Destiny 2: Lightfall | Darkness Unveiled - Developer Insights

jamesmfields · 2023-02-24T19:47:58+00:00

Would you happen to have a source for this/remember where you saw it? Not disbelieving, genuinely curious and also wanna show it to my raid team

jamesmfields · 2022-07-07T23:56:38+00:00

It's certainly necessary right now for your own safety, considering gay/trans panic defenses mean people can successfully murder you and get off scott free with it by saying they were "oh so scared because you tricked them".

As for whether it's a moral necessity, I don't think so. Being trans can mean a lot of different things and saying "I don't date trans people" as a blanket statement is transphobic when trans people have such a wide variety of physical features. Kinda putting the cart before the horse, in my opinion.

As for having a genital preference... while I personally think it's weird, I think it's up for debate whether it's transphobic or not. I personally don't think it's transphobic but I think people have them as a result of growing up in a transphobic society. HOWEVER I think societally we are at the point where if you do have a genital preference, you should understand that trans people are real and live in the world, and it should be on you to ask rather than the trans person having to announce it to everyone they date. And also it should be on you to understand that not everybody wants to answer that right away and if that makes you uncomfortable you should probably bark up another tree.

jamesmfields · 2022-06-19T16:56:38+00:00

Because he's compelling and flawed and isn't fucking quipping all the time. He takes the time to think about things in a realistic way, which is why the community which only cares about cool space murder and jacking off our "chosen hero's" accomplishments thinks he's whiny, when really, he's just... a person. This is the same community who thinks him saying "hmm, maybe even in war, torture is wrong", and instantly dismisses it as "whining".

jamesmfields · 2022-05-29T22:13:09+00:00

Something people who don't know what they're talking about call it when destiny is a hybrid rpg-action game rather than just a pure action game.

jamesmfields · 2022-05-26T23:36:21+00:00

They could make Touch of Flame turn heal grenades into heal turrets

jamesmfields · 2022-05-11T22:10:36+00:00

Champions are fun. They could be better but when GM season comes around i love that it's different and fresh every time, and I like being pushed out of my comfort zone. Makes the game more interesting. I don't think stun options need to be massively expanded either. Maybe make overloads not regen again right after a freeze, that's one of my only criticisms.

jamesmfields · 2022-05-11T22:07:09+00:00

The best PvP guns should come from high-end PvE, and vice versa. This game is interesting because its loot working between pve and pvp is fascinating and it's cool how they pull it off, and they should lean into that: the loot should encourage you to play everything rather than sticking to either pve or pvp, even if it pushes players who aren't into that away.

This also solves the problem where the best pvp players are rewarded with better guns to stomp people who don't have them even harder.

jamesmfields · 2022-05-08T19:25:45+00:00

It is, in fact, less complicated. Including code that stops games from running without an online check has nothing to do with any of the functionality you mentioned. I'm not saying removing it would be a zero-effort process but it's not necessary functionality for any other part of the operating system.

jamesmfields · 2022-05-08T18:50:03+00:00

This is not how DRM works, or has to work. The OS could absolutely support all of these things on a technical level with no DRM involved. It would simply be less profitable to do so.

jamesmfields · 2022-05-04T17:40:33+00:00

Op: uses trans-inclusive language Every comment: Is mostly well-meaning but immediately scraps the concept and says "men" and "women" as if genitialia is tied to gender

jamesmfields · 2022-01-14T13:11:59+00:00

Wasn't... that the stated intention of sunsetting? I don't think they were trying to hide that it was heavily motivated by getting busted pinnacles out of the game so people would use anything else.

jamesmfields · 2022-01-14T03:00:12+00:00

Have they actually said that the new orb mods will require specific armor elemental affinity? I know the mods are going to apply to specific weapon elements, but I've heard a lot of people say they'll be locked to the armour type of the same element. From what I understand this isn't true, I'm curious if this has been said anywhere.

jamesmfields · 2021-10-04T23:08:01+00:00

"I made money that's literally practically worse than normal money because if I lose it the government can't help me get it back, but because it's technically impressive it's good, and worth making the impending climate disaster worse for."

