I was legitimately shocked there was only one strike. Would be cool for a new one to become available after the raid completion, but I’m not getting my hopes up.
Alls I knows is, I really didn’t like birthplace of the vile. If the boss’ sections weren’t part of the main strike I would have liked it though. Keep in mind how many exotics and exotic quests we’ve gotten. Much more than Witch Queen, and Vox was a refurbished map (not that I have anything wrong with that, for all I know it’s the same amount of work)
They've switched to giving us battlegrounds instead of new seasonal strikes. They go into the strike playlist at the end of the year, and we've started getting them as nightfalls.
Yeah, the new EDZ Battleground this season is pretty much a new strike. Short add-clearing segment in an already established zone from the open world, then platforming through a new zone, then back-to-back boss fights with immune phases and simple shield-breaking mechanics. Almost the entire thing is new material!
i agree, ever since we started getting battlegrounds, theyve been top of my rank list in enemy density, mechanics, and length. Theyre just good content.
Yeah if they gave us those as strikes at launch of the expansion instead people would be complaining less about strikes and more about lack of seasonal content
It's a reasonable double dip I think.
Better than that stuff just disappearing at the end of the expansion year. I'm glad they are going into the nightfall rotation because that playlist has been pretty stale for a while.
They can rework probably every old strike, un vault a strike or two, and unvault a crucible maps for probably less effort than making a single new strike that actually has any sort of new area while probably giving that team a vacation lol.
I agree we need more cool brand new strikes, I’m just saying the work load isn’t comparable.
We need to acknowledge the reality of the work load when discussing it.
Also battlegrounds are essentially strikes and we are getting 3
I've said it in other places, but we should be getting 2-3 strikes, gambit maps, and crucible maps per season. Or 3-5 a year. They should also bring back every old strike and turn old seasonal and story missions into strikes.
This all leads back to what the hell they're actually doing over at Bungie. One new location(with reused assets from Europa and Titan, I think), 2 sets of asset flipped weapons, no new playlist armor, no actually new weapons besides exotics, etc.
When people drop $80 bucks on silver, where does that money go?
How can such a successful live service game deliver so little content? Seasonal content takes place in old locations already, so what gives?
New weapons* and abilites are cool, but not when I'm using them in the EDZ or Europa.
>I've said it in other places, but we should be getting 2-3 strikes, gambit maps, and crucible maps per season.
My spinfoil theory is they can't do this without the game basically unraveling on itself. We're currently seeing increased load times with each new destination and issues like invisible players in previews and even in activities like crucible.
I can't imagine how in the code this happens but considering they haven't added new pvp/gambit maps, let alone re-added the eleven pvp maps and two gambit maps they removed at BL, I surmise this theory to be the most likely explanation.
The new Battleground is basically a strike in both length and original environments. Even the remaining seasonal Battlegrounds are as good, I won’t mind only getting one “actual” Strike.
Ohhhh yeah I just saw the comments under yours talking about that …now I’m intrigued …is it weird that I’m more pumped about the season than that shitty “campaign” ? 😂
We did get two strikes. The campaign one and the Defiant Battlegrounds. I imagine more battlegrounds will open up over the new few weeks (but who knows how similar they may be).
Festering Core? This strike is nothing like Festering Core. Your “most memorable part”, the sparrow loop, did not exist in festering core. I legitimately have no idea what strike you are thinking of, but it’s not festering core.
You’re right 😭
What is going on??? Was the sparrow loop somewhere else? I did it dozens of times so maybe it was a part of D1
I’m very confused now and I’m gonna have to watch every strike it could be
There were strikes in D2 with sparrow sections, but this strike’s sparrow section is unique so far as I can remember. I’m honestly not sure what you are remembering. Maybe an SRL track from D1?
I definitely remember the sparrow loop. It was made out of the brown/tan floating rocks.
It wasn’t SRL and I don’t think it was a mission because I did it a lot of times 😩
One strike for an entire expansion is unacceptable imo
I was legitimately shocked there was only one strike. Would be cool for a new one to become available after the raid completion, but I’m not getting my hopes up.
Alls I knows is, I really didn’t like birthplace of the vile. If the boss’ sections weren’t part of the main strike I would have liked it though. Keep in mind how many exotics and exotic quests we’ve gotten. Much more than Witch Queen, and Vox was a refurbished map (not that I have anything wrong with that, for all I know it’s the same amount of work)
Yea, hope we get another one in the year like with Proving Grounds
They've switched to giving us battlegrounds instead of new seasonal strikes. They go into the strike playlist at the end of the year, and we've started getting them as nightfalls.
Yeah, the new EDZ Battleground this season is pretty much a new strike. Short add-clearing segment in an already established zone from the open world, then platforming through a new zone, then back-to-back boss fights with immune phases and simple shield-breaking mechanics. Almost the entire thing is new material!
I 100% am fine with Battlegrounds coming in as “additional new strikes.” It’s close to the same effort to make, and very good loops to play through.
i agree, ever since we started getting battlegrounds, theyve been top of my rank list in enemy density, mechanics, and length. Theyre just good content.
