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[martian]

Detoxication, on 10 May 2021 - 10:59 PM, said:

hello. nice event and all. almost 6 hours server off on sunday and nobody say a word here.

Come on! You have a month to complete the challenge.

Ch_R0me, on 11 May 2021 - 01:07 AM, said:

So far so good about progress. Still, the prevalence of AMS is effectively preventing me to score the damned missile damage...

Try SRMs and MRMs, especially in greater numbers.

Edited by martian, 11 May 2021 - 01:28 AM.

[Buenaventura]

eggyh4ck99BarrelsAndRumAint1Yar, on 10 May 2021 - 10:57 AM, said:

hey Daeron are we going to get a new mech we can purchase soon? clan or IS
or is it only custom chassis with bolt ons

There - probably - will be a 2-pack of new clan variants of existing chassis, similar to the Stryker pack being 2 new IS variants of existing chassis. This pack will feature a normal and a special (S) version of the mechs, the (S) with a special camo pattern and a cbill bonus, so 4 mechs in total. The early adopter bonus will likely include 2 sets of boltons again.

[tee5]

I wrote before, that some stuff was missing, from redeeming the finished challenge.

I think everything is there now.

Looks it was the problem, that it takes longer to redeem stuff through the homepage.
So nextime I will use the ingame area to redeem my stuff from challenges.

EDIT: Spelling

Edited by tee5, 11 May 2021 - 07:31 PM.

[w0qj]

Try MAD-4HP Marauder II 100ton LRM boat.

IS LRM100, can even punch through COR-7A triple-AMS protection.
Lots of sandblasting damage!

Just tried Artemis-LRM90 on this same mech, and actually started killing a few enemies too (does slightly less damage, but you actually start to get some kills).

Ch_R0me, on 11 May 2021 - 01:07 AM, said:

So far so good about progress. Still, the prevalence of AMS is effectively preventing me to score the damned missile damage...

Edited by w0qj, 12 May 2021 - 06:16 AM.

[Speedy Plysitkos]

I dont know bout LRMs.

I remember 2016 LRM spams everywhere. Now its seems kinda -90% suppressed due to ECM/other stuff. (which is good)

[C337Skymaster]

tee5, on 07 May 2021 - 04:10 PM, said:

As far as I remember PGI gave the Timberwolf built in negative Quirks.

At first you could see the negative Quirks in the Quirk-List.
But then they were deleted from the Quirk-List and hard coded into the Timberwolf itself.

Those Mobility and Agillity buffs would maybe only erradicate those built in negative quirks.

But it was long in the past, I hardly remember it. Maybe I recall it wrong.

You remember correctly. Particularly, the two different sides of the -A variant were quirked to cancel each other out (to discourage you from taking just the energy-heavy -A left torso) but after they "fixed" it, they hard-coded the negative quirks, so you couldn't see them, anymore, and I think a lot of the positive "canceling" quirks got reduced or eliminated...

Edited by C337Skymaster, 12 May 2021 - 05:54 AM.

[C337Skymaster]

Daeron Katz, on 08 May 2021 - 11:59 AM, said:

Ah, that was right when they brought me back on at Piranha. Ah well, next month will be another free 'Mech (and every month after) and I'll try not to do another Timber Wolf.

I dunno: I don't have the TBR-Champion, and I've been playing for awhile. Unless that was a pick-your-prize situation, in which case, many people likely picked a different 'mech (such as myself). I appreciate the chance to acquire another Champion version! Thanks!

[martian]

C337Skymaster, on 12 May 2021 - 05:44 AM, said:

I dunno: I don't have the TBR-Champion, and I've been playing for awhile. Unless that was a pick-your-prize situation, in which case, many people likely picked a different 'mech (such as myself). I appreciate the chance to acquire another Champion version! Thanks!

It was one of those challenges when you are opening dozens of "rewards" to get tons of useless junk like Small lasers, single heat sinks, flamers, etc.

The Champion Timber Wolf C was the randomnly assigned "Grand Prize". I was not lucky and after opening some 100-150 "rewards" I ended up with a heap of useless junk. From some reson PGI thought that it is going to make the players happy ....

A year after that PGI copied the event and then I got that first TBR-C(C).

So if you were not lucky in the first challenge and if you were equally unlucky in the second challenge (or ignored it), you do not have that Timby.

[C337Skymaster]

martian, on 12 May 2021 - 07:00 AM, said:

It was one of those challenges when you are opening dozens of "rewards" to get tons of useless junk like Small lasers, single heat sinks, flamers, etc.

