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I would disagree. Once you hit a certain point the only things that increase your level are your weekly's, exotics, and the assured max level drop for completing the raid. You can hit the max without ever touching either Raid or Nightfall, and all you'll really miss out on are raid weapons and armor (which are admittedly good but not so good they're must haves).

Sounds good. I'll see how the Xmas budget goes.

Welp, Bungie has done it again.

 Frankenberry wrote:
Welp, Bungie has done it again.

Yeah, when I went to pop on Tuesday and do some stuff I noticed that I was locked out.

That got the big ol' "Uninstall" from my console.

Yeah I think that's really sleazy. People have been saying they did the same in Destiny 1, but I really don't care. If it was base game content it should have remained within reach of people who owned only the base game.

 LordofHats wrote:
Yeah I think that's really sleazy. People have been saying they did the same in Destiny 1, but I really don't care. If it was base game content it should have remained within reach of people who owned only the base game.

They didn't in Destiny 1, but they did lock Playstation "exclusive" content away into the paid DLCs despite it being in the base game.

That’s a dirty move.

Also, the weirdness of not having brought forth my previous character continues. Ghost is asking Ikora what a warmind is.

 Future War Cultist wrote:
That’s a dirty move.

Also, the weirdness of not having brought forth my previous character continues. Ghost is asking Ikora what a warmind is.

I brought my previous character forward and Ghost still asked Ikora that...because it's not so much him asking "what a warmind is" but rather "which warmind is that".

So the Raid Lair is fun. Funner than the raid at least. It's nice to have a touch challenging fight without the fear that the slightest error will instantly result in a wipe XD

I got the update, played a few missions so far, but I dunno... it's not as fun as the main story was. I don't get that OMGMUSTPLAYNOW feeling anymore. I think I hit that same point I get to with every game, whenever I finish the main story the game turns to meh. I think the only one I played a lot of multiplayer afterwards was Mass Effect 3, most other games I try it for a bit and then a week or so later I'm playing something else instead.

I agree that the story wasn't as compelling but what killed it for me was how the RNG was this time around. For some reason it just feels kind of fruitless. It also has trouble with giving you things you already have as well. Playing with friends is still fun and honestly I probably wouldn't play it solo at this point.

So to be clear, they were blocking content people had already paid for and had been using until they forked over more money?

 Future War Cultist wrote:
So to be clear, they were blocking content people had already paid for and had been using until they forked over more money?

Correct.

And even then, you can still be locked out of activities(Iron Banner and Nightfall) because you do not have the DLC.

It didn't effect me since I got the season pass, but still a poopy thing to do for folks that don't. Really dumb shenanigans to pull right now in light of all of the recent EA Star Wars drama. Next thing ya know they're gonna announce brand new superior in every way Finecast loot boxes for Overwatch.

I heard Curse Of Osiris was a bit of a let down? My copy keeps crashing so I’ve been out of the loop for a month now.

Well, I grabbed a copy of the main game last week, and signed up with [Daka].
I'll try to get more time in this week.

 Future War Cultist wrote:
I heard Curse Of Osiris was a bit of a let down? My copy keeps crashing so I’ve been out of the loop for a month now.

It doesn't really feel like it adds all that much to the game beyond the short story quest that doesn't change much of anything to the overall. The free update that made it so you can buy armor/weapons from vendors was a bigger sea change.

 Future War Cultist wrote:
I heard Curse Of Osiris was a bit of a let down? My copy keeps crashing so I’ve been out of the loop for a month now.

not realy a let down, but not worth the price. mercury is nothing but a pitstop for the dlc story. nothing else to do in that zone exept a heroic replay every day.
only thing posetive that came from it was the 3 man heroic strikes, cuz normal strikes are pointless to play after you pass 260.

More stuff is always nice, but I cant help but feel that Curse could have been much more than it is. The patrol zone is really quite small and there's not a lot to do. The "time travel" aspect could have been developed a lot more as well(past, present and future patrol zones would have been cool) But its limited to the story and the repetitive adventures.

If you didn't like Destiny 2 before, then the DLC didn't really add anything to make you like it more. On a whole the biggest problem I have with it is the wasted opportunity. We could have visited the ruined fortress of the Sun Breakers or you know other stuff to fill a patrol zone on Mercury, and the Infinite Forest is horribly underutilized for such a flexible concept.

I didin't expect much so it wasn't a total waste. Wish I could use my sparrow on mercury...

Huge story or even level misses with the DLC, Like doing stuff in D1 like fight Krota with you at a higher light level so not a raid level but a strike or something like that.

I feel like bungie doesn't want to give us all the content and gives it too us at a snails pace to keep us looking at whats new. Like this week and the rally event why not make it all the time?

The overall game play and feel I get from D2 is its better than 1 but not by much.

That's also my summary of the current faction event. It really didn't add much to the game-- a single fancy armor set for each faction, and a single new weapon to be released depending on which faction wins (which sucks for the other factions).

All it really did was finally motivate my fire team of friends to do a nightfall strike again and find out we're way better at the game than the last few times we tried it.

It is better than 1, but there is still stuff that should have matchmaking as a default, such as the Leviathan.

Matchmaking int he raid would be a nightmare, especially the way it's currently designed where coordination is really the only challenge and the margin for error can be near zero. Why Nightfall doesn't have a matchmaker is beyond me. It's not that hard even on prestige. What should be in game is an LFG feature. I have no idea why you have to go to the website/use the app to put a group together. That's just a glaring design flaw imo.

 LordofHats wrote:
That's just a glaring design flaw imo.

Or that you can't pick what type of Crucible you want or being able to choose which Strike you do. I don't like having to hope I get Control and up getting Supremacy four times in a row and then a Clash match.

Finally beat the main missions. Now to get through Curse Of Orisis before the next one comes out.

I played 9 hours of Forsaken, beat the first part of the story. It was a decent story not a bunch of go to this planet then this one which is good. I didn't really feel anything at the end though almost like well that's it. I'm excited to unlock the other supers, but it seems like its Escalation protocol type event, hopefully finding groups on the app wont be bad.

I thought the ending was kind of out of left field, but mostly I'm annoyed that with Cayde gone, the game's cast is utterly boring save for Fail Safe. I was never that into the game's lore, but the lack of interesting characters is rather stark without the cloud cookoolander dragging everyone behind him.

With the exception of Nightstalker and Striker all the new Sup-Classes are pretty absurd jumps in power. Knife throwing Gunslinger barely needs their guns, and the super completely outclasses Golden Gun in pretty much all situations. Dawnblade and Sentinel are getting some cheesy results in Raid content

The random rolls aren't something I'm super excited about. Agitating feature but oh well. At least armors now have some variety to them other than cosmetics.

Im interested to see if they do a Destiny 3, I can see the story continuing with another enemy attacking earth, and so-on.

I play mainly at night from 9pm to 4am so most of my friend are offline, or the main fire team (5 of us on weekends) cant get enough people to do the raid. So unfortunately I haven't done any raids yet.

I feel like the new menu updates and so on are a repeat of D1 and its 2nd year update, a big change to grab more people to play their lame a** game. I unfortunately sold all my resources trying to get more legendary shards, so upgrading stuff is a pain and spending shard to buy resources is a waste.