desperate measures

[Coeal]

Calus who?
Whitness what?
the real bad guy here is Gravity.
this mission is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. get shot, fall to death. face slam a wall, fall to death. go out of bounds, fall to death. get slapped by AOE knockback, fall to death. arbitrarily your moron decides "nope"(grapple ends for literally no reason), fall to death.
bungie knew this mission is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ they even made a walkable path through the entire mission.

i legitimately HATE Strand because of this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mission simply by association. i dont think i even want to unlock the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ subclass now. especially when no one will play it ever again in a month like Stasis (except for mission challenges, OFC)

after the success of Witchqueen, i was excited. ♥♥♥♥ that ♥♥♥♥. back to Elden Ring, im out

[Dani]

skill issue
(actually 100% agree tho, every strand story mission made me hate the subclass.)

[Coeal]

after 2 hours and 18 deaths im done.
Bungie, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fire the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that made this campaign. and lets hope they get blacklisted from every company.
3. THREE deaths were actually to someONE killing me. the rest was your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awful map design. get ♥♥♥♥♥♥. you got my money for this year. but never again. literally stealing money from people made me quit for 3 years. why dont you do everyone a favor and go back to your original scam: vaulting. vault this ♥♥♥♥ campaign. vault this ♥♥♥♥ Strand. no one will use it. you have to force people to use stasis as it is.

instead of wasting money on this ♥♥♥♥ 80s knockoff i should have watched Rocky. the montages in Rocky meant something

[burner19]

Originally posted by Coeal:

after 2 hours and 18 deaths im done.
Bungie, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fire the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that made this campaign. and lets hope they get blacklisted from every company.
3. THREE deaths were actually to someONE killing me. the rest was your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awful map design. get ♥♥♥♥♥♥. you got my money for this year. but never again. literally stealing money from people made me quit for 3 years. why dont you do everyone a favor and go back to your original scam: vaulting. vault this ♥♥♥♥ campaign. vault this ♥♥♥♥ Strand. no one will use it. you have to force people to use stasis as it is.

instead of wasting money on this ♥♥♥♥ 80s knockoff i should have watched Rocky. the montages in Rocky meant something

Strand is great but not in the campaign. It needs rest of the strand aspects from meditations. It makes you cc machine. You ditch that grappling strand for normal granade that can immobilize bunch of adds also it can suspend tormentors in the air. There is also exotic for titan that lets you shoot 3 missiles when you make your barrier and everyone hit are suspended in air ( it goes trough enemies so you can hit a lot of targets ). This lets you go for example gms (one of the hardest content ) and suspend everything in air and while enemes in air CANT do nothing you just chill and kill them. Also calus is super easy when you have one person in your team. I did it solo but you dont have to. Just invite anyone and that person sits trough the fight on a beam under arena while you fight and can die as many times as you need to. That person on beam under areana is safe from any enemies.

[The Masquerade]

Originally posted by Dani:

skill issue
(actually 100% agree tho, every strand story mission made me hate the subclass.)

agreed. especially when you were forced to use a gimped up version of strand for large encounters like that stupid ass vex training mission. but once you actually unlock it and can start customizing it it is very good. at least for titans paired with the new exotic. still not a fan of the melee or super but the utility the rest of the kit brings definitely out weighs those two things.

as for the calus arena i agree too. i onlly died a handfull of times to actual enemies. the arena design for this wouldnt have been bad if it hadnt bee for the dumbass incinerators on every platform launching you into orbit or the tormentors suppressing you mid jump

[SvartSol]

The issue with LF is that most of the encounters feel as if they were DESIGNED to be unfair. You can do everything correctly and get launched to your death by a deus-ex-machina launch effect that the boss never displayed prior and should not have in such a small field. I honestly dgaf about strand - grapple is glitchy and doesn't work the way you expect half the time. There's a difference between "challenging" and "outright sh!tty and unfair." The entire DLC feels terrible because the design philosophy behind it is just outright time-suck and player frustration. The final boss encounter feels like it was designed by a petulant D&D dm. Games like this do_not_get to restrict creativity and survive. If I don't WANT to use greenstrings.exe, I shouldn't be ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ forced to use or punished for not using it. I literally don't CARE if "that's what the DLC is about". I paid for this, I'll play it how the ♥♥♥♥ I want. If I feel too restricted in build choice because the design REQUIRES a specific thing to continue...I probably won't continue. That isn't fun. Fun is the whole point.

[burner19]

Last boss dosent force you to use strand if you dont want to. I did it with solar on loreley by killing torrmentors fist phase and using that knee shoulder charge in air to dodge in second phase. When you kill tormentors first phase calus is not that hard. Also under arena there are places where you can land if you fall.

[Coeal]

said "♥♥♥♥ this" and changed the difficulty down from legend to classic.
go ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ figure, the flamers and titans are replaced by centurions. making those tiny platforms FAR easier to NOT get thrown off. only took two attempts this time. go figure, without trash game design getting in the way, it wasnt that hard

still calling it ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and the map designer should be fired/blacklisted

[R A Z E R]

If you're having a hard time, take a break and breath a little bit. Try again after you've calmed down, playing with full on rage won't help you.. And yes, the mission is annoying.. It's the only part in the campaign that's annoying.

You can always ask for help if you're struggling..

[teo]

skill issue (im chronically depressed & shouldn't be taken serious)

[yenkin2001]

I just jumped on LFG Destiny 2 on Discord, and joined a Fire Team for this. I was able to get all the way to the end, then kept getting tossed off when I was being chased by Calus and the tormenter, with three, he went down fast.

[Aramazia Kin]

Look up the cheese. I spent an hour or 2 trying to do it legit and got pretty close to finishing but kept dying to stupid stuff too, the cheese literally takes 5-10 minutes.
Honestly this boss fight would have been great but all these ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ deaths just make it super annoying.