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Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't the existence of Episode Acts tells us to stop playing?
DiscussionLots of these weirdos live for their E-Chores.
Brother this whole game is a collection of E-chores no one is immune to it
E-chores with time and health gates.
Would you rather do actual chores or play Destiny?
Actual chores. I understand that may not be everyone's choice but my family actually has a terrific battle pass program.
You joke, but having your house in order after grinding chores is far more rewarding than getting some glimmer and weapons for the same amount of mental effort
Man making a battle pass for your kids would be such a good way to leverage them.
Had me in the first half
This Sub is so crazy man... Every time this game gets a good update/expansion it's like everyone forgets about its issues or pretends they don't exist.
Dripfed content sucks ass and the ridiculous statement of "just play the game instead of grinding!" Is stupid when this game literally locks you out of content for not grinding up your Light level even tho you could do that content like a month ago.
Unless you're just mindlessly playing causal PvP or running around in patrol you're ALWAYS grinding or working for something. The satisfying gameplay of shooting, throwing grenades, and punching things is just grease on the wheels.
Apparently, everyone forgets the reason that they switched to drip fed content, was because noone could pace themselves a bit, blasted through the game, then had nothing to do because they already beat everything within the first week or 2, then complained that there's absolutely nothing left to do
Exactly, there is a significant vocal population that bitches because they have no time control skills and immediately rush to complete everything.
Exactly, there is a significant vocal population that bitches because they have no time control skills and immediately rush to complete everything.
Not to mention, as a looter shooter, the grind is baked into much of the design philosophy of why people play. People watch the chase things, but also have the chase be fun and rewarding. Such a balance is possible; look at Onslaught last season.Â
This. No life nerds will always complain about the game having a pause/break
Depends on what the no life enjoys in destiny
Am a no-lifer and all I did was mindlessly play casual pvp yesterday. Can confirm I had a blast đź’Ą 10/10 would recommend
I to am a no-lifer but my only complaint is that there isn’t enough deep sight resonance chips for me to catch up on the weapons I want that the RNG screwed me on.
Man the amount of peeople complaining Wuthering Waves had no content because they speedran the exploration in the first two weeks is nuts.. its like no wonder people get burnt or feel like theres nothing to do. You turned your play time into a checklist?
I feel personally attacked lol
Says the person who plays Destiny 2
Ark survival evolved players hiding in the corner:
Yeah I kinda like the break because I can actually do the post expansion stuff now I never had the time for in the other seasons
It's not just a matter of maxing out your pass, it's about not wasting your time. Seems like D2 is slipping into that phase of requesting the community to continue playing as much as possible but offering less incentive to do so.
It's gonna be interesting watching Bungie transition into this era of treating D2 as their secondary focus while folks deny its happening. Might wanna prep yourself because that's essentially what they've said will happen as they shift focus to Marathon's development.
It's a video game. The mere act of playing it is wasting time.Â
You're either having fun or not.
Personally I don't need "progression" to have fun in my games. That's just a side effect of enjoying a game.
As long as you're having fun playing, you're not wasting your time. It's not a job.
Most of the community treats it as such and wonder why they get burnt out so much. Now with fireteam light level, the need to have to grind for hours upon hours to reach cap or whatever is mostly gone. Despite the posts crying about the GM changes, GMs don’t feel particularly challenging. 2003 light and got it done with a bunch of randos first try in 20 minutes lol
The constant need to chase stuff the game doesn’t force you to chase will always be funny to me, like you don’t need to craft every single weapon the game gives you an option to, nor chase a 5/5 god roll.
The need to min/max everything is so weird given how little the community raids as a whole lol
Just doing all that just to kill fodder enemies in strikes 0.3 seconds faster.
It’s gonna be interesting watching Bungie transition into this era of treating D2 as their secondary focus while folks deny its happening.
You say that but they just released the best Destiny expansion to date while developing Marathon in parallel.
Stop scapegoating Marathon when Destiny suffers. Bungie isn’t abandoning Destiny, it’s their cash cow. Would you really abandon a 10 year multibillion dollar franchise to bet on another that could simply fall flat?
For all the problems with Bungie executive leadership you can at least be sure that they know how to make money.
Wasting time? technically playing videos games as a whole is completely wasting your time. You do not gain any real world skills from playing videos. Nor does it help the average person advance in their career
Play games to enjoy them. If you feel like there is nothing to enjoy in destiny for you right now, take a break and come back later.
Right? Do guns stop dropping or something?
Counterpoint: log on at reset and buy the red boarders you want from vendors each week to craft a better gun than you could get in the wild.
That said. I’m personally fine with taking breaks to play other games. I mean honestly, I’m the type of player that wants to get everything done and get my god rolls so I CAN play other games instead for a while.
That new fishing pier in Minecraft isn't going to finish itself!
