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Edited by Beyond Evolution:
11/29/2014 8:04:57 AM
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A solo player's Nightfall experience
1st let me say that I understand nightfall strikes are intended to be a highly difficult 3 man event. That being said, I think this last round of strike balancing was a bit of an overkill.
As a person who only runs solo, I used to enjoy attempting nightfalls when they had a burn modifier. I wouldn't always make it to the end, but I found the slow crawl through the strike to be allot of fun.
Unfortunately, after this last patch I can hardly takedown a single shielded elite heavy. Pumping every round I have in all of my weapons to take down 1 guy is ridiculous. The rate at which they absorb rounds is OBSCENE.
Your patch notes said you rebalanced the strike so that running with a team would be more of a benefit instead if a burden. I completely respect that. It also said that running solo would be more challenging, which is completely understandable.
I don't mind a challenge. I don't even mind failing because I got overwhelmed, but this... this is crazy! This isn't a challenge, this is a cruel joke.
I accept that I'll never get to run a raid. I also accept that I won't be able to participate in 90% of your "special events". I even accept that I have to get used to abandoning exotic bounties and forgo their rewards.
But relegating solo players to only dailies and patrols is just plain mean. I really was enjoying myself for awhile. Even with the LIMITED amount of content I had access to, I had hope that you would open up more at some point. Instead, I have even less content to participate in now than I did when the game launched.
*(imo) The Nightfall was the solo player's equivalent of a Raid. Because it was the only "end game" content we had with decent rewards.* With so much empty space and underutilized areas already in the game, I would have expected you add more things to do before you started gateing even more content behind a wall of griefers and asshats.
I'm very disappointed with this turn of events. I can only hope this isn't indicative of your future plans, because for a little while I was really enjoying myself.
*[i]I would like to thank DeeJ for taking the time to [url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/80717560/0/0/1][u][b]reply[/b][/u][/url] to my feedback. I can only hope you also viewed the [url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/80725858/0/0][b][u]suggestions[/u][/b][/url] you requested.[/i]*
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I really have a harder time completing the weekly. The burn modifier is the only option you have to do solo runs anymore. I tried the weekly yesterday. As there is only the unflinching modifier active it is literally impossible to complete. When I got to the wave part and took out all of the knights, thralls and acolyths I ran into a wall named wizards. It took me like forever to kill the red health bared ones and then my run came to a halt because there was no way to kill the yellow healthed wizard. Before someone feels obliged to look up my character here are the basic stats: Level 30 Titan, 300 Atheon's Epilogue, 278 (not entirely sure) Suros Regime as primaries. 300 Icebreaker and 288 Light/Beware as specials. 300 Corrective Measure and 300 Heze's whatsoeverraidrocketlaunchingthingy as heavies. I decided yesterday that this game is no longer fun to me and took it out of my console. Maybe I'll come back to it in the future because it really was a fun game at some point but not too soon. My Epilogue did 38 headshot damage in the knights and this is beyond fun to me. I hope for your sakes that PvE will recieve a little love in the near future. If not I'll see you guys in other games. I like the concept of Destiny. I also like the mechanics a lot. But I cannot lie to myself any longer about where this is going.
