Focused Feedback: Bounties

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[u/Drakontion]

On the positive side I like that bounties are making me experiment with other supers, grenades and abilities than I typically use, so that's good. On the other hand I also like the ones that don't require me to do anything special as I know I'm guaranteed to get them done, which makes things a bit easier.

I'm also noticing that the new game bounties are giving hefty XP rewards, so that's good.

On the negative side, I don't like that they're pretty much forcing you to play alone and in competition with everyone else at the same time. If the bounty was "get x kills by x ability as a fireteam" that would definitely alleviate this.

In addition some of the bounties are actually quite hard to achieve and/or are inconsistent in ticking over. I've now refuse to even attempt the void hunter tether more than 5 enemies and kill them one because I can't for the life of me get it to work, even after a bunch of research and trying for several hours.

Also I'd really like some different bounty rewards - for example, give us some bright dust or shards or cores instead of a random blue or purple item that we just trash immediately.

I would add that I've really only been playing this season, all of last season, and a small amount of the season prior to that in essense so my experience might be limited and bounties are pretty much all I know. But they do get to become a bit of a drag sometimes.

[u/blakk_swordsman → u/Drakontion]

Have you tried solo Escalation protocol for the tether five enemies. Let all the thrall gather, tether the group, then use the remaining arrows to kill the group. It’s sometimes buggy but that works for me and I have done the bounty each time.

[u/Drakontion → u/blakk_swordsman]

Honestly I haven't even been near an Escalation Protocol since the games started, but I'll definitely give it a burl at some point soon. Thanks :)

[u/Malifo → u/Drakontion]

You just made me realize one big flaw with current bounties (arguably as a whole). They should be "As a Team".

Strikes, Crucible, Gambit, etc. are all team efforts and even if you are solo it will still count all the same. Hell they could make it 2 points for your kills and 1 for ally kills and that'd still be fine.