It really feels like a mistake to not include any enemy loot drops or patrol areas in the Beta. I get that they would want to save stuff for the full game, but the open world events are what makes Destiny special, only being able to do isolated activities makes the game feel broken apart instead of one experience to me.
Yeah, they still don't seem to know quite how to sell people on the game without giving too much away. I think the beta should have included loot drops from the smaller loot table the beta has, and one patrol area. As it is, people are likely to finish the intro mission, do the Strike mission once, and then after that all that's left is the PvP.
Nearly all the weapons we're given suck. The only loot I got in the intro mission was an exotic SMG that was significantly worse than the default auto rifle. Ammo drops seemed... Weird? Like, I would only ever get ammo when I really needed it. The game would wait for me to have 0 ammo in a weapon type before it gave me any.
Also, maybe I didn't look hard enough, but I felt there weren't any secrets tucked away in the intro mission? The areas looked like they could be explored, but there was nothing to find. Then again, that's largely a problem I had with the first Destiny. They gave us decently sized sandboxes with no reason to leave the linear path of enemy spawns.
This beta seems like a way to try and sell the game to someone new to the series or something (and maybe not even that). I thought the selling points of Destiny 2 were that the patrol areas would be improved upon due to the fact that they've improved upon the engine, allowing them to do a lot of stuff they couldn't before. I wanted to see an example of this new stuff.
