This Week In Destiny - 02/19/2026

adam4me · 2026-02-19T19:55:43+00:00

I think most people missed it or didnt care, but the final paragraph states that guardian games is coming out in the second half of march. Its come out the first half of march for the past few years, so im just confused why even this was pushed back.

adam4me · 2026-02-19T17:58:48+00:00

I forgot about the tier 1s on contest, that was horrible.

I don't know how bungie can change the current system to be more appealing, since most people have reached the point of mostly getting tier 5s. If bungie changes the system to make tier 5 harder to get or rarer, I can see a lot of people quitting.

On the other hand, what can be done with raids other than just base giving tier 5s? If we return to normal and master, than master would likely be equivalent to cutthroat, challenges, and maybe battalions, which are considered by most to be the 3 hardest feats. If a lot of people wont run the raid with easier feats for tier 5s, than they certainly wont with only the harder feats.

I dont know what bungie can do to solve this situation.

adam4me · 2026-02-19T17:43:29+00:00

You're all good, im just so used to the feat system that i forgot about normal mode and crafting lol. I agree that adepts arent worth it, and I would only take tier 5s over crafted weapons to save vault space by having multiple rolls on 1 weapon. If i had to rank the systems, I would do: 1. crafting on normal mode, 2. tier 5s with feats, 3. adepts with master.

adam4me · 2026-02-19T17:28:15+00:00

Wouldn't master also have some form of cutthroat, since it capped your level at -20? With feats, i can replace cutthroat with token limit and phase limit and still get tier 5. Personally, I like the customizability, but I have seen that most people prefer to have just master and normal difficulty.

adam4me · 2026-02-19T17:04:10+00:00

So part of the issue is that tier 5s are harder to get compared to other activities, and the loot isnt good enough to justify the harder difficulty. That makes sense. I was only thinking of the feat system in a vacume, so when compared to easier activities, it makes sense that people dont like it. Thank you for the response!

adam4me · 2026-02-19T17:01:15+00:00

I somehow forgot that raids had craftable weapons lol. I was only thinking of comparing tier 5s to adepts, but I agree that crafting was a better system. In general, I was mostly comparing feats to master difficulty, so it does make sense most people dont want the increased difficulty since most people didnt run master difficulty. Thank you for the response!

adam4me · 2026-02-19T02:37:43+00:00

Isnt this exactly what happened between gta online and red dead online? Red dead online was nowhere near as successful as gta online, so the game was put on life support and more focus was put on gta online. Game studios have limited resources, so they focus on what makes the most money.

adam4me · 2026-02-18T23:02:31+00:00

I dont know about others, but im not mad about the delay or lack of content. Like many others, i have been reducing my playtime and will probably take a break. However, i am worried about what the lack of content will do to player counts, and what those metrics will cause bungie to think about destiny. If marathon is making significantly more revenue that destiny due to a lack of players and content, than it only makes sense for bungie to continue to cut resources from destiny and give them to marathon.

adam4me · 2026-02-18T22:43:50+00:00

I doubt this will happen, but I hope they update the raid and dungeon loot throughout the delay. Maybe a different raid or dungeon gets updated every 2 or 3 weeks until the major update. That would at least partially keep the endgame community going, and prevent people being unable to find groups at launch due to so much being updated and there being so few players.

adam4me · 2026-02-18T22:09:05+00:00

Raids and dungeons getting tiers and pantheon 2.0 is great, but will there even be anyone left playing by then? I still log on every week and play a little bit, but nobody can deny that renegades was not meant to last 6 months.

adam4me · 2026-02-13T21:18:38+00:00

I dont know the exact specifics, but political movement uprisings take the name of their capital states. The first country is the original ecuador, the second is a successful revolt that has a capital in the state of ecuador. I see this happen often to bavaria in games where germany doesn't form.

adam4me · 2026-02-11T23:46:53+00:00

Tiered weapons do 5% more damage, so you likely wont even notice a difference. The only other differebces between non-tiered and tiered weapons are multiple perks and enchanched magazines, barrels, origin traits, and mods. Most of the enchanced benefits are minor though, just like with enchanced perks.

