![]() Bungie says it's still working on slow-going seasonal changes intended to freshen up the monthly experience, with "more freedom to stretch narratively and in gameplay systems throughout Seasons 22 and 23." We're apparently getting "an all-new mechanic" for the next seasonal climb, and like many of this post's most promising elements, that will be revealed on August 22. We're finally getting into some no-strings-attached goodness here. This Guardian Games-inspired scoring system will reward you with "higher scores and reputation multipliers by performing unique actions and doing cool things," with more medals to come in Season 23. But the studio does have one sizable addition coming to Vanguard Ops and Nightfall Strikes in Season 22: Vanguard Medals. Otherwise, Bungie reckons Vanguard playlists are "currently in a solid place with a healthy population," partly due to increased investment in turning seasonal activities into Vanguard Ops options. Scaling back an unpopular thing instead of making that thing better doesn't light my soul on fire, especially when the Eververse store continues to offer better-looking armor for real money or, occasionally for some pieces, free-to-earn Bright Dust. For the record, I'd wager that the "low adoption" Bungie specifies has something to do with the recent ritual armor being regarded as pretty ugly and consistently dropping with low stats. The Final Shape will add new ritual armor sets, and Season 22 has that Trials armor refresh, but the overall ritual armor plan has been walked back. "At this time, we are amending our delivery plans for how often we refresh these sets and will no longer be creating a new set for every expansion." "Delivering ritual armor sets at the rates we have in the past has become increasingly challenging, especially considering these sets have historically had very low adoption by players as both base armor and cosmetic ornaments," the studio says. Bungie notes that "players have pointed out that we didn’t release a new armor set for the ritual playlists (Vanguard, Crucible, Gambit) with Lightfall as previously called out in our yearly release schedule." Why is that? You guessed it: can't spare the resources.
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