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[Urbie Connoisseur]

Tacheyon, on 02 April 2022 - 10:34 AM, said:

So easiest way to get the 5000 clicks for the Ballistic weapons.

Take one of your mechs with the highest ballistic count on it. Load it up with MG (doesn't matter the size)

Assign all of them to 2 fire groups.

Go into your settings and change one of those fire groups to your Scroll Up wheel. Then assign the other group to the Scroll Down wheel.

Go in to the game and just scroll up and down like a madman

Profit.

I was done in like 3 matches and that was casually scrolling.

Given macros are allowed, what I did was take that one trial mech with the 4 (or was it 5?) LMGs, put them all into their own groups, and made a hardware macro that consecutively pressed 1, 2, 3, 4 in a staggered fashion repeating with a 1ms delay as I pressed mouse 4. Did the same with the TAG. Planning on doing something similar with missiles (minus the repeating) so my 4 missile hardpoints fire in a staggered fashion with a single click.

[Damiiiit]

Thanks for the April fools joke y'all. Made for more active comms, which is a good thing. It took a few of us trying things to figure out, it was the number of clicks, just did not want to believe it. With the additional time now, just play and click more, hold less. Well done!

[GhostOTCS]

InnerSphereNews, on 01 April 2022 - 04:24 PM, said:

FOOLISH THINGS TO DO IN MWO THIS WEEKEND





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This event is encouraging horrible forms of play. If it'd been 1000 times fired each that might be reasonable, but as things are, the number of mechs firing TAGs and LRM5s into the sky while AFK is distressingly high. Please do not ever make an event with missions like those "weapon fired" ones ever again. At the very least, hint to people that they should use AMS.

Edited by GhostOTCS, 02 April 2022 - 01:42 PM.

[JadeTornado]

10 days without MWO, nice!

[denofsteves]

Thanks for changing the shoot count!

[MechWpnsTech]

denofsteves, on 02 April 2022 - 02:01 PM, said:

Thanks for changing the shoot count!

agreed, thanks

[PokeyRodger]

I did some silly semi-meme builds (still effective!) to get the 5000 laser, ballistics and about 1000 missile clicks.
Which did show me that: (U)AC2 spam is great DPS, SRM2, MRM10, LRM5 spam are TERRIBLE, rapidly mashing TAG or using micro pulse lasers is PEWPEW.

Seems like the clicks have been decreased to 1000, and the timer has increased to 10 days...

But where are the corgi's? I don't see them in my cockpit items list, and I didn't see hem being injected.
Where are them doggies at?

*Edit, Found the corgies!
I liked the event!

Edited by PokeyRodger, 03 April 2022 - 01:03 AM.

[TTB]

Do I get 5x the rewards for doing the original 5k shots with all three weapon groups before you changed it? =)
I'm going to have so many Corgis, I'll be able to open a pet store!

[snowridr]

5K seemed a bit difficult unless you were going to no-life the game for the weekend....

[RaTMaN203]

I dont know why everyone is saying mouse clicks for me it seems if you have multiple weapons on your mech of say ballistics like my Mauler i have ac2 x 3 and rac2 x 3 and i can tell you i don't constantly press this.. i hold that button down to kill people and i get 10 - 14% complete per match and i wasn't wasting ammo shooting randomly. I also completed the energy weapon and all i had was 2 large pulses, 6 small pulse and a micro pulse and most maps i just held the smaller lasers at the start of the map until the actual fighting started and then just played normally. It wasn't quite as fast as the ballistics but still getting 6 - 8% per match I'm sure i could have set up a better mech for these purposes but I just chose existing setups I use. so it seems to be per hard point and per shot not mouse clicks.

I think the problem comes from people using machine guns. As i guess if it was per shot for them you would have completed that a minute into the match. so I figure that is probably needing per click, But i never thought machine guns would be the best for it anyway because of this reason. The only thing I haven't completed yet is missiles. so we'll see if there's something funny going on there, but i think it'll be the same as ballistics and lasers and I'll just use a mix of SRM2's and 4s on some mech like the arctic wolf.

Anyways, I'm definitely not a mouse click spammer in games, I'm more likely to hold buttons down and I'm not finding these challenges all that difficult.

[Yehat Terminator]

The conquest capture worked and redeemed for me just fine. It was suuuuuper frustrating the get teammates to actually win by conquest, and a lot of people didn’t even understand what that means so I actually appreciated having to suffer through it since it promoted objectives and a little learning. I did instantly write off the 5000 shots objectives and considered them April Fools pranks, so I appreciate the change to 1000.

[Big-G]

Armchair General, on 02 April 2022 - 08:36 AM, said:

[mod]Sorry, I merged the topics in the incorrect way. A certain thread discussing the announcement shouldbe merged into the announcement and I messed up the order. Now the announcement thread is gone and only the general discussion is remains.

So in a way I did my own foolish thing this weekend
[/mod]

I expect 5000 Urbie Squats from you now...

[ArmChairExpert]

Thank God you guys reduce it down to 1000 shots. Now I am halfway through for missiles, I've completed ballistic using 8MGs, will do the tag later.

[Tacheyon]

GhostOTCS, on 02 April 2022 - 01:41 PM, said:

This event is encouraging horrible forms of play. If it'd been 1000 times fired each that might be reasonable, but as things are, the number of mechs firing TAGs and LRM5s into the sky while AFK is distressingly high. Please do not ever make an event with missions like those "weapon fired" ones ever again. At the very least, hint to people that they should use AMS.

Actually I used Small Pulse Lasers on my Black Knight 6KNT-B (the one with 9 Lasers) and a whole bunch of Heat Sinks. And I got 1k+ in like 2 matches.

While I agree 5K was a bit excessive, it wasn't something insurmountable.

In any case I would've like to see them keep the 5K and had a bonus couple of Corgis and add in the 1K for the casuals.

[SATAN 666]

Winning in assault match by capturing is almost impossible! either no one votes for that or you land in a loser - team.This even should be fun

[Reptile Blackdeath]

AMS, either of the two types = easy mode... and that was when it when 5,000

[Vladokapuh]

make an awful event causing the game queue to be absolutely horrible
>lets extend it by a week

can we please have someone that actually plays the game take charge of events

[ghost1e]

actually I don't terribly dislike the event, it was fun to play for the assault objective.

[LastActionHobbit]

Thanks for the extension; I've been super busy in life and not finding as much time as I'd like to play recently, having more time to complete the event is a real treat for me!

[Randolfr]

I've actually been playing for 2 days to get the assault objective.
About 16 times it's been in our grasp and no-matter how much I've tried ... someone has shown why team objectives are a bad idea.
I'm disappointed in the event. Not from event side but rather the players.