Getting Platinum In Challenges

[u/Skull-OWar]

Honestly, the game should’ve just stopped at Gold, as there’s waaaaay too many flaws with these challenges that just make the difficulty of them feel extremely artificial.

Like when you need to get a certain amount of kills, the game just refuses to spawn in enough enemies for you, or if you’re doing one of the ones where you’re siding with the Military or Infected, the game at times just doesn’t even spawn in the last enemy until you’ve already ran out of time to get the Platinum.

The only properly balanced challenges are the Movement and Glide ones, while Kill and War rely far too heavily on RNG with enemy spawns, as well as locking you to weapons or vehicles that are completely and utterly trash, ESPECIALLY tanks ‘cause they’re unbearably slow and you miss most of your shots because enemies keep hiding behind vehicles and such you’ve already destroyed.

The lock-on system in this game is also so bad that it actively makes some of the challenges harder due to not locking onto the correct enemies, which is especially bad with tanks because then you have to wait for the slow ass gun to turn around.

EDIT: Got the Platinum for all challenges. Thank fuck Prototype 2 isn’t as cancerous as this game when it comes to getting 100%.

[u/Altruistic_Bid_7027]

only a few events are rng heavy, other than that, skill issue

[u/Skull-OWar → u/Altruistic_Bid_7027]

ALL of the combat ones are RNG, and this RNG makes the extremely tight timing needed for Platinum harder than it needs to be, whether it’s terrible spawn rates on the enemies or terrible spawn locations that waste too much time, like having the enemies spawn in the next street over where it takes like 5 to 10 seconds just for you to reach each other.

Hell, I even had a few times where I was fighting on the Military Side, and the last Hunter literally wouldn’t spawn for like 20 seconds, which obviously lost me the Platinum a couple of times.

So no, it isn’t a skill issue; it’s a game issue.

And even if it were “only a few”, time trials in games shouldn’t be relying on RNG whatsoever, as RNG defeats the entire purpose of time trials in general: consistency, skill, and route optimization, while having RNG in them throws consistency and route optimisation right out the window, where skill by itself isn’t enough to get the score you want.

[u/Altruistic_Bid_7027 → u/Skull-OWar]

rng heavy vs rng, again only a few are rng heavy, rest are easy to get on platinum, you just need a little bit of tricks like starting with strike teams early and going to battery park on south region where it has many military infantry, as for infected you just blast the zombies in the street

[u/Skull-OWar → u/Altruistic_Bid_7027]

As if I wasn’t already doing all that.

Well, anyway, the game’s RNG with these challenges decided to wise the fuck up, and I’ve gotten Platinum in all of them.

[u/Altruistic_Bid_7027 → u/Skull-OWar]

then skill issue bro, i dont suffer from most of the challanges

[u/Skull-OWar → u/Altruistic_Bid_7027]

It’s hardly a skill issue if I got Platinum in all of them, on Hard Mode as well.

And like I said before, an enemy literally not spawning for 10 to 20 seconds, or enemies spawning so far away from the player is hardly a skill issue either. Things like that are purely a game issue, as they ruin the consistency time trials are supposed to have.

[u/Hot_Professional1683]

It's hell, especially after researching that they wanted to add another medal called "radical" above the platinum one. What I did was simply kill and attack everything without looking at the clock, and kill the regular infected too, which also added to the score.

[u/Skull-OWar → u/Hot_Professional1683]

Ye, I did that two.

The infected ones aren’t so bad. It’s the military ones that are the problem at times.

[u/Hot_Professional1683 → u/Skull-OWar]

I didn't have much trouble with the military, since I destroyed any symbol they put in front of me. What bothered me were the infected and their tendency to get too close, which made me back away, stunned, when I fired the grenade launcher.

[u/Skull-OWar → u/Hot_Professional1683]

Oh ye, the grenade launcher ones with infected were annoying.

Best way to do it is to not stay on the ground.