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[w0qj]

Try the Kintaro KTO-18 medium IS mech.
Modest CBills requirements for medium mech, 5 missile hardpoints, and quirks for Missile Cooldown, Missile Heat, and Missile Velocity

(The IS Hero mech Dervish Frenzy DV-FR with 8 missile hardpoints works very well too, but not everyone has it yet).

[Roodkapje]

stripped, on 05 June 2021 - 10:04 PM, said:

My guess would be that PGI is looking into weapons balancing / Mech quirks again. Hence special weapon types and this is not an oversight.
The SRM part is easily done with the right Mechs.
IS: BSW-P1: https://mech.nav-alp...a15cdc3c_BSW-P1
Clan: HMN-PA: https://mech.nav-alp...d9acaa5c_HMN-PA (or you use 6 SRM6 if you do not own the Huntsman - which you should).

The Huntsman can even alpha all eight SRM 6 - if you have the heat reduction nodes activated. 98% heat, almost 100 damage points at point blank range...even the splash does not matter.
Bring a coolshot, though, so you can keep firing.

w0qj, on 05 June 2021 - 11:10 PM, said:

Try the Kintaro KTO-18 medium IS mech.
Modest CBills requirements for medium mech, 5 missile hardpoints, and quirks for Missile Cooldown, Missile Heat, and Missile Velocity

All three of those are very common Scouting builds for Faction Warfare so every MWO player should have those three or at least one of them in their inventory anyway!

[stripped]

Except Scouting is dead as of now...I also loved the Ice Ferret in scouting mode.

[martian]

Roodkapje, on 06 June 2021 - 06:07 AM, said:

All three of those are very common Scouting builds for Faction Warfare so every MWO player should have those three or at least one of them in their inventory anyway!

Honestly, the challenge requirement is just a 1000 points of SRM damage (IS/Clan). Even when having SRMs as a secondary weapon on a 'Mech, that 1000 DMG is going to accumulate in the course of 30 days. No special 'Mech is really needed.

Edited by martian, 06 June 2021 - 06:30 AM.

[Kaio-Kerensky x10]

crazytimes, on 05 June 2021 - 07:55 PM, said:

Depends how you define "weird". For example, I consider "weird" the fact that every single event, almost every single page in the thread has people saying "the rewards didn't appear", followed by 3 people saying "just log out and back in again". Next page? Same thing.

I didn't claim them on the forums. And the weird part is that some rewards work and some do not, and there is no apparent pattern to what works or doesn't.

[FupDup]

martian, on 06 June 2021 - 06:24 AM, said:

Honestly, the challenge requirement is just a 1000 points of SRM damage (IS/Clan). Even when having SRMs as a secondary weapon on a 'Mech, that 1000 DMG is going to accumulate in the course of 30 days. No special 'Mech is really needed.

I did the Clan one in like 2 hours or less (didn't time it) with only 2 SRM6's on a Vapor Eagle as backups for my ERPPCs. The lack of Artemis is a bit annoying but it's not a large obstacle.

[martian]

FupDup, on 06 June 2021 - 08:10 AM, said:

I did the Clan one in like 2 hours or less (didn't time it) with only 2 SRM6's on a Vapor Eagle as backups for my ERPPCs. The lack of Artemis is a bit annoying but it's not a large obstacle.

Pretty much.

People behave like they have to complete the challenge in 24 hours and not in 30 days.

Who has got a dedicated SRM/AC/ER PPC boat - good.
Who has not got a dedicated SRM/AC/ER PPC boat - there is no problem, since in 30 days one can always run a 'Mech with some SRMs, ACs, ER PPCs, just fromthe time to time..

[TwilightTactician]

Super excited to see players getting 2 lightmechs instead of one, and the I think both of the chassis were a great choice, but I'm a bit disappointed that we got the e variant of the arctic cheetah, . It is the only ACH variant that doesn't have a set-bonus worth considering, and many players already have other variants that can do everything this one can and more.

I think the C would have been a better choice, but I would be equally (if not more) happy if we saw the E get a set bonus buff.

