Datto's First Impressions of Destiny 2: Beyond Light
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After two extra months in the oven, Beyond Light is here. I've logged probably 30 or so hours in Beyond Light and probably about an equal amount writing this video. We have a lot to talk about: story, lore, Stasis, weapon sunsetting, New Light 2.0 and some really bad community takes. We'll close it out with some overall thoughts. I have extended thoughts here in the description as well, scroll down for more.
Merch Callout - 0:00
Story/Lore - 1:48
Stasis - 6:52
Gameplay loop & Leveling - 9:58
Weapon Sunsetting - 12:51
New Light 2.0 - 18:46
Community Thoughts - 19:32
Closing Thoughts - 21:12
Beyond Light met my expectations for what I expected of a typical Destiny release. Campaign, some post-campaign, cutscenes, yada yada. But, my expectations were quite tempered to most of the community's. I think the community wanted more than just "more Destiny," while that was exactly what I was expecting. The community maybe wanted more change or wanted things to feel different, even though Bungie didn't really claim that things would change at all. They (and I) want the game to evolve, to grow not just in content, but in features and other developments, to not feel like we're just in a holding pattern. And I'm not sure Beyond Light provided what people were hoping for, again, despite Bungie not making any claims that things would change. Sure, Stasis being a new subclass was an evolution of gameplay, but moment to moment gameplay in Destiny is some of the best in the industry already. Waiting all this time for Beyond Light to feel like "just" more Destiny maybe wasn't enough for people.
There are also much more legitimate issues like weapon sunsetting and content removal that people are upset about, I don't want to deny those claims either. While I think the content removal situation needed to happen for the health of the game, it is still a blow to the game itself. If there were a way to keep that content around, I'd be all for it, but it just didn't seem like it was possible. Weapon sunsetting could've been executed upon a bit better to soften the damage that it would deal to our weapon collections.
I don't think Destiny really got worse with Beyond Light or anything like that. I'm just not sure how much better it got. UI got better, lighting effects got better, load times got better, but those things are often overlooked and underappreciated because of much bigger issues that the day to day or week to week part of the game has. Destiny is not really a game built for the omega hardcore and it never really has been.
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Sorry about the audio glitch at 24:14, had a version of the video that didn't save a change I made and I thought it saved.
Also, I have some extended thoughts in the description if you'd like to read.
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good vid datto
Thought you had a mini stroke or something 😁
Hii datto
@freedom is our birthright as a sweat (I’m 5500) I would like to say this is pain and I’m disappointed and I would pay for a new map instead of the campaign
I personally call the cursed harpies "Thighdras"
Hello there
@@filipsfeir6932 general Kenobi!
underrated comment
Ayye...
You are a bold one.
I honestly loved the story being more difficult and was so confused seeing so many people being upset about it. For me personally it’s a welcome change and I loved it.
I thought it was a fantastic change for things to actually be able to kill you, especially when you were frozen. Getting frozen while jumping between platforms was a bit annoying though, or getting stomped off the side of Eramis’ platform while mid warlock super
@@brooklynjennings8955 The people who hated it we're PVP sweats. Just saying.
Yeah it was underrated
I don't think getting bullied while frozen is necessarily difficult, but it definitely wasn't fun.
@@HoodieGreg pvp sweat here. Glad there was some real difficulty here, ran the story from start to finish with no grinding. Had a great time
I really liked the “That was very titan of you, Ghost” line from Zavala
So that’s where my crayons went.
Can you tell your ghosts to keep out of mine and shaxx’s stash.
Ty
As a lore person this expansion has been Ground breaking. We barely knew anything about the bray family and now everything is just...like mind explosion with the amount of knowledge dumped on us by the stranger.
Agreed
Everything they added (y'know, the actual Dlc) is 9/10 stuff. But they cut out half the game and didn't replace it properly, and that's gonna sting pretty bad in the long term.
yes
I completely agree! I don't think I've ever been as engrossed in destiny lore as I have this week!
@@84m30 until they bring out everything the dlc actually has
Nobody's gonna talk about how drifter's still using trust even though it's sunset?
Man, that was my fav gun in the whole fucking game. Not fair he can use it but I can’t D:
i mean, ana bray is still using braytech rwp mk.2. and i guess vendor have the secret non sunsettable weapon
@@catinusz.4741 Shes using Polaris Lance, not the Braytech RWP
He probably has a very high artifact level.
@@Oldernator nah he's just that one guy in the fireteam that's being carried by Eris and Elsie
No kidding on that northern Europa fast travel point. Eventide ruins would be perfect.
Cosmodrome could need one at the Forgotten Shore. Takes way too long to get to the Shore by using the closest fast travel spot since you walk through like 80% of the Cosmodrome strike area.
And we still could need another Dreaming City spot too.
You guys are missing the point. If you can fast travel everywhere, you won't be able to appreciate how mASiIVE thE NeW MApS ARE!1!
BuT thE LoRe
@@nathanddrews it could be unlocked after beating the campaign, like a way to show that you made a dent into Eramis' troops
@@voidwalker9939 now that is a cool idea 🥶🥶🥶☃️☃️☃️👍👍
Being 20 levels below for Glassway strike was so much fun.
@saif alqahtani sure I did enjoy being smashed by Wyverns too.
