Super weapons break the game (Destiny)

by yakaman, Sunday, May 31, 2015, 19:37 (3466 days ago) @ Monochron

I love killing bad guys, and I love to survive. But it's hard to feel good about my effort when I can watch people breeze through shit just because they have these few be-all-end-all weapons.

If it makes you feel any better, simply using the best weapons alone isn't enough. I imagine it is certainly easier but 3 of us tried last night to take down The Forever Eater with nothing but Gjallarhorn spam and just couldn't bring all the pieces together. And that Horseman strat for Skolas? Look at Korny's post about how long it took them to actually make that work. I have seen full runs of people beating Skolas the "normal" way in less time than it took them to pull off the Horseman way. That takes a lot of coordination and luck.

I hope I did not come across as implying no skill was necessary. There's a lot I see on YouTube that I would't be capable of with all of the weapons in the game. Also, I don't feel like I had a rough time in ToO solely because of luck or disadvantage - the teams were good and played well. It's just really seemed like everyone we played against used one of the same 3 primaries which suggests there is a real advantage to using them.

And in general almost every "we killed the big baddie so fast" video includes the use of one or two usual suspects.