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[Sigmar Sich]

Thanks PGI! I really like the new cumulative goals, instead of hit-or-miss match score requirements. It wasn't very pleasant to miss a lootbag by being only few score points short.

I have to agree with some previous comments, in the current state of balance with super-easy no-brain-required LRM damage, gameplay quality will decrease, as more players will be motivated to farm damage the easy way, resulting in passive and frustrating matches.
Cumulative match score itself may be a better value, because it counts non-damage gameplay, such as scouting and destroyed missiles, etc.
But in no way i'm asking to change this event, i say bring it on. Balancing team screw-ups should not stay in a way of us having fun. Besides, it can't be worse than when PGI tried splash damage for lurms.

Also, sad to see trash items gone from the lootbags. The excitement of winning a flamer! Or better, a whole SMALL LASER!
Kidding.

P.S. A few suggestions, if i may:

As an irish / celtic themed event, maybe add an Ebon Jaguar to the grand prizes? Its Inner Sphere name is Cauldron Born, strait from the celtic mythology, if i'm not mistaken.
And for the IS counterpart, maybe some true Higlander, to accompany the IIC version.

[Lawrence Frans]

this looks more like a challenge then a Event, but still good, just saying

then again, everything is a challenge when you solo pug team don't know what they're doing, at least I get rewarded/lootbags, for playing with them

[Steel Raven]

... and here come the lurms.

I'm tempted to skip this event.

[Rodrigo Martinez]

It seems I overplayed my cosmic hand. 1000 500 damage, 10 kill assists per 1 loot bag, where it was 80 or 150 matchscore. The beautiful sidhe turned out to be fomorian warlock, pot of gold is pot of stones, and red coats coming for me, gg wp.

[Curccu]

MECHR0MANCER, on 13 March 2019 - 05:31 PM, said:

I Quit.
Events are getting Harder and Harder and rewards are getting Worse.
The Grind is so painful I give up.

It's called playing the game normally and get FREE EXTRA rewards for it.

[Dee Eight]

9846 damage in only a few hours of matches between quick play and solaris. Really you want the 50k in a hurry, just convince a streamer and his/her audience to run solaris and attempt to sync with them. Or do some faction drops. 2 hours in faction during prime time, should be able to pickup 5k of damage fairly easily.

[Dee Eight]

MECHR0MANCER, on 13 March 2019 - 05:31 PM, said:

I Quit.
Events are getting Harder and Harder and rewards are getting Worse.
The Grind is so painful I give up.

Life is hard buttercup.

[jamesbombed00420]

i feel like this event might possibly be violating some copyright laws lol

[B L O O D W I T C H]

nice event but what's with weird phase timing?

I'll farm exactly 25 bags and return on the 18th, tbh.

[DeadWeight18]

Challenge excepted!

[B L O O D W I T C H]

DeadWeight18, on 13 March 2019 - 11:36 PM, said:

Challenge excepted!

i see what you did there, lol. n1

[Teonas]

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Earn 50,000 Damage

Make it at least 50k damage or AMS missile destroyed - that would be more fun

[Michal R]

Hey Perfect Game Industry.
I will get Marauder 2 with MW5.
But there is no loot bags, my account say's to me that I don't but it.
Does it count when I buy MW5 or this is your standard bug? Like always?

[Psykmoe]

Michal R, on 14 March 2019 - 12:05 AM, said:

Hey Perfect Game Industry.
I will get Marauder 2 with MW5.
But there is no loot bags, my account say's to me that I don't but it.
Does it count when I buy MW5 or this is your standard bug? Like always?

Yeah same thing. I pre-ordered MW5 during a psychotic episode or something, but the PGI page says I have no Marauder II pre-order and also no 25 bags for pre-ordering a Marauder II.

I'm less concerned about the loot bags than I am about the possibility that I'll get screwed out of the Marauder II and assorted pre-order bonuses despite paying money for MW5 (like a fool).

[Tiewolf]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Urbie, on 13 March 2019 - 02:03 PM, said:

doing lootbags via damage-numbers is bad, to be blunt.

it FURTHER encourages hiding and lurming. spraying 1000dmg is quite easy this way, though games are unfun and will probably still get lost. no point in running a low-dmg-number mech during the entire event, right..?

sorry, but meh. pls rethink that.

100% true! But are there any other quantifiable numbers that don`t change game behavior? 100 match score perhaps...

[Javin]

Thanks for reducing the damage requirement. You should add in 1 missile destroyed by AMS = 1 damage. That way the LRM storms will be reduced and people will learn the usefulness of AMS during LRMaggeddon.

[Aidan Crenshaw]

Psykmoe, on 14 March 2019 - 12:07 AM, said:

Yeah same thing. I pre-ordered MW5 during a psychotic episode or something, but the PGI page says I have no Marauder II pre-order and also no 25 bags for pre-ordering a Marauder II.

I'm less concerned about the loot bags than I am about the possibility that I'll get screwed out of the Marauder II and assorted pre-order bonuses despite paying money for MW5 (like a fool).

Have you two redeemed your content codes?

[Psykmoe]

Aidan Crenshaw, on 14 March 2019 - 01:33 AM, said:

Have you two redeemed your content codes?

I redeemed the other two codes (for the MC and items) but not for the mech pack. I have no explanation for this, but thanks for bringing it up.

Luckily according to the FAQ, pre-order bonuses for mech packs go by time of purchase for gift codes, not time of redemption, so I didn't screw myself out of Marauder II pre-order cosmetics.

[MECHR0MANCER]

Curccu, on 13 March 2019 - 09:56 PM, said:

It's called playing the game normally and get FREE EXTRA rewards for it.

Dee Eight, on 13 March 2019 - 10:03 PM, said:

Life is hard buttercup.

In the last 2 years I have spent enough money on MWO to buy 15-20 AAA Games, because the game was fun and the grind was tolerable.

In the last few updates the fun has been seriously compromised –
First they change the override heat damage so if you override in a light or medium (which I mostly play) you will blow up almost instantly.
Then couple that with the new update where you over heat and shut down when you loose a side torso, then you die because you get shot to death while you are shut down. (what’s my choice go back to standard engines & single heatsinks?)

Combine all that with the fact that each of the last 5 events were harder than the last, the fun too grind ratio is not what it was.

Free stuff is great and I know it’s up to them to work out how much grind free stuff is worth, but the free stuff is to keep people playing so they will buy more Mech Packs & MC. People who play the game for a couple of hours and have fun are much more likely to spend money than people who have to grind to the point of exhaustion.

If you think the grind is worth it great, personally I'm exhausted.

[ImperialKnight]

I'm this event currently. Contrary to belief that people are going to be LRM-ing, most games I had are people just being really aggressive and getting into brawls immediately. Hope it's not a passing phase