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2/4/2026 5:58:57 PM
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2/3/26 Starcrossed Mission

I tried farming Starcrossed yesterday in Ultimate and Grandmaster difficulties, and it felt incredibly out of tune. To start with, the timer has been decreased to somewhere in the 20:00’s even in Grandmaster when it used to be 50:00. All of the ads seemed to be doing much greater damage than normal on top of being much more spongey. I was getting tapped with Devour active, in Transcendance, and in Supers. While experimenting with adding and removing mods, it seemed like the Power gap was increasing like the early days of The Portal (even though the Power numbers weren’t visibly adjusting). To explain that last part a little better, I tried running it on Grandmaster with all the mod slots filled while omitting any mods that increased or decreased enemy or player damage, and then immediately ran it again with mods removed. Adds were significantly easier the more mods I removed, and their damage against me was noticeably more survivable. Again, the mods were like radar on/off, stealthy enemies, no starting ammo, and some enemies drop fire pools. That shouldn’t be affecting their weapon damage afaik. I didn’t record any numbers. I’m just going by feeling. Anyone else have an experience like this? Starcrossed used to be relatively casual for a solo player like me.

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  • I’ve got two Tom Christie quotes for you. “You do know… what company…we’re talking about here?” Skeletor. And… “Never take the blame… redirect… and fail to be better. That’s the Bungie way of doing things.” Lord Bungo. At this point Bungie’s incompetence is to be expected. Quite frankly I’m surprised daily that the game functions as well as it does.

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  • You might be right. Running "beneath the necropolis" is way more brutal today than prior weeks. Even with surges on, the enemies are super tanky, and those three ogres in the orb dunk area are insane now, lol. They are teleporting on top of me, and NEVER walk away. Stunning the barrier champs in the chamber are taking at least 3 more shots than usual. I was wondering if it was just me.

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  • Weird. We ran it on ultimate last night & it felt easy like it has been in the recent past.

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  • Maybe the change that took place last reset did in fact revert to the old portal modifiers - which added power levels per active modifier. Haven’t tried anything in the portal since last patch but wouldn’t be the first time they broke something while trying to fix something else 😅

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