Destiny 2: The Final Shape [PS4/PS5/XB1/XBS/PC] - Y8, The Dark Age Returns

[6souls]

There is a "leak" that says D2 will go into maintenance mode in 2025 with an anniversary-like content drop at some point during the year. The next saga begins in 2026.

https://twitter.com/DestinyBulletn/s...80189129420874

[Obsidian]

After buffing Sniper reserves earlier this season, Bungie accidentally nerfed them with the update today, because the Reserves buff was based on a build from before the Sniper buff.

lol. They also broke Graviton Lance's rate of fire with the RPM text fix for Legendary Heavy Burst Pulse Rifles.

[Obsidian]

So this is shaping up to be one of Bungie's better patches in a long while. Not only did they break overflowing mag perks by making basically any armor, mod, or perk swap reset your magazine total, and not only did they break Graviton Lance's RoF with a text fix, and also nerfed Sniper reserves in a patch that buffed reserves globally, they also:

* Nerfed Pale Heart non-Overthrow chest exotic class item rates to 0.1%, and the escalating chance from Overthrow chests is either stepping by increments of 0.1% or just doesn't exist
* Broke projectile super tracking while trying to fix the tracking on Twilight Arsenal https://twitter.com/ValkDokk/status/...I0dDnX7Gg&s=19
* Broke the energy refund for Coldsnap hits when paired with Osmiomancy Gloves, assumedly as a side effect of nerfing Spirit of Osmiomancy with Vortex grenades
* Somehow nerfed Teleso's bolt explosion damage in PvP

[Qalbert]

couple dozen (if not more) posts on reddit about logging in and being told names had been changed to Guardian3243435 or w/e, also:
https://twitter.com/RickKackis/statu...25570241438045

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/Destiny2Team/sta...06434715808195

[Obsidian]

lol. Implementing the system everyone hates in triplicate instead of just putting the bounties back in the game. Now instead of just suffering through the one gambit-pvp related Pathfinder node to get your pinnacle, you need to do an entire Gambit/crucible tree. Brilliant.

[Demosthenes]

lol. Implementing the system everyone hates in triplicate instead of just putting the bounties back in the game. Now instead of just suffering through the one gambit-pvp related Pathfinder node to get your pinnacle, you need to do an entire Gambit/crucible tree. Brilliant.

Consensus is that it's fine and most people like it. The issue at hand is that there isn't a PVE only path 100% of the time. Splitting it up seems silly, I guess splitting it into three was less intensive computationally. What really needed to happen was a semi random seed. Basically guarantee each ritual activity can still complete it, but stuffing general quests in there. Also, you can just fucking ignore Gambit or crucible with this split if you don't like it. Like what the fuck is wrong with y'all?

[Obsidian]

The Pathfinder maps aren't random to begin with, the current implementation is a hand-made selection of 50ish different maps.

It's "fine", but for the amount of work that went into replacing something that was itself also fine (the ritual playlist bounties) I think the goal should be improvement, not replacement.

[Demosthenes]

It's literally just bounties, the fuck is the crying about? Except you get 3 pinnacles doing the activity of your choice instead of one.

[Obsidian]

They're not bounties. They're extra steps to getting the pinnacles you were getting before by just playing the game. Now instead of just having to complete 3 strikes you need to finish 4 strikes with Vex bosses at the end, get 47 sniper headshots in strikes, and whatever other nonsense is in there.

I'm not crying about anything, I just ignore them like I ignored the original playlist pinnacles because I have no need of them and no interest in slogging through playlist completions to get them. The consensus is definitely not that Pathfinder is fine though. It was a system sold as giving players more choice in how they earn their weekly pinnacles and it's accomplished the exact opposite, and it broke a setup that didn't need fixing in the first place. It works fine for the Pale Heart, it sucks for Ritual activities.

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/A_dmg04/status/1828122044896022995

[Demosthenes]

They're not bounties. They're extra steps to getting the pinnacles you were getting before by just playing the game. Now instead of just having to complete 3 strikes you need to finish 4 strikes with Vex bosses at the end, get 47 sniper headshots in strikes, and whatever other nonsense is in there.

