Of course they are, they're just artificial difficulty amped up to 11, but that dumbass Luke Smith absolutely loves making things harder for the sake of them being harder. He's the entire reason the game is shifting away from the casual players that make up most of its fanbase. He's all about pleasing the streamers and the tryhards, and those folks don't care WHY something is hard or HOW it's hard, they just want it to be difficult. So in comes Luke Smith and the Bungie dev team, bowing to their every whim. You want hard? Okay, here. These missions require you to use this kind of mod OR these specific guns, because there are some enemies that can only be killed when those things are used on them, but there's also another kind of enemy that requires a DIFFERENT mod or gun set, so you have to have a mod or gun set for each of them. But it's okay, because you have a fireteam, right? So you guys only need to have one gun each for them. That leaves an entire two weapon slots open for you. BUT, sorry, forgot to mention, some of these enemies have CRAZY amounts of health, so you'll need DPS weapons on top of those specialized mods/guns to deal with them even after disabling their special stuff. Oh, and don't even think about switching up your build mid-game, we've disabled that too. What you enter with is what you have! And to make things interesting, make sure you do the right things in the right ways in the right order, cause if you don't, it's back to orbit you go! Oh, and don't die. If you all die, it's back to orbit you go! Oh, and there are also modifiers on the game that can do all kinds of things! Sometimes, you don't get a radar! If that happens, you also take extra melee damage and you know how these big boys like to stomp! Other times, you may be taking extra damage from certain elements. You know we're gonna stock the mission with enemies that deal that type, too, so be extra careful! And finally, to actually make it hard, the boss is going to have ads that are comprised of ALL THREE special types of enemies, so you'll need lots of ammo for your specialized guns/mods to deal with those, but also be sure not to forget about the smaller ads too, of which there will be plenty, because they'll 2-tap you at best and 1-tap you at worst, all while you're trying to deal with the mechanics and damage phases of the boss. Enjoy! Seriously...Grandmaster nightfalls are garbage and so is the idiot who designed them.