Having to wait a whole week to receive a bunch of clustered challenges which awards you one item is a big problem with why the game is so dry at the moment. Along with the fact there is no career progression yet, there is little incentive to play for that one item a week…
With that in mind , I really don’t understand why 343i haven’t seen that seasonal and monthly challenges are essential to keeping their players engaged, it’s worked so well with MCC and reach in the past. The MCC system for rewards and season passes / challenges works almost perfect in my opinion. There was challenges that required a decent amount of play time instead of just killing 3 Spartan in land grab 6 times over.
How has this just been completely set aside?
If we had for example a challenge to earn 1000 headshots in a season for a helmet/ weapon skin reward there would be a reason to come back and play around the weekly reset.
I hope when the career based progression system is added we start to see more and bigger challenges that award XP and armor. Grinding hours of mini challenges for one item and having to stare at the store page every week is becoming criminal .
You basicly already have a seasonal challenge: the battle pass. You need to earn an amount of XP in that season to unlock stuff.
The real problem is that with the weekly challenges you need to complete all to complete 1 thing and if you can’t in a week (for what reason that might be) you will be missing out and can’t get it anymore.
They should just return to the way MCC set up the weekly challenges, where you don’t need to complete all challenges to earn stuff, but you get tokens for certain challenges and with the tokens you can ‘buy’ unlockables. If you miss a week, you can still buy them with the tokens from next week or tokens you had left from the previous weeks. Also you could do the challenges in the order you wanted, since none were locked untill you did some other ones.
Also the campaign challenges should come back. Not everybody might have the campaign, but i think it is reasonable that the ones who do have it might earn extra tokens, since they have paid a lot of money for the game. You still might do the majority of stuff available in the F2P part of the game (especially since Bot Bootcamp is also PvE, so you could do some BB-challenges or perhaps Firefight if that comes back), but campaign also deserves some challenges. Unfortunately that doesn’t work with the current set-up, since otherwise you can’t complete all challenges if you don’t have the campaign. So it has to change.
Honestly they had the perfect system with the only flaw i could have is that you don’t get any points after leveling up at a certain point but its 1000 times better than the they system we have rn
Yea I totally agree, I really don’t know why they tried to make a different system when they clearly knew the MCC layout was so successful.
I do however think it’s important to have seasonal challenges separate from the actual battle pass. It worked very well in MCC and was fun to grind a long challenge to earn a set of armor weapon coating.
The battle pass progression alone ain’t gunna cut it in the long run I don’t think, hopefully they get it sorted.
Exactly, I’d love to see stuff like this. I usually check in Tuesday afternoons to see if the weekly is even worth trying to grind for, and if it’s not I barely play unless my friends want to. I’d love to have something to work towards over a much longer period of time.
Having weekly exclusives isn’t fair to people who have to work a lot/only get a few days off here and there/travel a lot/get sick a lot. If we had challenges that extended over the whole season or a whole month a lot more people could benefit from that.
Honestly this game started feeling like a chore a long time ago and if they don’t fix it… well. I guess they’ll see.