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[Xeno Phalcon]

DeadWeight18, on 24 October 2018 - 10:56 PM, said:

Why not use them? Cool Shot is always handy, we had once a UAV challenge and Air Strike and Artillery is fun, eve in uncoordinated QP.

It is a gimmick for 40.000 CB so enjoy.




Thanks for the advice guys.

Only really use UAV these days, which I think is the one iv gotten the least of lol.

EDIT: Note I went and counted them, iv gotten 13 artillery/air strikes, 4 cool shots, and one UAV lol.

Edited by Xeno Phalcon, 25 October 2018 - 05:32 AM.

[Gen Lee]

CodeOrange, on 24 October 2018 - 11:00 PM, said:

I'm pretty new to this game, and I'm greatly enjoying this event! I've gotten 209 loot bags so far (17 of which came with an MC pack, because I've been told I should get MC on sale and this looks like a good chance to do so). Out of those 209 bags, I've gotten 8 days of active premium time, 1605 MC, and 19 cockpit items (which I kind of wish I could trade in or sell or even give to a friend, but it is what it is). I hope there's a 'mech bay sale soon as I'm hoping to expand my collection!

I have a feeling that we're going to see some other sales soon that most folks will enjoy. After loot bag events, there's usually a sale of some sort that will let people take advantage of the loot bag rewards. If nothing else, we have a couple more holidays coming up (American Thanksgiving, Christmas) and we'll probably see events and sales. I remember when I started playing, it was late last year, and there were a lot of events and sales until after New Years. I'm looking forward to buying my second hero mech ASAP. My first, recently bought during a sale, was the Scorch, and using it with Premium Time I got from this event had made me several tens of millions of C-bills in a very short time.

I know PGI is Canadian, but wouldn't it be awesome if they had an event for American Thanksgiving? They could call it a Turkey Shoot or something along those lines. Nothing too long or hard, just something fun and rewarding. I'd love a Turkey Warhorn, that gobbles everytime you kill someone, lol.

Edited by Gen Lee, 25 October 2018 - 09:22 AM.

[Eisenhorne]

Gen Lee, on 25 October 2018 - 09:21 AM, said:

I know PGI is Canadian, but wouldn't it be awesome if they had an event for American Thanksgiving? They could call it a Turkey Shoot or something along those lines. Nothing too long or hard, just something fun and rewarding. I'd love a Turkey Warhorn, that gobbles everytime you kill someone, lol.

Oh damn... faction play event. Everyone vs Marik. "Turkey Shoot".

[Gen Lee]

Eisenhorne, on 25 October 2018 - 09:45 AM, said:

Oh damn... faction play event. Everyone vs Marik. "Turkey Shoot".

Imagine one player as the "Turkey", an extremely heavily armored, heavily armed light mech with crazy heat dissipation, higher heat cap, that an entire team has to try to kill. The Turkey's goal could be to kill the team. Perhaps when the Turkey is killed, someone else gets to be the Turkey. Or it could be something else, but I do like the idea of having a "Turkey" in the game...and a Turkey Warhorn that gobbles every time you get a kill would be HILARIOUS.

You know, I was just thinking of a Thanksgiving event called Turkey Shoot as something to give us more rewards to play for, but something like this could actually be really fun. If nothing else, it would be something new to mess around with, and maybe a better idea than Escort mode, lol.

[D V Devnull]

Eisenhorne, on 25 October 2018 - 09:45 AM, said:

Oh damn... faction play event. Everyone vs Marik. "Turkey Shoot".

ALL Game Modes, please... NOT just 'Faction Warfare'-Only... I rather flatly have been without a taste for Faction Warfare in quite some time. Worse, the Clans' Weaponry doesn't do enough damage now for me to enjoy it either on the giving and/or receiving ends.

~D. V. "Sorry, but I would NOT prefer such a heavy Mode restriction." Devnull

[Eisenhorne]

D V Devnull, on 25 October 2018 - 03:25 PM, said:

ALL Game Modes, please... NOT just 'Faction Warfare'-Only... I rather flatly have been without a taste for Faction Warfare in quite some time. Worse, the Clans' Weaponry doesn't do enough damage now for me to enjoy it either on the giving and/or receiving ends.

