This state of play blog post was essentially the make-or-break moment we needed before Lightfall and it goes to say that it definitely broke my expectations in the worst way possible. Let me sum up the L's we bouta receive upon Lightfall's launch: 1) Only 2 Crucible maps (1 old, 1 new) are being added to LF, no new Gambit maps, potentially 1-2 new strikes. So our core ritual playlists got shafted with no new abundance of maps & strikes. 2) in regards to the above point concerning strikes, although Battlegrounds from Risen & Seraph are now in the Vanguard playlist, we bouta bear witness to the nightmare that is [b]Grandmaster Battlegrounds[/b], which will defo be mad impossible if enemy numbers are not reduced. Plus, Strikes are no longer a thing because adding battlegrounds or arena missions is the ez ticket for bungo to not work hard to create fresh strikes. 3) curbing our stats, fluctuating the uptime in our abilities and making the difficulty of enemies hard from the start to insinuate a sense of "challenge" is gonna be interesting to see, cause that means unless we create the right builds, casually doing a strike will likely end up feeling like your doing a Master NF. 4) Further ignorance of Gambit, the pet peeves of the gamemode, no new maps and no regards to it at all in the State of Play further convinces me they're gonna delete it come Final Shape next year. 5) Zero talk about updating Stasis abilities, needed buffs or adjustments, no new Aspects for Stasis and Light Subclasses too. They're betting on Strand to be the forefront of things for 2-3 seasons of LF. 6) Witch Queen was supposed to make weapon crafting worthwhile and now Lightfall is about to make it far more redundant and further placed in the background of things to work on. Now, the only W's I can see from this blog post is that we're getting a rotating weekly exotic mission with Presage coming back and maybe even Whisper of the Worm & Zero Hour, as well as raid adept weapons now getting enhanced perks to randomly drop with it and the hope of changes to how seasonal rewards & upgrades work changing up the stale seasonal cycle we've all come to hate. My overall consensus about the State of Play and what's coming in Lightfall is this: if we don't love these new changes past Season of the Deep, we bouta have another if not game-brealing exodus not seen in D2 since Curse of Osiris or Year 2 D2. If Bungo doesn't follow up on such an exodus, they should just end the game completely after Final Shape tbh, that's my 50 cents. I love Destiny 2 and I want to see it evolve but these recent changes (for good and bad) has me saying otherwise.