I literally type in chat to use the hammer charges and don’t skip it and of course the random skips it

"There's no time to explain why there's no time to explain" is still what's wrong with Bungie.

[quote]Dear Bungie, Please stop creating dull seasonal (episodic?) activities that require guides to figure out and can be easily sabotaged by other players. Collecting Radiolite Samples is oftentimes cut short because some random blueberry moves on to the next step in the activity, shrinking the roam-around space. What the hell is the Planetary Piston Hammer for!? Why do I have to Google this in-game item to know what it does!? Why is EVERYTHING so poorly explained!? Arena: Breach Executable is the epitome of how to NOT design a seasonal activity. Enigma Protocol is not much better. The latter feels way too restrictive with a high probability of failure while the former is unbelievably dull and unnecessarily confusing. This might be the first time that I fail to complete the seasonal quest. It’s just too boring and/or frustrating. Some may like it and I’m not here to disparage anyone but I’d rather gouge my eyeballs out with a wooden cooking spoon (George Carlin reference) than continue to play these dull and poorly designed activities.[/quote] To be fair, I have seen 9s and 10s speed run the entire event without even a care to the other two people on the team. Blueberries do it out of ignorance of the finer points of the challenge. What excuse do 9s and 10s have?

Planetary Piston Hammer sounds like something from an adult movie. Imagine Guardians having a serious discussion over it and it gets really weird and funny the more you think about it.

Bro they explained the piston hammer in game. Were you just to busy not reading what failsafe was saying to you?

It may be that I have played this game for so long that I instantly knew what to do, but I am fairly sure there was a text explanation when it was given to us, and I almost always have the planetary material "wombo combo" Ghost mod on (especially since it is only 2 energy now) so the nodes all popped up around me. However if you don't have that active you probably would have to pay special attention to your surrounding to see them spawn in, and so might miss that step. Perhaps they need to enable the mod automatically for the mission?

Exhibit B as to why solo Pale Heart is an awesome and welcomed addition.

My #1 issue with the game is not being able to learn things inside of the game, be this Past Seasons, Removed Campaigns, and especially NEW THINGS.

Why is EVERYTHING so poorly explained!? Because much of the game is made to drive traffic to YouTube and not be played yourself in the game. I particularly enjoyed the momentary pop-up explanations, during combat, which evaporated into the ether never to be found again, simultaneously appearing over subtitles so NEITHER could be read.

I joined a new lights fireteam finder, literal rank 5 guardian with only a few hours playtime, we activated both hammerpistons each run because I told him its more loot and he wanted to know how. Just because you are unwilling to form a proper team or communicate doesnt give you the right to complain about random matchmaking and then “hoping” everyone is gonna do what you’re thinking The arrogance.

[quote]What the hell is the Planetary Piston Hammer for!? Why do I have to Google this in-game item to know what it does!? Why is EVERYTHING so poorly explained!? [/quote] Bruhhh failsafe tells you what it does, maybe don't button mash to skip dialogue yeah?

Dude, most times its not even people meaning to sabotage. I mean in the past 10 years, what activity asked us to slow down, and scavenge for plants...... none.