Explaining that challenge mode rewards don't need you to beat par time

[Thylaco]

An extremely common misconception is that you need to beat the par time to get the reward. Unless it is the case this time, I'd suggest communicating that it isn't (considering so many more people will be exposed to it this time).

You could:

• call it something else, "estimated time" for example.
• make the text for it smaller, playing down its importance.
• mention that par isn't required

 

[Ashaantha]

The par time thing would actually scare me off for the longest time. The name of it is fine, but the assumption that it's required to beat it for rewards was the problem. I hate time locked completions. When JWE2 was first announced I whined that I couldn't finish everything in the first game and someone finally told me that I didn't need to get below/faster than par time to get the cosmetics -.-'
Yesterday I finally finished the last island challenge thing on Jurassic difficulty. So it took me from June 11 til yesterday to get them all done.
Long story short, if the devs could at least note it in-game when selecting challenge mode if the par time is a hard requirement to receive the rewards or not this time that would be great.

 

[VioletGrey]

This, please. The game just says "par time" with zero explanation. I thought it meant you had to beat that time in order to unlock the skins, but I guess that isn't true. Please offer a one-line explanation that it is just the estimated time and is not necessary to beat this time while playing.

 

[LordTrilobite]

I'm not sure if this is still the case in JWE2. But in JWE1 you had to finish the map within par time to get the achievements at least.

 

[Skawt]

You can still get achievements up to jurassic difficulty without meeting the Par time.

The par timer is an entirely useless feature.

 

[LordTrilobite]

You can still get achievements up to jurassic difficulty without meeting the Par time.

The par timer is an entirely useless feature.

Ah good to know, I had trouble getting those achievements in the first game.
In that case the easiest solution would probably just to add a suffix "optional" to it. That way it won't require any major changes and it would be easier for people to understand.
But there are probably some players who would still like to know the par time for their own satisfaction.