30th January – Reach Daily Challenges Commentary

What a good Sunday! 3 new challenges, some easy, some hard, and it’s Sunday. This’ll be fun…

Golden Opportunity – Find and kill the Gold Ranger-class Elite in any Campaign mission on Heroic or hard – 1000 cR

We’ve already had lots of discussion on one particular Gold Ranger in New Alexandria, but did you know there’s one in each level? Well the one in Exodus hasn’t been found last thing I heard. The one I know with certainty is in Winter Contingency (hands up if you didn’t think that was coming). If you get through the level fairly quickly (clearing out the first two groups of Grunts and Skirmishers), then run past the three Elites and start driving your way to the Marine defence section, you’ll pass a gold coloured Elite running. He’ll stop and fight you when you catch him, so jump out of the jeep and take that guy down. I’ll post a screenshot later when I try the challenge. If you want to find them on other levels, follow this excellent guide.

Make a Wish… – Earn a Running Riot in a multiplayer Matchmaking game – 1000 cR

15 guys in a row without dying. That’s not to say 15 within a few seconds, but in the span of one ‘life’. Not the easiest, and particularly not for 1000 credits. Best advice? If Grifball is still around then that’s always a good place if you can get your timing right and watch for betrayals. Juggernaut’s another good one. Infection can be good if you can get a decent team of humans together, but it’s hard to get 15 in the short space of time. In theory you can get this in any mode, it’s just harder to do it without dying in most variants. I expect everyone will have their own thoughts on this so please share in the comments.

Throwing Fireballs – Kill 7 enemies with grenades in a multiplayer Matchmaking game – 1200 cR

I’m tempted to do a poll to find out what’s better, Star Wars references or Mario references. Anyway, 7 kills with grenades isn’t difficult. As always I think the objective games in Multi-Team battle are good, especially Crazy King as you can chuck grenades in the ‘hill’ to try and get more than one guy. The Elite variant games can be good with sticky grenades, but Armour Lock is so common now it’s not worth it. I’m thinking perhaps Invasion too, since that’s also not based on kill volumes and you can throw grenades into the target areas when the opposition are unlocking something.

The Love of the Game – Complete 20 games in multiplayer Matchmaking – 2500 cR

It might take a bit of time but there’s no limitation on winning or weapons etc. Fastest games are often Infection as they go really quickly I find. If you want the kills for other challenges though I’d recommend Team SWAT/Slayer or Multi-Team as long as you can avoid Rocket Race! Equally, it’s a good chance to try out different variants you might not have played, so jump in BTB, Rumble Pit and Arena to see what they’re like.

I’m pleased to see more new challenges coming out, a second BOB challenge makes me think there is something more significant about them that we’ve not seen. Again, it’s probably just me hoping.

As per usual, if you have your own tips, please share in the comments.