For Support Specialist 2 (3) only direct impact damage with the Incendiary Airburst count, making it a huge pain to try to complete.
I'm assuming this is a bug because otherwise it will be extremely tedious to finish. The 75 revives in a match portion wasn't too bad but this is going to drive me insane if I try to finish it as is. Other than that loving the game!
Throwing my hat in on this being an issue as well. Can confirm it's only impacts that count towards damage done. In the attached video I show my challenge has 170/2000 damage done. I then shoot the airburst next to someone, doing 61 fire damage. My challenge progress done doesn't change. I then direct impact someone with the airburst, doing a total of 42 damage, and my challenge increases by 14 (184/2000).
Further showing it's impact damage only is how people have been completing it thus far: Spawn as Engineer, put a mine next to a vehicle. Redeploy, spawn as support with Airburst, use airburst to shoot the mine causing it to blow up and do 1000 damage to the vehicle. Your challenge progress will increases by 1000.
I'm having the same issue. Multiple kills and tons of hits and I'm stuck at about 60 points. I've probably done about 1000 damage. Super frustrating! Hopefully it gets patched soon!
25 days after this was originally posted and still no fix. It's driving me mental. I just want my Battle Angel title back :(
Posting on the 7th of november 2025, this issue has not been resolved yet. Progress for this challenge is creeping forward as only direct hits count towards the total and not the area damage.
7.11.25 still counts only a direct hit.
Do this problem solved.
F this broken challenge. I have better things to do with my free time.
It's a shame this is still an issue. Since the challenge just doesn't work as intended and it hasn't done since launch, I wonder why they don't either lower the damage threshold for the challenge to be something like 100 damage or replace the challenge entirely.
EA fixes the mine trick but not the actual fire damage counting to the obj. Amazing work team
Can one of our friendly EA community staff acknowledge this bug?
The Airburst doesnt seem to have any range; it goes about 20ft before it explodes.
The Airburst has an extremely small effect radius
The Rain down of the airburst does no damage, only direct hits
The Airburst only counts for 1 damage on the challenge when its a direct hit.
The challenge is do damage with airburst with a target of 2000 damage.
I can hit like 50 shots in a match, do about 400 damage...maybe 10 die...I get 10 points...out of 2000...
I've played 6 matches with airburst and have about 90/2000...
This needs to be fixed
