[Feedback] Summer Heat: Wave III Event

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STARTS: June 12th at 10:00 AM PDT (5:00 PM UTC)
ENDS: June 21st at 11:59:59 PM PDT (June 22nd at 6:59:59 AM UTC)

Greetings MechWarriors,
Summer is almost here, and Clan Wave III approaches! Beat the heat with our Summer Heat: Wave III Event!
This event gives you a chance to earn up to 20 gifts per game mode, for a combined potential to earn 100 prizes!
All you have to do is earn a minimum Match Score of 80 in Invasion or Counter Attack game modes, or a minimum Match Score score of at least 30 in Skirmish, Assault, or Conquest, and you'll unlock a chance for a random prize!

• Maximum 20 chances in each mode: Skirmish, Assault, Conquest, Invasion, and Counter Attack
• Your Match Scores will be displayed on the Event page up until you reach your limit of 20 unlocks per each game mode

All Wave 3 owners will automatically start this event with a certain number of redemption opportunities already available! If you haven't snagged a Wave 3 Collection yet, you can purchase a Wave 3 Collection at any time during this event to receive your complimentary redemptions.

• Hankyu Package owners = 4 redemptions
• Shadow Cat Package owners = 8 redemptions
• Cauldron-Born Package owners = 16 redemptions
• Gladiator Package owners = 32 redemptions

HOW IT WORKS

• Get a Match score of at least 80 for Invasion or Counter Attack to earn 1 random Prize redemption.
• Get a Match score of at least 30 for Skirmish, Assault, or Conquest modes to earn 1 random Prize redemption.

Don't forget to head over to the Event page to check your qualifying matches and claim your prizes.
Random prizes:

• 1 Day Active Premium Time
• 1 Mech Bay
• MC (various values)
• C-Bills (various values)
• GXP (various values)
• MC Consumables (Cool Shot, Artillery, UAV, and Air Strike)
• Cockpit Items (Oscillating Fan, Ice Cream Sundae, Pop, Hula Girl)
• Unlucky Items (Heat Sinks)

IMPORTANT INFO

• Premium Time acquired through this challenge automatically activates when you receive the prize
• Challenge applies to both Solo and Group drops
• No opt-in required
• The ability to redeem your qualifying games will expire on June 23rd at 11:59:59 PM PDT (June 24th at 6:59:59 AM UTC).
• Be sure to redeem your eligible matches on the Challenge page before that deadline or they will be forfeit!

Grab bag event, always love those! And if you preordered Wave 3, you get "free" things (only "free" since you spent anywhere from $30-$120 to get them ). Nothing to complain about here, although people are already bitching about the last part. XD

Also, if you own the preorder packages, you can already see your bonus grab bags, but they cannot be redeemed yet.

 

Well, a few extra gift bags is nothing to complain about.

And I love gift bag event. Simple and random fun.
Once again, hoping for mechbays.
Wow, talking about joke items, I am sure SHS is the meanest thing they ever vome up with, talking about completely useless. (If you actually need extra SHS you should close your account right now)

 

I honestly would rather get an SHS than a MC consumable. My CBill consumables are already upgraded to MC level anyway, and you can at least sell the SHS for a few cbills. I still have MC consumables sitting in my collection from last year's Halloween grab bags ><

 

Just the sort of event I needed to level up all those mechs.

 

Wait, you can use Ebon Jaguers in the event? How?

 

Don't you guys get tired of package creep though? In order to receive all the "free opportunities" you have to have purchased the latest packages? Sure if you already had full intentions of purchasing them then this is a great free reward but if you didn't then this event is like getting to sleep with Kate Beckinsale's sister; it just ain't the full kit and caboodle..

 

Can you provide pics?

 

Well spotted I totally missed that...

 

You mean this:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0065765/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

Yeah, but then again, that's a half-sister.
I guess that would only support your point of view though.

As for me, I don't mind if they give out small extra swag, as long as they don't make packages only for the events.
But yeah, they are being a bit hard-sale lately when it comes to packages, speaking as a package owner. At least they learn to give out shit a bit more. It is usually just a small bunch of "bag 'o nothings" but still.

 

TBH, I'm not looking for negatives...I enjoy the game, I don't see any reason to pick at it until I open a wound that makes me hate it. I still have fun driving big, stompy robots, and I really enjoy streaming the game on Twitch as well, so why look for reasons beyond the occasional asshat in PUG matches to dislike anything? So long as I'm having fun, then I don't mind spending my time with the game...the events they do over the weekend just give me some added incentives to play things other than my norms. IE, last weekend, I brought out my X5, the first mech I EVER owned...and it was a fun blast of nostalgia for a while. With the next hero event coming up, I have a great reason to run around in my Ember again, which was more or less sidelined when the FS9-A got its quirks...and I love my Ember!

Basically, I'm just trying to keep having fun And it's working.

 

Hey man. Good for you! At the end of the day you enjoying it is all that matters! PGI needs guys like you as you are the target market.

 

Got around 1mill of cbills, 1k of GXP, 100MC, 2 days of premium and a hula girl.
Not anything OMG, but 20 is 20.
I am just having fun playing regular pugs, leveling things and trying out build. Also, stacking up some cbills for the new mechs when they finally come. Lots of pods need replacing and retooling for the new mechs. Good thing those are clan mch, so less cbills needed to refit.

 

Here's my totals for my 32 "free" bonus bags:

GXP: 2100
CBills: 912,500
MC: 155
Premium: 4 days
Mech Bay: 0
MC Consumables: 3 arties, 2 airstrike, 1 coolant
Cockpit items: 1 Sundae
Bad Luck: 1 Clan DHS

Overall, not bad. No Bays, but I'll take some free premium time, and some extra MC. And my only "shitty" item was a DHS that will actually get used since...well, Clan!

 

First 32:
1,162,500 CBIlls
1000 GXP
165 MC
2 DHS
1 SH
1 Improved Coolant Pod
1 Improved UAV
1 Priority Air Strike
4 Priority Artllery Strike

At first I was also confused about the short event weekend, until I realized the event is actually a full week PLUS a short weekend. CW attendance should be the only thing hindering folks that are really playing to getting full grab bags, which is pretty nice.

 

First 32:
1,5m CBills
2k GXP
130 MC
1 Mech Bay
1 day Premium Time
2 SHS
1 DHS
1 Priority Air Strike
1 Cockpit Item (Sundae)

 

Yeah the timing is nice but not sure It'll persuade me to do CW as the rewards aren't exactly huge relative to the CW rewards, particularly as you can't pick CW modes unless that's changed?

 

I think it just means you have to do 20 attacks and 20 defends, regardless of whether they end up as counter attack or not. Not sure, probably will continue to ignore CW