TheWeaponeer
Banned
XBox 1 Beta download here. Put in about 2.5 hours this afternoon with it and played everything at least once (PvP and strike was twice, the mission just once so far)
First of all, I do not like the new guns arrangement. I am guy whose loadout most of the time is Scout Rifle/Fusion Rifle/Rocket Launcher and this new arrangement just shuts me down. With D1, my guns FELT different to use, but this new system makes it feel very much like no matter what I pick, it is still kind of "meh" compared to D1. And since this is a beta, all the guns seem to be just "there" and nothing is really special right now.
I am very much NOT a PvP player, but I tried them both and they were the usual fare, but again the gun arrangement kind of detracts from the experience for me.
The cool downs have been discussed at length but yeah, it is pretty wretched right now.
In the PvP I played, I never got to use my super even once. That is also bad.
The single player was decent, but I would have liked the ability to play the mission ad nauseum without having to restart a character/menu walk. It would have been nice to have that option on the director menu with everything else. Again, BETA I know, but it just seems sloppy.
The new "Supers" for the Titan class (the one I played so far) do very little for me and I prefer the Destiny 1 Titan "Supers" over these new ones every time. Every time.
The thing that kills it for me right now is the fact that the people who have been playing for a few days now have pretty much torn through everything so the strike now is basically "keep up with the other guys and try to kill something before they wipe the floor with the weapons they got from the prior three days of play time". I would have loved to explore the level more, but people just are speedrunning the strike now and takes away the joy of exploration/discovery.
Keep in mind, I have been critical of Destiny for a while now - because I think at times Bungie is too busy being "clever" with its game rather than being consistent with it. And this is from a casual Destiny 1 player who has 500+ hours on 3 different platforms and yet still has not finished the last two raids because "meh, who cares now". That falls on the leads here, and that includes the folks who made up most of the design think tank for Destiny 1.
I think this BETA is not very good, and it does not sell me on a $60 game (TO START, unless you do not want to throw money at the screen for the "expansion pass"); especially since it looks like the "expansion pass" is setup to be just as bad as how the first one was. It feels like the "expansions" will wind up being as eventually irrelevant as how they would up being like they did with Destiny 1 and that was not fun to deal with the first time...
tl;dr - This beta is weak and lacks in some very important areas; it is NOT a good first impression of the overall game. If this is what Bungie calls "improvements" to an already suspect design methodology than I have to pass until it is like $20 or cheaper. There is nothing short of a Destiny 1 complete server shutdown that is making me want Destiny 2 at it is right now. It feels like an utter half ass cash grab.
First of all, I do not like the new guns arrangement. I am guy whose loadout most of the time is Scout Rifle/Fusion Rifle/Rocket Launcher and this new arrangement just shuts me down. With D1, my guns FELT different to use, but this new system makes it feel very much like no matter what I pick, it is still kind of "meh" compared to D1. And since this is a beta, all the guns seem to be just "there" and nothing is really special right now.
I am very much NOT a PvP player, but I tried them both and they were the usual fare, but again the gun arrangement kind of detracts from the experience for me.
The cool downs have been discussed at length but yeah, it is pretty wretched right now.
In the PvP I played, I never got to use my super even once. That is also bad.
The single player was decent, but I would have liked the ability to play the mission ad nauseum without having to restart a character/menu walk. It would have been nice to have that option on the director menu with everything else. Again, BETA I know, but it just seems sloppy.
The new "Supers" for the Titan class (the one I played so far) do very little for me and I prefer the Destiny 1 Titan "Supers" over these new ones every time. Every time.
The thing that kills it for me right now is the fact that the people who have been playing for a few days now have pretty much torn through everything so the strike now is basically "keep up with the other guys and try to kill something before they wipe the floor with the weapons they got from the prior three days of play time". I would have loved to explore the level more, but people just are speedrunning the strike now and takes away the joy of exploration/discovery.
Keep in mind, I have been critical of Destiny for a while now - because I think at times Bungie is too busy being "clever" with its game rather than being consistent with it. And this is from a casual Destiny 1 player who has 500+ hours on 3 different platforms and yet still has not finished the last two raids because "meh, who cares now". That falls on the leads here, and that includes the folks who made up most of the design think tank for Destiny 1.
I think this BETA is not very good, and it does not sell me on a $60 game (TO START, unless you do not want to throw money at the screen for the "expansion pass"); especially since it looks like the "expansion pass" is setup to be just as bad as how the first one was. It feels like the "expansions" will wind up being as eventually irrelevant as how they would up being like they did with Destiny 1 and that was not fun to deal with the first time...
tl;dr - This beta is weak and lacks in some very important areas; it is NOT a good first impression of the overall game. If this is what Bungie calls "improvements" to an already suspect design methodology than I have to pass until it is like $20 or cheaper. There is nothing short of a Destiny 1 complete server shutdown that is making me want Destiny 2 at it is right now. It feels like an utter half ass cash grab.
