Mod Bloat Is Becoming A Serious Issue In Destiny 2

For those who decided to press on, they would eventually make their way to the Tower. Ghost introduces you to every NPC before you’re tasked with completing a Strike. Players are then greeted with a menu featuring a dizzying amount of options, some of which are locked behind an XP requirement or paywall. Assuming you finish the Strike, the game gives no guidance beyond increasing your character level. What’s a Power Level? What’s Crucible? Gambit? How do I get better gear? What makes a good piece of gear? Why are these planets locked? What should I do next?

I think the best way of showcasing my point is to simply tell you what new Guardians go through in today’s version of Destiny 2 Strikes. They are brought to a character screen, create a class that sounds cool to them, then are immediately sent into a Dares of Eternity game . Before you even know how to throw a grenade, Destiny throws you into a wacky game show with a celestial horse and some hooded NPC that keeps breaking the fourth wall. This is clearly a bug, but it sucks that a New Light’s first impression is a game mode they can’t beat unless veteran Destiny players intentionally drop their Power Level to bail them out.

Hunters are supposed to be Destiny’s take on space cowboys and bounty hunters, and the first Destiny reflected this well. Hunters had mobile Supers, a mix of ranged and utility melee abilities, and the Nightstalker’s Shadowshot Super doubled as excellent crowd control and Super regeneration for your team. When all else failed, you could also rely on invisibility to get yourself out of trouble.

We were stuck in the Vault of Glass for hours. My team was doing everything in their power to take down the Master variant of Templar in hopes of claiming our own Timelost Fatebringer. Alas, our damage output wasn’t enough to finish the boss. I started to pitch a few ideas.

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What’s truly baffling is how these seasons could have been purchased individually, but only when first active. If you wanted to buy Season of the Chosen when it was active, it was only $10. Now? You need to spend $70 if you don’t own Beyond Light, and $30 if you do. When Bungie announced that seasons would be sold à la carte, the community was excited. Getting your friends into Destiny was going to be so much easier since you didn't need to buy three expansions and a year of seasons to let them play with you. Unfortunately, that couldn't have been further from the truth.

Destiny has never followed the MMO holy trinity—tank, healer, and DPS—for balancing its classes. Bungie instead relied on flavor and minor mechanical differences to give each class an identity. Warlocks are space wizards that manipulate their abilities to gain unique benefits. It’s why they can consume grenades to gain buffs, convert Stasis grenades into ice turrets, or use their melee to activate a life steal effect. Titans are space marines that act as immovable objects. Instead of relying solely on space magic, Titans wield their fists and use more physical tools like barricades to stay alive.

To be clear, I do not want any class nerfed. I just want Hunters to feel useful again. Let Shadowshot stack with Artifact debuffs. Make Bottom Tree Golden Gun deal slightly more damage than Thundercrash if you land all three headshots. Give Arcstrider something . Revert the Duskfield changes. Those would be some great first steps to giving back some of the identity that Hunters lost months ago.


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Let’s say that you were a newer player and wanted to create a simple build that could tackle Master Nightfalls. Back during Forsaken, you’d equip your favorite Exotics and be just fine. Now, you need good Exotics and:


Grab the Engram, then backtrack to the chest to open it, granting you one fragment. You'll need two more to obtain the Catalyst. Keep in mind that the fragments aren't actual items; they pop up as a text prompt on the bottom-left of your

If you don’t have a friend guiding you at this point, you’re screwed. There’s no way to give yourself a goal without spending hours watching YouTube videos or reading guides. Most players will quit at this point, but those remaining will quickly hit some sort of paywall. One of my friends had this experience when they saw a video of someone using Dead Man’s Tale, an Exotic Scout Rifle that drops from Season of the Chosen’s Presage mission .