGI.

My Mech is in storage in a far mechbay, it remain there. I have become obsessed with FP and rarely even play QP. I have no desire to play Solaris 7. FP is an answer to many of my prayers.

Edited by Spare Parts Bin, 20 April 2018 - 05:53 PM.

[mad kat]

Gr Armpit, on 20 April 2018 - 01:31 PM, said:

Funny... My Uziel was the one swatting....
Also, ITS FREE STOP WHINING OR STOP PLAYING

Who said I was whining I was merely pointing out that my ylw has been stronger and the victor on every uziel encounter.

I've been driving my uziel in qp with two uac2, 2xerml and a rl15 and been having limited fun with it.

[GX9900 Gundam X]

Rhaezor, on 19 April 2018 - 06:18 PM, said:

Edit: to those wondering how to change the mech... (pgi...) inside solaris mode, go to mechbay and select change mech...
What are the divisions anyway?
Does Ecm works the same? iam asking for a streak friend.

The new mech bay is ok... but I dont agree with it being at the start menu, it is making the game load EVEN slower... only in the mechbay tab should it be fully 3D. Also Cameras 1,2,3 are awfully specific angles lol

MWO has always started up fully 3D, you just haven't been able to pan the camera until now.

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Who said I was whining I was merely pointing out that my ylw has been stronger and the victor on every uziel encounter.

Focus on taking out the centurion's right shoulder, abuse the terrain if you can by leveraging your high points, using jumpjets if neccessary. If you manage to expose the component and you have machineguns, go in for the kill.
That's how I deal with yen lo wang at least.

Edited by GX9900 Gundam X, 20 April 2018 - 10:46 PM.

[mad kat]

GX9900 Gundam X, on 20 April 2018 - 10:35 PM, said:

Focus on taking out the centurion's right shoulder, abuse the terrain if you can by leveraging your high points, using jumpjets if neccessary. If you manage to expose the component and you have machineguns, go in for the kill.
That's how I deal with yen lo wang at least.

Yep you have to focus that right side but a skilled ylw pilot will shield and twist away and it turns fast enough to be able to fire that ac20 and medium pulses before the uziel pilot can focus that side. I've had two uziel pilots literally give up and pretty much not fire back when they see the twisting ac20 nightmare. One of them just stood still and stared right at me so I was able to headshot him!

I'd go as far as to say I think the ylw should probably be division 6 but the uziel is definitely in the right division

Edited by mad kat, 21 April 2018 - 12:22 AM.

[SPNKRGrenth]

Mikayshen, on 20 April 2018 - 11:05 AM, said:

I've only been playing the game for a bit over a year, but when did Champions give cbill instead of XP?

They never did, sorry my words were a mess that it sounded like I was suggesting otherwise. I'm bad with words and it shows

Steve Pryde, on 20 April 2018 - 01:58 PM, said:

Sorry to say that but champion mechs never gave c-bill boost in the past. You're just wrong.

Maybe I spoke in a confusing manner. I'm not saying champion mechs used to give C-Bill bonuses. No, they never did and I know that. I'm saying I want them to give a C-Bill bonus so there's a reason to buy them. I am also saying that on the day the free champion Uziel came out, it was marked as giving a C-Bill boost for a little while, as someone else already posted a screencap as proof.

So I'm suggesting that instead of fixing the briefly bugged bonus like they did, keep it, and change the others as well.

Edited by SPNKRGrenth, 21 April 2018 - 01:39 AM.

[Sparks Murphey]

I'm a little disappointed that the free 'Mech isn't one of those that has bolt-ons available yet.You're trying to introduce a new system of cosmetics, and you know that there's one 'Mech *everyone* logging in has... but the two aren't compatible yet. Feels like a missed opportunity. They should have either made sure bolt-ons were in for the Uziel, or given away something else (a Tier 6 Centurion -A, perhaps? Though they've been given away heavily in the past...). Hopefully bolt-ons for the Uziel are coming early in the retrofitting.

[BR0WN_H0RN3T]

I paid 150 MC for a damn House camo skin, thinking this was a +30% CB mech. Now this. I would have sold the damn thing for its mechbay had this been done properly.

[BenMillard]

My one has finally arrived. Don't think I received any account injection messages. It was just there in my Select Mech listing when I started the game this evening.

I left it on the login screen for quite a few minutes after the game loaded. Don't know if that makes any difference. Maybe there's just a queue which is taking a long while to process.