When The Edge of Fate dropped last month, I charged into Kepler like a kid in a cosmic candy store. New planet! New story! New... wait, why am I still holding down the trigger button until my finger cramps? That shiny infinite primary ammo feature – the one Bungie pitched as a convenience back in 2021 – has quietly become the duct tape holding together Destiny 2’s combat encounters. It’s like getting unlimited napkins at a restaurant that only serves stale bread. Sure, you won’t run out, but dang, you’re gonna chew until your jaw hurts.

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My Primary Weapon Needs a Therapist

Let’s talk about Legendary difficulty enemies – those health-bar-having divas who treat my bullets like spa treatments. I emptied an entire magazine into a red-bar Vex Goblin yesterday, and that little toaster just blinked at me like I’d tickled it with feathers. Champions? Don’t get me started. They’re less tactical challenges and more dumpsters for bullets. Without infinite ammo, these fights would collapse faster than a Titan’s jump in platforming puzzles. Heavy ammo drops play hide-and-seek like mischievous ghosts, while my grenade recharge timer mocks me with glacial slowness. What’s left? Point, shoot, reload... repeat until existential crisis.

The Portal: A Speedy Ticket to Slog City

That slick new activity launcher? Genius on paper. I click ‘Solo Ops’ and – bam! – I’m teleported straight into action. No more orbiting that cluttered star map like a lost Uber driver. But here’s the irony:

  • ⚡ Lightning-fast matchmaking

  • ⏳ Molasses-slow combat pacing

When missions devolve into 15-minute bullet marathons against a single boss, The Portal’s efficiency just rubs salt in the wound. It’s like using a teleporter to attend DMV lines.

Exotics & Mods: Fancy Tools for a Monotony Job

Remember when Outbreak Perfected felt revolutionary? Now it’s just another pea-shooter against Kepler’s health-sponge overlords. I’ve tried every exotic in my vault:

Weapon Effectiveness My Enthusiasm
Quicksilver Storm 💥💥💥 😴
Monte Carlo 💥💥 🥱
New Stasis AR 💥 😭

Sandbox updates gave us juicy mod combinations and subclass tweaks, but they’re lipstick on a Thrall. Buildcrafting’s become “how fast can I reload while hiding from that Ogre’s eye beam?” instead of tactical play. My Voidwalker screams for synergy, but the game whispers: Just keep shooting, Guardian.

How Bungie Can Fix This Ammo-shaped Band-Aid

Infinite bullets exposed Destiny’s dirty secret: challenge ≠ health bars. Here’s what’d make my trigger finger happier:

  • Trim the Fat: Scale back enemy HP pools in endgame content

  • Brain over Bullets: Dynamic enemy behaviors (imagine Cabal actually flanking!)

  • Mission Remix: Add rotating mechanics to old strikes like surprise Deathtongues

  • Reward Skill: Precision hits should matter more than magazine size

Otherwise, player counts’ll keep dipping like a Warlock’s glide. My clan’s already muttering about "bullet-sponge burnout" – and these are folks who unironically farmed Reckoning for months!

So here I am, back on Kepler’s glittering shores. Still holding that trigger. Still watching health bars inch downward. That initial July excitement? It’s fading faster than a respawn timer. But hey, at least my ammo counter’s laughing its way to infinity. 😅