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[eminus]

[eminus]

the only bad thing about this AMS is that you don't get rewarded for destroying missiles...no XP nor CBILLS

[El Bandito]

eminus, on 07 May 2018 - 04:27 AM, said:

the only bad thing about this AMS is that you don't get rewarded for destroying missiles...no XP nor CBILLS

You do get a lot of matchscore, so you can flaunt that in leaderboards.

[eminus]

El Bandito, on 07 May 2018 - 04:29 AM, said:

You do get a lot of matchscore, so you can flaunt that in leaderboards.

in times of financial crisis..CBILLS is more important LOL

[Asym]

Automated defense system kills a guided missile and we get MC for it.....what more could you ask ! Perfect. One match = 50 MC and the next is even better !!! Kinda of like the Christmas mechs.....show up and win !

I wonder why PGI needs the player numbers? Someone must be asking for performance data....

[Dragonporn]

eminus, on 07 May 2018 - 04:34 AM, said:

in times of financial crisis..CBILLS is more important LOL

Floating ~70mil c-Bills, if I could trade it for bigger match score or especially +XP I would in a blink...

[Juodas Varnas]

Dragonporn, on 07 May 2018 - 06:51 AM, said:

Floating ~70mil c-Bills, if I could trade it for bigger match score or especially +XP I would in a blink...

Floating at >1 billion c-bills and ~25k MC

I care not for either now. Just hop in a few matches to have fun instead of grinding for currency.

Edited by Juodas Varnas, 07 May 2018 - 07:09 AM.

[FLG 01]

El Bandito, on 07 May 2018 - 04:29 AM, said:

You do get a lot of matchscore, so you can flaunt that in leaderboards.

Absolutely! Just stand there, let the AMS do their thing, and your MS rises. The avg MS of every player should be higher after this event.

[Alexandra Hekmatyar]

Lurm potatoes are always out there so take dem AMS and use the environment for optimal Lurm salt.

[Wild Pegasus]

Today has certainly been a very strange day. Entire teams rushing down LRM boats at the expense of getting shredded once they realize they're horribly out of position, map selection has been almost exclusively Crimson Strait and Rubellite Oasis to try and neutralize the pain rain, and a sudden, massive increase in the number of triple AMS Kit Foxes running around (which has meant a large decrease in the number of MG-spamming lights, so not exactly a bad thing...)

Oh, and a hilarious number of people self-destructing because they left their overrides on and their Laser AMS cooked them like a microwave TV dinner. And I had the game crash twice with a DirectX error because there was so much lurmspam flying around the game just couldn't handle it.

It really is funny to see how these one-off events are so vastly influencing the gameplay in Solo QP. I get this is their chance of being able to buy a new mechbay or two with the MC scrapings and escape trial mech purgatory, but the lengths they're going to chase it is still quite amusing.

[Anastasius Foht]

Never go 2x LAMS (learn that in hard way), it get you overheating so fast this days

[LordNothing]

i got the event done in 2 games. in both cases i brought a single lrm10 and a half a ton of ammo, and a bap. only one of those mechs had ams (3x on a kitfox) and it managed to get all the missiles i needed for the event.

[ShiverMeRivets]

Any build that has the capacity to load an AMS should make an effort to squeeze it in - you owe it to yourself and to your team.

Seeing streams of LRMs vanishing in mid air by the combined power of several AMSs is very satisfying.

Edited by ShiverMeRivets, 08 May 2018 - 03:47 AM.

[VonBruinwald]

Anastasius Foht, on 07 May 2018 - 05:35 PM, said:

Never go 2x LAMS (learn that in hard way), it get you overheating so fast this days

2x LAMS is fine as long as you remember to toggle it when things get too hot. I've set one of my mouse keys to toggle selected weapon group, then at the start of the match I just scroll down to (L)AMS and away I go; it's surprisingly handy as I can use the same button to toggle ECM/Stealth armour depending on the 'mech.

[Exilyth]

I put an LRM10 and 2xERLL on the free uziel.
For everything clam and LURMS, there are MDDs.

Ofc, tripple lams Kit Fox for the ams (3x LAMS, 4x LMG, all the heatsinks).

Too bad the challenge requirements didn't specify that only non-artemis LRM10 count. I "wasted" two matches finding that out - which wasn't as bad as it sounds since the matches still counted for the other day.

All in all, this event seems very relaxed.

[Champion of Khorne Lord of Blood]

eminus, on 07 May 2018 - 04:27 AM, said:

the only bad thing about this AMS is that you don't get rewarded for destroying missiles...no XP nor CBILLS

Its sorta ironic. It drags people who use AMS from the low tiers up to the high tiers, leaving the low tiers even more of an LRM playground. Should reward XP and cbills but no matchscore.