malek86
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Post by malek86 on Feb 2, 2024 7:54:51 GMT
My shotgun is level 133 so it should be unlocked already. I did notice an extra generic shader in my list, which seems to bear the Dawning icon... but I hope it's not that. I was hoping for something more unique. It should be called "Rime Keepsake". It's an icy one with moving-y bits. Oh yeah, found it. Not sure why it was hidden in the third shaders tab... anyway. I decided to give Fireteam Finder a try. Went for a Pit of Heresy run. Seemed all easy enough, it got me into the fireteam, then of course it disconnected me while the activity was starting. At which point I realized that the game apparently keeps no track of your current fireteam or invitations, so I had no way of getting back into their game. Sigh. More missed opportunities. They just said the current Prime rewards drop is the final one, so I guess that's another thing that is coming to an end.
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Post by malek86 on Mar 9, 2024 11:13:11 GMT
So I read something last month that suddenly made me interested in the weekly Wishes quests. The Age-Old Bond auto rifle can drop with both Destabilizing Rounds and Repulsor Brace, and while it's a raid only weapon, it can be crafted with the patterns from the weekly quests.
Of course, by the time I realized this, I didn't have enough wishes left. So now I'm at 4 patterns out of 5.
So it seems I'll be running the solo chests for the next few weeks, and hope for a lucky break. If I can just get the weapon, I can use a harmonizer on it and then I'll be set.
Guess that gives me a little something to do until Final Shape arrives.
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Post by malek86 on Mar 20, 2024 14:53:28 GMT
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Mar 20, 2024 15:42:43 GMT
I feel like Bungie have been dying to pan Destiny off for ages now and get on with Marathon and that mobile bullshit that got canned.
I see they introduced a horde mode which to me feels like the dictionary definition of being a day late and a dollar short. I don't even think I've loaded the game up this calendar year, where it's been my most played in my end of year thing religiously since it's inception.
Will still do Final Shape as I do want to see how they tie it all up, but I'm honestly not bothered if the game ends up shut down anymore. Just before Lightfall I was dying for them to commit to another story saga.
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Post by Duffking on Mar 20, 2024 17:43:04 GMT
I didn't imagine saying this around WQ or so but I actually don't reckon I'm going to bother with TFS. I think my time with the game is basically done, now. I actually uninstalled it last night.
I don't think it's been any one thing, but I've been on an extended break and realised that really because the main thing I enjoy in Destiny is raiding, a lot of the rest of the game just stands as a barrier between me and that, and the way it's designed makes me feel like I *have* to engage with various things in a certain way in order to maximise my enjoyment of the parts I do enjoy.
In particular I feel like it's the way half the game seems designed around a fear that 1% of players will no life the fuck out of it and get everything in a week then complain there's no content, so you get stuff like the "3 chances at a raid to get the drop/loot a week" shit. Which just means that everyone in the server I was in is desperate to get their 3 raid clears in ASAP because by the time you get to the weekend everyone got their clears in and nobody wants to run it any more. I'd settle in for a gaming session and be like "well, I suppose before I play what I want to play, I should do some shit in Destiny".
Too much of the game designed around being repeatable out of creating a feeling of obligation that you should repeat it, rather than repeatable in the sense that you just WANT to replay it because its fun, and after several months of barely engaging with it any more I realise that I actually don't care much for jumping back in.
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Post by malek86 on Mar 20, 2024 18:36:59 GMT
I haven't been playing nearly as much as in past years, but I still consider it something of a comfort game.
Definitely gonna see how the legendary campaign of Final Shape holds up (hoping they learned something after Lightfall). After that, I'll be watching the day one raid stream, just to see what happens. And then, from what I understand, there might be something else to deal with the Witness. Even if I don't grind the game anymore, I think the campaign will be worth the money... I hope.
Not sure about the DLC instead, but I've got to waste all that cheap silver somehow. And since it's DLC instead of yet more season passes, perhaps it's less of a grind and more of a mini-campaign.
But after that... I can't see the game going on any longer. They will probably keep it up without updates, like they still do for D1. That would be good enough for me, I guess. It's been a good 10 years of my life, not many games can claim that, but it would be time to move on.
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Post by ozthegweat on Mar 27, 2024 10:39:44 GMT
H A M M E R H E A D
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Post by dfunked on Mar 28, 2024 9:03:06 GMT
That thing was a beast back in the day. As grindy as the game can be, I had an absolute blast playing it back then. I got the platinum starling ship without even realising there was a reward for 50(?) forge completions.
It's still nowhere near enough to tempt me back to the game, though. I'm enjoying not having a live service game in my life that feels like a second job.
Blast furnace and kindled orchid ftw too.
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Mar 28, 2024 9:07:23 GMT
I see they timegated some of the guns. They quite literally can not help themselves. Metrics, metrics, metrics.
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Post by Duffking on Mar 28, 2024 10:08:28 GMT
That was my read of it at first but I think it's just some shaders that are timegated? That was going to be the final nail for me buying the final shape otherwise.
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Post by Duffking on Mar 28, 2024 10:15:31 GMT
Oh I see, yeah, half the guns can't be gotten right away, but there was some suggestion that you straight up can't get the guns after a certian point, but that's just the LE versions.
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Post by dfunked on Mar 28, 2024 10:17:17 GMT
Sounds like the weapons that are timegated:
"And that's all of them! Half of these will be available starting April 9, including The Recluse, Hung Jury SR4, Succession, Edge Transit, Elsie's Rifle and Falling Guillotine. The remainder will unlock one at a time each week through the week of May 21. The BRAVE Arsenal weapons will continue to drop from Onslaught after The Final Shape, but the limited-edition variants won’t be available after June 3, so go get them while you can! "
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Mar 28, 2024 11:51:46 GMT
It's the whole reason I've soured so much on it. Everything in the game gets blatantly drip fed to you with the sole purpose of ticking boxes on their end because you've logged into the game on their terms.
The point of no return for me was the exposition on the nature of the veil. Something that flat out should have been included in the base Lightfall expansion, chopped up into about 6 week's worth of audio logs dropped one at a time months after the expansion had been and gone.
I look across at what the likes of Arrowhead are doing with Helldivers and think to myself, maybe Sony taking total control isn't such a bad thing because Bungie's goose was cooked a long time ago.
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Post by malek86 on Mar 28, 2024 18:33:56 GMT
I've finally managed to get that last pattern from the secret raid chests, and now have a masterworked Age-old Bond with Destabilizing Rounds and Repulsor Brace, so I won't need other weapons for a while.
That said, I'll probably give the new mode a look when it comes out. Horde mode does sound like fun.
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Post by Duffking on Mar 28, 2024 19:49:40 GMT
It's the whole reason I've soured so much on it. Everything in the game gets blatantly drip fed to you with the sole purpose of ticking boxes on their end because you've logged into the game on their terms. The point of no return for me was the exposition on the nature of the veil. Something that flat out should have been included in the base Lightfall expansion, chopped up into about 6 week's worth of audio logs dropped one at a time months after the expansion had been and gone. I look across at what the likes of Arrowhead are doing with Helldivers and think to myself, maybe Sony taking total control isn't such a bad thing because Bungie's goose was cooked a long time ago. Yeah, too much of the game is either designed around a fear that people will no life it and complain there's nothing to do afterward, or designed around ensuring people come back every week. The latter is fine, except they do it in the most annoying way instead of just making something so fun that people want to keep playing. And often it clashes in a way that makes it less fun. Weird to think that I'm around 70/30 atm on simply not bothering with the final shape.
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