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10/28/2025 11:12:32 PM
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A game that punishes you for succeeding

never ever seen these kind of systems in a shooter your reward for leveling up is a consistently worse experience with less and less fun, the game acts as if playing this game is some kind of ultimate privilege and that the worst parts of it are to be treasured and endless time wasted on the most tedious and annoying experiences to be found in any game rpg mechanics that utterly defeat the benefit of leveling you never feel stronger this is just an unbelievably blunt hamster wheel chasing metrics above anything and utterly disconnected from the actual play experience. Just a bunch of novice anvil level adjustments to make sure players have to constantly grind. There is no art whatsoever to this design. Nobody at bungie in touch with what creates the addictive experience. This team just tears away basically all of the dopamine by punishing you for success on every level. it's not like other games couldn't put this crap on their games, but nobody wants to because it simply isn't fun for most players and a tiny slice of players can't carry your bad design. amazing that a team with this low level of design skill is in charge of this massive billion dollar franchise

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  • Yeah, they really missed the mark, and it wasn't very hard. Instead of setting up these permanent power deltas, it should have been the opposite. For instance, in order to progress from 450-500, that should be considered grandmaster tier. All enemies at this level are set at 470 power. For the first 20 levels you are underleveled and have to overcome, but then it gets easier as you progress. 500-550 is ultimate and all the enemies are set at 530. You start with that -30 delta, but things get easier as you go along. Fireteam scaling only brings you up to the bottom of the level you play at. Scoring can still be loosely based on what level you are within the tier, and would maybe require some more modifiers at higher level to get higher score, but that's offset by the fact that you are now overleveled (and wouldn't be required to still get maybe a B+).

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