Strikes aren’t hard though. They weren’t hard before, and there is no difference now. I don’t have any sympathy for those that are complaining about the strike difficulty.

I don't find them hard either but others do, the easiest solution is multiple difficulty levels with varying rewards. Wouldn't hurt me and only benefits the players who struggle due to whatever their reasons may be

What’s hard about them? They are at power.

Not sure myself but judging by the complaints throughout almost all social media some people are clearly finding it difficult lol I'm just working under the assumption they mean the low-level nightfalls or maybe they dislike the resil nerf idk

We had “more options” before. The options were fine. The people who want to be challenged for the best rewards can enter GM and Master Dungeons and Raids Things like lost sectors didn’t need their difficulty increased. A lost sector shouldnt take more than 5 minutes in master due to its incredibly low drop rate and yet here we are. If people want the highest efficiency and the highest rewards those difficulty levels exist in more challenging content. The number one complaint with lost sectors from casuals and mid core people were how many runs they take to get exotics. Hardcore players who want challenge don’t run lost sectors for exotics - they run GM for high stat rolls. So what justifiable reason is there for keeping the same reward structure and making an activity that is already tedious for casuals and mid core players even more tedious? If people wanted challenge and better rewards the systems already existed. All this update has done is make things more difficult for casuals and mid core players who either don’t want to be challenged or aren’t skilled enough and it does absolutely nothing for the people who [u]do want challenge and are skilled enough[/u] because the content they were running prior has remained entirely unchanged and the content that was changed has no incentive for them to run. All this has done is serve as gatekeeping by making things more difficult and making gear carrying impossible. Gear carrying is not a bad thing. It raises the floor for lower skilled players to be useful with higher skilled players and it keeps activity populations healthy. This update lowered the floor and even further increased the gap. That is [u]never[/u] a good thing for the health of a game and it’s activities. It’s an incredibly punishing design philosophy.

That's basically what I said lol I just also think regular strikes and patrol should have a "master difficulty" option as well so the base options aren't touched. GM and Master raids definitely needed tweaked and made harder than before imo. I'd even be happy with a difficulty past GM that awards cosmetics like shaders, ornaments, emblems, etc.

Patrol is fine on Neomuna and it’s the one activity that was changed that is universally played by both low and hardcore players. The issue is the power cap is way too high so players new to the zone have far too unbalanced experience. It’s still significantly more challenging than EDZ when at appropriate power, but it’s not too challenging. The power cap should be dropped to 1600 with a -5 delta so the experience is consistent from the moment you land on the surface.

I they were going to keep the difficulty changes for only the high level team content wouldn't it be better to just return stuff like normal strikes to the game instead of reverting everything? That way solo players can also play stuff that's more engaging than normal strikes or zombie patrols.

Yeah but also keep the increased difficulty as an option in those lower tier content for those that want it. All the game needs is more options instead of one forced setting imo

My fault I must have missed that you said that in your original post.

‘countent’ ?