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[RickySpanish]

I've had a few games in event queue now, and it's a blast. 6v6 is actually a really nice number, even with 1.25x speed and everyone brawling you can still position fine. The drop deck in a 'quick play' type scenario is also absolutely brilliant. Seriously, I can't understate how great that is. All my games ended on caps, with people attempting to coordinate pushes to capture points and gain strategic control of the map. What a breath of fresh air this is!

[KodiakGW]

Enjoyed it myself. Started off with piloting an Atlas and Catapult K2 for the first time in a long while. Knocked some of the rust out. When they changed over the event to Heavy/Medium, I put brawling loadouts on four mechs I purchased before I stopped playing in April 2021. Was nice to put lots of points into the Skill Tree for each. Also earned about 50% of current event awards.

The Atlas/Cata/Hunchy/Jenner queue had two drops that were pretty unbalanced weight wise. When it switched over to Heavy/Medium, I had one sync drop team. Ended as expected. The rest of the games were pretty well balanced, and fun.

[LordNothing]

im having a blast thus far.

seems to have stalled out though, im not getting any games anymore.

Edited by LordNothing, 24 May 2022 - 09:21 PM.

[An6ryMan69]

Super fun so far!

Really revitalizes things!

[mytilus edulis]

KodiakGW, on 24 May 2022 - 07:18 PM, said:

Enjoyed it myself. Started off with piloting an Atlas and Catapult K2 for the first time in a long while. Knocked some of the rust out. When they changed over the event to Heavy/Medium, I put brawling loadouts on four mechs I purchased before I stopped playing in April 2021. Was nice to put lots of points into the Skill Tree for each. Also earned about 50% of current event awards.

The Atlas/Cata/Hunchy/Jenner queue had two drops that were pretty unbalanced weight wise. When it switched over to Heavy/Medium, I had one sync drop team. Ended as expected. The rest of the games were pretty well balanced, and fun.

when did they add the class restrictions?

[KodiakGW]

mytilus edulis, on 24 May 2022 - 11:45 PM, said:

when did they add the class restrictions?

It’s the new Event Queue, which allows them to do whatever they want for short periods of time. Still hoping for an Urbie Derby soon. Wonder if they will do a speed modifier like they did for the Heavy/Medium queue. Urbies running 10x speed…LOL.

[mytilus edulis]

It was fun. give it a separate website announcement next time

[LordNothing]

the light skirmish with infinite ammo/jj/no heat was fun. finally rocket launchers were useful for about four games.

[LordNothing]

mytilus edulis, on 25 May 2022 - 11:55 AM, said:

It was fun. give it a separate website announcement next time

needs to be either a schedule or an event ticker on the site. i missed several that id have liked to play. i guess they are really trying to stress test this and throw a lot of variety at it. at some point id like to see the events last a bit longer.

[mytilus edulis]

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has anyone noticed the event bonus just seems to not be working?
if i add up all the Cbills i've earned in a match it just pretends the event bonus isnt there
everything else adds up but that
yeah it seems to add up. basically match earned ~300k cbill, premium time and mech bonuses brought that to 500k. event bonus is listed as another 300k (IE 2x cbills on the base earned), but match total cbills is 500k instead of 800k. so RIP

someone asked this elsewhere, anyone else notice this?

[Nesutizale]

I hope this gets more attention and more people playing it.

Had the chance to play a few games and they where all fun. Figuring out what works for what event made me pick up mechs that I haven't played for a long time and suddenly they where fun to play.

Also the drop decks...finaly dropdecks for QP style games. FP Conquest with dropdecks where points are constantly contested and changeing is, to me, still MWO best gameplay experiance to this point.
Hope that will be something they put into quickplay or make it an event at some point, now that we get the FP maps in QP too.

[RickySpanish]

Nesutizale, on 26 May 2022 - 01:40 AM, said:

I hope this gets more attention and more people playing it.

Had the chance to play a few games and they where all fun. Figuring out what works for what event made me pick up mechs that I haven't played for a long time and suddenly they where fun to play.

Also the drop decks...finaly dropdecks for QP style games. FP Conquest with dropdecks where points are constantly contested and changeing is, to me, still MWO best gameplay experiance to this point.
Hope that will be something they put into quickplay or make it an event at some point, now that we get the FP maps in QP too.

Yep simple drop deck UI for a QP type game mode is the single most important feature added to MWO. It clearly shows that such a feature does not slow entry into the game, and adds so much strategic depth. I really, really hope this is added to actual QP as well. We have enough trial 'Mechs now too, to allow Cadet players choice in what to take. Some more additions to the UI to create a tutorial and allow maybe choosing from a predefined selection of decks is needed, but it is absolutely possible.

[IsawaShugenja]

Loving the current event. 8v8, 4 Heavies each, increased speed, Domination. *chef's kiss* Perfection.

Gonna be sad when it ends in a few hours.

[Lord Sevenous]

IsawaShugenja, on 26 May 2022 - 04:32 AM, said:

Gonna be sad when it ends in a few hours.

Some love heavies, some light and so on.
I will not begrudge others having fun too....

[Papaspud]

Tried 3 times= never got a match= I'm done trying. Maybe if I WOULD HAVE WAITED 10 OR 15 MORE MINUTES.....

[Lord Sevenous]

Try it around EU/NA prime times (09PM to 05AM UTC)

Right now (and this is just a feeling) it is like they disabled the MM for normal play and have a working MM for Event Queue....

right now I`m waiting about 20min but thats ok for me....

Edited by Lord Sevenous, 26 May 2022 - 06:16 AM.

[Grimtechnician]

Can safely say I havent enjoyed a single one of the events, all stupid modifiers that I simply find very dull and not MWO if I want to play that I can play any number of other mech games that have stupid fast movement and what not.

Just set it to 8v8 que and leave it at that.

[Lord Sevenous]

Grimtechnician, on 26 May 2022 - 06:19 AM, said:

Can safely say I havent enjoyed a single one of the events,

You are not forced to play this.....

[Grimtechnician]

Lord Sevenous, on 26 May 2022 - 06:30 AM, said:

You are not forced to play this.....

I don't intend to play anymore of the event que I assure you.

This is a thread for impressions of the event que, I gave mine.

Edited by Grimtechnician, 26 May 2022 - 08:02 AM.

[D o z e r]

Bear Claw's event was awesome