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[Zeddicuus]

Been loving the event. The fact it originally said "Shoot (x weapon type) 5000 times" got a good chuckle out of me.

However, just so people know holding the trigger on a rack full of MG does work, but the MG seems to fire multiple bullets per trigger activation, so going through 3000 rounds of ammo on 3 MG will not count as fired 1000 times.

Still, only took about 5 games to rack up enough ballistics this way to get the corgi!

Lasers was a little easier, just pick a mech with a lot of lasers on it and pew pew pew away, as each laser fired even in a group count individually.

Missiles is what's getting me though, so much slower, even with 4 racks active! FWOOSH FWOOSH FWOOSH indeed!

Overall all I've been enjoying all the events so far! Even if I don't finish them, there's no real FOMO as the bulk is merely cosmetics or C-Bills. The free Mech Bays and the one free Mech I've been here long enough to acquire weren't too hard to get which was nice!

Edited by Zeddicuus, 04 April 2022 - 06:18 AM.

[suum74]

Nobody ever said defending the Frontier for the Star League against Xur and the Ko-dan Armada would be easy!
Real Starfighters don't cry.

That's the spirit!
Now get ready for blast off!

[Randolfr]

Randolfr, on 03 April 2022 - 04:13 AM, said:

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.

It finally happened, logged on, finally got an an assault mission and a group of us had not completed the team activity. The Aussie Clan (forgot your name sorry fella's) went stuff that, and we got our mission done. Thanks.

[Cpt InsaneO]

This challenge is kind of absurd, since you're not only fighting the enemy team, but also your own. Unfortunately, if you do manage to wipe out all but one of the enemy team, so capturing is all but assured, and nearly your entire team is yelling in voice chat to not kill the last enemy, there seems to always be someone that decides to be a jerk and ruin it for everyone else in the match and kill the last remaining target before the cap.

[Blake Speare]

So...

The win by "capture" component has seemed to bring out some genuinely troll-ishly awful behavior in some folks.

I've been trying to get this thing done all day, and I have observed things like, people on their way to cap, all in agreement, and then a few people run to grab the last kill before they can. Or people suiciding to deny the opposing team a cap. And so forth. It just ain't at all cool. I sometimes forget that the community can be like that, since mostly I interact with pretty cool players.

Unsportsmanlike, and lame stuff, yo.

Lost track of how many drops tonight trying to nail this thing down, but I guess here we go again.

[Blake Speare]

Damn, match I was in just now. One poor dude was clearly frustrated and said he just wanted a cap, and half the team jumped down his throat, and were being total {Richard Cameron} to him about it, just outright mocking the dude.

I'm done, at least for tonight. Super toxic players killed it.

[Kodan Black]

Maybe you guys are playing with a different crown due to time, but when I play during Eastern Time hours I was really happy to see teams not only ask if people need the assault bit, but they even did it sometimes when no one needed since you get more money out of it.

I got thru all the event in 1 night except for the missile one. I'm like 40% thru it. Either way the Corgis are worth the effort.

[Roodkapje]

Randolfr, on 03 April 2022 - 04:13 AM, said:

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.

That's MWO from my point of view for like the last year or so...

Skill Level of people has seriously dropped to a VERY LOW point!

martian, on 03 April 2022 - 05:37 AM, said:

Or you can take some 'Mech with capture accelerator, wait until both team are busy fighting .. and then cap the enemy base yourself.

And find out the hard way that it's a VERY BAD idea!

Trust me... I have tried... 20% CAP BOOST ACH-E doesn't cut it!

martian, on 03 April 2022 - 06:13 AM, said:

1. Go to the Event page: Foolish Things To Do In Mwo This Weekend

2. Check if the progress bar is full and click the "Redeem" button. Repeat three times for three different Corgis.

3. Go to your 'Mechlab and check the Cockpit items tab.
4. That's it! You have three Corgis:

Or just Redeem stuff in-game and get everything IMMEDIATELY instead of next login!

OmgKllL, on 03 April 2022 - 11:16 AM, said:

for the ballistic obj use mg
very easy to achieve also with 5000 shots

Mijn 6 x LMG powered ACH-E disagrees with you!

Just get something with propper DAKKA on it and SPAM away!

Matt Newman, on 03 April 2022 - 11:25 AM, said:

Here is some context for the Corgi rewards for those who were not here for the original event (April fools 2018)
This year we recycled some previous rewards as we didn't have new April Fools joke or rewards as we have been supper busy with the feature planning roadmap and Crusader.

https://mwomercs.com...-good-boy-corgi

https://mwomercs.com/corgi

I have posted that a while ago!

Sawk, on 03 April 2022 - 03:58 PM, said:

hmm i GUESS i am to blame for the camping, i have been teaching it, and it works, but beside the fact that only 15% of folks KNOW it, your out of luck, its has helped so many pilots.
YOU need to work on building a strike team, like a plan one day, there very thing that started NASCAR, no slow mechs out standing mechs shooting 35 to 50 point hit with alpha and just run the other team over, lot for you to learn.

