Gamepass quests Microsoft Redeem points

recyclops · 07-01-2021 2:27pm

the fact we dont get that punch card that rewards hunter has on his vid is a disgrace

Treppen · 08-01-2021 3:40am

recyclops wrote: »

the fact we dont get that punch card that rewards hunter has on his vid is a disgrace

They're getting an extra couple of thousands points.... On top of the bing searches and all that .
Madness

theteal · 08-01-2021 3:21pm

Treppen wrote: »

They're getting an extra couple of thousands points.... On top of the bing searches and all that .
Madness

Yeah emigration has it's advantages even if it means my kids have funny accents and I have to import decent tea bags from home.

I've done about 7k points in the last 2 days with very little effort.

dreamwalker1 · 08-01-2021 7:33pm

7k in the last two days and you are from Ireland? Sure!!

theteal · 08-01-2021 7:49pm

dreamwalker1 wrote: »

7k in the last two days and you are from Ireland? Sure!!

Location hint in my signature.

2k punch card
4k+ from game walkthroughs - stuff like Fractured Minds, 5 Nights at Freddies took about 15 mins each.
And then the normal start of the month quests/searches so yeah, not far off 7k. Didn't do any today mind (dang work getting in the way)

dreamwalker1 · 09-01-2021 1:19am

Didn't know 4k points was available from game walkthroughs - you must have a great weekly streak built up. I find it a struggle to get so many points to be honest and wish Ireland had way more available reward point wise like the UK or USA. Still, love the xbox so can't complain too much!!

Treppen · 09-01-2021 3:26am

dreamwalker1 wrote: »

7k in the last two days and you are from Ireland? Sure!!

He lives in UK

Still trying dead by daylight. Can manage to get one match then killed instantly then hanging around lobby for hours.

dreamwalker1 · 09-01-2021 8:21am

Figured he lived in the UK! I got the Dead by Daylight - I found the best time to find matches was at around 10-11am. I just followed around another player till he got grabbed and then rescued him followed by healing. It's an annoying quest which requires luck which is always a pain! Add me if you like and that way you can follow me around till I get grabbed and heal me - ElvishNebula202

recyclops · 09-01-2021 10:06am

Yeah my work laptop is UK based (servers) so o am racking up points that way but the other stuff is stupidly unfair.

Managed dead by daylight took around 8 games or so. All happend in the meat factory map which seemed easiest to heal in for some reason. Like said above I played a few games early in the day.

theteal · 09-01-2021 12:07pm

dreamwalker1 wrote: »

Didn't know 4k points was available from game walkthroughs - you must have a great weekly streak built up. I find it a struggle to get so many points to be honest and wish Ireland had way more available reward point wise like the UK or USA. Still, love the xbox so can't complain too much!!

Nope, the current promo has 10k available. All gamerscore accumulated up to the end of the month (I think) goes towards rewards points. There was also 2k for actually activating the punch card. There are a good bunch of games with super quick walkthroughs/cheats that are good for 1k points each.

I mean 10k points is worth about £8 so it's not really worth the effort (hence I just do quick/easy stuff) but I only highlight here to show how Ireland gets screwed, the Aussies ain't happy either.

recyclops · 09-01-2021 12:37pm

It's really odd all round, the picking and choosing of these promos.

Wonder why you'd not roll it out considering it's automated.

terryduff12 · 09-01-2021 2:48pm

Don't get why we can't get the 10k bonus when we more or less get everything else. We are either in the reward program or not

Treppen · 11-01-2021 2:52am

terryduff12 wrote: »

Don't get why we can't get the 10k bonus when we more or less get everything else. We are either in the reward program or not

I reckon the head of Microsoft Irish devision is from Cavan .

maximoose · 12-01-2021 5:29pm

When was the last time €5 gift cards were "on sale" through rewards?

I've ~50k points saved up and wondering if I should redeem now for the 4650 points or hang on, not sure if they still reduce them though

theteal · 13-01-2021 11:14am

maximoose wrote: »

When was the last time €5 gift cards were "on sale" through rewards?

I've ~50k points saved up and wondering if I should redeem now for the 4650 points or hang on, not sure if they still reduce them though

What do you mean by on sale?

There's a discount applied as you're most likely a Level 2 rewards user. For the 3 months or so I've paid attention to rewards, that discount has been there the whole time.

maximoose · 13-01-2021 11:59am

They used to have time limited "Hot Deals" where the rewards cost of a €5 voucher was dropped to 4000 points

Just checked my Order History and it looks like it might have been January last year when it was last available, maybe its done

Techniques07 · 13-01-2021 1:22pm

They had the €5 reward during the summer for sure. Thought it would be around again before xmas but no joy

Treppen · 15-01-2021 3:00pm

Techniques07 wrote: »

They had the €5 reward during the summer for sure. Thought it would be around again before xmas but no joy

Just be careful you don't get caught on the expiry date for the card.

Treppen · 15-01-2021 3:02pm

There's a bonus free 100pts up for grabs on the rewards app today.

Anyone finished the Monthly Game quests?