~D. V. "Sorry, but I would NOT prefer such a heavy Mode restriction." Devnull

no, please faction-specific. haven't had one in a while. Clan weapons are still better than IS, not sure why you think they were nerfed.

[OMCBOONE]

I love these events. However, it's kinda disappointing you all didn't do a new warhorn for 2018. Instead of just copy and pasta last years stuff.. I get it. You all are super busy with mw5 and MWChampionship.

I still don't like that excuse though and really was looking forward to more awesome never seen before Halloween Swag.

One saving grace are the cool Dekals, which are normally not handed out as rewards.

[MrKvola]

OMCBOONE, on 25 October 2018 - 05:28 PM, said:

I love these events. However, it's kinda disappointing you all didn't do a new warhorn for 2018. Instead of just copy and pasta last years stuff.. I get it. You all are super busy with mw5 and MWChampionship.

I still don't like that excuse though and really was looking forward to more awesome never seen before Halloween Swag.

One saving grace are the cool Dekals, which are normally not handed out as rewards.

So... they are giving away new halloween dekkels for free and you are complaining about no new free swag?

Edited by MrKvola, 25 October 2018 - 11:42 PM.

[OMCBOONE]

MrKvola, on 25 October 2018 - 11:41 PM, said:

So... they are giving away new halloween dekkels for free and you are complaining about no new free swag?

No i love it all i just wanted new 2018 warhorn and swag. All else is awesome. I like the free MC etc and dekals.

Edited by OMCBOONE, 25 October 2018 - 11:48 PM.

[MrKvola]

OMCBOONE, on 25 October 2018 - 11:47 PM, said:

No i love it all i just wanted new 2018 warhorn and swag. All else is awesome. I like the free MC etc and dekals.

Well, last year it was the warhorn. This year it is the dekkels. Can't have it all I guess.

[D V Devnull]

Getting a little side-railed from the Main Topic, but this needs a constructive answer...

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Eisenhorne, on 25 October 2018 - 05:27 PM, said:

Clan weapons are still better than IS, not sure why you think they were nerfed.

Those danged Nerfs are documented, and I've personally experienced how bad they are. Spreadsheets and/or Graphs that have been shown around do NOT tell the tale by any means! Did you read either of these items below? Here's the list...

• "Alpha Balance PTS Results and Roadmap"
  --->>> https://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/268864-alpha-balance-pts-results-and-roadmap/
  
• "Patch Notes - 1.4.185.0 - 16-Oct-2018"
  --->>> https://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/269527-patch-notes-141850-16-oct-2018/

...and if you have not read these, then you really need to. Clans were hit with an inordinate number of Laser Damage Nerfs, including some that Inner Sphere Pilots explicitly never wanted. This hurt a whole [beep]-load of configurations that don't use...

• Large Lasers
  
• Gauss Rifles
  
• Other Ballistics
  
• Anything involving Missiles

...and particularly irked me to no end, because if I'm piloting an Inner Sphere Mech and make an error, I should NOT be able to just shrug off Clan Mech Attacks where they boat only Medium-sized Lasers. This even ruined a '42 Damage, Hit-and-Run, meme-yet-still-serious' Executioner Build, as well as a potentially nastier Ebon Jaguar Build, causing them to both now collect dust in my Mech Garage. It even semi-wrecked any build (such as with a ShadowCat) that used a combination of 2 Clan Heavy Large Lasers with some kind of Ballistics, but avoided the use of Medium Lasers. If there was any chance of my properly learning to brawl as a Clan Mech Pilot, PGI's done a nice job of moving towards blowing that out the window. If instead I go wandering around as an Inner Sphere Pilot, these Clan Damage Nerfs have frankly made my life a tad more easy than it should be. Either way, I really don't think MWO is in a so-called "State Of Balance" now at all, as this imbalance is how things now feel to me in terms of direct experience.

Heck, my thought of changing Ghost Heat Grouping Settings (Near the end of the PTS Results Thread) would have worked out better than this! PGI could have stood to increase the GH Limits a lot if they had used that route instead. Tch... It might even have allowed for further return Buffs to Missile Weapons, as well as an increase to Mech Armor/Structure Baselines. But hey, I guess PGI's unwilling to try implementing that or something, and for some lame reason that has nothing to do with what some of their Community feels things are operating like.

