So I have finished the BP but I still play bc my wife and friends haven’t all finished. To keep me entertained I go for the weeklies but I have a problem with this that could be easily addressed:
1/ I don’t earn challenge swaps anymore because the battlepass is completed. In addition I have 3 challenges that are really difficult and will probably not get completed before next Tuesday because I play 2-3 hours 5 days a week. Detailed below:
1.ii.a/ “kill an enemy who is returning your flag”. I flip between fiesta, quick play and TS depending on my friends’ requirements. I rarely get a flag match in quick play. Or at least - haven’t recently.
1.ii.b/ “end a killing spree in fiesta (0/5)”. Fiesta is not known for its killing sprees. This is a hard challenge.
1.ii.c/ “end a killing spree in fiesta (0/1)” this is a duplicate of the one above. It is frustrating.
SOLUTION:
1 of 2:
As I complete challenges on a completed battle pass please provide me with some challenge swaps to use for the weeklies. It will make the weekly challenges easier to complete and therefore the game more satisfying.
2 of 2:
Make the rewards for the weeklies more satisfying. Even some credits to use in the e shop would be minimal work for you and provide greater satisfaction for me.
Conclusion:
This season is very long and there isn’t enough content for the duration. If the player base continues to fall there won’t be enough players sticking around into the wider halo lifespan. As a service game we need more goodies - I played fortnite with my daughter the other day and I was surprised at how much stuff is available to purchase or unlock for free. Halo needs something for those who have finished the current seasons content as completing challenges for nothing is actually worse than not having any challenges at all.
Hope this is considered “constructive” and reasonable,
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The weeklies definitely need an incentive buff. I was doing the first few mostly as a consequence of completing the battle pass, but have since stopped because the reward does not justify the investment of time (for me).
I think the weekly needs to be something big, like whole armor bundles. But I could also see something like a helmet, armor coating, challenge swaps and small cR reward bundle.
As it is now, the redundant emblems are not worth the time and effort.
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Yeah I agree - it is something to do but then I get stuck with stupid challenges despite playing all the time. At the very least I could do with some swaps, but this is more a quick fix to a problem area that probably could do with a more focussed overhaul.
Yeah, i also got 4 annoying challenges this week:
- Return 3 flags in CTF
- End 1 killing spree in Fiesta
- Get 1 kill with the Oddball
- Play 2 Oddball matches.
1+2 are done now (1 was taking a long time to get the CTF matches and 2 was with luck while going for another challenge in fiesta)
3 i’m waiting for untill 4 is available, since that one is still stuck in the upcoming challenge section.
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All this effort for an emblem you probably won’t use too.
Hopefully they’ll realise this isn’t good enough and do something positive about it
Thats why it isnt even worth playing for. This week i only played to finish up the FT event unlockables.
They need to have a special event going on every week. Because once you have completed the Battlepass there anything special worth playing for. (Not wasting my time unlocking an emblem i wont ever use)
Yeah I agree with you. At the current time I only keep turning the game on because my wife wants to play and a couple of friends play too. One of my other friends only plays because we come on as he is in the same boat as me. What happens when we’re finished collectively in about 1 month?
The special events aren’t enough though either. The next one slated is a tactical slayer event. We don’t like swat so that’s going to put additional pressures on the “fun” element
It’s essentially saying “log on, wipe 100 guys -Yoink!- and we’ll give you a helmet”
they want you to buy up those challenge swaps man it’s a vicious circle.
Yeah that’s not going to happen. There needs to be enough free content to keep the freeloaders like me from leaving as we take paid players with us who feel like they’ve been hard done by because people stop playing the game and their paid skins etc become pointless.
it’s why games like fortnite and apex are so popular. Everything is accessible through play in the case of apex. In the case of fortnite the free content is in high abundance and the paid content is in even higher abundance. People are spoilt for choice and the skins aren’t simply “shiny red with yellow highlights”
If they want people to spend more they need to have enough high quality free content to bring players in to start, and then an abundance of smashers to get people to pay on top of this. There’s obviously map stuff and progression stuff they need to fix too - but as it stands these small changes will go a long way in encouraging player retention before the game becomes a destiny like game where no one new will ever drop into the fray
So, with respect, they can’t expect people to buy swaps when the content is currently so poor. The best they can do is work on retention until they get their butts into gear and solve the numerous niggles
yea 343 deliberately makes these challenges trash so people buy up the swaps they’ll say that wasn’t the intent but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s probably a duck
If that’s the case the game is doomed to fail.
They’ll either retrospectively improve it or people will move onto something else.
Craziest part is that they actually made killing an oddball carrier and a flag carrier a challenge. They know good and well people juggle the flag and drop the ball to fight and/or play ball.
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I used to burn through swaps with the weekly challenges but I soon identified this would become an issue as I progressed through the BP and started saving up the swaps. I’m currently sat on about 23 swaps which I only use if the weekly reward if worth going for (which is rare in itself) and only if the challenge would be a pain in the -Yoink!- to complete.
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I have a feeling 343 knows these challenges suck and are at most annoying roadblocks. But it was by design, they want players to be incentivised to buy challenge swaps.
It’s messed up but I already see through most of their marketing gimmicks to push players to the store.
Ez: every 1000xp, you get 1 Challenge Swap.
Okay, okay, 343’s gotta earn money somehow right? Fine, every 5000xp, you get 1 Challenge Swap.
MCC could use a fellow Spartan like you.
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Haha - cheers dude but I brought two hard copies of masterchief collection at launch. One for me and my wife. We played them (or tried) for hours every night for 6 months.
Never played it since. Trying so hard to shaft that dead horse was embarrassing and all enthusiasm for that title is now gone - regardless of if it works now.
I’ll be the same with infinite. Me and my wife are massive fans, halo themed wedding and daughter with cortana as a middle name. But I need content. I still haven’t forgiven 343i for the MCC. Im not buying anything other than a battlepass out of principal.