[Khellendros]

BfuckinK, on 04 October 2019 - 10:26 PM, said:

Ok so I’ve always liked the mystery of Toland and it was really cool when we 1st “met” him back when and back then I could actually understand wtf he was saying...not so this time. They have these weird little multi step thingies set up where you are speaking with “him” after some hikes but I ll be damned if I can understand what the motherfucker is saying!!! It’s so distorted and any background noise overloads the voice further distorting it. Fairly sure at one point they had captions when speech was going on. Eris is another...bitch starts talking in the middle of this strike at 2 separate points and action was popping off like crazy and I couldn’t make out much of the conversation. The Scarlet Keep strike is pretty fun though.

Why don’t you put the subtitles on?

[Khellendros]

BfuckinK, on 05 October 2019 - 03:33 PM, said:

Pretty sure they used to just be on there at some time. I’d still rather they tweaked toland up a bit.

Yeah, if you had subtitles on before you have to switch it on again after this update.

[Aptorian]

I think it's very doable even for a noob like me. I need another ten or so pulse riffle kills and I am good.

[Aptorian]

Remember not to cash in any iron banner tokens until the Thursday pinnacle fix.

I'm not playing any Iron Banner till Thursday evening.

[Khellendros]

BfuckinK, on 12 November 2019 - 04:16 PM, said:

I’m 959 on this Warlock. A 899 Titan just shrugged off my melee zap. Why?

Warlock melees are really weak. Try throwing on Thundercoil from the artifact mods to give yourself a bit of a boost.

[Aptorian]

Unfortunately the Vex Offensive ends like it begun. Disappointingly. It's exactly the same mission just with a different boss.

Really weird that they'd build this up for there to be no real payoff.

[Khellendros]

BfuckinK, on 17 December 2019 - 11:18 PM, said:

Wow I mean wow what a shit move. I just spent my horded silver. Atleast the 1st season had two items per lvl. I mean didn’t grab em when I unlocked anyway but now they down to 1 item and the page just looks blank as shit.

Just seems shitty.

That’s not true. The first season pass was exactly the same, it had two items per level only on some of the levels.

The Saint-14 mission is pretty cool. Takes a ton of dull filler quest steps to get to it though.

[Khellendros]

BfuckinK, on 18 December 2019 - 02:19 AM, said:

Mine had top and bottom clickables from lvls 1-100 unhelpful or unwanted as some where. This one doesn’t after lvl 20.

53 empty top slots.

I promise you it was the same. Why would they give you loot for every level in the free pass? It doesn’t incentivise buying the pass as much as only giving you stuff for some of the levels.

[QuickTidal]

I recently went back to this after being away from it for a few years...and the 'free to play' thing has WILDLY changed the demographics of who plays this game in PvP...like it feels like a CoD lobby now....filled with the sweatiest of sweats, and people with Adept markings and Immortal weapons (all on strand of course, cause of course they are). Like you'd get some teams and sweats looking to pub-stomp in Crucible before...but my gods...it's disgusting with them now. A mid-to-mid+ player like me (1.5-2 KD ratio) with a decent load out, and the right class bells and whistles...getting 20-24kills per match. (which used to be good) is now getting swept by sweats who run the map for 50kills. I gave it a whole week of play with this (which also happened to be Guardian Games week; so more people playing PvP than would otherwise do so to score whatever shit that required of them) and it was match after match of terrible matchmaking (GG Supremacy was unplayable due to the CBMM they changed it to...) where even with me getting a decent top score and playing how I always play...there was either a whole team of asshole sweats or just one guy who just boosted everyone to his level...and it was stomp after stomp. FFS one match they camped people at all the usual spawn points on that map so they could just hit you as you spawned. And even in matches we won, it was SO lumpy one-sided I was obviously on the team with a sweat or 2.

That week may have been the most insufferable week of gaming in a game I used to LOVE....that I've ever experienced. Hell it might be the worst experience I've had in like 40 years of video games entirely. The stress was doing my anxiety in.