Recently finally bought Skyrim. I actually want to finish act 1 but Todd Howard has me so distracted I can't. I think I'll wait until act 2 to jump back in.
Seriously. Like I’ll play some Helldivers or continue Baldur’s Gate or something. People acting like taking a break is bad.
For a long time now with the seasonal model, I've been just kinda popping in when it seems interesting but mostly letting the season's content stack up, then when I've got a lull in games or it sounds fun again, I'll go play and I've got a ton of stuff to play through and get/do and I don't really have to deal with any of the weird pacing or timegating. It's been great. I'll miss out on red borders and such sometimes, but ultimately.. like was said, play games to enjoy them.
I love Destiny, probably always will, but giving up that need to min/max every weapon or complete every single thing definitely improved my "relationship" with the game, so to speak.
The red borders thing isn't that bad anyways. Every year before a new expansion drops, bungie does something to make farming them easier. One year, the vendors had daily instead of weekly red borders. This last time, seasonal activities gave a guaranteed red border once a day. And then it gets everyone running old activities again.
I'm not optimistic, but I'd love if we could reach a new status quo where people just played the game for fun and didn't have to choose between being an addict grinding 5 hours a day or quitting b/c they missed out on the good stuff and no one wants them in their LFG group.
I think over the last few years Bungie has been penny wise and pound foolish trying to squeeze every last hour of engagement out of players, as if daily player count were some sort of proxy for stock price.
It sometimes feels like the average emotional maturity of this subreddit is 12 years old and that many here don’t understand that you don’t need to play the game 24/7 and don’t understand that it’s completely natural and healthy to take breaks once in a while.  I hate threads like this because it shows how many people are just here for the dopamine hit.  More should be taking the advice of you and the comment above of just going to play something else for a few weeks.
Im playing so many games right now. Spice of life.
Yup! I can finally complete the Temple of Ancients in FF7 Rebirth!
I still have no idea why this needs to be said so frequently
You aren't getting paid to play Destiny. It's not a full time job. Other games exist, other hobbies exist, etc.
If your mood is directly affected by the state of D2, you might need to take a step back...
The game is fun, sure, but nobody's judging you if you take breaks...
It's a nice sentiment, but the truth is as soon as the loot stops flowing, people complain there's nothing to do. They're not playing for fun, they're playing for the dopamine.
Here's an actual quote from a dude on this sub from a few weeks ago:
There's TONS of other games you can play if you don't want to care about loot and just want to have fun, this isn't the game for that.
That is the audience Bungie's catering to.
A big part of fun is variety and novelty. Bungie puts a good chunk of their time into seasonal activities and then wipes them yearly. Then the ritual activities are rarely updated too. So chances are that unless you are playing the most recent dlc then you are meet with years old content.
Throughout Y2, Y3, and Y4, Bungie was pretty clear that they are perpetually trying to juggle 3 broad groups of players which were something like:
1.) No-lifers (People who want to live in the game and play nothing else)
2.) Regular Players (Who mostly play D2, but also have lives and maybe play other games too)
3.) Casuals and New Players (New folks or folks that pop in here and there and are simply just not as dedicated as the folks in Groups 1 and 2)
They also said that they do their best to please all three groups, but if any 2/3rds are happy at any given time, that they’re somewhat happy with that. For this reason too, it’s why these conversations never cease, because there’s always a third of the player base that feels like the game isn’t catering directly to them.
Loot doesn't stop dropping when you hit season 100.
Two things, you get an eververse engram for every 500k XP after you hit rank 100, and you can wait to claim things til after the next episode starts.
And yes, the eververse thing feels like a "Here's something shiny, now shut up" reward, but it is what it is.
Personally, I'm going to use this time to get some stuff done in other games.
Ah yes, the “here’s a legendary ship or ghost that you have a dozen of already” engram.
Maybe I just have everything already, but I’ve literally never gotten anything good from an eververse engram.
It's probably because I sat out most of the last 8 years or so, but I get the occasional exotic item from them.
I got a pretty cool chestpiece for my main the other day. That’s my luck for the entire year with them though lmao
For me. Elden Ring dlc was my signal to stop playing destiny 2 for the moment.
Personally, I will be doing the weekly challenges the next three weeks, and waiting to claim them until after the Act 2 pass unlocks.
Two things, you get an eververse engram for every 500k XP
It has been literal years since those engrams were worth anything.
I dunno it's crazy people have reached the "I've nothing to do point" already. I would consider destiny a whole ass hobby of mine, it's all I play really. And I still have loads to do. If you've done literally everything and maxed out the battle pass already, then yeah it's probably time for a break lol
One thing I learnt real quick in live service games: there's always a bigger sweat/grinder lol.
