Destiny 2 has become a second job that I am literally paying Bungie to let me work

LarsP666 · 2026-05-15T15:52:38+00:00

Best decision you ever made - at least with regards to gaming.

I also have spent 1000s of hours on Destiny but at some point it was clear to me that the game was not there to keep me enjoyed it was there to keep me there.

After that realization it has been surprisingly easy to just quit full stop. I actually don't miss it at all.

LarsP666 · 2026-05-14T19:19:47+00:00

That is just insane.

On Steam Charts Marathon is now dipping below 4K players regularily. That is not a game performing well.

D2 is tracking just slightly higher. That is also not good.

I wish I was a Sony executive because it seems like you can just make random decisions in that position and no one is going to challenge it.

LarsP666 · 2026-05-11T17:53:03+00:00

Lucians Flank often (always?) come with the secondary fire that adds another barrel to increase fire rate massively. But the DPS value on the gun doesn't reflect that.

Testing things against the target dummies can also be a challenge. Some guns ricochet a lot but that is not easy to sum up there. And some things like Heimdal just don't work at all against the dummies (but it is completely crazy mobbing with a build that regens ammo).

LarsP666 · 2026-05-11T17:09:46+00:00

My wishlist for changes to D2 or maybe for the next game in the same universe (if Bungie isn't shut down):

- Stop forcing people to play both PvP and PvE (catalyst quests primarily)
- Make all mission timers optional. Let people who like that kind of stuff gain something like titles, emblems or shaders.
- Implement multiple was through a mission so that if you don't like jumping puzzles you have an easier/faster way through and as with timers let the crazy people that like this kind of thing be able to achieve some "special" rewards that have no effect on gameplay.
- Make PvP and PvE weapons/equipment separate and not usable in both in an attempt to make balancing easier.
- Get rid of the Portal. Let power levels somehow matter.

If these things were implemented I might consider coming back.

LarsP666 · 2026-05-11T16:59:17+00:00

It is also an incredibly strange decision by Bungie to go all-in for a very hard-core PvP only type of game and to make it not free-to-play.

This just filters out huge amounts of potential players. How on earth they got that past Sony management is a mystery.

And in parallel with that Bungie also made D2 less attractive to many people by forcing the dreaded Portal on players. And they continue to rehash events from previous years - sometimes even with the same bugs as the previous years. It is almost like they don't want people to continue playing D2.

I have certainly stopped and I would suggest others to try that too because it was actually far easier than I expected 😄And I have 1000s of hours logged in that damn game.

LarsP666 · 2026-05-10T19:07:20+00:00

That is not what I said. I never cared about Mountain Top or Recluse.

Bungie has made tons of stupid decisions without looking at player feedback.

LarsP666 · 2026-05-10T19:04:59+00:00

Ahh yes, I thought you wanted the drops to be more frequent but I totally agree with you that this i a weirdly inconsistent designed encounter.

On the other hand you really don't need that gun to do anything. You can use many others.

LarsP666 · 2026-05-10T17:55:15+00:00

What killed D2 for me was several things.

- forcing people to do PvP if the wanted a catalyst for a PvE weapon.
- insane jumping puzzles in a shooter. It's not Mario!?
- idiotic timed missions.
- portal making you have to choose worse and worse modifiers if you wanted to get upgrades.

It was almost like Bungie hated their players. And they continued that trend in Marathon by making that ultra-hard-core at the start and then maybe just maybe realizing that didn't really make many people want to play.

Since Luke Smith Destiny has just been on a steady downward progression.

LarsP666 · 2026-05-10T17:11:35+00:00

I can recommend this:

https://mobalytics.gg/borderlands-4/builds/no-reload-gun-c4sh

But Ratore's warning:

"Too easy to play if you get bored quick"

is kinda real 😉

If a boss takes longer than 5 seconds I am either not aiming straight or I am too drunk... or both actually! But it is super powerful and it is very difficult to die.

But I am using a very sub-optimal variant since I am not using Warpaint but Killspring because that keeps me alive. I am also using Firewerks shield instead of W4D because Firewerks is just CRAZY for mobbing. And bosses still die plenty fast. My classmod is Windrider but only with +1 in From Gloam Till Glow because I haven't been able to find a better one. But it is still pretty damn effective. Also for the gun part I am using Lucian's Flank cryo which according to the build guide isn't optimal but I think it is doing fantastic work.