I'm not crying about anything, I just ignore them like I ignored the original playlist pinnacles because I have no need of them and no interest in slogging through playlist completions to get them. The consensus is definitely not that Pathfinder is fine though. It was a system sold as giving players more choice in how they earn their weekly pinnacles and it's accomplished the exact opposite, and it broke a setup that didn't need fixing in the first place. It works fine for the Pale Heart, it sucks for Ritual activities.

You're conflating how much you have to do with whether or not it's a bounty. I recall a fallen boss bounty in the old model. I recall fucking annoying bounties back then too. They're fucking bounties. You're fucking crying over nothing. If you think the general consensus wasn't that pathfinder is great just implemented correctly, you need to examine you ability to comprehend shit. Pick the strike version, do whatever you like in it, call it a fucking day. Oh God please help me Bungie, I have to play the game to play the game.

[Obsidian]

Yeah and you could just ignore the shitty bounties and spam the random ones until you got 5 you liked, or wait until daily reset to get a different set of bounties that may or may not have been shitty. You can't reset shitty pathfinder nodes, you're stuck with them until you do them or the weekly reset hits. And if you think this system is popular you're the one who needs to have a look at *the internet*, because it's been univerally panned by reddit, twitter, streamers and online blogger since its inception. Even accessing the actual Pathfinder screen itself is a chore. Bungie themselves have admitted this system sucks, both literally by giving us free weekly Bright Dust because Pathfinder isn't resulting in the same Dust generation as ritual bounties were, and through the 2 different reworks of it already.

One of us sure sounds like they're crying, but it's not who you think it is. I largely ignored Ritual bounties, I'm completely ignoring Pathfinder, and despite all odds I haven't spontaneously combusted because someone disagrees with me on the internet about a system that doesn't even affect me. Take a xanex and go for a walk or something man.

Also here's the Act 3 trailer which I'm surprised 6 didn't already post.

[Demosthenes]

Yeah and you could just ignore the shitty bounties and spam the random ones until you got 5 you liked, or wait until daily reset to get a different set of bounties that may or may not have been shitty. You can't reset shitty pathfinder nodes, you're stuck with them until you do them or the weekly reset hits. And if you think this system is popular you're the one who needs to have a look at *the internet*, because it's been univerally panned by reddit, twitter, streamers and online blogger since its inception. Even accessing the actual Pathfinder screen itself is a chore. Bungie themselves have admitted this system sucks, both literally by giving us free weekly Bright Dust because Pathfinder isn't resulting in the same Dust generation as ritual bounties were, and through the 2 different reworks of it already.

One of us sure sounds like they're crying, but it's not who you think it is. I largely ignored Ritual bounties, I'm completely ignoring Pathfinder, and despite all odds I haven't spontaneously combusted because someone disagrees with me on the internet about a system that doesn't even affect me. Take a xanex and go for a walk or something man.

Also here's the Act 3 trailer which I'm surprised 6 didn't already post.

Oh you can disagree, but you'd also be wrong. Scroll through reddit again, or maybe the comments replying to the tweet. The compare number of people asking for bounties back vs the number of people being thankful, or asking for improvements to pathfinder then get back to me. My fucking point is despite the pain points, people PREFER generally pathfinder for getting three rituals pinnacles vs having to run 8 bounties on strikes, crucible and gambit for three individual pinnacles. The occasional crucible map trumps having to run several matches.

[6souls]

If I ever finish this exotic mission, I never want to run it again.

[Obsidian]

I didn't think it was that bad solo, but I haven't gone back to do it on Expert yet for the first catalyst.

The gun is stupid though. Who needs Still Hunt when you have this thing?

[6souls]

164 minutes, 13 deaths

[Serra]

But how many of those deaths were from getting lost during platforming sections?

[Demosthenes]

Went in blind yesterday. Got to the boss died twice then went to bed.

[6souls]

But how many of those deaths were from getting lost during platforming sections?

12 of them. 13th was the final boss @ 50%. I had to switch up my load out to better deal with adds.