I logged into reddit on a thread where others were talking about this stuff and the downvoting and nasty toxic nature of the replies was eye-opening. Like they were just like "Git Gud" or "You need to up your skill level, you won't do that by playing others who match your skill, you gotta go up against higher skilled players"!.....and no amount of explaining that I play video games to relax and enjoy penetrated their thick little skulls. A guy DMed me on there about it and explained that the Destiny Sub was overrun by people who think that if you can't play the game at THEIR skill level, you should not play the game at all...

But yeah, I play video games for fun and to relax, and Destiny in 2023 is simply NOT that. I feel no reward for collecting the weapon I wanted, or the armour I wanted....it's grind and sweats. fOr what? To get pub stomped in match after match by people who dedicate all their waking hours to this game?

That's gonna be a no for me dawg.

And that's me out of this game likely forever. I honestly thought if I came back and played it after such a break that it would be okay for a while. It wasn't. I was pissed off by like night 2.

[QuickTidal]

So....rejecting the final thoughts of my last post....I came back. But hear me out, it's not for PVP.


They were doing a deal on the Light & Darkness bundle (for like 75% off full price) which basically had every expansion since Shadowkeep, all of which I had not done. The last time I went back to D2 it was for PVP as that was my jam....this time I'm ready to finish the game and play all the intervening expansions, it comes with BEYOND LIGHT, THE WITCHQUEEN, LIGHTFALL, and THE FINAL SHAPE.


So I'm about 95% done with BEYOND LIGHT and It's been a bit of a fetch quest grind for most of it, but I'm not too mad as I've been able to solo it very easily and made it through that expansions story in under a week. I don't love the supers for this expansion though, the freezing and cracking enemies thing....it's fine, but feels messy.

I'm more excited for the other 3 expansions, including the stuff with the Traveller and the Witness. The gameplay is still top notch, and I don't have any interest in dropping into PVP and will only do so if there are mission sections that require it (which so far there haven't been).


There is also DESTINY 2: RENEGADES, the Star Wars themed expansion coming in December, so that's cool.

[QuickTidal]

WITCHQUEEN was ass. I know a lot of people like it, but I found it tedious and SUPER repetitive. I'm glad to have the exotics I got from it (Parasite and Osteo Striga) but overall? Meh.

LIGHTFALL was weird, but fine and didn't feel too repetitive overalll but...

The Calus fight at the end of LIGHTFALL is quite LITERALLY the most irritating boss fight in the entire game. Horrendously difficult, right quarters and unless you use strand to grapple around you can get killed off any number of the platforms at any stage of the fight. The Tormentors are my LEAST fave enemy in the game, and TWO of them spawn...Even using the "cheese" (hiding in a glitch under the stairs on a pipe) because the final phase the game brings you out to "join allies" , and then Calus just bullrushes you off the platform wasting all the time it took to get to phase 2. All this for Strand...ugh.


I'll be excited to finally get to The Final Shape...but so far the expansions have not given me the same vibes as The Taken King...and I still miss Destiny 1.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 02 June 2025 - 12:54 PM

[QuickTidal]

Trying to solo Zero Hour (which is hard AF) to get Outbreak Perfected, so that I can use THAT to solo The Final Shape "Liminality", which is unskippable and yet is being used as a Legendary Nightfall strike with a better load out...all of which stared with mew having to RERUN the ORIGINAL quest line of the game to get the RiskRunner Catalyst for chaining (which I somehow didn't have and could not get from collections), as Riskrunner (along with Dragons Breath, Polaris Lance, and a decent sniper) are the weapons best to use fort Zero Hour.


It seems like every time I need a weapon or a piece of armour to solo a harder level I need to back up and do a separate one for THAT quest line...Anyways, I'm almost there I just need Dawn Chorus helmet (will try to focus it with Rahool) and I can do Zero Hour and hopefully complete it...but the jumping puzzle near the end is a fucking nightmare on Warlock.