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[Kinski Orlawisch]

Thx for the event.

[Todd Marshall]

Effing Lurmfest. Thanks Chris.

[BattleRocket]

This was a great event. Please do more like this. Thanks!

[Hemholtz]

Screw this event.
I'm getting more ulcers just playing the damn thing.

PGI can take the damn MC and warhorns and shove it down their throats.

[Arkhangel]

Todd Marshall, on 07 August 2018 - 10:32 AM, said:

Effing Lurmfest. Thanks Chris.

learn to use cover, stay in ECM bubble and equip AMS then.

[D V Devnull]

==== Yet another damned Event Review Rating Update ====
(Yeah, even I unfortunately think this is getting old already...)

So... we have this from earlier...

D V Devnull, on 07 August 2018 - 08:49 AM, said:

WHOA... In the middle of typing this, I got a Siege Match... And then I just had an interesting Loss too... Rating will be...

7.0/10

...in light of that, because the Match Score is a lot easier than I predicted, but ONLY provided that you don't lose more than 1 or 2 Mechs, and do a horrid amount of damage. That handler for Match Score really NEEDS some proper fixing with Faction Warfare.

D V Devnull, on 07 August 2018 - 09:46 AM, said:

Rhaezor, on 07 August 2018 - 08:54 AM, said:

Some objcts like getting 5 sentries is irritating, be cause literally everyone will be taking lights and try to kill them, but the reward is not that great so... whatever, overall great event, that make FW alive again and was doable in a day with ease.

It's worse than that... I'm only getting Siege Defense Matches as a Kurita-Aligned Pilot. There's NO way to get the Turret Count with that happening. Do I have to change sides or something?!?!?

~D. V. "This is soooooooooo damned confusing." Devnull

...but I've been refreshed on the realization that there's a real lack of available turrets to wipe away in Siege Mode. Which also means there's no reasonable way for most people (say, a minimum of even as little as 40% of the people doing the Event) to get 5, let alone just 1 or 2 turrets. Even further, having the chance to be able to legally shoot them in order for them to count is RNG-controlled, and people are already mad at PGI over those RNG shenanigans. There's no ability to control whether you're Defending or Attacking on a Siege Game Mode Match. This feels like somebody at PGI is bent on giving MWO's Community the proverbial middle finger. Because of that kind of Challenge inducing toxicity and frustration into the Player Base, the Rating is taking a hit again. It's now down to...

5.0/10(I should probably hit this Rating harder, but I'm trying to not be toxic myself!)

...and I'm at the breaking point where I give up on what remains of an Event. I'll be walking off now, calling this Event a hellish failure, and feeling without any hope that PGI would learn from all the mistakes that they made on this Event. Hell, I'll be extremely surprised if they did a Clan Version without all these damned hiccups.

~Mr. D. V. "Totally worn out on this Event, and now calling it quits..." Devnull

[Xannatharr]

C337Skymaster, on 06 August 2018 - 04:09 PM, said:

Request from the Davion side of the conflict to change the win requirement from "capture win" to "any win". Getting a pug win against 12-man premades is hard enough (in 4 hours of playing, tonight, I managed to get a single win, right as the clock struck 8pm, but it was a timer win, not a capture win. We had a hard enough time keeping the kill lead, we had no chance to push on their base).

I don't know how they coordinate, or why they all go to the same side, but the big teams always seem to be allied against the random pugs who answer calls-to-arms, resulting in a hugely imbalanced score bar...

When The Templars took a contract to participate in the event we intentionally went to Davion after seeing that Kurita had a high win rate. (We got super-fast drops!)

We usually drop with 11 or 12 so you likely didn't get a chance to drop with us sorry!

Still a very fun event and we stacked up boatloads of wins, some against teams, some against mixed groups. Good times all around.

Edited by Xannatharr, 07 August 2018 - 01:02 PM.

[DarkFhoenix]

This was a great event thanks PGI . I am very glad to see FP buzzing with activity once more . I tried my best to avoid the duck tape challenges but one or two slipped through XD . I enjoyed the irony of QP being somewhat of a ghost town for once . I cannot wait for a clan vs clan campaign . The challenge prizes were quite generous .

I had to wrack my brains for a nice suggestion but I have one . A discount on Kurita and Davion mechs and / or decals would have added to the awesome factor .

[Xannatharr]

D V Devnull, on 07 August 2018 - 05:02 AM, said:

After THIS doomed fiasco? ARE YOU INSANE? If PGI does NOT learn, then a Clan Edition would fail to ever have been worth even trying.


~Mr. D. V. "This Event has turned into a disgrace, and that's my Final Word on it." Devnull

Sorry, we're clearly playing a totally different game here. It wasn't perfect, but by PGI standards this thing went pretty damned good.

I hope they do a Clan event as well, it will be massive fun!

[Kinski Orlawisch]

Running nearly an all ECM dropdeck.... HG Fafnir with ECM...Assas..with ECM...Thanatos..with ECM... Archer....

[Pak Hammond]

OK I am going to have to say it really was a solid 7 /10. Don't disagree with all your points DV., but it definitely got FP jumping again. Are there improvements to be made? ABSOLUTELY. I did miss some of the challenges, but at the end of the day I was having fun and frankly that is what counts in my book.
Ok I got annoyed when l couldn't do some parts, but mostly that was on me to do.
Good one PGI.
Now let's get the clan one underway

[tutzdes]

First, I liked the event, it was fun!

