Destiny 2

Have two missions left, this... doesn't fill me with confidence.

I actually found a few missions a bit harder than Witch Queen, but then again, some were easier. It's a bit more uneven. Hope I won't hit a brick wall at the final boss.

Finished the campaign just now. Holy crap, you weren't kidding about the final boss. After several failed attempts, I just went and looked for a cheese spot - luckily there was a few - and went at it with my trusty Krait. And then the second phase started, the previous spot disappeared, and I had to find a different one. I sure hope the next expansion will rein it back a little.

I do want to point out how funny it is that

Other than the final boss and the horrible story, though, the campaign was decent, more or less on par with Witch Queen in terms of difficulty imo. But it lacked the same novelty, Neomuna is not as interesting or well designed as the Throne World, and Strand is worse than Stasis when you are not empowered. Also I really don't like fighting Tormentors, they are just annoying. The first half is way better than the second half. Overall... I guess it's better than Shadowkeep, but I'd rank Beyond Light higher.

Oh yeah, like I said, the story was indeed swing and miss. Lots of terms thrown around with no explanation. Destiny 1 levels of bad, almost. I want to add that I don't feel like I care one lick about

I also think the ending

We'll see what happens throughout the year and in the final expansion. I hope we get some closure about the Vex, because they have been just kinda going around doing nothing important for years, they are just the basic enemies to use when Bungie wants to do something inscrutable.

For now, though, the grind can begin.

My name is Byf has ripped into it too, which I think is a first. It's just such utterly lazy storytelling. The exact same nonsense they did with D1, as if 9 bloody years wasn't long enough to learn from their mistakes.

Decided to just drop it down to normal and plough through the campaign, as I just couldn't be bothered trying to learn the ropes with Strand on a higher difficulty. What I've heard about the boss makes it sound like I made the right choice. I stopped playing and went to bed at 9 to read, which shows how little this is appealing to me...
I'll probably take a break from it and come back after a couple of months to do the seasonal story in one go, which seemed a bit more interesting at least.

OK, I just purchased the previous expansions I've missed (Beyond Light / Witch Queen); two questions:

1. How can I play (solo) their respective campaigns? Is there any vendor giving them?
2. Is there a point to purchase the 30th anniversary pack?

dfunked Thanks!

The Grasp of Avarice/Gjallahorn dungeon should be done with a fireteam, correct? If so, I guess there's no point getting it.

JonFE yeah, it needs a fireteam really. Can be done solo, but dungeons are really designed around 3 people.

I don't even think that the raid can save it this time, given we pretty much already know who is going to be the end boss. Even if it triggers off some Last Wish-esque post world-first content that goes some way to explaining what the fuck just happened, it's still pretty insulting that it wasn't just a part of the campaign.

Nezerac was a disciple and his pyramid ship is the one we found on the moon. The nightmares seem to originate from him too. I don't see how that's going to help explain what the veil is, why the characters were yelling about a radial mast for half of the campaign or what the fuck the Witness is actually up to and why we should care at this point but there you go.

"We're the first people in the entire universe to discover the mysterious new power, Strand"

/stumbles into it on the pavement of some random street

So is it shit then? Last year me and the boy were on the cusp of pre-ordering this. We have drifted away from Destiny of late though so ended up not bothering. An amazing expansion could have tempted me back in at some point.

Thanks man. That's such a shame. A few months back we were both really hyped for it.

Tormentors were okay, if a little tanky. They clearly only work as threats in areas where you can't use verticality or open space so it wasn't surprising to see a lot of the encounters with them basically take place inside a matchbox. They also had a habit for me of getting stuck inside bits of the environment after they had slammed.

The less said about them being spawned in during the final fight the better. What an absolute pile of shit that was.

I like that there is a time trial about Strand abilities traversal that is just a campaign mission that can be easily completed under the time limit even with no Strand abilities.

Ive never been fully in on Stasis but ironically I've stumbled upon quite a good turret build with these new mods that can keep your ability energy going almost constantly. So while I should be going out of my mind for strand right now I'm actually enjoying the old darkness class far more at present.