Dear 343, you are literally about to make a Halo 1 veteran quit the game entirely.
It’s just not fun to play your objective modes without a full team, and despite this you make a ton of objective based challenges. It’s not fun to slog through an entire -Yoink!- list of challenges with a stupid weapon or specific mode, yet you didn’t take that out either. What does that cause? Entire games of trash players refusing to help the team, get kills or even go for objectives cause they’re trying to do your garbage challenge. These weapons? Don’t even always appear on the map.
Worst of all, you don’t even allow the last weekly challenge to show up - because it’s SO FUN TO CREATE SOME STUPID SUPER TIME CONSUMING NON SWAPPABLE LAST MINUTE REQUIREMENT THAT YOU CAN’T SEE LOOOLLLL - AFTER you finish everything else! (Win 17 games last minute, win 5 ranked in two consecutive weeks) Your changes are not fun, your challenges are TRASH, and your ranked mode and matching is ABSOLUTE GARBAGE. Check my service history, you’ll see I’ve been in every Halo (except 5 since you literally created the worst possible game ever taking out the chief) and I’m just so done with it. Your stupid emblem is not worth grinding ranked matches and you literally create toxicity this way. I’ve never complained about a multiplayer ever and even struggled through bugfests like BF3.
side note - I had FIVE challenges for ranked matches! FIVE. And you keep throwing them at me with wins?!
And then take out Halo clans so we can’t find like minded people to play with?! You are literally trying to drive people away and I’m done with it. I also have literal proof of all the huge number of people who just quit ranked (where you don’t provide even a bot) since you always have this stupid “win ranked” requirement. Just do performance! I’m done with you. Just done.
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I just don’t do them. The rewards are uninteresting, and the challenges aren’t worth the headache of chasing. I’m not going to go up against M&K with a controller, while SBMM is in what is supposed to be Social.
Worst case scenario an elastic will be necessary.
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They’re intentionally designed to be difficult to get so that only a small fraction of players will get them for bragging rights. That’s why I don’t bother…
I already have an idea on what I want my spartan to look like, and I highly doubt anything that comes from weekly challenges will come close to what I imagine lol.
It’s more likely designed the way it is to squeeze the most time out of the player. More time in the game means there’s a better chance you’ll buy something like XP, skips, levels, cosmetics, etc, while also keeping the population/ average time played as high as possible to appease higher ups such as investors.
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Well, maybe challenge swaps yeah…
Yeah i gotta admit the rewards are hogwash I only do the challenges for the EXP, but i’m sure people really enjoy me quiting ranked matches because it’s not CTF or whatever mode I need or that we’re definitely gonna lose.
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Same here I’m done with the weekly reward challenges in this game at least I am for now I am only going to be playing for battle pass xp, I literally did every one of my weekly challenge so only to get a last non skipable “win 5 ranked matches” challenge i don’t play with anyone else and the sbmm is so heavy in ranked that as it stands for me right now it is objectively impossible to finish the, last game i played i felt like i was competing in a damn tornement
That’s very true. I understand how uninteresting the rewards are, and the fact that they aren’t really essential just adds to that. However, I do really like the added experience especially the legendary challenges that provide a pretty huge boost (almost 40% of one level). I’ve been going up against mouse and keyboard as well, and it has been frustrating especially when people are glitching with instant shot snipers and the like, but it just isn’t fun forcing people to play a mode they don’t enjoy. It just makes sense to me have progression to prevent people from leaving their teammates in the lurch in ranked and not chasing some random weapon kill in Social like I’ve been seeing instead of helping their team.
You’re absolutely right, the system is designed to squeeze more time and resources out of their player base. What I’m saying though is that these types of challenges reduce interest in the game. I am not upset - I’ve just lost interest in playing (and so have so many others) because there doesn’t appear to be any real point in continuing to play for the fun of it once you have received your max level and/or rewards. That’s not a way to keep your player base engaged. If I’m working towards some sort of long-term reward for (something I really want and has been implemented in many other games), people will at least stay in game.
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I totally understand. I also do challenges basically for the XP (especially since this week’s reward is a 00 scoreboard blegh), but it’s just frustrating because I understand people need certain modes and challenges. I got a stupid win ranked slayer match earlier and I played (I counted) six different matches before even getting a slayer match, which I incidentally also did not win. Since most of us aren’t 12 anymore, there just isn’t time to waste a whole day playing for no reason. But if this is the case, let us pick the mode! It’s literally the first thing they changed about playlists and something they admitted doesn’t make sense. It is just mind boggling you do that for the casuals in social and yet force ranked to play this way. It really does suck losing a teammate as well as that is basically a guaranteed rank drop, as well as people trying to preserve their precious K/D since that appears to matter more than actually playing the objective. By this logic, then you just shouldn’t have ranked appear at all in your challenges - the sweaty people will play regardless.