[Feedback] MWO: Mercenary Event

That was their opinion, at the time. [but that shit has changed, yo]

 

I stuck with my lights exclusively and actually had a great run...so far, I'm at 28 qualifying matches out of 47 matches, which is a decent ratio I suppose.

 

Win it's not needed this time and it's a big difference.

I could easily pull it off as I have 2 working days and 2 free days untill the 1st, the fact that I don't care about it is a bad sign, we are again in the state where there's nothing to do ingame other then grinding and collecting mechs (for vet players not even this), and I don't want to play pokemon with this game. I recently started playing H1Z1 with my brother and having great fun there.

 

Have that but not tried it yet.

It wasn't the win it was the idiocy of assists being double pts so no one wants to do enough damage to get kills.

 

I had normal games so far, and 130 is forgiving. I might have been lucky but people were going for the kills, solo que might help here as probably most don't even know about the giveaway.
I failed only 1 game out of 10, unless stomped, it's an easy qualify(and so for me the win condition negated is important, because I lost half of the matches). Of course it's better using long ranged OP mechs, like TBR or TDR with PPCs, but my 3x LPL 4xSRM6+A crab did fine in racking up points.
I won't play much but I hope to keep this rate.

 

I had time to do 7 drops before the euro server-maintenance-crash yesterday. 4 qualified so that seems to be on par with the average. However, I only got 2 kills on those 7 matches,... Either I have a team that plays to win and I have to fight to get on the kill or I have a team that plays to get the MCs and we get rolled in most horrible ways by a team of the prior type. Hoping for better luck today,...

 

Just had two LRM 5/ER ML MDD's with a Stalker LRM/LL boat just standing at the back of the enemy team and most of mine were just rained on non stop... then there were the two odd players who could track us through hills and hit us with ppc bolts the literal second we left cover. Almost as if they knew where we were. We checked for UAV's and there weren't any...

Coincidentally my team still aren't going for kills meaning the other side automatically wins. Are people really that dumb?

 

Hey Durandel was volleyed in this next match.

The ranting person though was McGral18 who was apparently unable to get any kills despite him calling his team bad.
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Next match the almighty McGral18 got 1 kill and 248 damage.... We won courtesy of a Adder and I who paired up and killed 8 of the other side (plus got 320 and 342 pts more damage than anyone else).

Yes we won a match and it actually qualified despite all my kills!!!!!!!
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Non qualifying massacre after our 6 lights and mediums ran off to cap once their full company was engaging the heavies and assaults... classy move...
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Another qualifying win with most kills and highest damage. Fifth time I've seen the same WVR pilot in [4 20] get 0-1 kills and 10+ assists so far this competition.

 

Lol this is why this competition is such a joke...

Last battle of the night in the swamp was really hard and really close. Bloodbath...

Anyway the short summary is that our Wolverine, Atlas-S and me in my DRG-1N are holding an entire flank and then not only stave off their attack but reverse it and cause chaos taking out six.

End on a high as it really was hard work.

Just idly looked at the results page before heading to bed....

318075194781033493 4 2 693 1 126 2015-01-28 22:37:27

Seriously?

 

Heh, the worst part about that match? One, I made a misstep and got focused by 3 mechs, and two...here's what I did on the same map and gametype only one game before:

339183421442562123 1 7 1051 1 220 2015-01-28 17:18:34

From 1051 damage down to 130 ><

 

Lmfao... The results are in, a splat maddog is -not- tournament meta...

 

The lower target and removing the win requirement should have made this challenge less painful than in the past when this formula was used, but folks haven't caught on that even a respectable loss will still get you the points, and that even on a stompy-fast-win you can get ALL TWELVE KILLS and still hit the target score if you did even 150 damage, so games are just as painful as before. Which is stupid. From the individual perspective, the winning strategy for the challenge should be the same as regular play: stay together, hit every target, but try to focus fire. MATHZ. And obviously, coming just shy of target always sucks no matter the circumstance, but especially when your team decide to just be dinks.

I still try not to complain about free MC for playing though. Screw the grind, I'm just looking at it as bonus for regular play.

 

I've played this challenge with my unit (mainly in a LaserCrow prime), never less then 4 and to our delight (but detrimental to the challenge) a cpl of new players. At times we've fielded 7-8 ppl over the last days. Even with our rookies, I have 13 qualifying out of 25 games played.

Weird how different our gameplay experiences are. Not saying we don't get absurd games where ppl are pussyfooting about in the back with lrmboats. One game it was us 7 (we had two C1's), four boats and a single assault brawler. That match didn't go well.

 

Lol, yeah I knew we were in serious trouble when you and the other guy died almost instantly.

 

And then you got stuck with me grouped with a returning player and his brother who had played for 5 days.....

Think I even screenshotted the result screen it was so painful.

PS: Of course the FF volley that took my shield arm and most of my left torso rear armour probably didn't help my cause.

 

Heh, yeah, the opponents were not as green as our troops. We had three toddlers, one in his fifth game ever! Crystal has 1 mech, a LRM crow and stops frequently in the open. Haywire is a returning player who is just getting his legs back in the game after a 1 1/2 year pause. Two of my veterans were even goofing off in trial FS9-H!

It was a game heading for disaster from the getgo, after that one we shaped up with more serious mechs.

 

TBH last nght I came back to it and was enjoying it more. I just switched back to playing normally and using my normal mechs. It helps that even losses can qualify so those are just bonuses.

Not having my team rolled with 1-2 kills only THIRTEEN matches in a row also helps!

I will say I've never seen such one sided battles with almost every battle being close to a whitewash. Then you suddenly get a real match every 6th battle and its a bit shocking....

Group queue seems a waste of time unless you can get a sizeable crew together as everyone is out in 8-10 men groups in US prime.

 

One of the most lame guys I've ever seen in a long time, @Durandal was in too, on the right side of the PUGs
We push the base and we did pretty well, infact it was 6-9 and almost cap, what didn't work? that 3 pussy assaults camped the island all the match!

After 12 min I logged out, wanted to see how this would end but it was too painful, did they wait till the end?
Look at that loadout too, the brawl lasted like 3 min, he could have killed all of them and doing 1000+ damage just crossing the saddle, instead...

 

If it makes you feel better fx, a few rounds later, I had a "perfect" TT PUG round. First they stopped on the ramp, but I managed to goad them inside. We went up 5-2, then FELL BACK and gave them mid, losing 3 guys who got isolated when they were abandoned (including me). I then realized that 5/7 of our remaining team was all LRMs. Every assault was LRMboat. We got rolled 5-12...