Microsoft Rewards

[SnoopZakaDaVe]

If you buy or redeem a game from a foreign store, does it prevent challenges for punchcards in rewards from registering? For example I bought call of duty using Brazilian gift balance I had however the weekly rewards set doesn't register an achievement unlocked in it, the daily 50pt bonus for unlocking an achievement didn't register and the MW2 punchcard for playing and earning achievement didn't unlock

[Kayin Amoh]

5 minutes ago, SnoopZakaDaVe said:

If you buy or redeem a game from a foreign store, does it prevent challenges for punchcards in rewards from registering? For example I bought call of duty using Brazilian gift balance I had however the weekly rewards set doesn't register an achievement unlocked in it, the daily 50pt bonus for unlocking an achievement didn't register and the MW2 punchcard for playing and earning achievement didn't unlock

 

It’s never been a problem for me. Sometimes the achievement 50 pts can be finicky, but getting something from another region’s been fine.

[Fry Crayola]

If I don't get reward points for something, I just assume the usual flakiness of the system and they'll crop up later.

 

If you're regularly and definitely not getting the points, then that could be something bigger.

[SnoopZakaDaVe]

13 minutes ago, Kayin Amoh said:

 

It’s never been a problem for me. Sometimes the achievement 50 pts can be finicky, but getting something from another region’s been fine.

I thought as much but yesterday evening it was doing the same. I'll try again later or try a different game for the daily 50pt and see if that works 

[jonathanhoey]

4 hours ago, Skull Commander said:

Forgive me if I'm being dense, but are you playing FH5 on the PC to get this or is there some sort of cross play that means you can do this through Xbox ?

 

No such thing as a stupid question dude!  Yeah I meant I have FH5 installed on my laptop. There is crossplay/cloud save (so when I play on the PC it remembers where I left off on the Xbox version and vice versa, and I don't think the system differentiates gameplay-wise between console and PC players on the same instance) but as far as I know there's no way to get the extra "Play with friends on PC" points by playing on console. 

[Skull Commander]

Thank you. Gutted I can't get my easy Fornite points anymore but easy come, easy go!

[teddymeow]

3 hours ago, SnoopZakaDaVe said:

I thought as much but yesterday evening it was doing the same. I'll try again later or try a different game for the daily 50pt and see if that works 

 

If the 50pt for an achievement doesn't show once I've earned it I find restarting the console helps.

[ScouserInExile]

15 hours ago, teddymeow said:

 

If the 50pt for an achievement doesn't show once I've earned it I find restarting the console helps.

I've found that, most of the time, it's actually given you the 50pts already, it just isn't showing it has.

[Ninja Doctor]

Weekly treasure up

[Sixkiller]

I've earnt a few achievements this week, but the weekly still shows 0/3 and not been able to claim the daily +50 for the last couple of days.  Anyone any experience on how to stop this?  I've tried it on both my series x and s but same issue, so guessing it's not a machine thing?

[Don Wiskerando]

It's a common bug and it usually corrects itself but if you ping the support team a message they'll correct your points totals and make sure you don't lose any streaks.

 

[ScouserInExile]

There's an easy 70 points on the console app at the mo. There's two "check out this publisher's games" punch cards. An EA one and erm..  someone else. You just need to go as far as the game card for each one (a couple need you to pick a version first) to "check them out".

[Lorfarius]

Think I've posted this before but its an easy 40 points a day for leaving a couple of vids on mute and a big bonus every 10 days.  Just watch them in order over 10 days then start back at the first.

 

Link

[carlospie]

I just discovered for the last two years iv been. Donating my points to UNICEF 

.what the hell

 

 

 

[Lorfarius]

2 minutes ago, carlospie said:

I just discovered for the last two years iv been. Donating my points to UNICEF 

.what the hell

 

As default they turn on donations and if you so much as click any charity button it can sign you up to the service. I check my account pretty often as easy to be stuck on some 1K a month ones without realising

[carlospie]

4 hours ago, Lorfarius said:

 

As default they turn on donations and if you so much as click any charity button it can sign you up to the service. I check my account pretty often as easy to be stuck on some 1K a month ones without realising

Iv done all the challenges most days and wondered why I could never break two thousand points. Raging!! 

