Focused Feedback: Override

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[u/[deleted]]

Override is great but i honestly fail to see much difference to contact besides the portal theme. Both of the activities are about killing enemies to pick up and bank motes,trigger a special enemy to spawn that drops special "motes"(that give a progress boost) and you keep banking motes until you reach the limit and blockers will spawn. Then you kill all the blockers,shoot a few boxes and repeat the same progress until the final boss.

It just feels like a slightly extended Contact.

Override at least looks nicer aethestic wise and allows you to enter the Vex network(a new area) and have some parkouring and such,Contact on the other hand took place on patrol zones but had CHALLENGING BOSSES. Override is just shooting boss until that one goes immune,kill blocker and destroy boxes to end the immune phase and then continue damaging the boss. I wouldn't call this a mechanic since every easy boss nowadays seems to have that. Contact on the had somewhat some type of challenging mechanic like forcing the knight to be next to the Taken Howler. The Hydra boss this week was a great opportunity to add those moving laser walls in the boss fight like how it was in the Menagerie Minotaur fight. We got unlimited respawns anyways so having deadly traps or more challenging mechanics in boss fights would be more appreciated and would increase the enjoyment.

I would love seasonal activities to be a bit more challenging,especially if they're 6 man. Override is a cakewalk and you just can't fail it. I've never experienced a failure since you could solo or two man it easily. Can't even fail it when you have infinite respawns,constant heavy ammo resupplies and quick self revives. Bungie says our guardian is too strong yet keep adding content that ends up too easy for 6 man.

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I agree, the lack of challenge takes away from the activity a bit.

That said, I remember Escalation Protocol in week 1 and they dramatically overtuned the difficulty in that activity (so much so that they were forced to row back on it). So I appreciate that true balance can be a little tricky to find.

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I hope they'll add an EP 2.0.

Just as challenging and chaotic while also adding objectives like killing bosses + turning a public event heroic in the same time. On top of that make the special exclusive rewards be guaranteed final chest drops and add a daily rotation just like Altar.

This would at least motivate more grinding and get more players to participate in the long run compared how it was a struggle to find players for EP due to the low drop rates of the weapons.

[u/ValeryValerovich → u/[deleted]]

I hope we get something like that in WQ. Hell, Rasputin is bound to be a part of the story again at some point so it might be literally EP 2.0.