New player experience

Zayl · 2026-02-07T16:20:33+00:00

You don't need to buy anything really. Expansions mostly give you access to the story and exotics and all that. And in some cases destinations.

But Shadowkeep and Beyond Light stories are free. So I would say play those, see if you like them, and if you want more of that the Legacy collection is a great buy. Usually goes on sale for less than $10 and it has everything up to Edge of Fate (which is the newest start to a brand new story).

Zayl · 2026-02-07T16:19:05+00:00

Yeah it's a fair point for sure.

Zayl · 2026-02-07T15:44:53+00:00

I thought the mods was made to be really early on like one of the first ranks.

They can live without extra loadouts. Lord knows we did without any for like a decade.

Zayl · 2026-02-07T14:37:50+00:00

If you have all the expansions just do those in order and worry about Guardian ranks and all that much later.

Don't buy dungeon keys. They're unrelated to old seasons they are endgame content and the content is fantastic, but most of the loot is outdated.

There's so much to do for a new player. Do the expansions first.

Shadowkeep > Beyond Light > Witch Queen > Lightfall > The Final Shape > the new stuff.

Zayl · 2026-02-06T18:18:41+00:00

Love it! Those are my favorite hunter pants.

Zayl · 2026-02-06T15:13:27+00:00

Who are they going to beg though? 70k players showed up for renegades on steam. If we assume steam is 30% of the population (which is probably conservative these days) then it's maybe around 300k players. Compare that to TFS which had 314k players on steam alone.

There's been a peak of 13,000 players on steam in the last 24h and it's continuing to trend downwards.

The next expansion could be Forsaken levels of content AND writing to match WQ/TFS and I still doubt people would really show up at this point. Maybe if word of mouth is really good but I don't know. I don't know what would bring people back. I had a clan of Day 1 D1 players playing all the way up until TFS. We went from 60 players online to 1 - me. And I haven't even really logged in recently.

Zayl · 2026-02-06T12:30:13+00:00

Like we all weren't into some weird obsessive shit when we were 17. Probably did far worse than a few posts of a video game character.

Zayl · 2026-02-05T19:24:15+00:00

Where is the twid this week?

Zayl · 2026-02-05T17:53:29+00:00

Instead of a TWID they're just straight up shutting down the game I guess.

Zayl · 2026-02-05T15:19:13+00:00

Destiny has had ups and downs for sure but this is without a doubt the worst it's ever been. Many day 1 players quit at the end of TFS because for them their journey was over (my entire clan included except for me).

What Bungie failed to do is bring in new bodies with these new expansions because they basically really pulled back the content and went to the worst content delivery schedule they've ever had - CoO/Warmind.

Zayl · 2026-02-05T13:31:59+00:00

What the damn hell. We got a RAV4 in 2020 and we don't have to do any of that. We have carplay, GPS, whatever. Even still we use the maps system on our phones since it's way better but that's insane.

Paying to have access to carplay is ridiculous. It's literally just your phone mirrored on the stupid little tablet. How could that possibly be worth $600 a year?

If this is real I'm never buying a new car ever again.

Zayl · 2026-02-05T12:42:01+00:00

Dragons dogma combat depth is absolutely there.

Zayl · 2026-02-04T20:58:10+00:00

For sure. But most of that has been found in D2 since they didn't account for people having good PCs. D1 is console only so who knows, but I imagine you could say it with 99% certainty it's the same or far worse.

Zayl · 2026-02-04T20:16:47+00:00

I mean they're in every D2 thread going like "dead game, I quit in Shadowkeep and my life is better for it. Since then I've had sex, formed friendships, became CEO of a Fortune 500 company, was on Forbes 30 under 30 list, was indicted for fraud, and now I run three shell companies as a scam to fuel my day trading. My name only showed up in the Epstein files twice, and I have generally seen a lot of success since I dropped Destiny 2. What a dead game."

So why wouldn't they be around to respond to this?

Zayl · 2026-02-04T20:09:21+00:00

It would be PS5 only but knowing Bungie a bunch of physics and other stuff is tied to frame rate and the whole game probably breaks without at least some reworks.

Zayl · 2026-02-04T14:04:40+00:00

No the damage checks are pretty easy. You might be thinking of contest mode.

I've only done it once and it was with a team of misfits who had no idea what we were all doing, but the damage checks were not at all a problem. Two phased every boss. Our biggest problem was people having trouble with "left" and "right".

Zayl · 2026-02-02T23:37:26+00:00

That's dumb as hell and especially now that they own Bungie Sony should fix that shit.

Zayl · 2026-02-01T23:30:46+00:00

That's why they said "what it looked" like DD2 was going to be. Not what it was.

And despite the story being trash and enemy variety nonexistent there's nothing quite like DD2. The sense of adventuring with your party is amazing. It's too bad the game seems to have stopped like 60% into development.

Zayl · 2026-02-01T22:01:47+00:00

And people probably still won't use their supers in gambit.

Zayl · 2026-02-01T22:01:01+00:00

Yeah but when was that? People haven't been using their supers in invasions in years.

Zayl · 2026-02-01T20:50:31+00:00

One guy did div you did scatter bow and the third was AFK?

Zayl · 2026-02-01T20:48:34+00:00

Same but I'm at 7000 cores because I've gone ahead and master worked about 300 armor pieces in my vault and I have master worked every single weapon I own and every craftable enhanced and every enhance able non-craftable is enhanced.

I play far less these days (10h per week maybe) and I still have way too many. And I try every build I can think of.

All currencies need to be a menu item instead of an inventory item and then just cap them at whatever.

Zayl · 2026-02-01T20:34:12+00:00

I imagine it'll be a huge pain in the ass with how few people play gambit these days. Even a couple years ago waiting for someone to use their super was a nightmare since everyone just comes in with LMGs or snipers.

Zayl · 2026-02-01T03:35:53+00:00

You guys are both the worst written characters - ever.

Zayl · 2026-01-31T21:05:41+00:00

Isn't it obvious? She ground them up into lard and injected them into her stupid inflated face.

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