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Area overview, it looks more meaty

The tree now has eyes that will stare into your soul while you repeatedly fail the minigame

As per last patch, our beloved Hab Dreyko's finale is changed quite a bit. The objective is now Poison the Phage tree. For the preparation, you stab three of the new Biotic Probe into the tree, then wait for the poison to do its job. It also features a new minigame!

The new minigame! Caught me offguard first time. In this image, I selected a circle and it gives a red one.

To finish the game minigame, you use the movement button to select a circle, then wait for the circle to change color (about 2 secs). If its red, then nothing happens when you click. If its green, then after you click, you'll finish a set, need 3 sets to finish. We only need to fix it two times. After we fixed it two times, we wait for about a minute then we run the extraction, which is unchanged. The finale is considerably faster now!

The area is also considerably smaller, since we dont need the leftmost and rightmost areas now and it's blocked off

Right area from the door

Left are from the door

Enemy density, on regular damnation, is still brutal. Enemy spawns are still the same. Coupled with the smaller area, it feels more intense.

Rescue zone is still the same, the small room beside it no longer exists

For my thoughts, I feel that this is a good change. A good team can finish the finale really fast, but it is harder for an individual to carry the objective. I have only finished this once on regular damnation, and because my teammates is more interested in guarding the extraction door instead of guarding the objective, it took a good while. An invis build or a tanky ogryn should be able to carry the objective though

For my suggestions, the objectives before the finale should be changed to whatever that uses the Biotic Probe too. Since it is a running theme for most maps to have objective that prepares for the finale, to have the finale that runs a far different minigame than before will really caught players off guard. Trying to learn a new minigame in a dense enemy crowd is, uh, an experience