That is the most exciting paragraph I've read about D2 so far. My biggest critique of D1 is that you get too OP too quickly. There are no difficulty settings that can make something really challenging and you have to purposely underlevel yourself to get that feeling. It all felt like Halo on Easy, which isn't really Halo at all...

This is very interesting, and makes me wonder about enemies in endgame activities.

This goes hand in hand with the other thing you may notice in the video: no numbers above enemy heads. Enemies are not marked by levels, in that they scale in power right alongside your own character. Instead of equipping gear that turns you OP and lets you mow these foes down, you're instead focusing on gear that suits your exact kind of playstyle, along with exploiting other faction-specific weaknesses. Going into more detail on this also goes beyond the purview of what I can say here, but I found this D2 change to feel very satisfying in practice.

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THE CAKE IS A LIE!

THE CAKE IS A LIE!

THE CAKE IS A LIE!

MUST. NOT. HYPE. HHHGGGgg.

When you die there is still a blurb in the UI about recommended power-level. That would seem to indicate that your light level matters still, they just don't bother with the un-related level numbers on enemies anymore (at least to me, I'd be happy to be proven wrong on this point). I still think it would be smart to allow players to choose a difficulty level separate from the activity when going into patrol, just like they do when choosing strikes and such. If I want to choose hard difficulty, then all of my personal bullets just do less damage while others in the same space might be on easy difficulty and are able to do more damage.