My void Titan build with el'wells fucking slaps at the moment. Everything explodes all the time.

It's very hard to not run it all the time innit. If they ever actually nerf HOIL I may be a bit sore.

Yeah that's all good stuff. The gameplay restrictions via champions and match-game really did a number on my desire to put time into end-game stuff at the beginning of the year and I bounced hard off the game. 

I've been dallying with new seasons since, but I think I'll leave a proper return 'til they implement all these fixes with Lightfall. 

And yeah, the light level grind can get in the bin.

Bit the bullet and grabbed Lightfall plus the Annual Pass and I'm determined to spend more time with the game this year. I mean, if the new campaign is as good as The Witch Queen I'll be happy enough, but add Strand, that awesome looking new location, some much needed QoL fixes, Dungeons/Raids, and whatever seasonal shenanigans they have up their sleeves and I'm sure I'll get my money's worth yet again. Even if my days of grinding drops for a hundred+ hours per season are long gone.  

Pre-loading atm.

Played a few missions from the campaign last night and was left underwhelmed and then some. It felt like rather than focus on what made The Witch Queen so good they doubled down on what made every other campaign so mediocre. I mean, the opening mission wasn't bad, but I mistakenly expected it to ramp up from there. Fingers crossed it gets better.

I haven't spent much time with the new mod/buildcrafting system or strand yet, but just knowing I have easy access to loadouts does make me happy.

Diluted Dante wrote:

I've just unlocked the new area, and it is very pretty.

Saw you on first mission and was gonna join you but weren't sure you'd want me to, so I did some placement matches in crucible instead.

Lol, yeah. 

Honestly, I'm having to force myself to continue playing through the campaign, it really is a return to the soul-sapping mediocrity of Shadowkeep and Beyond Light, but with far worse writing. Besides that - the new area feels empty and bland, the mod changes seem to have made all my builds worse, Strand grapple is the worst video game grapple, and fucking Nimrod can fuck right off. Sub-Jar Jar Binks cunt of a character. Plus, what's going on with his dog shit in-game model and the Cloud Strider's 70's kung-fu movie dub-quality lip synching? 

I might be done with Destiny.

Finally finished the campaign this morning and while the last few missions were an improvement, the story was a real let down. 

In something of a surprise to myself, I didn't turn off the game at that point and uninstall, but rather carried on playing. Got a couple of exotic quests on the go, doing some exploring, slowly unlocking Strand, and wishing Nimrod would die every time he opens his mouth. 

Dunno how long all the extras will keep me engaged, but this'll do for now.

Yeah, I found that final boss fight in particular pretty tough. Enjoyed it though.

Yeah, all that stuff only really becomes usable with the post campaign fragment unlocks.

Been working on them with my Warlock, got seven fragments unlocked now and got the Quicksilver Storm catalyst that makes it a Strand weapon. There are some really nice weapon synergies there - from giving your Strand weapons Unravelling Rounds with a powered melee, to generating grenade energy by dealing damage, to creating Threadlings with Strand weapon kills. 

The Osteo Striga/Necrotic Grips combo also work sickeningly well with both the Strand melee and the charged Shackle grenades. I think Strand might be a challenger for Void as my Warlock's main subclass.

Okay, the meat of the game post-campaign is pretty great. I'm fully sold on Strand, it's awesome on Warlock for both poison spreading ad-clear and heavy CC builds. Got a nice strand SMG and a few really good machine gun rolls to complement the later, it helps that Terminal Overload is really fun to play. Got the new exotic machine gun and played my fist of the seasonal Battlegrounds as well last night and had a blast with both of those missions.

Fingers crossed the overwhelming early negativity was just people airing their frustration with the terrible story and that they stuck with it after that (I almost bailed), because the rest of the expansion really is very good.

@stormy: that's exactly what I did yesterday.

Post campaign is great really except maybe a little too many public events, but the missions themselves and the strike is really good and enjoyable.

Like the way they have incorporated d1 story ending.

I still think €100 is highway thievery for the delux edition.

If you're gonna get all seasons, you may as get the dickhead edition.

Fuck me I'm gonna buy the regular edition for PS5 as well as soon as it goes on sale aren't I? What a mug.