The new challenge customization is pretty neat and the story was interesting, but the grind, soft-sunsetting, and Kepler "puzzle" spam ruined the game for me.
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I think everyone is still adapting to the changes, myself included. I really did not like most of the changes when I first logged in, specifically, the armor update. I felt like my time grinding, for what felt like years, in master dungeons to get my perfect artifice armor wasn’t respected. The shake up of all the perks (mobility, resilience, intellect, etc.) really threw me off. I absolutely get why they did it, I could understand it was getting stale, but in the same token it’s a staple of the Destiny franchise. It’s been laid out like this for several years. The tier system for armor is just bizarre and foreign to me. Locking it behind guardian ranks is wild nothing short of criminal. Just for the hammer to drop in a few months and you’re going to be doing it again. Portal is being forced fed to the players when I didn’t really see anything wrong with the destinations tab. I get the convenience of it but that is all it really is. However people were so used to going to destinations tab and selecting what they wanted to do no problem so it felt unnecessary in my eyes but what do I know lol. What I see and feel the most is the power grind. Feels unrewarding, I ran trials and went to the lighthouse and was expecting the rain of loot. Felt like maybe 2-3 engrams popped out and I stood there shocked. Doesn’t feel like there’s an incentive to grind to the bone if when you get to the desired power level it’ll be reset due to the next DLC dropping. Sure this is great news for streamers and people who live and breathe Destiny. However the more casual player is gonna feel left behind. Not making excuses, just my opinion. I too liked the way it was before EoF but it’s copium if we think it’s going to get reverted back as much as we or I would like it to. This is the new reality and my mentality now is either folks will sink or swim it in. Or stay or quit. It’s a fine line, I too am just getting burnt out on the game, I love it but I don’t have it in me to regrind all new armor let alone higher tier armor to feel powerful again. I say this now and then I’ll do it lol. Destiny is the chore none of us can actually get away from.