@saif alqahtani No sarcasm, it was genuinely a blast
It was incredible. Coordinating to get the vex-chickens facing one way so another person could crit from behind, while the third person ran screaming from the giant ass hydra... fuck yeah
@@brandondennis5166 Actually the truth, it was hysteria
@@brandondennis5166 "vex-chickens" bruh got me dead haha
Datto says that he isn’t employed by bungee, but then he shows he’s the ceo by promoting 2 teams within the company
he is right you know
🤣
Who do i believe?
Datto? Or Datto?
You get dental! You get dental! Everyone gets dental!
Yeah all the big destiny youtuber are all biased/compromised towards liking destiny
My only real complaint is that they purged so much good content but left us exodus crash
it's called exodus *trash*
I heard they have had to take stuff out to be remade updated and put back
@@winelord Yay grinding all over again for the stuff I already have! How fun! Because you know they won't include things you already earned into the changes so they're all trash now.
And it still doesnt even work
@@winelord that will be 60$ please.
Senior Enemy-Density Designer: "Shank you for the promotion."
That D1 strike where it literally rained shanks during arc burn
The amount of Shanks makes it feel like I'm playing the first Boss Encounter of Scourge of the Past
@@SkylearJ oh god, that strike from Rise of Iron?
That with arc burn gave me nightmares. Took me so many tries to complete
"No, seriously... SHANK you. Like, here's more Shanks. So many shanks. Just... All the Shanks, hundreds of them. Good luck."
Asinloveyunz.link
Honestly I think the big deal with Forsaken/Shadowkeep is they're still paid expansions that drop loot that cannot be used anywhere in the game - even in the story missions they drop in. There's no point to that.
Yea. As a new light from this season, I gotta say, shadowkeep was okay but all of the loot being utterly useless made me kinda... Offhandedly complete it, for the sake of completion? I could, honestly, have saved myself that money and not missed that much. Especially with eris just not being a likeable npc to me.
Forsaken was more fun. Simpler.
Find person. Shoot person. Good job.
Beyond light and especially the dsc raid are what currently drive my playtime.
I think the actual content we got in this expansion was EXCELLENT, but man the lack of a real loot pool refresh definitely stings.
I agree but I also have to say that I love the new perks. I think Datto overlook that part a bit.
We said many times that there's a lot to do but none of it matters.
This is my absolutely personal take on the situation: I love the new weapons and the new perks to the extent that I actually want to farm for different rolls; I believe that if we got double the number of weapons but half of the new perks I would have been less interested in them.
Fun fact: I do not love the look of the new weapons and I wasn't interested in them, till I got the shotgun from the campaign and it had two brand new perks. I tried it out and it felt great, same for the roket.
Combine that with the fact that a lot of weapons got sunset and I need replacements: for once I feel like I deeply care for the new guns.
They do not feel like "oh, another 150 hand cannon with outlaw-rampage to add to the other 4 I already have"
I feel like most people would have been satisfied if they just updated the world loot pool. All they had to do was re issue some of the older year 1 legendaries. Also they should have done it so everything you earn this season has the new icon and will be usable for a year.
Imo they added 0 content besides the story missions (which were good). The rest of the stuff added is bounties to unlock your subclass which imo isn't content, its busy work. CoO had more content with the Infinite Forest and the forge.
Oh a campiagn on legendary difficulty with modifiers and challenges that reward special gear transmogs? Hmmmmmmmmm
@@PGDZX no we don’t want reakins no
Ghost isn't whiny, he needs therapy after watching us act completely insane daily for years.
Na he's whiny af. Constantly bitching at us for doing our thing. He did it back in Forsaken too, constantly "reminding us why we're here". Most people playing are there to shoot things, and the ones there for lore really don't want to be reminded every 3 seconds.
The entire campaign all I could think of was man....this damn ghost hasn't realized he's been friend zoned yet.
@@PlusOne2Crit In this case, the ghost doesn't want you to stray from the light. Back in Forsaken, he was reminding you that killing uldren wasn't the way to do it ( based on audio clips it sounds like petra and us pulled the trigger at the same time ) we went from god-killer to embracing the darkness. In Beyond Light, you are utilizing the darkness - his kryptonite - he can't revive you if you were to mess up and the darkness kills you, he can't control the darkness like he can with the light supers. He's also made of light *born from the traveler*, he states that "he hasn't felt close to the traveler since we first met the darkness" (or something like that ), I would be a whiny bitch too.
@@mark-lr5uy we shot before petra by a millisecond
guys i think my ghost is converted he said he thinks drifter was right-
“Cursed Harpies” well that’s a good way of describing it.
I prefer Chickens
Sexy harpies
Thighdra
@@v8jake I've been calling them "Sexy Legs Harpys".
I call em "yeet minotaurs"
"Hunters flicking their little dinkers at you"
They will forever be known as "little dinkers" now
What really hurt my soul was when Luke Smith "We wont be seeing an expansion as big as forsaken or Taken King ever again" ;-;
wait really
@Ritzer Mcgoerk as much as i love bungie i dont think it justifies charging $40 for the expansions though if they;re not gonna be as big as forsaken
@@hisuianpitch the game is free
@@babytricep437 the expansion is $40
he only said forsaken not ttk
“Hunters flickin’ their little dinkers at you”
Not something I anticipated hearing today but I’m glad I did
As a hunter main, that is what I'm calling those little dinkers from now on.
