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9/2/2023 9:32:04 AM
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My feedback on Crota Raid
Dear Bungie,
I have been playing your game for many years on and off. I have reasonable experience and am not put off by harder content. For example, I have guilded my Conqueror seal 5 times.
I have also completed Crota in D1 72 times. So I was very excited to try it in D2. Whilst I appreciate you cannot please everybody, I found this to be a miserable experience. My team spent hours in this, and we never even got past the bridge. I am not going back in there. I play video games for fun, and for me, there was no fun in this. It was a horrible grind and felt like we were constantly bashing out heads against a brick wall. I thought RoN was great. I fear you have been swayed by elitist youtubers telling you it should be harder. In my opinion, they are wrong, and they only represent a very, very small minority, in their desire for content like this to be ultra hard.
I strongly suspect I will never do a day 1 raid again. This did not respect my time investment at all, and was just not enjoyable.
I would also like to add, that raid aside, I am enjoying this season. Definitely one of your better seasons I feel.
Thank you.
D.
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6 RepliesY’all casuals have 361 days a year to play the game however the -blam!- you want, you can do anything, use anything, hardcore people (like myself considering I got the challenge day 1) have 4 days a year to really get what we want from this game. If I had it my way, that would be the difficulty all the time. Either: 1: you yourself was dragging your team down, 2: your team or some members of it were bad and they drug you down, 3: you didn’t get creative enough, 4; didn’t prepare enough, or 5: straight up everything you did sucked
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2 RepliesIt was contest mode lol. That's it, nothing more to it. Just wait till that is over, then go for it. Like I do.
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1 ReplySo long story short you have a lot of clears in one of the easiest raids in the history of Destiny and you are upset that the new version isn't as pathetic as the old one? No wonder you loved RoN, it was also the easiest raid in Destiny 2 for contest mode
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2 RepliesI’m confused. Isn’t a raid supposed to be difficult? Does the community want a hard raid or not? Didn’t everyone lose their fkn minds about RoN being too easy?
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The crota day 1 is what day 1s are meant to be in difficulty just wait for contest mode to be over to do the master mode when it’s out if you want an easy experiance
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2 Replies[quote]Dear Bungie, I have been playing your game for many years on and off. I have reasonable experience and am not put off by harder content. For example, I have guilded my Conqueror seal 5 times. I have also completed Crota in D1 72 times. So I was very excited to try it in D2. Whilst I appreciate you cannot please everybody, I found this to be a miserable experience. My team spent hours in this, and we never even got past the bridge. I am not going back in there. I play video games for fun, and for me, there was no fun in this. It was a horrible grind and felt like we were constantly bashing out heads against a brick wall. I thought RoN was great. I fear you have been swayed by elitist youtubers telling you it should be harder. In my opinion, they are wrong, and they only represent a very, very small minority, in their desire for content like this to be ultra hard. I strongly suspect I will never do a day 1 raid again. This did not respect my time investment at all, and was just not enjoyable. I would also like to add, that raid aside, I am enjoying this season. Definitely one of your better seasons I feel. Thank you. D.[/quote] BHQ should take note. When a 5x gilded Conqueror complains, and Clan mates, that artificial difficulty levels are beyond a joke, then, that’s a thing. 🧐 🫡
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1 ReplyThe whole chalice idea is just nasty.Ir yut? En encounter where you need wishender? Srsly bungie?
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2 RepliesWhat’s the issue with contest mode for streamers and masochists and a normal day 1 raid for the normal audience? Both? Both!
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3 RepliesQuestion should be - why do we even have a contest mode? What does it serve other than to inflate streamer viewer numbers. Never used to be this bs, should be s day 1 emblem and done.
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I absolutely loved the contest difficulty, my only regret was letting a random onto my team who i didnt know their skill level. This is a bi yearly (maybe yearly thing now) built [i]for[/i] the elitists. casuals are [i]not[/i] supposed to be able to do contest. thats why theres nothing in terms of rewards. You have no angle to complain here.
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As just a user watching on the side, it doesn't look like a very enjoyable "remaster" of the raid.
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Agreed Sad they just make everything a meat stick and hit harder. Not great content
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7 RepliesI have 148 completions of crota in d1. As well as a duo. It was an awesomely fun raid and some of the best times I've had in destiny. What they did to the revised raid is sad. All bungie does now is act like a balloon individual. They show up and inflate everything. All this was, was taking crota and extending it as much as they could do. The encounters were just bad.
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3 RepliesAnything that makes your guardian feel like a weakling isn't fun in my opinion. I never liked mechanic heavy raids. Probably why I raid a lot less in D2 than I did in D1.
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With respect mate, it was day 1 difficulty. Day 3 is much more agreeable
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I agree with your analysis, although it was entertaining to watch the elites finish this raid, it only proves that Bungie is losing sight with the casual player base. Granted this is a contest mode, so unless the normal mode is ten times easier, I see this as nothing more then a reward for all the paid YouTube advertisers who give Bungie free advertising. This content was made solely for them. The rest of us are just speculators. I maybe willing to change my opinion after contest mode ends and we get to see what normal difficulty looks like.
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4 RepliesThe new mechanic is just stupid and way too punishing. Hell you practically have to have a team that can go flawless in the dark room with all the thrall in order tog et it done. If 1 person dies the revive is too far back to get so you're now fighting like 3 timers of, "DO this mechanic or die!" to complete it.
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Crota is the only encounter that I think is a problem. Everything else is honestly fairly tame once you get a rhythm.
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Least enjoyable raid and experience in all of my decade playing this game. This was an absolute joke of a release and the difficulty threshold is well past the level of care I want to put in. As someone with a full-time life, this is inexcusable. They do not care about the core base, they just want the top tier teams that they cater to, to showcase the game so they can line their pockets to make Marathon; another intended cash cow. This game is becoming a BIG L
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6 RepliesIt didn’t look enjoyable at all…. They should do away with these challenge modes that cater to streamers and start focussing on their core casual playerbase because it is us who keeps the game alive not a few elitist streamers
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4 RepliesEdited by Duke: 9/2/2023 2:17:10 PMNot directed at OP but the comments. The Venn DIagram of people who know what windows and glue taste like and people who think this game is catered only to streamers is just one circle.
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1 ReplyIts not like the difficulty is permanent. It's just 1 activity for 48 hours then until reset. Let those of us who enjoy difficult activities have something for a little bit. My lfg team made it to the death singer before i had to go to bed and I wont get the chance to try again until next week, but even with some less then stellar members we made great progress without looking up the encointers. In less than a week from now the raid will be solved, out of contest mode and everyone can breeze through it like every other raid. When the vast majority of the time the game is catered to the casual. If it sucks so much you just do one of the many other activities for a bit while we enjoy one of the few times a year bungie presents us a challenge we enjoy.
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29 RepliesDestiny 2 players when they can't just add clear for an entire raid.
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4 RepliesIt all comes down to skill issues. Which is fine. Day 1 raid is not for everyone. Instead of blaming Bungie, take a good look at your own team and see wherein you are lacking.
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When bungie cranks the difficulty back to what it should be for contest.
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4 RepliesContest mode is supposed to be difficult. Yah even get a guaranteed necrochasm if yah beat it. If it's not for everyone and that's fine. Root of nightmares was far too easy. I still like the raid, but the challenge isn't really there.