There's a dude in my mates clan who just loves seeing how high he can get his season pass rank. Normally tips into the 800's by the end of the season. Insanity to me, but he enjoys it so fair enough.
Was trying to prep for Salvation's Edge very early.
What the fuck. Unless there was some kind of xp exploit, this guy needs some help.
so how high was he last season? 1600?
That's a good question, I didn't play much last season.
I like doing the dungeons with my wife. We just beat warlords ruin for the first time yesterday.
That’s far too wholesome for this subreddit!
Oh sorry, ill got back to low sodium….
i love this so much
This is the life.
Figured out all the puzzles on our own too. Just had to look up that hex that kills you in the final fight because it seemed kinda random.
I love doing dungeons with my boyfriend, my favorite thing is doing dungeons day one with him and us figuring out all the new mechanics together. I was so delighted when we ran through warlords together, that first trapped chest killed me and I said nothing about it so he’d find and open the next one lmao. We honestly didn’t understand how standing in the circles worked until the final encounter somehow, because we thought you had to shoot the blight in it, rather than just stand in it. Favorite dungeon honestly.
hell yeah! i run in a duo with my buddy and we’ve 2-manned all the dungeons now after finally beating warlords a week or two ago. our first time fighting the boss probably took 2-3 days and 6-8 hours lmfao. nice job on the completion, the bosses are actual tanks in that dungeon
You know what, I am happy they are taking breaks, maybe I can too then
I mean, I play because its fun to run raids, dungeons, low-mans and challenges with the clan. If the only eason you play is to advance the seasonal quest and pass, then yea not much for you to do then.
If you finished everything in 3 weeks, then take 3 weeks off!
You earned it Chief :)
There is a simple trick...don't turn seasonal challenges in until chapter 2 starts.
True but it's so tempting to get that artifact bonus up towards +20 for GMs
destiny isn't a job or your entire life, go do something else with it, honestly i'm glad i don't feel i have to clock in to grind as hard as other seasons, i can just have fun and once i'm done having fun, go do something else, it's that simple
If someone is concerned about wasting their xp gains in a season this long, they probably do need to find some other shit to do
I play the game because I like to shoot aliens in the face, but maybe that's just me.
Me too but usually end up slapping them
No.
I have more than enough things to keep doing for the next few weeks.
Sounds like you are only playing cos you like seeing the number go up, I play the game to have fun and get heaps of stuff etc. And lets face the season card doesnt really have any interesting stuff in it anymore anyway.
I just came back to the game, last season I played was Lost. I have 3 expansions to go through 🤣. Sadly had to start with TFS because that rocket pistol looked just too good (it is).
If you play on Titan, the new Chest Piece buffs ALL Rockets, including the Sidearm and Grand Overture's Rocket Volley.
If you want a nice Void setup with that, run Buried Bloodline (it’s considered a rocket sidearm), the new Faith-Keeper rocket (Clown/Explosive Light), and the Void artifact mods.
Titan main and only, many thanks fir the advice
You are very welcome. I got it through the Novel Focusing and the moment I put it on I knew it was never coming off.
The season pass is not the only reason people play this game, so I don't think this is the case.
The same happened on previous seasons, they always leave some room for catching up or taking a break. I suppose Bungie evaluates their entire playerbase when it comes to deciding how long it should take to get to lv 100 on their season pass and probably you are not among the average players.
If leveling up the season pass is the only reason you play the game, I would recommend you to take a break. Or you could find another reason to keep yourself motivated ingame. I really like to do raids and dungeons with my clanmates or try my luck at soloing some content. There is still a lot of weapon patterns for me to finish and I also enjoy build crafting a lot.
Good luck on your journey guardian!
I insane for thinking this?
No, but yes?
The whole loot grind genre can be described this way, but it ultimately comes down to how you see the game itself.
The plot will continue as is regardless, so catching up isn't an issue.
Like this has always been true. You could only play during the last week, and get everything done if you have the free time. And if you don't care about seasonal rewards, you can wait next episode and do both, or the final episode and do all three.
Otherwise, you're essentially wasting XP gains and boosts from the Seasonal Challenges... So why bother hopping online for the next 19 days?
It also isn't wasted, you gain Bright Engrams like you always did at the same rate, but I understand not caring.
At the end of the day that is kind of the thing. Do you play for rewards, or enjoyment? Even if I like the rewards, I enjoy playing and will earn the extra 200 levels regardless of whether I save challenges, or do everything as I go.
The level pass is literally the last thing I think about, or care about in a season.
Yeah, I just see it as a side perk. Like when it pops up I'm like, "Oooh piece of candy." But I'm not actively grinding for it.
I'm never cared about the pass and I'm already level 92. It's something that completes itself on the background.
