If the Challenge system is to stay, would we be able to select which four of our remaining challenges we have active?
When playing I often strategize which challenges I complete and when, in an effort to complete multiple at once. For instance yesterday I had 3 Tactical Slayer challenges, with a 4th coming up. I kept working through my bottom challenge until I had 4 Tactical Slayer challenges.
This would be a good QOL change.
I do that too! If I can knock out three or four challenges in the same match I feel extremely proud of myself. If we could see the progress update during the match like in MCC, that’d be even better.
The challenge system needs to be completely overhauled in my opinion. If they plan to keep the same kinds of challenges they currently have, the thing they need to do is allow all of them to be simultaneously active. This tedious BS of event challenges being made and then subsequently locked behind other, busy work challenges makes the events obnoxious and removes most of the fun from playing the events.
Personally, i just think they need to undo the current challenges system and replace it with much more broad, and specifically not RNG challenges. Weekly challenges like “get 50 headshots in BTB,” “Get 100 kills across any game modes.”
Stuff like that that doesnt require you and your friends to all break up your party so that you can clear out your FFA or SWAT challenges in order to start preogression challanges that you can all play together.
Yea this challenge system is pretty much the ANTITHESIS of group play.
I’d like this, if changing the entire format is out of the question. I can’t stand being told which challenges to do and when. For instance I need a guardian angel this week. I’ve gotten like 4 randomly already, but none of them counted because the challenge wasn’t ready. It’s a horrible feeling. If i could at least choose which active challenges I wanted, then I’d just activate that on at the start of the week to maximize my chances.
Heck they could even sell a “challenge chooser” in the store or something if they wanna be greedy about it.
It would be a welcome improvement, certainly. I’d personally prefer 343i trash the challenge system as it exists today in favor of universal challenges like we saw in MCC. At least with those you didn’t feel like your ability to complete a set felt like a matter of luck.
Totally agree this would be a very good player friendly change which would still keep challenge swaps viable as people would be able to swap out any challenge they didn’t fancy
Challenges shouldn’t be selected or active. There should be a list of challenges for the week and you complete them at your own leisure. Not when the game allows you to.
I shouldn’t have to complete 6 challenges to have a “get double kill” challenge be active.
I should just be able to get that double kill and the challenge should then be complete.
This “active challenge” bs helped kill the fun by forcing you to play a certain way.
I agree 100% with you. But if the system were designed the way you suggest, then people would use fewer challenge swaps, and 343i would never do something that would reduce sales/money in their pocket. The system is designed to be frustrating so players use more swaps more often
You are correct. That’s just one reason I have not played in a while and most certainly why I have not spent a dime on the game. Including buying the campaign.
when i do play i usually try to do this too, but i don’t think 343 would never do this because it would streamline challenge completion which means less people playing for longer. dropping population over time and also people would progress through the battlepass faster meaning they’ll complain about not having a reason to play.
i wish they would though. the current setup kills my fun of playing what i want. i’m not interested in ranked, but i kept getting ranked challenges one week and i only played for a little bit because all my challenges filled up with those. it was during one of the events to boot. i wanted to get those event items, but i wasn’t going to waist swaps to try and get other challenges (i did use 2 and it replaced it with 2 more ranked challenges).
This actually ties in to Unysheks latest Tweet about FOMO weekly awards…but may be they just haven’t twigged the connection yet.
They HAVE to make the weekly awards high value items in order for players to want to complete their weekly challenges and even contemplate using or buying challenge swaps (ie there’s no way anyone is going to use or buy swaps if the weekly reward is a crappy emblem or backdrop).
I’d be interested in seeing their challenge swap sales figures because they can’t be that high surely given how poor most of the weekly rewards have been so far…my only hope is that they don’t finally catch on to this and start making challenges even more specific (despite claiming that they’d be improving them).
They should just get rid of those whole challenge model tbf as it is quite simply the worst and most restrictive foundation for any XP and profession system that I have ever come across.
don’t give them ideas like that.
Selling a festure like that would certainly divide opinion. I could see an argument for it not being available by default for an F2P player but even then for me improving the player experience for all trumps that every time
I just want something that incentivizes team play. When me and my bro both have different challenges, there is no point in us playing together. Sometimes we grind them out on our own, but usually end up just not going for the challenge unless it’s a cool coating or armor piece.