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[martian]

D V Devnull, on 19 October 2021 - 04:07 AM, said:

I bet you have one already? So do I from the 2018 October ToT4 Event here, which means that the 2021 October ToT7 Event will end up giving me a duplicate. I can only surmise that they made this the current Prize in order to give the newbies a taste of something different. And yes, it happens that I'll admit my own opinion of finding it helpful to give several options to select from for those who could use it. But it happens that I as equally understand such options might have caused undue and/or unnecessary confusion to the newbies, and I therefore get why extra options were not made available this year. That said, we both know that anyone handling this Event could easily sneak in alternate options to shock and surprise us with.

No, I do not have one.

But completing the first phase of the event was really easy and I do not think that I will have difficulties with the second phase.

PeppaPig, on 19 October 2021 - 07:29 AM, said:

Probably one of the most inane events to date.

The headshot requirement is just going to see a plethora of flamer loaded lights running around (see The Beefs loadout on the Nova for a prime example) which basically means zero fun to be on the receiving line due to the naff mechanics the flamer uses to shut down any kind of laser/heavy ballistic mech other than gauss carriers.

I have played a lot of games since the beginning of the event and there has been no unusual number of flamer-equipped 'Mechs in the game. From time to time you can see one and that is about it.




I fulfilled that "Headshot" requirement just a few hours into the challenge - and without Flamers.

[Ch_R0me]

Another lootbag event. Yay. Shame that I don't get cockpit stuff, incl. warhorns...

w0qj, on 15 October 2021 - 10:37 AM, said:

Head-Shot-Kill... now that's a new one, sure makes deadly play!!

Lol, it was from some time.

For me, that's next to impossible, unless I'll manage to get into shutdown mech and pump 40 dmg

BTW PGI - do we finally have a indictator of the headshot kill?

[crazytimes]

martian, on 19 October 2021 - 08:57 PM, said:

I have played a lot of games since the beginning of the event and there has been no unusual number of flamer-equipped 'Mechs in the game. From time to time you can see one and that is about it.

I fulfilled that "Headshot" requirement just a few hours into the challenge - and without Flamers.

There's always salt, I called it early. I also haven't seen an unusual amount of flamers- or virtually any to be honest. Events bring out the LRMs more than flamers.

I did get a headshot too, which is not terribly common for me.

Big shout out to the guy running an ERPPC/Light gauss Marauder 2 that got two headshot kills in a row, one of them on a jumping Mist Lynx. It was a new acount, but keep an eye out for the guy in the leaderboards soon with precision like that.

[Daemonara]

Thanks for the super fun event, love them lootbags! ^^

[Roodkapje]

The skill level of the players seems to go down with every new Event further down the drain!

Can we have some Event that requires more Scanning and Spotting ?!

People seriously lack skill in that department!

[Rho Treska]

PeppaPig, on 19 October 2021 - 07:29 AM, said:

Probably one of the most inane events to date.

The headshot requirement is just going to see a plethora of flamer loaded lights running around (see The Beefs loadout on the Nova for a prime example) which basically means zero fun to be on the receiving line due to the naff mechanics the flamer uses to shut down any kind of laser/heavy ballistic mech other than gauss carriers.

Stepped rewards would have been a better approach to the Match Score requirement rather than just hitting the 15k, although, over the period of the event will be straight forward enough to get to.

I've seen exactly ONE 'mech with Flamers during this event, and it was a Firestarter. He wasn't too happy about eating my dual Gauss though and promptly left me alone. In that same match, I got two of his teammates with headshots.

Dual Gauss, dual HPPCs, triple PPCs with tight convergence - the rest is a matter of learning your cockpits and aiming well.

[SCHLIMMER BESTIMMER XXX]

PeppaPig, on 19 October 2021 - 07:29 AM, said:

Probably one of the most inane events to date.

The headshot requirement is just going to see a plethora of flamer loaded lights running around (see The Beefs loadout on the Nova for a prime example) which basically means zero fun to be on the receiving line due to the naff mechanics the flamer uses to shut down any kind of laser/heavy ballistic mech other than gauss carriers.

Wait... Hold my tinfoil hat

[Ch_R0me]

Managed to score headshot (Javelin loitering, hidden behind cover; used Thanatos 5S with Stealth & Dual Gauss)

[Voice of Kerensky]

Thx, PGI!

[DeadWeight18]

Finally got my Headshot challenge done with dual Heavy Gaus. Thank you Atlas!

[martian]

Ch_R0me, on 24 October 2021 - 12:25 PM, said:

Managed to score headshot (Javelin loitering, hidden behind cover; used Thanatos 5S with Stealth & Dual Gauss)

Congratulations to your gunnery skills!

And second congrats to your advancement to Tier 4!

[Roodkapje]

PeppaPig, on 19 October 2021 - 07:29 AM, said:

The headshot requirement is just going to see a plethora of flamer loaded lights running around

Locust @ 137 Km/h and a DC or AFK is all you need!

