Weeklies require entering quick play for a random chance to get a certain gametype, they require specific modes being played that I don’t want to play. They’re a joke.
We need playlist SPECIFIC challenges urgently. A coating for each playlist: slayer, fiesta, etc. they’re too longwinded and I’m not chasing them anymore because fiesta SUCKS and I’m done playing quick play so I can assassinate a ball carrier.
Weeklies are POINTLESS.
Persuade me otherwise
Agreed! I’m someone who hasn’t been completing weeklies, but I saw the armor coating for this week and I said “hey, that looks kinda like the colors I would have selected for free in a real halo game,” so I kinda wanted them. Hated that I had to unlock them, but still, kinda wanted them. So I looked at the weeklies and they were just so random. I didn’t feel like it would take skill to unlock them, it seemed like it would just take a lot of random luck…
So yet again, not doing the weeklies.
Quick tip: if you need an objective game mode your best bet is ranked. They show up a bit more without behemoth and launch site slayer. Plus you have the added bonus of not playing on behemoth and launch site.
Well, if you’d just buy enough boost/swap packs in the store… 
The challenge system for the whole game really isn’t great. The incentive structure around it and the random elements involved lead to it being an actively frustrating engagement element. Needs a massive overhaul- which, thankfully, at least 343i seems to understand. We can look forward to the revised system coming… Someday.
Good tip man, but I don’t want to get assists in fiesta or play 5 games just to play an oddball game. The challenges simply aren’t worth pushing for. I just want to play ranked, or team slayer…or hell - nothing but oddball until my challenge is done.
At this point I’m ignoring weekly challenges because the system is just poorly written. If I can rank up to onyx and get an emblem why the hell can’t I get any new colours for my Spartan?
It’s ridiculous
Man the system just needs dropping entirely. At this point there’s literally no point in gunning for them because the rewards are poor in comparison to the effort. I don’t want to play 3 hours a night on playlists I don’t enjoy to get a brown skin for my Spartan.
Just give me xp for progress and milestones for rewards….you know…LIKE EVERY SUCCESSFUL GAME DOES
Man I literally did the same thing. Played five fiesta games and hated every minute. Dropped it and played ranked for the rest of the evening - was much more satisfying
I don’t find them hard, but more annoying sometimes. A quick tip is you can see what gametype you get if you hit the select button once you connect to a server.
One of the reasons I pretty much stopped playing infinite is because you have to play modes you don’t necessarily want to play to advance in the battle pass. It is pretty lame. I just completed the tenrai event last night so I don’t see myself playing infinite for a good long while. Got plenty to do in MCC, which is way more fun any ways.
I quit 10 games of quick play to get a stronghold. Took me ten minutes.
What 343 needs to do is just have a monthly deck. Give everyone a deck of 100 challenges and let people pick and choose what 50 challenges they want to do each month. If you do 50 challenges for the month you unlock 4 or 5 ultimate rewards.
For seasonal events have 20 to 25 unlocks each month. This gives players the flexibility to not have to check in each week and removes the aspect of fomo from this challenge system. You can gradually work on the deck or just grind it out in a week or two and pick up the following month. There also needs to be some social ranking ranking system, once you finish the battle pass exp is meaningless.
I’m going to continue quitting games over and over to get the playlist specific challenges. I’m not gonna burn hours of time because I didn’t get the gametype I have no control of selecting. I’m also not gonna invest in hours of play for terrible singular challenges I have no control over either. Several hours of my day for a generic emblem. There has to be some serious sabotaging to think that was okay to implement.
Goes back to my point about being able to customize challenges. You can group and rearrange your deck. Reduces the need for quitting or dadhboarding before loading into a match.
Intention : challenge players to unlock extra cosmetics.
Actuality : players are annoyed because all this effort is put in place just to get one small item, most often a logo or sticker, when all players want is armor, skins, and physical cosmetics over a 2D decal.
Weeklies are easy? Wtf are you on about. It takes like max 6 hours of play to complete each week if you aren’t a total scrub
5 or 6 hours on a good week. Some weeks are 10+ even with swaps. In MCC most weeks a majority of the deck can be done in 3 to 5 hours per week.
For me honestly I think the 2 to 3 hour range is ideal. Not too easy but not too hard.
Need help I can try and wingman it
Letting you choose the order of how challenges appear would be a (small) start. Sometimes, I just don’t want to play a particular mode, and I want to complete the other challenges that are waiting in the queue.
I still say we just need to throw the 4 challenge system in the trash, and have everyone have the same challenges, with no skips, every week, like MCC. Everyone has the same challenges, so we can co-op the same challenges with friends. No randomness, no unfairness, everyone has to do the same stuff for the same reward. Nobody has it easier or harder than anyone else.
That being said, you have 7 days to do 21 challenges. That’s 3 a day. I usually finish them all in 5 or 6 hours on my day off work and never play otherwise.
As long as you complete all your related ones at the same time, you should be good. For example, complete all your Fiesta challenges until you have none, then complete all the challenges that can’t be done in Fiesta, then complete the ones that can be done in Fiesta alongside the Fiesta challenges. If I get something like headshots, I just go play Tactical Slayer.
Also I’ve never seen a challenge for Back Smacking the Oddball carrier. That doesn’t sound real. Hope it’s fake.
I haven’t had any problems completing the Weeklies myself. I only need an hour a day and I’ll have them done before the weekend even starts. This week I had off from work and I was able to complete the Weekly Ultimate in a few hours.
Ones that require specific game modes can be a pain in the -Yoink!- though but with the ability to see what game you’re about to get by opening the Social menu and quit out of matchmaking if its not the one you want, its really no problem except for that one time when I wanted an Oddball match and it actually got to the point where I ended up canceling matchmaking so many times that I got temp banned - a first for me, even when I have been using this quite liberally.
As to forcing you to play certain playlists that you may not like (such if you hate Fiesta or Tactical Slayer)…again this really isn’t a problem for me. I do enjoy pretty much all the Social game modes to some extent with the only playlist that I can say that I hate being Ranked but they come up so infrequently that I just use a Challenge Swap to get rid of them. FFA I don’t like either but its easier to bear with.
I do think the Challenges need some more revisions which we’ll hopefully be getting. Take a bit more of that randomness out of it and, even if I do like Fiesta, having to do a Tenrai event one week and then the week immediately after has a Play 4 Fiesta Games Challenge and further down the line I get a Play 6 Fiesta Games…it does wear you thin a little. I would like the Challenge tweaked a bit more so that you’ll more often get Challenges where you can complete in any game mode you want (Killing Sprees, Multi-Kills, Kills with Certain Weapon, etc) as I would like to play BTB more but I end up getting a selection of Challenges that has me playing Tactical Slayer or Fiesta instead.