First, let me say, that i love the Battlepass feature as well as the challenges. Those features in themselves are not the problem for me.
The problem is, some of the challenges themselves are forcing me to advance too quickly. Go to area’s that i wouldn’t have been anytime soon, and sucking the fun out of discovery.
I recently came back to conan and decided to do a fresh game and specifically look around for all the lore and story journals. I really wanted to experience conan in a more linear way. Not advance too quickly and follow where the game was naturally leading me next storywise. I was ambling along nicely in the noob desert, decorating my house, followin some of the stories and journals there. Next news, my challenges want me to go off to the friggin volcano! I was no where near ready to go to the volcano! But i did, cause i don’t want to miss out on any Battlepass loot and i’m scared it’s gonna end before i’ve finished it…y’know, cause there is no ■■■■■■■■ timer on the thing!
Then it wanted me to go kill someone that i’ve never heard of, with no clue about where said person was. So i had to google it (ruining the enjoyment i might have had from finding them naturally), go kill said person…again, way before i wanted to be in that area, then to find out it wanted me over the other side of the map for a dungeon that i’d never heard of.
Now i just find myself whizzing about the map doing random stuff that has no bearing on what i was actually intending or indended to do at that point in the story.
Now, maybe i am actually in the minority here in wanting more of a story driven playthrough. So what is everyones thoughts on that? If i’m not alone, how do you all combat the spoilerific Challenges? Just stick to commons?
I’m also not sure what the solution would be. But not all rare and legendary challenges are like this. Some are just ‘kill whatever using poison’, which is clearly better than ‘go kill end-game story boss in your basic light armor’ lol
edit: not sure why i’ve been censored in that post cause i absolutely did not swear, so don’t want anyone to think that i had
You are never forced to do ANY of the challenges. If you end up with a bunch of ones you don’t like / don’t want to do because they are too advanced for where you want to currently be in the game hit the “reroll” button on the bottom, or wait until the next day when you get a whole new list of them.
See above, you get 3 rerolls a day. Furtherfmore, you have like 3 months to finish the battlepass, you should NOT feel rushed to finish it. It just started, you have PLENTY of time.
As I said already, just wait until you get stuck with a bunch you don’t want and hit re-roll.
The issue here is that they need to manipulate the challenges to reflect your level. Everyone gets the same types of challenges as it stands now. They have mentioned that they need to address this. There should be no reason for you to go to the volcano, defeat a 3 skull boss, or anything of the sort. Maybe just localize your challenges to Noob river, desert, etc. without needing to set foot in the north until you’re high enough level. Granted, the opposing argument would be that doing this would limit you to progressing if you enjoy leveling fast or just like to be daring. For example, I’ll start my game by going straight to the mounds of the dead. It would be pointless to set all my challenges to low level areas. I may not be ready to take on certain things, but in a couple days I will. The challenges stack multipliers for up to 20… at 5 per day, that would be every 4 days. So I’d have time to knock some out.
I should clarify, that i had already used all my re-rolls. The first 3 times it was equally ludicrous challenges, some of which i couldn’t even read what it said cause the image behind was blurring the text. Some i probably could have done if i’d have googled what it meant but i was really trying not to have to do that. I eventually had to cause i’d used all the re-rolls.
But how was i supposed to know that unless you had told me? No where in game does it say that, nor in the forum anywhere that i could see. Maybe it does say that in some obscure post somewhere but that’s no help to me is it. I absolutely was feeling rushed to finish it because of the fact i have no clue how long i have.
I am actually running mods and because of that i have a level unlocker too so i have enough points to put into the mod stuff. So maybe level limiting it wouldn’t help in my case. I feel the better solution would be giving you challenges based on where you actually are when the challenge rolls over. If you are in noob river give you all challenges that can be done there?
Not sure why you are in a hurry to get the pass done. For me it’s a back ground thing. I usually pay it no attention till I get a oh, killed 1 gator 9 to go sort of thing so I pause, kill gators, then go on with what I was up to.
Yeah, that’s another possibility, though you may find yourself never leaving the region if you keep doing challenges. As for me, I complete the legendary and rares for the day, leave the rest, and stack additional multipliers for the next day. Rinse and repeat, get the pass done in a few weeks, then enjoy the rest of the season uninterrupted by menial tasks.
What I typically do is wait until I have 20 banked bonuses. This results in all five of the Slots having a bonus as well. So 5 + 20 Bonus. When you complete a challenge with a bonus, it will fill in a bonus to that Slot. When you reroll, the bonuses stay in their respective slots.
