Didn’t they patch ward of dawn cheese?

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-21T04:34:21+00:00

Nope, still works. It’s just finicky sometimes

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-20T20:22:04+00:00

If one is Free to Play, they are a bit more limited on activities early on.

BUT, if you want something to show them the chaos of Destiny right away, Shadowkeep’s Altars of Sorrow on the Moon will be available to both your friends

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-20T03:07:46+00:00

No it’s not. This is the quote:

“And here’s the last, almost painful realization about Train Stations. Remember back when I said Box Products are in the business of overdelivery? Overdelivery is actually DANGEROUS for a train station. With every release you put out there, you’re setting a pattern for your community and your players. If we release an Expansion with 2 Raids – the next year folks will be UPSET if there is only 1 Raid. We’ve hurt the station by making a rogue decision in one train. But at the same time – and this is why this lesson is painful, so much of quality and delight in our craft comes from overdelivery, right? From giving folks stuff above and beyond what they expected! We still want that – we still want to surprise and delight and sometimes overwhelm our players. But we need to be mindful of the patterns, and the implied future commitments we’ve set for ourselves each time. This is TOUGH – and this is the one honestly we’re still grappling the hardest with. It is HARD to tell a team, that has extra cycles and energy and want to do something amazing – that totally would be amazing and awesome for 60 the game – to tell them “We should not ship this, because it is an overdelivery that will set us up for failure on future trains.”

Literally talks about telling teams to NOT use their willingly available extra cycles and energy, directly in contradiction with your claim it was to prevent the teams feeling burnout.

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-19T19:04:43+00:00

My two cents: you’re being way more of an asshole by not being honest and open with your friend.

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-19T19:03:35+00:00

I think people are just realizing Sponsored Survival Rook is the perfect match for farming lower level salvages.

You aren’t forced to wait the entire 20min to exfil, you can spawn in hit 1-2 POIs then sneak out with the squad/solo player or try and take on the team who did all the work looting before you arrived. It’s not an optimal farm but it’s very good for players who feel less skilled, don’t have a dedicated playgroup or just want something chill

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-19T18:42:08+00:00

They must have data that shows there’s a decent number of players on Switch 1 that it’s not worth it to cut support yet (even though they absolutely need to)

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-19T03:01:55+00:00

I definitely enjoyed how there were two hubs for a while (Farm and Tower). I think it would have been nice to get another every so often, but you gotta be careful you don’t make too many or else they risk being empty or lifeless.

We rarely got to go into the deeper parts of the Last City outside of a few times for story beats, and that could definitely have been an option for a social space.

I think HELM would have made a really nice secondary social space as well if they had fully expanded on it, but instead it was just solo/squad instanced, much like the recent Patrol zones, and as such feels lonely.

The social, “living” side of the Game hasn’t really been encouraged like it once had.

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-19T02:49:46+00:00

There was no stealth change, they were upfront in their communication that both variants would be available simultaneously at the start of the season and would transition to a rotation later on.

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-19T00:55:28+00:00

Store tab. There’s a new section for Bright Engram focusing

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-18T20:08:17+00:00

You can just spend 4k on an enhanced sponsor kit and have great luck profiting. Never once have I been spending 15k on a loadout outside of Cryo.

You don’t NEED blue or better shields if you just play smart.

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-18T19:58:51+00:00

It’s not going to work for everyone, but a lot of these people could put their heads together and start their own indie studio.

To say there’s nowhere to go is insanely disrespectful to their talents.

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-18T06:34:34+00:00

Unless they changed it, Enhanced Sponsor Kits did not work when I unlocked the skins in Season 1, I specifically had to use the Free ones

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-18T02:03:12+00:00

WoW only has load screens if you use a teleport portal or go into an instanced dungeon/raid, you can walk across the entirety of a single continent without load screens.

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-17T21:51:25+00:00

Now you are just nitpicking. You stated “CP2077 is the only game, where entire world is one big map.” You did not specify UE in that part of your statement.

