You people are insane (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 13:20 (2425 days ago) @ stabbim

I ran as a couple of different Warlock subclasses last night, and found the burst of momentum at the beginning of my glide was so much more than before that it took me a few minutes to recalibrate. I was overshooting things a ton at first. Dawnblade felt hugely different while using the super - I was zooming across the map so fast that I nearly fell off a few times. And I definitely used that super more times than I'm used to during the strikes we ran.

My Nightshade pulse rifle might have felt a bit different, I wasn't as sure about that part. It felt like MAYBE it was doing a bit better on from-the-hip body shots than before. But that gun was never really lacking in the first place IMO. Might be easier to tell with a crap gun, but I dismantled all those already. :P

I'll have to try out the other classes and see how they feel.

I haven't tried Warlock or Hunter yet, nor have I gone out of my way to test and compare all the various things that have been tweaked. I just jumped in with my Titan and played for a couple hours, doing my usual routine through some patrols, public events, and strikes. I used a couple subclasses, a bunch of different weapons. And in that context, literally the only change I noticed was that my Titan's jumps were tweaked... and ironically, they'v been changed in a way that makes me feel slower (the "Catapult" jump now gives the titan a noticeable bump "upwards", but it appears to be at the cost of forward momentum). I'm certainly not denying that the changes are there, and I'm sure there are some changes that are quite noticeable (I ran across several other players who were using Linear Fusion Rifles in patrol, and they looked like they were wrecking shop with them :D).

I'm just saying that as a player who's been away from the game for a while, playing this new update does not feel at all like what I was expecting after watching Bungie's developer commentary video. Maybe I got too excited by what I was hearing, but in my honest opinion they substantially oversold the significance of this update, at least in some cases. Or said another way, the fact that it is possible to jump into the game, play for 2 hours using a variety of loadouts and still not feel any real difference, is evidence that this update is relatively minor. I'd put the fact that it still feels slow compared to D1 in that category as well. I'm sure the tweaks are going to be a nice little improvement to the game for those who are playing and enjoying D2 for what it is. IMO, this update is not going to pull people back into playing if they've fallen away from the game, which is a shame to me, because that's what I was selfishly hoping for.