Still can claim them once act 2 is up
Realistically Act 2 seasonal rewards will just be red death catalyst, and Act 3 will be a chromatic helmet ornament
Legendary weapon rewards will probably be new weapons (looking forward to the solar rocket sidearm)
Otherwise there is still plenty of activities to do in the mean time such as salvation edge etc, exotics that some people haven't gone after etc
For sure I won't be touching failsafe until Act 2 or activities around breach / enigma as I know the xp / failsafe rank ups won't be retroactive and unlikely to be new weapon rewards
I only play this game for the story, I play once a week, destiny is my favourite casual game.
There’s no confirmation your levels don’t progress from Act 1 to Act 2. Triumphs actually track your battle pass level and show that it’s actually going up, so it’s likely Act 2 will be retroactive.
Every season has been the same for me- when I finish the pass I do PvP and raids. Easy peasy no overthinking.
It’s okay to take a break. Make the most of the opportunity.
Did you stop playing after you completed the battlepass last season?
Your post reminds me of This . But replace loot boxes with seasonal pass levels, xp, etc.
I’m actually not even sure the exp doesn’t contribute to the season pass. I’m not at my computer to grab a screenshot atm, but it shows your season rank on your character screen. Mine is something like 112 or something. It definitely didn’t stop at 100. Granted this is purely speculation, but my guess is when Act 2 comes out and the season pass expands I assume people will just immediately be higher than rank 100 if they’ve continued to gain exp during Act 1.
Even if it does you're gaining levels at a significantly slower rate which just feels bad
and not all challenges give Bright Engrams.
Some of the challenges award Bright Dust, none of them award Bright Engrams. Engrams are awarded for every 500K XP you earn past rank 100.
My guess is you haven’t done everything there is to do, just the things you want. If you’re only a 1-2 day player as you’ve said, i doubt you’ve gotten all the prismatic stuff for all 3 characters, all the exotics, gotten a bunch of great class item rolls, crafted the seasonal weapons, and other shit I’m not even thinking of. It’s fine if those things aren’t stuff you want, but yeah, there’s plenty to do still.
If there's nothing else you would like to do out of the many man6 options you have such as nightfalls, dares, raids, dungeons, pvp, gambit, chasing red borders, chasing exotics, solo challenges, or helping newbies then yea. There's nothing for you to do and you should stop playing
Maybe stop playing and come back later. This sounds more like doing chores than having any kind of fun. Sounds like you got released early from work to be honest lol.
Do you guys not play raids or something? We just got one that's barely 3 weeks old. Seasons are definitely not the reason why i play this game. It's the last thing i'd think about. Play the game for fun man.
The problem is that the new stuff is new now. People are more interested of doing challenges in the raid and getting the triumphs now not in 3 weeks time. So to me, pausing the season pass, is absolutely fucking stupid. It is just a big fuck you in your face. If you want the rest of the season pass grind some more.
Not sure the problem here… play 10 hours a day and you get everything done fast and have breaks in content. Play 2 hours a day and the content stretches forever creating as little to no downtime in between content drops.
Seems to me you have a choice.
Maybe, but if so it's a good thing. It seems like Bungie is moving away from the model where you have to do so much stuff to get even a modicum of rewards that it nearly takes an entire season to get all the red borders/pass rewards/triumphs/etc if you play religiously that it's impossible for casual players to get much of anything.
Being able to hit all the major notes then take a break and play other stuff or goof around with your friends in the non seasonal activities is a luxury Destiny hasn't had in a while called fun. It really used to be one of those games that was either a straight up job or not worth playing so hopefully Bungie can establish a more healthy play model.
Yeah, it feels kind of bad and short-sighted to be "done" with Destiny for a few weeks after they dropped such a great campaign. Yes, I can still log in and play, but there's no new story content until July 16th, I can't select my own GM yet so that's pretty much useless, Solstice won't start for a while still so that's not a thing yet...
It just seems they've done a pretty good job over the past 2 or 3 months of giving us a reason to come back: weapons, titles, super black, new campaign, etc, for them to just say "that's all folks, come back in 3 weeks for the next chapter of Vex On Nessus!"
If you're having fun playing, then who cares? If you aren't having fun playing: What the fuck are you doing? Go do something else for a while, for fuck's sake.
It's a game, not a goddamn job, people!
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You still get artifact +1's every 2.6 million.
The grind is still there, it's just a BIGGER grind. And the grind is this game is a joke. Try a Korean mmo.
I like it.
Doing anything gives exp.
And I'm always out of glimmer.
Sometimes I just run vanguard strikes and listen to music while I try and pull off combos.
Not everyone grinds hard enough to hit the "cap" so soon
Did you stop playing when you got to 100 in a season? If not then I don't see how this is different in literally any way.
So I hit rank 100 Tuesday, turned in two challenges cuz dumb, and on the challenges page it says rank 101. Does it retroactively unlock ranks?
