Excision might be the most fun thing in the game that never worked. Even at its peak, running excision would overload processing so you had to reset the whole game to get weapons to render after completion. Definitely feel your pain.

I agree with you that time is not being respected. The issue with no veterans to help out is the lack of loot. If they would guarantee an exotic class item for running Excision you would have players to help new lights. Bungie is so worried that people wont play the game after they get their loot they create stupid road blocks. They talk about community and the importance of clans but make decisions that negatively impact players ultimately killing player count, clans and anyone willing to run repeatable content. Sorry you are going through this. Not a great way to entice new players to purchase future dlc's.

Appreciate the feedback. I'm looking to hopefully get it done after this reset. Fingers crossed, it's the only thing stopping me from ranking up atm.

[quote]June 16 2025, I'm a new light of only about a month. I've done all the previous Campaign missions and it's time to "Unmake" The Witness... It's been almost 2 hours and my controller is about dead and needs a charge. 3 other new lights are just sitting here waiting for the other 8 needed. Who thought a requirement of 12 was a good idea for real? Even with thousands of people on atm only 5 of us at this point are doing this mission, and I guarantee all of us are very New lights. Some of the vets on here need to spend some time away from Sweaty Crucible and just make it a mission to ensure New Lights can finish the Campaign. IF I ever get to do the mission at all I certainly will spend my time ensuring there is at least 1 guy they can depend upon to be ready to do the 1 thing that demands more than just yourself. Oh look it went from 4 to just me now 2 hours later. The devs need to make this a solo mission on standard difficulty since New Lights are stuck waiting endlessly for the team to fill. After 15 min it should allow the player to skip through to the last stage of the battle solo and Nerf The Witness in to the dirt for a simple 1 shot ending due to the massive inconvenience of the wait for a 12 man fireteam that isn't there. Or it could just rip high level vets out of their activities and force them into the Excision. Whatever they choose something needs to happen where players can get in and do it before they delete the game because waiting more than 5 minutes to load anything is completely unacceptable in 2025...[/quote] Just wait

Bungie chose 12 as a basically last push type deal. The big issue is bungie thought making it pinnacle would keep it alive only to announce pinnacles would be completely worthless especially any from previous dlcs so everyone stopped.

The trouble is that Bungie has made pinnacles absolutely pointless. I'd not played for a while logged on and got a complete set of gear at 2020 from the nine vendor. This made all of the pinnacles in events or content that I've played countless times pretty much pointless. So there's zero insensitive for most people to run the same mission they've run dozens of times. This is a Bungie problem they need to offer some sort of incentive to complete that mission, like a very small chance of a red box raid weapon dropping or something. All i can suggest is try lfg bud.

Just went through this mission for the very first time last night. The matchmaking tracked down 11 people on my end. It's very likely not so many other people were playing this story session at the point you chose. The Final Shape only just recently became free on Plus, which I can only imagine is going to attract at least some more people to the campaign. After all, I've been waiting all year to get my hands on the current expansion. I'm planning to run Excision some more this week if you need a hand. I'll probably be able to get my friend to help out, who still isn't done with the story yet. The only time they ever play Destiny 2 is when Iron Banner is around. Coincidentally, that's this week.

It should have been a solo or a standard fireteam activity for the campaign. The 12-guardian thing should have been for the repeatable version. I think it will be possible to have a full 12-guardian session on the day of weekly reset, since the game provides pinnacle gear for the first completion of the week. I usually run it once on the first 2 days after the reset when I have time.

I’m not even remotely a new light but I wanted to run that mission again and ended up with no players. I am a vet and do try and jumpr in. The other issue is lfg doesn’t let you do 12 players cause that would solve part of the problem.

There should be a private option at this point. No nerfs on ads, just go in and finish the job. Only GM mode kicks fireteams anyway.