Do you game devs do this

"Changes ISK and SP stat to 999,999,999 and skills and buys everything"
"Gives himself officer BPO's and proceeds to protostomp"

lol

Some feedback for this event...

Three things went wrong with this event; requirements for the rewards, matchmaking and the rewards themselves. These three combined made this event terrible in my eyes and ultimately caused me to give up on it. I havenGÇÖt played since Friday and will not log in for the extended time either.

Requirements for the rewards

The aim of the event is to destroy clones but you make it so that we must win matches first before concentrating on the event itself. Especially for small squads and soloers it is easy to go a whole evening without a win. I know as I have witnessed it time and time again. I am constantly put up against full squads and trying to win matches when you absolutely have to is like pulling teeth. Last time the requirements for the rewards was to complete 10 matches, this was much better. When the requirement for obtaining the rewards is not something you have to worry about, people are more relaxed. People are happier to throw themselves at the enemy when they donGÇÖt have to worry about qualifying for the rewards. If you think 10 matches is too easy then make it 20 but donGÇÖt make it mandatory to win. If we need clones destroyed, why emphasize winning?

Matchmaking

As we know, we donGÇÖt have one. Team balancer might work as intended but in the end, it is not enough. Coupled with an absolute necessity to win matches, this event became a chore with the lopsided matches we have suffered with for so long. I donGÇÖt think IGÇÖve ever seen as many people leave matches in the beginning as I did during this event. I donGÇÖt blame them though, I started doing the same. After spawning in, check teams, if it looks like weGÇÖre going to lose, leave battle and queue for the next one. I hope the next time we have an event like this we have that MLT only queue. This is not CCPGÇÖs fault, but I got absolutely fed up with 6-man proto death squads mowing people down and then using needles when they happened to die. It was infuriating.

Rewards themselves

BPOGÇÖs are nice, I love them and happily take more of them but not knowing what BPO it actually is, itGÇÖs not motivating. ItGÇÖs actually the opposite. If you want me to get my teeth kicked in for 5 days straight at least tell me what for. I am not going to dedicate my time to grind endlessly for a chance to get a lackluster BPO. On top of an unknown BPO, 1000 Warbarge components is an absolute joke. Why so little? That is not enough to do anything with after you have upgraded your WB once. And then the keysGǪ I have over 1500 boxes, probably a lot more, so 20 keys is hardly worth it. DonGÇÖt get me wrong, I like keys as a reward but again, why so little? I will never run out boxes so donGÇÖt worry about that. And you may say we have had enough SP rewards in the past but so what? SP rewards for events like this make sense and SP is valuable commodity in DUST. Most people have their own goals with their SP and reaching that goal faster motivates you to participate to the bitter end.

Well, thatGÇÖs my opinion on this event; I hope the next one is better. Happy hunting.

As of 1 hour ago, the twitter updates say we're at 4,200,000+ biomassed with 24 hours to go. Shouldn't that be 48 hours?



How is it we can manage 1 million clones on a Monday but only 700,000 over a weekend?

Weird, I've only gotten the train map once.

Less that 300,000 clones to go!

Last update was about 1 hour ago, as of this post.

Nova knives also tend to do exceedingly well on this map. At least for me. I went 21-15 with STD Nova Knives on my APEX Tiger.