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Oxyclean posted:I'm still not happy hearing they merged the "fun" crucible playlist with the "unfun" crucible playlist, because I guess it was of the utmost importance that they have multiple 3 player playlists and a dedicated "control points type modes" playlist, but maybe I'm looking for reasons to be cranky, because I'm sure at least one playlist will be palatable per week, and/or there it wont be a huge pain in the rear end to do the "play specific crucible mode" seasonal challenges. I don't know how they can hear the community shouting about more maps, gunplay balancing and better matchmaking, and respond to that with 'we hear you, we have created a new 4v4 mode where you paint a giant statue of Zavala with sweeperbot's iconic brush.' It smacks of a higher up who thinks their ideas are brilliant, and if all the playtesters, the playerbase and the other employees would just give it a chance, they'd see how brilliant they are. Ability regen feels real, real bad now outside of strand. I'm noticing a lot more points where I want to use something and none of my abilities are up. Which is great in a season with no anti champ special for taking a chunk out of something that's causing problems. It just feels so much less fun. I know their dev cycle means this was all completed months before the layoffs, but it just feels like this is exactly the wrong set of choices to be making right now.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Which is great in a season with no anti champ special for taking a chunk out of something that's causing problems. It just feels so much less fun. I noticed this too and thought "well gee I guess I'll rely on abilities to stun champs" and so now I have perma-radiant for anti-shield and it never ever works lol
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sure okay posted:I noticed this too and thought "well gee I guess I'll rely on abilities to stun champs" and so now I have perma-radiant for anti-shield and it never ever works lol It’s season of the arbalest again lol
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Nov 29, 2023 17:03
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"Bringing challenge back to Destiny" was a huge self-own by Bungie, imo. I personally don't mind harder content but a live service game lives and dies by the total number of players, not the number of skilled players. There needs to be enough non-challenging content to make even your most inexperienced players feel like they're having fun in the game. They may never touch a raid, dungeon or even a hero difficulty nightfall, but things like patrol zones, strikes and seasonal story content must be both approachable and rewarding. For instance making the Neomuna patrol zone be anything other than LL 1600 was absolutely idiotic and I've heard from a number of former casual players who dropped the game in Lightfall because most of the expansion made them feel unwelcome with how punishing it felt for their skill level. Everyone knows how awful Destiny 2 is at attracting and welcoming new players, so I don't know who thought alienating a not insignificant chunk of the existing playerbase was a good idea.
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Also I went to Neptune yesterday for the first time since I finished the initial Lightfall campaign and how the gently caress haven’t they fixed the enemy scaling issue yet? What the gently caress. It’s not fun to have to empty almost an entire mag into a red bar to kill it. The gently caress are they thinking?
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Panderfringe posted:The bargain Mara struck wasn't even to get inside the traveler. It was for 'her heart's desire.' there is zero chance riven doesn't betray her while technically fulfilling the bargain. Like we're going to get uldren back or something. Speculation based on the exotic/mission we're getting this season Gonna be Sjur Eido, weapon is the exotic bow Wish-Keeper and the mission we're getting it from is called "Starcrossed"
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Mesadoram posted:This SMG... https://www.light.gg/db/items/1447836603/subjunctive/?p=1467527085,3142289711,1583705720,2173046394,19542588 Called it! If they're doing a loot refresh + crafting update to a raid, my guess is that they're going to hold it back until the later half of the extended season. Drip feeding the content to maintain player engagement. Storyline spoiler: The Dreaming City curse can't be broken = Bungie saying "lol we don't have the time and money to remake an entire patrol zone"
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Streamers were bored so Bungie decided to make everything tediously difficult. But what streamers wanted was hard end game content modes with good rewards. Bungie missed the very clear message from the community again and ended up not delivering what streamers wanted and hurting everyone else.
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ponzicar posted:Called it! They also said we're lookin' anyway so probably we're going to break it regardless, Later e: They only partially fixed shootinslidin' lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYDIp-Icwxw RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Nov 29, 2023 |
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ponzicar posted:Storyline spoiler: The Dreaming City curse can't be broken = Bungie saying "lol we don't have the time and money to remake an entire patrol zone" It just feels like a lot of the seasons have been "here is the big thing, someone else will actually be doing the thing, but you will be gathering resources that will help them do the thing." Not particularly heroic to be given the B-team busywork. Then at season end the other person does the thing in a cutscene and says "but I guess you can keep gathering those resources, if you enjoy that sort of thing!" It just feels really clumsily executed, and if this is the buildup to the final shape, and they're trying to fix it with the skeleton crew left over after the firings, it really doesn't bode well.
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FlapYoJacks posted:Also I went to Neptune yesterday for the first time since I finished the initial Lightfall campaign and how the gently caress haven’t they fixed the enemy scaling issue yet? What the gently caress. It’s not fun to have to empty almost an entire mag into a red bar to kill it. The gently caress are they thinking? If you're a new or returning player doing the normal Lightfall campaign, several missions just dump you back into the patrol zone on completion where your 1750 rear end gets immediately splattered.
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Collateral Damage posted:The Neomuna patrol zone is all 1800 (or 1810?) I believe, and has a disproportionate amount of random yellowbar enemies. I'm 1810 lol.