[Lorfarius]

23 minutes ago, carlospie said:

Iv done all the challenges most days and wondered why I could never break two thousand points. Raging!! 

 

It's got me a couple of times. Once I swear blind I didn't touch it but was taking the points out before I noticed. I don't even hover the mouse curser over the icons for them anymore.

[Indy @ S.E.]

i got caught out with this as it was one of the steps for a 1000/2000 point card, donated some points but didn't realise it automatically set up a continual thing.

[womble9]

Treasure is up today guys . 

[ScouserInExile]

If you want an easy GP Weekly Quest and Earn More 50 points combo: The Ascent has an achievement for your first kill. Just keep going the only way you can go through and you'll reach a point where you get attacked and need to shoot sone things.

 

On cloud and takes less than 5 minutes. 

[shirubagan]

 

How does this one work? All I see  are loads of product categories. Clicking on something just opens a new tab. 
 

Edit: works on Xbox, just not on mobile. Guessing it’ll work on desktop also. 

[BeeJay]

1 hour ago, shirubagan said:

 

How does this one work? All I see  are loads of product categories. Clicking on something just opens a new tab. 
 

Edit: works on Xbox, just not on mobile. Guessing it’ll work on desktop also. 

It worked for me but I just guessed my way through and got about 3 correct. Seems like a lot of work for 100 points and apparently it is different for everyone so no way to cheese it.

[BeeJay]

I realised earlier that I can use my points to get amazon vouchers and can then buy psn credit to then buy psplus, so can probably get game pass and psplus posh from rewards.

[womble9]

Answers for this weeks 50/50. 

 

EDIT: Use the one that @rgraves posted below. It's far easier on the eye than the clustered mess I posted . 

 

 

Spoiler

Actinium (89) Aluminium (13) Americium (95) Antimony (51) Argon (18) Arsenic (33) Astatine (85) Barium (56) Berkelium (97) Beryllium (4) Bismuth (83) Bohrium (107) Boron (5) Bromine (35) Cadmium (48) Caesium (55) Calcium (20) Californium (98) Carbon (6) Cerium (58) Chlorine (17) Chromium (24) Cobalt (27) Copernicium (112) Copper (29) Curium (96) Darmstadtium (110) Dubnium (105) Dysprosium (66) Einsteinium (99) Erbium (68) Europium (63) Fermium (100) Flerovium (114) Fluorine (9) Francium (87) Gadolinium (64) Gallium (31) Germanium (32) Gold (79) Hafnium (72) Hassium (108) Helium (2) Holmium (67) Hydrogen (1) Indium (49) Iodine (53) Iridium (77) Iron (26) Krypton (36) Lanthanum (57) Lawrencium (103) Lead (82) Lithium (3) Livermorium (116) Lutetium (71) Magnesium (12) Manganese (25) Meitnerium (109) Mendelevium (101) Mercury (80) Molybdenum (42) Moscovium (115) Neodymium (60) Neon (10) Neptunium (93) Nickel (28) Nihonium (113) Niobium (41) Nitrogen (7) Nobelium (102) Oganesson (118) Osmium (76) Oxygen (8) Palladium (46) Phosphorus (15) Platinum (78) Plutonium (94) Polonium (84) Potassium (19) Praseodymium (59) Promethium (61) Protactinium (91) Radium (88) Radon (86) Rhenium (75) Rhodium (45) Roentgenium (111) Rubidium (37) Ruthenium (44) Rutherfordium (104) Samarium (62) Scandium (21) Seaborgium (106) Selenium (34) Silicon (14) Silver (47) Sodium (11) Strontium (38) Sulfur (16) Tantalum (73) Technetium (43) Tellurium (52) Tennessine (117) Terbium (65) Thallium (81) Thorium (90) Thulium (69) Tin (50) Titanium (22) Tungsten (74) Uranium (92) Vanadium (23) Xenon (54) Ytterbium (70) Yttrium (39) Zinc (30) Zirconium (40)