~Mr. D. V. "But oh well... Here's the ugly mess that things are now, and it's NOT happy!" Devnull

[Eisenhorne]

D V Devnull, on 26 October 2018 - 02:14 AM, said:

Getting a little side-railed from the Main Topic, but this needs a constructive answer...

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Those danged Nerfs are documented, and I've personally experienced how bad they are. Spreadsheets and/or Graphs that have been shown around do NOT tell the tale by any means! Did you read either of these items below? Here's the list...

• "Alpha Balance PTS Results and Roadmap"
  
  --->>> https://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/268864-alpha-balance-pts-results-and-roadmap/
  
• "Patch Notes - 1.4.185.0 - 16-Oct-2018"
  
  --->>> https://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/269527-patch-notes-141850-16-oct-2018/

...and if you have not read these, then you really need to. Clans were hit with an inordinate number of Laser Damage Nerfs, including some that Inner Sphere Pilots explicitly never wanted. This hurt a whole [beep]-load of configurations that don't use...

• Large Lasers
  
• Gauss Rifles
  
• Other Ballistics
  
• Anything involving Missiles

...and particularly irked me to no end, because if I'm piloting an Inner Sphere Mech and make an error, I should NOT be able to just shrug off Clan Mech Attacks where they boat only Medium-sized Lasers. This even ruined a '42 Damage, Hit-and-Run, meme-yet-still-serious' Executioner Build, as well as a potentially nastier Ebon Jaguar Build, causing them to both now collect dust in my Mech Garage. It even semi-wrecked any build (such as with a ShadowCat) that used a combination of 2 Clan Heavy Large Lasers with some kind of Ballistics, but avoided the use of Medium Lasers. If there was any chance of my properly learning to brawl as a Clan Mech Pilot, PGI's done a nice job of moving towards blowing that out the window. If instead I go wandering around as an Inner Sphere Pilot, these Clan Damage Nerfs have frankly made my life a tad more easy than it should be. Either way, I really don't think MWO is in a so-called "State Of Balance" now at all, as this imbalance is how things now feel to me in terms of direct experience.


Heck, my thought of changing Ghost Heat Grouping Settings (Near the end of the PTS Results Thread) would have worked out better than this! PGI could have stood to increase the GH Limits a lot if they had used that route instead. Tch... It might even have allowed for further return Buffs to Missile Weapons, as well as an increase to Mech Armor/Structure Baselines. But hey, I guess PGI's unwilling to try implementing that or something, and for some lame reason that has nothing to do with what some of their Community feels things are operating like.

~Mr. D. V. "But oh well... Here's the ugly mess that things are now, and it's NOT happy!" Devnull

I play quite a lot of clan mechs. Hellbringers are still vicious, except the 5 ERML + 2 ERLL build is now better IMO than the 4 ERML + 2 HLL build. The slight nerf to clan alphas is more than compensated by the massive buffs to heat dissipation. My Supernova with 2 LPL + 6 MPL is stupid good now, heat basically doesn't matter. My 6 ERLL marauder IIC is way better now as well, the heat dissipation buff makes it have much higher DPS.

Clan laservomit is still absolutely viable and quite powerful. Trust me, unless the player you're fighting against is bad, you cannot "shrug off" a clan alpha.

[Ery]

It seems that some games are not counted. Especially if you die and leave the game before the end of the round. Every time the same **** ...

[DarthHias]

Eisenhorne is right.

[JadePanther]

Matt Newman, on 23 October 2018 - 03:19 PM, said:

I have Set Phase 2 to start 24 hours Earlier!
Get them Loot Bags!

Yay for more time on the long grind.. The overlap is nice to help reduce burnout on a long grindy event..

now if you could only do something about the other preorders that still have to arrive... like how about bonus loot bags for the vapor eagle and charger/CHI packs too? would have gotten them in past loot bag events.. why not in this one?

[Akillius]

JadePanther, on 26 October 2018 - 10:50 AM, said:

how about bonus loot bags for the vapor eagle and charger/CHI packs too? would have gotten them in past loot bag events.. why not in this one?

