I really enjoyed the final event itself. Nothing like a grueling permadeath event to make it feel appropriately epic, and make you feel appropriately badass if you manage to live through it.
I hated the ending itself, though. Not because everyone died, though personally I would have preferred if we didn't, but because it seems to make most, if not all, of the events of all the previous chapters meaningless. Saving Sanctuary vs Destroying Ysinode was touted as this big meaningful server changing event that was totally up to the players, when in reality both Sanctuary and Ysinode were going to be destroyed in a week anyway regardless of what we did. It made everything feel pointless to me, like we're just on a rollercoaster to a preordained destination and nothing we do matters. And to an extent I get that, limitations of the format means real meaningful choices are going to be a lot more limited than in a PnP campaign.
I hated the ending itself, though. Not because everyone died, though personally I would have preferred if we didn't, but because it seems to make most, if not all, of the events of all the previous chapters meaningless. Saving Sanctuary vs Destroying Ysinode was touted as this big meaningful server changing event that was totally up to the players, when in reality both Sanctuary and Ysinode were going to be destroyed in a week anyway regardless of what we did. It made everything feel pointless to me, like we're just on a rollercoaster to a preordained destination and nothing we do matters. And to an extent I get that, limitations of the format means real meaningful choices are going to be a lot more limited than in a PnP campaign.