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[Notorious Scallywag]

Thank you so much for the awesome gifts, I can't wait to try out the new mechs

[PraetorGix]

FATA13RR0R, on 01 December 2018 - 09:17 PM, said:

Plz make it clan version of WHR Black Widow with four ballistics in side torsos

Dunno if a complete copy but yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing. The Whammy IIC pack is disappointing, energy hardpoints and nothing else. This new hero NEEDS to be dakka. Or missiles, I'll take that over more energy.

[GaelicWolf]

Ok now it been the 3rd for at least 8 hours now .........where the info on my walking garbage truck/bulldozer/power loader/shootie mech thing.........

All kidding aside, Thanks PGI for the Christmas gifts. Last years Sunspider and Roughneck were great aditions to my garage, can't wait fro these to fill a mechbay slot and get to wreckin' mech's

[a frying pan to the CT]

Please please please let the holiday bonus Corsair hero have two complete arms; upper, lower, and hand actuators. I like the mech but it's hard to look at while it's missing one.

It's neat that different varients have different combinations of arms, but I think PGI would benefit from showing a few more pictures on the sales page of them. Honestly, I bet the sole, recolored picture of the one lopsided variant is hurting sales a little.

Thank you for the free mechs. And those colors, the Warhammer iic looks fantastic in them.

Edited by a frying pan to the CT, 03 December 2018 - 07:53 AM.

[TimonPumba-PRIME]

OK, so I just need to continuously play for 12 hours on the 27th right?
Got it.

Looking forward to my free mechs. Merry Christmas PGI

[D V Devnull]

TimonPumba-PRIME, on 03 December 2018 - 07:53 AM, said:

OK, so I just need to continuously play for 12 hours on the 27th right?

WRONG.

You only need a Single Qualifying Match where you managed at least 50 Match Score during the gameplay of that particular run! Playing for 12 Hours on the 27th of December is totally unnecessary in order to get just one good Match in.

~Mr. D. V. "Dude, you're really overthinking it." Devnull

[Cyrilis]

Thanks for the goodies! I'll for sure sneak off for a few matches that day!

[D V Devnull]

GaelicWolf, on 03 December 2018 - 07:47 AM, said:

Ok now it been the 3rd for at least 8 hours now .........where the info on my walking garbage truck/bulldozer/power loader/shootie mech thing.........

An even better question would be "What is the structure of the 'December 2018 Holiday Loot Bag Event' that is about to occur?", as it would be anger-causing to have too many Loot Bags require the higher Match Score levels. Heck, pardon me getting on a rant here that's meant more for PGI to read than anyone else, but your post just caused it to gush out of my mental floodgates! In example, I would make a Suggestion to our friendly Matt Newman (and obviously the rest of PGI's Events Team) that they structure it with 275 Loot Bags as thus...

• Up to 75 Loot Bags @ 50 Match Score (~27.3% of the 275)
  
• Up to 75 Loot Bags @ 85 Match Score (~27.3% of the 275)
  
• Up to 75 Loot Bags @ 120 Match Score (~27.3% of the 275)
  
• Up to 50 Loot Bags @ 155 Match Score (~18.1% of the 275 // Also the Highest Tier!!!)

...and then if there were Pick-A-Prize Items, I would have a Suggestion of goal points at...

• 150 Bags - First Item (~54.5% Total of the 275)
  
• 200 Bags - Second Item (~72.7% Total of the 275)
  
• 250 Bags - Third (Final) Item (~90.9% Total of the 275)

...as requiring All 100% of the Loot Bags during the Previous Loot Bag Event made a lot of people rather upset. As equally, I can understand how the better goals should be harder to reach. So, that's why I've put the Final Pick-A-Prize in my Suggestion here up where people would have to get their acts together and work with each other to get at least half of the Highest Tier of Loot Bags pocketed. Now, I don't know exactly how many Loot Bags that PGI will be willing to provide in the Event, and there's no way I can possibly know that. This is merely a Suggestion Framework of reasonable goals and margins that will keep people playing for quite a while, but without feeling that it's some kind of nightmarish and grueling grind to get anywhere and earn anything. Also, my hope with a layout like this is that it will avoid people getting upset and assuming many would have to quote-unquote "No Life" in order to earn enough. (That last part really wrecked my mental ears on the Previous Loot Bag Event... ouch.) However, all of this said, I will have to hope that PGI pays more attention to the percentage numbers in my posting more than the hard physical numbers used in the Suggestion Framework that I've done here.