 

[rgraves]

List for the 'This or That' today (atomic numbers):

 

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Here is the list of 118 chemical elements with their atomic number:

 

Actinium (89)

Aluminium (13)

Americium (95)

Antimony (51)

Argon (18)

Arsenic (33)

Astatine (85)

Barium (56)

Berkelium (97)

Beryllium (4)

Bismuth (83)

Bohrium (107)

Boron (5)

Bromine (35)

Cadmium (48)

Caesium (55)

Calcium (20)

Californium (98)

Carbon (6)

Cerium (58)

Chlorine (17)

Chromium (24)

Cobalt (27)

Copernicium (112)

Copper (29)

Curium (96)

Darmstadtium (110)

Dubnium (105)

Dysprosium (66)

Einsteinium (99)

Erbium (68)

Europium (63)

Fermium (100)

Flerovium (114)

Fluorine (9)

Francium (87)

Gadolinium (64)

Gallium (31)

Germanium (32)

Gold (79)

Hafnium (72)

Hassium (108)

Helium (2)

Holmium (67)

Hydrogen (1)

Indium (49)

Iodine (53)

Iridium (77)

Iron (26)

Krypton (36)

Lanthanum (57)

Lawrencium (103)

Lead (82)

Lithium (3)

Livermorium (116)

Lutetium (71)

Magnesium (12)

Manganese (25)

Meitnerium (109)

Mendelevium (101)

Mercury (80)

Molybdenum (42)

Moscovium (115)

Neodymium (60)

Neon (10)

Neptunium (93)

Nickel (28)

Nihonium (113)

Niobium (41)

Nitrogen (7)

Nobelium (102)

Oganesson (118)

Osmium (76)

Oxygen (8)

Palladium (46)

Phosphorus (15)

Platinum (78)

Plutonium (94)

Polonium (84)

Potassium (19)

Praseodymium (59)

Promethium (61)

Protactinium (91)

Radium (88)

Radon (86)

Rhenium (75)

Rhodium (45)

Roentgenium (111)

Rubidium (37)

Ruthenium (44)

Rutherfordium (104)

Samarium (62)

Scandium (21)

Seaborgium (106)

Selenium (34)

Silicon (14)

Silver (47)

Sodium (11)

Strontium (38)

Sulfur (16)

Tantalum (73)

Technetium (43)

Tellurium (52)

Tennessine (117)

Terbium (65)

Thallium (81)

Thorium (90)

Thulium (69)

Tin (50)

Titanium (22)

Tungsten (74)

Uranium (92)

Vanadium (23)

Xenon (54)

Ytterbium (70)

Yttrium (39)

Zinc (30)

Zirconium (40)

 

[K]

If you aren't willing to have a crack at guessing which of two elements is lower in the periodic table, then you should hand in your nerd badge, lightgun and copy of White Dwarf on your way out the door.

[BeeJay]

57 minutes ago, K said:

If you aren't willing to have a crack at guessing which of two elements is lower in the periodic table, then you should hand in your nerd badge, gun and copy of White Dwarf on your way out the door.

Got 2 wrong here, do I keep my nerd badge? Or more importantly, my physics degree?

[K]

30 minutes ago, BeeJay said:

Got 2 wrong here, do I keep my nerd badge? Or more importantly, my physics degree?

 

You keep all of them, for now, but you have to down a pint of the element(s) that you got wrong.

[Fry Crayola]

Superfluous parentheses. You can't get one element wrong.

 

Drink a pint of plurals to atone for your sins.

[womblingfree]

All I know about elements is that irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned.

 

Not much use really.