Honestly, true. Long winded but passionate, constructive rant ahead: It’s a mixture of skill issue but also time available. We can watch the unemployed and the full time streamers experience this stuff so easily but for everyone else, this is tough. It’s cool as hell but tough. First impressions on Cryo is that I can’t stop thinking about it and Bungie deserve massive props. I love this game to pieces and heavily enjoy the idea of preparing for a weekend raid on the Marathon with acquired loot. But the amount of steps, keys, RNG, chaos of sweaty runners…in only 30 MINUTES! And then only for the weekend! I get a feeling this will filter out so many people leaving only the best of the best runners to be a brick wall for new runners trying to finish it. Would love if it was an hour long session maybe. I’m conflicted because I absolutely love the concept of this challenge mixed with a raid like experience, Bungie have essentially given us FPS Dark Souls and a dedicated hardcore experience. But I can’t help but think about a middle ground that is still punishing but more accessible at the same time. If it’s hard and I lose my loot I am cool with that, I just want more people to be able to reach the boss and exfil the map. Maybe some form of “Cryo (story)” queue for lack of a better term that has intentionally worse loot but is “easier” to complete for those of us wanting to experience the story, unlock codex entries, fight a cool PvE boss and feel a part of the event successfully. Idk. I think the game needs more people to be able to play it and complete stuff and not less, for the game to continue to succeed in terms of a player base. A dedicated passionate community like this deserves to grow even bigger. (Why I also think arena PvP and PvE modes are a good idea to populate the game with even more people that wouldn’t play an extraction shooter.) I can love this game, play it daily and still not touch that Compiler for maybe a couple months or ever and then the seasonal reset and FOMO with potential story/map changes are gonna upset me, which feels unfortunate. I’ll be trying my best to get there but doing so much in only a 30 minute timespan is brutal. And I LOVE Destiny raids, so the goblin brain is irrationally wishing this was a PvE raid in the game because the mechanics, the map, the whole fucking atmosphere of this map ROCKS and I wish more people could experience it (same with Destiny raids but y’know, can of worms). I’m obsessed and want to spend more time exploring it but with a constant threat of 5k min loadout wipes and a skill ceiling that requires me to become a full time astronaut to reach…it stings that even people loving the game this much will even struggle heavily to reach the endgame. TLDR; Bungie make cool hard game and I wish I had a hyperbolic time chamber to be top tier, hope to see a middle ground to balance challenge but also accessibility for the community. Also Ben Starr is sexy I mean Durandal knows how to set the scene. Maybe I’ll change my mind over time but this is day one thoughts. @MarathonDevTeam @Ziegler_Dev #marathontakeover #focusedfeedback