Video games are serious business.
So happy I took a break after beyond light. Now I have tons to do.
Only thing I feel bad is the trouble finding sherpas for raids, especially in Asia/Oceania. Does not really seem to be a thing here.
I just thought they were going away from boring seasonal content, yet this is what "episodes" have been so far.
Pretty sure half the people were complaining about wanting to play other games, now the act 1 is over and you’re getting just that.
Destiny players I swear reject the fact that there are OTHER GAMES YOU CAN PLAY FOR A WEEK OR 2.
If you need that treadmill, yes.
But then if you do it's probsbly time to spend a couple of weeks on soemthing else anyway.
I might be wrong, and I'm not at home so can't check this, but the pass does go up beyond level 100 now. I think it's locked out until act 2 and 3 come out. But I think it goes up to 125 and 150 now.
If you go to the pass, up to 100 and tab right, you'll see the next set of rewards. I think they're greyed out or something right now though.
It’s not like The Final Shape came out a few weeks ago or anything.
I’m just sitting on my seasonal quests… I’m gonna bust when Act 2 drops for the insta Red Death catalyst
I’m just going to horde bounties and Seasonal Challenges until next Act
I mean, if you see it like that, so did seasons? If you play only to complete the story and Season pass, that fine, I am not going to tell you how to play the game. But I know there is enough people that play in a more casual way, that don't yet have the season pass completed. Also, there is lots of other stuff to do besides the season pass. Red border collection and leveling your crafted weapons, getting the seasonal Ritual weapon (and its ornaments if you want to), hunting better rolls on your exotics, or also just play for fun. If you don't use the optimal strategy for all those, that is enough to fill the gap in story content/season pass
Still gotta grind for artifact levels.
Honestly it’s a good thing. This game isn’t meant to be play every day of week for the entire year. You can always play other games during the downtime and comeback when the next act starts and game will feel more refreshing when return as well
I really get the feeling that season pass levels are hard coded to correspond with your total experience. If that’s the case then you should automatically get the levels you earned after the next 50 levels of the season pass unlock. If not then yes, claiming seasonal challenges after getting your pass to 100 is pretty much do waste and you should wait to cash them in once act 2 comes out, but I highly doubt it will work like that.
It's ok to take a break.
I play for fun man. Not to min max xp gains and worry about shit that’s a non issue.
I'm level 27 on the season pass and I've been playing since dlc launch. Destiny is much better when you don't spend every waking moment playing it
I always have a backlog of shit to do in Destiny. I literally only finally just bothered unlocking Strand on my Warlock and Hunter this week. I still have to get Prismatic on my Hunter. I have red borders from Neomuna, Throne World, and Dares I still have to finish. I've never even completed a dungeon yet. I still have a couple Season challenges to knock out (which you can wait to turn in next Act). Prestiging the Ritual ranks to unlock double/triple perks. I don't have every Exotic yet or even all my catalysts finished off.
Even for players without a backlog, there's still raid farming, class item exotic farming, finishing off red borders, etc.
Just because the seasonal stuff is done for a couple weeks doesn't mean there's nothing to do, it just means the FOMO part has mercifully lightened up.
I mean i dont mind breaks nowadays. I get to play other games and not stuck to just one.
And trust me, ive played destiny and destiny 2 for so so long as a main and only game for years, its good to take a break and play something else for a while.
Can yall please just wait a few weeks?
No one is forcing you to stop playing destiny. There’s plenty of other stuff in destiny to do.
Or, yeah, go play something else. Elden ring DLC just dropped. Go check it out.
This may be getting into “old man screaming at clouds” territory, but I remember having to wait YEARS for a sequel to get more of a game I loved. Then I only had to wait months for DLC or expansions. But now people have posted in this subreddit every day since Tuesday about how they just can’t believe they have to wait 3 weeks to get more seasonal story.
3 weeks. Not even a month. You’ll be fine. You can always come back when you feel like destiny has something to offer you.
People complain about FOMO, now we're getting posts about not enough FOMO. Unreal.
Maybe the XP doesn’t work toward season pass ranks over 100, but they still work toward artifact ranks. And that matters way more than getting your random ass bright engram every five levels (or whatever it is).
So yeah, if you’re a “casual” player who doesn’t care about playing in power-delta activities, go right ahead.
I see what you're saying, but you could boil the same argument down as a reason to never ever play the game at all.
Episode Acts will eventually come to an end - and then what was it all for? The game isn't infinite, so if it's not fun along the way, you're playing for no ultimate reason.
I think a lot of D1 veterans into D2 know this scenario, like myself. This is honestly just a manufactured content drought on Bungie’s part. Or rather a slimmed down content model.
I learned to be able to walk away from the game and come back and still have shit to do. Don’t do everything in a fucking week bro, it’s just a game.