I just have Vesperia and Monster Hunter left to do.
The rest were easy enough.

marcbrophy · 15-01-2021 3:22pm

With the monthlies, I tend to do one of the 4 75 point games each week, if they are tedious enough.
Though I haven't started them for Jan yet

recyclops · 15-01-2021 6:04pm

Treppen wrote: »

There's a bonus free 100pts up for grabs on the rewards app today.

Anyone finished the Monthly Game quests?

I just have Vesperia and Monster Hunter left to do.
The rest were easy enough.

the monthlies were very easy, always wanted to try monster hunter not arsed playing it now

theteal · 15-01-2021 6:21pm

recyclops wrote: »

the monthlies were very easy, always wanted to try monster hunter not arsed playing it now

I'll give them a bash over the weekend, maybe. I tried to play Monster Hunter before as it looks interesting on paper but I just didn't take to it.

It's been achievements all week, I just wanna play a bit of Ori now, gotta beat that big frog yoke.

Treppen · 16-01-2021 7:05pm

marcbrophy wrote: »

With the monthlies, I tend to do one of the 4 75 point games each week, if they are tedious enough.
Though I haven't started them for Jan yet

The one where you have to get 75 kills is a bit of a chore. Try to keep count. Where it says press B to interrogate the enemy, just press A and kill them, they'll keep reappearing until you interrogate.

Cities skylines, just fast forward and leave for 15 minutes. You'll get an achievement if it rains, so might be worth just leaving it for 30 minutes.

Both can be done on phone.

Chicken Possible / Rewards Hunter has the guides.

Nearly at 49,000 points.

Treppen · 19-01-2021 1:41pm

Moster Hunter looks like it'll take an hour at least to achieve .... think i'll pass

dreamwalker1 · 19-01-2021 1:46pm

Monster Hunter does take time for sure. I would say 30- 50 minutes after doing it. Not worth the time and effort to be honest.

theteal · 21-01-2021 11:21am

Anybody else's quests not popping?

I'm assuming that Final Fantasy one is just a case of launching the game but it's not popping for me. Incidentally I played a couple of other GP games and even got an achievement last night in Call of the Sea. I got the quest for the GP achievement but nothing for playing a GP game, dafuq???

Also my xbox just does not pop for achievements anymore - they register, I just don't get the pop up, I've checked all settings and reset, still nafink.

dreamwalker1 · 21-01-2021 12:01pm

All quests popped for me including just launching final fantasy 8

Treppen · 21-01-2021 12:24pm

theteal wrote: »

Anybody else's quests not popping?

I'm assuming that Final Fantasy one is just a case of launching the game but it's not popping for me. Incidentally I played a couple of other GP games and even got an achievement last night in Call of the Sea. I got the quest for the GP achievement but nothing for playing a GP game, dafuq???

Also my xbox just does not pop for achievements anymore - they register, I just don't get the pop up, I've checked all settings and reset, still nafink.

Ya I think it's just standard practice now for things not to work on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

I've installed 4 games from the app so far and only 2 have still registered.

Actually come to think of it my achievements have stopped popping. I'm doing Full Throttle Remastered on my laptop (basic game so runs ok) and it's stopped showing achievements.

Mass Effect was easy enough but pretty long at 30 minutes, at least you can skip the cut scenes.

theteal · 21-01-2021 12:53pm

Treppen wrote: »

Actually come to think of it my achievements have stopped popping. I'm doing Full Throttle Remastered on my laptop (basic game so runs ok) and it's stopped showing achievements.

Ah that's the strange thing on my part, PC notifications are still good. Even more strange, if I stream from xbox to PC (i.e. playing my console from the PC) the achievements pop in the xbox companion app . . .but not on the console itself

theteal · 21-01-2021 3:15pm

aaaand of course, now that I've actually put my issue in virtual print, it's decided to fix itself. I just had a quick bash through Ori on my lunch there and lo and behold, an achievement notification popped up - it hasn't worked for a couple of weeks. I think I need a holiday.

Treppen · 22-01-2021 3:04pm

Soooo just for you folks who read this thread... a bargain alert of sorts, maybe!!

Supposedly 1,000 pts if you join the Xbox Community Game Club... halfway down the page, read the Ts&Cs.
It could be a total disaster like the Fanfest thing, give it a shot anyway...

https://ambassadors.microsoft.com/xbox/community/game-club?ocid=XCGCLaunch

Scroll down further and there's a sign up for XBox ambassador for further stuff. This is like joining a cult with different levels and stuff.

Treppen · 03-02-2021 2:43am

A good few treasure hunts up in last two weeks. Maybe because they got rid of the 5pt sign into app which was wonky.

Looks like most of the weekly/monthly game quests can be done via cloud for February.

Hunter call of the wild, killed a dear after 2 hours! But got 5 achievements! Apparently you can kill a rabbit at the start but I couldn't wait around! If you do spot a dear you gotta sneak up close and down wind cos your rifle is trash.

marcbrophy · 04-02-2021 12:01pm

We've lost the daily 5 points for logging into the app, which has other changes around the month.

150 less points per month.
Weekly task for completing 4 daily tasks, now takes 4 days, instead of 2.
Monthly task for completionist, used to be 45 daily tasks, is now down to 20 tasks.

