In Destiny 2, the Solstice of Heroes is coming to an end. One realization remains for our author Tom: The strike playlist is terrible.
This is related to the summer event with strikes: I haven’t played strikes in Destiny 2 as frequently as I have in the last few weeks. Occasionally a couple of strikes for the weekly loot – sure. But playing 10 strikes back-to-back hadn’t happened in ages.
During the summer event “Solstice of Heroes”, this changed. Because anyone who wants to complete the Solstice armor has to complete a ton of objectives in strikes – and whoever wants to do this with all their characters will spend a lot of time in strikes.
That’s why the strike playlist is a nightmare: One evening while I was going through a strike marathon, I realized: “Man, Tom, you’re playing the same thing constantly!” The first strike of the evening was “The Hollow Hideout”. Then came the “Guardian of Nothing” strike, followed by “The Hollow Hideout” again, and then – for a change – another “The Hollow Hideout”.
And it just kept going like that. I think I only saw two other strikes while leveling up the entire armor. Once the Nokris strike and twice the Corrupted.
Other than that, the Forsaken strikes “The Hollow Hideout” and “Guardian of Nothing” monotonously alternated.
I’m not the only one playing the same
This is what other guardians say: During the Solstice of Heroes summer event, this topic kept coming up on reddit. One post even received over 5,400 upvotes, where the author complained about how bad the strike playlist is. Because 8 out of 10 strikes are always the same. We need more variety.
Another guardian created a ranking of how frequently the strikes appeared in the playlist for him. While “The Hollow Hideout” and “The Guardian of Nothing” came up very often, the “Will of the Thousands” or “The Armdealer” didn’t show up even once for him in the last 3 weeks.
However, the strikes actually aren’t lacking in variety. There are now quite a few strikes in the game – 14 in total + the PS4-exclusive strike “Brutefest”. The problem is merely that the strike playlist oddly favors some strikes and neglects others. The Forsaken strikes are currently dominating completely.
Will the strike situation improve with Shadowkeep? In an interview with gamesradar, Bungie’s Ben Wommack revealed that there will be two new strikes in Shadowkeep. One is on the Moon and the other is on Io.
So there won’t be a lack of strikes. The question is just whether the strike playlist will allow for more variety then.
By the way: I just recently got the Solstice armor to the Majestic rank for my Titan. And by dismantling some exotic ships that had been gathering dust in my vault for ages, I was also able to buy the Arc armor glow. How pretty he looks now, you can admire in the featured image of this article.
I won’t be seeing the strike playlist that often for a while…
Have you had similar experiences in the strike playlist?
