Absolutely Ridiculous Protags

Now, this thread is basically a place to discuss what Protags YOU think are absolutely absurd to get. Although I'm commenting on the ones that are ridiculously difficult to get, if there are any you think are too EASY, then go right on ahead and post what you think. If you have an idea for a new protag, however, then I'd recommend you comment here.

1) Kill 100,000 buzzers

• "...what? They want us to kill ONE-HUNDRED-THOUSAND?!"
  That was my exact reaction to seeing that protag. No joke. Even after hundreds upon thousands of Crossfire matches, and plenty of time on "The Scramble" and "Sudden-Death" Blitz, I've only got around 2,000 myself, and I play Blitz pretty regularly. This number is absolutely ridiculous, as most people don't even have 100,000 BLACKJACK kills yet. The only solution I see to this is if the Blitz turrents you built actually gave you bot kills, but since they don't, the only take away from the number of bots kills you could get. =/

2) Destroy 2,500 Longshots

• Although not nearly as difficult as the first one, it certainly is uncommon, as most people don't even bother building those (somewhat) useless turrents during Crossfire matches. I've only got around 200-300 of those myself, and I don't know many people with more, so that's kinda lame. The only solutions I can see are either lowering the required number or "bild moar n00bz lol"

3) Destroy 2,500 Shaveices

• The same as 2, but MUCH MORE difficult, as people tend to build these even LESS than longshots. Same solutions could be applied from #2 as well, but still kinda sucks to have to destroy so many.

So, any ideas?

ringouts, 1800/150
annihilators, 1100/150
built/upgraded lazerblazer, 5000/500
minigun kills, 4500/2500
assault rifle kills, 4500/2500
assault charges, (technically) 1000/5000
slimbot kills, 17000/100000

I asked a developer, and they said they had no plans on changing the protags to even them out, and that some are meant to be harder to get than others.

ALSO: has anyone noticed some tags seem to glitch up? i have 1000+taunts, but i taunt MAYBE once a day.i also sprint more than i cloak; i buy sprint 3 and cloak 1, but i have 28 hours of cloak and 14 of sprint.

Yep, three are definitely some wacky things going on with pro tags. I have Boom Headshot (10 Headshot Kills) 290 times, but Pinpoint Accuracy (10 Sniper Rifle Kills) only 225 times. At first I thought that maybe headshot kills don't also count as sniper rifle kills, but I did the math, and that's not the case in the Sniper's career protags.

Speaking of which, the headshots protag for the sniper is one that I find to be ridiculously easy. Most of the other classes have 2,500 kills on the second career page, but the sniper maxes out at only 500 headshots.

The taunt thing though, if it is messed up, must be class specific. I taunt pretty rarely too (usually only on the moneyball at the end of the game ), and I only have 79, which seems right.

Im going to say the protags for getting 10 and 20 non graple dagger/sword kills as an assassin. Really? I know you could do it in private matches but getting it legitly is insane. when the assassins dagger and sword do hardly any damage unless shes juiced.

Yeah it's only really feasible with juice rushes...

Also yeah, I don't play Assault much but I only have 7 minutes of flight time and I'm using the jetpack constantly just in case of Assassins or just general movement or even boredom...

It's not ENTIRELY only feasible that way. In the case that a grapple kill fails, you still have the ability to hack and slash while your grapple cools down.

In the case of Charges (a la Assault), just jump out the way (because you KNOW it's coming) and proceed to cut him down. In the Gunner's case (SLAMMA!) jump immediately after your grapple fails to KO (if it does) because you KNOW it's coming, and then slice away.

It's worked for me plenty of times.

I have 187 of the 10 sword kill protags and 75 of the 20 ^^

But yeah I agree with the 100000 Buzzers. ...What? I have like 2000. I think.

Oh, and 2500 shuriken kills. Even Bolt has just over 1000.

Fly Time of 12 Hours as Assault
12 freaking hours of accumulated fly time as Assault! Need I say more? haha

yes this is crazy.......

This......it's crazy

I agree with all the tags listed so far, but I think we've left out the most ridiculous one:

Longshot Kills (NOT longshot destructions)

I have 38. I built at least one longshot turret per game for at least my first 60 - 70 levels, usually hacking it as a support.

THEY DON'T KILL PROS!!! Also, there is no way to pad this stat in blitz.

I R MAD :evil:

Tank:

Product Grenade Kills Limit: 2500
Charge Kills Limit: 1000

/Facepalm

I hate this, too! I have around 40 myself, and I think it's due to the fact that the turrents have a firing priority, and on that priority list, Pros come LAST. Because of that, they will mostly fire (and miss) the bots. Every. Single. Time.

The priority, if I remember correctly, is something like:
Opposing Turrents > Moneyball > Bots > Pros

Therefore, it will shoot EVERYTHING ELSE first. WTF.

THIS. I have like... 4. I think.

I have four hours of flight time. I only have to play to triple my playtime and I will have twelve.

By that point I will have something along the lines of:
18000 assault rifle kills
3000 grenade launcher kills
3250 bomb kills
5000 charge kills
50 grapple kills (unless I decide to get it up to 100)

I could also recalculate for when I get the buzzer protag, but I really don't want to.

Well, the game is just convincing you to keep playing this game until you get all of the protags. Nothing wrong with that. It's just going to take you longer than a few weeks to get them all. Even MW2 does that, and that's the bane of all shooters (in my opinion).

You say even MW2 like it's somehow above other shooters. It's really quite below most. That being said, MNC doesn't have the same downfall at all, because you don't unlock any weapons or abilities. Once you've got your first custom class (get the blitz achievements and play about two crossfire games) you've essentially got everything.

Bane:
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I hate MW2.

Anyways, protags can breathe life into the game if you're into that stuff. It gives you something else to work for, so I'm for difficult and hard to reach protags.

I know what bane means. I thought you meant that the way MW2 uses progressive unlockables is the bane of all shooters, not that MW2 itself is. Not that I disagree.

Oh, sorry.