This submission has been accepted into Madness vs. Machines as of 10/20/19.

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This mission was also only about 20 min 30 sec which is borderline too short. Consider adding a little bit more to the shorter waves.

This submission is now on Strike 2 of 3 due to inactivity. Please submit a final version of this submission within a week of this post to avoid being disqualified.

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Help complete community contracts with the rest of the players.

You need both 25 tour points and 25 contract stars for the second badge. Stars are gotten by completing the community contracts with all the other players.

Woodchip Wound:

Wave 3: This entire wave was really easy, especially the first sub-wave which barely made it out of spawn.
Wave 5: The tank at the end came more-or-less alone which is boring; maybe give it a little support.
Wave 6: Sub-wave 6w2 had some stragglers.

This mission is really borderline too short. Consider adding a couple more sub-waves, possibly to wave 4 (or add a 7th wave if you prefer).

Total wave time breakdown for: mvm_maplehill_rc1_int_woodchip_wound
[Victory] Time spent on Wave 1: 2 min 55 sec
[Victory] Time spent on Wave 2: 3 min 27 sec
[Victory] Time spent on Wave 3: 3 min 5 sec
[Victory] Time spent on Wave 4: 2 min 38 sec
[Victory] Time spent on Wave 5: 3 min 56 sec
[Victory] Time spent on Wave 6: 4 min 11 sec
Total success time in mission: 20 min 12 sec (100%)
Total time spent in mission: 20 min 12 sec

Demo: https://demos.potato.tf/mvm_maplehill_rc1_int_woodchip_wound_1571365546.dem

Wave 1: Slightly reduce WaitBetweenSpawns on the giant SMG snipers.
Wave 2: This was just a boring wave; it had 1 sub-wave and was pretty much just soldier and melees.
Wave 7: I wasn't there for this one but something went wrong at the end. Check the demo

Total wave time breakdown for: mvm_hanami_b2_int_drop_zone
[Victory] Time spent on Wave 1: 3 min
[Victory] Time spent on Wave 2: 2 min 13 sec
[Victory] Time spent on Wave 3: 2 min 41 sec
[Victory] Time spent on Wave 4: 3 min 2 sec
[Victory] Time spent on Wave 5: 3 min 14 sec
[Victory] Time spent on Wave 6: 3 min 27 sec
[Victory] Time spent on Wave 7: 4 min 4 sec
[Victory] Time spent on Wave 8: 1 min 11 sec
Total success time in mission: 22 min 52 sec (100%)
Total time spent in mission: 22 min 52 sec

Demo: https://demos.potato.tf/mvm_hanami_b2_int_drop_zone_1571362333.dem

Contracts are getting rebalanced (both nerfed and buffed) as we acquire more data on how quickly they can be completed. Some of the contracts we were able to base loosely on CC data but many of the contract requirements were just guesswork. Our goal is to set the contracts so they're completed at an approximately uniform rate until they are all finished after about 100 days. Now that we have a little over a week of data, we can and have been making that the case.

Implementing a cooldown is not intuitive behavior and would likely result in countless bug reports of "The contract is at 100% but I don't have its star(s)." We cannot change the total star requirements since they are purposefully set at nice round numbers and are linked with tour points which we have declared we aren't changing anymore. In other words, we're not going to go and say "You need 100 tour points, but 113 stars for the last medal."

We stated at the beginning of soft launch that we reserve the right to change any and all contracts up through October 31st, after which we will not nerf any contract progress. This is still the case. We will likely do one more balance pass before that point if the actual contract progress differs significantly from our expectations.

As of 10/15/19, this submission is accepted into Madness vs. Machines.