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[Z Paradox]

yes 1 bag per 500 score is grindy, and you will need time to finish it, it took me ~300 games. Some times you get lucky and get 300-500 ms and sometime some jerk go in your arty and you get 0 ms... just use mech your familiar with and have fun (I used narc RVN and srm JR7 for fun part )

[- Gryphon -]

Dear developers PGI! A quick play game by a group drop does not work. We are going to a group and the game is looking for a very long time. Due to the decrease in the number of players playing a group in a quick game, I propose to connect groups of players waiting in line with single players. But when you start playing alone, he finds the game very quickly

A very long wait or doesn’t find it at all.
How it work, PGI ?

Edited by - Gryphon -, 10 March 2020 - 08:53 PM.

[Aidan Crenshaw]

Wrong place, Gryphon. In short, Group Queue is mostly dead except maybe for fridays when the streamers do group drops.

[Pz_DC]

2 things I have to say about this "event":
1. Prizes do not meet the requirements for receiving them - need to spend a lot of time for "simple" mech, that can be purchased with MC.
2. The hardest part - spend all that time playing and that's bad - no real challenge, just sad grind...
P.S. Yes, ofcourse - "thanks for the event" but it's a shame that it is exactly what it is… IMHO.

Edited by Pz_DC, 11 March 2020 - 10:15 AM.

[Horseman]

Pz_DC, on 11 March 2020 - 10:14 AM, said:

2 things I have to say about this "event":
1. Prizes do not meet the requirements for receiving them - need to spend a lot of time for "simple" mech, that can be purchased with MC.
2. The hardest part - spend all that time playing and that's bad - no real challenge, just sad grind...
P.S. Yes, ofcourse - "thanks for the event" but it's a shame that it is exactly what it is… IMHO.

Yeah, the thing with events is that they're only enjoyable if the grind-to-reward ratio is decent.
If I can get a bag with slightly above average performance and more than one bag on a good match, it's about right. Apply this to the global average match score and you've got something the playerbase can accept - and given that this average has historically sat around 225 for a few years, 250 is the sweet spot.

[philluder]

One question...Are the price mechs really normal cbill mechs or are they special?
Would be a lot of effort for a cbill mech that i could just take out of the shop....

[Xaat Xuun]

philluder, on 11 March 2020 - 04:00 PM, said:

One question...Are the price mechs really normal cbill mechs or are they special?
Would be a lot of effort for a cbill mech that i could just take out of the shop....

I didn't look through all of'em, but it looks like they're all C-Bill mechs, no specials of champions mechs

[Renzor the Red]

Horseman, on 11 March 2020 - 02:17 PM, said:

Yeah, the thing with events is that they're only enjoyable if the grind-to-reward ratio is decent.

philluder, on 11 March 2020 - 04:00 PM, said:

One question...Are the price mechs really normal cbill mechs or are they special?
Would be a lot of effort for a cbill mech that i could just take out of the shop....

All of those mechs are mechs that have MW5 Preorder special versions or are from previous years' loyalty programs. The ones in the grand prize selection are the standard variants.

I won't talk down about free stuff or free mechs, but for such a grindy event, it would make so much sense for the grand prize mechs to be the special/loyalty variants instead of standard. I mean ... what a prize. Makes that grind-to-reward ratio make sense.

I'd love me a STK-3FB(L).

Edited by Renzor the Red, 11 March 2020 - 08:11 PM.

[Horseman]

Renzor the Red, on 11 March 2020 - 08:10 PM, said:

I'd love me a STK-3FB(L).

So would I - or the loyalty KGC since I'm still missing that one

[S Phoenix]

I would like to echo what others have said:

500 Match score for 1 loot bag turns this event into a grind. - Not fun.

The reward is simply not worth the effort. Some of us have decided to stop playing or ignore the event altogether.

Like someone said before: 250-300 is the sweet spot.

Please consider this as resounding feedback from not just one person.

