Gunsmith bounties not progressing

[soulxhawk]

For many of the gunsmith bounties no progress is made when doing the required task. For example last night I was using the grenade launcher and pulse rifle throughout a strike and the bounty was still at 0%. However when I started to use an auto rifle the progress was going up. Is there something I am missing here or do gunsmith bounties work different?

[Kopejka]

Some bounties (with "advanced" prefix) require you not to die when you are killing enemies with specific weapons. The progress resets if you die. That could be the issue.

[Nordblut]

There are daily bounties that just wants you to use a specific weapon, which are percent based, and then there are repeatable bounties, that require you to do a specific amount of kill with a weapon without dying. If you die, the bounty resets.

Every "trader", like Zavala or Banshee, has 4 daily bounties and the fifth column are repeatables, where you can hold up to 5.

[soulxhawk]

Originally posted by Kopejka:

Some bounties (with "advanced" prefix) require you not to die when you are killing enemies with specific weapons. The progress resets if you die. That could be the issue.

So you have to kill so many enemies just to go up a certain percent right? Is there a set number you have to kill before the percentage goes up or is it different for every bounty?

[soulxhawk]

Originally posted by Nordblut:

There are daily bounties that just wants you to use a specific weapon, which are percent based, and then there are repeatable bounties, that require you to do a specific amount of kill with a weapon without dying. If you die, the bounty resets.

Every "trader", like Zavala or Banshee, has 4 daily bounties and the fifth column are repeatables, where you can hold up to 5.

So repeatable bounties you not to die while the daily bounties don't care?

[Nakos]

Originally posted by soulxhawk:

So repeatable bounties you not to die while the daily bounties don't care?

Read the specific bounty in question, it'll tell you.

If you're doing Pulse Rifle Calibration (from Banshee-44) it'll say:
Calibrate Pulse Rifles against any target. Earn bonus progress with precision final blows and against opposing Guardians.

But if you're doing Advanced Pulse Rifle Calibration (also from Banshee-44) it'll say:
In a single life, calibrate Pulse Rifles against any target.


https://www.light.gg/db/items/1439620178/pulse-rifle-calibration/
https://www.light.gg/db/items/310094086/advanced-pulse-rifle-calibration/


You also have to watch out for bounties about types of damage.

For example, some bounties might ask for Arc damage. That means Arc damage from any source.
But some might ask for Arc damage from Arc abilities and then you'll have to be sure you're using an Arc spec.

[Kopejka]

Originally posted by soulxhawk:

Originally posted by Kopejka:

Some bounties (with "advanced" prefix) require you not to die when you are killing enemies with specific weapons. The progress resets if you die. That could be the issue.

So you have to kill so many enemies just to go up a certain percent right? Is there a set number you have to kill before the percentage goes up or is it different for every bounty?

It should be different amount for different bounties I believe, but it's always somthing between 15-30 kills.
Also those that require you not to die are called something like "Advanced Bow Calibration", "Advanced Sword Calibration", etc.

[Nibbie]

If you are still having the issue, try taking a screenshot of the bounty and how you are trying to do it. There is always a chance it is a bug, but maybe you are just missing something.