Mostly non-spoilery thoughts on the new Dungeon. (Destiny)

by INSANEdrive, ಥ_ಥ | f(ಠ‿↼)z | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ| ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, Saturday, December 10, 2022, 11:55 (502 days ago) @ Korny

Some notes:

-The collectables feel like an afterthought, especially with how little they tie into the Dungeon. At least Duality's helped us get into Calus's inner thoughts on different aspects of his reign. Eramis is by far the least interesting antagonist in Destiny, and the more they try to give her dialogue, the shallower she seems. It's weird. I wish she had been a well-written tragic villain, as opposed to the always-complaining, miserable misanthrope. Ah well. At least there are only a small batch of easily-findable (save for that first one, lol) ones to collect.

-Tex Mechanica weapons are all interesting additions to the sandbox, but I haven't found one that I would add permanently to my loadout yet. Maybe when I get F000CH's roll on that sidearm...

-Some lead designer at Bungie really hates hammer Titans. It felt so good to run a Warlock again (especially as our vastly Superior jump really shines in this Dungeon), and I'm terrified of running this Dungeon with a hammer. Far, far too many places to launch it into the sunset (Shane! Come baaack!).

• Eramis is a caricature of bitterness because stasis, I suppose. And as a stasis wielder (or wielded) voice, Eramis often strikes me more a personification of the ability than any actual character. Lots of talk, little on answers. Really good at slowing things down.
  
• Do these legendary Tex Mechanica weapons also reload all fancy like?
  
• Considering the straight game breaking things folks were doing in combination with that hammer, I'm think'n this one is a mulligan, or at least a worthy venting of dev frustration.
  • Thanks for the heads up. #AtLeastWeStillHaveTheBestJump

...oh and, woah woah woah, hol' up. You named the Titan hammer... Shane? When it's CLEARLY an Sjöfn?

-Man, DIM is kind of essential to enjoy Destiny now, isn't it? I was grinding my teeth without it today...

Which is exactly why I've not yet played it. There I was, I had made a build a night before, cleared out some of my secondary vault (AkA The Postmaster) and had made sure I had time to give for my blind lone wolf run. BUT, with D.I.M down I'm not even going to try. I'll just give it a go later.

It's been fun watching other folks talk about this though. It's kinda nice to see voices not my own saying the jest of what I've been rambling on about for multitudes of years now.

(Something something INSANEdrive ranting about how these API functions should be in-game and not exclusive to 3rd or 1st party apps for the Wumbo-illionth time something something. Yes I'm aware of the forth coming build system next season/expansion.)