This week, Destiny 2 rolled out one other iteration of Guardian Games, its class-based Olympics that pits Hunters, Titans and Warlocks in opposition to one another.
While there’s one sort of cool new gun, and a positively cool new hoverboard, as the times press on right here, issues are getting a bit messy. Here’s what’s occurring.
There Were A Few Hours Of Unlimited Loot – This was truly a enjoyable one, the place you might load into Master or Legend Lost Sectors which might immediately full and offer you all of the loot from them. Bungie shut this down inside about two hours so many gamers missed out on the bounty. Naturally, this led to claims that Bungie solely races to repair bugs once they profit gamers.
Class Matchmaking Broke – Destiny 2 was beginning to hit gamers with Mongoose errors, so the answer to this seems to be to…disable class-based matchmaking for each Crucible and Gambit for the remainder of Guardian Games. Three days after launch, that’s two-thirds of formality actions turned again into “normal” variations, erasing the entire class competitors factor. Now it’s simply strikes, the place you’re not even going in opposition to different courses in any respect. And for some motive this can’t be fastened throughout the complete three week occasion.
The New Focused Activity UI Is Confusing – This yr Bungie did one thing with “focused activities” the place there can be a particular exercise that gamers are requested to grind for a restricted period of time to see which class comes out on high. But to even perceive what that is it is advisable hover over a tiny little node above all of the Guardian Games class nodes. When you default into the map on PC at the very least, you can not even see it. Then, when you do an exercise you get a reward bundle which fits straight to your stock with little fanfare, because it’s not one thing you declare from Eva or a chest you open within the Tower, so it’s straightforward to overlook.
The New Trials Card Is Annoying – I suppose this isn’t particularly Guardian Games associated, nevertheless it did launch with it. This is the brand new “Passage of Persistence” the place ultimately you may get to an Adept weapon on a flawed automobile as long as you ultimately win sufficient video games. However, Bungie revealed that when you lose a recreation with zero wins proper at the beginning, this implies you possibly can by no means full the cardboard, even when you do get to 7 wins. So some persons are grinding out two dozen video games, attending to the tip, and never getting an Adept weapon. This just isn’t even listed as a bug, it seems that is how the cardboard is meant to work, however there’s no logical means anybody would notice that.
More usually, as enjoyable because the Skimmers are, I ponder if Bungie has maybe damaged a bunch of their encounters by introducing a brand new, very straightforward strategy to skip previous content material with virtually limitless air grinding, however that’s a long term drawback. These different ones are the precedence points.
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