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[martian]

ghost1e, on 28 September 2023 - 01:22 PM, said:

yes, FOUR years ago

Yes. MWO has one hundred of 'Mechs and a few hundreds of different 'Mech variants.

I think that is not necessary to offer 'Mechs that already have been reward 'Mechs in various monthly events again if they are many other 'Mechs that have not been offered even once: Crusader, Hatchetman, etc.

[Grey Hook]

Events that offer variety are great, thanks PGI team.
Events that offer free mechs are also awesome. Looking forward to it.

[w0qj]

GHR-5H(S) please!!

I was not around 4 years ago, and have been willing to buy this particular mech ever since (if it shows up again in Platinum Pack, or Steam Heavy Mech Performance Packs from around 2015/2016)…

ghost1e, on 28 September 2023 - 12:18 PM, said:

GHR-5H(S) and EBJ-PRIME(S)

https://mwo.nav-alph...cab3d37_GHR-5HS
https://mwo.nav-alph...7fa8_EBJ-PRIMES

Edited by w0qj, 29 September 2023 - 08:04 AM.

[Ralph Edwards]

I do not own any grasshoppers, and another ebon jaguar would be welcome. Especially if it comes with a cbill boost

[LordNothing]

well that was fun.

[D V Devnull]

LordNothing, on 29 September 2023 - 03:57 AM, said:

well that was fun.

Your post isn't long enough to provide proper context. Could you please elaborate?

~D. V. "confused about 'LordNothing's sub-30-minutes-ago CW/FP/FW experience" Devnull

[LordNothing]

D V Devnull, on 29 September 2023 - 04:24 AM, said:

Your post isn't long enough to provide proper context. Could you please elaborate?

~D. V. "confused about 'LordNothing's sub-30-minutes-ago CW/FP/FW experience" Devnull

i played 12 games, got my loot, it was fun. idk if i will play tomorrow though, i was already kind of burned out when the event dropped. i might play battletech or mw5 for a bit, or something else entirely, or work on a project. idk. i do wish there were more of these events though.

[Pheniks]

such events should overlap so that one ends and the next one begins, at least for FP to live like it used to be

[Eugene85]

InnerSphereNews, on 28 September 2023 - 11:08 AM, said:

FIRST CONTACT FACTION PLAY EVENT >>>

THX!!!!

Edited by Eugene85, 29 September 2023 - 07:35 AM.

[Saved By The Bell]

Ok I tried first time with troll unprepared builds. Not so far from quick action, just a bit long.

[CFC Conky]

Played a few matches, IS side seemed to do better than the Clanners.

Good hunting,
CFC Conky

[Saved By The Bell]

I brought long range clan mechs, but this map is brawl 100%.

Edited by Saved By The Bell, 29 September 2023 - 07:40 PM.

[Voice of Kerensky]

Is this your matchmaker, PGI?



I think you are organizing events in the FP to popularize this game mode.
With this "balance" do you think how many people from my team will want to return to FP after they complete the event objectives?

At the moment I have played six matches: five very bad losses, one very bad victory. I've almost started to forget why I don't play FP. Thank you. Reminded.

Edited by Voice of Kerensky, 29 September 2023 - 08:38 PM.

[martian]

Yesterday I played some FP games to get those rewards: Many of those games sucked because of very unbalanced games.

Often we were farmed by various premades. When the score was 1:12 after the first wave of 'Mechs, it was pretty obvious that the game was lost. If anybody thinks that the players of my team enjoyed that game (or other similar games) - we did not. In another similar game we even experienced the well known spawn farming. Nothing makes a player merrier than being killed off two seconds after he leaves the Dropship.

The second group of my yesterday's games also sucked, even though the reason was different. I ended up being on the winning side, but I can not say that I enjoyed such victories. For example, our team's premade lead the Assault push (dunno, maybe 7 Stalkers running Large lasers, ER Large Lasers and Binary lasers with some BattleMasters and other 'Mechs thrown in). After a few minutes the score was something like 22:6 as we were closing to the enemy team drop zone. Some random player said: "This is getting ridiculous!" and asked "Should not we let them reform, so they can play a bit?". The premade simply answered: "No! Why?" and continued to wipe out the last remaining 'Mechs. The final score was something like 48:15 and I do not think that those opposing players will be eager to retun to FP.

The steamrolled enemy team players had Match Scores 7, 88, 73, 86, which means that after 30 minutes of that **** (sorry: not entirely pleasant) gaming experience they were as far from those rewards as before the beginning of the game. Six were lucky enough and got the MS 100-200 (like 114 or 130), so the game at last counted towards those rewards.

Only about a third (and I am generous saying it because it was probably even less) of my yesterday's games was something what I would call enjoyable balanced games.

At least I know that the Faction Play is still the same. I got those rewards and this is probably the most positive thing that I can say about the yesterday's gaming session.

Edited by martian, 30 September 2023 - 07:44 AM.

[Duke Falcon]

FP event? Finally!
Hope it means I could actually play and not wait a hour in the lobby for vain...
Maybe it would be a nice, FP-filled weekend!

[Deploy the Leviathan]

Can we get Siege deleted now? It's worse than incursion.

[Voice of Kerensky]

Some statistics.
12 matches, 10 losses, 2 win. 16.7% wins, 83.3% losses.
12 matches, 3 interesting matches, 9 terrible matches. 25% interesting matches, 75% terrible matches.
Good matchmaker, good balance. Gg, PGI.

P.S. I'll go to FP during the next event. Until then, I won’t set foot there.
P.P.S. You at least somehow try to solve the balance problem.
P.P.P.S. For the MC and other prizes, sincere thanks.

Upd. I'm sorry. I forgot about one victory. The message has been changed.

Edited by Voice of Kerensky, 30 September 2023 - 06:43 PM.

[Duke Falcon]

Deploy the Leviathan, on 30 September 2023 - 05:05 AM, said:

Can we get Siege deleted now? It's worse than incursion.

Seeing how some "newcomers" have trouble with the mode, yes, maybe during events Siege could be shut down...

Voice of Kerensky, on 30 September 2023 - 05:07 AM, said:

Some statistics.
12 matches, 11 losses, 1 win. 8.3% wins, 91.7% losses.
12 matches, 3 interesting matches, 9 terrible matches. 25% interesting matches, 75% terrible matches.
Good matchmaker, good balance. Gg, PGI.

P.S. I'll go to FP during the next event. Until then, I won’t set foot there.
P.P.S. You at least somehow try to solve the balance problem.
P.P.P.S. For the MC and other prizes, sincere thanks.

I enjoy the variety so far. At least not got slaughtered by FAIT and such. But balance is a bit strange though, yeah.
Maybe matchscore of "100 or more" should be lowered a bit? Some players whom play for the event not really adapted enough (and maybe scared away after a few matches?). Or apply some score modifier akin of EQ.

Bothering part that I achieved 360+ matchscore once in this event (usually I am get 100-150, ja, Ima not da best). This is not natural and tells everything about the MM (or about some players arrived just for the event's swags)

Edited by Duke Falcon, 30 September 2023 - 07:37 AM.

[Delios]

Tested and still a bad gamemode!

Dropzone-rushes, unbalanced teams!

Didn´t expected much, but it even got worse, in my opinion.

[stripped]

Delios, on 30 September 2023 - 08:49 AM, said:

Tested and still a bad gamemode!

Dropzone-rushes, unbalanced teams!

Didn´t expected much, but it even got worse, in my opinion.

Sorry to hear that. Had very mixed matches and teams but all in all the matches are entertaining.