P.S: Reducing the number of loot bags to 250 was nice. Thank You
But I am talking about the "feel" of the event itself.
You want to be able to play a match, challenge yourself and get a loot bag as a reward.

Edited by Samurai Phoenix, 12 March 2020 - 12:53 AM.

[Reptile Blackdeath]

Just reiterating the above comment. Events should feel fun, not grind. Yes I know no one is making us participate, but you must know the number of of players who play this game are a completionist personality type...
Anyhow it's funny how I feel less inclined to play the game even for fun (if you call the gimmick score build playing out there fun..) but maybe I'll take the AMS/LRM boats and watch others rage..

[Flying Fox 333]

Whilst you have allowed a head start for the match score. The 250 match score from the previous Christmas Stocking Stuffer is more achievable in my opinion considering damage is easier to acquire.

As mentioned above the higher amounts add a noticeable grindy feel to an otherwise fine event.

Edited by Flying Fox 333, 12 March 2020 - 04:38 AM.

[ghost1e]

I'd love some challenging event like "break 1.5k in a QP match", as that'd make me have fun while trying to improve to get that score

[Kodan Black]

On just the match score it is probably, as others have said, roughly .5 bags per match. The damage is probably a little bit easier to achieve so I would think once both parts are running you should be around 1 bag per match average. If you waited until both were active you would still need ~250 matches to get the free mech which does feel high. I'll play either way, because I'd play without an event but going forward I'd think 350 would be a more reasonable number than 500.

[YouKnowNothing]

Hi, I know it's a bit late, but, can we haz a link to the lucky charms page somewhere in the Events Tracker page. I have only the event tracker bookmarked, and my lazy *** is having a hard time looking in the latest news on the front page to track the lootbag link.

[Pz_DC]

Hell, just noticed:

Match Loot Bags

Phase 1

• Earn 1 Loot Bag every 500 match score you accumulate
  
• Accumulate a total Match score of 75,000 to earn up to 150 Loot Bags in Phase 1
  
• PLUS complete Phase 1 Challenges - Cockpit items
  
• Start: Mar 5th, 2020 4:00:00 PM (PST) / Mar 6th, 2020 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
  
• End: Mar 24th, 2020 5:00:00 PM (PDT) / Mar 25th, 2020 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Phase 2

• Earn a Loot Bag for every 500 Damage you accumulate
  
• Accumulate a Damage total of 75,000 to earn up to 150 Loot bags
  
• Start: Mar 12th, 2020 5:00:00 PM (PDT) / Mar 13th, 2020 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
  
• End: Mar 24th, 2020 5:00:00 PM (PDT) / Mar 25th, 2020 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

And what we has instead? Phase 1 - Damage and Phase 2 - MS !!! Same with time - it should be match score Phase 1 start at 5th but not Damage!!! Someone tell it to devs!

P.S. lol now it's all fine...magic bug on event page?.. idk... but I'm sure few hours ago my "phase 1" page has damage counter and "phase 2" page - MS counter...

Edited by Pz_DC, 14 March 2020 - 01:33 PM.

[Horseman]

Pz_DC, on 14 March 2020 - 11:32 AM, said:

P.S. lol now it's all fine...magic bug on event page?.. idk... but I'm sure few hours ago my "phase 1" page has damage counter and "phase 2" page - MS counter...

Seems fixed now.

... a few minutes ago I accidentally confused both pages though

Edited by Horseman, 15 March 2020 - 12:04 AM.

[Aidan Crenshaw]

I don't recall Phase 1 saying damage and I've checked the site regularly for the past week.

[Goldo7]

Been playing all day and managed 61 lootbags.

Nice extra reward. Thank you.

Perhaps 1 more game

Edited by Goldo7, 15 March 2020 - 11:32 AM.

[ShooteyMcShooterson]

Totes need to extend this event to the start of the next event. The wait times and very high bar to get the loot bags is making this one super time consuming to complete.