Give Fire Teams access to activity modifiers
TLDR: Giving the entire Fireteam better access to modifiers improves their ability to prepare, succeed and enjoy Destiny 2.
An important aspect of preparing for almost all activities in Destiny 2 is ensuring you have customized your Guardian load-out to compliment the activity you are participating in. This happens frequently and potentially many multiple times in a single play session.
Being able to access modifier information and customize Guardian load-outs reinforces a players investment in acquiring weapons and other capabilities to match against different combinations of modifiers in different activities.
In preparation for a specific activity, players can customize their Guardian in several important ways:
Weapon selection
Armor Mods
Aspects & Fragments
Seasonal Artifact customization
The most important information informing a player’s Guardian Load-out are the activity modifiers. These modifiers are currently presented in-game in the the Activity Launch Screen.
Activity Launch Screen with Modifier details
Unfortunately, this information is inaccessible to all members of a fireteam (except the Fireteam Leader) unless the Fireteam leader themselves is viewing this information on this screen.
So, if the fireteam leader is doing anything in their play session, other than viewing the Activity Launch screen, it is impossible for the rest of the fireteam to access this critical information and prepare their Activity loadout.
If a player that is not the Fireteam leader attempts to navigate to the Activity Launch Screen they are presented with a message stating the Activity Launch Screen (and it’s important modifier details) is only available to the Fireteam leader - and they are unable to get to the Activity modifier information on the next screen.
Activity Launch Screen with messaging seen by all members of the Fireteam wanting to see important activity modifier details.
A simple improvement would be to allow all members of the Fireteam leader to navigate into the Activity Launch screen. Anyone other than the Fireteam Leader would have the Launch option disabled.
Activity Launch screen with proposed changes to allow all players to see the modifiers.
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