The Tengu Sky-Strike Challenge 2.0
As I was searching through my legendary skins for all mechs, I noticed how I have none for several mechs I own, including Orion, Brickhouse, Redeemer, and etc. After noticing this, I wondered what ways I could get legendary skins for these mechs. I came up with three good methods:
1. Slaving away hours of every day to work on achievements (for Courtship and Huntertron)
2. Saving up fortune vault keys for the 20 key vault
3. Coming onto the forums and discussing the Tengu Sky-Strike challenge from last December.
I chose the latter-most option.
***If you already know what this challenge is, I strongly recommend you to skip over my synopsis and head straight to the bullet point listed as "Why I'm bringing this up." This will save you time and stamina in reading my large informative.***
•What is the Tengu Sky-Strike Challenge?
For those who don't know what the Tengu Sky-Strike challenge is, it was a series of three tasks a player could chose from (players could only pick one). The three tasks were levels of difficulty in which a person would enter the Mesa Verde map with a Tengu and essentially jump down to kill a mech.
After having completed the task and having caught it on video, players could upload the video to the official Mech Arena Discord or Facebook and write down which challenge they completed.
•Rewards for each level:
-Level 1: I’m not sure, but I believe it was one rare skin for any mech in the game.
-Level 2: I'm not sure about this one either, but I believe players would be compensated some decent amount of credits, an epic Tengu implant, and one epic skin for any mech in the game (but not an achievement skin).
-Level 3: 1,000 acoins, one of any *legendary* skin in the game, and a legendary Tengu implant. More off the legendary skin, it could be any legendary skin which is no longer available (such as old battle pass final reward skins) or any currently available legendary skin--aside from achievement skins.
As you can probably tell, the rewards were SWEET! This challenge offered all players to receive any skin they want (aside from achievement skins) and potentially so in-game resources and implants.
•Why I'm bringing this up:
I think everyone who has thoroughly read this post through will understand how this is a great opportunity for Plarium to demonstrate compassion for their Mech Arena players and reel in many players who no longer are interested in playing. I personally received the legendary skin, "Swashbuckler" for Tengu and it is my favorite skin.
Plarium could now create another challenge for a different mech (which most players have--please don't make it a P2W mech), like Slingshot, Paragon, Lancer, Ares, Juggernaut, Arachnos, Zephyr, M.D., Guardian, Stalker, Shadow, or any other mech. However, if Plarium did make this challenge for a legendary or even an epic mech which most players don't have (e.x. Nomad, Surge, Vortex, Bastion, Gatecrasher, Onyx, Brickhouse, Blockhorn, Eclipse, Scorpius, Redox, Lacewing, Solis, Hemlock, Deathwalker, Seeker, Mimicker, Redeemer, Orion, Sentinel, Killshot, Panther, Cheetah, or Aegis).
Creating this challenge for a mech most people don't have will make F2P players want to leave the game all together, which I’m assuming Plarium doesn't want. On the other hand, there could be a challenge where players need to do a trick with a certain weapon and get a kill with it. Perhaps even with a mech and a certain weapon, or just straight up mech parkour (with Lacewing, Tengu, or Lancer, where people could jump into hidden locations). Plarium also had OCCs (Official Content Creators) who could promote this idea and widespread it across YouTube.
•Conclusion:
There are sooooo many different things Plarium could do for a fun challenge with great rewards, and, if the devs don't make another challenge like this, they will be missing out on a major business move.
Additionally, I will converse with some fellow Mech Arena YouTubers I'm friends with and ask non-biased questions for non-biased answers. There will be picture evidence of their feelings on another Tengu Sky-Strike Challenge.