Destiny 2

[Norfleet]

I get the sense that these guys are scrubs. First, it's clear that they're facing an actual team, whereas they only have two people. Second, despite knowing that your opponents FLY, he consistently looks straight like he's not facing flying enemies: 2D thinking. I mean, look at his opponents: He's facing 3 guys who are clearly a team, vs. him, who is just there with his buddy and some rando. That's NOT a team. Despite all this, it seems like he does manage to shoot one of them down at one point.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

In case it wasn't obvious, they were facing really shameless hackers. The pvp isn't close to balanced but teleporting behind you with a machinegun that shoots rockets would be a bit much.

Anyway, update dropped and WHOA that's a lot of videos.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

doubleposting because only 5 vids per post





This one wasn't linked by Bungie themselves but it gives context to people who don't remember 2014 lore

 

[sullynathan]

Is it true that they removed all previous campaigns?

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Not yet. When the expansion drops in september, "Io, Titan, Mercury, Mars, and Leviathan will be cycled out and no longer be accessible. This includes all PvE activities (including campaigns) on those destinations. [...] To set a new maintainable foundation for the game this fall and to create room for Beyond Light and the future roadmap, the first Destiny 2 deposit into the DCV will be larger than those to come in the future. [...] Content that goes into the Destiny Content Vault may return in the future, altered (if necessary) to fit the new state of the universe."

https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/49189

The locations listed would include the original campaigns. I assume Forsaken content will be made free-to-play in their place, but that's just a guess.

 

[ADL]

They're removing 5 of 7 raids, 7 strikes, all content including story missions related to Io, Titan, Mercury, Mars and Leviathan. In a game that's already starved of content, absolutely ridiculous. My recommendation would to play Warframe or literally anything else.

The map today:

The map after September 22nd:

Frankly, principle of "fuck you I paid for this" aside, I don't give a shit about any of the content being removed except for the raids but one day they're gonna throw content I actually like such as the Dreaming City in the "Destiny Content Vault" and by then, no one will really care since the precedent was already set.

 

[J1M]

You buried the lead. They canceled Destiny 3 in favor of DLC.

Game has officially entered whaling mode.

 

[Echo Mirage]

Why the hell are they cutting the content? Are they remaking the whole game or what?

 

[ADL]

Why the hell are they cutting the content? Are they remaking the whole game or what?

Because they can't fit all the content into the game and vertical progression bullshit invalidated the content so they felt "why bother trying to keep it?" My guess is it's all the uncompressed audio in 15 different languages and pre-rendered video hogging up all that space along with some terrible compression methods. When I play Destiny, I wonder where the hell all that hard drive space went.
It's been 15 years since Guild Wars did things right and developers still don't recognize the brilliance of keeping the power level consistent no matter how many expansions you have.

 

[Perkel]

My friend who plays regularly with me raged so hard that he threw out his D2 collectors to garbage.

The best part of it is that people who paid 60$ for initial game and 60$ for each new expansion (so around 200) are literally getting screwed in ass because they won't be able to play any content they bought.

D2 is basically stealth subscription game.

I really do wonder how they will avoid lawsuits with it.

 

[ADL]

I would be fine with it being a stealth subscription game if it were in any way on par with a subscription game. I can't believe how little content there is and how much they ask for it. Even more baffling is how people spend 8 hours a day playing this shit. Removing a good portion of the game under the guise of "you won't miss it anyways because of our power creep design" is just taking the piss.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Because they can't fit all the content into the game and vertical progression bullshit invalidated the content so they felt "why bother trying to keep it?" My guess is it's all the uncompressed audio in 15 different languages and pre-rendered video hogging up all that space along with some terrible compression methods. When I play Destiny, I wonder where the hell all that hard drive space went.
It's been 15 years since Guild Wars did things right and developers still don't recognize the brilliance of keeping the power level consistent no matter how many expansions you have.

Nah.

They're doing it so they can sell you back the deleted zones in a future DLC (Shadowkeep).

 

[rusty_shackleford]

The only good thing about this game was the story campaign. The actual "content"(end game) is complete garbage.
This decision is hilariously stupid.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

detailed article showing what will go into the fridge

https://www.thegamer.com/destiny-2-content-bungie-delete-content-vault/

Losing the Tribute Hall hurts the most personally, since a shooting range is always useful.

 

[Aquinas]

The only good thing about this game was the story campaign. The actual "content"(end game) is complete garbage.
This decision is hilariously stupid.

