Princess Carl
Member
GhaleonEB said:
This is actually one of the first weeks I completed the weekly. Felt pretty awesome :lol .
Nightfall on Legendary without dying was impossible by myself, let it not be that one.
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Halo: Reach |OT3| This Thread is Not a Natural Formation
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This is actually one of the first weeks I completed the weekly. Felt pretty awesome :lol .
Nightfall on Legendary without dying was impossible by myself, let it not be that one.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
GhaleonEB said:
Hello, are you there? - 2011 cR
Let us win an award next year.
Barrow Roll
Member
Add a couple of zeros to the end of that and it might work.Domino Theory said:
Anyone up for some MLG right now?
Hypertrooper
Member
They won a award, Best Multiplayer.Domino Theory said:
Shootin' and Lootin'- 1500cR
Kill 150 enemies in any game mode in Reach.
Secondary Fire - 4000cR
Earn 25 assists today in multiplayer Matchmaking.(just like the one we had yesterday)
Watersports - 600cR
Kill 50 enemies on Waterfront on Heroic in Firefight Matchmaking.
Twin Trips - 500cR
Earn 2 Triple Kills in the same match in multiplayer Matchmaking.
And the Weekly:
Multiplicative - 5000cR
Earn 200 Multikills in multiplayer Matchmaking this week.
Sorry Ghal =\
Kill 150 enemies in any game mode in Reach.
Secondary Fire - 4000cR
Earn 25 assists today in multiplayer Matchmaking.(just like the one we had yesterday)
Watersports - 600cR
Kill 50 enemies on Waterfront on Heroic in Firefight Matchmaking.
Twin Trips - 500cR
Earn 2 Triple Kills in the same match in multiplayer Matchmaking.
And the Weekly:
Multiplicative - 5000cR
Earn 200 Multikills in multiplayer Matchmaking this week.
Sorry Ghal =\
xxjuicesxx
Member
They should have that 25 assists for 4000 points every day!
Blue Ninja
Member
Man, they had a two week streak of decent Challenges going right around the time the Noble Map Pack came out, and they ruined it again. Last week was terrible, and this week looks to be even worse. Sad.
Hypertrooper
Member
Mmh. 25assist and I need the Rocket Race achieve. Multiteam here I come.
Shake Appeal
Member
My Reach (/my videogame) playtime has nosedived this past week, so I don't think I'll be going for that weekly. But if I was, SWAT would be the playlist to pound.
Barrow Roll
Member
Heheh, yeah that was pretty funny. Did we even play a game with that guy?Gui_PT said:I just got the loveliest message ever
Miggytronz
Member
Played Saturday night.......Didnt have a fun experience besides just being able to play with friends; Lag, Shitty host and Beastly Host connections mostly ruined every match.
WEEKLY IS WEAK....WTF BUNGLE. :facepalm:
WEEKLY IS WEAK....WTF BUNGLE. :facepalm:
Miggytronz
Member
x2 USMRTShake Appeal said:
Hypertrooper
Member
It is kind of funny. I had bought Vanquish, Castlevania, BB, RDR, Fable 3, CD2 and I didn't play any of these yet. The only game I play during the week is Halo: Reach. And I don't know why. I'm addicted, right?Shake Appeal said:
electricpirate
Member
Hypertrooper said:
Fallout NV has pulled me away, but after doing some good old fashioned revenge murder it made me really want to get back to forging.
DIdn't expect THAT result.
bobs...onGaf
Member
For multikills I think Swat could be a good playlist. To be fair though I dont think its worth grinding for this weekly. Luckily I already have the armours I want, im at the stage with challenges now where I expect them to suck. :lol
I keep checking though - right now it seems like the challenges are just things that you can sort of do while playing, but I cant wait for the challenge system to give us some truly unique curveballs. Challenges like 'kill 10 elite drop pods' are good because they kind of draw attention to aspects of the game most people overlook. Those are the kind of challenges im looking forward to.
