I knew I should have finished that podcast today, lol damn it, I'm ready for whatever raid they throw at us, I want to go in there blind and wipe over and over
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Urk has said that the dlc all has newly recorded lines done after launch. This is a reaction to feedback and probably as much of an admission as your going to get. The story isnt even a story. Ive unlocked almost the entire grimiore its entirely vapid. Like the story is more an introduction to the basic world. I dont even like using the word story since having a bad one would make it seem like there is an actual story.
He must have been thinking of the Grimoire cards... or maybe there was a big story at one point in the development and for some reason they cut and garbled most of it.
Most of the people complaining quit between level 14-18, it was the cool thing to do, besides MCC was right around the corner (.... How that work out?)
Anyway, I just can't stand people hating on raids they never played.
Reddit: So You Thought You Destroyed the Sword of Crota?
While it's true that you turn in "Blade Shards" at the end of the mission, the in-game description goes like this:
"Fragments of a Swarm Prince's broken blade. Return these to your Vanguard mentor as proof of your success against this ancient enemy."
I don't know about you, but the shards of a Swarm Prince's blade seem rather different from the shards of the Sword of Crota itself. One would think that might be mentioned in the description of the item if it were the real deal.
Besides that, there's never any action of destroying it. Nothing about a sword vanishing into thin air denotes the breaking down of said sword into shards. And one would think the destruction of a sword like that would be worth some kind of cut scene (just think back to the shard of the Traveler we free up), especially if the sword contains the Light of the countless Guardians it's killed.
So what happens? Where dose the Sword of Crota go?
EDIT: In the Grimoire for the Sword of Crota, it reads:
"The Swarm Princes are dead, and the Sword of Crota is gone. Though many still believe Crota's return is inevitable, that thousands of weapons will be forged in His name, I have faith that we are now one step closer to ending the Hive's reign over the Moon." - Master Rahool
His word choice implies the Sword just vanished, and was not, in fact, transmatted anywhere. Especially consider the fact that your Ghost says something like "The Cryptarchs are never going to believe this," which implies they're just being told about it rather than offered any tangible evidence.
I dont even have the time to tell you I dont have the time.
Seriously, they expected this story to be up there with Star Wars?!?! LotR?
The game was fun for awhile, but way to RNG with no way to get the raid gear you need aside from running it over and over and hoping that you finally get boots or gloves, or whatever damn piece you have been chasing.
Progression is a joke. I go back to earth as a level 29 with maxed out Exotic weapon to do 100 dmg headshots and take decent dmg from mobs.
Go back to Elwynn Forest in WoW at level 90 and see how quickly you kill the little starting area mobs, and how much damage they do.
Destiny is a constant struggle, with minimal rewards for anything you do.
Its a loot treadmill with ultra minute upgrades or sidegrades.
You are reaching here.
The mission you do is for the Sword of Crota. Getting shards from a broken blade after you watch the Sword vanish makes more sense then from some random guys sword.
When did we pick up the shards of some other blade? Isnt it a lot more logical to assume that the shards would be from the sword we were just using, and the whole mission was about?
I cant believe people try so hard to defend this shit.
kahboomkin
Member
That really made me think of The Burning Crusade. I was half expecting Crota to reveal his warglaives at the end lol
The Swarm Princes that you defeat during the course of the mission are all blade-wielding knights. The item descriptor literally says the shards are from their blades.
I think Bungie obviously wants you to believe the sword has been destroyed, but are careful never to explicitly tell you that it's destroyed. The sword just disappears out of your hands and that's the end of the mission.
Zomba13
Member
I mean, that is one way they could have an out for it. I always assumed that you kill the guys who made/make the swords so that they can't make another one (one with the special powers Crota's has) and then you use said sword to kill a bunch using up it's juju in the process and making it disintergrate. I know not much is explained in Destiny but I assumed that because I just used the information shown to me in the game.
People need to stop saying this. Talking about derailing the thread, it's the people like you causing it by claiming that anyone with criticisms or negative speculation about the expansion, haven't actually played enough of Destiny to have legit criticism. This is just provoking fights plus it's a horrible presumption.
Before the guy you quoted made that post this thread was mostly talk, albeit negative talk, about this expansion too.
AnathemicOne
Banned
I don't think WoW expansions at launch qualify as "half-done" games when compared to Destiny, considering the amount of content they have at the beginning before any content patches.
Not until MoP and WoD. I think.
Man, this was a huge disappointment. I was going to buy this because I was excited to dive into the moon and fight whatever enormous monstrosity Crota must be. Imagine what the leader of a giant faction of sick undead creatures is going to look like!
Oh... just like that thing I've been killing 1000 times before in all of the missions?
How much is the expansion again? Oh.
I think I'll wait until Destiny 2, or until the next expansion.
Oh... just like that thing I've been killing 1000 times before in all of the missions?
How much is the expansion again? Oh.
I think I'll wait until Destiny 2, or until the next expansion.
