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2/24/2024 10:28:47 PM
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What happened to Arms dealer?
Returning veteran D2 player after about a year or so break after I had some things happening including brain surgery. Loaded into arms dealer in the core playlist and thought "ok cool easy strike to warm back up" proceeded to get blasted for 30 minutes with 2 other seemingly newer players until we died like 5 times in the final boss room and then I just logged off. WTF happened? It's terrible!
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Lake and Arms were the first 2 strikes to get a remaster bungie also mentioned remastering 2 more but never did likely in response to the community. Lake was not made tougher but just....Longer. Like it was super short but now it's one of the longest strikes and 90% of it is honestly just standing around doing nothing but shooting not even moving just shooting Arms I felt like was did better but still not great. Unlike shadow where they massively reduced the speed at which you could go they instead just made ad density higher and made the objectives slightly harder I do like the building up an army to fight the final boss they're actually useful as well since enemies are easily distracted however reaching that part is kinda boring.
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Bungie wanted to make every Strike be guaranteed to take a minimum of 15 minutes to complete.
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4 RepliesIt changed into a battleground , just like lake of shadows ... I hate it and don't know why they changed it in the first place . Bungo should change it back .
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4 RepliesYeah, Bungie updated it and Lake of Shadows with lightfall trying to make them harder. And in typical Bungie fashion, went overboard. Lake isn’t too bad but it’s not a cakewalk either. Armsdealer is a slog…
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They wrecked the flow. Haha stuff spaw s behind you now haha try and deal with these dropships you can't destroy haha more turrets spawn during the boss now and everyone is so used to melting him that they always surprise you At least they made the tormentor not spawn unless it's a nightfall. Tormentor = straight to orbit for me.
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2 RepliesThey seriously need to tune the damage from vehicles again. Ever since Lightfall, enemy vehicles got really oppressive in their damage. They supposedly made Threshers a bit weaker, but it definitely doesn't feel like it. Interceptors are just plain BS. The hitbox for the pilot is so bad that crits are damn near impossible, and the thing can 2-3 shot you easily, especially if there are more than one.
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Not sure if you knew they changed it up. It’s not the same strike as you may have been thinking of the older one. I don’t know many people that like the new strike. It is tanky almost like being on Neomuna
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He was caught and arrested for his crimes.
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3 RepliesThey updated it so its a bit longer. Padding up time in game and made stuff harder as "content "
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Bungie made it longer. Still a breeze on GM tho
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Old Arms Dealer and Lake of Shadows was a breeze even in GM difficulty so bungie made them harder to farm it.
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I might be one of the few but I find Arms Dealer to be a decent change. But Lake of Shadows' change is awful.
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Edited by Ghodzilla: 2/25/2024 3:48:28 AMYou have to kill the gun on the troop ship in the final boss room or you get nuked from above. There are two types of ships snow in the Arms Dealer. One has a gun upfront that will make your life miserable if you don't kill the gun. It's the one that drops cabal, not the one that just flies around. Also, the final boss room spawns six turrets as soon as you come up from the platform, and you need to take them out fast. There is cover on the platform. The turrets respawn just below where the chest spawns at the end after the boss goes immune and up to his shielded tower. Many of the strikes have been changed. Returning players might benefit from watching a recent video of the strike they are doing if they are struggling. Hope that helps a bit.