I keep checking though - right now it seems like the challenges are just things that you can sort of do while playing, but I cant wait for the challenge system to give us some truly unique curveballs. Challenges like 'kill 10 elite drop pods' are good because they kind of draw attention to aspects of the game most people overlook. Those are the kind of challenges im looking forward to.
electricpirate
Member
"343 is hiring banners" are now adorning the top of this thread. Thumbs up google!
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
600 credits for a challenge? WTF Bungie.
LunaticPuma
dresses business casual
The thing with weekly challenges that require a grind is that you get a ton of credits by forcing yourself to play so much. The credits for the challenge itself are worthless.
Overall, I'd rate challenges as a failure. They change the way people play too much which is worse than achievements. Multi-team playlist is a lot less fun than Halo 3 because of it.
Overall, I'd rate challenges as a failure. They change the way people play too much which is worse than achievements. Multi-team playlist is a lot less fun than Halo 3 because of it.
You've got to be fucking kidding me. Smooth game, we're winning no problem, then host change, our whole team proceeds to go orange bar and we do not (edit: hit, I accidentally the post) a single shot anymore ><
Why is there AT LEAST one host change EVERY SINGLE game? Seriously, why?
edit: I suggest banning "x Kriimz" for idle boosting. Fucking shitty when he's on your team >:-O
Why is there AT LEAST one host change EVERY SINGLE game? Seriously, why?
edit: I suggest banning "x Kriimz" for idle boosting. Fucking shitty when he's on your team >:-O
CrazedArabMan
Member
Letters said:Yeah..
My wait for the awesome Endure/Annual/Dejavu style weekly continues...
This is what I have been waiting for as well, the lack of vidmaster challenges is a real shame.
LunaticPuma said:The thing with weekly challenges that require a grind is that you get a ton of credits by forcing yourself to play so much. The credits for the challenge itself are worthless.
Overall, I'd rate challenges as a failure. They change the way people play too much which is worse than achievements. Multi-team playlist is a lot less fun than Halo 3 because of it.
That is why Multi-team is used to get kills on all of the bad players when you are bored or need a good stress reliever, as winning a game in Reach means nothing compared to winning a game in H3.
What I've been trying to do in sorting through the Challenges is trying to understand what variables can be captured in them. The one from the start of December that left the "required_count" parameter in place made me think of it. I'm going through the history of them and breaking Challenges out into their components: mode, goal, goal count, etc. Mostly done now.CrazedArabMan said:This is what I have been waiting for as well, the lack of vidmaster challenges is a real shame.
What I'm wondering is whether certain combinations of parameters can be done. For kills in campaign for example, the variables seem to be:
Mode (Campaign); Difficulty; Mission; Weapon Class (automatic, precision, sniper, etc); enemy (any/Grunt/Elite/Class (infantry, etc); points; time; deaths.
However, they can only be used in certain combinations. Probably a set of templates were constructed, through which the parameters could be defined. And it's starting to feel like the parameters can't be combined into any really interesting goals.
So far we've had "kill XX enemies" in a campaign mission or overall. And "kill XX # of enemies using XX weapons". I'm wondering if those could be combined. Like, you have to kill Hunters with the Assault Rifle. Or snipe Drones with the sniper rifle. That kind of thing.
From what we've seen so far, the Challenge templates fall into discrete categories that don't allow such combinations. They're kill based (difficulty, mode, enemy), medal-based (Firebird, plasma stick, multi-kills, headshots, sniper headshots, assists), time/completion/score based (Campaign mission, Firefight round, MP game).
I'm wondering if there are templates for combinations. Something like, "Complete ONI Sword Base in less than 30 minutes on Heroic or harder while killing 120 enemies"?
Or, "Complete a Campaign mission in 30 minutes or less while scoring 50,000 points."
Or, "Complete a Round of Score Attack in 10 minutes or less without dying."
Those are the kind of challenges I keep holding out for. But from the structure of the Challenges we've seen so far, I don't think they're possible.
