{"id":981,"date":"2013-03-22T12:06:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T18:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=981"},"modified":"2013-03-22T12:06:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T18:06:25","slug":"heavy-metal-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Metal Weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fine folks over at MechWarrior Online have unveiled their next weekend challenge&#8230; &#8220;Heavy vs the World!&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-982\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/HvW.png\"><img data-attachment-id=\"982\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?attachment_id=982\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/HvW.png\" data-orig-size=\"936,321\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"HvW\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;So heavy, it ignores Daylight Savings Time!&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/HvW-300x102.png\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/HvW.png\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-982\" alt=\"So heavy, it ignores Daylight Savings Time!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/HvW-300x102.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/HvW-300x102.png 300w, http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/HvW-500x171.png 500w, http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/HvW.png 936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">So heavy, it ignores Daylight Savings Time!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As you might expect from the name, this weekend&#8217;s challenge is all about the Heavy &#8216;Mechs.. and further showing they&#8217;ve listened to the feedback from the previous events.. the rules and rewards are much changed from the last tournament:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Greetings MechWarriors!<\/p>\n<p>In celebration of our newest Mech release, the Jagermech, we have decided to make our next tournament highlighting it. We present: Heavy vs. The World Challenge! This is an opt in, solo only challenge, where we take each players best ten matches in each Heavy chassis, and rank them against eachother. Leaderboards will be set for each chassis: Dragon; Cataphract; Catapult; Jagermech. The winnings? (FIFTEEN DOLLARS WORTH) of MC for the best player over all Heavy Mechs, and (FIVE DOLLARS WORTH) of MC for the best pilot of each chassis! Due to the Jagermech being so new, we&#8217;ve added a category for each variant: Best JM6-A, JM6-DD, JM6-S pilot. Think you&#8217;re the best Jagermech S pilot? How about Dragon? Here&#8217;s your chance to prove it!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Opt in<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Solo only<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Use Best 10 Matches for each leaderboard<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Best Match is stat based scoring system<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Score Formula:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Kills*30 + KillAssist*30 + (CaptureAssist+SpottingAssist+TagNarc)*40 + MatchesPlayed(Cap at 10)*150<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>1st Tie-Breaker: Number of Matches Played\u00c2\u00a0 (the Less the better)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0EG: My best 10 matches out of 20 is better than your best 10 matches out of 50<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>2nd Tie-Breaker: Total Damage Done (the more the better)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With there being actual MC prizes available at the end, I expect competition to be pretty fierce this weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 Since this takes into account your best 10 matches.. if you don&#8217;t normally pilot Heavies&#8230;you don&#8217;t have to worry about grinding away all weekend&#8230; just 10 matches is all it takes (after you <a href=\"http:\/\/mwomercs.com\/tournaments\" target=\"_blank\">opt-in<\/a>, of course).<\/p>\n<p>But, wait&#8230; I hear you saying &#8220;What if I don&#8217;t have a Heavy &#8216;Mech to pilot??!?!&#8221;&#8230; lucky for you&#8230; this weekend&#8217;s sale is&#8230; a sale on heavy things!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Greetings MechWarrior!<\/p>\n<p>To further celebrate our new Heavy Mech, as well as the<strong> Heavy vs. The World Event<\/strong>, we&#8217;re running a sale on heavy-related things! Fang and Flame Hero Mechs? <strong>30% off!<\/strong> Phranken camo for\u00c2\u00a0Heavy Mechs and Phranken colours? <strong>50% off!<\/strong> Double XP conversion? <strong>DOUBLED!<\/strong> So if you&#8217;re looking to buy Fang or Flame, or the Phranken camo\/colours, or to convert some XP to GXP, now is the time!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday March 22nd 10:30am to Tuesday March 25th 10am<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GXP Conversion Rate\u00c2\u00a0doubled -\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Convert 50 Mech XP to\u00c2\u00a0GXP\u00c2\u00a0for 1 MC<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Fang and Flame Dragon Hero Mechs &#8211; <strong>30% off<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Phranken Camo (heavy) &#8211; <strong>50% off<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Phranken Colours &#8211; <strong>50% off<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So what are you waiting for, get to it!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nThe MechWarrior Online Team<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even if you&#8217;re not participating in the weekend challenge, the doubled conversion rate for &#8216;Mech XP to GXP, is a good deal.. convert that extra 20,000 XP you&#8217;ve got laying around..so you can use the GXP to buy the new coolant module!<\/p>\n<p>I would have liked to have seen the Iilya Hero &#8216;Mech on sale, as I&#8217;d rather grab that then a Dragon for the event&#8230;but, this is still a good sale.. Fang\/Flame are a good pair of &#8216;Mechs to pick up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fine folks over at MechWarrior Online have unveiled their next weekend challenge&#8230; &#8220;Heavy vs the World!&#8221; As you might expect from the name, this weekend&#8217;s challenge is all about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=981\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[21],"tags":[29],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BPLE-fP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}