One frequent complaint about Lightfall is that Neomuna feels a little barren. With the entire population confined to a simulation, the war-torn streets of Zephyr Concourse and Ahimsa Park lack the hustle and bustle that make urban environments feel alive. Post-apocalyptic games are often filled with the remnants of humanity to give the environments a lived-in quality, but in Neomuna there isn’t evidence that people ever inhabited the city. Even in the chaos a𒈔nd destruction, it is static and pristine. Neomuna f💖eels less like an open city to explore and more like an oversized Overwatch map. It’s Numbani with Vex instead of Omnics.
What brings Neomuna to life is us. Tens of thousands of Guardians descended on Neomuꦑna at the start of Lightfall and became its population. Our ongoing battle with the Vex and Cabal across the city’s four districts and deep into the recesses of Typhon Imperator and Irkalla Complex bring energy and life to Neomuna - or at least, that was the plan. Bungie did a lot to ensure that Neomuna would be populated and that it would be easy to get into its main attraction, Terminal Overload. In doing so, it inadvertently created the opportunity for a new loot cave-style exploit that, once discovered and disseminated by Destiny YouTubers, has caused public event participation to plummet. Neomuna does feel empty, but it’s not because of the lack of Neomunis, it’s the lack of players.
Terminal Overload is set up to be a high-traffic public event, similar to Escalation Protocol and Altars of Sorrow before it. It has all the ingredients for a popular activity. It can be activated at any time, so there’s need to wait for it to show up on the map like other public events. It rotates locations each day and has a loot pool that rotates with it, so there’s lots of variety and a reason to keep coming back for more. It provides a good amount of reputation, and it’s a nice way to farm red box weapons from Nimbus. None of the Terminal Overload weapons are craftable, so the grind has pretty long legs. Additionally, Bungie gave it i📖ts own activity launcher so you can load right into it from the map, no matter where it is in the city that day.
That feature should have made it easy to find other players to run Terminal Overload with, but thanks to an expl🅰oit it has had the exact opposite effect. When you complete the final round, a chest appears that rewards weapons, Glimmer, and Neomuna rep. If you jump on your sparrow, leave the current district, then turn around and come back, you can loot the same reward chest again. Depending on where Terminal Overload is that day, you can re-loot the same෴ chest up to three times, giving you reputation and gear each time. Once the chest disappears, you can simply reload into the activity over and over until you find a Terminal Overload nearing completion, rinse and repeat.
YouTubers promoted this exploit over the weekend as a quick way to farm Neomuna weapons, and almost immediately it became impossible to find anyone doing Terminal Overload legitimately. Part of the problem is that the activity will progress even if you fail, so as long as someone starts it and sticks with it, iꦫt will eventually get to the final round, at which point a whole horde of opportunistic Guardians will appear, collect the reward two or three times, then vanish again. Players not in the know are doing all the legwork for the exploiters by feebly suffering through each failed phase 𒀰of the activity alone, just to see a group of people show up at the end and claim all the prizes for free.
This type of exploit has been in the game since 2019’s Shadowkeep expansion, and Bungie still hasn’t fixed it on the Moon. The combination of an easily reloadable activity launcher, a public event that progresses even if you fail, and a re-lootable chest has created a highly exploitable activity t🎀hat unfortunately damages the experience for those just trying to play legitimately. I don’t blame people for taking the shortest path to power, but the shortcut is ruining the activity for everyone, and turning Neomuna into even more of a ghꦗost town.
There are a lot of potential fixes. Bungie could remove the ability to re-loot the chest, or make the chest disappear much quicker. It could take away the activity launcher from Terminal Overload, or make you start over from a previous round when you fail. Like every loot cave though, the genie is already out of the bottle now. Anything Bungie does to curb the problem will make the activity feel more tedious and time-consuming by comparison. The same exploit was never fixed on the Moon, and even though this problem is much worse, there’s a chance Bungie will never fix this one either. In the meantime, be a good Guardian and help out some struggling players when you see them trying to solo Terminal Overload. You won’t get a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:commendation for it, but it will help make up for all t🌼he 🌜free chests we’ve been scamming.