Alright so I’ve played a lot of forges (several hundred) and after playing so many I’ve realized that the current state of forges is laughable at best. Just to list a few things that I’ll get further into detail in are the matchmaking, the inability to pick forges, the repetitive and unnecessary frame steps, and the loot system all have issues. Before I start just know that I love forges and will continue to do them but there’s so many things that need to be better. To start, the matchmaking: Matchmaking has been one of the hardest parts about completing forges. And I’m not talking about matching up with people who don’t know how to do the forge I mean when you wait a couple minutes to be put into a forge just to get and empty lobby or be put into a forge that already been completed and then sent directly back to orbit. It’s infuriating. Countless times I’ve joined and been sent directly to orbit and I just don’t know why this is still in the game. Like if the forge is completed please don’t put me in there just to go right back into matchmaking. Same thing for throwing me into a lobby by myself. Like I’ll even wait a min or two trying to survive long enough to get a teammate or two but nope no one and it just wastes my time. The inability to pick forges: this is something that makes no sense to me and is frankly just annoying. The inability to pick forges is something that just makes it harder to complete forges and makes it a lot harder to complete triumphs related to the blacksmith seal. Some forges are (in my opinion) much harder to complete than other especially with randoms. For example, the volunder forge is much easier to defeat the boss even with randoms who haven’t done many before only attacking with primaries or varying dps strays. On the other hand a forge like bergusia is much much harder with people who aren’t coordinating. Some like to sit back and snipe while others sword the legs and some still just use primaries. It makes it very hard to complete and frankly wastes a lot of time when grinding forges. Like I feel like there should be some way to pick the forge you want to play still such as a drop down menu on the forge playlist where you can pick which one you want to play other than waiting up to 4 days to play the forge you need to play which seems unnecessary. Unnecessary frame steps: now this is a bit more petty but it’s still in my opinion, pointless and frankly annoying. What I’m referring to is the return to ada step during every frame. I really don’t get why every time I go to forge a frame half way through the quest we have to return to ada to y’all to her just to go back into another forge. Playing on ps4 has very long loading times and having to sit in loading screens more than I really have to is just a pain. Like why can’t we just pick up the frame from here and finish the weapon without returning to her? There first two steps of multi kills and powerful enemy kills are perfect as you can complete them while playing forges or anywhere but after that having to return to the tower just to talk to ada for 3.2 seconds and right back into the forge is just a waste of time. This step needs to be changed imo. Like an easy fix would be just going into your inventory and holding square or whatever button you use to infuse it yourself and then completing a forge. Finally, the loot system: since the update to the playlist of forges, the loot system has been rather annoying. With every completion of the first three forges you are now guaranteed a ghost shell or a sparrow. These fill up so unbelievably fast when grinding the forges filling up your inventory and postmaster taking several second to dismantle each one. I’m not sure why these are guaranteed drops and feel they should still be rare drops like they used to be. I think my largest issue with the forges is the drops of the forges random guns (bad news XF4354 or the hoosegow XE5837). When grinding for a certain one of these guns it’s genuinely unbearable how little they drop. And with the only other way to get them being a minuscule chance from the wandering forge saboteurs, it’s damn near impossible to get the one you want. In my personal experience of trying to get a good “Bad news”, I find myself going several forges without a weapon dropping just to get my the grenade launcher for the thousandth time. It makes it nearly impossible to get a good role on a gun you actually want. I feel there should be some sort of bounty you can complete on a daily basis or a consumable you can pop to get a better chance of obtaining these weapons other than mindless grinding. Also small thing but why don’t the forge emblems display anything related to the forges or even have that option? They used to before the emblem update and now the forge emblems just show very basic pve stats. Genuinely don’t get it. Sorry for the rant but I needed to get this out there.