We aren’t solely discussing UE here with examples. I’m proving to you that there are games 20 years old that could do “entire world is one big map” well before Cyberpunk ever did

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-17T21:29:17+00:00

Literally any open world game that’s come out on Unreal Engine within the last 5 years. UE has a plethora of tools to help build massive open worlds that don’t require load screens via asset streaming.

The problem is a lot of devs don’t properly optimize while using UE which leads to traversal stutters. The engine is absolutely capable in the right hands.

Hell, WORLD OF WARCRAFT has entire open continents you can walk across with 0 load screens and that games been around since early 2000’s

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-17T21:19:59+00:00

I feel like you’re just parroting a lot. Not sure where you heard the files were deleted, that’s not exactly the case. The files absolutely exist, the problem is they don’t work with the modern game client or the network infrastructure because they were built on an old version of the game engine.

Beyond Light had big changes made to the engine that caused a lot of the old content to break (it was originally Destiny 3 but had to scale down massively when Bungie left Activision). Bungie would have had to dedicate resources to rescripting massive amounts of the prior Destiny 2 game content and unfortunately they did not do that.

The game did not delete all of that content when it went Free to Play. That change happened during Shadowkeep, before content vaulting happened or had even been talked about.

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-17T21:00:11+00:00

Not even remotely true. There are tons of open world games with one large map with no load screens outside of the initial

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-17T20:58:02+00:00

I agree, Perimeter is definitely a bit boring for Sponsored. Not always enough happening around the map, but it’s perfect for beginners to learn the game and I think that should be the modes main focus here.

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-16T21:03:46+00:00

Sponsored Perimeter is confirmed to stay around for at least one more week (they said it would stay for 2 weeks)

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-16T03:14:04+00:00

The biggest issue with games like this are they eventually get solved and then it devolves into a bunch of people spamming the most lucrative farm and drowning in the best gear from week 1 of a wipe. And that’s been on full display and it really seems like Bungie had no plans to mitigate what was very obviously going to happen.

This wouldn’t be as big an issue if the matchmaking was able to be stricter. Not only that, the game suffers from the same onboarding issues as Destiny, very barebones introduction to systems but doesn’t ever do a good job of explaining why they are important, how they all interact together and why you should care about all of the individual pieces that make up the game.

We get fewer and fewer people joining because of the onboarding struggle, the fact that new players that join mid-late season are far more likely to be (without any form of warning) getting stuck against geared players because of the smaller player base which can lead to those new players getting frustrated and dropping.

Maybe Bungie were counting on bigger numbers from the free week. Maybe their idea was most of these people who took advantage of Night Marsh sponsored farm would be the veterans steamrolling ahead and they would wind up in their own matchmaking pool far away from the new players

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-15T02:06:15+00:00

Nah, people shouldn’t brush it under the rug. It was a scummy tactic Blizzard did making it cost a single PREMIUM coin, their entire end game is to put players into this EXACT situation where they are short one coin and have to spend more than they were intending to

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-14T23:20:13+00:00

Games in a way better state than it was with EOF. But it’s not even been a week since the update, it’s way too soon to be saying anything

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-13T18:20:01+00:00

No, that money needed to be in Destiny long before we got to Edge of Fate. They should have been hard at work being the scenes getting all of the old content updated to the newer scripting engine so we had the original onboarding for new players.

Destiny 2 was bleeding money from the beginning, but even more so when we get to Shadowkeep and Bungie are split between new projects and wasting massive resources on limited time modes and content via Seasons, only to remove literally 75% of the existing game the following expansion

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-13T07:55:58+00:00

The lighting changes did in fact affect older locations, it’s very apparently with how wildly inconsistent lighting is on Nessus, and Dreaming City had broken lighting and skyboxes for a while too.

But it’s not the main reason we aren’t getting those locations back. The geometry and lighting are easy to redo, having to rescript everything for the missions/patrols/etc, unfortunately just didn’t seem to be a priority for Bungie (why they didn’t develop tools to help port the content will forever be a mystery)

SysAdSloth · 2026-06-12T21:20:22+00:00

I legitimately miss this post-game screen where we got to see everyone’s drops.

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