So here’s the trick I use. The left two Slots are usually 30 and 40 exp slots (Greens and Blues). Sometimes they can be a 70 exp bonus, but that’s rare. You do NOT want them eating bonuses outside the initial bonus they fill in with. So don’t do them. Even if those left 2 have a 70exp (purple, or epic bonus) leave them be.
Instead you want to do the right two slots. They have a high chance of being 70 or 150 exp (Purple or Legendary). When you do them exclusively all your bonuses go towards 70 and 150 exp.
This results in a much faster completion of the Battlepass. I usually average about 18-25 levels with only 20-25 minutes of play every few days (utilizing singleplayer). Using my rerolls on things I don’t really want or have access to (like when events are turned off, or its something like a Surge in Siptah… I have access to Siptah, but can’t be arsed to load it up).
If you’re doing the bonuses as they come up. You’re looking at around 1.5-2.5 levels a day at the most. Whereas my method can be 2-3x quicker. I’ve had times where I’ve even gotten 38 levels in one go for less than 20 minutes of play. The least I’ve gotten was around 16. Both situations were because of a bug that caused the same 2-3 challenges to loop (one day I’d get a bad loop, and another a great one), which has been fixed. So its a bit more averaged around 18-25 levels. But this assumes all slots are filled with bonuses and 20 are banked.
Today I got 19 levels using this method. Got kinda unlucky with only a few legendary bonuses, but the rest were all epic. And this was my third session doing this and I’m level 58 out of 60. Tomorrow I’ll have 60. I’ve been a bit complacent about this, I could have had this done on the second week of Chapter 3 if I bothered.
Best way is ignore the challenges if you are trying to stay immersed in the actual game. about a few weeks before next chapter, they will add multipliers. By then you should far enough to just jump in single and spam level them to open all the recipes. Challenges are more meant for long termed players, and dont really run parallel to immersive play unfortunately.
i think using single player to cheat the Battle Pass could possibly ruin the game even more for the OP. Not only would they feel that they are forced to rush the game they could then also lose any sense of achievement in completing it properly.
There are challenges to get what you’ve already paid for accountwide - AND journey steps for every single character on your account. I cheat with challenges and I make journey steps for fun and good rewards (knock-out orbs and better dismantling bench are just a titbit for example).
Complete only the last 2 challenges that reward 700/1500 xp, and wait next day. You can do that again, and have a bonus of ~3 more from the previous day. I finished my battle pass last week, like this.
I’d agree they probably should put some information about how much time is left in the season. I’m guessing they just presume people know generally how a battle pass system works. It’s a common system used with a lot of games, available for a “season” and the rewards for any given season are (for the most part) unique.
Here, the seasons (“chapters” in Funcom’s terminology) are about three months long, so the current one will end sometime in mid-June. You have a lot of time, don’t stress about it.
i was suggesting to wait until after a long while, not spam cheese right away. The OP doesn’t want to do a checklist that pulls them out of thier pkay thru. So just play thru until they feel they are happy, then worry about challenge rewards later.
The problen with that is thise challenges are very random of where and what level yoi ate. If OP is slow playing a bit, kill volcano boss, visit x boss might not be thier current area. That is what they are posting about. The fact the challenge system is not prgoressive or level based, but rng with no rhyme or reason to the actual adventure nature of leveling slow.
Not quite. I do it daily and get 3 re-rolls everyday. Meaning, my chances of rare and legendary challenges are much higher than yours for my multipliers. I can on average get 3-6 levels daily… and I do it exclusively on my official server without cheesing it in single player. I think you’re mistaken. I’ve been done the pass for over a week. @marylambs does it your way and she took a couple more days.
Here’s the thing, I don’t need to use the rerolls normally. If you’re doing all 5 slots, then you’re doing green and blue challenges even with rerolls. I’m not doing anything less than purples. You’re saying you have ‘better chances’ at rare and legendary. I have guaranteed purple challenges with higher chances of legendaries.
As I said, I would have been done with the challenges within the 21st of March, but I took a short break. My method gets it done in less than an hour of total play over 3-4 play sessions.
I’m not actually doing the common and uncommon ones, unless I accidentally complete one, which isn’t often. I re-roll for the rare and legendary. I often have at least 3 stacked for the next day, but if I don’t get a good challenge after my re-rolls, I’ll just wait until the next day. Also, doing it my way makes easy to avoid missing a day since the stack caps at 20. If you take time off, you limit your multipliers. Regardless of the method, you’ve greatly underestimated the potential xp gain on a daily basis if I can hit more than twice what you’re projecting maximum.
What you described is how I do it, with a little extra steps. Which takes a bit more playtime to accomplish. I don’t exactly have the amount of time each week to play that way. Which is why I let the bonuses stack up and blow through them in around 20 minutes.