The Champion Timber Wolf C was the randomnly assigned "Grand Prize". I was not lucky and after opening some 100-150 "rewards" I ended up with a heap of useless junk. From some reson PGI thought that it is going to make the players happy ....

A year after that PGI copied the event and then I got that first TBR-C(C).

So if you were not lucky in the first challenge and if you were equally unlucky in the second challenge (or ignored it), you do not have that Timby.

Oh you were supposed to get it out of a loot bag? No wonder I don't have it... I think that's happened a couple of times, where the "grand prize" never showed up in 150 loot bags. I suspect that might have been the prompt to have such prizes tied to a loot-bag earnings counter, rather than being contained in the loot bags, themselves (and thus subject to RNG).

[Speedy Plysitkos]

chi-ching.
My first ever (C) mech in da garage.

What guns u guys use on it ?

[Gas Guzzler]

Daeron Katz, on 07 May 2021 - 04:05 PM, said:

Concept art is being created as we speak, and the pack will go live next week.

*lack of patience intensifies*

[martian]

Speedy Plysitkos, on 12 May 2021 - 11:53 AM, said:

chi-ching.
My first ever (C) mech in da garage.

What guns u guys use on it ?

There is a thread ... Timber Wolf And You

[Steel Shanks]

As much as I love the Free Mechs, how bout some NEW Mechs? Pillager, Crusader, would be interesting choices. I don't know whatever Clan non-sense Mechs could come out Turkina or whatever... Maybe some ComStar Mechs? Like the Grim Reaper? Or the Marshal Mech from the Taurian Concordat and Canopus? The Ost-Mechs maybe? Would love to play and see some new Mechs running around...

[Gas Guzzler]

Steel Shanks, on 12 May 2021 - 01:19 PM, said:

As much as I love the Free Mechs, how bout some NEW Mechs? Pillager, Crusader, would be interesting choices. I don't know whatever Clan non-sense Mechs could come out Turkina or whatever... Maybe some ComStar Mechs? Like the Grim Reaper? Or the Marshal Mech from the Taurian Concordat and Canopus? The Ost-Mechs maybe? Would love to play and see some new Mechs running around...

Hauptmann
Blackhawk KU
Men-Shen
Raptor
Kingfisher
Dragon Fire
Black Python
Gunslinger
Komodo
Locust IIC
Shadowhawk IIC
Turkina
Brigand
Fire Falcon


This is the way.

[Eurystheus]

w0qj, on 08 May 2021 - 11:41 AM, said:

This one is more of a Challenge, and certainly needs more time to complete.
But hey, one month is a lot of time, right?

It took me about a week.

[Eurystheus]

Otto Cannon, on 10 May 2021 - 10:12 PM, said:

Good event, cheers! The UAV took me longest to get, those little suckers are invisible on most sky backgrounds. I ended up just using Beagle Probe equipped mechs until I detected one in the end.

UAV is tough for me too. I spot the UAV, aim at the UAV, and right before I pull the trigger someone else shoots it down.

[C337Skymaster]

Eurystheus, on 12 May 2021 - 03:46 PM, said:

UAV is tough for me too. I spot the UAV, aim at the UAV, and right before I pull the trigger someone else shoots it down.

PPCs are your friend in that regard.

[w0qj]

Just some friendly advice... at the start of any Event, quickly scan/look for any UAV tasks, and prioritize on these first... easiest to complete at the beginning...

Having said that, this Event is already easy on kill UAV (you only need to kill 1x UAV).
And MWO is nice enough to give players lots of free ones for UAV fodder...
Have been in events where you have had to kill 10x UAV, and with very few "free UAV" rewarded, those can get BAD near the end...

Eurystheus, on 12 May 2021 - 03:46 PM, said:

UAV is tough for me too. I spot the UAV, aim at the UAV, and right before I pull the trigger someone else shoots it down.

[Eurystheus]

I have a suggestion I would like to make. On the Team Score screen, which we can access by pushing the TAB key during a match, I'd like to see the mech information of the opponent team filled in as they are identified. So, for example, if someone gets a lock on opponent Alpha, and determines that it is a flea, FLE-20, fill that in on the team score page.

[Voice of Kerensky]

Speedy Plysitkos, on 12 May 2021 - 12:15 AM, said:

I dont know bout LRMs.

I remember 2016 LRM spams everywhere. Now its seems kinda -90% suppressed due

It looks like you are a very lucky person. Or we play different games))