Is it actually possible to complete the "Kill 10 Holiday Scorched" challenge?

[Jeff Kaos]

It feels like the spawn rate for Holiday Scorched is ridiculously low, to the point where I can't see how it's possible to complete this challenge in day unless you're playing all day long. I have FO1st so after heading to several Scorched heavy areas like the two amusement parks on the west side of the map, the Morgantown Airport and Wavy Willards on public servers (how I always play) and seeing that everything was wiped out in each place I decided to load into a private server thinking I could knock out the challenge in an hour. Went to each spot, killed all scorched at each of them and my total count for the Holiday Scorched was 3/10.

I'm trying to understand this Holiday Scorched event as a new player: private server, fast-travel to every location listed in online guides, kill every scorched I see and only 3 Holiday Scorched spawned on the private server. WTF? Is anyone on public servers completing this? Normally I complete every single Daily Challenge (I'll reroll 2 if I have to) on a public server; usually in under an hour. But this one seems to be nearly impossible to complete. The discouragement I feel is worse than how much I hated Fasnacht lol. Between this and the map bugs (which interestingly weren't present in my private game) it's enough to make me wonder why I'm playing. All I want to do is get to level 150 on the Scoreboard so I can buy a few Perk Points.

EDIT
To clarify: I have done this on a private server and have used online guides to find all the places I should search and that's what I've been doing. And it takes between 1 and 2 hours to find and kill 10 Holiday Scorched.

[BizarreMan]

It can be done on public. I have done it every day. It just takes time.

[Aesthier]

Not going to lie, I think it would have been better at 5 per day than 10 but...

it is doable.

Very tedious but again doable.

[spoggie]

Yep, so far I'm completing this fairly easily on public servers.
On occasion three will spawn where i go.
Just did a quest on my lower level character and three more greeted me at a remote un-named location. I saw more today when I wasn't hunting them than when I was.
Although I'm surprised more don't spawn for me along with Scorchbeasts at fissure sites. Mostly just one or none so far.

[Machika]

If one knows where they spawn then yes. Certain locations I've never seen spawn a holiday scorch. Bailey cabin and that airplane in the mire.

[Aztec501]

Ive had the most luck with these 3 events: distant thunder,surface to air and census violence. All spawn a lot of scorched and at times you can have 3 -5 holiday ones appear. Some of the enclave events as well, but with the map bugged it can be a little difficult to know if you'll end up in the (motel area, berkley station/berkley or harpers ferry). Theres of course collision course, but everyone goes to that event, so most of the time once you fast traveled to the area everything is dead. Lastly line in the sand. The first 3 i almost never see anyone go to.

[Pinger]

also the trigger event at Morganstone airport and the water park in north for random spawns

FYI in a 1st server making a casual team seems to help with the number of spawns

[Katzh]

scorched event
scorched queen
all the location with scorched
if you see they all dead, someone went just before you, swap server.

[NIkto Barada]

theyre also not rerollable-guess im saving time now

[Kriminaal]

Killed 150 scorched to get 10 Festive ones yesterday. Pretty low spawn chance. Also noticed that there were Legendary Scorched that were not actually Festive, so I think there is a bug where they fail to convert them to Festive.

[Grendalcat]

Morgantown Airport and Wavy Willards are two of the most popular places to look for Holiday Scorched. I checked each on several different servers, and never got more than one HS, usually all the scorched were already killed by a previous player.

Look at less popular places such as Bolton Greens, and the Palace of the Winding Path.
I scored most of my HS at those places, Bolton Greens sometimes has five of them.

[Admiral Hackett [N7]]

Yes it can be done on a public server but personally i hunt them down on my private instance which gives you way... WAY more scorched you need... IF you have FO1st ofc.

[Optical Optimus]

We need to make BSG aware of the issues with this challenge. The mandatory challenges that cannot be rerolled are particularly frustrating and time-consuming. Although I managed to complete it in about an hour by revisiting familiar spots, it seems like a strategy to increase playtime rather than improve the gaming experience. Providing constructive feedback could help address these concerns and lead to better game design.

[hawkeye]

So far it"s taken me about 2 hours each time with about 20 server swaps. Usually 0 or 1 per site. But one swap each time got 4. Otherwise I'd still be trying. I've scrapped countless numbers of weapons from ordinary scorched.

Strange part is not being able to re-roll a really boring waste of time with really crappy rewards (jaguar suit excepted).

But the strangest part is that they were actually willing to break the game map and pip-boy to install this crap.

So hereby I formally give the team behind this event The Crappiest Fallout Quest Of All Time award. The previous holder was Dima's Memory Block quest which required the player to move blocks around, believe it or not. Talk about really lame game design there whoever put that one together.

[kashmir407]

Doable....grindy but doable. Server jumping is your buddy.

[decree]

Posted this in another thread, here in this link are links to images which help me alot, i go through these locations, but sure i still need maybe twice the time for all daily challenges, thanks to the 10, i agree 5 holiday scorched would fit better and still take enough time, just because everyone hunts them.
Pick locations from the maps i posted which are less frequented.