Well Done Ubi
Just wanted to say that my team had a lot of fun with the GE Strike Event.
We just played the game, didn't "farm" any one mission over and over like many people did. We played a lot, did a lot of things, earned a lot of GE, opened a lot of caches (around 90 each). We all ended up with full sets of all the gear we wanted without stressing over it. We all finished last night with 10,000 GE credits banked for the next event. We completed all but one of the Commendations (the one where you blow yourself up for the dinosaur looking patch) besides the ones that only awarded key fragments (not going to be bothered with those during an event unless they come naturally through normal game play).
Our only point of contention (which I pointed out in another post) are the commendations that discourage co-op team play by only awarding kills to the person making the kill shots. The Strike Boss commendation for the Jungle Mask was the most obvious that forced all of us to just solo the 3 LZ bosses (Bullet King, Chains and Riot) on our multiple characters a few times a day over the course of the event instead of just playing as a team in the normal events or even doing the above as a team. It may not been as fast but at least we got decent GE (450 per run) and some old classified and exotics, most of which were broke down for D-Tech. I did find one piece of Sentry Call Classified that was better than what I had so bonus.
We refused to "cheese" the commendation like so many others by playing on Tier 1 and killing Barret, killing self, re spawning wash rinse and repeat for 2 hours like the many videos and people suggested.
There are many other commendations that doing the same thing (killing hunters, named etc..) that are discouraging co-op and encouraging solo play. I have no problem with solo getting the reward, but it should not discourage co-op play.
One other suggestion which I believe is in another post also is to do away with the 1 hour earned GE for the leader boards. It does nothing but encourage farming the same missions over and over or making people feel that this is what they have to do. We didn't and by doing 1 legendary, the weekly HVT's, best paying daily HVT's, a few named LZ bosses and opening a few Survival Caches we made the top level, we weren't anywhere close to the top (we get the same award) but that is just an e-peen score and I truly feel sorry for the people that farmed the crap out of CS to get that. I would much rather just see a system that says Earn X amount of total GE during event to make top tier, X amount for 2nd Tier, and X amount for bottom tier.
Overall was a pretty fun event and looking forward to the next one. Well done.
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