Hello, I recently played the story mission with a group of friends. We are big into strategic PvE content (destiny raids, L4D2 challenges, things of that nature) and we enjoyed the invasion missions quite a bit.
I think it scratched my wait for other PvE content. I enjoyed the power of fighting waves of Null Sector, but also the feelings of playing around your team in higher difficulties. I liked the boss battles too. I think that they felt challenging enough, mainly due to managing the other enemies though. I think the objectives were simple enough and not too repetitive.
Another aspect I enjoyed were the enemy types themselves. Let me tell you, my favorite thing from Retribution was the Assassin. We called it a “Hunter” normally, but the amount of fear and looking around it caused was intense. The Stalker does the same thing but better. The threat of a instant death is there, but stacked on top of a chaotic wave, it gets ten times scarier. There were not too many new special enemy variants that made me scared like this, so more of those would be cool. Perhaps a new sniper variant or heavy would be nice.
I think that the story moments were fun to. Not just the cutscenes, but the interactions too. I like the maps where you could select from a lot of heroes. It added diversity to the pool of interactions. I give the third mission a pass because of the cool setting and the turrets. And it had the best cutscenes.
I would like more PvE content in general, if possible. I miss all the Archives content and hope they return some day. Whether for an event, or added to the missions tab. If PvE story missions are ever continued, perhaps integrating Stadium powers (kinda like how Overwatch 2 originally was advertised) or other modifiers could be a way to spice it up. For the price of the the content, I say it was worth the experience. Also, after beating the missions. it still says “you unlocked Sojourn.” Blizzard pls fix