1. I have noticed the same thing. I'm sorry I have no info on how to earn this badge nowadays. The inerface has certainly changed since I earned it.
2. You'll have to first enable teams on the left side (where it says "No Teams") for the Pentad/Septad options to show up in a dropdown menu right under the Gladiator Match option. As for whether or not the 1vs1 of matching ATs still works, I am unsure. I was told it was fixed also, but I have not tested it in a while.
4. I heard the Swiss draw can still be buggy, but my personal experience with it has been just fine. Just make sure that the horn blows and the match actually starts before one player quits each match. Quitting before the match even starts seems to cause the sync issues and the seemingly wrong people advancing to the next rounds.
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Originally Posted by Master-Blade
Quitting before the match even starts seems to cause the sync issues and the seemingly wrong people advancing to the next rounds.
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Still, all it does is lengthen the time it takes to get all people the badge -- you just keep at it until everyone who wants it has it.
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My guess is that it needs 3 or more people with either last man standing or 1 Individual kill to get Arena Survivalist. Tried it with 2 people and only got Duelist.
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I also have found that Swiss Draw bugs out regardless of what people do. Of 7 or so arena matches my badger was unable to advance in any of them, everyone else got the badge of course and I went home with nothing. This really needs to be fixed.
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Originally Posted by Eric Nelson
I (and I believe many others) have found that this occurs regardless of player behavior.
Still, all it does is lengthen the time it takes to get all people the badge -- you just keep at it until everyone who wants it has it. |
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I'll agree that it can still happen at any time, but my personal experience is that it happens far less often if all people follow a specific guideline. The last time I ran one, we had only 1 bugged match out of the 8 full rounds to get everybody the badge, and the time before that had no issues with all 8 rounds. Back when these badges were released, we had issues with it almost every time when people were insta-quitting, so I figured that quitting while the opponent was still loading could be causing the issue. I suppose it's not the only cause and I could just be lucky, but I'd rather offer the tip in hopes it might be helpful, rather than make it sound like it's completely random chance.
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Originally Posted by Eric Nelson
I (and I believe many others) have found that this occurs regardless of player behavior.
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Yeah, it takes a few seconds for the arena badges to award so it could be the major problem with people getting badges by leaving ASAP.
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I have just confirmed that starting a match with 3 players and using the last man standing option will give Arena Survivalist to the winner.
The first step in being sane is to admit that you are insane.
Sorry if this is redundant but have searched for more information on getting the Arena badges; and the info that I've been able to find seems to be out of date. Anyway,
1. I had read that you could obtain "Arena Survivalist" in a 1 vs. 1 match set to "Battle Royal" mode. My problem is that when setting up these matches I do not see "Battle Royal" as an option anywhere under any of the drop-downs. Am I blind and am just not looking in the right place; or has the interfaced changed; or what? If "Battle Royal" is not an available option anymore for match set up then how do you get this badge?
2. I had also read that you could obtain "Pentad/Septad" badge in a 1 vs. 1 setup (was this a bug and this was supposed to be a team-only thing?) as long as the 2 AT's fighting were the same. I set this match up and fought another scrapper on my 2nd account and no badge awarded. Again; I saw no option on the setup screen to indicate Pentad or Septad...just Duel or Swiss Draw.
3. I have been able to get all the Weight Class badges using 2 accounts and setting up duels.
4. I know that for the "Tournament" badge you must use the Swiss Draw interface and that it is buggy and sometimes unreliable-is this still the case?
I'm on Virtue and currently redside; if anyone else feels like going for this badge and dealing with the frustration....
Any additional info/instructions about questions 1 or 2 would be much appreciated-thanks!