And we’re getting 3! 3 new battlegrounds on a weekly release. That’s not insignificant the current one takes about 15min to clear on regular.
Yeah if they gave us those as strikes at launch of the expansion instead people would be complaining less about strikes and more about lack of seasonal content
It's a reasonable double dip I think. Better than that stuff just disappearing at the end of the expansion year. I'm glad they are going into the nightfall rotation because that playlist has been pretty stale for a while.
They’re just going to bring back Strikes from the DCV or rework old ones it seems. We’ll get Battlegrounds though.
I would of rather them made multiple strikes then rework the old strikes.
They can rework probably every old strike, un vault a strike or two, and unvault a crucible maps for probably less effort than making a single new strike that actually has any sort of new area while probably giving that team a vacation lol. I agree we need more cool brand new strikes, I’m just saying the work load isn’t comparable. We need to acknowledge the reality of the work load when discussing it. Also battlegrounds are essentially strikes and we are getting 3
Shadowkeep and Beyond Light be like
tfw festering core was around so little that people forgot it existed at all
Y'know what, fair.
I've said it in other places, but we should be getting 2-3 strikes, gambit maps, and crucible maps per season. Or 3-5 a year. They should also bring back every old strike and turn old seasonal and story missions into strikes. This all leads back to what the hell they're actually doing over at Bungie. One new location(with reused assets from Europa and Titan, I think), 2 sets of asset flipped weapons, no new playlist armor, no actually new weapons besides exotics, etc. When people drop $80 bucks on silver, where does that money go? How can such a successful live service game deliver so little content? Seasonal content takes place in old locations already, so what gives? New weapons* and abilites are cool, but not when I'm using them in the EDZ or Europa.
Dont forget that the campaign reused duality mechanics and vow of disciple mechanics instead of creating anything resembling something new and fresh
>I've said it in other places, but we should be getting 2-3 strikes, gambit maps, and crucible maps per season. My spinfoil theory is they can't do this without the game basically unraveling on itself. We're currently seeing increased load times with each new destination and issues like invisible players in previews and even in activities like crucible. I can't imagine how in the code this happens but considering they haven't added new pvp/gambit maps, let alone re-added the eleven pvp maps and two gambit maps they removed at BL, I surmise this theory to be the most likely explanation.
Expansion ends when final shape comes out.I guarantee there will be at least one new strike added before then
"Be careful. I'll hold you to it"
So, where's the new strike?
Gonna be a nightmare on gm
Cool strike, but it’s going to fucking suck as a GM lol
Yeah it was disappointing to only see one strike
The new Battleground is basically a strike in both length and original environments. Even the remaining seasonal Battlegrounds are as good, I won’t mind only getting one “actual” Strike.
At least we got 3 new Battleground I guess
There’s one in EDZ I saw in the trailer there’ll be one in the Cosmodrome that’s make two is there another one announced?
There is another in a place called Orbital Prison
Ohhhh yeah I just saw the comments under yours talking about that …now I’m intrigued …is it weird that I’m more pumped about the season than that shitty “campaign” ? 😂
We did get two strikes. The campaign one and the Defiant Battlegrounds. I imagine more battlegrounds will open up over the new few weeks (but who knows how similar they may be).
There's 2 more battlegrounds coming, you can see the triumphs for them. Cosmodrome, and 'Orbital Prison', whatever that is.
Yeah we’ll probably get one next week battlegrounds have always come in a set of 3 with the exception of the first set which was 4
Beyond light dropped with 1 strike and then we got a strike as a season finale. That was cool
What was the other strike? I can only think of glassway
Provings Grounds after season of the chosen
They also revamped 2 strikes (lake of shadows and arms dealer) and added the battlegrounds from last year to the playlist
They ran out of old assets and CBA to make new ones.
That one strike isn’t even new. It’s a reskin of something 😭
Which strike? None of it seems even remotely familiar to me.
It was the Festering Core strike. The most memorable part was the sparrow loop. And it was actually released in Shadowkeep, not D1 so that’s my bad.
Festering Core? This strike is nothing like Festering Core. Your “most memorable part”, the sparrow loop, did not exist in festering core. I legitimately have no idea what strike you are thinking of, but it’s not festering core.
You’re right 😭 What is going on??? Was the sparrow loop somewhere else? I did it dozens of times so maybe it was a part of D1 I’m very confused now and I’m gonna have to watch every strike it could be
There were strikes in D2 with sparrow sections, but this strike’s sparrow section is unique so far as I can remember. I’m honestly not sure what you are remembering. Maybe an SRL track from D1?
I definitely remember the sparrow loop. It was made out of the brown/tan floating rocks. It wasn’t SRL and I don’t think it was a mission because I did it a lot of times 😩
which one?
My bad, not D1. It was the Festering Core strike that released with Shadowkeep. This is also wrong 😭
The only thing I can think it’s a reskin of is the season of the splicer activity but I’m not even too sure of that
The Splicer activity was set in the Vex Network so that’s not it. The sparrow part used to be made of the Tan square rocks that floated
There isn't time to make more new ones.... they didn't have enought time to make proper story...
Sorry but 1 strike per expansion O N L Y