NOFI but what the heck are you talking about ?!

And aren't we all anti-NASCAR ?!?!
Wasn't that the reason for all those maps getting redesigned ??

ambosen, on 03 April 2022 - 07:35 PM, said:

We need more fun, silly events like this.

NO WE DO NOT !!!

What we DO NEED :

Events that teach people to play properly!

- Use the Minimap.
- SCAN with R.
- SPOT with E.
- Pop an UAV when needed.
- Lights escorting slow Assaults to the battlefield.
- Lights/Mediums protecting Heavies/Assaults against small fast (Stealth) Lights.
- And so on...

[Coffeeghoul]

Lockheed_, on 05 April 2022 - 10:34 PM, said:

This event is really annoying. Today was the first day I even got assault mode and no-one cares about capping.

THIS! Pretty much useless. Yeah, this is the frustrating one.
Getting assault mode is hard enough. Then a team willing to cap. and then it has still to work. LOL. the time window where some people would do that is over. Guess, i'm gonna do something else and forget about the rewards.

[ManicWK9]

pls change the Assault Capture to Conquest or Domination

Edited by ManicWK9, 06 April 2022 - 04:08 AM.

[ambosen]

Roodkapje, on 05 April 2022 - 06:47 AM, said:

NO WE DO NOT !!!

What we DO NEED :

Events that teach people to play properly!

- Use the Minimap.
- SCAN with R.
- SPOT with E.
- Pop an UAV when needed.
- Lights escorting slow Assaults to the battlefield.
- Lights/Mediums protecting Heavies/Assaults against small fast (Stealth) Lights.
- And so on...

This is gonna come as a shock to you kid, but most people already do that. Even in tier 5. After almost 9 years, if your 32.8 kilo max annihilator gets ***** by a wolfpack of lights, it's almost always your own fault. Not the least of which is keeping an anihilator configured in such a way it's outrun by most of your fellow assaults.

[Hamsky]

Hi Guys!

Can anybody explain in "English" what exactly to do tpo get 1000MC?

UPD: Sorry, no need, got it on 3-d match Easy))

Edited by Hamsky, 06 April 2022 - 08:00 AM.

[TheCaptainJZ]

ManicWK9, on 06 April 2022 - 04:00 AM, said:

pls change the Assault Capture to Conquest or Domination

It was intended to be Conquest actually.

[An6ryMan69]

I really liked this event, thanks!

[Roodkapje]

ambosen, on 06 April 2022 - 05:34 AM, said:

This is gonna come as a shock to you kid, but most people already do that. Even in tier 5. After almost 9 years, if your 32.8 kilo max annihilator gets ***** by a wolfpack of lights, it's almost always your own fault. Not the least of which is keeping an anihilator configured in such a way it's outrun by most of your fellow assaults.

Then you and I play totally different games in seperate dimensions or some kind of alternative reality!

Also thank you for calling me a kid! Makes me feel young again!




P.S. :

I don't even own an Anni

[Sawk]

hmm well i went from a 250 macth score to a 170, because no one can work as a team, its a USA fault, everyone feels there RIGHT and should be followed like god.
i should run for highest office, and require you all go to ARMY training, and sort you all out, find to cheaters, find the 4.0 student, fire guns-- be in charge of a barracks, learn a title, and be smart, its only a game to kill folks, but to lead many can not and then there is common sense, its not owned but many, but in some ways to can be TEACHED.

SAWK CLANNER

[ScrapIron Prime]

Um... I've finished up missiles and energy... and I seem to have a couple hundred firings of ballistics despite not using any ballistic weapons. So uh... does TAG laser actually increase your ballistic count? Because I can't figure where that's coming from.

IS mech with LRM10 + ML ... ballistic count does not go up. (No ship, Sherlock.)

IS mech with LRM10 + ML + TAG ... ballistic count goes up by a few. (Whaaaa?)

EDIT... IS mech with PPC + LPPC + TAG ... ballistic count does not go up. (Duh?)

EDIT... so... hitting a mech with LRMs while you have it Tagged... is that the secret??????

Edited by ScrapIron Prime, 09 April 2022 - 11:54 AM.

[Bowelhacker]

AMS?

[D V Devnull]

ScrapIron Prime, on 09 April 2022 - 10:48 AM, said:

IS mech with LRM10 + ML + TAG ... ballistic count goes up by a few. (Whaaaa?)

Does it have AMS on board in order to help you with this April Fools Event and what it contains? I know that caused my own Ballistic counter to rise.

~D. V. "Have you foolishly forgotten to mention something on your I.S. Mech about your loadout?" Devnull

[NanoLeviathan]

my last remaining team mate refused to cap on assault... we were already half way to capping. Such BS, worst event ever