Review [Issue 66] Events Study - Minehunt Explained

[Vivianne 442]

 

Hello forum readers! Here I am once again with another article related to the Community Events. I decided to take a closer look to one of the most popular events and do a complete review of it. Hopefully, it will help you do better in the event itself or perhaps it will add more knowledge to your in-game experience.

 

Let's get started!

 

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Introduction

 

As it's written on the main page of Minehunt - or maybe even the name of it talks for itself, the purpose of Minehunt is to find hidden mines; and of course manage to destroy them. Since you only have one hour to find and destroy them, you have to be the fastest tanker in the battle. If not, it is certain that you'll lose your chance to get the prize for destroyed mines.

 

 

Preparation

 

Organizing a Minehunt can be quite difficult, as it takes a lot of time and effort to make everything perfect. The Community has a specialized group of tankers who help set everything up. They equip Dictator with Hammer and of course, the Orange paint since that is the paint that represents helpers. The so called "miner" has Wasp instead of dictator, there so placing of mines is easier for him/her.

 

We know two different kinds of preparation. The easier way is to do a tower with dictators (Event Helpers like to call it "Dictator-tower"). All they do is set mines for each other and afterwards drive on each other, this way they become higher and it's easier for the miner to place mines on higher places. 

 

Here is a depiction of Event Helpers doing the job.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The other way takes more skills and it's more difficult to accomplish. It contains a few tricks (a.k.a doing parkour) and there's really not much else to say about it. I'll rather just show you another depiction of it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rules

 

Since this part is already nicely explained in the official Minehunt topic, I will be short. There are only a few rules you need to follow to make experience in the event more enjoyable for yourself and for other participants as well of course.

• You're not allowed to kill/shoot Event Helpers. Killing them could potentially destroy the whole event. Thus, the violator will immediately be punished with a kick out of the server up to one hour! 
• You're not allowed to shoot/kill other tankers on purpose. Firstly, you will only get a warning; while afterwards, you will be kicked without any other warnings. 
• Placing mines isn't allowed with purpose of killing other participants.
• Using Double Damage throughout the event is prohibited.
• Destroying mines before the event starts (before the Spectator says go) won't be rewarded and neither will the ones destroyed with the wrong equipment. 

 

Parameters and Ranks

 

Tankers between rank and can participate in the event. 

 

Parameters:

• Game mode: DM - Parkour
• Max players: Maximum for the map that has been chosen (usually around 20)
• Time limit: 60 minutes
• Destroy limit: None
• Private battle: ON
• Bones boxes: OFF
• Gold boxes: OFF
• Supplies: ON
• Upgrades: OFF
• Alterations: OFF
• Auto-finish: OFF
• Weapon change: ON

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It's well known that not all of us are the best mine hunters or parkourists but we can sure work on our skills to become better at both of them. Therefore, I decided to help you out and took a closer look at the tankers during the Minehunt. I found a couple of common mistakes and a few things you need to be careful with. 

 

 

As I already mentioned, Event Helpers help themselves with a "Dictator-tower". It's not such a bad idea for participants to try it out during the event as well, you just have to be more careful with tankers that are a part of it. Try to exclude people with lower FPS/higher PING and those who are a bit clumsy.

 

I managed to record a fail of tankers doing a "Wasp-tower". 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preparation is the most important factor of accomplishing the goal to catch a mine. If you decided you want to team up with a bunch of friends or maybe even randoms, you have to make sure that everyone knows what they need to do. Only one person suffices to ruin everything you put effort in to. Here's an example of it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sometimes you already have a very good team and make an incredible preparation, but unfortunately you run out of luck and you fail without having any influence. 

 

Below, you can find an example of that very situation. Even though they failed, it was an amazing attempt. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prizes

 

As I have mentioned, you can't receive a reward for destroying mines before the spectator said "GO". Since there are different levels of difficulty of where mines are placed, rewards are different just as well. The reward circles around five thousand crystals.

 

Organizers can decide rather they are going to increase the prize or not. 

 

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Moon Minehunt

 

With a return of Space mode option for battles, Event organizers decided to spice up the traditional Minehunt a bit. They have created a little bit different version of it, these kind of Minehunts take place in the space mode. Therefore, they're called Moon Minehunts. 

 

Everything is quite similar to the normal Minehunt. You must follow the same rules. There are only two changes:

 

• Firstly the prizes were lower down since mines are easier to catch because of the low gravity. In a nutshell, low gravity, low prizes.
• Secondly, you're allowed to equip any turret/hull you want but you need to keep using the Protection Module "Zero" and White paint.

​This is a special edition of Minehunts, Event Helpers place up to fifty mines in such an event!

 

​It's quite often to see participants doing "one man parkour" (OMP) in here, since the gravity is so low and you can pretty much do whatever you like or want. Although I mentioned that these kind of Minehunts are easier to catch mines in, you still need a decent amount of skill and knowledge of parkour to achieve your goals. I'm about to show you a few clips of participants catching some mines.

 

In the example number one, the parkourist used Ricochet to shoot himself in the air to gain height and catch the mine he/she aimed for.

 

 

​This place was harder to reach since the mine was placed on a billboard, so these two participants teamed up to catch it.

 

 

The last one was the easiest of the recorded ones. The participant only had to shoot himself once and low gravity did all the rest.

 

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​That would be all from my side. Hopefully you learned something new while reading through this, as it will certainly help you become better and faster in the next Minehunt event.

 

​Regards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Crip 4,735]

Insightful, helpful and interesting. Thanks and good luck with your candidacy! :wub: :wub:

Edited July 7, 2017 by Savage

[Kurt_KurtDGreat 2,259]

Lovely article :)

[FelRigge63 1,344]

Well done!

[Guest Maserati]

Awesome work  <_<, just read it now, keep up the good work.

[Spoon 1,030]

Nice   :wub:

[marc.jp_44 20,837]

Well done Fallen!

[colindestroyer77 45]

I've always wanted to take part in one of these.  :lol:

[Guest]

Great work, Keep it up!  ;)

[pravinlohakare1234 0]

can the lower ranker can participate in mine wars like me?

[Tequile 276]

Thanks you! Good job, i enjoyed every second of reading It! 

[Squidward 583]

Woow, Good job  :o  :D

[Achillies 48]

Noice anjawl :C

[Hex 11,520]

How do mines layed by helpers stay long enough for players to catch? Good article btw

The helper who laid the mines is careful not to flip or cause unnecessary difficulties.

[Hex 11,520]

If you mean that mines disappear automatically after two minutes, no, they do not until the person who laid those mines dies or they are blown.

Edited August 18, 2017 by Hexed

[S-H-A-R-V-A-N 84]

Great!

[Indian_Tanker 468]

Great job!

[KILL_BILL_CHAUHAN 2,505]

next time use fly hack :P

 

good work all helpers

[TakeAShower 300]

Bones boxes... ?