So, good and bad.
Maybe a couple of extra treasures will make up for the lost 150

dreamwalker1 · 04-02-2021 12:31pm

Ireland gets the worst of gamepass rewards for sure but at least you get something compared to anything from Sony. Xbox series X has been nothing but a joy to play and experience since I bought it and hopefully the reward points will improve over the next few months.

theteal · 04-02-2021 1:08pm

Yeah I noticed the app login one was gone. It was a bit of a pain anyway and most likely to be forgotten

theteal · 04-02-2021 1:37pm

Treppen wrote: »

Hunter call of the wild, killed a dear after 2 hours! But got 5 achievements! Apparently you can kill a rabbit at the start but I couldn't wait around! If you do spot a dear you gotta sneak up close and down wind cos your rifle is trash.

Ha, just did that one in no more than 2 mins. At the very start, I just turned around and in front of me on the lake was a duck. I got 2 achievements and the quest.

marcbrophy · 09-02-2021 11:23pm

Looks like the mobile app 5 pointer is back...

Treppen · 10-02-2021 3:08am

marcbrophy wrote: »

Looks like the mobile app 5 pointer is back...

Maybe they took it offline to bring it to the garage. That ***** log in rarely worked first time for me.

There a bit of agro going on with the download 5 games through the app , people are saying to get the beta gamepass app (white one) and download it through that!

State of decay is full of achievements as it takes a bit to find the hearts. Look at the chicken possible on YouTube for info.

Witcher was easy as I still had the saves from the last game... No intro and tonnes of dialogue... Delighted.

Building myself up for Terraria as I hate that game.

FIFA soccer is a piece of cake (again , see rewards Hunter on YouTube). Only problem is you have to download it,but you can start early.

56,100 points to date

theteal · 10-02-2021 8:09am

Terraria is simple, start tutorial, did straight down and around for 5ish mins. Boring as feck but that's it.

marcbrophy · 10-02-2021 11:46am

I use the Beta xbox app on mobile and downloaded 5 games last week. Didn't work. been waiting, but nothing's happened.

Do I just have to try again? :mad:

maximoose · 10-02-2021 11:50am

I think the installs have to be from the Game Pass app, rather than the Xbox app?

marcbrophy · 10-02-2021 11:55am

Sorry, the app is Xbox Game Pass (Beta)
Same one I use every month.
Just didn't seem to count this time...

theteal · 10-02-2021 12:21pm

Yeah I had that last week too. I tend to go into Indie and install the smallest games I can quickly find. I have been using the beta app for last few weeks but for this nothing popped. So in the last couple of days, I went back into the "old" app and installed a game from the "newly added" section and it worked. I followed that with a few more from the same section and got the quest. I don't know if the issue was that I had previously installed my original selection of Indie games (not sure I did but could well have) or the app itself..

theteal · 11-02-2021 11:18am

I hit a bit of a milestone this morning. Still a little to go to reach my target which should only take a few weeks but, and it's a massive but, there still are no sign of Series X consoles on the xbox site

Ice Albatross · 12-02-2021 12:55am

Anyone see the competition for February to get most ea play achievements on Gamespass? Top 5 win series X. America included so surely impossible to win

Treppen · 12-02-2021 2:25am

theteal wrote: »

I hit a bit of a milestone this morning. Still a little to go to reach my target which should only take a few weeks but, and it's a massive but, there still are no sign of Series X consoles on the xbox site

Buy a controller and flog it as mint for a tenner cheaper! Then use the cash to get yer Xbox.

Treppen · 12-02-2021 2:26am

Ice Albatross wrote: »

Anyone see the competition for February to get most ea play achievements on Gamespass? Top 5 win series X. America included so surely impossible to win

Not a hope.

theteal · 12-02-2021 10:52am

Ice Albatross wrote: »

Anyone see the competition for February to get most ea play achievements on Gamespass? Top 5 win series X. America included so surely impossible to win

Yup I saw it and gave it about a millisecond of thought. Not an iota of a chance.

Treppen wrote: »

Buy a controller and flog it as mint for a tenner cheaper! Then use the cash to get yer Xbox.

I've a few of things in the works* that'll result in me paying very little actual money for a SX. The crux is that it has to be from xbox/ms directly

*TCB, Natwest Rewards, Xbox Rewards

Treppen · 13-02-2021 3:06am

theteal wrote: »

Yup I saw it and gave it about a millisecond of thought. Not an iota of a chance.

I've a few of things in the works* that'll result in me paying very little actual money for a SX. The crux is that it has to be from xbox/ms directly

*TCB, Natwest Rewards, Xbox Rewards

Ya i contacted them and they said I had to wait for it to become available. But I could get them to send it to me from a different country... But without being able to use my rewards credit of course!

What's tcb?

theteal · 13-02-2021 1:28pm

Treppen wrote: »

Ya i contacted them and they said I had to wait for it to become available. But I could get them to send it to me from a different country... But without being able to use my rewards credit of course!

What's tcb?

Sorry, tcb is topcashback. It's basically money back when buying stuff online

Gamepass quests Microsoft Redeem points

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