Hunter Challenges Feedback Thread

[slow sedge]

Howdy Hunters Let's have a discussion about Hunter Challenges We are super keen to hear your thoughts on this feature - especially if you find them a bit too easy, difficult, or boring and why do you feel this way? Examples of specific challenges are welcome for a deeper understanding!

[prime spear]

Love the ability to pick a challenge when I don't know exactly what I want to hunt

[mortal ingot]

I’m on Xbox x and it always says loading

[dusk wyvern]

Same, on Xbox and I can never get them to work or figure them out

[prime spear]

But also, I rarely accept a challenge because the time, distance, and map specifics don't interest me
-Go to Layton and harvest a Roosevelt Elk between 0100-0400 from within 50m

[dusk wyvern]

That's another thing, the times are weird

[jolly kraken]

I actually havent touched them yet. When does the poll for them end?

[slow sedge]

The polls is set up for 72h but you are more than welcome to leave feedback here even after the polls are closed 🙂

[jolly kraken]

cool

[nova sail]

I rarely if ever do the photo challenges because the photo system in COTW is really quirky .... You should be able to take photos from longer distances .... Most of the time to complete you need to set up a stand or blind and use a caller to bring them in close enough to take a pic .... This is very time consuming for very little reward....

Overall the rewards don't seem to match the difficulty or the amount of time involved in completely the challenge ....

for example why travel to a specific reserve and then pay to set the time correctly then kill X numbers of a certain animal all for an extra 500 credits ???

This seems to be what I find when I look at challenges .... Just really not worth it

[prime spear]

Every time I take a photo in-game, when I leave the camera my hands are bugged with no item equipped - so I just stopped doing Photo Challenges (I realize this is an Xbox issue and is not related to the Challenges, but that's the result)

[dusk wyvern]

How do the cameras on Xbox work? I cant figure them out, or how to get the pictures i take to my screenshots or whatever

[prime spear]

Press and Hold the X button

Right trigger to take photo, press and hold X again to exit camera

D-Pad up and down to zoom in and out

[prime spear]

For the Photo Challenges you only need to take the photo - accessing the screen shots aren't part of it

Someone else can explain how to access your screen shots, I think thru the Xbox App, but I don't use it

When the Devs created the Hunter Challenges, I imagine they considered if they wanted them to be achievable by casual hunting, or to be very specific to map, species, time, and distance. They chose the latter, but it would be nice to select a Challenge that matches what you're already planning to do, and get that achievement. But I guess that's why they call it a challenge.

[real merlin]

The problem for me when it comes to challenges is the reward isn’t worth the effort. I really don’t have any insensitive to do the challenges when the reward is a pat on the back and a few bucks.The reward needs to be physical like a free gun, skins, outfits, accessories, etc.

[wild wing]

I totally agree with this, I can make the same amount of money in the same time or quicker than it takes to complete challenges so the money as a reward doesn't really make me want to complete the challenges

[prime spear]

Weekly Challenges should be difficult but award a Woodgrain Cosmetic or something desirable

[real merlin]

Exactly, why do a specific challenge when you can hunt some salt water crocs or Cape buffalo

[spring sluice]

i can only agree with both of you money isint the best reward in late game

[vernal birch]

Rewards should be improved or innovated (not just money or XP); I think that's the key.

[fresh tangle]

This. I don't enjoy hunting species in the dark that I typically wouldn't or just you wouldn't typically hunt at that time in general. Predators are different, but no one hunts deer in the dark unless you're culling or shooting invasives.

[iron root]

i really enjoy the ability to pick from multiple challenges

[dusk wyvern]

I meant on how to get a picture I take with the camera, to my Xbox App

[toxic berry]

side quests and daily quests are similar and i dont like them
i made a suggestion about a trophy guessr and a geoguessr for cotw as a quest which could make it more fun

[prime spear]

Right, I don't use the App, so maybe someone else can help with that 🤠

[outer smelt]

I enjoy doing the challenges, but not the ones that require night hunting, so if the frequency of those could be reduced, that would be nice. I do really like the photo challenges, especially since they don’t require you to be extremely close, so that makes them very easy if you can find the animals. The difficulty of the challenges seems to be pretty much perfect, to me anyway. The rewards are fine for me.

[fading hill]

Challenges look cool to do but I don't do them because of time constraints, for me challenges are a bonus to my "hunting trip" and I'm not going to change times just for one challenge, or I don't want to focus my gameplay solely on it.

[prime spear]

Always wondered why there was no award or achievement for inspecting every Point of Interest on a map, so I stopped bothering. Maybe a future Weekly Challenge with increasing awards per map?

[neon siren]

I would like Shed hunting incorporated into some type of challenges. Like maybe find X amount of sheds on a certain map.

It would be cool to see something like collectable hunting cards. When you find a certain special antler shed you unlocked a special hunting card to collect.

There could even be rare Sheds you could collect. Maybe make the G1 Sheds rare finds and even some different color Sheds could be rare finds to unlock those special collectable hunting cards.

