Pinnacle
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The former is self-explanatory.
The latter would be an integer variable that stores the number of challenges the player completed. This would allow for in-hold rewards for completing challenges, for example unlocking new rooms in a postmastery area. This also allows challenges to be used as global flags, marking the completion of optional objectives across saves.

The abuse potential should be mitigated by the HA process.

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It has been always the case that the dev team has opposed script access to global state of the game for good reasons and I highly doubt it will be implemented.

But can you provide good reasons what would you like to use this variable for?

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In a postmastery level, there could be a set of rooms that are locked or unlocked based on the number of challenges completed.

Another would be to check for the completion of specific optional levels or collectibles across saves.

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Rather than number of challenges completed (since they come in so many shapes and sizes, it's hard to see much use for this) there could be either a scripting command or a new Master Wall equivalent that unlocks when all challenges are completed.

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But if you do that, then you can't put more challenges behind the hypothetical Challenge Wall.

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I kinda like the idea of a Challenge Wall which is traversable only when you've done all of the challenges.

We can't have a script command to check it because it's global (as in between-saves) state.

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