There were issues though:
-Some challenges were too RNG or dumb behaviour dependent.
-Boredom Reach map >___<
-Full premades vs PuGs seal clubbing, thanks to FP population spike, a lot less now than usual.
-Faction allegiance limitations.

[Van mw]

Kurita have captured the last planet? Someone have screenshot with status right before the ending? I think Davion was leading 20 minutes prior by at least 3 wins ....

[D V Devnull]

Van mw, on 07 August 2018 - 04:13 PM, said:

Kurita have captured the last planet? Someone have screenshot with status right before the ending? I think Davion was leading 20 minutes prior by at least 3 wins ....

Check the In-Game Event Browser. You'll find your answer there, I think? I'm gonna go check right now, provided Real Life doesn't stop me cold.

~Mr. D. V. "This will take me but a moment of time..." Devnull

[tutzdes]

Van mw, on 07 August 2018 - 04:13 PM, said:

Kurita have captured the last planet? Someone have screenshot with status right before the ending? I think Davion was leading 20 minutes prior by at least 3 wins ....

I was watching the war log minute before the event ending. Last matches Kurita was winning with 3:1 ratio and was above the capture threshold.
So, Kurita won and took the planet.

[D V Devnull]

Van mw, on 07 August 2018 - 04:13 PM, said:

Kurita have captured the last planet? Someone have screenshot with status right before the ending? I think Davion was leading 20 minutes prior by at least 3 wins ....

D V Devnull, on 07 August 2018 - 04:27 PM, said:

Check the In-Game Event Browser. You'll find your answer there, I think? I'm gonna go check right now, provided Real Life doesn't stop me cold.

~Mr. D. V. "This will take me but a moment of time..." Devnull

tutzdes, on 07 August 2018 - 04:33 PM, said:

I was watching the war log minute before the event ending. Last matches Kurita was winning with 3:1 ratio and was above the capture threshold.
So, Kurita won and took the planet.

Confirmed. I just checked the In-Game Event Browser. Kurita took ALL Four Planets during this Event. Unfortunately, the only Unit who had the power to score their tag was [(MS)] (aka "MercStar"), which means everyone else was shut out in that particular regard. At that rate, we can expect that whichever Faction that [(MS)] goes to during an Event will basically auto-win, therefore indicating that their Unit has grown way too large. All you can do then is to just simply complete the Event Challenges as well as you can, and walk away from the rest. Not much fun after that thought, eh?

~D. V. "Doesn't it just figure that a single Unit of Players/Pilots could take control away from a game's creators... Yuck!" Devnull

[Marius Evander]

I think focusing too much on the turret mission is an error, the reward was an ugly hunters knife and a small amount of cbills, didnt bother, if there was a reward for completing all missions it would be an issue though.

[Xaat Xuun]

wasn't able to do day four, but did complete the first 3 twice.
interesting, I was getting matches faster PUGging.

from what I have read, I had better times in these matches, with a win/loss 4/1 each day, both Group and PUG , except for that last group, ended up like 3/4 , took a while to get defensive kill.
I was in some very good groups in the PUG drops, every one worked with each other, was strange to get in a functional PUG
never once was I (alt) picked up from LFG (for Faction Play) [I don't PUG on this account]

I enjoyed this campaign very much and had a lot of fun

missed campaign 4, because of food poison , hope things improve in time for the Clan Campaign
I had a lot of fun., even the ability to get drops with little wait time as pug

[My Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ]

I think the main issue with this event was that it brought in a lot of pubs which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but in a FP match it lasts way longer and can turn into a humilating stomp which is made worse by the fact that so many of the people playing were less experienced than the IS vs Clan regulars. I fully accept my luck was likely rubbish and I got the bad teams, but when you have such a small group of players with house vs house any difference in skill only exacerbates any problem of player inbalance.

I predict that the clan vs clan event will end with a similar stomp or something close to it.

[James Argent]

Highlight of this event...winning an attack on Boreal Vault on the third wave after our team whiffed the first wave 1-12.

Low point...finding out someone whom I previously sort of respected on the forum is a real phallus-gobbling immature sore winner in the game. That can't be blamed on the event, though...he's probably like that all the time.

Also, I agree that five turrets was way...shall we say, optimistic...as a goal. I lucked out and got the attacker side on all of my siege matches, but too many people were going for them and I only ever got one. I'm certain that as 'lucky' as I was, there were others who were just as unlucky and didn't get a single attacker side. I don't have a problem with not getting the reward, because I wasn't about to do extra matches just for that one task. But the idea behind offering a reward for completing an event task is that it needs to be possible for everyone to complete it if they think it's important enough to go after it. This task was a watered down 'kill the energy carrier' because of the limited resources available to complete it. One team in every single match was completely shut out from the possibility of going up against turrets, and there aren't even enough of them on the map to satisfy the needs of the team that had them as targets. It's not unreasonable to expect the devs to do some simple math before deciding on these event tasks. Two would have been a reasonable goal, if not for the very real possibility of never having the role of attacker.