Cool thing, ghost also has some random lines that he'll say when you're doing a raid and you first enter an encounter. I got a line about "6 lights in the dark" when I walked into the Riven boss room. Really cool to feel like ghost is actually there instead of just being an object you see when you die or summon your sparrow.
Yeah! I got dialogue after completing the Asterion Abyss lost sector. It's really cool to see him react to the world in a similar way that we do
The dialogue in general this expansion is really great. Being an Exo, the level leading up to the Technocrat was a really big highlight for me, with him, Ghost, and Variks talking about how odd it must be to walk through these halls again with no memory of the last time I was here. Honestly gave me chills, made me feel like my Guardian was a proper part of the world with a real identity instead of just an avatar for myself.
The dialogue between Variks and Eramis was really great as well, especially once Variks started to get really upset. Helped flush out both characters a ton, seeing their different opinions on how to save and rebuild their race after everything its been through.
I sometimes just get full on random dialogue mid-patrol, which is awesome, i just wish my character didn't just sit there and go 🗿
@@Pattamatt1998 I got that dialogue and I’m not even an exo lmao
@@Pattamatt1998 I'm a exo and didnt get the dialogue :(
Oh my god the lost sectors were amazing, especially now that they're, like, real content. My first time getting braytech security drones or entering the actual hive maze, I was almost giggling. They really felt like specialized mini dungeons.
I actually like how the ghost is whiny. It makes him seem like an actual companion rather than a robot that says witty jokes
I wish my companion was a robot that said witty jokes.
Apparently Drifter's VA had scheduling problems because of COVID, so his absence makes sense (especially on salvation's grip exotic grip, he was supposed to be there)
Made salvations grip better tbh
Lol
It at least lead to one of the best moments of the expansion: Nolan North really nailed it there.
Ghost mockery is one the top highlights of all of the things to ever happen for me in Destiny, both 1 and 2.
Hilarious if true
I was almost forming my own opinion there thank god I don’t have to
youd fit right in over on the subreddit. They dont ever come up with an original idea
@@TOOLAPC68 If I don't like it, it isn't original. Very cool.
Phew that was close
@@TOOLAPC68 it’s a joke lmao
@@TOOLAPC68 u sure u arent with that subreddit😂
Beyond Light is great from a gameplay and design perspective. It's beautiful, expansive and entertaining. But damn do we have no new weapons or armour to chase. This expansion, *expansion not season*, doesn't have a single new legendary sniper outside of the ritual and raid; 140 hand cannon; several archetypes of Scout, Auto, Pulse, Fusion etc etc. There are essentially 3 new armour sets per class and 2 exotics per class (compared to 6 in Taken King.)
TL:DR - The expansion is good, but they forgot to add the loot... to their looter shooter.
*this is a solo players experience*
Beyond light was a great expansion, but less than mediocre for the price tag, being the same price as forsaken with so much less content, and the grinding being so much less exciting due to the lack of new weapons and the possibility of getting cool new exotics to drop or play on day one if you saved exotic engrams, doesn’t warrant the same the price tag to me. The grinding was just boring and monotonous, grinding is good for destiny but it has to be exciting, if ur not preparing for day one raid then the grinding is so incredibly boring, not a lot of new legendaries, season pass weapons are mid at best. Getting the new exotics from lost sectors is very rewarding but it feels like between the end of the campaign and reaching around 1230-1240 power is unrewarding and incredibly boring, the story was half good half trash, the Eris and exo stranger with the darkness storyline is amazing but eramis was such a forgettable villain, pretty much uldren but we don’t care about it. Her underlings is boring and had no personality, uldrens barons had so much individualism and were so unique and memorable while eramis’s underlings made me feel like I just wanted to beat them and move on so I can collect my no time to explain. Europa is visually stunning but there’s not much to do, all the public events we’ve done before and all there is to do is explore and while thats fine now the novelty of the awe and amaze of the landscape wears off pretty quickly. Beyond light is essentially
- campaign, pretty short exotic quest, mindless uninteresting unrewarding grinding, endgame that consists of harder lost sectors for less than 10 new exotics -
There’s too little content relative to the price as well as the hype, and while there was a decent amount of content added it wasn’t exciting or interesting to do it, campaign wasn’t exciting whenever it had anything to do with eramis at all, but credit to the story whenever eris and exo stranger interacted with darkness and gave lore, the exotic grenade launcher is cool but the quest was pretty short, after getting the GL the grinding was not rewarding whatsoever if ur not going for day one raid, bungie said sun setting would allow them to make new OP cool weapons but the small amount of weapons that were added isn’t even remotely cooler or stronger than the sunset stuff, adored is just beloved and a triple tap ikelos sniper mushed into a beloved skin, and there is just too large a gap in between the GL quest and getting to a power level high enough to do the lost sectors without any meaningful rewards in between.
I think beyond light would have gotten a significantly better reception if the price tag was lowered. Had it been 20-25 dollars or maybe 30 (cuz season of the hunt is separate) this expansion would’ve been a banger. For the same price as forsaken there’s only like half the content and nowhere the same excitement.
