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[oligodeoxyhexosulose]

Thanks for the event PGI. Lucrative rewards and very active queue facing all sorts of opponents. Keep it up!

[Obelix drives an Atlas]

well.. dropped a few more today and I have to admit: totally different and very pleasant matches today.


today I had no groups on both sides (or small, and/or not organised fw-groups, no idea),
but
the solos did a good job on both sides to play it more or less as intended.
no yolo-ing, not too much erLL trolling (though still MANY lurms on both sides).
->
not as much fun as 2 organised fw-groups duking it out, but much more enjoyable
than 1 group farming pugs.
also WAY more enjoyable than the usual QP-matches.


so all in all:

thanks for the drops, gents. whoever you are.
I hope some of you have found interest in factionplay,
and we shall all meet in the next faction-event

(@PGI: MAYBE limit groups for these, I think it srsly helps in pugs vs pugs).

Edited by Obelix drives an Atlas, 16 July 2023 - 07:33 AM.

[w0qj]

Hmm... how about this tag?

solarmus, on 15 July 2023 - 07:01 PM, said:

Mmmm, nice rewards, too bad some are gatekept by clan tag.

w0qj, on 14 July 2023 - 07:31 PM, said:

Wow, more FP Events!

You can get:
1,500 MC (!)
Free Mechbay
Free bonus CBills cockpit hanging item!
Premium Time

Thank you MWO for your generosity!

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Regarding the [Faction Play] Drop Deck sale:
~Please buy only the Invasion Drop Decks!
~Please do not buy the Scouting Drop Deck; there are no Scouting Missions right now!

Edited by w0qj, 16 July 2023 - 03:51 PM.

[Tywren]

Ahh, another month, another bribe from PGI to go "reinvigorate" FP for a night or two, before the comp teams run everyone off again with their farming ********.

Hey PGI if you really want to bring FP up, try reversing the way the matches are built. Currently groups get pushed to the front of the line, and any empty spaces are filled, which works great if you have a team on each side, but more often than not what ends up happening there is only one team, so it's a stomp. So what happens if instead of pushing the comps to the front of the line, we hold them back until another comp shows up, and let the randos go ahead? I've seen plenty of people say how they enjoy FP, as long as they don't have to play against the **** who get their rocks off by stomping players that want nothing to do with them in the first place, so why not give them what they want? Will the comp teams have long wait times, sure but no more than they already have to deal with. The difference is the overall participation in FP goes up.

[An6ryMan69]

I do try the FP events every time, but again, basically couldn't force myself to grind out the whole event.

If FP ever starts using a good matchmaker to forcibly separate weak players from strong ones, and separate groups from solo players, we would have something to talk about.

Until then, what we will mostly have is a small number of hardcore FP players hitting these events hard, while large numbers of casual players are just barely willing to grind out event rewards, if that.

Edited by An6ryMan69, 17 July 2023 - 10:44 AM.

[Duke Falcon]

It was fun. The UAV detection part I not accomplished but all the other is done.
I admit it were easier because of the larger population in queue to ride this event.
Would be nice if so many people would involved out-of-event time. Were refreshing that not need to wait ~25-30 mins to get a match but only about 2-4 mins.

[CwStrife]

Tywren, on 16 July 2023 - 07:23 PM, said:

Ahh, another month, another bribe from PGI to go "reinvigorate" FP for a night or two, before the comp teams run everyone off again with their farming ********.

Hey PGI if you really want to bring FP up, try reversing the way the matches are built. Currently groups get pushed to the front of the line, and any empty spaces are filled, which works great if you have a team on each side, but more often than not what ends up happening there is only one team, so it's a stomp. So what happens if instead of pushing the comps to the front of the line, we hold them back until another comp shows up, and let the randos go ahead? I've seen plenty of people say how they enjoy FP, as long as they don't have to play against the **** who get their rocks off by stomping players that want nothing to do with them in the first place, so why not give them what they want? Will the comp teams have long wait times, sure but no more than they already have to deal with. The difference is the overall participation in FP goes up.

Huge part of the issue, but they have never addressed it so I doubt we will see them do it now. The best part of the event is just being able to play the regular QP maps like Forest Colony and stuff but having 4 drops, it adds an extra level to the game. I wish there was just a dropdeck quickplay mode... that would be awesome.

[C337Skymaster]

Suggestions for PGI: when the opposing team manages to expose Omega in their first wave, it would be very nice for the defending team to be able to team-kill the objective and end the match, rather than be farmed by an obviously superior team who can end the game at any time and is choosing not to.

Unrelated to Faction Play: Mods to MW5 have figured out how to enable ammo switching. Is there any way we can implement that in MWO? It'd be nice to be able to switch to HE ATM ammo when you're being pushed and not have a minimum range. The tradeoff being that it's unguided, or at least that it has a limited maximum range, and you have to remember to switch to longer ranged ammo for longer ranged fighting.

Additional benefits to ammo switching would be: specialty ammo for standard autocannons (instead of UAC or LBX being straight up "better"), and being able to use LBX autocannons the way they were intended.

Specialty LRM ammo would also be fun.

[Viltor]

Could you(PGI) announce events not in the same day they begin, but 2 days in advance?

[Canadian House Owl]

Thanks again for another FP weekend event! Had some swingy matches but overall is lots of fun.

[BigSpam]

I am a casual FP player and must admit this event was a great deal of fun. Only one match was a complete blowout (very organized 12-man on the other side) but otherwise the games were pretty close. I would like to say that it will change FP from here out, probably won't, but I'm willing to give it more of a chance.

Very nice event rewards too. Thank you PGI

[Khalcruth]

Any chance we'll get one of these this month? It's now been 5 weeks since the last one.