Impressions of the New Crucible Modes (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Saturday, September 12, 2015, 03:49 (3457 days ago)
edited by Ragashingo, Saturday, September 12, 2015, 04:38

Mayhem: Too much too fast. Yes, it's glorious, but after a couple of rounds I want out of there. I'm good at Destiny. Destiny accelerated to 11? Not so much. Doesn't help that my preferred class is almost completely useless in Mayhem. I plan to play this mode just slightly more than I play Trials of Osiris. Maybe one round a session to start or finish off the Crucible...

Rift: Rift can be a lot of fun with good teams and larger maps. Or, it can be a complete stomp if your team isn't coordinated and the game type seems to suffer on smaller maps where losing a round tends to mean you're going to be completely out of position for the next round and really out of position for the next one and so on. Still, this is the first new mode I can see myself playing regularly, unlike Elimination, or Inferno, or Trials, or Mayhem.

The new maps are great though. I don't think there's any I don't like, though playing Rift on the small Widow's Court-ish map proved completely disastrous. I'd rather not do that again. It was also good to get to play on Bastion again. Wish I'd come across First Light! :)