Major Williams
Member
I think 'weak' weekly challenges are merely 'normal'. We've only really had 1 'outstanding' weekly challenge (for Thanksgiving).
CrazedArabMan
Member
GhaleonEB said:
Yeah, but didn't they say the challenges were already hard-coded into the game but that there was a ton of them to choose from?
So even if it was possible, which I believe it is, wouldn't they have to be in the game already though?
As I understand it they are not set in stone, but the "templates", or combinations of parameters that comprise the challenge statements, are fixed. I'm guessing at this point we've seen the extent of their complexity.CrazedArabMan said:
But I'd like to be wrong. Once you get into combining completion parameters - like time/score/deaths - some great possibilities open up. Since we haven't seen those yet, I'm guessing they're not possible.
Major Williams
Member
I agree with you seriously. It would be awesome to have a curveball every once in awhile, but they haven't thrown us too crazy of one yet.GhaleonEB said:
CrazedArabMan
Member
GhaleonEB said:
Ah I see, well hopefully they haven't showed us most of the combinations, but I think you are right though that they have pretty much showed their limit with maybe a surprise or two here and there.
Wizman23 said:
So did I. :/
CrazedArabMan said:
Same here. Though, didn't one update say that Luke has Vidmasters planned? If what Ghal's calculations showed are true (Bungie scaling up cR given out per month), I'm thinking they're holding off on Vidmasters that would have amounts of 16000+, until more people get into the later ranks like Hero through Inheritor.
At least, I hope they are. I want my damn sadistic challenges, Bungie.
Gui_PT said:I just got the loveliest message ever
Poor Marty, getting his name mixed up with Lou Dobbs' when making his gamertag. At least he was able to correctly remember what he looked like.
xxjuicesxx
Member
If you don't mind Multi-Team thats the place to go to get multi kills NOT SWAT. Get those random overkills+ and they count as a bunch of multi's.
The weekly can sometimes just be an incentive to play the game, getting there will net you way more credits than the final payout.
I'm going to attempt it at least.
The weekly can sometimes just be an incentive to play the game, getting there will net you way more credits than the final payout.
I'm going to attempt it at least.
Bregmann Roche
Member
Someone said earlier that they thought the player count (last 24 hours) was on the rise. I agree. Thanks MLG! It's all because of you!
Again: Rocket Race is not fun for people who want to play a game where they use a gun and their cunning to shoot things. Rocket race is fun for people who can't afford Mario Kart. Please give it its own playlist.
Edittown: I like the weekly. Should be a cool way to see how long it takes me to get that many multikills.
Again: Rocket Race is not fun for people who want to play a game where they use a gun and their cunning to shoot things. Rocket race is fun for people who can't afford Mario Kart. Please give it its own playlist.
Edittown: I like the weekly. Should be a cool way to see how long it takes me to get that many multikills.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
GhaleonEB said:
Yeah, I know it isn't but we're at the point where anything under 2k is pretty much not worth the effort anymore.
Bregmann Roche said:
Yeah that was me, it was at 750k for 24 hours on sat and looking at it now it's just under 625k for Sunday.
The Librarian
Banned
Dunno what happened over the past two weeks, but I've stopped caring about challenges completely. I mean, for awhile I had an interest in doing them, completing as many as I could each day. Now, challenges are a pretty big "eh" to me.
Major Williams
Member
So true. It's just a fun goal to aspire to.xxjuicesxx said:
Yep... me too... I've been migrating between BLOPS and Reach too much I think.Dax01 said:
squidhands
Member
Here's to hoping that some truly unique challenges will start showing up soon (BOBing and Weaving 7777Cr - Kill 'x' of Gold Ranger-class Elites in Campaign this week). One of the biggest incentives for me was to get my armor looking the way I wanted. Besides a visor color, I'm all set and my desire to do repeat challenges has fallen immensely. Juices brought up an excellent point with the challenges being the impetus for playing the game, but this latest string has done nothing to enhance my desire to play.GhaleonEB said: