Bringing this list back again:
WANT:
- Good PvP maps, especially symetrical maps that are made for some good 3v3 action.
- PvP Custom Matches
- 4v4 PvP game mode.
- Loadouts
- Rotating Vendor Items with rerolled gear/weapons [Hey they did this ONCE on April 12th for only weapons. Need to have that happen like once a week for both weapons and gear]
- Not getting kicked out of Inventory Screen for 814 times before actually landing and spawning
- More Vault and Inventory Space [DONE!!! At least Vault]
- Ability to categorize/order inventory/vault by weapon type, weapon level, etc.
- Join back Trials match that was booted from.
- Join back previous pvp matchmade session or pve strike that was booted from.
- NO RNG ON TOP OF RNG.
Similar Infusion System from HoW (no 80% crap) [DONE!!!]- Way Better guns and better gear.... wtb Carrots again. Raid weapons need to be great again.
- FIX HAND CANNONS
- Elemental primaries (elements weren't the problem, the perks versus kinetic, were).
Fix Special Ammo glitching (ice Breaker/sidearm/invective and switching weapons when dead) [might be done....]Fix shadestep glitch [no word on this yet, hopefully tomorrow.....]- Dedicated servers or netcode fix or both or whatever.
- Ability to auto decrypt/dismantle blues
- Fix special ammo perk. It doesn't give you anything extra in PvP, just raises the cap. Very very silly.
- A variable that holds your highest light on your char so that engrams will decrypt and rewards will be given according to that instead of having to equip all of that.
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That's not true at all. This is the best time to start hording packages lmao. Last years engram/package hording was hilarious for the taken King.OK, then. Inspiring.
I'm kind of lukewarm. I'm excited about anything Destiny-related, but I can't shake the feeling that I'll watch the reveal and my next thought will be "well then, nothing to change in Destiny for 3 (or whatever) months."
The Live Team has been a complete sham in my view, and I saw it coming a million miles away.
What are you saying No to exactly?
That's not true at all. This is the best time to start hording packages lmao. Last years engram/package hording was hilarious for the taken King.
That's not true at all. This is the best time to start hording packages lmao. Last years engram/package hording was hilarious for the taken King.
On a more serious note in regards to the live team...what did you expect?
Did you expect a big amount of content more than a handful of people could handle? Did you expect patches quicker than a handful of people could fix? Again, what did you expect? I say if they really were as small as dgaf and the rest of the Internet jokes about then they did a decent job at the least.
i was kidding Deku lolNo based on previous years then hording engrams and and rank up packages will only get you old stuff.
The only thing you could horde last year was experience. You could collect 20 PE packages per character (this is gone) and you could save up 5K bounties. And you could also "edge" your factions to be ready for a rank up right when the expansion launched. You can probably still do all of that but I'm not gonna bother. Not feeling Destiny as much as before personally.
But engrams and already awarded packages will always give you the old stuff.
No based on previous years then hording engrams and and rank up packages will only get you old stuff.
The only thing you could horde last year was experience. You could collect 20 PE packages per character (this is gone) and you could save up 5K bounties. And you could also "edge" your factions to be ready for a rank up right when the expansion launched. You can probably still do all of that but I'm not gonna bother. Not feeling Destiny as much as before personally.
But engrams and already awarded packages will always give you the old stuff.
What are you saying No to exactly?
If it's Elemental Primaries, imo, I enjoyed and played way more PvE during the days of Elemental Primaries and OP weapons.
The April update was a small special update. IMO the Iron expansion is gonna be a complete reset just like last fall. Not even exotic engrams will decode into new stuff. But maybe they will let you infuse your old stuff.
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The only thing Im down on would be paying $40 for an expansion. Ttk was good but...I can honestly say "I can just skip Rise of Iron" if its that price and not something radical
Jason said its gonna be the size of The y1 DLC combined. That should be $30 IMO.
If you want my opinion, it should be a free update tbh what with the microtransactions.
Y3 is gonna have probably more microtransactions and possibly less content than y2.
Y3 is gonna have probably more microtransactions and possibly less content than y2.
I can only imagine Y2 is a "figuring shit out" year. They should have a better plan in place for Y3/4.
At least I hope.
I dread it.
If blizzard can make free updates for diablo 3 and keep their word on free updates with Overwatch fundes by the loot box sales, than its the point where I ask myself, why keep paying for Destiny updates.
Not to be negative like usual, but those are my thoughts on the matter
If they don't announce a y3 roadmap and a y3 season pass then believe it's gonna be worse than y2 for actual content.
If they don't announce a y3 roadmap and a y3 season pass then believe it's gonna be worse than y2 for actual content.
Maye High Moon Studios can get something done.... I really hope that's the case.
They kind of just made Taken King the season pass tho. You had to have it for all the "DLC" that came out afterwards
Maybe but I don't think we'll get any meaty content without intermediate paid expansions. They're not giving away a free raid in the middle of y3 for people who own rise of iron because they made a lot of microtransaction money.
I think most people would agree that the content drip in y2 was extremely light and most of it was a thinly veiled excuse to sell microtransactions. Add to that most of the content was temporary.