Yea I wouldn't be as mad if I didn't pay as much
I feel like that Legend/Master Lost Sectors are the only real way to get the new Exotics; I've had three Exotic engrams drop through normal play (not the season pass) and they've all been older pieces.
Ophidia Spathe, Bombardiers, and Lucky Raspberry.
@@Schrau yeah as of right now the beyond light exotics are exclusively through the lost sectors, the armour at least idk about the new sniper
@@rishisahadeo68 its from Master level hunts so yea
It's almost as if you payed for them to take out a big portion of the game and render even more content and items irrelevent.
I do not like this, it needs to change now.
Content that you can still pay for (Forsaken and Shadowkeep): Items from them should be Immune to sunsetting.
Just imagine a new player purchasing the previous two DLCs, only to find out the weapons and armor cannot be infused.
Oof. I've only just realised this now you say it.
They’d still be able to play the old content tho? They just can’t play the endgame with it.
@@planelattice2783 iirc Nightmare hunts are at the new power level, meaning that doing Shadowkeep stuff doesn’t let you do Shawowkeep stuff. Correct me if I’m wrong.
@@serialBLEACHexpert98 lol thats so funny
I got them just for the exotics and strikes ;/ (Having dlc exclusive Ordeals really, REALLYYYYYYYYYYYYY pissed me off --' fuck bungie for that too)
"triple the number of enemies". Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes.
Jojo reference?
I hope, that if they ever do this, they'll skip Nightfalls
@@broderickwright959 yes Yes YES
@@broderickwright959 you thought it was a JoJo reference?
but it was me DIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@raven75257 I just want to happen it in story missions, open world (Pls more enemies to bash in the head in open world) and normal strikes. Maybe twice in raids and dungeons.
"Becoming jaded"? That ship sailed forever ago for Destiny fans.
Yep the game just feels so menial and boring to play rn, it’s like they always knock it out of the park with sound, visuals, gunplay, and this time story and lore too. But the activity content and the endgame is just so pitiful it’s like they have people with 0 brain cells working on it, super disssapointing this is going to be my final destiny expansion at this rate I’m so tired of playing the same crap with a different smell.
100% agree with you. I played D1 since the beta, did nearly everything in the game by the end of it, got all my characters to max light yada yada. To then go to D2 and get Jack shit for that felt like a slap in the face. I took a 2 year break after curse of Osiris. That DLC was Dark Below 2.0. I came back to it during shadowkeep, got Beyond Light and while it’s not AWFUL, it’s not great either. It’s just more of the same. I think I’m just going to fall back out with D2 and this will definitely be the last DLC that I get. I’m not going to insult bungie because that’d be immature, but I just can’t be bothered with it anymore. Shame.
Soooo bored of this game.
You’re telling me...
@MetsC94 That's why the community (from what I've seen) is asking for all those D1 resources to be ported into D2 and eventually make D2 the de facto Destiny going forward. Sunsetting can work, but we need a Weapons 3.0 system to go hand in hand with it to make sure player investment isn't trivialized by something so demeaning like a timer.
it absolutely sucks telling new or returning players "these are the best weapons in the game but you cant get any of them so good luck"
That’s how d1 was too, that’s how it will always be. Either buy the dlc or be f2p and get a fraction of what we get.
@@MesoMania No matter what dlc you buy, you cant get those weapons anymore.
@@Torguemada what weapons are you referring to?
@@MesoMania can you get guillotine or gnawing anymore? I actually dont know, but I'm pretty sure you can't
@@slayura idk but their adding last season weapons to the loot pool so I think falling guillotine is coming back
I really loved the fact that story content was challenging. I felt like I was actually playing a game instead of wading through a boring tutorial or a dull barrier to the "real game." It was nice to have to play differently
I will NEVER forget my first encounter with praksis. I'd really like some more challenging story-based content that actually had solo players in mind. I'm hoping the higher difficulty empire hunts are soloable or at least not matchmade
On console especially, the faster load times are a godsend the game is 10x better.
I also completely agree with your points about how much content is actually being made. It's why I was hoping those xbox/Microsoft acquisition rumors were actually true, because then there'd be more dev support. I think things will improve, but it'll be slow going for a while
I thought i noticed something especially climbing those stairs in the tower
And the textures on NPCs seem to load a lot faster.
Even better with new xbox
Jake Dempsey especially on series x and ps5
I play on xbox one s and loading into the character select screen and into the destinations are so much faster
I couldn't do the technocrat mission, and literally died like 40 times before actually doing it, it was really empowering when I actually did it
R u serious pal??
@@johnwon6986 do I sound like I'm joking? I had to use last word cheese
Danm, I got to soft cap before even starting the first mission lol. Just did the technocrat mission today, it was easier than it looked for others 20 levels below.
i think the content is fine, and not everything has been released yet, but the most dissapointing part is ONLY 1 NEW STRIKE AND NO PVP MAPS. like wtf??? those are your core activiites please, i hope but i really doubt they will release more in the coming weeks...
I think with forsaken the corrupted strike was a mystery until the first raid completion so I'm not saying have high hopes I'm just saying you're right it's kinda weird to remove pvp maps and not add new ones even though it's a new expansion in its self and same thing goes for one strike? Like wtf i hope they are not counting the disgraced, cause that's literally a reprised version of omnigul.
