Update's Up! (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Sunday, March 29, 2015, 22:04 (3752 days ago) @ dogcow
edited by General Vagueness, Sunday, March 29, 2015, 22:17

I'm not happy about this.

I was hoping for more space than this for armor and general items, but what I would've liked just as much as more space is the ability to swap things in and out. So many times I've been in a situation where I was thinking, "I can clear space, if you just let me have that scout rifle so I can delete it," or, "I don't even want to put something in the vault, I just want to have that and not delete anything right now, I'll delete something after I figure out which scout rifle is better". In both cases I'd be thinking, "Why can't it just trade me for this shotgun or this other scout rifle?"

Taking away comparison is going to be monumentally frustrating. It's already a chore comparing more than a certain number of things because you have to use the vault and you have to make sure one of the items to compare is on your character and is the active item in its category.

I already can't swap weapons on my character while I'm in the vault interface, let alone compare them afterwards, or swap or store my current weapon. I have to back out of the vault, go into my inventory, swap weapons, back out of my inventory, go back into the vault, and then do what I intended to do in the first place. After this, to compare things, I'll have to swap weapons and armor into my personal inventory, back out, compare them individually, and repeat if I have more than 9 items I wanted to look at-- which is more likely with more vault space.

If I could swap held items for vaulted items, being limited the way we are would feel a lot less frustrating, especially if they did still increase the limit on top of that.

Of course, comparing things the way it's done now wouldn't even be necessary if they would just expose the damn numbers the bars are drawn from, but no, that would be too mathy and nerdy, not like us cool players, right? the kind of players who would say to someone "Hey I'm a level 30 Hunter with INT 210, STR 220, DIS 197, 302 ATK on my primary, and +2 agility gauntlets, I hope I get a good roll with this cloak". That might not be it though. It could just be that the bars are all too often not correct, and can even go down when they should go up, or vice versa, and using numbers instead would make it easier to confirm that. You know, I've been known to make some good-natured taunts about how, while the Master Chief Collection was broken, Destiny worked fine, but this is reminding me that's not entirely true, and not just because the Master Chief Collection works better than it used to.

I can't help but think if this was a PC RPG, a mod for a better vault would've come out a month or two after release, now it's been half a year and we get a moderate increase to weapon storage, a pittance of an increase to non-weapon storage, and a decrease in functionality for anyone who didn't shell out for a shiny new system. (For that matter, the bars probably either would've been numbers in the first place or modded to be numbers very quickly, and they might be more accurate by now.)

I appreciate them trying to do something to make it better, I just think they're failing at doing that in a satisfactory way.