Maybe but I don't think we'll get any meaty content without intermediate paid expansions. They're not giving away a free raid in the middle of y3 for people who own rise of iron because they made a lot of microtransaction money.
Maybe but I don't think we'll get any meaty content without intermediate paid expansions. They're not giving away a free raid in the middle of y3 for people who own rise of iron because they made a lot of microtransaction money.
I think most people would agree that the content drip in y2 was extremely light and most of it was a thinly veiled excuse to sell microtransactions. Add to that most of the content was temporary.
I see. Thank you kind sirs.
*Checks Calendar - no meetings*. I'll see you there while I diligently work.
I see. Thank you kind sirs.
*Checks Calendar - no meetings*. I'll see you there while I diligently work.
That's if the microtransactions were successful. Which I dunno if they were.If you want my opinion, it should be a free update tbh what with the microtransactions.
That's if the microtransactions were successful. Which I dunno if they were.
AFIAK they are. If they had bombed I don't think SRL and Taken Spring would have had MTs. They would have gone back to DLC packs.
Kill infusions!!!! I want to just hunt materials to get my weapons up not pray to God that I get a shitty but higher level gun!
Did you expect a big amount of content more than a handful of people could handle? Did you expect patches quicker than a handful of people could fix? Again, what did you expect? I say if they really were as small as dgaf and the rest of the Internet jokes about then they did a decent job at the least.
"Our plan is to use these new items to bolster the service provided by our live team for another full year, as they grow and create more robust and engaging events that we'll announce later this year," Bungie said in their official update. "It has been, and continues to be, our goal to deliver updates to the game. Going forward, our live team is also looking to grow beyond vital updates and improvements to focus on world events, experiences, and feature requests."
I agree with all your sentiments. I was more so just curious of what you expected realistically and what you expected from bungie. It really has been a pisspoor year when you look at the y1 content drops.Sorry didn't see this.
To answer your question, no I didn't expect much more after the shift in priorities to MT was announced. But that's part of the problem and I'm still disappointed.
Part of the reason given for the change was to allow the live team to make the world a more liveable, adaptable game. I don't feel like that was the case.
Personally I don't feel this vision was borne out. The switch to MT was a way to ensure profits kept coming while allowing the team to negotiate their struggling internal resources and buy more time for full scale releases. That's OK, but not what was said. It was quite clear that the design of the patches was aimed at facilitating microtransactions rather than being on the side, and that's the core of my disappointment.
I actually liked the patches OK in and of themselves. Halloween and VDay were garbage, but I enjoyed SRL and was pleasantly surprised by the spring update. Still, I much preferred the standard DLC experiences and additional content offered in year 1, even if I had to pay.
Plus since September we've heard about what was coming, and while I'm excited about seeing what's in store Thursday, we're still in that place.
Thats the other thing that irks me. They only "fixed" infusions to accomadate the armor from the loot boxes, otherwise that MT would be that much worse.
And how do you know what their motivation for this infusion change was?
Are you simply presuming that because it fits a 'love to hate' template that seems to thrive here from time to time?
I view this change as exceptionally player friendly. They could have offered other ways to allow rapid light level ascension on the armour that came out of these boxes. Instead, they changed the system globally for the better.
It's amazing to me to hear that someone is 'irked' by this change, and doubly amazing that they are convinced (state as fact) that they know the motivation for the change.
It's an assumption, but not one without a little bit of basis. They both came out in the same patch. LL 3 items would go up to around 250 if infused with a 320. We all know that wouldn't fly. Bungie has also done some shady crap. 0.04% anyone?
Not saying everyone at bungie is evil either. Video games are a business. I know I'm still going to bitch when I see some bs though. Again, breezy made an assumption, but not one he pulled out of his ass.
And how do you know what their motivation for this infusion change was?
Are you simply presuming that because it fits a 'love to hate' template that seems to thrive here from time to time?
I view this change as exceptionally player friendly. They could have offered other ways to allow rapid light level ascension on the armour that came out of these boxes. Instead, they changed the system globally for the better.
It's amazing to me to hear that someone is 'irked' by this change, and doubly amazing that they are convinced (state as fact) that they know the motivation for the change.
Actually, yeah. It does seem pretty much pulled out of where you said, and with no real basis in fact. Two things happening simultaneously that fit the narrative of 'bad Bungie' is just too delicious to resist it seems.
Has Bungie done things all of us don't like? Heck yes. With so many moving parts, things about this machine we call Destiny (when changed) are going to piss someone off. It's unavoidable.
But that, and the leap to this, is just a leap of nonsense in my mind. So as long as people on this point continue to state Bungie's motivations as so matter of factly as this, I'm happy to call it out as BS.
It's my assumption through and through. But do you really believe they would've patched infusion levels if they didn't introduce armor Microtransactions?
Think about it this way-They're thinking about adding buyable armor. So in talking about this, they mention 'Well what about infusion? If a player buys armor and can't max it out immediately with their current pieces, then nobody will want to buy the armor if they're trying to get to max level.'
One thing leads to another, and Infusion leveling is fixed at the same time this armor is introduced. It's conjecture, but like the saying goes, if you want to get that apple by tomorrow, you should've planted the tree a year ago.