It’ll be added soon enough, there’s so much more to come from BL we’ve only scratched the surface atm. We have new vendors coming, new strikes, a new Raid, new exotic quests to come, the Deep Stone Crypt is going to be a big thing coming up. I’m so excited to see what’s coming
Yeah it's tough. Everything new that was added (Y'know, the actual DLC) is 9/10 stuff, but the real issue is that they cut out half the game and have done next to nothing to fix it. That's really gonna sting in the long term.
Seriously I was just like yo wtf where’s my pvp map. I want a Europa pvp map and maybe a deep stone crypt one would be amazing
The core activities all suck ass anyways
Instead of random rolling RPM/element, they could make the gunsmith actually smith guns. As go to him, pay a bit of stuff, change RPM and elements
he did in d1
Bring back armsday? yes please
It never made sense to me that for a gunsmith, he can’t even change the fucking barrel, let alone the SCOPE of the weapons we use. Armsday was an incredibly good addition to Destiny 1 and they scrapped it for some reason.
Shit I'd love to bring back Armsday.
And with one fell swoop you just eliminated the terrible RNG aspect of it. Wow. Now the mats could be RNG still, or what he can craft each day could rotate, but that wouldn't make much sense.
Every expansion just makes me miss Taken King :(
I miss D1...
Bungie:
It’s okay it’s okay sunsetting won’t be bad
Trust us
We’re making room for new gear
New gear:
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Bungie knew what was going to happen. We knew what was going to happen. How did datto not know that Bungie was going to recycle the same stuff??? Thats what they've been doing for so long!!
The sound track really needs more recognition
"the lament" and "deep stone lullaby" are now both in my top 5 destiny tracks
@@-thesignpainter9486 Deep stone lullaby Is the most beautiful thing they have ever done. It is sad and haunting and I don't even know where it's used!
"Don't talk to me or my insurrection prime son ever again" is something i'd wear on a shirt out in public.
I call them Insurrection Juniors
Definitely the best and most encompassing take I've seen so far. It makes me happy to see a big destiny creator talking about concerns that I share because I really don't have a voice to share them.
i really hope we get more of eris and the drifter later on in the season, they barely got any attention in the main campaign quest
When I first saw the Wyvern, I basically said “Well I’m not going to be able to sleep tonight”
Every time i see a wyvern i can only think of MyNameIsByf saying "they yeet with their feet"
@@Spike2276 lol
Should be a solo strike playlist like the lost sectors.
Weren't nightfall like that, like when there were 4 items on that screen
@@Sekironprime ye the old ones with the challenge cards
yh i agree that new challenge with the stasis kills in nightfall was a pain because everyone was fighting over the champions
I was thinking about solo strike playlists too after trying to get kills in strikes for my fragments. Like datto said, I too had to fight for kills.
Legacy and Legend-level ordeal nightfalls are soloable pretty easily and one gives cores and prisms while the other just gives you the strike specific loot (mindbender, long goodbye, DFA, the ghosts ships and sparrows, etc.)
You know, maybe I wouldn’t go for outlaw kill clip all the time if my guns actually felt powerful instead of feeling like nerf guns
Seriously man like we wouldn't need damage perks if the guns did damage
I'm just tired of feeling like I waste my money every time they come out with something. Haven't had that WOW factor since i first started playing d1. It's been a cycle of hoping for things to get better, but inevitably feeling like theres a whole in my heart.
Forsaken was good honestly so much to do and so much end game content but lets hope this season they fix it man
The only thing that I'm really going to miss is Mars and Escalation Protocol. Ep was the perfect formula to make things feel alive on a planet. It was right where you spawned, if you started it there is a pretty good chance someone else would jump in, if people aren't already playing it. The weapon rewards were relevant, the armor was beautiful. The enemies were challenging, you could really throw your best stuff at them and they would take it. The activity itself was simply fun and satisfying.
I agree with you there bud, I know there's the moon and all... But it feels very different than actual EP.
I used EP strictly for my banshee bounties every day. Would get all 8 done in like 10 minutes. Straight cash and now it's gone and am sad.
And you didn't have to wait for it to start again. You could just start one whenever you wanted
Yesss! Would have been great if they implemented something similar on Europa. But then again they'd get hell for recycling content which I couldn't fault anyone for complaining about, but it def was a fun, defeat waves of enemies game type.
Only problem was that it interfered with public events. Aside from that it was cool.
"triple enemies in a playlist" or you know. Give us isolated Strikes. where I can go in Solo with no MM.
I think that "vastly more enemies" would be a good difficulty modifier to have in the pot. Though who knows if it would actually work with the codebase (every codebase is uniquely terrible).
@@Kalatash Which I get, saying that to be more difficult is one thing, but datto said it because "people keep killing more then I can get to them" which is why I always feel like they need to make Isolated Strikes, No MM. They had nightfall standard for that but only rotated 3 at a time. but now that Nightfall are gone entirely its like.. dumb. its what i always keep asking since Destiny 1 and I still dont understand why they wont. they can add some fun difficulties or challenges for it too. and I know some people could say "Ordeal on Legend" but i feel that shouldnt be the only way.
