So id like to start and state I’m a very competitive Casual player, I love Ranked play and also love cosmetics.
As someone who has a family and full time job and a side business, I’m lucky if I can get on to play the 6 Matches for the good XP a Day, and if it were my Preference I’d only queue Ranked but I love cosmetic unlocks so I try to get the weekly unlocked
So as someone who is lucky if I can get on for 6 matches these challenges are very unfriendly to a casual player, I’ll elaborate
First - Play specific Game mode Challenge (Oddball, CTF, Strongholds) - The Playlist is RNG, and you could not get the mode you want if You have limited time to play
Second - Win Specific Game mode, now you just compounded RNG on top of RNG, so now I have to get the game mode, and hope I get teammates who will run the objective
Third - Play BtB Challenges - If your limited on time your less likely to want to spend your limited time in 1 BtB Match when you can do a few Quickplays
Fourth - Specific Gun Kills - For this you have to get a specific map, then hope the RNG gods are on your side and that specific gun is gonna spawn - Example, I Needed 1 Rocket kill, 6 games in a row rockets weren’t the power weapon, well there goes my day and gotta hope on next day - Specific Weapon Challenges should be limited to AR, Pistol, and BR, This makes it accessible to everyone and eliminates RNG
Fifth - Vehicle Challenges - another RNG challenges compounded with RNG cause there’s no guarantee vehicle you need will spawn, and vehicles mainly in BtB - Causing the problem of ppl with limited time not wanting to waste time in BtB
The compounded RNG on top of RNG on top of RNG to even “Progress” these challenges makes it feel like a boring chore, I’ve spent games just looking for guns I need kills for in quick play and just ignoring everything, objective, enemies if I don’t have gun I need kills with
Make Challenges things that can be Universally completed
Get x Kills
Get x Double Kills
Get x Grenade Kills
Get x BR/ AR or Pistol Kills
Get x Killing Sprees
Get x Assists
Get x Melee Kills
Most players are trying to play slayer from what I’ve seen
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There are certainly some offenders when it comes to the challenges. Overall, there shouldn’t be anything that depends on other players.
Kills is something you can achieve and is just how the game goes.
There’s no guarantee that the enemy will be driving a warthog, or that you can reliably get the guardian angel medal multiple times.
Win challenges, especially a low amount for common modes, are okay. Sprees and double kills should probably stay on the low amount as well. Assists can also be hard, because they rely on your teammates and require you to pull back which can cause you to lose the firefight.
Overall, I am fine with the system. It’s just got some bad challenges that need weeded out even before you consider the swaps being abundant.
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The reason I put those examples was because they aren’t RNG based, you can achieve them no matter what, yea assists are teammate based but the odds of you getting an assist are much higher then say Win Oddball match, I can get can get assists anytime, I can’t win oddball from every game lol my examples were mainly stuff that could be achieved always, I put x as amounts cause that could be anything, “Get x Killing Sprees” could vary between “Get 1 Killing Spree” or “Get 2 Killing Sprees” the kill ones could vary between 5/10/15 amounts, assists could vary between 5/10 amounts, Double Kills could vary between 1/2/3/4 amounts, the main point is they are all obtainable pretty much any Match you play, unlike a lot of the current ones where it’s RNG on top of RNG on top of RNG if you can even progress it
Also Win x Games is a good one, just not Win Specific game types cause that’s when it turns into hoping you get that game type
And Even Get x Mark Assists
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So Conclusion will not be able to unlock this weeks Reward, spent the remaining play time I had 3hrs Saturday Night and 3 Hrs Sunday Morning, Quitting and Queueing to complete 2 Challenges
Get 3 Kills with Fusion Coil
Get 10 Kills with Stalker Rifle
Fusion Coil only spawns on 1……. 1 Quickplay Map
Stalker Rifle has a 50/50 Chance of Spawning on 2 Quickplay Maps
By the Time the gods aligned the stars for me, I had enough time to win 6/17 Matches for the Ultimate
RNG on Top of RNG on Top of RNG
Fusion Coils are everywhere in BtB, along with a lot more avenues to catch players from the side. Especially on Fragmentation.
And more stalker rifles too.
