1. I typically play NA (East Coast). Server performance has been pretty good since Canteen Crasher, and I can even play EU without too much trouble.
2. I really like how the community contract system has an individual, competitive aspect (Leaderboards), but the effort is pooled so that you can rely on others to pick up the slack for contracts that don't match your abilities and playstyle a.k.a. TEAMWORK.
3. No particular comments on mission difficulty thus far.

I have no real complaints thus far except that ONE medieval map was enough, so I will just emphasize what I liked. General comments:

• When I first heard that the event was going to be cooperative, I thought that the contracts would be less interesting to the "Achievements" part of my brain than the Canteen Crasher contracts were, but I actually find the Community Progress/Individual Contribution Leaderboards combination to be quite satisfying
  
• I'm glad that Expert Missions are now included. You can't really achieve a "Flow" state (look it up) in Advanced Mode unless your team is really bad, so the 3rd level of difficulty allows more people to find their niche. So far, I've played a little over half of the Expert missions, and they all seem to be reasonably-calibrated.
  
• Gas Passer Gone = MvM is Fun Again!
  
• I may have just gotten lucky, but I have yet to play on a single server with a Meta Scout. So far, everyone's been carrying their weight with DPS instead of ineffectively spamming redundant support weapons and bottom-scoring. Credit to the "Catch Me If You Can" contract...?
  
• The threshold for playing queuing into Expert mode caused some inconvenience at first waiting for new players, but I suspect it's 100% worth it.
  
• EDIT: I forgot to mention, I also find the UI on the website to be much better than last time. I really like being able to toggle between classes without needing to scroll, and having the Statistics page in addition to the Leaderboard/Completion pages.

Originally posted by Grave:

no gas passer is dumb, it is a part of the game

the community contracts are annoying because it will take forever to get the medals

the restriction for expert mode makes no sense because most players on expert are terrible at the game anyway

The Giant Soldiers going AFK in Wave 2 of Bavarian Botbash and nerfing the difficulty of the entire mission is "part of the game", too. That doesn't mean you don't fix it if you can.

Originally posted by Jakapoa:

Originally posted by Grave:

I remember u car, you retarded.

:lunar2019deadpanpig:

But I did it.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1746569497

Getting most damage is easy. It's getting the most kills that's almost impossible as Scout.

Originally posted by Hydrogen:

We can calculate the contract completion % and the mission completion % however. We plan on doing that at the end of the event (after MM is released) for everyone to see.

That's the big thing I am (and I'm sure other people are) interested in. Anything else would've just been icing on the cake. The psychology of "unlocking achievements" and whatnot.

Things are looking pretty sophisticated with the web site these days, so I'll keep my fingers crossed that a live tally can be implemented in Madness vs. Machines or another potential future campaign.

Cool!

I assume that MM itself will have a live count of the charity totals, though, right?

Data is fun. Is there currently or are there plans for published data about Canteen Crasher (i.e. which missions have been completed most, which contracts are rarest, etc.)?

I'm curious to see how many people are still left who can beat an Intermediate mission without cheesing, or how common it is to find an entire server of players able to play Scout well. Or mostly well. 6 slots is a lot. There's room for error.

I doubt there's even a way to find out, but I'd be really interested to see what classes people used to complete the All-Class contracts.

I second this. I've been out of the loop for awhile, and I keep playing missions that feel like they were made by people I know. It would be convenient to be able to look this up in one convenient place so I don't have to socialize by just asking. I'm surprised it wasn't put on the website Day One.