There is a solo script for destiny 2, you have to do some fiddling but it’s great for bounties n shit
I honestly wish this was optional as well. To choose matchmaking strikes or no MM. My bf and I are usually just running through content together and it's annoying more often than not dealing with ppl who go afk and get booted, then we get blocked from progressing to next area while it takes someone else to load in. Or in the case of new content, we had to reload the new strike like 3xs to finally get someone who wasn't trying to speed run it. Like sorry this just dropped and we want to actually enjoy the experience and hear the dialogue etc. We like to take our time and in those instances it would be nice to have optional no MM.
Love your videos, always such a fair and well rounded take.
I loved how Drifter and Eris also had their two cents to add each time you went to talk to Elsie during the campaign.
Best part of Beyond Light was Ghost imitating the Drifter.
“ambitious drifter impression”
Duh
The most I’ve ever cringed while listening to ghost
Cringe
I bloody loved that! 😂
Understandable, It's just more Destiny
Feels like just less destiny tho :/
Was expecting "have a nice day@
@@WisKy64VT Yeah I sure do miss going to Mercury which I definitely went to every single day
@@WisKy64VT because it is less destiny. They removed way more then they added.
@@colbybaltz7195 thank god mercury was the only thing they removed right ?
I'm starting to think that I'd prefer a difficulty selector over power level.
Oh god please no
@Trevor Hecht
And what power light level will you be happy with? 9000?
If you had the exact same gun at 8000 but had to grind it again at 9000 what is the point?
@Trevor Hecht
But why? I dont see how making mechanics more important than a number next to a piece of gear would be worse
@Trevor Hecht
Games like ESO have done this perfectly and alllow us to use any gear and weapons we want.
Yeah heroic raids say it with me make the game hard make the game fun
dude I fucking love you. The fact you are balanced in your opinions and critical but also smart in your solutions has made my year.
thankyou for using your platform in such a positive manner. I adore you.
The “you’re probably never going to see another Forsaken level expansion” comment is so deflating every time I see it.
I mean Bungie had another company when they were with Activision to help them with the expansion. The only way I can think a Forsaken level expansion would work is if they do skip a year in expansion. Otherwise, I think this expansion is a solid one.
Yeah it's so disapointing
I dont see how people get upset about it its so obvious
Yeah it just makes everything in the future feel disappointing before we even know about it. It’s like “it’s not as good as Forsaken, so why should I be excited”.
@@ginjadingo2941 I think ppl should just manage their expectations better.
my biggest issue with the game right now is just that bungie isn’t utilizing all of the content that they could. A lot of people complain about bungie sunsetting gear and then re-adding them as a different version but i don’t completely mind this if they change the perks on the gear as well.
The Tangled Shore, Dreaming City and the Moon are all still in the game so why don’t they re-implement the destination gear. Why don’t we have Legend/Master lost sectors on all destinations?
I realize that it does take some effort to update old gear and content but I’d rather them focus first on making all the content in Destiny worth playing before adding new content since it must be easier and faster than making brand new stuff.
Probably because next to no one touched the destination armor at all, as it is and most of the guns at this point are available to use this season a little bit. The raid armor from dreaming city and moon is max 1410 power level(the gear people actually cared about)
Totally agree with that statement 👍
@@Ethnichands Nobody did, because it had shit rolls. Some of it looked pretty swell though.
Why up date old content when you can just delete it?
It really doesn't take to much to update old gear they still have the models all they change are the perks attached to it everything is already there all they have to do is alter variables which is as simple as going in and editing a txt file.
Jus stopping by to say how happy I am for u and yours. Be blessed brother
My own thoughts about sunsetting: It was too extreme. Why sunset entire seasons of weapons, many of which are barely used anyway? Bungie should have just sunset the pinnacles/ritual weapons and called it a day, or looked at player usage data of weapons and sunset those above a certain percentage.
You should be able to use 2 or more sunsetted weapons to fuse them into new weapons at the weapon smith, then you still have a reason to farm the old guns in old activities, guns would become a form of materials in this regard.
Then they can expand the vault a bit and we would have something fun in return for the terrible sunsetting of many weapons.
What ever happened to the exo stranger’s “ghost” friend??
Never even seen it once
Marketing gimmick it seems
I'm pretty sure that's an Ahamkara since while they can shapeshift, one common feature is numerous eyes (imo this would explain how she got to our timeline). Not sure why they never fleshed it out, but if I was an endangered mythical creature the last thing I would do is appear before the people who hunted me to that point.
@@BoneDryEye riven is the last ahamkara and it’s been confirmed, I think its just her pet
@@killclip6449 yeah but isn't the stranger from a different timeline?
I really appreciated the random Ghost dialogue while exploring Europa.
facts like i really liked how he cared about us the whole DLC
Yeah, I feel like I enjoy ghosts character more because of this.
His writing is really good I love it
It's hard to ignore that some portion of this optimism derives from datto being a creator that relies on d2 for an audience. Not that datto can't make other content, but nobody would argue that other content would reduce the reach.
While it could be one of the factors, keyword one of them, he could also just simply still not hate the game. Lots of people around who still actually enjoy playing the game even if they dont agree with everything.
