I like the format, you can lose a round w/o the whole match becoming a stomp.
The ability recharge is crazy, feels like Mayhem at times minus supers every 10seconds. Usually results in plenty of smoke, rift, spam but it's fun to work out how to counter a team's playstyle.
Amount of loot is typical for the crucible with plenty of blues, legendaries and engrams. Was pleased to get a random crimson engram just by playing a round.
Amount of XP gained is pretty high, ~8k with a well rested plus medallion going so grinding engrams shouldn't be too terrible.
Overall, the event engrams are coming pretty quickly. Gifting 1 per character out of the gate is nice and having them drop as you level up is a nice change from past events. Raid dropped the wardcliff coil ornament as advertised.
Looking forward to getting some more 2v2 time in throughout the week when my preferred dance partner is on. He didn't get on until later in the evening last night and I had to do a spawn pickup so I only got about a dozen or so games in.
English
-
Follow up to this. I've had a very cases where someone has spawned in mid round and when they die they can't respawn and get a 'waiting for teammate to revive you prompt'. This results in an entire round being 2v1 which absolutely sucks. It's only happened to me a few times but it's pretty lopsided for the round. The loot drops are actually pretty insane, I think I've managed to get one of everything to drop now after 2 nights of play. I played 20+ rounds last night with my warlock and got at least 5 raw engram drops. I've had the exotic sparrow drop a few times and can confirm that decrypts into legendary shards, I think some expected bright dust out of it. I ended up on an absolute tear last night rolling over teams and then I'm not sure what the hell happened but the wheels fell off. Went from 20-1 rounds to 3-12 getting shat on. I did change partners around that time but I was starting to question my life choices. In the end, I still enjoyed it and will play some more over the week, we had some epic duels with some teams going to sudden death that got the blood pumping.