More space in the immediate future (Destiny)

by Leviathan , Hotel Zanzibar, Friday, March 27, 2015, 00:11 (3317 days ago) @ Kahzgul

The wording Deej used implied that there were other more long term solutions on the table, but none of them would be available or ready in time for HoW. We might still see a better solution implemented in time for Comet.

They've been telling us the game is going to get better since it launched. It's marginally, minisculely better. But, basically, they're lying. Destiny was clearly not designed to be adaptable or responsive. Weapon balance is a thing that needs months of testing, apparently, rather than a thing that can be tweaked live every week and then observed to see how it does. Adding something to the game world as simple as the loot cave easter egg was apparently quite the challenge, implying that which enemies spawn and where on a map is a hard coded thing and not a scripted event (that could be easily changed or modified over time).

Heck, even Xur's loot and the bounties available on the vendors all seem to be hard-coded things rather than easily curated lists.

If there's one thing Bungie's learned from this experience, I really hope it's that they need to design always-online games to be far more nimble in the future.

Well, we have different views on these events. I don't see any lies. Destiny has changed a lot compared to all of my Halo games where nothing ever changed except some weapon quirks in MP a couple of times.

In fact, I don't think I've ever owned a game where the UI has actually changed and made room for new things like Destiny. Perhaps on the PC this kind of thing happens more often, but I've never seen it on a console.

Also weapon balance changes could probably be thrown out every week and seen how they do like you suggest, but that seems to be more of a design choice, not some limitation. I, for one, would much rather have weapon tweaks happen as little as possible, because I hate getting used to the changes. I do not want to be a guinea pig on that front. I'm glad Bungie tests and researches internally for as long as they do before letting those tweaks out in the wild.

I would like to see enemy spawns, bounties, and related things be refreshed from time to time, and hope that still happens. Just because some things haven't changed yet, doesn't mean they can't.