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I think, given their promise to never vault annual expansion content again, they literally cannot break the Dreaming City curse. In-game, anway. They can resolve it in the lore, and the patrol zones don't necessarily take place in the current game canon Also for anti-barrier, simply use Brigand's Law with Threat Detector + Voltshot since it's literally better than that new arc smg and also stuns los championes
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FlapYoJacks posted:Also I went to Neptune yesterday for the first time since I finished the initial Lightfall campaign and how the gently caress haven’t they fixed the enemy scaling issue yet? What the gently caress. It’s not fun to have to empty almost an entire mag into a red bar to kill it. The gently caress are they thinking? "That's not a bug, that's a feature!"
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MJeff posted:Neomuna is always 15 levels above you, I'm pretty sure.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Lore spoiler: note: eramis Goin in the post-Final Shape time capsule along with Dead Orbit and all the SIVA that Rasputin mailed to other solar systems
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Also, I was wrong about last season's story activities being grindy. This season's story activities are somehow even more grind-tastic than last season's! It shouldn't be possible, but Bungo pulled off a miracle! - Quick story intromission. - Seasonal activity - Three runs of Tier 2 or two runs tier 3 or 4 Blind Wells (WTF?) - The story mission is the same as the seasonal activity but with a new dialog and without matchmaking. - A bunch of running around, talking to various NPCs. - There are two "complete these arbitrary activities at ${destination}" challenges for the first week. That's a solid 1/3 of the total challenges lmfao. Making a five-year-old activity with no changes other than some updated loot a significant part of the season may not have been the best idea. Maybe Bungie is trying to get an award for being environmentally conscious with all the recycling they are doing! 
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FlapYoJacks posted:Also lol @ Datto ranting about the $15 starter pack: https://fxtwitter.com/leopardstealth/status/1729874828499497092?s=46&t=pjXjXfmxsyPDHc0UxIStsQ
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Mill Village posted:https://twitter.com/leopardstealth/status/1729874828499497092?s=46&t=pjXjXfmxsyPDHc0UxIStsQ 
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Mill Village posted:https://fxtwitter.com/leopardstealth/status/1729874828499497092?s=46&t=pjXjXfmxsyPDHc0UxIStsQ 
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MJeff posted:Neomuna is always 15 levels above you, I'm pretty sure.
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Oh man, Blind Well is miserable, they didn’t update the event at all except the loot. There aren’t nearly enough enemies and it takes so long. What a miserable event, having to do this every week is going to make me quit.
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I don't mind Blind Well but it needs a refresh and lol that you have to do THREE if you join into a Tier 2 in progress. Also lol that I chose to go get the Dreaming City cheevos right before this, including Blind Wellin'
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Lord Packinham posted:Oh man, Blind Well is miserable, they didn’t update the event at all except the loot. There aren’t nearly enough enemies and it takes so long. What a miserable event, having to do this every week is going to make me quit. Do we know for a fact we have to do it every week or was it just part of the initial seasonal quest? I am assuming they just wanted everyone who doesn't read through all Bungie posts to realize it has refreshed loot.
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Isn't the plot something like we use the Ley Lines to capture an Ahamkara egg every week, and the Blind Well charges the Ley Lines? Sounds like we'll be back each week.
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Kennedy posted:Isn't the plot something like we use the Ley Lines to capture an Ahamkara egg every week, and the Blind Well charges the Ley Lines? Sounds like we'll be back each week. I never enjoyed Blind Well and was disappointed to have to go back there, but what made it a little less awful was running Well of Radiance and dropping it outside the safe spots. You get better sightlines for killing stuff than if you stay inside the safe spot, it keeps you from taking any of the environmental damage, and encourages people to leave the safe zones which speeds up killing the adds.
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I hadn’t played Blind Well since the Forsaken days so I’m not tired of it yet but I probably will be soon They should have randomized it so at least when the quest asks you to play several in a row it might be different enemies
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Pirate Jet posted:Does a gun with Quickdraw already on it get any benefits from a Handling masterwork? Yes, it will help with ads and stow speeds. Ready speed is already maxed by quick draw.
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It's incredible that things like "casting a super while a perk is active" are never tested at this company. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTUWB6ksZlg
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Thought about checking in on the new season because my brain needs some cheap dopamine, but lol. lmao.Listerine posted:I never enjoyed Blind Well and was disappointed to have to go back there, but what made it a little less awful was running Well of Radiance and dropping it outside the safe spots. You get better sightlines for killing stuff than if you stay inside the safe spot, it keeps you from taking any of the environmental damage, and encourages people to leave the safe zones which speeds up killing the adds. Didn't we sorta do a bunch of Blind Well in the runup to Witch Queen?
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FlapYoJacks posted:It's incredible that things like "casting a super while a perk is active" are never tested at this company. Lore accurate Riven behavior. "You wished for scorching, o Guardian mine?...."
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ponzicar posted:Lore accurate Riven behavior. "You wished for scorching, o Guardian mine?...." Yeah I assume that part's on purpose lol
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I gotta imagine the blind well is a specific to week 1 sorta deal. Like a 'remember this poo poo?' moment for new and returning players that also pads out the week's activities for a bit If they want weekly blind well I'm simply not doing it lol
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:I gotta imagine the blind well is a specific to week 1 sorta deal. Like a 'remember this poo poo?' moment for new and returning players that also pads out the week's activities for a bit https://twitter.com/Destiny2Team/status/1730011034998718839 Also they’ve confirmed they pulled the Starter Pack from all storefronts. https://twitter.com/Destiny2Team/status/1730010653241618890
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