Boring, unchallenging and rewards blow. Your changes weren't very vocal, and Vanguard boosters are now utterly worthless. The enemies in the actual Patrol sections (of the Strikes) are tougher than the strikes themselves..
I notice big changes in Vanguard compared to a few weeks ago. It seems you are rewarding gamers that love to rip right through the strikes without really playing them as intended. After 2 strikes I went back to orbit to cash in the garbage I would've received on Patrols, and turned off the game.
Elemental damage is a joke, especially given there is only one elemental primary in the whole game. It's just astonishing how nearsighted and utterly flip your company is with the decisions in balancing it makes. It always moves to the least-fun option, and almost disregards the consumer outright.
There are hundreds of issues, bugs, rehashed content and immense executive apathy riddled in this game after 2 years of this ultimately disappointing game.
PVP is a complete joke, where cheaters completely ruin every game, with lagging, hacks and general whorishness. There was ONE round in Trials this week where a fireteam wasn't redbarred or completely hacked with buffs and corrupted play. The whole week of Iron Banner was the same as well. The idea of 'give and take' combat (exchanges with each player) with the nerfing of PVP weapons is insultingly absurd when a THIRD (or more) of your player base blatantly cheats regularly. EVERY game is comprised, NO question. Reduce the amount of damage it takes to kill by HALF like COD once implemented, and cheaters will not have an upper hand, and it will be far easier to tell to the layperson who is cheating.
There have been NO changes since October 15th when you asked all of us to do YOUR job by reporting cheaters, despite not giving PVP players any time to do such in game. Inexcusable for such a rich, multi-billion dollar company with ONE game to worry about. (This holds true for the rehashed content as well.) Pay for servers and hire GM's already. Old players will come back, IF you market the change.
No talk of SRL racing, which I'm sure will be a rehash, even if it is released a month before the release of 'new' content. Clearly the dream of a decade-long game is in the toilet. I still love many aspects of Destiny's gameplay, but I completely HATE your company, and your parent company. HATE.
You should've listened to Blizzard's warnings.
Do NOT bother responding with an insulting, oblique responses that will further alienate your player base.
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Strike exclusive drops have been stealth nerfed