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[Raymacz]

Hi,


I've been wondering about this recent event:
MWO Mechwarrior Challenges Event "SCORE CARD" - https://www.screenca.../t/FtN6lQxNtTLN
We know 500 Match score is achievable - however, is this fair for the average player?

For the entire MWO players, how many players have completed this event except "SCORE CARD"? If yes, any idea of the percentage? What are the chances of achieving this match score?

Thoughts?

Look some matches of me & my friends :
- https://www.screenca...m/t/G0ldojlHIMq
- https://www.screenca.../t/Qi3kym8Qv8V6
- https://www.screencast.com/t/AmafmExgr

I'm just curious about your reactions & experiences. Peace!
Thanks.

Edited by Raymacz, 21 January 2019 - 08:57 AM.

[R Valentine]

Match score is all about gaming the system. Personal performance has only a touch to do with it. You can gain passive score with AMS and UAVs that can help push that 450 score over the edge. Strikes are easy free damage, especially on maps like Canyon and Mining, components destroyed offers more plentiful score reward than kills since every mech has 8 components, but can only yield you one kill. The objectives on modes like conquest and even domination offer match score for standing in the right spots. Stop voting skirmish if you want match score, because you ain't gonna get it in that mode.

[Funk1777]

Keep trying, you can do it. That madcat II-B was close, but I'm betting you had some team damage and didn't do stuff like drop uav's like kiran said. The sad thing about your screenshots is all the double digiters on those teams. Guys that stand still or face the wrong way die pretty fast and don't lead to farming much damage. You can always take out their side torsos.

Just try and stay near cover so your trades are favorable and don't hit a bunch of team members at the end trying to kill the last light.

[El Bandito]

Raymacz, on 21 January 2019 - 08:54 AM, said:

Hi,

I've been wondering about this recent event:
MWO Mechwarrior Challenges Event "SCORE CARD" - https://www.screenca.../t/FtN6lQxNtTLN
We know 500 Match score is achievable - however, is this fair for the average player?

For the entire MWO players, how many players have completed this event except "SCORE CARD"? If yes, any idea of the percentage? What are the chances of achieving this match score?
Thoughts?

I'm just curious about your reactions & experiences. Peace!
Thanks.

Higher the prize, more difficult it should be to achieve it. 500 MS is not impossible so if people want that 300 MC, they gonna have to work for it.

[Damnedtroll]

Got the 500 a couple of time with a lurmer and also an rac5/ac2 nightstar. It's situational but getting more than 700 damage help a lot.

[Angel of Annihilation]

It wouldn't be a challenge if it wasn't challenging. Also I felt that the 1 solo kill with a light mech was more of a challenge but even that went pretty easily.

Honestly, if you really, really want to get right down too it, none of the challenges are really challenges. If you want a challenge, you should try some of the World of Warship Challenges which require you to play every day, minimum of 4 hours a day to even remotely have a chance to earn the reward. Also to make things worse, they tend time lock different phases so even if you have a day off where you could play 8-10 hours, you can't actually move to he next phase even if you completed the last one because that phase doesn't happen to start until a day or two later. I pretty much gave up on doing any events with them because they were always a 40-50 hour slog to get anything and heaven help you if you have to miss a day of playing.

[Teenage Mutant Ninja Urbie]

hm.. to cut it short: do lots of dmg in whatever you like, throw in 2 arties and/or 2 UAVs, have an AMS, and you get it quite fast.

I'd suggest getting dakka-mechs for that. 1000+ in a madcat2b or a BASP is not hard with/against the right/wrong "team". or you just do the easy thing and grab yourself a beer. and some more beers. and then some more, and a lurmboat, and just wait for the right map.
*added*
see you got an EBJ; ever tried the 8-9 MedPulses? it slizes, it dices, and it adds up damage very quickly.

you gotta be actively dealing that damage, though. if you're heatsinks aren't doing work, your doing it wrong. keep those buggers busy and that 500MS-match is done before you know it

Edited by Teenage Mutant Ninja Urbie, 21 January 2019 - 10:03 AM.

[Hauptmann Keg Steiner]

Got it on an ATM Stormcrow of all things. TAG Damage/Kill/Stealth bonuses prolly racked up fast. AMS knocking missiles out of the sky builds up score pretty fast as well.

[ShiverMeRivets]

You need to combine good damage (500 or so) with some KMDD and solo kills, AMS destroyed missiles, and with some other bonuses from Tag and UAVs - you need some, not all. It is not so easy with some builds.

This event I did my 500 score with Urbie60L. 500’something damage with 4 kills, 2 solo, 2 KMDD and a very well placed UAV that yielded a lot of bonuses.

[MW Waldorf Statler]

PGI hope thats more players come to play with this ? Not interesting this waste of NASCAR time for this Prices ...enough Cbills and MCs with the MW5 preorder and no interesting Mechs(all nerfs with the Time) or all the ugly shaming bolts or Items to invest it ...im hope 2019 comes better Things ...Medals or Decals for FW Missions ? special camos ?

