here we go again. it’s been THREE DAYS since this challenge dropped and yet no matter what time of day i log in, there is NO wreckage arcade event. what am i supposed to do, sit around until doomsday waiting for the game to decide to drop this event? have the devs learned NOTHING from all the complaints about this sort of thing? unacceptable!
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For me it took an hour before it poped up.
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Wouldn’t worry - still plenty of time for one to appear.
It’ll happen pretty soon I’m sure.
“have the devs learned NOTHING”
Yes.
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Not that they really knew anything to begin with…
At least not for the past 8 years.
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All they would have to do is to NOT use such challenges in new playlists but that is STILL too much to ask of them.
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Been trying to get this one for a couple days now. They really need to stop tying these to rare events. It’s not fun to wait for hours.
First, I managed to get a solid connection in free roam. Second, some time later, the right HA popped up after everything apart from wreckage skills HA’s has been appearing on the map.
I think there’s another one of these in a forthcoming season. Sigh.
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At least they learned enough to NOT slot it for the final day of the season… that time it took me hours… for a DAILY cycling through seemingly endless “Drift and NOT reqd mode”. Well, I suppose they learned that lesson ? Maybe not and the day was just random.
But yeah, how hard is it to have figured this out by now ? Too hard ? Or they simply don’t pay attention, or care.
There’s no reason it should be random, but even if it wasn’t it’d be up to us, the players, to figure out by brute force round the clock playing to map the times, maybe over days, and publish it here for the good of all because even when the devs do have a schedule of events they seem to think it’s stamped “Top Secret !” or “Burn Before Reading !” Like for Horizon Open (?) And where has that thread gone ? I thought it got stickied ? I think I still have an old file saved somewhere, if it hasn’t changed. Ah well.
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Random thought 
Has anyone tried forcing the cycle ? Jumping in and out of Life / Solo to load a fresh Arcade round ? I’m sure it’s set in stone on the 12 minute (or whatever) cycle thing though. It’s just that I kind of recall way back doing that annoying Arcade Accolade marathon run that they seemed to pop up faster for completing one. Which might be another way of forcing forward. Since you’re killing time waiting for the right one anyway might as well jump in whatever is up and “fun” to get to the next batch. Maybe 
You always have 7 days to complete it even if the season transitions in the middle. The points are retroactive.
This may annoy some people… I started the game and exited to freeroam. Checked the map to see wreckage was about to start in under a minute. I fast traveled to it just after it started and finished it with one other player that was participating. Just lucky. I wasn’t planning on completing it at all. I usually have a couple to most of the dailies skipped.
If anyone is curious once you get the 5 piñatas smashed the daily is complete. You can verify in the playlist at that point. I don’t think anything past this is req for the daily at least.
Good luck to all!!
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True enough, but, that’s no guarantee against bugs, for one possible wrinkle in leaving it to later. And besides… it’s a bloody DAILY ! It shouldn’t take hours over days and/or random luck to complete.
Nobody’s gonna hate you cause you were lucky 
At least not me, I got lucky this time too. Wreckage was up when I went for it and only had to wait about 11 minutes. This was on the day of but not too early. And oddly enough the world was all but deserted. Just two other players on my radar, and neither interested in doing it. Not even idling it. I was a bit shocked. Got er done easy enough. I still hated it
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True.
funny
it only appeared today for me, not 3 days ago lol
but then again i dont even bother doing dailys any more
oh wow 1 point for the playlist , like you even need them to get all rewards anyway
And i log in just now and what is there waiting for me…wreckage arcade
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It’s by design. As some of you are saying that you’re waiting for hours for the event to pop-up, the devs get engagement/gameplay hours from you for the publisher/shareholders. They don’t care if you’re having fun or not, they care they got the hours out of you
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Very much doubt they even care about hours. They care that you downloaded it and startet it. Bec that is the stat they need to cash in. After that they lose money, it still cost money to make crappy updates and keep the game “alive”.
I have to say I didn’t experience this issue as soon as I logged on a wreckage arcade was there was done fairly quickly must have gotten lucky lol
Very much believe they do care because of Gamepass metrics.
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Having some kind of timer with match making (like the Trial) where we could pop in a queue would be nice, and we might even improve attendance (someone was in a chaos Arcade game with me yesterday for the first time in 2023). I’d also welcome something as simple as a schedule, which would show all of the arcade games next occurrence (a full 24 hours out would be amazing).
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It’s all outsourced to “the internet”. No schedules in the game, and no explanation what to do for the skills. They have an official support article for that at least, but that’s a bit inconvenient if you have to look it up in the middle of a Chaos Arcade.
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