Mechwarrior Online

Sale right now on heavy mechs

Corsair for cbills

'ere we go, 'ere we go 'ere we go


Mech Release: Marauder II for MC and the Corsair for C-Bills

Medium mech sale on right now. And I blew my cbills on heavy mechs. Fuck.

Also, even though they changed loot crates, they're still shit. Even the rare and ultra rare are shit.

Hateyou said:

Yeah man this sounds way better than painting minis.

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Well...painting minis AND watching The Wire!


Tiers: from some of the in-game talk (I haven't checked the forums in months) it seems like more T5s and T4s are getting slotted into higher tier games now.

Double XP weekend, Pros: You do get a metric fuckton of XP, especially with premium time

Double XP weekend, Cons: You don't make more C-Bills, so you can burn through your C-Bills pretty damned fast.

PGI really outdid themselves with the current grindy event. They have it split up into mech classes (light, medium, etc) and then within each class you have 2-3 mechs at each tonnage level that you need to break a damage threshold on for a specific challenge.

The theme is that these are all the mechs that will be in MW5 at release.

The c-bills are nice, and the MC reward is great. But at almost every tonnage level (challenge) there's at least 1 mech that I either never play, is incredibly underpowered and most people never play, or its a mech I don't even own.

In 1st screenshot: @ the 40 ton level you need to do 1k damage in an Assassin (I have a couple, not an issue) and 1k damage in a Cicada. At least I OWN a few Cicadas, but that's gonna be grindy. I don't have a lot of SP on the two I own, and the ones I own aren't OP variants (like the one with 6 energy hardpoints) and frankly, I never play with them and I kind of suck using them.

Interestingly enough, when you go to the store and look at all the mech variants for a chassis, not all of them are on sale because not all those variants will be in MW:5. Not a huge deal if you have a lot of mechs already (I've got 200+?) but it would suck for a new or casual player. And even though I have a lot, I'm still hitting challenges that are hard to complete.

@45 tons, 1/3 of the challenge is using Blackjacks. I love them, have several, they're actually amazing. Vindicator? I have...one. The -1X. Overquirked but still underpowered (somehow...maybe that it's starved for hardpoints). But I can grind out 1K in it, I guess. But then the 3rd mech...Penix Hawk. I don't even own one. Well...fook. I'd have to actually buy one, then grind out 1K damage. /wrists. Oh, and BTW, there's some trial mechs, but the PXH isn't one of them. I guess the rewards can help pay for the cost of a new mech? With the PXH, the -1 and -1K both are standard engines, and the -KK in MC only. I might have a stash of XL engines, BUT STILL.

It's nice to see games with people playing mechs you rarely see, but that also means there's a lot of games where you almost want to cry because you'll get put on a team full of T1 potatoes, using brand new mechs

Good job PGI

I haven't played recently, but I guess PGI has an event where players can get rewards if they can kill Devs and Streamers in games. And one streamer was, I think, dropping in a group entirely of Lurms + tag, so PGI banned him for 'disruption', I guess.

I don't think it has changed much recently.

They completely nerfed PPC/Gauss and made cooldowns almost twice as long, but they were supposed to have rolled that patch back LOL

Jesus, that's a lot of changes.

LOL @ the IV4 armor quirk nerf. Though TBH that was a long time coming.