Oh man - that was my second worst experience. I suggest BTB for that actually, loads more players to bait. Steal the flag, run around their base to attract attention, find a fairly covered hiding place, and drop it where you can see it from your spot. Once people come, chuck grenades and spam shots.
Talking about it pisses me off still - all the best mate!
Re: Generic challenge swaps - I really like that idea.
Re: getting what they want from players. That thought taken too far is exactly the problem. 343 thinks its forcing players to grind, but I’m willing to be it’s actually really annoying people and disengaging them. In the end, less players in infinite, defeating their original rationale. It’s good news that they’re already working on rewards that are worth playing for, moving away from emblems and that kind of bullcrap. But I really wonder how they managed to get so many things wrong about the challenge system at the same time.
They need to plan challenges such that:
Update: 12 Games later, I got my oddball.
I just finished the flag one. Now I’m waiting for a strongholds match but its been loading me into one for an entire south park episode so far and counting.
RE Flag Challenge: Perfection!
RE Wait time: Oh that’s insane. Different problem there. Let’s hope S2 brings a substantial percentage of the player base back… Which area are you located in btw?
West coast. I finally completed both and now I’m trying to get 3 perfect medals with pistol, br or commando
You can do it with Shock Rifle, one shot headshot. Super easy in BTB.
Any perfect medals count.
It says it needs to be a kinetic weapon. I think stalker is a plasma
I know buddy but it doesn’t matter, you can use Stalker Rifle or Shock Rifle.
It’s super easy with Shock Rifle. I’ve already done it. Got it in one game of BTB.
This challenge is usually a daily and any perfect medal counts. Have done it countless times in the past too. Shock Rifle is always my go to as it’s so easy to farm perfect medals with.
Ignore the challenge description.
Lemme try to find a stalker or shock rifle rq I’m in a game rn
Having gotten that 3 Perfect Challenge for this week, I can confirm that I used the Shock Rifle to complete it.
With Shock Rifles actually spawning very regularly in all the BTB Maps and fighting an enemy team of 12 players when you can count on a few to stand still for the full shock burst to kill them, it’s very easy to complete it in a match 
Dang no shock rifle this match, they have 2 tanks and both snipers and my ping is 180 
why is this weeks challenge the wildest in a minute lmao
Btb is not working at all for me. Imma do quickplay but man idk this is such a painful week
Whenever there’s an event, the challenges associated with it usually make me want to paint the walls of my den with brain matter.
Between challenges being broken/overly frustrating, other players trying for the same challenges, throwing matches, and playing the same mode over and over again… it’s a sure fire way to make me absolutely hate any new gametype they introduce.
Early on, my last challenge before getting the capstone was win 3 oddball matches. I went to bed on the Monday night before reset with 2/3 of them done.
I got up in the morning only to get everything except oddball, but hope came an hour before reset, as I saw the next match was oddball.
We had a hard fought 1st round, but we came out on top. And then, everthing started falling apart, one teamate just quit in the middle of round 2 leaving us to be defeated. Once we lost round 2 another teamate leaves leaving us hopeless to win round 3.
I was left in anger toward my teamate and the challenge system, only to be furthur fueled because I didn’t get another oddball game before reset.
I think it was the Abbey Lime coating that I ended up missing out on because of that.
I’m so glad I have challenge swaps left over from season 1 battle pass, otherwise I’d never have gotten that sweet, pitch dark visor. WIN two strongholds? My bro and I played MANY quick play due to point games and needing to get an Oddball game. Out of maybe 20 games during the week, not a single Strongholds. To expect us to WIN a game through Quick Play when you can’t even find one, dear goodness…
And it’s going to get worse next season since they’re adding another couple games to Quick Play (like King of the Hill which is also getting its own playlist). Why can’t CFT, Oddball, and Strongholds have their own playlists?!
In other news: Ef the Killjoy challenges. I’m so glad they officially did away with those.
The whole challenge system is an absolute joke. There are 3 possibilities:
they wrote an algorithm to come up with the challenges, which is so lazy because how easy would it be for 5 people from the sandbox team to get together (in an actual room or over zoom) and come up with 100 challenges that make sense.
they actually did get people together to come up with these challenges and the results are embarrassingly stupid and unintuitive.
same as option 2, but they did it entirely on purpose, which is just shameful. They complain so much about how hard it is to fix this game when they put extra effort and energy into making it a worse experience for the player.
343 must have a humiliation -Yoink!-, right? How else do you explain them constantly crapping the bed and rolling around in it while complaining about how bad it stinks?
Ooh, you meant on Halo iNfInItE lol Yeah, Do people even play that beta?
Need a hand with Amy of them
Oh man dude, I feel your pain from that description alone…
Last challenge before I can even do the ultimate is win 2 stronghold matches. After 10 games I didn’t even have one stronghold game played. So I started leaving, and got my first temp ban. Made me angry enough to get off for the night, but I basically either have to buy a challenge swap tomorrow and pray I can do the weekly in time.