Imo, I feel like we could’ve used a new strike for this season. A corrupted Leviathan Strike as the final mission would’ve felt really good because I felt like doing the last mission alone made it anticlimactic.
I had a pretty good time with season of the incandescent personally, the story was great and solar 3.0 was mostly positive, though that might change with classy restoration gone. The leviathan coming back was exciting but ultimately left me wanting more with the activity there. Overall, good season!
Nightmare containment's only changes being the 3 rotating bosses was kinda annoying, it'd have been cool if they found away to rotate the activity in a different part of the leviathan (gardens/pools) but I understand that game developing is a lot more than just "hey this would be cool"
Yeah, I’ll say that if we got a Strike on the Corrupted leviathan as the final mission, instead of the one solo mission we got, it would’ve made a for a more replayable season. Especially if bungie kept the strike a secret.
I am pretty worried for gunslinger once classy resto is gone. It's going to have 0 survivability unless you run healing grenades, which of course takes up your grenade slot. Maybe it'll make gunpowder gamble more useful though, as a replacement
@@wood5596 Yea once classy is gone i feel like it's just back to omni/void for GM's and Master Raids, don't really see solar being viable. But to be fair maybe 2% of my game time is spent in GM's or master raids, so who really cares. It'll still be plenty strong enough for regular connect, master NF and normal raids.
Weirdly enough I enjoyed Containment more than most seasonal activities, even though there was objectively not much to it. I think it came down to the fact that the enemy density and spawn patterns were pretty satisfying, and the whole area felt like a great trial ground for Solar builds. Quality over volume, I guess?
I loved that aspect of the event, but didn't like the inconsistency of being able to complete it. Felt like half the time I'd load in there wouldn't be anyone there.
i really liked the sheer amount of enemies, but mainly i liked the minibosses, i love a high HP target where i can dump my damage and it doesnt die in 2 shots
I hope we get something involving the Bray sisters, considering they haven't been a major player in any season since BL launch. Also hoping for more Mithrax and Variks.
I’m kinda hoping if SIVA ever comes back up, we learn what happened to the third Bray sister, Willa, who was a big part of that and was easily the apple closest to the tree in terms of morality. (If she attempted to follow in her father’s footsteps and became a machine but with SIVA instead that might be cool)
I think my main problem with this season was that after the story was over, there was little to do. I hope they add more to the end of the season this time around
I’d say that’s fine though. Not every season has to have things to do every week. Especially because seasons with things to do every week for every week leave people burnt out by the end as well as a huge amount of relatively boring activities reused week after week. At least this season had good story with a variety of story missions that take us around the leviathan.
@@sneakysnakesullytv8444 I didn’t mind it. It essentially boiled down to doing a public event then a story mission. I thought the story was good and I always had weapons to level or builds to make that I could test out during the public event so it never really got old for me. All about finding things to supplement the surface level content.
As this being my first season playing destiny 2, (new player ish) I thought it was really phenomenal, so much stuff to do and grind for, duality was my biggest gripe but after you learn, it becomes so much better because of the difficulty and learning to build craft was fun with solar 3.0. High marks for me!
of note about Tresspasser, and correct me if this was a newer change after initial reception of the catalyst, is that Tunnel Vision procs on every time the gun auto-reloads as well. i was very pleasantly surprised by that, and knowing the catalyst perk isn't antithetical to the weapon design (cough cough black talon cough cough ruinous effigy) puts it much higher on my personal tier list, not that i have one organized or anything.
Hit pinnacle cap midway through the season and pretty much sat the rest of it out. I hardcore grinded and reset my crown of sorrow rank twice in like the first couple weeks. Did duality, did vow. Got the weapons I wanted crafted, then took a step back for line a month. Now I'm excited to get back into a new season.
Decent season, nothing more nothing less. I think people had a lot more free time so it was easier to burn out on than normal. However, I am very excited for next season and the showcase tomorrow is gonna be amazing!
Totally agree. This was the first season that I actually took a real break in a long time. I'm excited for tomorrow, partially because I did take that break. But I didn't even finish all my red borders. Normally, I'd have totally completed everything by now... but the grind was intense, and the Discourse over trials was... a lot. Still a great season, looking forward to getting back into things, but yeah.
I'm just gonna say that Destiny needs a more "laid-back" season per year, especially in Summer. Not saying it was bad, I loved the stories, the Dungeon was awesome etc. I just enjoyed not feeling overwhelmed by the game. I did everything and still had much free time to spend doing whatever I wanted, other games, vacations, studying, hanging out with friends. Destiny isn't a second job, if it required non-stop dedication I'd quit playing. Instead, this season I could experience it all while being able to live my life ahah
The seasonal glaive is definitely going to pop off next season, it's arc and will work with feedback fence so you'll get hyperspeed too, it'll be so wild
Same, I came back with maybe 15 days left in the season, and it felt great having something like a mini-campaign, even if I was REALLY confused at first. Last time I played D2 was before Forsaken launch, so... 😬
@@TerraTheWise ? My brother in Christ I have 1200+ hours in destiny 2. Level 50 on THIS season pass. I did the seasonal stuff plenty. Had no motivation to grind out 100 levels this season.
@@DJock93AF Yea and I have 3000+ hours so 1200+ ain't much especially when I tend to take pretty frequent breaks from D2 myself. I was talking about this season in particular not the life of the game. For a single season level 50 BP is so easily obtainable you don't even have to try to get it so for burnout to happen so fast you weren't enjoying this season or game was my point.
