The portal is feeling enormously better after todays update, I'd say it's finally better than how it launched. Now the only major thing i can think of holding it back is that im still incentivised to either play solo or with a premade team, and all my friends are off the game for now, so basically if i want to maximize my power gain im still forced into grinding solo ops. If matchmade activities actually gave rank a scores by hitting the time bonus then i would be much more inclined to play the game because all activities would be viable efficient power options and i could play the activites that i actually want to play.
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All the Reclaim activities and the first two activities in the Fireteam Ops are matchmade, and Onslaughts, Coil, and Challenge of the Elders are also on rotating Matchmade in Pinnacle Ops. There's also the fact that the Bonus Drops now drop equal to the power of your activity completion drops. That means most Fireteam Ops and Pinnacle Ops can drop around 5-7 powerful rewards with 3 Bonus Drops, and the Widow's Court Onslaught can drop a grand total of 8 powerful rewards. Little "forces" or "incentivizes" farming Solo Ops after this update, especially since most people will have a lot of activities with +3 Bonus Drops stored up.