But somehow it does not work on the Nightgyr ?!
Whatever I did : No head damage ??

And after killing him in a headshot kind of way when he reConnected the game was still like : NOPE.AVI !!!

Ohh and the Solo Kill was totally worth the trouble because LURM build!

Edited by Roodkapje, 25 October 2021 - 01:21 PM.

[martian]

DeadWeight18, on 24 October 2021 - 09:36 PM, said:

Finally got my Headshot challenge done with dual Heavy Gaus. Thank you Atlas!

I think that there is no 'Mech in MWO that could withstand it.

[Aidan Crenshaw]

martian, on 25 October 2021 - 08:52 PM, said:

I think that there is no 'Mech in MWO that could withstand it.

True, even the toughest cockpit in the game - the cockpit of a flea - can at best withstand 43 pts of damage.

[martian]

Aidan Crenshaw, on 25 October 2021 - 09:45 PM, said:

True, even the toughest cockpit in the game - the cockpit of a flea - can at best withstand 43 pts of damage.

And I think that this is a bit comical, that an anti-infantry 20-tonner has more durable cockpit than a dedicated 100-ton Assault 'Mech such as the Atlas.

[D V Devnull]

Roodkapje, on 23 October 2021 - 12:25 PM, said:

The skill level of the players seems to go down with every new Event further down the drain!

Can we have some Event that requires more Scanning and Spotting ?!

People seriously lack skill in that department!

Agreed... I've been quipping about having a TAG-related thing in Events for some time now. All we would need is to ask for Teamwork by players to help land Lock-On Damage just a few times by using a TAG-Equipped Mech to enable quick hits by a Teammate firing to support them. Stack this post as one more on that pile!

And heck, why haven't we added a Game Mechanic for the NARC-Linked Damage already? Thanks to things like AMS & ECM (and I.S. Stealth Armor) being in the game, it's bloody hard to get a NARC Beacon landed and have it stay effective! Those people should get paid at least something for making it more possible for their Teammates to land Lock-On Damage instead of having to wait for an all-or-nothing result, even if it's only 80% of what a TAG-using player gets!

martian, on 25 October 2021 - 10:27 PM, said:

And I think that this is a bit comical, that an anti-infantry 20-tonner has more durable cockpit than a dedicated 100-ton Assault 'Mech such as the Atlas.

Question is that, as small as the Light Cockpit Window happens to be, are they really using all of that Armor Allocation which they can have access to?


~D. V. "finding a good spot to add something constructive about TAG/NARC & Armor to the discussion" Devnull

[martian]

D V Devnull, on 26 October 2021 - 08:04 AM, said:

Question is that, as small as the Light Cockpit Window happens to be, are they really using all of that Armor Allocation which they can have access to?

No, I guess they do not.

[Aidan Crenshaw]

D V Devnull, on 26 October 2021 - 08:04 AM, said:

Question is that, as small as the Light Cockpit Window happens to be, are they really using all of that Armor Allocation which they can have access to?

I always love me some fresh air when riding my locust

[martian]

Ch_R0me, on 22 October 2021 - 03:44 AM, said:

BTW PGI - do we finally have a indictator of the headshot kill?

We do have such indicator.

You can see the headshot on the enemy 'Mech's scan.

See the picture:




So just scan enemy 'Mechs and you will know exactly when you headcap them.

[D V Devnull]

Ch_R0me, on 22 October 2021 - 03:44 AM, said:

Another lootbag event. Yay. Shame that I don't get cockpit stuff, incl. warhorns...

I know the feeling. It would make me a lot less hesitant to open Loot Bags on the fly if they gave WarHorns and Hanging Items for the Cockpit a whole lot more often, instead of sudden chunks of Active Premium Time that forces you to reschedule your life around it in order to use any. Either that, or the Active Premium Time should instead be made something that starts out Banked and has to be manually activated.

Ch_R0me, on 22 October 2021 - 03:44 AM, said:

BTW PGI - do we finally have a indictator of the headshot kill?

martian, on 26 October 2021 - 10:04 PM, said:

We do have such indicator.

You can see the headshot on the enemy 'Mech's scan.

See the picture:

<<< image from https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/8504/xkbah68ssbuez879g.jpg >>>

So just scan enemy 'Mechs and you will know exactly when you headcap them.

I think what they meant was being able to hear something in audio, or perhaps seeing something that appears down lower in the display where it shows text for stuff like "Flanking", "Killing Blow", "TAG Kill", "NARC Kill", "Hit And Run", "Kill Most Damage Dealt", and so on. Or it so happens that PGI could even do the same thing that some other games provide, and put a different chat message on the left side when someone lands a Headshot-type Kill instead of the normal "X has killed Y" messaging. I'm rather sure on this one that we'll never see a Headshot indicator pop up over the destroyed Enemy Mech on the field... but maybe that's just me...



~D. V. "isn't totally sure, but thinks they get what 'Ch_R0me' was looking for" Devnull