There could even be collectable hunting cards for killing a certain amount of rares or G1s. Lots of options with collectable hunting cards

[wild wing]

There is a Steam award for inspecting every POI on Medved and picking up every collectable. But it's only done for Medved and only a Steam award

[topaz ingot]

The only thing I'm disappointed about the challenges is that we didn't get Christmas and New Year cosmetics because of them and I'm not sure if there is ever any way of getting them again.

[warm python]

After the update WITHOUT WARNING AS YOU ALWAYS do, I was left with the reserve with bugs, in the pheasant areas and to this day you still don't do a good update, because the animals after they die they run into the water and die so you try to fix a bug, and in the end the same thing continues, and apart from other bugs that are still in the game to this day.

[timid plinth]

For me, the challenges are a bit too generic and the rewards are really sparse (if I want a challenge I just do map side missions, it gives me money, it's challenging and I'm working torwards a proper goal - completing them all and getting a Steam achievement) - so far, there's no reason for me to try them out. However, it has potential to become something great in the future

[candid tundra]

So far I haven't done too many of the challenges when they take me too far away from what I had originally planned to be doing. It's always best when you get the feeling of killing two birds with one stone.

Some of the more fun challenges are the ones that set restrictions on equipment, like archery tasks are good (15 capercaillies by bow was HARD-in a good way).

Forcing us to dig for the equipment we rarely use (and therefore reevaluate them), like some lever action or break action tasks I seem to remember.. But surely there are many other potential restrictions like that? Utilizing more of the armory palette like muzzle loaders, the airgun, Alexander longbow, certain ammo, soft point, slugs and buckshot..
Those seem to me more fun parameters than clock windows which aren't as creative.
(apologies if these have happened and I missed it, I don't always remember to check out the page)

Leading to this suggestion: Could there be a discreet small window prompt at launch just offering a headline of a new challenge cycle? Would reming me to check it out more often..

[vernal birch]

It would be good if they could be viewed/selected from the main menu, so that you can choose right away which map to go to and what to do.

[brave spear]

On ps5/ps4 I can tell you the camera is just a pain. It's actually useless because if you try to use it for screenshots you end up with lines on the picture and because it is annoyingly easy to go into camera mode trying to reload without looking at the controller you can get ko'd easily, the camera challenges are just never worth the effort.

I have 4 accounts, some online and some offline, on my ps5 that are all level 60. So exp rewards are pointless. Money is almost as useless since I can just go after crocs.

For a reward I'd actually work toward I'd want something like a physical gun for harder challenges or a wood/metal coloration.

Give me something like 100 lungshots on whitetail deer for a Huntsman variation in .30-06

75 bears killed with the .300 Canning Magnum for a variation of it in .338

Port some cool rifles out of classic and do monthly challenges like 120 red stag for the bolt action.30-06 with Jaxy's logo or something

[brave spear]

Challenge idea: Apex Hunts (base game, Layton)

Take down 25 of each species for whitetail deer, moose, black bear, and Roosevelt elk

Reward: .350 Locke bolt action rifle (based on .35 Whelen) featuring a 4 round magazine (Malmer reload animations) a custom rifle based on Doc's years of experience with the big game of Layton Lakes that covers class 4-9 with better penetration than the 7mm at the cost of slightly higher weight and recoil

Apex Hunts Hirschfelden

25 each of wild boar, fallow deer, red stag, and Euro bison

Reward: a 9.3x62mm bolt action rifle built to Robert Sommer's specifications. A 4 round magazine for fast reloads on driven hunts and taking down large game with precision firepower (performance mirrors .350 Locke for balance)

[wild wing]

I'd actually play challenges for these rifles

[brave spear]

Agreed, I'd do my best to get both.

[scarlet patio]

Same here

[brave spear]

Should I post those as their own suggestion? I feel like not many folks are looking here

[fresh tangle]

Stuff like this would be a much better incentive to participate in challenges for sure.

[brave spear]

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[barren thorn]

Challenges, in general, are boring and pointless imo. I am all about the live hunt and that's it.

[atomic path]

why are most of the challenges mostly on layton or hirsch? game says you can still do dlc challenges even if you don't own a certain map

[nova sail]

Starting to get into the challenges .... as a casual player I like that you can jump into game and have some guidance / direction on what you want to hunt ....

Sometimes however the challenges are a little ridiculous ... Like shooting quail at greater than 109m and passing harvest check .... (They cant be shot grounded )

[brave spear]

Bump

[warm moat]

I have found that on some challenges maps get left out of the result. Today, I took the challenge to photograph Feral pigs. But, despite having the correct time —10-14— the pics of pigs in Emerald Coast would not register on the challenge. I went to Te Awaroa and they registered just fine.

This is not the first time this has happened, but usually it's 'base game' animal that I'm hunting in a later map, and the first one - whitetails - has not been an issue since. So, as a note to those programming Challenges—make sure you set it to take the correct animal from any map.