There are a plethora of ways you could go about it, and considering that you must give up on ecm for the bonus, it would be hard to overdo it. To the variant's benefit, it does have the highest number of base hardpoints, however, the hardpoints aren't very flexible with how they can be used, as you can't fit more than one large lazer or non-mg ballistic.

To start, the set-bonus needs at least a decent bonus to accel/decel like many of the other sets get (perhaps 10%)
It would also be quite reasonable to make the 5% range quirk apply to all weapons, or at least all energy based weapons.
(If you wanted to promote Mpls still, you could add a small mpl cooldown quirk on top of it)
I also think it should also get +10 armor to the arms, same as the other arm based sets get. (loaded into the set, instead of the arms themselves however, for obvious reasons)

[martian]

Xaius, on 06 June 2021 - 11:52 AM, said:

Super excited to see players getting 2 lightmechs instead of one, and the I think both of the chassis were a great choice, but I'm a bit disappointed that we got the e variant of the arctic cheetah, . It is the only ACH variant that doesn't have a set-bonus worth considering, and many players already have other variants that can do everything this one can and more
....

The players are going to design their own loadouts anyway, using all OmniPods available to them. Usualy the default loadout is not too important.

[TwilightTactician]

To the people complaining about the event requirements, I usually finish 75% of these challenges day 1, they don't take that long.

I can see why you might complain if you were a beginner with a small mech collection though.

martian, on 06 June 2021 - 12:01 PM, said:

The players are going to design their own loadouts anyway, using all OmniPods available to them. Usualy the default loadout is not too important.

Yeah, it's just a bit disappointing to anyone that already owns an arctic cheetah. The variant doesn't even attempt to make you consider keeping the set. Even if all the other sets are still bad, you can at least try and do something a little different with them.

[Voice of Kerensky]

Thx, PGI!

[Kano111]

The Huntsman which was a freebie a while ago is an awesome SRM6 boat. The 1000 damage figure should take no more than 3 matches on a bad day.

IS SRM4 is great on an Assassin or Dervish etc. Wouldn't take long at all.

Just use trial mechs if you are new-ish.. Enjoy the challenge and the free stuff!

[-Ramrod-]

As much as I'd 2 free mechs....ugh....this is gonna be painful....not sure it's worth it.

[Fae Puka]

Free mech bays and a little cash injection if you have duplicates . . . thank you

[DeadWeight18]

Thank you for the event PGI.

[Atlas3060]

Clan SRM 6s huh? Well hello Artic Wolf I now have a reason to buy you and act like a madman for a while.

[martian]

-Ramrod-, on 06 June 2021 - 10:11 PM, said:

As much as I'd 2 free mechs....ugh....this is gonna be painful....not sure it's worth it.

You have my word that those light 'Mechs are worth that tiny bit of extra effort.

[Kalimaster]

Intresting, but why include missiles in a speed of light event, unless our missiles got faster.

[martian]

Kalimaster, on 07 June 2021 - 08:33 AM, said:

Intresting, but why include missiles in a speed of light event, unless our missiles got faster.

Because Trial 'Mechs are armed with those missiles. So literally everybody can complete this challenge.

[Wid1046]

martian, on 05 June 2021 - 06:28 AM, said:

That "SRM+Artemis" thing was a nasty surprise for me.

I did at least 1000 DMG, and when I checked it, I only saw 0/1000.

If even a Tier 1 player with over 3500 comments on the forums was confused by this, then how likely is it for a new or casual player to make the same mistake? And a new or casual player is more likely to just think this is a 'bug' and get frustrated than bother to find out why their damage isn't counting towards the event. We're in the middle of having a bunch of new players join due to MW5 and with our current player population we really can't afford to lose them.

Just a single sentence under the 'Guiding Light' and 'Light the Way' challenges would fix this. Just say that Artemis will not count towards the challenge. Better yet, also point out that the trial mechs have these launchers already equipped (because while PGI always makes specific weapon challenges use weapons that are on trial mechs, new players won't know that).

This is a fantastic event with very generous rewards, but it could actually lead to less of the people joining due to the MW5 bump actually sticking around than otherwise would. People who are into the game enough to use the forums will figure out the Artemis thing without much difficulty, but that's not the case for new and more casual players. New players who think that PGI can't even create an event without it being 'bugged' aren't likely to stick around.