Lightfall is Bungies version of The Mandalorian in how it's telling a story. This was Chapter 1.Bungie surprised dropped a new exotic quest today for a Void Glaive that is absolutely nuts. Blocking gives an over shield that recharges with melee kills.
The campaign for Lightfall was god awful but I am loving the season plus all the post campaign content on Neomuna. Haven't used Strand a ton yet but I'll get paired up with people who absolutely destroy with it so I'm sure I'll start to warm up to a build soon
Keep playing. There's so much more to the story after Lightfall and the new Raid opens up tomorrow.it's pretty bad compared to Witch Queen....which incidentally is clearly the expansion in which Strand belonged (I'm assuming it simply wasn't ready a year ago) visually, thematically, and in terms of story. It feeled shoehorned into the completely different vibe and theme of Neomuna.
My issue is...1 strike? 1? in an expansion you charge full game price for?
Live service games still make more money than God. Destiny was just perennially mismanaged.Can't say i'm sad about it. Hopefully with the sacred cow of live service going up in flames the rest of the industry takes note and starts to move away from it.
Destiny 2 was super fun, but I haven't the game since Shadowkeep. Some of the tactics that Destiny decided to employ are shady AF and were a big turn-off for me. For example, in Shadowkeep, they prolonged the campaign by forcing the player to grind to get a special armour piece you needed in every slot, which would unlock the final battle against the main villian. Think about it, the DLC was so barebones that they had to spread it by doing a Pejorative Slured quest that extended the game time.I played Destiny 1 alot, got all the expansions and thought it was a great time. The move to 2 didn't feel the same and I played it less and less till maybe five years ago when I finally deleted it, needing to pay for multi-player on PS was the last straw.
Seems like Bungie generally being ran piss poorly for eons finally caught up to them. Halo 2 was released essentially unfinished, Halo 1 was a mess behind the scenes, Destiny 1 was bad to the point one of its expansions was tossed out, then rebuilt in the span of just over 2 months. Hell even Destiny 2 was rebooted late in development
What's mindblowing to me is the claims from a former employee that they were steps from insolvency despite the money D2 was raking in. Bonkers.
Former Bungie Worker Claims Studio Faced Insolvency Without Sony Acquisition - Report - IGN
In the wake of the layoffs on July 31, former Bungie workers are saying that the studio's financial situation has been dire for years now, with at least one claiming that the alternative to the Sony acquisition was "insolvency." In addition, The Final Shape reportedly sold worse than Lightfall...www.ign.com
Also can't imagine Sony is pleased with the fact Bungie lied about their finances before they acquired them.
Can't say i'm sad about it. Hopefully with the sacred cow of live service going up in flames the rest of the industry takes note and starts to move away from it.
Have been getting some massive nostalgia for Destiny lately after reading about the plights of Bungie. I played the absolute crap out of D1 from the day it released to the Rise of Iron. To this day in terms of hours spent I'm quite sure Destiny is my most played game of all time. Helped that I was unemployed for a big chunk of its release. Then I got Destiny 2 and enjoyed it for a month before realizing there was nothing left to do because they just handed me all the loot I wanted and PVP was in a bad state. Then I just never picked it up again after I learned about the XP throttling.
I'm half temped to try to jump to play some of the newer expansions but.. I just don't know. I do miss the gameplay quite a bit but the game also seems to be dying now because there's little hope on the horizon for its future - which is pathetic. They could have turned this franchise into a money printing machine with some decent management.
Hope it’s enough. I bought some expansions because they were 80% off and I’m enjoying the campaigns so far. Good catching up on the lore.
They just announced a road map for 2025 and two expansions. Game is far from dead, there's just a herd mentality thanks to streamers complaining the game is dead because there's not enough content for them to play 8-12 hours every single day...
I know the Beyond Light campaign is free to play now, you could always hop in and casually play through and just enjoy the best part of Destiny - the gun play. I know there's always sales on the other expansions. Witch Queen campaign was great, Lightfall not so much besides being able to unlock the Strand subclass. Final Shape was awesome.
Glad you've been enjoying them.Hope it’s enough. I bought some expansions because they were 80% off and I’m enjoying the campaigns so far. Good catching up on the lore.
I know they’ve mentioned this being a priority but I really hope they can streamline the experience for new and returning players. Very, very difficult to get your bearings and I played Destiny from day one to Red War.Glad you've been enjoying them.
I know they’ve mentioned this being a priority but I really hope they can streamline the experience for new and returning players. Very, very difficult to get your bearings and I played Destiny from day one to Red War.