My family's thoughts on the Beta (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, 11:44 (2765 days ago) @ Oholiab

Fun post! Skipping the top stuff because I have nothing to say other than it was neat. "Deploying Donald Trump" is hilarious.

- However, my PvP stats are SIGNIFICANTLY better in D2 - and I play as a Hunter. How is that possible?! My guess is that the HCs in D2 have more impact at a greater range, but that's just a theory. Whatever the case, my Hunter actually feels more powerful from mid-range.

Every assist counts as a kill now, so the K/D ratio of games is significantly increased from D1, and is also no longer a zero-sum game. This inflates everyone's K/D, but I think it's a good change to make more people feel successful rather than like they can't improve.

- As a Hunter, I found myself reducing Mobility and increasing Resilience every chance I could.

Same here. Mobility felt almost useless in pvp. Still, we know they rebalanced the whole game several times since the beta build was first set up, so things will almost certainly feel different in the real game. I wouldn't place too much stock in this right now.

- I have yet to get used to having another ability. It's a lot for me to think about, and I haven't figured out how Dodge fits in to my style of play. I'm looking forward to seeing the other options on the upgrade tree.

I ended up using dodge as a refresh button for my throwing knife. Actually dodging with it was far less useful, I found. It needs to be on a dramatically faster cooldown. I also felt like the titan Donald Trump cooled down significantly more quickly than the hunter dodge, which makes no sense at all to me - the Donald Trump absorbs incoming fire and instantly reloads your guns for quite a while, while the hunter dodge dodges (barely) once and either reloads your guns once or refreshes your melee once. It's like if the titan shield lasted for only half a second. I really hope this changes in the final build.

All in all, we're looking forward to the release and all the (hopefully) fun missions and side activities. We missed the opening of the Farm on Sunday, so we'll be looking for some Sherpas to acquaint us with the soccer field and other distractions.

Me, too. Did you go and explore the strike area? It was really fun to try and get around that whole map.