I'm glad I'm not the only one who refers to this gambit as "new" gambit. Although I think classic gambit sounds cooler than old gambit.

The game mode hasn't changed that much. What HAS changed and IS a problem is the fact that Bungie is pushing people into Gambit with the seasonal challenges to get bright dust. So the game is filled with inexperienced players, and people who are just going thorugh the motions to complete the challenges. I played two matches last week with "team mates" who just ran around and killed mobs for the entire game. None of them made ANY effort whatsoever to pick up any of the motes or bank them. Add to that the pople who are just filling bounties, and you have a recipe for a pretty miserable player experience.

It's just boring, there's no incentive to play, no rewards. And I say that as a Dredgen gilded x2. Once you get the gild what's the point of winning? After that you just go in to do the weekly three for the pinnacle giving zero crap if you win or lose. It's loud, obnoxious, all the alarms, roaring knights, drifter nagging you, you're losing motes brother!!!, invader, invader, invader, invader, invader, invader, invader, tanky ads, repetitive, and the same maps over and over and over. It needs a purpose or a goal. Right now it's like regular strikes. You just do them for the pinnacles and weekly bright dust but they're booooooring.

Drifter: [i]"Oooh..."[/i]

At least they made a season the the gambit - even if they scrapped all of it. Still waiting on that season of the crucible.

I liked prime 🤷🏼‍♂️

Gambit numbers 23/6/2021. 12 5 afk 3 doing bounties. 4 in a streamer team. (These numbers may not be correct) 😁👍

[quote]As someone who truly liked gambit before, playing the “new” gambit that launched with beyond light, I can’t bring myself to find any match enjoyable. It’s so punishing to go in without a four stack and can snowball too easily. Gambit has been neglected so much and it’s very sad to see as it has so much potential. And I strongly believe that the old Gambit and Gambit Prime system had something for most players. If you didn’t like normal Gambit, prime was maybe a better option and vice Versa. Now it’s just this one mode, that doesn’t really do itself justice and becomes so frustrating. I’m not sure what Gambit player numbers look right now. But I’m sure they can’t be that high. I think it would be wrong to remove gambit because it’s not played, it should instead be looked at, why it’s not played. Also trying to lure people into playing a lot of gambit for the seasonal challenges that are not retroactive just creates so much more friction. Let me play this unenjoyable game mode whenever and how much I want and don’t try to force me into playing it for an unreasonable amount of time towards the end of the season. Nothing about it will help getting Gambit into a better place as long as the base activity is not enjoyable to play. And please, consider a freelance Gambit playlist. And remove the legend level loss penalty. Make gambit enjoyable again. Please. I honestly miss liking it. I can’t even give more constructive feedback as my depressed dredgen heart can only sit and be sad. Maybe there would be an opportunity to bring in something like gambit labs where certain features could be play tested and ask for feedback by those participating.[/quote] Besides getting kicked all the time because your servers are broken, you can't ever get caught up to be able to have a fair chance the guns you need to be comfortable playing are hell or impossible to get. If i didn't have a main account id quit, before is go through what is set up like 2 weeks in and only 1 character under 1300 still. Stupid

Key words: Not Enjoyable, So Frustrating, Potential. It was a good way to get away from lag-switch fire teams and sweat riddled streamers. Now it’s infected with them. The potential is still there but lately most of there reworking have been been dev-driven misanthropy.

I believe everything you mentioned applies to (at least some extent) every activity in the game. Wonderful concepts, new take on alien space magic, fluid gun handling, breathtaking scenery, environments, etc... but then each area, whether currency, score keeping, RNG types, ammo economy, artifact limitations, bounty timers, rewards, etc... SO many things that intentionally hold this would-be great game. I feel Bungie goes out of their way to make this "just good enough" to push cosmetic items that hold no value to the game, somehow - brilliantly- they made cosmetics matter the most. I think that was well done. They put a lot of work in to measure the outcome, that we don't enjoy it TOO much, or else we won't feel the need to buy Silver. Create new set of rewards - ornaments and shaders, and let you have a small percentage in-game, but the remainder tied to Silver (whether applying ornaments or purchasing new shaders after completing a raid, etc...).

Bungee should remove from the game anything they don’t invest any time into- the fact that we still have to play this garbage just for a new loot pool is beyond me… This game mode was ruined by catch up mechanics and unbalanced weapons against other players - it’s so easy to fix as well - just make attackers use a standard weapon like a I’ve sword or hammer - but clearly they have no interest in investing any time into it… Would probably be best to just take it out if the game…

Good news is, Bungie devs have commented on the state of Gambit recently and aren’t giving up on it. No short term solutions, but in a season or so there’s hope.

I'm on the other side of the coin.. I hate gambit... no really, its crap. I'm also so burnt out from doing strikes that this season I've done about 4. Tell you what I do enjoy tho.. that thing in sorrows harbour on the moon where you have to defeat nightmares.. must be on 100 completions of that by now (not sure if there is a way to check).