New challenge this weekend

Yeah, I wasn't trying and only dropped less then ten games. Still did a hundred plus in one of the challenges.

Was trying to drop Assault or Conquest on the Skirmish night and had to give up, failed searches and timeouts. Hmm, an hour later it was easy. Thirty seconds wait at most.

 

The 3x bonus for a win is nice...had one match today that got me over 100 points all at once

 

This wasn't a real challenge. 4-5 matches to complete the 200 is not a challenge.
At least this time they were honest and told us they used the challenge to gather information.

 

How the hell did you manage it in 4-5 matches????

 

Making about 47-58 points per game..... and winning. Guess I was lucky.

 

Lots of assists/spotting assists (3 pts each) and a win makes it fast. It says that you get 4 points for a win, but I think they screwed up and made wins a multiplier. I had several rounds with 9 assists and 10-12 spot assists that were wins, and all of a sudden I had 70-100 points in the challenge. If you get a Philanthropist round with 12 spot assists, that's a guaranteed 72 points though, plus whatever you get for the win. I generally completed each day of challenges in no more than 6 matches.

 

Whelp I didn't get anywhere near that for matches with 2 kills and 8 assists which was my average.

*confused*

 

That would already make 28 Points, if u won 32.... then you just needed some spotting assists.
I got mine placing UAV's got 5-8 spotting assists each game.

 

That would explain the difference as I was in a lance support role or brawler this weekend (erll/srm6 stormcrow or lpl/ml tbr).

 

Also, you got fewer points for kills than you did for assists this time around...so just by not killing someone, you could score faster And since most of my mechs are set up as shredders (I used Summoners with either SRM builds, LRM builds, or a PPC build), I wasn't getting as many kill blows. If they had left NARC/TAG assists in as major ways to score, I would've gotten plenty of those too by switching to my Kit Foxes. But alas...

 

Yeah I don't really game the events even though I know it would help me. I play to win and the faster you can take down an opponent or disarm it the less damage your lance takes. Just happened to be my role was determined by our balance in lance this weekend. In fairness I like the role so....

Interesting that you don't see SRM's as a killing weapon as its my favoured weapon now on mechs fast and agile enough to land them reliably. I chain with the cooldown module rather than blap with them though and their non stop shake is my main defence and crit seeks very nicely. Not so effective against max speed lights unless I'm also in a similar mech but thats balance.

Awful on Alpine Peaks too.....

 

I'm currently doing the skirmish challenge and I keep losing all my games (all but one). Worst luck ever. If your team does not kill anything you get no assists and no points, I'm at 130 points for more than 10 games played

 

Yeah we had occasional absolute crushing defeats in the group queue that got you like 6 pts. Galling.

 

Pretty easy challenge all in all, though the rewards matched that. Three cockpit items and three days of premium time isn't exactly on par with some of the other rewards they've been offering lately (like 10,000,000 c-bills for 20 wins).

 

Oh, I see SRMs as a killing weapon...I just tend not to be the one that gets the kills when I use them I'm admittedly not great at using them, but I tend to shred people, then get an assist at the very end.

 

Had similiar problems - assault and conquer have been really easy to finish but skirmish was a pain in the ass - tried to get the 1st VotD boni with several mechs and it took ages for each....several roflstomps in a row...dunno what had happend to my Elo or queue....terribad teams.