360 life on destiny 1 (Destiny)

by electricpirate , Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 09:55 (2293 days ago) @ Cody Miller

This was my life on the 360 during d1. It took 4 years to do anything.

PC is better in my experience. I feel like 20-45 seconds to log in 20-45 seconds to et to orbit. Loading into the tower can be long though, I wonder if that's a matchmaking issue.

Also: I always thought the order on bounties was backwards. It should be easier to pickup bounties from a UI, then you turn them in at the tower. I want to get right to the action, then I like having a bit of downtime after an intense activity. I'm also coming back to the cryptarch/Postmaster/eververse so I'm already there.

I don't know why we have to pick up bounties at all. Just have all the daily bounties active everyday. All the weekly bounties active every week. It's a pain to pick them up. So don't make me.

Destiny needs to keep a few things in balance all the time.

1. Convenience, does it take too long to do things, is annoying to fly around etc
2. Player collisions. Players need to be in the same spaces, to show off, to kind of guide each other, even if the actual interactions are minimal.
3. Clarity of purpose: a player needs to know what they are pursuing, and how to pursue it, even if that pursuit is puzzling how the world works.

The old destiny 2 system of challenges that pulled from the destination menu was more convenient in many ways, but getting players in social spaces is valuable. Especially since the Cryptarch's role has been so heavily diminished. Where it really falls down though is clarity. Going to a menu or vendor, and purposefully selecting "I'm doing xyz" is a great way to keep the kind of psychogical load in check.

It is fair to say that Bungie does a lousy job with player conveniance. Instead of breaking the other two, I'd prefer if they loaded you directly into the tower, or maybe they could pre-load the tower while you select your player, or something, or better yet, really pushed on player collisions so that I want to head to the tower to find like minded folks to group up with.