EDIT (A few minutes later...) --- This just crossed my mind....... Before anyone tries to get salty at me, I will NEVER presume to know how to tell PGI's Events Team how to do their jobs. I'm merely lending insight from the player base's side, in order to help PGI's Events Team shape things as to make it great without causing any of their player base to turn salty.


Anyway, thanks for causing my brain to have an opening to get this all put up for reading. I appreciate it.

~Mr. D. V. "Sometimes one question can appear that overshadows another." Devnull

Edited by D V Devnull, 03 December 2018 - 09:12 AM.

[metallio]

Bwah Ha Ha, on 02 December 2018 - 08:20 AM, said:

That only works if you are where your computer is. A timeframe of multiple days would have been much more of a gift to the MW community.

...Or talk someone into logging in for you completely against the ToS. This is such a small requirement that anyone who cares this much should be able to figure it out. I set a reminder because I forget plenty of MWO stuff but the WH iiC is the last mech I gave a damn about and I didn't buy the pack 'cuz stuff.

...and if I miss the window on this thing because I'm playing with my kid or doing something that matters with the few people on earth I care about? It can die in a hole. Worst case I actually spend a pizza's worth of money on the thing.

In other words "IT'S OK MAN".

[Jesse Custer]

Matt's probably still hungover.

[The Man with the Plan]

That Corsair mech looks so good. High weapon mounts. So looking forward to piloting it.
I grew up playing mechwarrior 2(first game on pc I had), and have been waiting for the Warhammer IIC since before clan was introduced to mechwarrior online.

[D V Devnull]

Jesse Custer, on 03 December 2018 - 09:36 AM, said:

Matt's probably still hungover.

If he is, then he is. But I would be VERY surprised if anything was "drink until you have a hangover"-worthy at this year's "Mech_Con 2018" activities.

~D. V. "thinks your thought is unlikely" Devnull

[Acersecomic]

7:52pm, December 3rd. Come ooon, give me extended details Pretty please. I'm just here holding my fingers crossed there won't be "buy this or that to be eligable".

[Buenaventura]

PraetorGix, on 03 December 2018 - 07:04 AM, said:

Dunno if a complete copy but yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing. The Whammy IIC pack is disappointing, energy hardpoints and nothing else. This new hero NEEDS to be dakka. Or missiles, I'll take that over more energy.

While some don't like to hear it, the lore variants are mostly energy and missiles. Two have ballistics, but we don't have HAGs. One of these has the ballistics in the arms.

I could see the hero having ballistic hardpoints, but more likely in the arms.

[ValiantSr]

Looks like another nice holiday gift just for playing a game we enjoy.

Thank you PGI !

[CtrlAltWheee]

This is really generous. Thanks

[WeskerWild]

This is amazing gift.

More so for the Corsair as you can get your hands on one play for a few days and if you really like it you can buy the mechpack of corsairs within the pre order phase and get the extra goodies!!!!

[Warning incoming Humble Dexterer]

Some players already know they will be away from home, on December 27th.

Maybe extend this to : Play one match between December 25th and December 31st (included) ?

[Buenaventura]

WeskerWild, on 03 December 2018 - 11:56 AM, said:

This is amazing gift.

More so for the Corsair as you can get your hands on one play for a few days and if you really like it you can buy the mechpack of corsairs within the pre order phase and get the extra goodies!!!!

Uh, no, the new Warhammer IIC hero will arrive with the Warhammer IIC mech pack in February 2019, and the extra Corsair hero will arrive with the Corsair mech pack in March 2019.

[Angstrum Etheris]

Cool free stuff for having a pulse and dropping into a match in any arena. Awesome, thanks!