Edited by Old MW4 Ranger, 22 January 2019 - 03:17 AM.

[Kroete]

7 matches for the first 500 (mc ii b but i also got a nice 1000+ damage 3kills match with a acw-2 (lcap, 2 flamers, 3x6+2x2 streaks, 2 uavs, 120kph), the most time was used by trying to get the wins for mediums.
The last medium victory took me 7 trys, cant do anything if half your team is dead in under 3 minutes, sometimes even befor i have seen my first enemy.

The hiders and event-vultures are the worst, only 4 mechs left in your team and 3 of them have still over 90% armor. I have not seen a lrm boat hiding (sure there were some boats staying back, but at least they tryed to hit some enemys), but a mrm80 catapult sitting on our base just waiting if someone comes to him or a sunspider with smrs and some mgs hiding in the mapcorner to get some cheap kills as the last hero or an acw with lots of srms hiding until he was the last one or an archer only having rocketlaunchers ...

What helps for your matchscore is using uavs.
If you hit the enemy main force with a uav and some of them have ecm and you have a lrm boat in your team it adds lots of matchscore because detection+counterecm+spotting. I get more matchscore using well placed uavs then using strikes.
And killing enemy uavs also give some matchscore that adds up fast, because most people ignore uavs (often the same that cry us a river about lrms).

Edited by Kroete, 22 January 2019 - 04:11 AM.

[HammerMaster]

It's the final achievable goal.
You have a decent amount of time to perform it.
It shouldn't be easy to do.
Keep trying.
YOU CAN DO IT!

[Phoenix 72]

I got it 4 times out of 18 matches on this character and twice out of 14 matches with my T3 Smurf. The secret for me are Artillery and UAV. I never load Cool Shot. I always spend at least one skill point to get two consumables.

I did not have AMS on most of the Mechs I used for this and on the Crab 20 that I got this with twice, I only had 1 AMS with 1.5 tons of ammo - and never used that up.

So either use a sturdy Mech with good range, AMS and some consumables, or go brute force and pick whichever Mech you are most successful in and try until you succeed.

[Captain Polux]

Use a mech that'll deal high damage (no LRMs) plus a UAV for good measure. I used a 4 LBX10 Sleipnir to achieve it.

[Knight Captain Morgan]

For me it took a great deal of luck. I was in my Shadow Cat on HPG, skirmish. Red team rolled us and blue team folded faster than the Flash on laundry day. I was on the wall and no one on red team had enough jump jets to get to me so I was able to keep peeking and poptarting until the clock ran out. Red team sent up a couple UAVs to get missile lock but I knocked em down quick.

All said and done I turned what would’ve been a 12-0 rout into an 11-2 rout and scored over 900 damage (more than blue teams entire alpha and Charlie lance combined. I barely broke 500. Had red team not gifted me those UAVs I might not have.

And of course being quick play, instead of cheering me on, blue team were complaining and insulting me for dragging things out by continuing to fight. Sure 8 minutes is a long time for 2 kills but when you’re outnumbered 12 to 1 you kinda have to be extremely careful.

[lobsterhierarchy]

Flea-17, atm huntsman, and heavy gauss carriers are a good way to get that 500 match score.

Wait until you get a 499 match score like me and be eternally pissed to get the 500. It’s not impossible, but you’re going to have to stay mobile and pick your fights.

[Zaptiah]

Unfortunately the system is flawed. Multiple 800+ damage matches with all the usual bonus your supposed to have ... KMDD's, kills, components, lance in formation, UAV spots, arty drops etc etc ... Keep missing it by 2 or 3 points. But play a match where I'm off and get 300 maybe 350 damage and I have a match score of 290 to 330 maybe 340 ... Just finished the 8th straight 700 plus damage match in my KDK3 with the usual bonuses and nothing ...

The solo kills were a nice kind of challenging, this is just frustrating and makes people angry. I love this game but I really hate the little crappy things like this. It's hard enough to get people to team play in QP but then this just drives people to self center even more.

[Phoenix 72]

Funnily enough, the score is easier to reach in a lighter Mech. I think I did 5 out of my 6 with Medium Mechs. Here an example of one of my 500+ scores.

MS 504, DMG 572, 2 kills, 8 assists, 1 solo kill, 2 KMDD, 5 spotting assists, 3 components destroyed, 3 savior kills. 15 team damage. In a Crab 20.

Did not take a screenshot of the remaining stats at the time, I am afraid. I sometimes screenshot matches, but rarely of all the stats.

[CycKath]

Agree, got over 500 in Phoenix Griffin and Wolverine, getting Solo Kill in a heavy was much harder than 500 damage.

[GeminiWolf]

Got it with a 3 AMS Nova