(11-22-2020, 06:10 PM)Nytemart Wrote:(11-22-2020, 03:30 PM)2bias Wrote: Jesus its almost been 3 years since i made those? That's crazy how time flies. Props for citing your sources as well.
Anyways, I was absent for all the updates that changed the way challenge scrolls fundamentally worked. I think that the addition of gilded/half gilded was a good idea when it first came out. It made the lower tier guns a lot more valuable and cool, however, the real problem started when kill points came into play.
Challenge scrolls use to take upwards of about 2-3 days to complete, even after everyone finally figured out how to "speed run" them. Kill challenges were so predominate in scrolls due to how it added a somewhat artificial delay, it was the same reasoning with map challenges. All the other challenges could be done in a matter of seconds, word scrambles, puzzles, etc.
Now, you can have a double gilded gun and get the same amount of kill points no matter what gun you're using which is pretty stupid. Its not longer a challenge once you get a double gilded heroic****. I personally don't have fun playing TTT at all now due to this, everyone is a sweaty try hard using a gun with 6 traits that just gets them more loot, its aids. I played a few weeks ago for about an hour, and in that time a single person completed about 2-3 easy scrolls, which isn't unreasonable, but god damn it should have at least taken 2-3 hours per scroll. TTT is no longer TTT, its just a deathmatch grind simulator using the most broken, overpowered bullshit you can.
Might finally be time to introduce master scrolls, which back in the day i had the idea for them and they were gonna be 10x harder than professional scrolls, but now that all these changes were added they might as well be "pre-nerf" pro scrolls at this point, where you have to use a specific weapon to get kills and gilded doesn't work.
But see, the original concept didn't make things more "fun" it just gatekept players into using boring shitty tiers. The current state isn't all that good either, but going back to just having it be the zzz challenge tier guns wouldn't be an improvement.
Its not really meant to be fun, to be honest. Its a challenge scroll. You're being challenged. Its not required content either, its completely optional. If you don't like having to use lower tier guns, then just sell the scroll.
They're not called "free loot scrolls", they're called challenge scrolls because its meant to make you work for your loot instead of just opening a crate.