The return of the Call to Arms event had a lot of potential to bring excitement back into Destiny 2, but the current scoring system feels more punishing than engaging.
Instead of pulling players in, it’s having the opposite effect — shutting them down. The way progress is tracked seems to favor high-skill PvP players while leaving casual and mid-level Guardians feeling left out. Many players are investing time and effort but seeing very little progress, which quickly drains the motivation to keep playing.
For PvE players, the disconnect feels even greater. The event doesn’t seem to value their usual style of play, which goes against the spirit of Destiny being a shared world where all activities and playstyles matter.
Right now, Call to Arms feels more like a divider than a community event. It should be something that unites all Guardians — PvP and PvE alike — but the current scoring and structure are discouraging the majority of players instead of celebrating their participation.
Bungie has always been at its best when events bring the community together. Hopefully, Call to Arms can be reworked in that same spirit so that every Guardian, no matter how they play, feels included and rewarded.a
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Honestly, this new era of Bungie under Tyson Green, and EoF in general, is way beyond tone deaf. Bungie has always been kinda/sorta tone-deaf, as in nerfing things that didn't need it and the occasional bug; but this version is in a completely different league. There isn't even a word for this kind of tone-deaf, they're basically blind, deaf and dumb at this point. They have no clue what they're doing, both in gauging what players want, what players will enjoy and especially the delivery with more bugs than ever. Everything they've done since EoF released, and it's a long list that's too long to list now, has either divided the community, lowered the population to dangerous levels, and has been the exact polar opposite to everything we've asked for. Crafting, Engram focusing, tonics, oscillation, power level grind, the portal, featured exotics, new gear bonuses, avant garde, now call to arms, etc etc etc. I wouldn't be surprised if they've spent more time apologizing, backtracking terrible changes/nerfs, and making big promises than actually fixing what they broke and developing new content! Every new update gets more wrong than right, and breaks more than it fixes, which yes, has always been Bungie's signature; but it's just at a completely new level now. Well, at least they're evolving? They'll probably get things back on track sometime during renegades, then start the cycle over again with whatever comes next. This is their yearly cycle, pretty much since lightfall. But at least the previous regime gave us TFS and witch Queen, this new skeleton crew regime, post-layoffs, just has no clue what they're doing or what their players want. Call to arms is the perfect example and all the proof one would need of this. Wherever they've been getting their "player feedback" up until now, if anywhere, they need to stop "listening" to those "players."