[warm moat]

Agreed. Ditto for getting a heart shot with a shotgun. That's not skill, that's luck. Getting under 50 meters is doable, but 100 meters is pressing your luck on a hilly or forested Map, especially at dd times. At 100+ meter shot over a lake at drink time is doable, but at a resting time ... not so much.
The same goes for specifically heart shots—the smaller the animal the harder it becomes. Oe challenge wanted 3 .... heart shot... on a quail ... with a shotgun. That's not fun, that's frustration. Lung dhots on Brds are hard enough, especially birds you can't rifle shoot.

[bitter zodiac]

Rotelli Arms Co. Model7 in 7mm-08, 3-8

(Based on the Remington Model7)

Challenge:

harvest 3-7 class antelope on Vurhonga or Silver Ridge.

[brave spear]

Frontiersman .22 Magnum

(Based on the Henry Frontier Threaded .22 Magnum rifle)

Challenge: harvest class 1-2 animals on any map and pass the harvest check

[real merlin]

The Westley Richards 425
Kill class 8 to 9 animals to obtain

Now that would be an awesome reward

[lost moth]

I also think that more cosmetic options would be nice rewards for future community challenges. Maybe we could finally get a proper stainless steel metal material as a reward? A man can dream I suppose.

[nova sail]

Specifically why I don't do the Photo Challenges .... If they are going to make photos part of the challenge system they need to make taking photo's more full proof and not guess work .... too much time to get in position to get the pic only to find the system does register for some reason ???

[tulip fractal]

Can we please get a thing that tells us which DLC each challenges needs?

[tawny dock]

Same. Never saw the Community Challenge until I looked it up elsewhere.

[prime spear]

Daily Challenge: Harvest 1 Antelope, Pass the Harvest Check, Medal: Silver
Are Pronghorn not antelope? Got 2 silvers, 1 Gold with the challenge selected and no joy

[prime spear]

The pronghorn is a species endemic to the Western plains of North America. Often colloquially referred to as "American Antelope," they are not closely related to the true antelopes inhabiting Africa. BS Challenge

[tawny dock]

I for one appreciate the realism in the disconnection between prongies and antelopes.

But I understand your side having been disappointed.

[brave spear]

Yeah that's crap, photo challenges are always crap too

If it's a general term like birds or antelopes, it should include all the birds and antelopes rather than just a few

Please, EW, I'm begging you.

Give us a MATTE BLACK paint option, make the challenge hunt black bears or something just give us a MATTE BLACK that doesn't have a weird blue sheen in the sun

[prime spear]

Exactly. I love the animal-studies aspects of the game, but just as you're cracking open a map for the Daily Challenge is not the time to send you into the Codex for taxonomy cross-referencing!

Daily Challenge: Harvest 2 Bovids
-Bovids are antelopes, cattle, goats, sheep, and other even-toed ungulates, it even includes Wildebeest - everything BUT Pronghorns.
-Educate us EW, but don't give us homework.

[brave spear]

The .30-06 Stutzen from classic, please, any challenge works as long as we get this thing. Do I care that it's basically a new skin for the Eckers and would probably be the same in every way? Not really, no. I just want some variety aside from semi-auto rifles.

[nova sail]

I really like that Jaxy skin .... still miss the old coot ....

[brave spear]

Yeah, it feels like the devs are going in a different direction now and I'm not sure I like it

[tulip fractal]

For the community challenge, I wish that we could have numbers to work toward, not just percentages. It's confusing and disheartening

[prime spear]

I like this idea. Something to track: the Community needs 500,000 harvests and you have contributed 100

[tulip fractal]

And with regard to the others, I wish we had something that told us which DLCs would help/ which has the wildlife we need!

[brave spear]

Community Doubles challenge! Harvest class 1-2 and class 7-9 game, pass the harvest check and earn a .25 caliber air rifle and an alternate .338 bolt action that holds 4 rounds and only weighs 4 units

[nova sail]

Sure each player has a personal goal or challenge that must be met in order to receive the community reward ..... Something other than just kill 1 ....

I you complete your personal challenge/goal then you get some in game credits for participating as well as being on the list to receive the community reward if it's completed .....

[nova sail]

There are so many good weapon pack Ideas in #1067511606373785730 ....

They could take some of those ideas and create unique weapons that could be used as rewards in community challenges ....

Its very difficult to get motivated to participate for just a few cosmetics ....

[brave spear]

Rabbits are annoying to hunt most of the time, and for just cosmetics it's just not worth it

[real merlin]

Rabbits aren’t just annoying, they’re downright dreadful to go after.

On Cuatro I’m trying to get 3 gold rabbits at night, but for every one rabbit, I see/get attacked by 15 wolves

[brave spear]

Yeah, I remember that being a real pain in the butt when I was doing it

[fresh tangle]

I think we've had our fill of cosmetics. New character outfits would be cool, but random weapon cosmetics don't fill most of us with enthusiasm. Playing a lot more Way of the Hunter than Call of the Wild these days.