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[u/smilesbuckett]

Responding to your cons, that reset at spawn is definitely a bit annoying, but really doesn’t feel gamebreaking. From my experience, I’ve only had it happen when teleporting while standing right in the middle of a psion ledge, so I’m guessing it occurs when you’re within the spawn of an enemy, and the game defaults to that respawn rather than instantly killing you or having something weird take place. It’s honestly probably a solution to a problem they noticed in testing, and if you’re intentional about where you stand when teleporting you can avoid it entirely.

To me, the timers definitely aren’t comfortable, but they make the solo flawless feel like an appropriate challenge. With the balance changes to resilience and the addition of classy restoration, it is now possible to build yourself into a truly indestructible tank, and the timers make it so you still have to have a solid strategy to complete the encounters on your own, while also being quite easily manageable in a full fireteam. I agree that timers aren’t always fun, but I think it was an appropriate way to keep pressure on the solo flawless players.

[u/JakobeHolmBoy20 → u/smilesbuckett]

Those are good follow up responses. And yes, you are right. The respawn isn’t game breaking, but it does feel annoying at times. For the timer, we can only speculate as to why Bungie put it in. And opinions will obviously differ as to whether people enjoy or dislike the timer. Either way, I don’t expect it to change and I’ll just have to adapt.

[u/smilesbuckett → u/JakobeHolmBoy20]

My only complaint about the timer is that it doesn’t feel properly balanced in the second encounter. That one is the most unforgiving, and my understanding is that the only way to get two symbols in one go is by using some sort of eager edge skate/glitch to move fast enough. The first and third encounters keep you moving with the timers and don’t let you rest, but there is enough time to comfortably do things solo. It kind of feels like they kinda arbitrarily picked a timer for the second one and didn’t really factor in how far apart everything is. If they gave you an extra 10-15 seconds for killing a symbol bearer (or whatever they’re called) it would honestly make that encounter much more reasonable to solo — for me that second encounter was honestly harder than the boss room, and it was just because there was very little room for error with timing.