Especially this time since it’s seems to be more story driven than previous seasons.
You're right, they definitely want people to stop playing.
I still need to get all the patterns from the raid so I have a few more weeks of playing to go... Also wanted to do master but will probably wait for the bugs to get sorted out first before bashing my head against that wall
But ... what did you get for >100 on the normal Season pass? I don't remember any rewards other than the same we get now!?
Maybe I am crazy, but all I can see is the number not going up.. and that's it?
Doesn't the existence of reset Tuesdays tell us to stop playing Wednesday?
Im only like level 50/60 or something bcuz i dont play every day. It’s always crazy to me the people that either pay or grind to 100 in the first few weeks. Take a break and play some other games for a week or two and come back.
Im only like level 50/60 or something bcuz i dont play every day. It’s always crazy to me the people that either pay or grind to 100 in the first few weeks. Take a break and play some other games for a week or two and come back.
I still have other things to do, so won't bother me. I'll just hoard the seasonal challenges until Act 2 rolls around to give me a bit of a boost.
There is such as thing as not turning in your seasonal challenges. Also, I maxed my season pass 2 weeks ago but I still find things to do in game.
I guess you don’t raid, or run dungeons, or run GMs, or play pvp, or have literally anything else to grind for in the game? So yes. Stop playing. Like you know the stories ended before the season was over before right and people didn’t just up and leave.
You still get bright engrams from leveling up afaik. Do you mean Bright Dust?
I keep “ranking up” and getting bright engrams but there is a ton to do right now with the new titles and light-level grind. I also have a couple more flawless raids to work on at some point this DLC
Wait, so when I’m rank 120 right now, will I be downgraded to rank 100 once Act 2 starts?
lol, are you really playing for seasonal rewards?
That's not what will happen. The time between Act 1 and Act 2 is only a few weeks. They expect you to stay around and do some other things while waiting for Act 2 to drop.
I'm sure that they have metrics that tell them that only allowing 2-3 weeks means more players will simply stay engaged rather than having them leave at the end of a season and then trying to get them to re-engage.
Good time to try Elden ring
I’m level 71 and still have a ton of things on my list to grind for and unlock. Didn’t master salvations edge just come out too? Like, there’s still something to do…
Pretty sure our level still goes up. When inspecting friends or yourself in the roster the level can and does go above 100. Doesn't show it in the season pass but I think it still goes up.
And to answer the "cap" for Act 2 is 150 Act 3 is 200, you can see it in the season pass screen.
I’ve pulled myself away from making this game my life. With the 7 month long season I played a lot of other games and made it feel better when I play Destiny. TFS expansion was great but the new Episodes are just stretched out seasons with the same trimegated bs and no effort missions.
As of right now I’m only sticking around to play out the next year since I paid for the expansion. I don’t see anything changing with the way these seasons play out than they were before.
There are so many other fantastic games out there to play so don’t make this game your life. Destiny has been an amazing time over the years even with all the issues. It’s the game I have more time in than any other. Your mental health is important and if this game or any game isn’t helping then it’s time to step away.
Save up your challenges for when Act 2 comes and play for other stuff. If you don't have other stuff, take a break.
This doesn't feel like a reason to stop playing the game. This is one of Bungie's responses to the poor seasonal storytelling models that people grew sick of over the last two years, and in my opinion, helps.
In the story last week, we had a moment where the conflict escalated, where one of our protagonists had something unsettling happen to him, and the veil got lifted on a new enemy. It's a legitimate, narrative Act 1 break. Now we get some time for the moment to land, like waiting for the next episode of a tv show. Bungie can use those gap weeks to run Iron Banner or seasonal events like Solstice, with their own loot drops. Then, space in more story as the next thing.
We still need to see how it goes, but I feel like this model can lead to more satisfying, impactful storytelling that works around all the other things we do in Destiny as well as keeping the Episodes' later weeks from going stale.
lol. You’re worried about items in the season pass?
If you’re having fun playing keep playing. If you’re not stop playing and go do something else. There’s tons of games. Destiny is not your entire life. Do something else.
It tracks in background I’m pretty sure. You’re not wasting XP gains at all. I got bright engrams still and my level is higher, the reward will be granted when they unlock. Why would it not unlock them and grant them when the next act is made available?
It feels like they are so caught up in the psychology around getting people to play longer / buy silver that the thought of just making fun content is lost on them.
Are you new to D2 or something? There's many things wrong with Acts but the fact that it ends has nothing to do with it. Games have limited value and that's completely fine. It's unreasonable to expect a game to give you content 24/7.
Video games aren’t meant to be check lists, they are meant to be fun. If you don’t want to play during the downtime between episodes, then you are lying to yourself if you claim to like the game. Either take a break or drop the game entirely, because you clearly do not enjoy it right now.
bungie just moved the dead period at the end of the season into chunks inside the season to make taking extended breaks harder.