@@pcrassen4975 I never insisted otherwise, it just seems like an obvious conflict of interest to not openly acknoweldge. D2 needs advocates, and datto makes a strong argument.
600 employees end up releasing less content than an indie dev while charging more than your average AAA company for an expansion.
While sunsetting weapons and not adding weapons to the loot pool.
The reason the warnock stasis is the best at freezing is due to the fact that bungie said a while ago that the war locks focus on freezing, the titans shattering and finally the hunters slowing
When they bring back austringer/eyasluna as a pinnacle, wrap it in a scarf and call it the Bald Eagle...
they're bringing it back this season. as an exotic. called Hawkmoon.
toastnuances uuuhhh hawk moon was an exotic from D1
@@CapCody I think they might mean how Eyasluna was a sort of legendary hawkmoon (in appearance at the least) and austringer also had a similar look to the two
@@brooke3303 that’s exactly what I meant! :) I know it’s a D1 exotic of course
@@brooke3303 in fact, Eyas means a baby hawk and Luna means the moon. an austringer is someone who keeps goshawks
Haven't bought Beyond Light yet.
Thanks for saving me $40!
Woah Datto that merch genuinely looks awesome
I feel like they could've brought back some weapons that only had static rolls with random rolls. They had lots of good looking guns, like most of the edz weapons (Scathelocke, Lincoln Green, and Shepard's watch for example), and the foundry weapons (lot of cool looking hawke scout rifles that never got much use, and not a single suros sniper with random rolls.) It definitely could have helped with the sunsetting.
Elegy was available as a random roll for two years bud. But yes, they need to actually utilize static guns for random rolls.
I’ve been waiting for a randomly rolled scathelock since the beginning.
Finally this came out, I needed datto to tell me wether I should be enjoying this or not
Same
Having the challenge was awesome I jumped back in after 2 years and I felt refreshed after.
Gladd I watched this to see the Merch, that cap is on point. But cant finish the vid until I'm done with the campaign. Damn I'm slow. Cap is my xmas gift to me!
I like the challenge and being under leveled, but I'm so tired of the constant immune phases
To be fair, with how jacked our damage output is (even underleveled) , I'd say immune phases are the only real way to make things hardish. Even if artificially
@@Matanlimer I'd rather enemies just have bigger health values, I'd much rather fight something that's tough and attacks me 24/7 than something with no health but disappears every single damn time I do a sword heavy attack
The immune phases have been a staple since forsaken. There's nothing inherently wrong about an immunity phase every 1/3rd hp done. It's a standard boss fight theme.
@@The_Number1Candyman at least the immune phase for the new strike is the boss actually going back into the portal, not just sitting in the middle of the room unable to be damaged
@@The_Number1Candyman I'd rather not have bullet sponges. Cosmodrome strike's final boss is not fun
Being frozen in pvp and pve needs to have a small immunity time for guardian's if your lucky enough to breakout of it alive 9/10 times you just get frozen instantly again
Nah being frozen in pve is ok
Yeah pve is fine but pvp we need some tuning. Less time frozen, less or no damage taken from breaking out, CANT BE FROZEN IN SUPER OMFGDAGAHEJSOS, etc.
@@ExiledGod14 Or just make the freeze affect ability usage and movement speed only. Not being able to fight back is not fun.
@@Tallmios yeah idk they gotta do something
"I Think my eyeballs are going to tear away from my optic nerve from rolling my eyes everytime I get frozen...." -Datto. Dude.. you made me spit out my coffee on that one. Great line!
I'm very happy you talked about the "busywork" in the campaigns, because that's one of my biggest issues with most of the DLCs and I really like how they handled it this time around. The missions actually felt important
I feel like Jez helped him with the “Don’t talk to me or my Insurrection Prime son ever again.”
Also the "it's in the game" quote, Jez is slowly taking over XD
OMG so it wasn’t just me who thought those post game missions should have been strikes and then laughed at myself because of how things have changed.
Perfect, this is exactly how I feel. What we got was good but I wish it was more. But we will see what happens
for me, I was hoping to use a lot more stasis weapons, they marketed stasis as not just new subclasses but a new element type as well.
we didn't even get a stasis weapon until 6-7 hours into beyond light, even after completing the main BL quest line.
Yeah that’s something that confused my friends and I as well. They talked about it as a whole new damage type, but there is one weapon with stasis and no enemies have stasis shields. That’s what disappointed me.
triple enemies in strikes. also known as Destiny: Legendary Dark Knight mode
My thoughts exactly
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APROCHING!!!
You mean warframe?
@@vitalecrow4859 PROVOKING
@@judgcc BLACK CLOUDS IN ISOLATION
You just made the enemy density designer's day! "Honey I got a promotion Datto said so!"
Hi Datto,
Thank you for your insight. I have moved away from Destiny (stopped after Shadowkeep and story seasons) but I will always tune into your insight into a game that was apart of my life for so long. I hope you’re still enjoying your time with the game and thank you for making all the content over these years.
That merch looks stunning
They did what we expected. Sunseted weapons but offered nothing instead. I just feel so bored and limited with my arsenal right now.
The raid weapons have new exclusive perks like in d1 so just wait for that, plus the season weapons aren’t even out, oh and there’s still more exotics to get, oh and exo trials is coming later. Please just stop complaining a week into an expansion dude.