Those Mech packs already got included in a loot bag event back in Sept.
https://mwomercs.com...?t=201808turtle

Quote

Tournament Supporter - 25 Additional Loot Bags:

• Own the TSP before Sep 13th 5:00:00 PM (PDT) (Sep 14th 12:00:00 AM (UTC)) to get 25 bonus redeems

Bonus Redeems for 'Mech Packages:

• Champion Owners Receive 25 Bonus Redeem
  
• Vapor Eagle Owners Receive 25 Bonus Redeem
  
• Charger - Owners Receive 25 Bonus Redeems
  
• Hatamoto-Chi - Owners Receive 25 Bonus Redeems

A possible total of 125 Bonus Loot Bags!

OMCBOONE, on 25 October 2018 - 05:28 PM, said:

I love these events. However, it's kinda disappointing you all didn't do a new warhorn for 2018.

Back in 2016 there was no decals in MWO.
So... I'm still waiting for my retro 2016 Tournament Supporter decal to collectable to go with my 2017 and 2018 decals!!

Honestly PGI never offered 2016 decal, and all 2018 warhorns was shown at the get go and given upon purchase. I purchased each year solely based on the initial offering and the chance to help myself get a cbill boost... er I meant; to help PGI. ofc
The 2017 extra warhorns they gave (months later) was just a nice surprise bonus. So personally I don't expect more warhorns/decals/mc/cbills/etc this year, but if they do... then its a nice and welcome surprise.



PS. And to be entirely honest I would like a 2016 TSP decal too, but no one else does. lol

Edited by Akillius, 26 October 2018 - 11:35 AM.

[D V Devnull]

Ery, on 26 October 2018 - 07:06 AM, said:

It seems that some games are not counted. Especially if you die and leave the game before the end of the round. Every time the same **** ...

I think I am seeing the same problem with the Trackers. It should be still counting your Match(es) properly if one has enough done to still get the proper Match Score earned. It should NOT choke over an early leave, should you have happened to die already and be unable to help the team through spectating. It should also NOT choke at random either, suddenly failing to count a match where you were connected the whole time. Sadly, I think I may be seeing this troublesome behavior too, even though I am pressed for time in some situations, just like many other people are. With the Active Premium Time from the Previous Event running, it simply is NOT fair to force a person to have to sit and wait, when their time can be better used on another different Match.

~Mr. D. V. "I'm possibly seeing a Bug in the Trackers too, at least that's how it looks and feels." Devnull

[Horseman]

I would love to see a way to get more copies of the 2017 warhorns. Just saying.

[Horseman]

Akillius, on 26 October 2018 - 11:34 AM, said:

Back in 2016 there was no decals in MWO.
So... I'm still waiting for my retro 2016 Tournament Supporter decal to collectable to go with my 2017 and 2018 decals!!

Honestly PGI never offered 2016 decal, and all 2018 warhorns was shown at the get go and given upon purchase. I purchased each year solely based on the initial offering and the chance to help myself get a cbill boost... er I meant; to help PGI. ofc
The 2017 extra warhorns they gave (months later) was just a nice surprise bonus. So personally I don't expect more warhorns/decals/mc/cbills/etc this year, but if they do... then its a nice and welcome surprise.

Actually, decals were added in July 2016.

[JadePanther]

Akillius, on 26 October 2018 - 11:34 AM, said:

Those Mech packs already got included in a loot bag event back in Sept.
https://mwomercs.com...?t=201808turtle






Back in 2016 there was no decals in MWO.
So... I'm still waiting for my retro 2016 Tournament Supporter decal to collectable to go with my 2017 and 2018 decals!!

Honestly PGI never offered 2016 decal, and all 2018 warhorns was shown at the get go and given upon purchase. I purchased each year solely based on the initial offering and the chance to help myself get a cbill boost... er I meant; to help PGI. ofc
The 2017 extra warhorns they gave (months later) was just a nice surprise bonus. So personally I don't expect more warhorns/decals/mc/cbills/etc this year, but if they do... then its a nice and welcome surprise.



PS. And to be entirely honest I would like a 2016 TSP decal too, but no one else does. lol

SO! those packs are still on preorder and perhaps people bought them after the conclusion of that previous loot bag event.. tough tiddies for them right?