From the complaints I’m seeing, I think a huge part of it is that they just didn’t playtest this enough, and if they did, then they clearly didn’t listen to the feedback on why people don’t like this game mode and the challenge system. Getting even 10 kills in FFA sounds like a serious challenge to me because I am just not good at Team-Based modes. No shame in admitting it, I just don’t perform well when on my own.
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Yeah, it’s really lame. But in case no one told you yet or you haven’t figured it out. It is bugged rn, so leaving after you lose all your lives it won’t count if you leave early despite it saying so. You have to actually stay in the game and spectate it until it ends for any progress you’ve made towards challenges to actually show. Hopefully this is patched ASAP tho
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Don’t get why they insist on locking stuff behind specific modes. To try to get people to play modes they don’t like? Makes them hate the mode even more and less likely to bother playing at all.
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How would you do an event differently?
For this one? An event specific playlist that features a variety of game modes to choose from for players to play, and participation in the event grants Event progression with extremely rare AI caches appearing randomly on the map to grant extra progression.
Or, because the objective is to irritate a Bamished AI, a training simulation to defeat waves of Banished, with the AI ultimately appearing as the final boss of the Firefight mode. You can also offer the Firefight mode in different difficulties, and offer more rewards for success.
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I would Make the challenges more or less based around Slayer or objective modes, but not to a specific playlist.
Like Get x amount of kills in any Slayer gamemode. be it FFA Team Slayer Fiesta, whatever or Get X amount of Kills in Objective mode be it CTF ODDball, Whatever so now your pool of selecting the appropriate mode is widened.
Also the lack of a PVE mode like firefight/warzone esk hinders the challenge system.
Reach had a few where you just had to to Kill X amount of this enemy in PVE, be it the campaign or ForeFight which was infact fun bea sur you already were going to do that.
And that’s the problem is you want the challenge system to revolve around what players would play organically.
You don’t want to Artificially push players to a playlist simply because of challenges. A better method is simply have that Features playlist but it provides added XP for playing it.
This way your not limiting players to that Playlist but rather just incentivising it through XP but I could still unless ck the event just strictly playing BTB
They could make a Fractures playlist instead of designing the challenges for a single mode.
We’ll have to see what the new Fractures playlist looks like. It seems like 343 is happy to have the Fractures playlist be existing game modes that are denoted with “Fractures” instead of anything… Unique to the Fracture, like that Energy Sword-Grappleshot mode that just got implemented.
Maybe the new one will change, but it looks like KOTH based on what limited previews we have.
I am 100% not getting progress if I quit a match. It says Connection Lost and no match history instead. You have to sit and wait. Dumb. Fix your game 343. They are making us waste our Double XP
Well that’s certainly depressing to hear. Battle Royale does not belong in Halo and this is deeply concerning. I like last man standing too but I hate modern Battle Royale genre.
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I am with you on not liking FFA game modes, I actively swap those challenges too unless they are “play 1 FFA game”. But launching a game mode with bugged challenges making people need to play double or triple the number of games just so they can get the rewards is a piss off. I played 7 matches yesterday and only 2 counted towards my progression for “play 4 LSS matches”. And those two were ones that I let play out until the game actually ended. Leaving early is bugged and if you want to be rid of these challenges sooner, just let the match play out, watch netflix or something at the same time.
Yeah, I’ve gotten my progression points after quitting out, once my lives were depleted and I got the notice.
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And there are better ways to handle an Event situation than having players play game modes that they may not enjoy. Player enjoyment should be top of mind for all activities that this game puts forward, and having players play game modes that they dislike is not a method by which enjoyment will increase, especially if cool cosmetics are the reward.
With the time I have to play games, I would rather play something I enjoy than something that actively frustrates me like FFA and Battle Royales tend to do.
I posted about this in another thread and it got locked after people were crying when I said this event is bad.
If you leave before it officially ends it does not count your progress at all. Luckily I managed to get better and better where I’d either die 3rd or 2nd so I wouldn’t have to wait very long and I’d finish the game naturally.
Also, people said when you leave it tells you it’s safe to do so and you won’t lose progress. That is 100% not true. I’ve never had any visual indication that progress will be saved upon leaving.
This community is something else.
So fixated on protecting 343 and this broken game.
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Right on the money.
I’m much more tolerant of this new “Last Spartan Standing” mode than I probably ought to be, but Fiesta straight up blew chunks last season.
I’m fine with that for like an event. What I’m not fine with is trying to play an event… but the challenges want me to waste my time playing oddball and CTF instead.
Only 10? You are lucky. I have to get 25 melee kills and of course of the 20 Ive done only 4 have counted
Also have to get 10 headshots and only 8 have counted so far despite getting more than 8. Lol
Game is broken its embarrassing
I have to get 25 headshots and I have six. I also have to get 10 headshots and I have zero.
I’m running around with the mangler most of the time just trying to get headshots.
And thats why game challenges which require certain playlists and styles of play are toxic as hell. 343 just doesn’t get it tgat you should play a match because you WANT TO. That it’s way more satisfying getting rewarded for cool or funky stuff that just happens and reward good and positive gameplay. But no. I need to grapple an opponent. I nbee to play a mode I don’t enjoy.
yeah… how fun
My last spartan standing challenges are tracking well but my ffa challenges aren’t on my side. So first day of season 2 and I’m stuck with 2 challenges asking me to win 5000 points in ffa and none will progress. Bye bye weekly reward 