POE challenge mode is very exciting (Destiny)

by CyberKN , Oh no, Destiny 2 is bad, Thursday, March 24, 2016, 15:27 (3260 days ago) @ electricpirate

1. Too much Filler. The whole process of POE Just DRAAAAAAGS. Airlock-> boring round 1 -> break slightly more interesting round 2 -> break -> challenging round 3/really good boss fights. Back to the airlock All those low engagement enemies and annoyingly long breaks between the good stuff just need to go. I feel like I play for 4 minutes to get one minute of interesting content. (this tied in with the lack of checkpoints in the longer ones, where it could take an hour, with not a ton of interesting content, and then you might have to play al that boring content again)

I agree on a some of the rounds just being not fun, but I really like returning to the airlock. It provides a nice break in the action and the anticipation of the next round works for me in some odd way.

I think that's fine, the game should have some ebb and flow. POE just tilts wayyyyy too far in the direction of downtime. Maybe they could also warp you to the airlock to speed it up? Obv. there's also a technical reason you go back there as the game loads the next round up.

Don't forget the "We're going to lock you in place, blur your vision, and force you to stare at this meaningless scoreboard for 5 seconds" after every round.

And it doesn't even cover loading time, since it happens before you leave the arena!