They shoe horn games to keep player volume high but fail to realize players don’t want to be shoe horned into matches. The majority of games 343 wants us to play are not games I want to play. It’s cool if you like last man, and tactical slayer, or What ever. I even like these games from time to time but not forced. I’m glad there are games for different play styles but I do not want to have to play games I do not want to play just to get armor items or whatever. I play for the hope it will get fixed so when ppl look at my armor they will go “where did you get that helmet?” And I’ll be like, “back when the game sucked and no one played I got this thing they will never release again because it will only remind players how bad this game use to be.” I hate the shoe horned weekly challenges and pretty much every game they force us to play.
Until a proper progression system is introduced, challenges should be genetic [e.g - get a kill, win a game, etc]
being forced to play a different way cos’ an irritating challenge requires it, and is the only way to progress in the game, is just pathetically shallow and only drives people away from playing the game
but challenges will never see any significant change because they want to sell challenge swaps, at the cost of fun.
Season 2 reinforced how little this game offers for long-term retention and I truly don’t think the game can recover significantly, this game requires fixes and features that are years away and I’m not sure many people will wait.
Totally agree, we need more generic challenges. I don’t mind a couple of forced matches challenges but I can’t be spending my entire time playing games I don’t want to play. Or I’m just going to start playing a different game altogether.
I sympathize with this. I put long hours into the matchmaking this weekend playing the gammut of game types and already finished the week’s chore list. It’s mighty disheartening to perform incredibly well decorated with medals but only rec. 50xp, the same reward is given when I load into a social match and spend that time vacuuming my bedroom instead.
Yeah there’s no real incentive to win matches. You can totally derail a match by chasing kills for a challenge with a pulse rifle or something…