There are some commendations that need to be improved
List:
Unstoppable - Survive a full match of Breakout
Warden Slayer - Kill Wardens
Beam Rifle - Kill an enemy Spartan with the Beam Rifle
Mantis Gunner - Kill enemy Spartans with a Mantis
Mongoose Destroyer - Destroy enemy occupied Mongooses
Mantis Destroyer - Destroy enemy occupied Mantises
Phaeton Gunship Gunner - Kill enemy Spartans with a Phaeton Gunship
Against All Odds - Win a round of any Breakout gametype while alone and outnumbered in matchmaking
And Stay Off - Kill an enemy Spartan that is clambering
here is an a reason why each needs to be looked at:
Unstoppable - either remove it entirely or make round based, not game based. sorry, but the only way to unlock that is 2 ways, that both require luck, not skill based. 1) Luckily, you dont get evenly match, player/skill wise, and you dominate and not ever get shot which chances are if you are a forward team player, who actually helps their team who PTFOing, you have a high risk of dying atleast 1 or more times so its extremely rare. Or the other way,that’s easier, is to be a camping -Yoink- and have your teammates on your team run out and fight the battle for you while you sit back and hide. i have seen too many players do this. kind of what ruined the experience for me. too many people want it so they camp for the win. hope they get 5 victories in a row and win the game and get 1 medal. now do it over again how many times? 15-30. you can say its slightly skill the 1st way but it is still way more luck. because while i killed 1 person in a round and my teammate killed 3 but the last player got him and than my other teammate killed that guy. he played better but its just chance that he got killed. i mean its swat with 1 life. your probability of surviving is just gone if someone pulls out a pistol and just gets at least 1 good round off and headshots you with that new auto aim assist that curves the bullet slightly in midair, it’s over. so the better way to get it is to camp and not help and hope they can win on a 4v3. totally ruining the point of the game of being competitive. i get 343 had good intention on this one but unfortunately too many people would rather take the easy route and try to play safe and camp. if i see a teammate do this not helping my team by 3rd round i just team kill him. And i didnt even mention that if the match is even that you are going to lose at least 1 round. and to go longer matches with more rounds because the game is more even than a one sided match. so its just rewarding for uneven luck matches. And if you are gonna talk about i need a fireteam, read link
Warden Slayer - this one i have seen has a lot of people complain about, and for good reason. Again the whole BS of your teammate, or someone on the enemy team, running in, put no effort in, and got the last shot and stole the kill even though you did all the work. i had a solution i posted a while back for this you should get boss kills for killing the boss where if in the last few shots that finished him off, or any other boss, you get kill points for and medal but doesn’t contribute to team score as that goes to the very last team to do damage, even that is still debatable. If you played SW:Battlefront and played Hero Hunt, you know exactly how annoying this is when you are the one that did all the work and someone steals hero kill that you deserved. Oh and there is also a glitch where it gives people the kill who werent engaging the boss. one player said he got a warden kill and he only shot him for a bit, died, ran off and was doing other things, and when warden died he got the kill. So glitch and boss kill count need to be addressed. and don’t try and tell me this is skill and this is not. what 343 is saying about kill stealing being legit is not. its why i didnt bother to help kill warden til near death.
Against All Odds - that’s just chance. you can’t just hope your teammates die and you get it. so thats just chance you get in that situation… and win. you are already at disadvantage, which is the point of the commendation. so the requirements to complete should be lower. its not gonna happen as often as the other things listed in the category. the rarity of this happening when usually your team is either getting owned or dominating makes it just hardly possible to get, its too rare of a situation situation so either lower or remove. a better way to get this commendation and Unstoppable is by camping, hoping your teammates lose and you are the last guy left and you pop them with the pistol. 2 commendations in one with no skill needed.
Beam Rifle - you have to play it on warzone and either you luckily unlocked it or got it from a fallen ally/enemy otherwise you aren’t getting it. So put it on more Arena maps. We would love for it in BTB. Take out the sniper rifles on Basin and replace with beam rifles. this goes with other weapons currently not in BTB like Fuel rod n SAW and Plasma Caster etc, put at least 1 or 2 in total that can be used in BTB. i dont mean every map have one, but there should be at least a map or 2 that has them on it.
Mantis Gunner/Destroyer - its only on warzone, so its not seen as very often. I use to see them a little bit in the earlier months but now i haven’t seen one in a while. It’s like they are going extinct. i dont think any maps in arena have them, so would be nice if at least 1 new map in BTB had them. either that or lower amount needed. But we would really rather have them back in BTB. also scorpion n phaeton need to be in BTB.
Mongoose Destroyer - this is a problem where killing the vehicle is way more trickier. no one really drives a mongoose, unless you are asking to die, only gungooses. but even for both, you end up easily killing the player before the vehicle itself because the player is fully expose so even when shooting at goose and not the player, you end up killing the driver. so lowering the amount needed or require killing player in mongoose and no vehicle itself. also another reason this is difficult to get is, just like in other games like Homefront with helicopters, people bail out when its on fire and about to be destroyed. so it makes it way harder since everyone knows a goose is not the best vehicle for all combat roles and that when you are outmatched, its best to hope out and run. at least warthogs you can now fly back into the turret and shoot. with gooses not having much offense capability, when you are out matched and cant get away on goose because its about to be destroyed, just like other vehicles i have seen, bailout.
Phaeton Gunship Gunner - just like the mantis, phaeton is only warzone. probably even more extremely rare than the mantis. at least destroying it is easy since there are bosses with them. but otherwise getting one is not happening anytime soon. I would also like to see this in a BTB map, with the mantises, kind of counter balance each other. Either that or lower the amount of kills needed as to get one in Warzone is rare. there are none in Arena and only in Warzone can you kill bosses and you have to have cards to call them in which are like ultra rare and legendary cards.
And Stay Off - this one i just feel needs to be less. i mean its rare to get someone to clamber and kill them. its like less than a second animation. more often you are going to kill them either before or after the clamber animation is over. unless you happen to have a power weapon on you. so lowering the amount would be better.
Now we just need the phaeton…