One thing Bungie does right (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Monday, April 18, 2016, 18:55 (3235 days ago) @ Cody Miller

I don't have an answer for you, but I can say that the exploit has ruined the game. The gear gap is so huge that players who refuse to exploit have nearly zero chance in the pvp of the dark zone, and when you join a group to do the missions, it takes over an hour just to find a group that doesn't want to exploit for the loot. I thought the game was about having fun, not getting look after 20 minutes of sheer boredom, but no, apparently people only want the loot.

This is actually an interesting point regarding the darkzone PvP. I'm curious though what mechanisms are in place to prevent a new player who picks up the game months from now from being killed in a similar fashion by players who have been playing since the beginning and have sweet gear.

I think it's simply a game design flaw if that huge gear differential can create game breaking situations.

Once again, the 'investment' element ruins yet another video game.

The Dark zone PvP is gated by gear score, so anyone with less that 163 gear score is in Dark Zone A, while anyone over 163 is in Dark Zone B. I guess they could add another gate for 210+ or something... That would be a big help. Or they could do the math and figure out what the highest possible "didn't exploit" gear score is and gate it there. That would make more sense.

But yes, the game is not particularly well designed as far as "endgame progression" goes. Getting to level 30 was super fun, but then you're stuck in this sort of half fun loop of recycling old content or exploring the dark zone where maybe someone will gank you (or you them), but with the high level loot out in the wild, the dark zone isn't really fun at all. You're doing your thing and a super high gear score guy shows up and either kills everything for you (nice, but removes all challenge) or kills you (mean, and there's nothing you can do about it because of his super high power level).