Idk why so many of these comments are so damn negative. I never really stopped to think about this as even after grinding 3 characters through the story I'm only in the 70s.
I assumed you would keep ranking up, just can't claim anything till the act unlocks. But then again, they do give you the bright engram boost thing at 100 so maybe that's all you can get?
And for everyone bitching about "just play the game" yeah, sure. But let's not pretend this psychological treadmill isnt designed to mete out rewards at specific intervals and if I feel like i could be getting more for doing the same thing if I just waited a week I will wait. And I'm a weekly log in casual during seasons.
Good guy Bungie is making sure everyone has a chance to play Shadow of the Erdtree
if getting more Seasonal Rewards doesn't happen once you've already reached Level 100 in Act 1
You're getting the same seasonal rewards above 100 than you were before.
1 Bright Engram every 500k exp.
Wait, what? Once you go beyond 100, the numbers aren’t retro active on Act 2?
You do know you don’t have to claim the rewards from a challenge until you’re ready to claim them, right? Like you don’t need to just immediately go and turn in your seasonal challenges the second you get them.
Bungie will probably fill the gap with FOMO shit like events or Iron Banner or desirable Nightfall weapons to keep people logging in.
"there's no point to continue playing" first time i see someone claiming seasonal rewards is the only fun to be had in a game .......for me they are rewards and if i play is becaue i find fun on other stuff in the game....you are a freak
After reset, I do my pinnacles, acquire my red borders from NPC, finish 1 or 2 resets of ritual pathfinder and pale heart pathfinder, do a couple of GMs. Raid? Maybe, depends on my clan mates if they need me. After doing those for 2 or 3 days, I don't play Destiny and play other games or touch grass.
using FOMO
is one perspective.
the other (truthful) side of it is providing incentive for an action to be taken in a given period of time.
you only look at it as someone making you fearful of missing out if you want to perpetuate the idea of victimhood. you have agency.
I don’t just play the game for XP points so idc.
You’re playing too much if you’re already done. Do something else for a bit and come back.
Yes, episode acts outside of the battlepass literally tell you to stop playing.
Currently with the current structure there are the following reasons to keep playing directly incentivized by the game:
Getting Raid clear. (have fun with that, this is not what casuals will do.)
Ergo Sum Farming for the preferred or 'Meta' rolls.
Class Exotic Roll farming.
Getting your power up as high as possible with the new system.
In the case of this week: Getting Wish Keeper and it's catalysts if you missed them last season.
GrandMaster Nightfalls
Farming your Raid Exotics if you are missing them for what's currently in rotation. (Or Dungeons)
The Battlepass itself.
Ummm I'm gonna keep playing because I still have deepsights to collect.
I'll be playing so I can bank 99 vendor engrams so when that pulse finally drops I can unlock immediately.
Am i missing something? In the seasonal challenges tab it says I’m season level 147. Is that not true, I thought that would transfer over acts
Isn’t that okay?
As a person with limited time to play, I'm actually not too concerned by this. gives me plenty of time to catch up on everything story wise and power level wise with all of my characters before the next act. However yeah i can see it becoming a pretty major issue if you're able to devote a lot of time to Destiny.
They actually have said before that it's okay to take breaks during these points in the game. They seem to understand people need the downtime... in theory anyway. Their FOMO practices seem to conflict with that message at times, so idk what their true thoughts are about it.
Save up bounties for when the new act starts. Same for all big sources of XP
Tell me you don't like the Crucible without telling me you don't like the Crucible lol. I love the crucible and that's why I always get pissed at Bungie for not making it more fun. I use it for the gaps between new content and my squad love working on new loadouts and weapons to get see how they do in PVP. That said, I do understand your point. I take breaks either way it doesn't really matter to me.
taking breaks is healthy
I’m glad shadow of the erdtree came out when it did to save me from the worst destiny season of all time
The hate you’re getting for this is weird. Seasonal challenges not counting towards the next stage is objectively a weird and user-unfriendly concept
I kind of lost motivation to play after completing act one myself. It’s weird, there’s more I could do in the game, more I could collect as far as red borders and stuff, but I find myself not really burnt out but having a hard time finding a reason to play now. Nothing wrong with taking a break from a game.
For the BP, I am not claiming seasonal challenges just in case, but I get the feeling it is going to give us progress towards the next act based on our total XP gain after 100, maybe just at a reduced rate?
? Who plays just for season pass?
Not going to lie, but if you play Destiny 2 strictly to do all of your tasks to avoid FOMO, then sure. It does seem like they're taking more of a relaxed approach to Episodes.
You should play the game for whatever reason you want to play.