I just looked at one of my upcoming challenges and it told me to get a link between four players in PVP are you f****** kidding me f*** that s***
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Unforetunetly I don’t have time to run BtB, cause at any moment I could be called away by my daughter or my wife lol so I run Quickplay to finish matches fast and lock in progress (which also is RNG cause progress doesn’t even go through sometimes) instead of getting into a long BtB match and having to step away and losing any and all progress I got
And on top of that I barely want to play Quickplay, I want to really play ranked, so I def don’t want to play BtB, but I won’t go into ranked to do challenges cause I care about my rank and the other ppls ranks
Hell the “play BtB challenges” I just start match and hold joystick while playing with my daughter lol
What are you talking about “anti-casual”, lol. A load of nonsense…
Exactly what it says lol unless your being sarcastic can’t tell, you either need the stars to align to get “good/easy challenge” from the gate, or you need the stars to align just to progress a challenge, if you have limited time to play you have to resort to degenerate unfun gameplay just to try to complete
The first 2 weeks were pretty doable for me. This last 2 weeks has got me not caring as much. Some of that is due to just all the problems the mp has in general, but also the challenges are harder. Guess I lucked out first 2 weeks.
I don’t play multiplayer games. They are boring and cash grab to me. But I like Halo so yeah. I’m definitely a casual gamer and this stuff, well it’s crap really. I will continue to not play multiplayer games.
Would like to finish getting the achievements but heck even that’s impossible right now cause Elimination isn’t even in the game. Sigh.
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And that’s the other thing, we don’t all get the same challenges, every player has dif rng, so you may get an super duper easy week, while I get hell week, so the time it takes to complete challenges will not be the same
And here’s another downside, you can use a challenge swap and get the same exact challenge in return lol
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Mine seem pretty doable this week. Guess it is just luck of the draw. Played a couple hours this week and only have 5 left. Stuck on get slayer kills because I never get to play slayer…Also have one that might take a bit which is kill driver with sniper.
All the challenges are doable, but they are not all equally as difficult, say we both get 10 challenges for gun type kills, yours are are all luckily AR, Pistol or BR, mine are all power weapons, Rockets, sniper, Stalker rifle
Those are all pretty easy in a sense, but yours don’t require much other then spawning and shooting lol and you can do ranked fir BR spawn
While mine require me to hope the RNG is in my favor and weapon spawns, I could play for 1hr and due to this system never see rockets spawn, I could see snipers and skewers all day then on top of that I gotta fight with 7 other players or 23 if your a BtB kinda person for those weapons while you on the other hand just spawn and progress your challenges lol
That’s point I’m trying to make lol and me being someone with limited time, all this randomly really just makes doing some of these challenges take too much time lol
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Agreed it is definitely luck of the draw like I said. Last week took me all week to complete the challenges. This week I am almost done. I had get 10 kills with rockets and was able to skip luckily. Probably should have kept it cause now I am stuck with kill driver with sniper lol. I have done it before but seems like it is taking a lot longer when I am actually trying to do it.
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Also seems like challenges are still glitchy as well. Played one slayer game and got 15 kills. It only counted 5 towards my challenge progress. I have two slayer challenges currently. Get 10 kills and get 25 kills. Played for two hours last night and only played slayer once. Pretty lame.
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Lol literally all they need to do is add back in all the specific playlists, and they’ll solve 80% of the issues people have with these challenges. Idk why they decided to go backwards on that front.
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Yea I got complete 3 oddball games last night. Thought it was going to take forever from the stories I have read on here. Got three oddball games in a row. Was on some crazy luck last night lol.
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This helps for a lot if challenges that require a game mode, but still wouldn’t account for the specific weapon ones or the specific vehicles when vehicles are a complete gamble lol can’t even reliable pinpoint a brute chopper in any playlist lol
I actually pity the person who will gets “get scorpion kills” if that’s a challenge that exists lol
I think I saw 1 scorpion in BtB once, and it was destroy as fast as it showed up everyone wanted it and they all fought for it lol
Well pretty much all of the weapons are readily available in spades in BTB. It’s just a matter of knowing where to find them. Yea it sucks, but those challenges aren’t as much RNG as pretty much every other one is. As for the vehicles……… That’s why i said ir would only solve 80% lol
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But that goes to my other point not everyone wants to or has time to run long BtB matches, so it should be accessible to Quickplay, that’s why I think weapon kills should be limited to
BR AR or Pistol, all spawn guns, easily obtainable by everyone no matter how they play
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