Destiny 2

[d-dave]

29 minutes ago, Cold Cat said:

I was worried.  Not gonna lie.  I was thinking.  Do I really want to get a game with a sh*t campaign and more of the same loot hunting.  I'm glad I got this game.  The campaign was like night and day from D1.  It's like a developer listened to its fans.  When i'm grinding for gear it doesn't feel as a chore.  Something or someone is always around the corner.  I'm finding it distracting.  Take a patrol to do something.  Find 4 things to do along the way.  The NPC's have been fun as well.   

So when I was playing for 3 hours on Saturday night, I kept meaning to do some adventures on Titan to level up.  Public Events kept spawning and people kept showing up.  I ended up doing six that night.  I am loving how much activity is in the game now!

[Cold Cat]

On 9/12/2017 at 0:52 PM, d-dave said:

So when I was playing for 3 hours on Saturday night, I kept meaning to do some adventures on Titan to level up.  Public Events kept spawning and people kept showing up.  I ended up doing six that night.  I am loving how much activity is in the game now!

My clan is recruiting.  Just saying.  Unless you already have one.

[d-dave]

18 hours ago, Cold Cat said:

My clan is recruiting.  Just saying.  Unless you already have one.

Thanks for the offer.  I'm in a clan, Dads of Destiny Warlords.  Really awesome group of guys.  

[Cold Cat]

No Spoliers...

 

Tried the Raid last night...  OMG... We did not succeed.  

 

My group is doing everything possible not to watch or read anything on how to complete this one.  It would be the first Raid we complete without help from the internet. 

[SOJA]

My biggest compliment: is that it finally feels like you get loot from just playing the game, no matter the activity. Whereas in destiny one you had to grind a bunch of boring stuff to get the loot necessary to just play the game. 

 

My biggest complaint: the new shaders system is awful and a complete money grab. So stupid. You want to make each piece it's own unique slot? Fine. You want to limit shaders to one character? Dumb but still fine. Having to grind for the same shader only to get it deleted or god forbid if you change armour? Dumb. so fuging dumb. 

[d-dave]

Just now, Cold Cat said:

No Spoliers...

 

Tried the Raid last night...  OMG... We did not succeed.  

 

My group is doing everything possible not to watch or read anything on how to complete this one.  It would be the first Raid we complete without help from the internet. 

Man, I salute you there!  Since I'm only level 12, with like zero time to play until Friday night.  Sadly, I just went ahead and watched some raid guides.  Looks really fun!  I'm sure it's even more fun to go blind.  I just won't be ready to jump in for several weeks.  Alas!

Anyone checked out Xur?  He's good a good inventory of goods!  It seems to me that you end up earning a fair number of quest exotics and get engrams through playing that Xur will be more of a help folks with terrible RNG.

[d-dave]

13 hours ago, SOJA said:

My biggest complaint: the new shaders system is awful and a complete money grab. So stupid. You want to make each piece it's own unique slot? Fine. You want to limit shaders to one character? Dumb but still fine. Having to grind for the same shader only to get it deleted or god forbid if you change armour? Dumb. so fuging dumb. 

I agree that it's annoying AF (I just got my first shaders when I went to Eververse this AM for a quick sec), but when you look at Luke Smith's response to it:  it's part of the grind.  Instead of grinding countless playlist crucible matches for that Eyesluna with range finder, rifled barrel, and whatever other perk, you are grinding for shaders.  You'll get the gear, but you just have to grind the places you want for your looks.  Or buy from EV...

I haven't gotten to that point to know first hand, and I'm sure I'll have a response there.  But I can see the perspective on both sides.  I imagine that more shaders will drop the longer you play.  How long did it take me to get my dead orbit shaders?  2 years...  So there's that grind.

[Cold Cat]

Just Picked up this bad boy last night.  Funny how I also got the Blake Plague Skin for it on a drop earlier in the night.  Doing the nightfall with more than 5 minutes left was HARD.  Well worth it.  Rat Kings Crew Sidearm for your kinetic (primary)  Look it up!                

[d-dave]

19 hours ago, Cold Cat said:

Just Picked up this bad boy last night.  Funny how I also got the Blake Plague Skin for it on a drop earlier in the night.  Doing the nightfall with more than 5 minutes left was HARD.  Well worth it.  Rat Kings Crew Sidearm for your kinetic (primary)  Look it up!                

Noicce!

I've heard how completely awesome this gun is.  The more on your fire team that use it, the deadlier it becomes!

I just finished Io, and I'm ready to hit the Almighty and level 17.  I love doing the adventures.  Are those the "re-playable" daily style activities like the D1 daily story mission?  They are so much fun.  The voice acting is so amazing and fun.  I still love getting green and blue engrams!  

I am so looking forward to finishing the campaign.  That's been the hardest part for me, everyone is talking about the ending and I have to cut off my favorite podcasts because they talk about it.  I just haven't had enough time to finish and kick Ghaul's ass!  That is going to be so satisfying!

[Cold Cat]

I hear ya.  Last night my team and I figured how to SKIP the first part of the raid.   We were like what!!!!

We're far from finishing it.  But going blind has been lots of fun.  Rat king stacks up to 6X!!!

Also picked up mida multi tool Last night.

[d-dave]

37 minutes ago, Cold Cat said:

I hear ya.  Last night my team and I figured how to SKIP the first part of the raid.   We were like what!!!!

We're far from finishing it.  But going blind has been lots of fun.  Rat king stacks up to 6X!!!

Also picked up mida multi tool Last night.

I can't wait to get working on those quests!

[d-dave]

Well, finished the campaign at 3 am last night...once you get on the roll for the final missions, it's really hard to put it down.

Can't wait to play some strikes and crucible now, as well as public events.  I know I'll be good getting raid ready the next few weekends.  I'm loving this game!

[Cat]

I tried Nightfall last night, got to the boss with only 5 seconds left. Clearly I'm not high enough level yet. 

 

The challenges and milestones make it really hard for me to stop playing.

[d-dave]

32 minutes ago, Cat said:

I tried Nightfall last night, got to the boss with only 5 seconds left. Clearly I'm not high enough level yet. 

 

The challenges and milestones make it really hard for me to stop playing.

Yeah, I can't wait to start digging into that.  I farted around a little bit doing some public events for my sunbreaker subclass last night.  I was just messing around, but the way the game is set up, you really want to keep on playing.  I really love how pretty the world is too.  The EDZ is really a crown jewel for Bungie world design.  Though Nessus and Io are way too samey for me.

What sucks though, I was playing some PVP, doing really well (team was dumb, but that's what happens when you solo cue).  I stuck a titan over his rally barrier and killed him.  I got some good long range pulse shots off, pushed guys and points.  I felt way better as a PVP player than I did in D1!  Then ANTEATER!  Damnit!

Can't wait for this weekend =)