If you have completed everything there is to earn, and don't want to just play the game to have fun (ie crucible or vanguard stuff) then yes I would recommend you take a break.
I have no clue why gamers these days feel the need to approach games like this as a strict "to-do" list.
I miss the old days. Hop on to have fun, and earn loot along the way.
You play for reward. I play to enjoy the game. We aren’t the same. Meme.
I am that girlie that sits in the strike playlist for few hours and logs off. Like that’s me. Just play cause the game is fun to play. Combat feels good and prismatic is just a blast. I love doing my combos and watching it work.
At 100, you unlock a thing that makes you gain Bright Engrams every 500k EXP.
EXP continues to level up your artifact for power boosts, which is now much more useful than before because you need almost 40m power to hit the new cap on GMs, which would make them even easier than they were last season (and now allows you to boost your friends who play less higher too! Since they'll always be -5 from you.)
Your same argument in old seasons would be that as soon as you hit level 100 you are "wasting next season's experience" or "the game is telling you to stop playing until next season". Which, yes, is a problem - but if that's the way you look at the game, then the game just changed from having 4 times a year that you "should" play to having 9 times a year you "should" play which is a dramatic improvement.
Many are saying "just play for fun" but Bungie intentionally fosters this attitude, it's a live service, player retention is one of their biggest priorities and one of the goals of a season pass (aside from selling season pass boosts) is player retention. Player retention leads to increased social media presence (marketing) as well as many more opportunities for Eververse sales. So when one of the player retention systems makes a player feel like playing now is a less effective way to play than waiting till later. I would argue Bungie has fucked up.
Of course if you were to ask me how I feel about episodes, I would say the seasonal model has always been terrible as it's borderline impossible to tell an engaging storyline in 10 minute weekly bursts. I would prefer if Bungie just released each season all at once, so that players got a nice chunk of extra content every few months with a complete story, the season pass can function as way to keep people playing in between seasons.
Seems Bungie have committed fully to the quantity over quality approach when it comes to seasons. So roll on frontiers I guess.
Does artifact power reset each act? If not, can't you keep turning in seasonal challenges to get to/past 2015 for GMs?
I'm gonna come back at the end of the season once all the patterns unlock. No point getting honeydicked by bungie for 4 months.
So you only play to level the battle pass?
If you have maxed out the pass, and done all of the content from the Final shape and Echoes in 3 weeks, and have no backlog of content to do, maybe you should take a break.
It doesnt explicitly mean "Stop playing" but it allows time for catch up and other activities without the pressure of seasonal FOMO that people always Yap about.
Theyre basically distributing out the long gaps between seasons/episodes evenly so it isnt as jarring.
People forming opinions about things far too quickly as always. We almost certainly have an exotic mission or a dungeon coming - as well as an overhaul of a planet coming eventually. Its really not as bad as people are making it out to be - my only complaint is I find Breach Protocol pretty poor. The seasonal arc is interesting though with the Vex and Saint's fate being on the line
The new seasonal model isn’t going to work in the long run Dear Developers and Dedicated Guardians,
As a dedicated fan of the game, I'm concerned about the direction the post-forsaken content has taken. Previously, the seasonal narratives were highly polished and felt like cohesive campaign missions. Since forsaken expansion, the content has become less engaging, resembling a modern streaming service with one new mission per week. This episodic approach is frustrating and detracts from the immersive experience that Destiny is known for.
I miss the polished and seamless flow of missions that made the game so captivating. The new system feels half-baked, especially with the Final Shape campaign containing only 32 steps. In comparison, Beyond Light, Forsaken, and Witch Queen combined; offered much better narrative storytelling structure, similar to the Red War, TFS “most interesting stories you’ll find, some areas are from previous places you have visited (I thought this was unique to each player).” TFS IS DEFINITELY HALF-BAKED rushed it till they had so much time to make the raid mechanic that’s where all their time was spent.
Most of the story telling was during the cutscenes most of them felt short not long to even feel or know what’s is going on everything was felt thrown at you enjoy the ride without you’re seat belts.
This shift to a weekly episode release model may work for TV shows, but it doesn't translate well into the gaming experience that Destiny fans cherish you may think it’s a good idea but what I am saying is remember Disney and it’s 1 new episode(s) per week (Mandalorian, Asoka, Obi Wan Kenobi, etc) yeah that’s how it feels. I hope the Devs and everyone at Bungie can reconsider returning to the more polished, fully-developed seasonal content that made Seasonal Destiny so special (Black Army/Gambit seasonal road map back awhile ago while bungie working with Activision).
My and my friends already being past rank 100. Yeah no it doesn't stop giving you exp you just can't claim season pass rewards that are past the rank 100 cause they're unlocled once the next act starts.
If maxing out the pass is your only reason for playing sure I guess.