Did 343 Actually listen to us? A lot of players were complaining about how the weekly challenges are not in our control because they require specific weapons or modes that we cannot select. This week all the challenges were a number of kills, cumulative score, or playing a number of games. I hope they actually listened to us and keep doing these kinds of challenges because it makes it more enjoyable. Thoughts 
No they didn’t, you were just lucky.
I am now looking at a streamer who is trying to get her last challenges: win 2 CTF matches (and ofcourse she doesn’t get them yet…)
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Nope. I made a Topic about it:
https://forums.halowaypoint.com/t/oddball-and-ctf/510938?u=digitalvanquish
You were just fortunate, so, lucky you.
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I think they’re specifically referring to the “End enemy killing sprees” challenge that was unique to Tenrai Fiesta. Neither I, my friends, or anyone on these forums seems to have gotten that challenge this week, which is a very, very good thing.
As for RNG playlist challenges “Win Oddball games” and the like, I don’t think those will go away because that is more of an issue with the playlists (not being able to choose the modes we want) than it is with the actual nature of the challenge.
If I could just choose Oddball, completing that challenge would be trivial.
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I suppose the only “listening” going on was how 343 said they track the most commonly skipped challenges and remove them from the challenge pool, or try to change them to be better. We hated End Killing Sprees every single time. Only took them 4 months to figure it out. I’m sure they made a lot of pocket change selling skips for awful challenges, with the excuse that skipping them decreases the likelihood of you getting them again
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They did… but only when it came the art and soundtrack styles it seems.
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Perhaps, but:
So, I think my comment about Oddball and CTF works fine. But getting rid of those ‘End killing sprees’ Challenges would definitely be a positive. Challenges should be player-controlled, not enemy-controlled.
Heck, I don’t even need to just be able to specifically choose Oddball, if that’s too much to ask. I just want a Team Objectives playlist, and for Quick Play to be a function, not a playlist. Quick Play should just put you into the first match it can – with at least a relatively stable connection, of course. That’s what it’s meant to mean.
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The commendation system would also do this game a lot of good.
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I really hope there will be a commendation system in Infinite. That alone would bring a lot of replay value.
It would. It would bring so much, AND it would create a space were 343 can keep their more annoying challenges. They aren’t timed and they can have big requirements since they can be done at your own pace. Chasing the Brute Plasma Rifle Commendation was some of the best fun I had in H5.
That’s why the game feels so stale. Outside of the really short BP, there’s nothing else to do outside of events.
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They did listen. Their last blog proves that point. It also proved that, despite listening, they couldnt give a rat’s -Yoink!- about what the community wants.
“A lot of you guys asked us to add this to the game, but we didnt feel like adding it. LOL F you halo players.”
That was basically the jist of that update.
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