I love the Nightwave "Investigation Pentagon"

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In the past, one of the most difficult aspects of Nightwave for me has been feeling stressed that I won't be able to make it to the 30th reward tier before the current Nightwave ends.  This is intensified by feeling like it's unclear how much time I have left to get there.

However, with the introduction of the "Investigation Pentagon" (the Pentagon showing 5 different "episodes" in the lower right of the Nightwave screen), my stress has been drastically diminished.  I assumed that these episodes would be released at regularly-spaced intervals, meaning that every Sunday when the next "episode" didn't unlock felt like a guarantee that I had at least 4 more weeks than I previously felt guaranteed to have to finish.  Then I could compare that amount of theoretical remaining time to how much progress I had made by doing most of the Nightwave Challenges for the weeks leading up to that, and I grew more and more comfortable every week until I felt that the guaranteed amount of time remaining was much much more than I needed.

I hope that makes sense.  Basically, the "Investigation Pentagon" gave me a tool that I was able to use to compare the rate of progress I was making towards my goal with the time remaining to achieve that goal, and it got to the point where the stress of FOMO basically melted away once I had enough data to use in this comparison.  So thank you for having this visible reminder that I can chill out a bit and take it slow, it has really helped my mental health. 🙂

[Drasiel]

I totally get what you mean. Before the pentagon I hadn't even noticed the constant niggling stress that nightwave represented because of its nebulous definition. With the pentagon that's just gone now I can easily look at it go, yes I got time. It makes it a lot less stressful to skip acts that I really can't stand.