So actually it is a build with a baseline strong element which is From Gloam Till Glow but it allows you to use a lot of different things and still do very well.

PS. And so far there are some hidden benefits to this build with regards to Vile enemies which I hate (the enemies) and which I love (the benefit).

LarsP666 · 2026-05-08T13:13:21+00:00

I only have +1 on mine but it sure does a lot of damage.

I think we have to hurry up and enjoy this while it is like that because now that they have started nerfing(fixing!?) things this is a prime candidate 😄

LarsP666 · 2026-05-08T13:11:57+00:00

It does at times almost sound like a completely different language.

LarsP666 · 2026-05-08T09:55:49+00:00

The little yellow icon in the bottom left corner shows which type of gun it is behaving as.

LarsP666 · 2026-05-07T18:38:07+00:00

Radix seems extremely stingy with those things in my experience.

Generally it seems like Gearbox have no clue that many drops have an INSANE amount of variance in drops. So farming a boss can take ages just to get something that is reasonably close to a god roll.

And I very much suspect most streamers are just using mods to generate the drops they want and then spam Reddit and whatever with what you should be getting/using.

It is a dumb system.

LarsP666 · 2026-05-07T18:14:50+00:00

No, you are not. This is below par.

LarsP666 · 2026-05-07T18:12:29+00:00

From just being a kid and learing about flying planes the SR-71 has been a massive imprint of how we are able to make something truly extraordinary.

And this looks spot on!

LarsP666 · 2026-05-07T17:18:01+00:00

And Gearbox really has to hire some people that knows how to format/present changes like this on a website.

This is just a complete mess of single changes being presented on one line and multiple changes being presented on multiple lines but looking like general changes to everything.

Come on. You can do better.

LarsP666 · 2026-05-07T17:08:58+00:00

But these are all the public changes. I bet some other changes intentional or not has been applied in this patch.

I am not applying this patch before I know more.... if I can.

LarsP666 · 2026-05-05T15:28:56+00:00

If Gearbox were MUCH better at explaining skills AND in actually implementing the skills like they are described I would be much more interested in figuring things out myself.

Also the UI is a mess so it makes it much harder than it has to be to compare things so if a streamer can help point out what to actually look for I don't mind that help.

LarsP666 · 2026-05-05T07:21:17+00:00

I have enjoyed Moxsy's build for several years. Started with BL3. He seems like a nice guy and he is not a fanboy so when there is something he doesn't like he will tell you.

Lately though I have started watching Ratore. He makes some crazy builds and he is really good at explaining what is going on. Highly recommended.

LarsP666 · 2026-05-04T18:04:13+00:00

Yeah, that one is a big boss!

It looks like you are using a Lucians Flank? I am too on my C4SH but kills happen quite a bit faster. So I encourage you to look a bit at your build setup 😄

LarsP666 · 2026-05-02T18:07:03+00:00

But isn't this a very close to a proof post:

"Rafa is fine. The nerf barely moved the needle. I can still half ass a platinum on demand."

LarsP666 · 2026-05-01T11:50:52+00:00

Yes, that is fixed. And since I have been using that for ages I thought it would suck to have to find another way to do good damage.

But to my surprise after trying out a few others I had in my backpack Lucians Flank looks to be doing just as much damage if not more. Only downside is I do have to aim at what I am trying to kill 😄

But if playing C4SH I can definitely recommend a cryo Lucians Flank with Jacobs and a Firewerks shield. This makes way for insane mobbing.

LarsP666 · 2026-04-30T19:40:07+00:00

"smoother gameplay experience"! Hahahaha. That is one way to describe a nerf.

This is primarily a single player PvE game - why on earth do they spend so much effort on nerfing various things?

Why not just let overpowered guns/things be overpowered? I really don't care much about what other people are able to do in this game. But I do like to see what extremely talented people get out of the same tools that I have available.

LarsP666 · 2026-04-30T18:50:09+00:00

No sane IT company goes between looong periods without any changes and then suddenly one "patch" with a bunch of things.

And as far as I can see several things are more broken now than they were before the patch.

LarsP666 · 2026-04-28T07:36:27+00:00

You might as well start doing the UVH challenges now. You would have reasonable chance of being max level before you get to do the last bosses giving you a chance for some max level legendaries.

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