Destiny 2

The 4th room in the third encounter is a bitch.

Just almost got to final stand.

This is a fucking great raid imo. Some BS aside.

I'm fucked today.

I'm a little bit gutted the connection issues happened. I think we'd have nailed the 3rd encounter if we'd got that 2-3 hours of pissing around back. I'm too tired to carry it on today I think.

Still less than 500 completions out there. The DPS checks on the bosses seem to be the main issue people are having. We absolutely pummeled Caretaker in every phase and probably got him 0.1s before we were due to wipe.

I say DPS check, it's more like ammo box drop check. If you don't get a couple of kind greens/purples at the right time you're in trouble even if the rest of it is going fine.

Yeah it's a good shout.

The thing that turned the tide for us on Caretaker was using a decent primary in case of ammo depleting. At first the vast majority were running Witherhoard/Null Composure/LFR or Auto Loading Rockets which was magic for add clear but the reliance on Special ammo made it too tight towards the last phase. Once a few of us put Outbreaks on it really helped us chip away at that little bit of his health bar we were missing out on.

Haha, thoughts and prayers to you all. I'm impressed you all seem to be speaking in normal sentences still. I was barely able to do that 10 hours ago.

We're giving up now haha

So now the raid has released, I'm happy sticking my neck out and saying this is the best Destiny expansion ever.

New Raid isn't quite as epic as Last Wish in terms of encounters and I have doubts many people will get through it or ever repeat it if they do, although I've really enjoyed what I've played of it personally. But the way it has expanded the lore is wild, and establishing Disciples as a thing gives them the perfect way to make Raid bosses important enough to make killing them a big deal, but not putting primary antagonists in there away from main campaigns.

Also, putting a mission in the raid area once world's first had been cleared is a masterstroke. I don't think it's fair that people who can't raid for whatever reason get locked out of these absolutely fantastic locations, so giving them access to that is a brilliant idea in my book and hopefully the norm going forward. It would have been criminal for people not to get to go in there, implications being what they are in there lore wise.

I'm casting my mind back and I think I'd rate this raid as one of the weaker ones, gameplay wise. Visuals and stuff, amazing. Everything else is a very mixed bag:



If you're going to make enemies have attacks that insta kill you in your day one raid boss fight you should fucking well make sure that the animations actually play when they do them, or don't glitch out and say the shot is going one place and then fire in another.

Also half the raid just amounts to "here's some symbols, memorise their names or what they look like, or play spot the difference or something". There's not a lot actually mechnically interesting going on in hindsight. The closest it comes to building on mechanics as the raid goes by is some of the spot the difference stuff.

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Great example clip of how bullshit the final boss is.

It does seem to take fucking forever between phases though. I kept dipping in and out of your stream yesterday and at times I honestly couldn't tell whether you were on the same run since I'd last checked or not.

PAIN

Should have tried Telesto, it probably 1-shots him.

Balance was probably just a little bit off on this contest. Even the guys always front-running these races found the DPS check to be a bastard on Rhulk. I knew after just us barely beating Caretaker and reading comments on the DPS check to come that it probably wasn't worth investing stupid time into the later encounters. Still nice to conquer a few encounters completely blind. Good fun.

Community breaking out the infographics already.

Oh and I can't forget the Enter symbol, which someone designated 'Elf' because it apparently looked like an elf's hat.