Skill issue

Bearing in mind that I have solo’d this dungeon flawlessly, I went in with 2 randos to do this Pinnacle Op. The guy in charge puts on no starting ammo. And puts it on an A+ grade. I’m running a double special build. FFS. I know, I know I should have looked and backed out or said something (and by “said” I mean typed, because heaven forfend we use a mic to communicate FFS). So I thought it’s fine, I’ve done this so many times, it’ll be fine. The other random dies immediately to the traps. No revives left. I somehow manage to get through the traps and those respawning Stasis lanterns Scorn gits, with no ammo. I’m feeling pretty confident. Pride often comes before a fall. In this case literally. 🤣 I mess up the jump into the tunnel at the end of the traversal section. 🤦‍♂️ So fireteam lead has to start the Taken Ogre on his own and he manages to kill the two Unstoppable Champions to allow me and the other random to be revived. I go into the first damage phase with no ammo. 🤦‍♂️. At one point I’m the only guy left with no more revives, as the other two have burnt through them., and I have to repeat what FT lead did at the start. This Pinnacle Ops is on a timer. Long story short I managed to get some ammo and we finished it with 2mins and change to spare. If the FT lead and I didn’t know what we were doing with regard to the mechanics, this would have been a massive waste of time. As it was it was infuriating and took twice as long as it should have. Oh I also died again thanks to thinking I could tank a hit from the Ogre with the Praxic Blade… not realising it still had no ammo. 🤦‍♂️ 🤣. What a cluster--blam!-. 🤣. Tl:dr Shut down the Portal it sucks and pushes people away from the game. Or remove limited revives. Or make any yellow bar reward revives upon their deaths not just champs. In fact any solution that improves this playlist other than the status quo.

[quote]If this wasn’t an example of everything gone wrong with the portal. You took an encounter that, by its mechanic, was already tedious, then randomly applied tone of modifiers like extinction, bullet sponge boss, ads with special shields, champions… and it no longer works. During damage phase, you have to stand next to one of the pillars, with little cover, so standing in a well. Except now ads punch harder and have overshield, while the boss can crunch you with a punch. For a solo player using FtF that means 1/1000 chance to find a group of people who have the right build, coordination and patience, to repeat the mechanics multiple times. On paper, this should be a challenge to overcome, in practice more often that not it feels annoying and frustrating to play roulette with FtF. This is not a plea to « making the game easier » just an observation.[/quote] Preach. It's because we, as a community, don't enjoy the fact that Destiny is full of casual players who know too little about the mechanics of the game to do well. We, the experienced few -blam!-, don't enjoy playing with them anymore.

I was thinking about the portal the other day and I realised I barely use it anymore. Example right now I would like to do the coil, there isn’t a single person in the lfg… not one. I just checked the bottom 12 non match made pinnacle ops . 3 active lfgs across 12 activities . Either the population has collapsed worse than I thought or it he portal is a ghost town .

Aren't you able to use shortcuts to go around the spike traps area in the dungeon version? (I haven't done it yet only the portal versions) Most of the time I think low lives, short timers, mazes, jumping puzzles, and any combination of these are fair game. But honestly the spike traps area is too much for randos and the mission start point needs to be moved to the bridge outside. The boss is fine though imo, very easy with 3 people.

This game is not approachable, I attempted this mission a few times, the difficulty is too much, even on master, this game is quite unplayable, just my opinion I have to watch a guide for everything, what kind of nonesense is that? And even then, it's excrutiatingly hard, and not a solo game, rewards for expert and master are non-existant I want to be challenged, but this is not fun, it's not even pain, I started playing about 6 months ago, who is this game meant for?