you want to make a dumb mode? - fine
you want to offer some challenge based rewards? - fine
but dont make the meta challenge, the one that ultimately gets you the prize reward, require another challenge that asks you to play FIFTY FIVE gimmick matches…you may as well have made THAT the only challenge available for the week cause youll end up having to do it anyway…
that was an awful experience
Heh I’m already at 50 games you just play classic goats and then every map that isn’t 2CP just leave and the 2CP maps if the enemy is better than you then just let them win fast!
I assume this is for the bottom 500 title but if you just want the skin then you’ll have to do the April mode!
The 55 games is for the April Fools mode, 99 for the bottom 500 can be any.
Wait, does Classic GOATS count towards the 55 NormalWatch games requirement? You know, the challenge that the OP was actually posting about in the post?
It counts for the 50 and 99 games, but not the 55. In order to get the Orisa Skin you need either the 55 or 99 one to get enough challenges. Not everyone plays enough for the 99 games, unless your grinding hard just for the title.
99 games does seem excessive. Wonder why they made it so many.
To make sure we’re fools.
Regular WP counts towards it. You don’t have to play it.
Meh you’d still have to at the very least do the 25 one, which I would argue is also too much but it’s at least bearable
By all means have the challenges…just have them be their own thing. (and they often are - usually for a title reward)
Meta should have other ways to complete without mandating game modes be played…or at the very least require less of the other challenges so you can pic which ones would you’d like to work on. Either way im playing the game. The engagement they want would still be there
I’m just sharing info so they don’t feel stuck playing a mode they don’t like. It does seem high to me.
The rewards is simply a title you can equip to your profile. If you really like the title then you spent some time unlocking it and otherwise you can just ignore it. It´s nothing new that those events have challenges which are easier/faster done then others and I would even say the more interesting rewards like voice lines and sprays get unlocked very easy.
the reward is the previously paid skin, which in order to obtain from challenges now requires you to play a at least 25 of a game mode that people dont necessarily like playing (possibly more depending on how much of the game you play)
if they want to tie a title to those big challenges…thats fine…just dont tie them to the meta challenge also
its not the first time people have complained about it…and generally speaking they have lowered the amount of time required in particular modes with past events…why they decided to go back to it is beyond me
Yet again, it´s for the players who really like the reward. If you already own the original skin or aren´t interested in the skin at all then why complain about it? It´s called a “Challenge” for a reason so that you have to work to unlock something. I heard about people who perform very difficult tasks to just gain an achievement in their profile and compared to play a certain mode and completing several quests for a skin I still see the later one to be much less annoying and more rewarding.
What part of this thread makes you think either is the case?
It’s a coveted reward because it was a paid skin (ie - not available to most before)….
And as I said before challenges themselves are fine…there’s 10-12 other challenges in the meta that you don’t hear anybody complaining about…the “grind this particular mode” ones are the annoying ones that need to go cause it’s not necessarily something people enjoy doing
like I can imagine the community outrage if the challenges were “play 55 games of 2cp”
Plus it’s totally unnecessary…if all they want is engagement than they can just make them all “play X amount of games in whatever mode you please”…people playing just as much and nobody is unhappy
As I said before then people can decide for themselves what to do and if they think it´s worth their time.
I personally wanted to unlock the skin and even did the challenge where I had to play 55 games in the April Fool´s Mode and just played more of the heroes I really enjoyed instead of trying to play every one and therefore I could enjoy it even if it was grinding a mode which isn´t that much to my taste but instead of complaining about it I focused on the parts which I do like.
They have done it before in the past where if a new hero, map, mode, etc. is released or live that they made challenges tied to it. You say grinding a particular mode isn´t something people enjoy doing but I imagine there are people who exactly like this.
Fact is that they made 17 challenges for this event and to unlock the skin (if you want it) you need to do 15 of them which means there is one challenge which you can ignore and if you don´t grinding a certain mode then the decision is easy.
I am totally on your side, Baja Blast. However, thanks to lootboxes, you might get the original skin (which is way better, obviously) or even this one in the future. It’s not much, but it’s something.
That’s assuming they keep this lootbox mechanic where we get 10 a week. They should, because if they don’t, I am going back to 3 games daily until the Battle Pass is complete and then taking a month break. The only reason I am still playing this trash is for the 10 lootboxes.
I digress, the challenge is dumb. Both of them. They do not even need to force retention right now because nothing is happening in Mahvel. We are just waiting for season 2. It makes no sense.