They pretty much said it was pure rumor so don't completely get your hopes up. I think the speculation was from a Reddit post from someone claiming to have playtested early versions of the Crota raid.
SolidChamp
Banned
People like myself who (admittedly were stupid enough) purchased a "complete edition" upfront have earned the right to gripe in threads like these.
Only THREE story missions? This DLC only serves to highlight the major problems with this game, and why games like it will continue to be made and marketed on a massive scale and then sold to us piecemeal, treating the consumer like a total chump.
Because people like yourself seem prefer this to games like Shadow of Mordor and Alien Isolation, you know, the kind of games we need more of.
HiredN00bs
Banned
Not everybody prizes story so highly in games. Was Destiny's story disappointing? Objectively, yes. But people didn't play a decade of Halo in its story, they played it because it was a fun cooperative and competitive action game, and Destiny is very much that. I've never played more PvE in a Halo game than I have in Destiny, and I'm excited that, for the first time, they're putting out PvE expansion content in DLC. This is unprecedented for Bungie, and people here are far too biased toward shitting on this game's flaws than singing its rightful praises. Shadow of Mordor and Alien Isolation don't do the things Destiny does. Destiny very much has what I'm looking for in my primary game and they do not.
YES!
We don't care how Destiny compares to Halo.
Firstly, whether or not something is disappointing cannot be objective. That's subjective. That cannot be a fact, it's opinion.
Secondly, though, I think that this person, and the rest in here, have a right to gripe if they purchased the game on the promise of it receiving a lot of post-launch support from the developers only to be dissapointed by underwhelming expansion details with bloated costs. People have every right to harp on the game's flaws, as they are numerous and disappointing.
What praises are you referring to, in specific? I'm not denying the game has things to praise, (core gameplay, skyboxes) but I'm wondering what positives the conversation about the flaws should stop for.
TheActtionFigure
Member
This this this...a hundred times this. After going through the raid a couple dozen times & putting in way more time than I care to admit, I didn't reach level 30 until they brought back the Iron Banner this week. That's freakin' terrible game design.
Oh and why isn't there a PvP mode without Supers & more conservative heavy ammo drops? C'mon Bungie at least make me wanna drop $20 on this expansion.
I have to admit that the content that seems to be included in the expansion is really limited for 20. And what annoys me even more is that I think the main reason of this strategy is to destroy used game sales. You can of course sell the disc but that wastes all the money spend on expansions...
HiredN00bs
Banned
Okay, but it's somewhat pedantic to go on about this when almost everyone agrees the story was a disappointing, including the game's biggest fans, which was my point.
Crota design? You mean a big Knight .... ?
SolidChamp
Banned
I said story MISSIONS, which are what I bought the game for. Core game play with objective-based missions that I can tackle with my friends. I could care less about Destiny's story, so long as there is some meaty game play that I can sink my teeth into.
What we got was, quite frankly, pathetic when put into perspective. The shooting is satisfying, yes, but that's all there is to it, really.
It's mind-blowing when you think about how utterly basic that mission design is, and they do it throughout the entire freakin campaign.
Now we're getting an expansion, and how do they beef up that campaign? 3 story missions. How many of those will be "press square to Dinklage and initiate horde mode" ??
That, in a nutshell, is my whole problem with Destiny. The story is a problem, but it's far from being my primary concern.
I know it's petandic, that's why I just stuck it on the front of the post and left the content of the rest of the post down below. That's one of my pet peeves, people mixing up fact and opinion
Some parts of him look like the generic knight we fought over and over but he does look a little different. Plus it's been confirmed that he will have different forms through out the battle when we face him.
I don't think its reaching. To me the line and delivery was cheesy as fuck.
Oh, come on now. "It's a videogame" isn't a defense for a line being unnecessarily cheesy, there are plenty of sci-fi and fantasy video game trailers with great line delivery and well-written lines.
Normally I'm a sucker for cheese, but it's hard to enjoy cheese when a game takes itself so seriously. The story campaign of Destiny would have been a perfect candidate for some intentional corniness, (Wizards on the moon) but it instead focused a lot on trying for a heavier atmosphere (see: the final cutscene).
This looks so great, but I just can't bring myself to go on an endless grindfest. I wish the game had more content for people actually under level 28. I know buying Destiny while having a 50 hour a week job and a girlfriend wasn't the smartest of moves but I shouldn't have to be bored out of my mind for countless hours before getting to the good stuff.
"I paid for a thing therefore I can troll every thread related to it" is not the greatest attitude. Is it that hard to say your peace and be done with it? Even if you can't, there are plenty of places to discuss the game's quality that are not trailer/demo/DLC threads.
Just getting tired of every Destiny thread devolving into the same discussion about content, RNG, grinding, blah blah blah.
If your bored out of your mind before getting to level 28, then your probably not going to enjoy the rest of it either.
And they still have more content than Destiny's first ''expansion'' pack.
Anyways, since I got the limited edition with expansion pass, I might as well give the DLC a shot. We'll see if it interests me or not. I just can't handle with farming mats anymore.