Themed Challenges and Hall of Fame

In all honesty, allowing AC in a gold game (solo or otherwise) would remove the "challenge" from the themed challenge completely, even at beginner level. So I'm against that particular idea.

Switching from Collectors to Reapers for console players seems like the best way to change the rules, if they are to be changed. Allowing non-hazard maps would be OK too, though in some cases (Ghost/Ghost Hazard) this would result in a pretty big difference difficulty-wise, and perhaps should be balanced by additional requirements (such as disallowing cyclonics IV or the use of missiles).

I too would like to hear what Clusum and Pres think about this.

... now I feel bad I actually had a similar problem racking up biotic kills with the volus vanguard on 10.1, a lot of charge kills didn't register as biotic kills for the medal.
For 14.II, I tried to balance it for gold, where I think it works: getting kills keeps you busy early, getting WS means balancing your aggression, not getting synced keeps you on your toes in the later waves. I am very aware that in general my requirements for insanity are basically a shot in the dark, and perhaps this time I missed the mark by a wide margin.
I understand not everyone will like every challenge, but if one kills your desire to play, that's a serious flaw! The "getting it on the first try" seems a pretty controversial requirement, perhaps I'd have done better to do away with it...

In any case, huge congrats to you and muahmuah for completing the series on Insanity!

I understand not everyone will like every challenge, but if one kills your desire to play, that's a serious flaw! The "getting it on the first try" seems a pretty controversial requirement, perhaps I'd have done better to do away with it...

Thanks!You should give me a special award.I've done the trenches with 3 different partners-AW_FC_1986,Alfonse and x3lander.Only with AW ,we managed to do 14.2 on the first try unfortunatelly.

In line with our recent discussions about changing the rules, I advise that you refrain from touching Trenches now that several teams have finished them with original requirements. Perhaps you could've changed this when you got the first complaints but now it's too late.

I needed to wash away the bitter taste of defeat, and since ya'll were waxing on about it in the other thread, I decided to redo 183 Pullups.

N7 Challenges Gold

N2.III. 183 Pull-ups

31:48 - x3lander (255 642 pts)

No 10 WS cause I Die At Wave 1...

Just some randome challenges I've been doing lately and earlier.

Hamletic's Tales From The Trenches (Hardcore):
Week 15
I. The Pale Blue Dot (Asari Adept with Paladin Pistol; N7 Paladin Sentinel with Hurricane)

44:21 - Anubita | Sonashii [v]

Hack / Escort / Targets

Well, this one was a bonus challenge as we finished the series with the good ending. And what can I say, it was the most satisfying challenge we've done. Because of freaking platinum. I know for many of you platinum is not a big deal. But I personally did only 1 plat solo in my life, Anub has never done it. I did a couple plat duos, mostly with Terror and one with Docsteely So you get the picture. Took us 4 attempts to finish it but we made it, and it's all that matters in the end. And it took us only 4 mins longer than freaking Vorchas challenge, and I'll leave it at that Yes, I did this challenge with muahmuah before, on Insanity, but I was mostly spectating back then, so it was basically his solo haha. At least I contributed here and big thanks to Muah and Doc. I think that hours of terrorizing me finally paid off

Just some randome challenges I've been doing lately and earlier.

Hamletic's Tales From The Trenches (Hardcore):
Week 15
I. The Pale Blue Dot (Asari Adept with Paladin Pistol; N7 Paladin Sentinel with Hurricane)

44:21 - Anubita | Sonashii [v]

Hack / Escort / Targets

Well, this one was a bonus challenge as we finished the series with the good ending. And what can I say, it was the most satisfying challenge we've done. Because of freaking platinum. I know for many of you platinum is not a big deal. But I personally did only 1 plat solo in my life, Anub has never done it. I did a couple plat duos, mostly with Terror and one with Docsteely So you get the picture. Took us 4 attempts to finish it but we made it, and it's all that matters in the end. And it took us only 4 mins longer than freaking Vorchas challenge, and I'll leave it at that Yes, I did this challenge with muahmuah before, on Insanity, but I was mostly spectating back then, so it was basically his solo haha. At least I contributed here and big thanks to Muah and Doc. I think that hours of terrorizing me finally paid off

Week 14
II. This Is It, Isn't It? (Vanilla Human Adept with Hurricane; Vanilla Human Sentinel with Hurricane)
22:48 - The_Doctor46N7 | Sonashii
Devices / Delivery / Devices

Yes, we did this challenge like a month ago, on my request. It was for practice so I don't want to add it to my whole series time. Well let me add my 2 cents to this Hamletic's series discussion. I was afraid of this challenge and its 1 try reqiurement. There was a lot of things that could go wrong. I wrote my concerns about that before and Hamletic is aware of them (lag, disconnecting etc.) But I must agree, if you're focused and disciplined, you pass this challenge without a problem. Anub found it easy even comparing for example to 14.I Big Bang(s) (or Vorchas challenge ! sic). As for the Platinum version, I'm not in the position to make complaints coz I'm a scrub and I'm not capable of doing them on that difficulty But as the changing current rules is not an option, I would suggest to ADD more like current difficulties (Hardcore, Insanity) could be renamed to Hardcore+ and Insanity+ (like in modern supercars there is Sport mode for gearbox and Sport+, you with me?). Then Hamletic could come up with normal Hardcore and Insanity with slightly easier requirements like 2 tries on 14.II etc. Just food for thought.


N7 Challenge Series (Hardore/Gold)
N2.III - Pull-ups (BF3 Soldier with Katana)
64:01 - Sonashii (250 796 pts)

All I want to say - goodbye Rio! I've had enought of this map

II. Synthetize This! (HardCore)

30:58 - HamleticTortoise | DocSteely (v)