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Just asking if anyone knows. I don't mean the villain quests, I mean the Skylanders quests that gave them a bronze, silver, or gold rank. I was just wondering because I actually liked them.

Was wondering about this also, in any gameplay videos when the player goes into the figure menus....no sign of it. Without Heroic Challenges and Quests....what's left to customize aside from hat and nickname?

I'll be surprised (and somewhat disappointed) if Quests or something similar don't make a return.

It was definitely an extra thing to do with each character beyond getting to the max level and having all upgrades. Plus it didn't feel forced, as the health/hat boosts weren't that big of an advantage. It was totally optional for those that chose to do them.

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Was wondering about this also, in any gameplay videos when the player goes into the figure menus....no sign of it. Without Heroic Challenges and Quests....what's left to customize aside from hat and nickname?

Is it confirmed that heroic challenges are out?

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Was wondering about this also, in any gameplay videos when the player goes into the figure menus....no sign of it. Without Heroic Challenges and Quests....what's left to customize aside from hat and nickname?

Is it confirmed that heroic challenges are out?

Absolutely no.

Yeah, it could always be a thing you can only check with Cali. And since she's in the hub, it's a great chance that's exactly what she can do, unless it's something similar to boost stats.

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Yeah, it could always be a thing you can only check with Cali. And since she's in the hub, it's a great chance that's exactly what she can do, unless it's something similar to boost stats.

Exactly.

Sorry, I don't remember, as of now, could Heroics be checked, in the stats menu?
Weren't they only available when talking to Cali?

Nope, you could check the number of completed challenges in Giants and SSA, in the select menu along with the stats.
Again, just because they aren't there doesn't mean they're gone, specially since Cali is back and unless she takes Flynn's role in some levels(Rainfish Riviera comes to mind), there wouldn't be much reason to have her stationed in the hub unless it's for the challenges or their equivalent in this game.

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Nope, you could check the number of completed challenges in Giants and SSA, in the select menu along with the stats.
Again, just because they aren't there doesn't mean they're gone, specially since Cali is back and unless she takes Flynn's role in some levels(Rainfish Riviera comes to mind), there wouldn't be much reason to have her stationed in the hub unless it's for the challenges or their equivalent in this game.

Indeed.

Thanks for clearing that up.

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Was wondering about this also, in any gameplay videos when the player goes into the figure menus....no sign of it. Without Heroic Challenges and Quests....what's left to customize aside from hat and nickname?

As for customization, there are also outfits/trinkets.

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I'll be surprised (and somewhat disappointed) if Quests or something similar don't make a return.

It was definitely an extra thing to do with each character beyond getting to the max level and having all upgrades. Plus it didn't feel forced, as the health/hat boosts weren't that big of an advantage. It was totally optional for those that chose to do them.

You pretty much needed the Quests for HP on Nightmare Mode.

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I'll be surprised (and somewhat disappointed) if Quests or something similar don't make a return.

It was definitely an extra thing to do with each character beyond getting to the max level and having all upgrades. Plus it didn't feel forced, as the health/hat boosts weren't that big of an advantage. It was totally optional for those that chose to do them.

You pretty much needed the Quests for HP on Nightmare Mode.

... Not sure if serious... 75HP saves you very rarely and if you want it you can always equip HP hats/LTs anyway. Plus you shouldn't be getting hit very often.

I'm expecting no, because I haven't heard of anything like this being spotted, plus Quest medals and Heroics from previous games don't seem to appear anywhere.

I hope so. I mean I never actually finished them but they were something to do. Since most of my old Skylanders are Level 20. There will be nothing to do with them except playing with them.

I hope yes, but the lack of any showcasing feels like no. It's almost as if they are embarrased to show things that involve upgrading skylanders. Darndest thing I've ever seen---THAT'S where I spent the bulk of my time in previous games.

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I hope yes, but the lack of any showcasing feels like no. It's almost as if they are embarrased to show things that involve upgrading skylanders. Darndest thing I've ever seen---THAT'S where I spent the bulk of my time in previous games.

