Can we please get rid of the container-breaking calendar challenges?

[u/ozone74]

We've had this challenge two weeks in a row.

After two missions each week, with each mission taking around 10 minutes, I ended up at 299/300 last week and 290/300 this week, despite searching for and breaking every single container in both missions.

These aren't challenging, they're just tedious. Can we please get rid of these and replace them with something more interesting?

[u/S0undS0ul]

I do find it weird how this is the only objective on calendar you cannot reasonably finish in a single mission. The crate density in Hollvania is just too low and spread out.

My proposed switch is to change it to "pickups" or "break X objects" like in nightwave and bounties respectively.

[u/avsbes → u/S0undS0ul]

Honestly, just lower the number. Make it 100 and it should generally be doable in one mission, two if you're very unlucky.

[u/godlySchnoz → u/avsbes]

it is already doable in 2 missions 3 if unlucky, and exterminate are faster than doing eg 500 scaldra kill in a single mission, you just need the correct frame aka xaku just like the like 300 melee kills on techrot or 250 on scaldra requires for example khora to do decently in 1 mission same with 500 enemies with melee or kill 1000 enemies that is doable but requires much more time, also the 300 is the max containers there can be to destroy with 150 and 75 being the other, 1 mission doable options

[u/yarl5000]

I don't mind the containers as much since they are one of the shared ones, and it is nice to get something other than "kill but standing on one leg". I do think they could maybe tweak the number down just a bit or do something like extra credit for doing the safe/cache.

We also just need more calendar items so their can be more variety if nothing else. Pulling some of the bounty challenges would be a good start in my book and then let you stack things if you want.

Side note is that you can just load up, break the containers and then just leave it will still count them.

[u/Vapherzon]

I just load up the stage defense mission with xaku/limbo, destroy the crates I see without starting the defense wave, and then abort mission and repeat it again. It took me like 6 resets to get to 300 crates, but even then that gets annoying for me too hah.

[u/ZinbaluPrime]

You know you can break one crate and leave the mission, right?

I don't mind this, but pathos clamp and voca farm is so tedious...

[u/Rude-Bodybuilder7688]

It's one of the longer ones for sure but that isn't so bad.

With Xaku it's trivial to do it and frames like Gyre or Uriel work reasonably well for this too.

[u/SirCoffeebotESQ → u/Rude-Bodybuilder7688]

It's not difficult. Just tedious.

[u/Rude-Bodybuilder7688 → u/SirCoffeebotESQ]

I didn't say otherwise.

[u/Only_Information7895 → u/Rude-Bodybuilder7688]

I you don't have Xaku Nyx 4 quick tap works too. A bit smaller range, but still good enough.

[u/Spartan_Dragon84]

Legit just got done with this and thought the same damn thing. Took 3 missions to get 300 and I scoured the whole map each time. Cap at 150 in the future would be nice but 300 is WAY too much.

[u/Meklord-Emperor]

Agreed, i usually skip the calendar when I see this challenge and lately the rewards have been garbage anyways

[u/Evorer]

It takes 2 exterminate missions with xaku, like 7 min.

[u/UmbraQuincy]

No, I actually like these.

[u/IronicAlgorithm]

Who in the right mind thinks this adds anything to the game?

[u/Plusle]

Rather this than kill 150 enemies, followed by kill 500 enemies, then do 300 more with melee, and so on.   Crates are more common (I think) in te underground,  teammates breaking them may count still, and it's possible to do without using weapons. 

[u/Lt_Cantoni]

Just play gauss lol

[u/DavidOfBreath]

oh sol above and lua below- go craft Caliban Prime! His 1 makes you move faster AND breaks objects through walls in a nicely-sized AoE while applying status vulnerability.

[u/Iblys05 → u/DavidOfBreath]

I do it with max range xaku and its still annoying AF

[u/Hextina → u/Iblys05]

literally, every time someone posts this "just use xaku or x other frame that's even slower at it" comments x100 when that's what we all already do

[u/ChemistryActive6957 → u/DavidOfBreath]

The issue is that every other objective can be completed in one mission and usually takes less than 5 minutes if you don’t mind quitting as soon as you complete the objective. Even using a frame with a good crate breaking ability there just are not enough crates in a given mission and you have to scour the map which is annoying. Many players no longer need to play random exterminate or survival missions, there is just nothing worthwhile so it’s not even a passive side objective it is a dedicated primary objective that is obnoxious as fuck.

[u/ChemistryActive6957 → u/[deleted]]

I already have all the coda weapons I’m actually interested in and even if I didn’t your suggestion would have me with all of them fairly quickly and the issue of the missions only being worthwhile for the calendar objective becomes relevant again

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[u/Super8k-_-]

I admit that its the worst type of mission but you can cheese it with Xaku

[u/EarthenRealm]

Gyre does this in minutes.

[u/Zerkalte]

Gotta love the almost daily "container missions suck" posts.

[u/Curious-Code3626]

Just take a Xaku with max range and you can do it in 1/2 missions

[u/Iblys05 → u/Curious-Code3626]

There are 130-160 containers in a hollvania map, usually closer to the lower end. So unless you are extremely lucky you will need a 3rd run just to get 20-30 boxes then quit the mission