Milky Moor posted:

My favorite bit was "It took Osiris centuries to open this gate -- but we don't have that much time." And then Ikora just forces it open with a purple laser beam and I don't know but it might've been nice if she had done that earlier?

Milky Moor posted:

The weirdest thing about Destiny 2 not having like any kind of social chat is how every time you start the game up there's that blinking icon for the text chat.

Pomp posted:

Can't wait for another tiny planet to go with another tiny raid and another strike to never run

Kyrosiris posted:

Yeah, definitely. Like, I agree that, in a vacuum, gambley microtransactions are bad. No poo poo, I'm pretty sure we can all agree to this.

But in the same breath, we can also all admit (if we stop arguing past each other) that A) that poo poo is Pandora's Box and you cannot put it back in absent basically sweeping government regulations of games in general which I worry would be a baby with the bathwater situation, and B) admit that, in the grand scheme of things, Eververse is really loving tame and doesn't even do buy-encouraging poo poo like "oh, this is a limited time event, so there's this special stuff related to it! it sure would be a shame if you missed it! also by the way it's three times the normal price" like Overwatch does.

Legs Benedict posted:

A Buff Gay Dude posted:

Crimson Doubles is 2v2 pvp and it used to have some sort of weird buff that would trigger when you were the last man standing.

It was either your cup of tea or a jug of piss depending on your feelings about small scale pvp, but that was under D1’s regime where people actually kinda liked pvp.

This looks like basically the same poo poo but with more mtx garbage as the first step is “visit Tess to get your free hit”

Section Z posted:

I'm kind of worried about "Rework of weapon mods" unless that rework is simply "You can finally get Kinetic mods dropped/they are always on sale at banshee". Because being able to purple up any energy or power weapons on a whim no fuss no muss no wacky hoops involved because it's nothing but the three elements has been a breath of fresh air.

Legs Benedict posted:

wish i could play the same warframe as y’all because it is just the most bland, boring poo poo in the world to me

Jeza posted:

I barely even noticed the existence of Eververse. Even if everything gated behind Eververse was released into the game as activity rewards for free and Eververse disappeared, it wouldn't even begin to fill in the gameplay/content shortfall enough to keep most people interested in playing on a regular basis.

It was dangerously apparent very soon after release that the game was already running on fumes WRT things to do, and what things there were to do were very often just repeats of what already exists in different wrapping. It doesn't take a genius to see the precipitous drop in playerbase that has been happening. Even in the 'positive' microcosm of SA, most of the Discords are dead or dying, and this thread has slowed to a crawl. And those that are still around are sort of idly acquiring every Exotic item across all classes and have seen every each inch of the gameworld at least ten times.

It's going to take a miracle update to save this game, and it has nothing to do with cosmetics or microtransactions imo. That's all just deckchairs on the Titanic when so much of the core game revolves around repeating insipid Lost Sectors to farm tokens for boxes that contain non-descript weapons. Other than a few standout set-pieces or events, and the fairly fun FPS gameplay itself, the whole thing is like a broken skinner box that only dispenses coal. There's just no incentive to play.

DrNutt posted:

Hmm, nothing in the patch notes about fixing the colony on PC.

AAB posted:

I mean, you could check any of their lead community people's (deej, cosmo, a_dmg04) or director's (chris barrett) twitter. Or you could check their weekly update of all the things they're trying to fix. Or the long list of poo poo they're pandering to reddit with. It's all there as to what they're trying to do. Sure it's not fast in any way shape or form, but they are dealing with a spaghetti again of bad decisions that the live team is digging out.

Shifty Pony posted:

Would be quite happy with that actually.

Also would like whiffing a Celestial Nighthawk shot to play the Price Is Right overbid sound:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_asNhzXq72w

Nuebot posted:

I played Destiny 2 the other night. There was no one in the tower with which to test the hot new chat function. I tried to check out Titan but there were only like two people there and I got bored and logged out to play Stellaris instead.

Stellaris is pretty fun, guys. I spent like four hours playing that game. My scientist killed himself.

Insane Totoro posted:

Oh okay, so like clan chat, so you can mass ping your friends. Not like a public chat function. Got it.

I was sort of imagining text chat mid crucru or random Tower people yelling at you.

Ainsley McTree posted:

Well they're gonna have some pretty stiff competition from Anthem so it's either shape up or ship out for destiny

Ainsley McTree posted:

thank you for the pity lol


i'm nearly through the campaign for the first time and i'm savoring it because i know this is the end of the point where this game is good

if i go slow enough maybe it'll be good again by the time i get there