Rambling about patrol (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Friday, February 19, 2016, 03:44 (3295 days ago) @ marmot 1333

I've always been a fan of encountering random players, and I hope to see that played up even more in Des2ny. If there were more to do in the public spaces, having random players swoop in would be even more awesome!

I do like encountering other players too. But for me it doesn't add enough in its current implementation if the trade off was smaller less intricate play spaces. I'm not sure that's true, but I definitely picked up that impression somewhere along the way.

As for patrol in general, I would love to see more intricate public events. They took some steps in the right direction with TTK with the Taken Champions, and Court of Oryx I suppose. CoO suffers from being in a dedicated, out of the way area. I rarely saw other players there. People are smart when it comes to Destiny--I think CoO style bosses could be encountered more organically out on Patrol and it would be great.

Really, I think that's the key for me. I think everything needs to happen more organically. Instead of the Director, let the Patrol space serve as the Director. As you're out on patrol, you'll receive the call to go do that strike or that mission or whatever. I'm not entirely sure how that would work or what it would look like, but I think it would feel like a more cohesive experience of that stuff happened a bit more naturally than what is basically a mission select screen we have now.

I would also love to see NPCs out on patrol. Maybe an established base camp in areas that could serve as a way to get missions. Here I'm reaching quite a bit, as I would love to see Destiny fully embrace it's MMO roots. I'd love to see just absolutely tons of missions and side missions. Each destination could have abase camp of sorts with different NPCs that can give quests in place of the patrol beacons (or in addition to patrol beacons).

I'm not expecting Dest2ny to make huge drastic changes like that, but I'd certainly enjoy if they did. I really want it to be huge.

I realize I'm more than likely just setting myself up for disappointment, but I can dream. /: