What's worse is how little in the new Strikes was...new. I mean Will of Crota rehashes areas we've already visited in the Cosmodrome except for the leadup to the final closet room. And the Undying Mind is a flipped old map :/
I imagine we'll get 2-3 new Strikes. Actual new areas though? No faith in that. Story missions were not bad to be honest. I mean that last Urn mission is the best in the entire game, it's a true shame you can't run it more than once. I figure they'll give us a couple of new cool story missions (and use them for Daily Heroics nonstop
), no qualms on that regard.
To turn this conversation into something a little more productive: what would make it NOT feel like a ripoff to you? Being reasonable of course. For me, by segment:
Raids: 1 Raid, well designed, is enough. If they give us something as mechanically compelling as the Vault of Glass I'll be happy. Notice how Heroic VoG is still challenging despite us being over leveled. The same won't happen with CE once we hit 33, it'll just be Normal again with some yellow bars.
Strikes: 3 Strikes which are earnestly original would be enough. Specially if they're available on both platforms so they can spruce up the NF/Weekly rotation. Not a map we've played drawn in reverse, or an extended story mission like the Dust Palace. 2-3 really nice Strikes would make a huge difference, revitalizing the Weekly treadmill with a more varied playlist rotation.
Story Missions: Whatever. I don't think anyone here really cares too much about these, we haven't since the game launched in the first place.
Exotics: Oh boy. This is where TDB really fell flat. New weapons are ass. But most of all, there's too few of them. I mean we got a RL that doesn't track, a primary sniper that's (insult redacted in honor of recent VoG run), a shotgun outclassed by vendor legendaries and a LOL Raid Exotic. 4 weapons is just not enough, even ignoring the fact that they're all subpar. This is where they can really make a difference in making it feel fresh. I don't think this is exaggerated but I think each expansion should bring 10ish new Exotic weapons. New Exotic bounties. Tick all the boxes, give us new Exotics of every weapon type. There's no Exotic Void Sniper, or Arc Rocket Launcher, or Void Fusion Rifle/Shotgun. I feel they did better on the armor front with interesting choices. Starfire, Obsidian Mind, Ruin Wings, Radiant Dance Machines et al added some fun perks. But weapons, oh man.
TLDR: HoW needs good strikes (plural, and not exclusive so we can add more than one to NF rotation) and
a lot more Exotic weapons to keep the game from going stale.