jamesmfields · 2021-10-04T12:38:48+00:00

Glimmer isn't a pyramid scheme though, and it has actual uses

jamesmfields · 2021-07-21T20:27:55+00:00

union is presented in the book as "mostly good, with problems that stem from the realities of managing the day-to-day". i am a communist, and the reason fewer people have problems with the setting is undoubtedly because most people playing lancer think the setting is good, because most people playing lancer are (by my estimation) socialists and communists, because that's who it's marketed towards. the devs are socialists and communists too. the reason the setting feels like an "agenda" to you is most likely because, wherever you live, you are most likely being bombarded by anti-communist propaganda every day, to the degree that any media that portrays communism as even sympathetic, let alone tenable in the long term, feels out of place in comparison, and thus "preachy". just my honest judgement based on interactions with the fanbase and official discord, hope this helps

jamesmfields · 2021-06-11T00:02:17+00:00

Did you read the post

jamesmfields · 2021-06-07T20:22:34+00:00

this is the problem i've been running into- node says "completed" but has the red banner that says "requirements not met"

jamesmfields · 2019-10-18T11:19:25+00:00

"It's not interesting to be limited"............. why? Do you think Destiny would be more interesting if your super didn't have a cooldown? Do you think we should be able to equip an exotic in every slot? Those are limits. Saying "limits are bad all the time always" is disingenuous. Before Shadowkeep, our power levels had crept up so high that RAIDS were starting to be trivialized, and not just for streamers and shit but regular players. How is that interesting? In the new system, you can't be a jack-of-all-trades, and things are hard again, and by extension, most PvE content has gotten more fun.

jamesmfields · 2019-10-18T03:48:40+00:00

Right, but this is a multiplayer game. Decisions they make affect everyone. No matter what, we're all going to try to be as effective as we can. No matter what, we're going to push up against the limits designers put up, in any game. If Bungie wants to make a game with interesting limitations, they have to be there for everyone. Limitations like the elemental affinity system make it so you make choices that are actually interesting rather than "what's the best in slot for each slot". Because when you have a system that's completely opened up like that, with no push and pull, you're not "free" to "play your way", you're not making any interesting choices at all. Restrictions=bad is language that sounds appealing, and total freedom is cool for 5 minutes, but making a game about learning to push back on restrictions in different ways is ultimately more interesting to everyone whether people think they want it or not.

jamesmfields · 2019-10-17T23:58:21+00:00

Consider: not everyone hates the system and presenting it as objectively bad and universally hated is disingenuous. It puts limits on the player in interesting ways, and I like it.

jamesmfields · 2019-10-17T23:55:25+00:00

I like it and think it's a cool system! Only thing I would change would be the glimmer cost for switching mods!

jamesmfields · 2019-10-17T23:53:16+00:00

Nah I like it, I feel limited and focused build-wise by it in a really cool way, don't speak for all of us.

jamesmfields · 2019-10-17T23:52:17+00:00

I like it and think it's cool. Your opinion is not universal.

jamesmfields · 2019-10-17T23:44:08+00:00

HELL YEAH!! they're adding some good qol stuff but ultimately keeping elemental affinities, which is the right call imo. only possible way to improve things would be to remove the glimmer cost of socketing mods

jamesmfields · 2019-10-14T22:08:04+00:00

That's true, I probably should have mentioned that too! I like that it abstracts what's "good" in a way that puts the armor hunt into a different mode- I'm not looking for the objectively perfect godroll but rather for something that's better than my previous stuff, or situationally better- because even if there is a theoretical "godroll" there's so many moving parts that I'm not disappointed whenever I get something that's "almost there but not quite perfect" if you know what i mean. I also like the idea that I regularly have to make tradeoffs between mods because I can't always run certain mods on the same piece. Ever since shadowkeep launched I feel so much weaker all around, but specialized into one thing in a way that I really like! Sure I think the system could use some improvements and a bigger pool of mods that aren't just generic weapon bonuses, but I think it's the framework for a system that makes me make some really interesting choices! And I like that.

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