It now feels like I'm waiting for damage phases in lost sectors and nightfalls against yellow bars out of fear that peaking for half a second from behind whatever object is currently acting as a barricade will result in a cross-map one shot from a psion.

Streamers, your "community leaders".

People who are too afraid to play another game say a souls game so they gotta bring the difficulty here because once again they don't understand there are other games out there catered to high difficulty gameplay. I know the same can be said for the other side of the argument but you do realize what tyoe of game destiny is supposed to be right. Not an easy game but not a difficult one either.

I will quote a nice smart colleague of mine. He is super talented and successful in his line of work but is currently working on a lowfi simple project where his skills are mostly useless as nothing much he can do about the challenges as they are out of his scope of work. I asked him, why is he doing this? His simple answer was that there is nothing else to do so he gave himself an artificial challenge. After 30 mins of arguments (believe me this guy is as good as they make them at Harvard so arguments are tough), I convinced him that this won't contribute to his life or career and someone has sold him snake oil. He had been brain washed into the mentality of making low hanging fruits tougher to get to keep him hooked to a trivial thin under his skillset. At the same time, it made things difficult for everyone else because of unnecessary complications that were introduced to keep him hooked. I think there is something similar happening in Bungie and D2 now.

Dam daddy the truth is laid out nicely

excellent post, couldn’t agree more.

Got to love massively increased difficulty, with even less rewards for people now, just because of how long everything takes at this point. With the backpacks though, I wasn't fully paying attention, but I think anything with Turnabout activates on those as well, which would actually be a good benefit. I believr Graviton was activating overshield on those. Haven't played since days ago for one mission. If I could muster the desire to even play now, I'd go test this out for sure, but I think my time in Destiny is about done. I really don't want to deal with this nonsense bullsh*t; just completely turned off of everything but basic stuff, and even that's a chore now. I'll see though. Not a definitive, just letting the natural thoughts take their course, see where it goes.

I was asking, ty.

[quote]At least regarding ourselves and not enemies we shoot for fun, lol. Like seriously, what's going on? I knew most of the "difficulty changes" were just inflating and deflating numbers to make things more miserable, but I didn't anticipate they'd find this one shot simulator acceptable. I'm just doing Hero Nightfalls mate. And "abusing" very sustainable builds like Voidwalker and Sunbracers Dawnblade with Ember Of Resolve. And yet everything kills me with but a sneeze. What the hell is happening? I'm allegedly only capped 5 below light level with this activity. Which granted is stupid to begin with because Strikes aren't fine tuned for Light level disadvantage to begin with. It's just another way of tuning things even harsher against us. On top of what they already did with upping enemy health bars this update. Many guns feel worse than ever in these PvE activities. Ironically we need to lean harder into ability spam than ever before. Which given the stat nerfs; I'm pretty sure is unintentional. I'd love to incorporate use of my guns more into my gameplay, I really would. And with Voidwalker I already do frankly. Same as Striker Titan pre heart Of Inmost Light dumpstering. Ironically both ability spamming builds regularly incorporated guns in them. But you killed one flavor of Strker Titan at least, and left Voidwalker alone because ... Void is seasonal and Arc isn't? That aside, as I could complain about ability cooldowns too, how is one shot sim fun? Even when I'm rocking woven mail with Strand enemies are hot knives through butter when they attack me. Forcing me to play stupid cautiously like I'm playing a generic shooter with no abilities. A generic ability-less shooter with underpowered guns. I'm all for more enemy variety. I'm all for needing to do different builds based on the enemies I'm facing etc. But the game feels like I need to be more ability spammy than ever if I want to survive. And lots of exotic armor pieces are still useless. The new Strand Warlock boots particularly being hilariously dreadful. **One** weak Threadling, which just unravels as our Warlock Strand melee already does, for shooting a Tangle? WOW. Amazing. I mean yeah, it's probably one of the best subclasses for Osteo Striga Necrotic Grips now, in spite of the pitiful Suspending Radius for how spread out enemy mobs seem to be in new activities. But it's good in Nightfalls, so that's good. I just want to be able to farm enhancement cores man. And unless you allow them to be easily farmable with normal playlist activities, including but not limited non-Nightfall Strikes, then this is frankly just unacceptable. Super big side note, but does anyone even care about the darkness backpacks? They give pitiful overshields that don't do squat and seemingly nothing else. Don't even hinder my ability reduction or lower my damage output when I'm in the radius. Or do anything cool like the Lucent Hive. A new flavor of difficulty that isn't artificial brutal scaling and it seems like it's nonexistent. Really the most annoying thing about them is my Hunter can target them as a grapple melee target even when I don't want them to. And killing the backpacks with grapple melee is incompatible with all grenade and melee kill mods. Super annoying if the grapple melee's splash damage doesn't kill anything and I wasn't even aiming for the backpack. That's about the most frustration they bring though. And that one doesn't even feel intentional. Please, please reconsider this horrid scaling. Or at least make Enhancement Cores a steady drop throughout all activities so I don't have to slave away popping Devour pills or Orb of Power healing pills all day just to still die 60% of the time from an enemy sneezing too hard. Or you could do what you're very afraid of for some reason. Buff guns at their base. Especially primaries. P.S. Why do Hero Nightfalls, which are 5 behind recommended light level, so much worse with one shots than the legendary campaign, which is 15 behind light level with the cap? Something about that doesn't add up ... And don't even try to tell me the difference is enemy density. The enemy density in the campaign gets quite high as well.[/quote] Good Post. Personally, see all this difficulty BS as Bungie button mashing their[i] Bad Developer 'Easy Button'[/i]. Do as little as possible, charge as much as possible. Sell their shitgame recipe to Sony.

Streamers wanted this, and if they want it, that’s what they get. There’s the occasional s!mp on here also praising the changes but Bungie isn’t listening to them. The only way these changes will be toned down is if the population drops enough, and that’s been known to happen. It was the same thing with sunsetting. Bungie seemed confident it was a good change, despite all the warnings from the actual community to the contrary, went ahead with it and the population absolutely plummeted. Even then there were a few delusional wretches defending it but as we all know, sunsetting didn’t last long.

Only the absolute worst of the Destiny playerbase. The ones with the micro god complex.

Masochists. And the Bungie sadists gleefully complied.

I tried to solo flawless bunker E15 today, probably the easiest lost sector in the game to solo flawless pre lightfall. Now, everything is a one shoting bullet sponge, especially overload champs if not all champs and even suspending everything, taking my time, using the right elements and stuns, healing rift, 1805, I get one shot through a wall by the cyclops if I can even get that far without being 2 shot by rank and file enemies, its seems impossible and its REQUIRED to advance my rank? What in the hell are you thinking bungie? Are only elitists going to get to advance their rank? How the hell am I going grind for exotics for my warlock if the easiest lost sector is now this stupid?

Me, I told Joe to make the game harder , I want it to take 6 people to get a thrall down to half health

A good post, thank you for taking the time to write it.

Halo 2 legendary sniper jackals only: space magic edition

You aren't running 100 resilience. That was easy.

No one. Bungo should just piss off.