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12/18/2014 5:18:25 AM
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Am I not supposed to be able to solo anything anymore, Bungie?

So am a level 31 now after buying some new Vanguard armor and leveling it up. All I want to do is to come home after work and select a reasonable difficulty level and get some ascendance material in the Daily Heroic. Before the DLC I used to be able to do this daily and get 2 materials. Today, the one and only selection for Daily is the level 30 Rasputin's Bunker. No selection of levels, just 30. Why???? What is wrong with you guys? Why go backwards and remove the ability to pick a level? Some will say "just get a fireteam - use LFG". Sure, but maybe I just don't feel like doing all that when all I want to do is play a solo game. Ok, some will say that I'm not good enough - I should be able to solo an L30 strike being a 31 myself. Well... I guess I'm just not that good - I just want to have fun playing the game and I need the materials and loot at least to some degree for this. I really question whether you understand that some of your best and most loyal customers (I pre-purchased both DLCs BTW) just want to solo things quite often. So you need to not take things away (like selecting a reasonable level). I also question whether you've tuned the difficulty level properly. Last week I was "only" a 30 and tried to solo the Weekly Heroic on "easy" (L26) to get at least 3 coins. I've sometimes solo'ed for 9 coins in the past. But with the new Omnigul strike I couldn't even solo it at 26 with an L30 character. There were just too many things thrown at me. So, is this really they way you want it tuned? That you can't solo a 26 strike at 30 and you can't do a Daily despite being 31? All of these are easy if you have a 3-person fireteam. Or if you allowed matchmaking. So just allow matchmaking on the Daily and Weekly strikes! Or tune them with more choices for us who don't have a bunch of teenage friends or know hardcore gamers. I can perhaps understand why Vault of Glass and Crota's End might be reserved for fireteams, but there's absolutely no reason why the Daily/Weekly strikes can't do matchmaking. I am so frustrated. I want to quit, but I also love the game. The overall gameplay, movements, weapons, etc, are so wonderful. So why are you trying to frustrate me to the point where the game in unplayable because I can no longer participate in the core activities needed to further progress? You should have a simple rule: DON'T GO BACKWARDS. For instance, don't take away the Daily/Weeklies for customers without the DLC. Don't take away the ability to select difficulty. Feel free to add higher difficulties (with more rewards than lower), but don't take away the lower ones. It's like you're trying to piss off a large segment of your user base, which is really weird. Anyway, I love the game. And after the last few days of playing, I really want to quit. I probably won't quit just yet, but I'm getting closer and closer. You guys really need to start understanding this part of your user base. Not everybody has a clan or gaming friends that can jump into a fireteam everyday or the skills to solo the Nightfall. So go and figure out how to make it fun for us. Thank you for (hopefully) listening.

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  • You could up your game and solo the new raid. As far as i know, there has only been one that completed it fully solo without cheesing. So your going too be the second?

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  • Dear AlphaDogNorskie ; your letter looks just like if I had written it . I am going through very similar situations . I am a level 30 titan who has been playing alone to the point of never doing the Raids since I have no one to play with . If you ever feel like playing with a similar gamer please invite me to .

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  • People are soloing the new raid. Your argument is invalid.

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  • I'm level 31 and still solo the weeklies and the daily. They aren't hard.

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    • Apparently, you can solo the raid. Go do that.

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      • You are not alone.

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      • Edited by PWNYplays: 12/20/2014 3:09:12 PM
        I, personally, find the heroic missions solo quite doable and rewarding (challenge-wise) and trust me, I've died a LOT. But it can be done and will, inevitably, make you an even more badass player. But that's just me. I hate running through missions because they're too easy. Defeats the purpose of playing this game. Don't be shy to use the forums to find a fireteam too, I've met some cool, weird and vulgar people in here and my social experience with this game has dramatically increased

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      • New strikes are made to nail solo players. Even when I could do it, it was so long and drawn out. Soloing old strikes blows ass too. Nothing in life needs to be that tedious!

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      • I G-horn everything after the 2nd wave. It almost feels like cheating.

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        • Well written and bump for clarity as well. This ish needs to be sorted ASAP

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        • Totally agree with everything you said. Matchmaking for weekly heroic/daily heroic would be great.

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        • That bunker is a pain, this is coming from a level 31 Titan running the bubble. Wave 3 is what sucks because of the knights messing with your shots while you try and take out the wizards.

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        • And the Thorn bounty is impossible to do by yourself. Level 26 is no longer 26. It's twice that. A level 30+ should not have ANY trouble on a mission like that. It's bullshit.

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          • Im sure you know by now, but for the others. If you cant get past the bunker, then use the safe spot. There is a ghost in that room on top of Rasputin. Jump up on the cables and up on him. The entire fight is then very simple. Use a sniper and kill the wizards or jump down on the cables and kill everything. Thralls will come to a spot that you can see through the cables and shoot. Doing it the standard run and gun way i thought was great fun and wish there was more like this, but they always seem to give alternate methods whenever something is a bit harder.

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          • Edited by AutoEuphoria: 12/19/2014 4:18:27 PM
            That one was a bitch to get...I hid in the corner, and almost shit myself when they started spawning knights right next to me. The strike is damn near impossible this week. That should be an easy one to solo for a 31, but I was having trouble making it into the swarm prince chamber, and couldn't make it past the 2nd wave. Had a friend hop on and we still were getting pummeled. Guess that's the point, but man, it felt harder than the VoG

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              You're level 31 and can't solo the bunker lv 30? Is this a joke?

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            • I agree that this new dark below stuff is too difficult to solo.

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            • The entire raid was soloed by "sc slayerage" look up the video.

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            • I soloed Rasputins bunker as a level 30 on hunter and on titan. Hide.

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            • [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMUBPo8cwo4[/url]

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            • Haven't you heard? Someone soloed crota, therefore your argument is invalid. No but seriously it's is pretty dumb you can do so little alone, without hearing jackass comments from people who are so fackin awesome at the game they have to remind you they can solo anything and you just suck if you can't solo everything also. They made a crap game, They cut content and dumbed it down, and sold that dumbed down cut content that was already on the disk to everyone for 1/3rd the price of the original game, just for the first wave of crap. It's just fact.

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            • I agree. The new dlc is awful to solo. I used to love soloing the dailies and could solo the old strikes if mm partners dropped out without too much effort. Issues of skill aside, the new stuff is extremely group oriented. I like grouping, but I wouldn't have such a huge game and purposely try to shit on solo players to promote grouping. Just make finding groups in game easy and improve the roster system. Don't punish people!

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            • Heres a link to a guy soloing Crotas end.

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              • Someone solo'd the entire Crotas End raid. You lose.

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                • You just kinda suck. I soloed all the new lvl 30 DLC missions as a 28 Warlock without self revive unlocked yet

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                  • I couldn't even solo a level 24 heroic weekly and I'm level 29! Wizards kill in about .5 second and boomer knights do the same! Please help!!! I promise I don't just suck at the game!

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