Carina’s challenges Vol 1&2 rewards update

GiusGiuf

Hi all,

Just curious to know your thoughts about it.
When Carina’s challenge vol1 came out the rewards were fitting the meta of the game at that point. The same for vol 2.
Now this is not the case anymore as the amount of items you have to spent is not worth the price.

Do you think rewards should be updated to the current meta (r5 or 7*)? I think this will help people re engaging with this piece of content.
An alternative would be maintaining the same rewards but remove some of the constraints (i.e. any cyclops instead of the 3* only)
Kabam Miike, any thoughts?

P.S. and no I don’t think that who has already completed these challenges should have compensation

ccrider474

I disagree and haven't finished them but mainly the Buff rewards with no compensation. It is the most entitled thing I have ever heard. These guys either grinded for days or spent big in the day to complete this when they were the most revelant. So you deserve more rewards for less effort now?

There is so much happening in game nowadays that you don't have to do them. Completionists will but you can pick and choose the easy stuff like rol with robots for easy rewards and ignore the lol and aol ones.

Wozzle007

I’m not apposed to the buffing the rewards. I have done all of Carinas Vol 1 and 2. Personally without being able to revive farm I’m unlikely to even with a rewards buff.

If they do make any changes, they absolutely need to compensate those who’ve already done it.

GiusGiuf

ccrider474 said:

I disagree and haven't finished them but mainly the Buff rewards with no compensation. It is the most entitled thing I have ever heard. These guys either grinded for days or spent big in the day to complete this when they were the most revelant. So you deserve more rewards for less effort now?

There is so much happening in game nowadays that you don't have to do them. Completionists will but you can pick and choose the easy stuff like rol with robots for easy rewards and ignore the lol and aol ones.

If you read the post is not more rewards for less effort but is either
- relevant rewards for the same efforts (I would argue that farming revive is more difficult nowadays) or
- Same rewards for less effort (considering that those rewards don’t really fit the meta anymore)

I am not sure this is “entitled” and it would not damage who has already completed it.
Sometimes but rarely kabam does things in favour of players and as a player who has done good part of the contents in game I have absolutely no problem in rewards buff with or without compensation.
Of course if kabam sends 1275 mythic crystals as a compensation gift I won’t complain😜

I know that there are a lot of things to do on the game but my OCD suffers seeing these challenges not completed😅😂

LordSmasher

Sort of agree with you on the objectives sitting there with no intent on completion.
I would likea "I'm a cheese eating surrender monkey, please remove this objective from my list" button.

Oh - And maybe pressing that button comes with a special title. That would be awesome.

Ercarret

If the rewards were to be buffed, compensation should 100% be offered to those who have already completed them. Alternatively, people who have already completed them get the opportunity to complete them again for the increased rewards.

I'm not sure if I would want Kabam to buff those rewards, though. I'd rather just see new objectives with new rewards. While I also have a bunch of objectives that I'm not going to do for various reasons (either because the rewards aren't good enough anymore or because I don't enjoy those particular challenges), I'm not too bothered by it. If you start going down a road of buffing outdated rewards, you'd soon have to look over so much more content in the game. Should Labyrinth get a rewards buff? Should Abyss? The Variants?

Nah, I'd rather just have new content where I can earn those rewards.

Maat1985

NO absolutely not.
make new content with new rewards.
keep old content with old rewards.

you don't want the rewards.
fine don't do the content.

KnightOfTheRealm

Fully agree, while we’re at it let’s include some tier 4 alpha in act 3 path rewards.

MrSakuragi

Not needed. Rewards fit content at the time of release. Those who don’t think rewards are worth the effort will skip it like they do with variants.

InfamousMike

I agree, also the Variants needsa upgrade.

Drago_von_Drago

I don’t think a reward buff with no compensation is fair.

I also don’t think a lot of them are worth doing between the rewards being outdated and the revive farm removal.

I’d support an annual reward update with a sort of ticket that gives everyone who has completed the content the latest set of rewards every year. I’d apply this to Carina’s Challenges and Variants for sure and maybe Abyss and Labyrinth also.

It would keep the content relevant indefinitely and give more of an incentive for people to do it if they can unlock an annual reward package going forward.

A_Fungi

InfamousMike said:

I agree, also the Variants needsa upgrade.

They don't need an upgrade, we need new variants.

makes no sense to buff the variants we currently have, they are being done with much larger rosters now and are relatively easy

TyEdge

If Kabam wants to incentivize completion of past Carina content, it’s easy.

Create an objective that offers rewards for completing 2 volumes of Carina, then rewards for completing 3 volumes.

It would be a nice gesture, and it wouldn’t require parsing through accounts to see who already did what.

Squirrelguy

I feel like there is a fundamental difference in how some people view Carina's challenges (and rewards in general, but I'll keep this specific). I always understood Carnina's challenges to be aimed at Endgame players who just twiddle their thumbs and took tea breaks during the rest of the properly levelled content and wanted a real challenge mostly for the sake of having a real challenge and not for amazing rewards. Vol 1 came out over 2 years ago and I would absolutely not expect all of the rewards to be the same level of exciting these days. Diminishing value of resources is one of the drivers in a game like this to complete content early, thus it doesn't behoove (don't @ me if I spelled that wrong) Kabam to constantly be updating rewards on permanent content. You can even look to special cases like the Gauntlet that was temporary, but allowed another run when it opened again. This was a case where the rewards weren't updated, but they were made accessible again as it became permenant.

Vegeta9001

Nah, they fit the timeframe they were released. Nowadays you just don't touch them, like back issues 1, stinky rewards for a stinky variant.

willrun4adonut

GiusGiuf said:

Hi all,
P.S. and no I don’t think that who has already completed these challenges should have compensation

I thought the whole thing was hilarious, but this was my favorite part.

ZIOLEX

Carina challenge hard but garbage reward

DarkestDestroyer

I don’t see why they couldn’t boost the rewards a little bit and just issue those to the players who have completed it.

Either way, the ridiculous ones I’m never going to do, even if they got a boost, it wouldn’t encourage me.

So I’m easy whatever happens.

However you can’t expect them to be upgraded, and those who have already finished them, get nothing.

Pseudouber

They need to be buffed or just remove them. Nobody will do they if left as is and just looks messy being there for nothing. They had a purpose back when released now you can just keep playing on and get better rewards. Nobody has time for that. Its just hard for nothing special.

[Deleted User]

At least Back Issues provide new, themed, kinda interesting content. Carinas Challenges just ask players to redo old content but with restrictions. It's lazy implementation with rewards that very quickly became outdated. Assuming this game lasts another 5 years, I highly doubt Carinas will stay the way they are. Buffing the rewards or removing the restrictions really aren't the way to go, they should just rework the system entirely and bring new challenges for everyone.

Magrailothos

I agree that the rewards are fairly pointless for Carina's 1&2, now.

One solutions that actually meets everyone's suggestions above (suggested by @TyEdge in another thread): Incentivize doing old Carina content by making an additional objective for completing multiple volumes.

That way, you can 'buff' the old rewards, but without actually buffing them, and with no need to compensate anyone at all.

BigManOnCampus

Kabam just come out with a brand new CARINA’S CHALLENGES already ! Thanks !