I don't really think anyone at Bungie or most D2 players think the Y1 story was any good, though. I'm not happy to see the Raids go, at all, but Curse of Osiris, Warmind, and even base Red War shit was all pretty terrible. Didn't improve until Forsaken, and all that stuff seems to be being kept in.
I still find it baffling that they found a way to improve their game twice, once in The Taken King and once in Forsaken, and yet they still keep trying to do something different and fall flat on their face for a year until they fix it later. You'd think they'd learn by now how to, at least, copy themselves, but I guess not.

 

[Rahdulan]

So, content people bought the first season pass for is getting cut? I'm just surprised everyone's taking this lying down.

 

[Aquinas]

So, content people bought the first season pass for is getting cut? I'm just surprised everyone's taking this lying down.

The vast majority of the content being cut is already ignored by the average player. All the enemies are in other areas that are being kept, and no good loot is being lost in the transfer, since it can be recovered.
The only parts that people are upset about are the raids and the Leviathan content that I've seen. Raids should be obvious as to why people don't like the idea, but the Leviathan content was always seen as being nice, so losing it is a decently big blow. Aside from that, people are more upset about Weapon Sunsetting, or making gear have a power cap that won't advance with the power level as the game keeps going. That's some actual bullshit that affects people.

 

[sullynathan]

I couldn't find anyone to play multiplayer with for the original campaign so there's some truth to what you say

 

[J1M]

Since the game's apparently going to get culled mid-september I decided to give this a story run. Anyone around GMT+1 interested in teaming up? Just casual PvE through the story content, no pressure, no MMO hamster wheel.

You can probably fix the issue of thinking the story is worthwhile by watching some of it on youtube.

 

[ADL]

Meh especially in light of them removing half the game in November.


lol fucking shills will defend anything
https://archive.is/oi8ff

Destiny 2 content removed from 10 November
Destinations:

• Mercury
• Mars
• Titan
• Io
• The Farm
• The Leviathan

Campaigns and seasonal narratives

• The Red War (D2's campaign)
  
• Curse of Osiris
• Warmind
• Season of the Forge
• Season of the Drifter
• Season of Opulence

Strikes

• The Pyramidion (Io)
• The Festering Core (Io)
• Savathûn’s Song (Titan)
• Strange Terrain (Mars)
• Will of the Thousands (Mars)
• Tree of Probabilities (Mercury)
• A Garden World (Mercury)

Raids and Dungeons

• Leviathan
• Eater of Worlds (Leviathan)
• Spire of Stars (Leviathan)
• Scourge of the Past (Last City)
• Crown of Sorrows (Leviathan)

PvP modes

• Supremacy
• Countdown
• Lockdown
• Breakthrough
• Doubles
• Momentum Control
• Scorched

Crucible maps

• Meltdown
• Solitude
• Retribution
• The Citadel
• Emperor’s Respite
• Equinox
• Eternity
• Firebase Echo
• Gambler’s Ruin
• Legion’s Gulch
• Vostok

• Gambit maps
• Cathedral of Scars (Dreaming City)
• Kell’s Grave (Tangled Shore)

Exotic Quests

• Sturm
• MIDA Multi-tool
• Rat King
• Legend of Acrius
• Sleeper Simulant
• Polaris Lance
• Ace of Spades
• The Last Word
• Le Monarque
• Jotunn
• Izanagi's Burden
• Thorn
• Lumina
• Truth
• Bad Juju
• Anarchy
• Tarrabah
• Worldline Zero

 

[Clockwork Knight]

 

[Baron Dupek]

New forced faces remodeling is out

before

then

and now

More people report butchifying their female characters.
Western devs, not even once...

 

[thesheeep]

I honestly do not see a difference between the last two other than maybe somewhat different lip color, but that could also just come from the different lights.

I've seen people complain about this, but honestly... I just don't see it.
Then again, I've never given a fuck about what my characters look like so I guess I'm just not interested enough in looks to see it

 

[ADL]

I can't wait to see where this ends up playercount-wise a couple weeks from now. Bungie realized Destinycucks will buy anything at this point but the impressions on this have been.... Not good. Even worse than Shadowkeep. I think removing the entirety of the base game only to add 2 strikes and a raid to replace it because the game was taking up too much storage for console users was too much for people.

 

[Robber Baron]

At this point the story of Destiny is like a spiral of dark comedy.