i always felt that the campaign, strikes etc. should be the ‘ramp’ to raiding, introduce mechanics there that the raid would expand on/require mastery of
this would also be an opportunity to solve one of the core problems with destiny - that the better raid encounters are like, the only interesting pve in the whole game
they’ve done well with menagerie, which might best be thought of as a raid encounter sampler platter.
trying to do raids fucking sucks for me because i have to engage with the insane weirdos who take this game too seriously or are fucking racist gamer freaks. like playing games with strangers as a woman is a constant misery. teg did lfg the other day and got invited to a discord that literally had the n-word in the name. the game would not be lessened in any way by allowing people to do easier matchmade versions of these activities, and if shit like nightfalls had matchmaking
lol @ people on reddit saying “youre compromising bungie’s vision!!! dark souls!!!” like dude im sorry i dont have a discord full of poopsockers to play with because im a fuckin adult and not an emotionally stunted weirdo who prides himself on being The Raid Master. every other destiny player is the vanilla WoW guildmaster yelling at you on vent and taking away all your dkp. at the very least there needs to be some kind of fucking in-game lfg or something
i used to have to play arma 2 with a guy named “jewslayer88” (its ironic so its ok, you see!!) because he was in a steam group the guys i played with were in and i will never lower myself to that rung of playing with pubbies again
I have a group of four + me that I know IRL and we aren’t keen to LFG because of the above and difficulty vetting for people who won’t be transphobic. I’ll check with em.
I love the post above! The thing I want most for endgame is the ping system from Apex Legends. I find it extremely useful when e.g. I can tag an invader in gambit prime instead of having to communicate a relative position to my team while trying to duel them. I have such respect for the deaf clans that finish the raids in spite of Bungie deliberately designing them to require verbal communication. I know for some people the symbol callouts are the “mechanics” but going from 4 in Leviathan to 16 in Last Wish is going to be a huge hurdle for communication. It also seems fundamentally shallow to me in a Nintendo key way and I much prefer Eater of Worlds’ restaurant coop encounter.
done with lifestyle games forever but also feeling nostalgic for vault of glass
when rise of iron came out i was like 900th in the queue but i timed out and rejoined at 4000
numbers go up
this is a point i have reached multiple times, but i keep coming back… and keep leaving
i think i’ve just learned to play as much or as little as i want and not sweat the fomo stuff, which to be fair they’ve decreased a lot of that stuff
i definitely enjoyed the game most when it was kind of a social hub for us
absolutely. i mean im not one of ‘us’ but i had a steady group of people to play with before. it was more of an excuse to HANG OUT and talk with them rather than me caring about whatever grind bullshit i was on
xur is selling one eyed mask and vigilance wing for any other asshole titans out there
Yeah, once Destiny 2 stopped being that, due to people leaving and the great PC base fracture, I got a lot less invested in keeping up with it.
im excited for crossplay because of how much the game being on PC split everyone up
I too am very excited to play PS4 with my loaded PC save. The grind to get all the exotics I like was too daunting for me to continue on PS4
Plus the moment I boot up the save on PS4 I’m gonna get like 20 trophies ehehehehehe
how impossible is it to catch up 
right now, not too bad. they added power catch-up bounties to prepare you for new seasons, and there’s tons of powerful drop sources comapred to the like… three… there were before
few things are as funny in this game as seeing shit like “slobknocker27 is near” at the bottom of your screen
i keep thinking about picking this back up but i think what i really want is my first time doing vault of glass with a bunch of sb folks again. i remember it being hard and confusing yet y’all were supportive & fun despite me messing up a lot. it dropped a hawkmoon that i basically used the entirety of year 1 because i guess it reminded me of how fun that was. i’ve never felt actually attached to an item in a video game like ever? but the way i associated it with hanging out with y’all was something else
destiny 2 definitely doesnt have the social feel it used to and its really bumming me out
caught up on this thread yesterday and downloaded the update :)) add me if you’re playing on PS4! my account name is count_slackula
edit: jumping back into a game like this is so daunting and weird and confusing
YESSS someone else is playing!!
but yea holy shit the sheer amount of pursuits! i have a bunch of exotic quests i already fucking finished taking up space