In fact, it seems like they are focusing more on gimmicks (not gimmick characters) and "gameplay innovations", rather than on the old and new Skylanders themselves.

And while a better gameplay is still appreciated, they should really bring back the personalization and "magic" of SA and Giants.

Ok, so I just tried my Volcanic Eruptor, who has a gold medal for both Giants and Swap Force ( he also has 50 heroics-yes, went back and completed them in SSA and Giants).
In Swap Force, both medals appear next to his name when you use him. Unfortunately, nothing comes up in Trap Team. Maybe something will change if I progress further in the game, but if not I will actually be pretty choked. I think they should acknowledge the hard work fans put in to complete them, especially with Life characters who painfully had to redo Levels over an over to kill 25 undead spell punks....grrrrr...

they don't show up later in the game.

Wow. I think they really did not understand the value of these quests/heroics. They've literally put all of their eggs into one basket. And to think THAT was the gimmick for those with SSA to REBUY 24 reposes in Giants. Fool me once, shame on you...fool me twice...

It feels like they taken a step backwards in regards to heroics. I understand that it's a lot of work to do heroics for every character (kind of their own fault), but they could have made them element based and only had 1 or 2 heroics per element. As for quest I don't know what they were thinking, it seems with every game they are stepping away from what m̶a̶k̶e̶ made the figures more unique.

Yeah, i was actually looking forwards to plugging away at figure quests for what will be almost three hundred figures. As monotonous as that sounds, so i'm a little disappointed that they're missing.

IMO it doesn't promote playing with the figures. CAuse if I don't do that, I'm going to quickly loose interest in this game. Frankly, this might be a 2 week romp at best. I don't care if they drag out figures until next Aug, I'll be bored and move on. Sorry TfB, huge tactical mistake, for your bottom line from this parent.

Honestly, it makes all the older figures worthless-- no quests, no heroics, no new upgrades, and no new max level or gold level (still capped at 65000). Reallllllyyy dumb on their part, because no one that is new to the series is going to go buy older Giants, SSA, and SF figures from the store-- which, I might add, they are still selling and currently on the market at TRU, Wallies, Target, etc. Thus, they are actually going to lose potential revenue on old stock. Dumb.

The only thing you get from using an older figure is a higher portal master rank, which hardly seems worth it.

you don't even get that, there is no stars attached to the size of your collection anymore

I wouldn't do the Heroics for every figure. It would just be nice to "personalise" the ones I like.

So... I guess all of this means "no, they aren't back"?

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Ok, so I just tried my Volcanic Eruptor, who has a gold medal for both Giants and Swap Force ( he also has 50 heroics-yes, went back and completed them in SSA and Giants).
In Swap Force, both medals appear next to his name when you use him. Unfortunately, nothing comes up in Trap Team. Maybe something will change if I progress further in the game, but if not I will actually be pretty choked. I think they should acknowledge the hard work fans put in to complete them, especially with Life characters who painfully had to redo Levels over an over to kill 25 undead spell punks....grrrrr...

I'm so glad I chose to ignore those ridiculous quests in Swap Force. It's a shame too, because if they carried over and there were good quests for each figure in Trap Team, I might have actually gone back to SF and did those.

It's a shame that they completely destroyed the connection between the player and their figures with this game. No heroics to boost stats and work on your Skylanders. Now they've flushed quests down the same toilet that heroics swirled around in. It would be nice if Activision stopped taking all the reasons I liked Skylanders and ruining them on me. Looks like I better get the most out of this title, because I feel it'll probably be my last. Activision just keeps taking all the good things away.

Nicely said, Eggers. Trust me, I'm all for keeping it fresh and new, but the lack of all 3 (Quests, Heroics and PvP) gives me a huge alienated feeling, regardless of the fact that 40+ villains and 32+ mew characters. Frankly if they provded more game content and given me HALF of those characters I'd be much happier. OK, done whining. It is what it is. Let's try and make the most of it.