Heavy Metal Winners

PGI has announced the winners for this weekend’s Heavy vs the World competition, and the winner of the “design a heavy trial ‘Mech” contest.

First up..the winner of the Trial ‘Mech contest:

Using a Dragon 5N as the starting point Phorashi has given us what seems to be a pretty user friendly Dragon, which should help lower the learning curve a bit for new pilots.

Dragon DRG-5N

  •  Tonnage: 60
  •  Engine: XL 300
  •  Armor:376
  •  Type: Ferro-Fibrous
  •  Head:16
  •  Left Arm:40
  •  Left Torso:40/16
  •  Center Torso:61/19
  •  Right Torso:40/16
  •  Right Arm:40
  •  Left Leg:44
  •  Right Leg:44

Weapons & Equipment:

  •  Head: 1 ton gauss ammo
  •  Left Arm: 2 Large Lasers
  •  Center Torso: 1 ton Gauss ammo, XL 300 engine, 2 engine heat sinks
  •  Right Arm: Gauss Rifle, 2 Tons Gauss ammo
  • Double Heat Sinks
  • Endosteel

The XL engine will keep the Dragon moving at a decent pace, and having the Large Lasers and the Gauss rifles in the arms, will keep all the weapons using the same targeting reticule, which should make things a little simpler for a novice pilot.

Putting 100% of the weapons in the arms, does carry the risk of leaving the pilot unable to attack, should their arms get stripped early on in the fight.  To be fair, if a new player is in a fight, and loses both arms, they’re probably not going to be in the fight much longer ;).  I am going to give this loadout a try when it shows up as a Trial ‘Mech next month, so we’ll see how it does.

Hopefully, this is just the first of this type of community participation event for PGI.  I’m sure it was a lot of work, but, I think it’s good to engage the community this way.  Maybe next time, to ease the work on PGI/IGP’s staff, they can farm some of the initial gathering work out to the volunteer forum mods, or some other community members (I’d help).

 

This past weekend’s competition, was the Heavy ‘Mech challenge… and the results are in. We have winners..multiple winners for some categories.  Apparently, there was a glitch with how some games were recorded (or, more accurately, weren’t recorded).  PGI fixed the data, and is awarding prizes to both the ‘original’ winner (Based off what was shown on the leader boards), and the ‘revised’ winner.  Which, is really very cool of them, and shows they want to try and keep these tournaments as fair as possible. I’m going to copy/paste the results here.. hopefully it looks ok, if not, be sure to head over and view the results yourself.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Heavy Overall Original results and Score Prize New results and Score Prize
First Mister Blastman 7770 3750 MC Icon Kaeb Odellas 7970 3750 MC Icon
Second Kaeb Odellas 7370 Mister Blastman 7890
Third Ezeckial 7360 Ezeckial 7600
Heavy Cataphract Original results and Score Prize New results and Score Prize
First w00tzor 6650 SAME WINNER w00tzor 7100 1250 MC Icon
Second Stinkeye 6640 Kaelaus 6860
Third Kaelaus 6560 Stinkeye 6640
Heavy Catapult Original results and Score Prize New results and Score Prize
First Ezeckial 7360 SAME WINNER Ezeckial 7600 1250 MC Icon
Second FrDrake 6790 Soundscream 7460
Third Soundscream 6560 FrDrake 7290
Heavy Dragon Original results and Score Prize New results and Score Prize
First Mister Blastman 7770 1250 MC Icon Kaeb Odellas 7970 1250 MC Icon
Second Kaeb Odellas 7370 Mister Blastman 7890
Third Mobius333 7020 Jlad 7280
Heavy Jagermech Original results and Score Prize New results and Score Prize
First Cyborx 6770 1250 MC Icon BlindOP 7470 1250 MC Icon
Second BlindOP 6620 Karr285 7450
Third Karr285 6450 Cyborx 7060
Heavy Jagermech – JM6A Original results and Score Prize New results and Score Prize
First shad0w4life 5860 1250 MC Icon Karr285 6230 1250 MC Icon
Second BlackIC 5640 shad0w4life 6150
Third Karr285 5580 Last Avenger 6140
Heavy Jagermech – JM6DD Original results and Score Prize New results and Score Prize
First Cyborx 6710 1250 MC Icon BlindOP 7370 1250 MC Icon
Second BlindOP 6570 Cyborx 7010
Third Karr285 5860 Karr285 6990

 

Heavy Jagermech – JM6S Original results and Score Prize New results and Score Prize
First SleepTrgt 5980 1250 MC Icon Karr285 6440 1250 MC Icon
Second Karr285 5460 SleepTrgt 6350
Third Angelrage 5190 ThePieMaker 6140