Almost Got It... Which, of course, means I didn't... (Criticism)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Wednesday, December 05, 2018, 21:25 (2213 days ago) @ breitzen
edited by Ragashingo, Wednesday, December 05, 2018, 21:31

Some thoughts:

• I know Bungie is going to address things as soon as they can, but man oh man, what a terrible opening experience this has been. Why is something like this being addressed with emergency Power Level reductions and Weekly Updates? It really feels like nobody at Bungie is advocating for the normal player anymore. Yes, streamers who are literally paid to play the game all day probably can beat it early, but the rest of us are just stuck now. And, sheesh, even though I'm still stuck, there are plenty of people well below my Power Level who have zero chance of beating this first forge this year! "New Content! (that you can't play or enjoy)" totally sucks.
  
  
• Escalation Protocol "worked" because it could be (had to be) ignored for the first several weeks weeks because there was other stuff to do. There was a story to beat. There were collectables to find. There were Strikes to complete and get good at. There were Exotics and special Legendary quests to go after. With Black Armory, there is absolutely nothing to do except fail to complete the first forge over and over. (Of course, Escalation Protocol didn't really work either. Remember, Bungie had to do one of these server side emergency tweaks to it too. What is it with Bungie not respecting their players these days??)
  
  
• Why do all of these team events totally suck when it comes to rewards if you don't complete them? When me and a couple of random got the boss down to 25% health we got a green triangle and a blue engram that did absolutely nothing to help me succeed. 580ish rewards when I'm being stomped by 620-625 level enemies is just stupid. I'm not even sure why this forge drops rewards, because they don't mean anything. They're more like an insult or middle finger than a reward. Actually completing the event should still be rewarding, and it looks like it might be given Ada's extensive screen of stuff to earn, but not beating it shouldn't be a complete waste of time like it is now. And that goes for things like EP and the Blind Well.
  
  
• This obsession Bungie has with starting us off with a nearly impossible uphill climb needs to end. Why can't Patrol, or Strikes, or matchmade activities, or Raids be enjoyable from day one? Why does the challenge keep coming from me dying in two hits instead of clever mechanics or an overwhelming number of normal enemies? If there needs to be an extra challenge beyond mechanics and normal enemies, why can't selectable light levels be a thing again? Remember back when there were four levels of Strikes that you could progress through? Black Armory sure could use a system like that right now!

And so, I end day two of Black Armory with no one to play with and a new vendor who won't let me buy anything because I only once even got close to unlocking her two screens of inventory... :(