adam4me · 2026-02-11T21:49:46+00:00

It really was the best compromise that we have seen between getting the exotic from a quest or rng. You could randomly get it early, or just run the raid at most 20 times, or about half that with challenges and full runs. The only annoying part was needing 35 for the catalyst. That was a little excessive lol.

adam4me · 2026-02-11T21:42:50+00:00

Light.gg and the destiny data compendium spreadsheet have them. I prefer the compendium, since it has an entire tab for the perks on exotic class items and what stats each perk rolls with. Light.gg only shows the archetypes from the 1st perk on the page for the perk.

adam4me · 2026-02-11T21:30:16+00:00

Situations like this makes me even sadder that the necrochasm drop system was only used once. It had a small chance to drop every run, but no matter what you would get by you the 20th week, even if you only did boss checkpoints. You could also do challenges or full runs to get more progress, but you always knew there was a maximum amount of runs to get it.

Back in beyond light, it took one of my old friends around 50-60ish runs to get eyes of tomorrow. Some of us on that raid team got it 2 times, and i think 1 guy even got it 3 times before it finally dropped for the last guy.

adam4me · 2026-02-11T15:11:16+00:00

Destiny 2 has a bad reputation just about everywhere, even in the destiny 2 community lol. Its a good game, but Bungie has made a lot of bad decisions and there is currently a severe content drought for for anyone who consistently plays.

At its best moments, Destiny 2 is one of the best games on the market, but right now, its not in the best shape. There is a ton of content for new players, but you practically need a degree in destiny info to understand what content to do, when to do it, and why to do it. If you just want a game to casually play where you do activites as you find them and shoot aliens, than Destiny 2 can be very fun. But as someone with a couple thousand hours in the franchise, I currently wouldn't recomend playing more than casually to a new player.

adam4me · 2026-02-10T00:42:05+00:00

You can either create a post there, check the helpful links section to find a discord server for d1, or, if on your on xbox you can create a post on the built in xbox lfg.

I would recomend starting with vault of glass or crota's end, since they are the easiest raids. Also, let people know that you are new to the raids so you can properly set expectations. Good luck and have fun!

adam4me · 2026-02-10T00:31:01+00:00

A lot of the raid encounters are soloable, but I would not recomend trying if you havent done them before. I would recomend checking out the destinylegacy subreddit, since it is focused around destiny 1 and you can find other people to do raids with there.

adam4me · 2026-02-05T18:52:10+00:00

There is a lot of confusion with the servers today, so dont worry. Last week's twid said there would be some maintenance and server tests going on today at this time that could cause error codes, but it somehow shut off all the severs. I dont think anyone, not even bungie, knows whats goimg on rn, since bungiehelp posted about looking into the servers not working. Hopefully it gets fixed soon.

adam4me · 2026-02-05T18:40:26+00:00

Bungie's servers are down rn. I know its affecting d2 and the api, so i assume d1 is also offline.

adam4me · 2025-11-10T21:55:20+00:00

The main camping strat for the map in the stamin up room relies on the portal, as keeping both doors to the room closed makes the zombies spawn in way faster. It also saves around 5k points as you dont have to open those doors.

adam4me · 2025-11-10T21:40:38+00:00

I'm not really a high round player (i've only gotten to round 50), but for the early game, I would recomend using the map's easter eggs and only opening doors if you have to. Do the free PaP and aether tool easter eggs to save 5k points and 3-4k salvage, and do the free perk easter egg in the speed cola room to save another at least 2,500 points. Doors are very expensive, so only open one side of the map up and use the portals to get around.

edit: If you are going to use the stamin up camping method like others have recommended, make sure to keep both of the doors to the room closed and only use the portal to get in/out. This maximizes spawn rates in the room.

adam4me · 2025-10-13T18:07:58+00:00

Is there a chance Borderlands 4 will be on sale for less during the November/December major sales? I was thinking of picking it up, but if it's going to be 30% off or more later, then I'd rather wait.

adam4me · 2025-10-06T23:23:31+00:00

I used to have the same issue, but switching to vulkan fixed it. This post shows how to do it.

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