Community Challenge is not registering Harvests

[slender rivet]

I've generally never had an issue with connectivity when it comes to the Community challenges, but none of my kills are being counted for the Challenge. Currently hunting all predator species on Revontuli for the past hour or so and passing harvest checks, but its not working for some reason.

Am I missing something?

[acoustic crag]

I've shot wolves lions and Tigers today and none of them have registered either

[simple hemlock]

They’re always glitchy I’ll hop on when I get home and test a few species and maps and give feedback but my gut instinct is to say to go for coyotes and red foxes since they’re base game species which tend to be more solid in challenges for some reason.

[karmic prism]

I harvested a croc and it counted, so I dunno

[pale haven]

Raccoons and grey foxes also aren’t counting.

[uneven swallow]

Black bear's not counting

[simple hemlock]

Well guess folks with the base game are out of luck cause coyote and red fox don’t seem to count either.

Though I suspect this may be an issue of accounts not connecting or something like that rather than the species not counting. I find it hard to believe this many predators would be forgotten.

[pale haven]

It seems to be random so far. I haven’t seen enough folks mention their platforms but Kip, who plays on ps5 as well, was able to get a saltwater croc to work. It didn’t work for me on ps5. Neither have grey fox, raccoons, black bear, grey wolves, or alligators. Definitely seems to be a bug rather than something implemented on purpose.

[simple hemlock]

Yeah I’m on PC (Steam) myself. Glad I don’t care about the skins but it sucks for the people that do.

[pale haven]

Wonder if it has something to do with the trophy lodge overhaul that just went live a while back.

Also, yea, I was looking forward to getting the skins but it looks like they may have to put out a fix and extend the time again if we want to have any chance at it. Or just give the skins to everyone.

[simple hemlock]

I doubt that this has been an recurring issue since long before that patch was implemented.

[pine pawn]

So I'm on windows (Steam). I harvested Black Bear, Grizzly bear, gray wolf, coyote and fox, no contribution

[pale haven]

It could be both. This has been an issue before but the fact most predators aren’t checking the box at all leads me to believe it may have something to do with it. This is the first time the community challenge has been borked this bad, in the sense that most target animals that should count aren’t counting at all for it right after releasing the overhaul.

Could be something small that the game just decided it didn’t like. It’s definitely odd but I figure the devs will be able to narrow it down relatively easily once they know it’s an issue.

[simple hemlock]

There was a challenge a year or so ago might have been longer ago I’m bad with dates (i believe you had to shoot boars ) that they had to basically redo and extend the challenge because they couldn’t get it fixed within the time period the challenge was set for. It’s far from new or the worst I’ve seen.

[pale haven]

Yeah I remember that one. Similar issue but this one seems a bit different given that it’s not just one species, it seems to be all of them in that category. Its also not just that the rewards aren’t getting received after reaching 100% like last time- none of the animals that should be tagged as “predators” are counting as contributions. I wonder if they tweaked some things when they put out the lodge overhaul since they were categorizing various species in different ways at the time. Might have fudged something with it.

[karmic prism]

A tiny bit late to this but I shot the croc on Series X and it worked. I'll hop on the PS5 and see if I can get it to work over there

[pale haven]

Oh, heard, my bad. Thought you only played ps lol gotcha. Yea, please do try when ya get a chance, cuz it didn’t work for me on ps5 😅 would be nice to narrow down if it’s console specific

[karmic prism]

I rock Steam, Xbox and PS lol

Yeah, so... under the percentage if you haven't contributed it says "Contribute to be eligible for a reward" in yellow writing. I have just killed 2 crocs on PS5 and that writing is now gone, meaning that I have contributed to the challenge. So, I don't know if it's a platform thing, an animal thing or something else but on Series X and PS5 crocs have worked for me. I guess I could boot the game up on Steam and see what happens on that end...

(I forgot I was level 9 on PC lol). And it seems, for me at least, that Saltwater Crocodiles work as I was able to contribute to the community challenge on PS5, Series X and Steam. Not sure if Epic has issues, and I ain't buying the game a fourth time lol, but clearly something is amiss if crocs work for some and don't work for others.

[pale haven]

Indeed. Thank you for testing it out on your end 🙌 I’m gonna reload a bit later on an alt and see if it works there. Maybe it’s not even specific to platform, but rather account. We shall see. Hopefully it gets fixed soon though.

[slender rivet]

Thanks for all your input on my thread! I'm glad Im not the only one here, Ive completed every challenge on PC/steam acct since they started these last Easter and never had this issue

[pale haven]

Np! Hopefully it helps the devs figure out a fix somewhat soon. Also, for real, not even last March was this bad. 😅 there’s good reason to believe they’ll make it right before the challenge ends, at least

[slender rivet]

IIRC they did extend one of the challenges a few months back for something similar, so I'm sure they'll do it again.

-# I want the chicken skin so bad

[pale haven]

Probably, yea
-# also same, that’s literally all I want out of this roflmao

[shrewd zephyr]

Yeah so far I've harvested 4x coyotes, 3x black bear, 3x salties, 1x bobcat and 1x red fox and none seem to have counted for the challenge. And that list is all kills that passed the harvest check.

[cyan echo]

Same here harvested 3 Crocs and a black bear and it doesn't show anything

[karmic prism]

There has to be a reason why it works for some but not others...

[pale haven]

Just wanted to note, I see Kip’s mentioned elsewhere that the individual contribution counter each user typical sees is no longer showing up. Instead we just see the “kill to contribute” text under the % sign disappear.

I believe this may be the case for most people who have said it’s not working, from what I’ve seen and been sent about it. It used to show your kill contribution but now we’re just getting the text to disappear instead. In screenshots recently, nobody has had the “kill to contribute” text in their image. Perhaps it is counting but the new layout is confusing us.

I could have sworn I’d seen a screenshot floating around that said “kills contributed: 2” though. From the sounds of it, some people are still seeing that “old” text instead of having them disappear.

[slender rivet]

That's interesting 🤔 I"m just gonna hope for the best it's not a permanent change, but I will say if it's true I think EW should just put it back the way it was before.

[potent beacon]

I noticed it disappeared after the 9.0 patch, during the 243 deer 9 year anniversary. Was counting kills and then just... stopped.

[pale haven]

Yea I noticed it as well, though it’s been inconsistent on PS5. Some events would still show individual contributions, while the next wouldnt. This time around it’s not showing at all.

[safe granite]

Mine disappeared too and it won't even let me preview the rewards, I'm so scared it won't count even though I've been hunting almost nothing BUT predators 😭

[pale haven]

It likely will count- the last time this happened they just extended the challenge for a week or two and applied the rewards to anyone who had already contributed. It looks like it’s just a visual bug on our end, but on their end they can still confirm contributions. Fingers crossed :)

[pale haven]

Good news. PS hit 100%, we got all the skins, and now our contributions show on the community challenge slide. :)

[slender rivet]

Can confirm for PC! Though I preferred when it was shown while you were doing it 😅

[shrewd zephyr]

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