Challenges suck

[Frosty21]

I love this game, its so fun, i always liked rogue likes but hates the RnG aspect and setting usually, this is what i have been asking for! BUT...
50 fuel tanks and 50 flood lights in a single run for your second challenge... common rock fish seems needlessly tedious... maybe 20... but 50?! :(

[MadMinstrel]

What's the point of destroying floodlights anyway?

[SpaceCrawler]

Originally posted by Frosty21:

I love this game, its so fun, i always liked rogue likes but hates the RnG aspect and setting usually, this is what i have been asking for! BUT...
50 fuel tanks and 50 flood lights in a single run for your second challenge... common rock fish seems needlessly tedious... maybe 20... but 50?! :(

agreed

[Sulas]

The challenges appear to be random from a semi large pool of avaliable quests. the 50 fuel tanks is easy, I am currently on the 50 flood lights one and its proven to be rather hard! but fun! It is not mandatory at all but they do give more credits so if you're able to do them as a bonus its great. I hope in the future there is a way to replace specific challenges though. Maybe pay credits to exchange a current challenge for another.

[Dee]

Originally posted by MadMinstrel:

What's the point of destroying floodlights anyway?

exactly this.

[rockfish_andi]

Looks like it's errm challenging to destroy 50 floodlights ;-)

[David]

I don't know if the challenges are random, I see the same ones being talked about together which are the first few new challenges you get.

I guess the challenges are "challenging", maybe for 50, the reward should be bigger, or keep it as is, like a trophy, if you aim for them.

I can't remember what challenges I have right now, I think I just finished "destroye 20 missiles in one run" and another one, I think, "destroy 20 ships in sector 1".

Just got the 3rd challenge "destroy a drone by ramming" outlaw didn't work, was possibly destroyed by g&b, but I rammed an okkar drone at low-ish speeds in first person and that worked.

[Ekud]

Well, I've no more challenges to do, so I don't think it's random. It's just some easy things to do for getting some credits in the begging of the game.

Come on guys, if you pay attention when you travel, it's pretty fast to broke 50 lights :)

[rockfish_andi]

Fixed order of challenges, we'll add more soon and in the future the rewards for completing will be different.

[David]

I think unique buff for challenges might make them interesting and nicer to complete.
e.g.
+2.5% damage vs Okkar
+2.5% damage vs G&B
+0.5% critical chance
+15 ship health
and so on, depending on what the challenge was.

That might feel more worthwhile than a credit buff at least if attempting the challenge ended a few runs :P

[Khalani]

Floodlight challange is easy since every gate alone has 6 floodlights.
I wish those challanges would be random and repeatable.
I did every challange and now i got none left to do.

[Dogishappy]

i really hate the 50 floodlight challenge, if it was accross multiple runs, i would understand, but all in one? I'm in sector 5 and only have gotten 30 for crying out loud.

[Frosty21]

Originally posted by rockfish_andi:

Looks like it's errm challenging to destroy 50 floodlights ;-)

Yea I understand what you going for here, but its HARD so much as it is tedious... plus its reliant on the run you get... dunno, is what it is i suppose, just seems like a lot

[Afro Moose]

Originally posted by Dragondave17:

I think unique buff for challenges might make them interesting and nicer to complete.
e.g.
+2.5% damage vs Okkar
+2.5% damage vs G&B
+0.5% critical chance
+15 ship health
and so on, depending on what the challenge was.

That might feel more worthwhile than a credit buff at least if attempting the challenge ended a few runs :P

For some reason, reading that list has made me very nostalgic for Diablo 2

[Dee]

Originally posted by rockfish_andi:

Fixed order of challenges, we'll add more soon and in the future the rewards for completing will be different.

imo, it's not the difficulty of it, it's that it just feels completely pointless. i mean what do the lights have to do with anything.

the fuel tank challenge had at least some point to it - you fly far, you'll want / need fuel, fair enough. but this just feels like grind for grind.

anyway, all imo. i'm sure it'll evolve. having quite some fun with the game (not shooting fllodlights though) and i'm pretty impressed at the state it was delivered in. good stuff, keep it up.

[Shaitan]

Meh, you don't *have* to get 50 floodlights and 50 fuel tanks in a single run -- you can choose to concentrate on one, and go for the other on the next run. They are *challenges* -- optional objectives that you may or may not complete.

The floodlight challenge was actually very easy since every jump gate has 6, gas or ore generators have 3, outlaw outposts have ~3, and G&B will not attack you even if you fly along an shoot out the floodlights on their bases, traders, or even freighters.