@@MesoMania the loot pool is an absolute shadow of its former self. A handful of guns over a couple of game modes is not going to fix this. What Bungie promised with sunsetting versus what they actually delivered are worlds apart right now.
@@pawno. you have played the game for a week and hardly any of the new content has come out yet. You can’t even get all of the Europa weapons yet. Chill out.
@Trevor Hecht there are 40 total weapons to get which is more that Shadowkeep ever had, so just chill out and let the content roll out
@@MesoMania Why do you find it acceptable that the only acquirable adaptive energy HC in the game is the rare Allegro-34 from Forsaken? This is just an example of something that feels really disheartening to me. I don't feel I have the same options as I did even last season, which is embarrassing considering that was extended far too long and was meant to be filler
I really liked the Born in Darkness questline as well. Before the expansion, I actually took the time to watch the 4 hour long My name is Byf lore video and it was really surprising to learn who the Stranger really is in that context. It is more Destiny which I like, but I agree with you that things are becoming formulaic. Beyond Light's Campaign feels sort of like a middle of the road expansion. Not as great as Forsaken, but definitely better than Shadowkeep.
As always mate I enjoyed seeing your take on the early days of the new expansion.
I would just like to mention that Datto talked about diminishing returns so I looked up what that meant and the very next day they asked about it in my economics class and I 100% what it was. Thanks Datto
I loved getting my ass whooped by the game for once. I missed difficulty in the campaigns...
Seriously. Is so incredibly boring knocking out wave after wave of enemies with just a stern look. I'd love to see enemy squads randomly spawning at different difficulties with no fanfare. Just so some random encounters can grab your attention occasionally. Or perhaps an entire map just randomly has stronger enemies for 15 minutes - anything like that would be great.
“Titans are bottoms”
-Datto 2020
My review:
Ghost: *makes impression of the drifter*
10/10
It was an exact cross between skolas’ story line and the forsaken story. Not that that’s inherently bad I did enjoy it.
Time to turn this up a notch since you guys PRO
good luck on this one you need it MUAHAHAHAHAHA
Make this poll 40-60
honestly the thing i’m excited for the most this expansion is the resurgence of exo stranger lewds
Oh lawdy law yes
Lmao fr she's the reason for my robokink
I'm so glad you guys still exist, I couldn't stand the Anna bae crowd
While content may be dry, the story itself was awesome. Our guardian actually talking and our ghost's voicelines, it's good
I feel like the story was too short, you didn't really get enough time during the story to care about any of the characters making Era Mis's death pretty shallow
did you experience the same story i did? cause this was pretty shit and uninspired
@@fissilepear7805 to be fair, corona did sorta mess with the development
our guardian only had like 2 lines and the story was no more than 3 ours for a 40 dollar expansion
Great video and review. Thanks.
Meanwhile in the EDZ, Dreaming City, and Blind Well everything that drops is capped at 1060. Including rewards for new players when finishing quests are now sunset.
when you get cryoclasm and just generally learn behemoth for titan. It can get nuts in pvp once you learn it.
Surely if Bungie can’t make that much content any more either A) the price should reflect that and reduce or B) Bungie hires more people to be able to make more stuff
Yinti here, and as always, thank you for your input and hard work Datto! Will always appreciate your take and look forward to what this year will bring to us!
Datto you don’t understand how long I have been wishing for more enemies in this game, nothing is more satisfying than making 30 monsters explode at once and this game just doesn’t have it. I already loved your ideas and thoughts on destiny but that right there just made my day.
Beyond Light being 40 dollars isnt the big ticket issue for me. My real issue is why Season of the Hunt isnt included in the BL purchase like Undying was to Shadowkeep.
It is
are you sure? i have the season pass but never directly purchased it. i just loaded beyond light and already had it
@@thespreer2142 you bought the edition that had the season and beyond light.
@@Yoglers
fair enough
@@cristiancampos38 its not. Beyond Light is 40 dollars, the 50 dollar pack is the one with the season pass in it.
A couple things to note:
We still haven't received the overhauled XP/Bounty system AND transmog.
Part of the slog that is Beyond Light right now is constantly to the same vendor for everything instead of having a variety of content to tackle. A lot of that time is loading and backtracking rather than preparing yourself and going out into the wild like used to with all the destinations. Hopefully once the new XP and bounty systems come out everything will feel a lot more fluid and concise. With how little content we have right now, restocking bounties and checking in is taking up like 25% of play time.
I know transmog is hitting next season and that is pretty self explanatory.
Hopefully Season of the Hunt will make us use all of the content we currently have.
For clarification, they definitely DID NOT say Transmog was next season. They are hoping to have it this expansion but there's been no specific timeline on when it will be ready.
Hopefully hopefully hopefully hopefully. It’s a problem when someone playing a game says hopefully over and over again for years lol
3:26 I really enjoyed the boss fights underleved. It felt like d1 difficulty and that was fun
I’m a sucker for lore and I absolutely loved this campaign, it was incredibly heavy in lore and back story, also the challenges that are in this campaign is amazing I loved the challenge of under level boss fighting and there is definitely more coming I believe because there are still things to be desired for this campaign and story overall!