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Edited by boomdone: 5/18/2018 8:39:32 PM
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My Escalation Protocol Experience - Please improve this Bungie!

Hey guys! First off, thanks so much for a great expansion. I'm loving being back to Destiny and loving all secrets, weapon upgrades, etc. Everything is solid. Except. You probably guessed it already, but Escalation Protocol. I'm running into a solid brick wall of frustration. I really like the event, the open nature, etc, but trying to actually find a group and _play_ it is damn near impossible. I've attempted it -- mostly for sleeper at this point -- probably a dozen times and only gotten past the first wave once. Now granted I'm 365ish power level, but it feels absolutely unattainable and unbeatable. It's honestly maddening. Even with two other clan mates it's extremely frustrating to play. Being in an open space _hoping_ someone wants to engage in EP feels like a total crapshoot and is really not fun. I get it being difficult -- THANKS STREAMERS FOR THAT FEEDBACK -- that's fine, but I feel like to have ANY chance at all you need at least 7-9 people to attempt it. Without matchmaking or even zoning in with a larger fireteam, which is obviously not possible at the moment, I feel like even at max power I'll never complete it even once. In my opinion, without proper matchmaking or a non-hacky way to get 9 people together, this needs to be toned down. Or given a heroic modifier. Now maybe I'm way off base and by the time I eventually hit 380, it'll be scaled appropriately. If that's the case I guess I just need to wait it out and GET GOOD. But I have a hard time believing that _even_ at 370+ a regular fireteam would be able to make a dent without hoping and praying some passerby wants to invest their time into this event. I get Datto (he's the best!), Goth, broman, and those guys can finagle teams of 9 together to compete, but I don't have hours to invest in trying to convince people in the zone to invite my friends, LFG boards, etc. So i guess to sum it up, the most frustrating thing here is that I feel like beating this event -- even at endgame -- requires some level of luck just to get enough people to do it. It's like... people RNG. And maybe more like _capable_ people RNG. Let's keep the RNG for gear, please, and at least give everyone a level playing field and a fighting chance to beat this. OR, tone this thing down.

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  • Right now Escalation Protocol is a joke. I cannot fathom any development team considering the creation and implementation of a large scale encounter WITHOUT matchmaking. It boggles my mind. That said, I wouldn't even have so much salt over this if Bungie didn't purposely FORCE players into Escalation Protocol to finish at least one quest line well before that player probably ever hits the baseline light level to participate. Furthermore, and this really makes me wonder; what is a player's incentive to participate in Escalation Protocol if they don't have a pre-made team ready to go? NONE. You get absolutely NOTHING for even making the effort. Not even a single faction token. I see players actively leave the map rather than waste their time giving it a shot because it is an utter waste of time.

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