I totally agree about taking a break. I played the first day or two of this season and then left, and only came back last week. Managed to complete all the seasonal storyline stuff, and played a bit with Solar 3.0. Having the break has reenergized me and I feel excited for tomorrow and Arc 3.0, plus a returning raid. Would love to get some more strikes though, as well as strike scoring back, to really help out the strike playlist.
19:14. I did just that. I came back yesterday to do the rest of the seasonal story missions (took me about 2 hours) and then I found myself staring at my level 27 season pass and at all those cosmetics that I paid for and never gonna get
Absolutely agree with the take a break advice. Last 2 weeks this season was me getting on, doing the GM or raid, and then playing a different game. It's what we all did back when D1 was in a content lull (January-September), and it is definitely healthy for the game and the players.
Hadn't played destiny since last wish and I was overwhelmed at first but once back in the swinging things I was shocked at how much I enjoyed coming back to the game. Revamped sub classes were overdue, but thoroughly enjoyed grinding to max level and theory crafting builds for each character while chasing gear. Gotta give it to bungie for this return for me, I'm now actually excited from the next arc 3.0 update this week. 😄
“Just doing very similar feeling stuff” I have never had a more difficult time and love what you said… take some time off. I have been so burnt out and took almost the whole season off for the first time since launch. Actually feeling excited for arc 3.0 and next season due to a much needed break
I played just enough this season to complete all sever missions, get to level 100, and get my Titan to the Pinnacle Cap. I don't think I did a single raid this season, and only did the dungeon a handful of times... So yeah, I took about a 6 week break from this game and I hope that was enough to help me enjoy this new season. I'm not sure though. Arc 3.0 is gonna have to really impress me
Regarding the comment about too many patterns, I would push back on that since last season when crafting first came out people were saying there wasn’t enough to craft. I’d rather too many than not enough. I think feeling like there’s too many patterns is more a problem with the crafting system and not so much dropping too many craftable weapons
I didnt even bother with Solstice this year, its good if you want some high stat armor - but after dealing with EAZ every damn year, no, I won't do it anymore lol glad to hear they got rid of the chest hunting at the end. What you said at the end is correct, I took a break during solstice and I really appreciated the game more after a couple weeks not loggin in
I played pretty casually last season until solstice came. Got the gilded triumph in the third day. Got a bunch of GMs and raids done. It was great to take a break
Will say, the Nezarac's Whisper was surprisingly welcome for me, and has become a staple in my kit as my go-to GM glaive. Having enhanced Lead from Gold + Adaptive Munitions has really opened me up to feeling comfortable playing with double special weapons, especially this season with Forerunner. Incredibly fun to act as a tanking/aggro role in GMs so my friends can do their thing much more safely.
My only issue with the duality dungeon is the grind for its 2 weapon patterns, particularly the machine gun being stuck in the last encounter where every single weapon and armor drops
I haven't really played a lot of d2 since witchqueen launched as most of the people i played with stopped playing but I came back about halfway through the season and really enjoyed it and am really excited for the reveal.
That’s how I felt this season. Played in the beginning doing the new dungeon and then took a summer break. I Golfed on weekends didn’t play after work and grinding to level and completing the GMs for my guilded this last week was actually fun
This was the first season in a very long time that I didn’t do much past the main story. It’s been weeks since I’ve logged in for more than a few minutes. Hopefully next season brings a more enjoyable loop.
i took a break for about two months during this season, a bit sad im missing out on all the season ranks/the armor ornament sets but im actually excited season 18 to come out
I think the resilience buff coming at the same time as classy restoration bumped the mod up in significance; I've heard a lot of "go all in on resilience, recovery doesn't matter as much" this season because of how much access to cure & restoration we got, which substitutes recovery well enough. With healing no longer being tied to all class abilities & the flavour of the season shifting away from solar and it's healing grenades, I suspect there's going to be some people struggling with their stat distribution early next season. Recovery is going to become important for all classes again, while Resilience won't be declining without a nerf, and Hunters in particular care about Mobility on top of that.
I was very invested in this season's story. I went through a break up during the beginning of this season and, as sad as it is to say, was met with a lot of nightmares and difficult nights. Luckily, I had my clan and cousin to help me through the season's story. It's funny to think that the traumas experienced by each character helped me have a better understanding of my own emotions, but I am very glad I did
13:45 What is this "meta title" called and which titles do you need? EVERY title in the game (Dredgen, Conqueror, etc.)? All event ones (Solstice, Lost, etc.)?
I may have started D2 back in season 12 (D1 is a different story), but it has felt oh so good to take this last week off from the game. I may have popped in to ready my anti-champion weapons, but I've been out of it for the most part. Feels good.
Me an my friends have a running joke that crow is essentially the main character of destiny to fill the void that is our mostly silent gaurdian. He is a new light, has amnesia because of it, gets his memories back and finds out he was a villian in his past life, has the classic family relationship to an important character, and has shown signs of mastering friendship no justsu with zavala and Saladin.
I just came back to d2 after a year and a half away. Although there’s many new “things” in the game, it quickly felt very similar to a year and a half ago. Couldn’t agree more with the strike playlist, it needs some love
I ended up crafting most of the weapons (the only one other than the dungeon weapons that I didn’t get was Without Remorse) and they have to do something about the time it takes to level a crafted weapon. I was using them as much as possible in all activities and finally got them all to level 16, which gives you access to all enhanced perks and it probably took me about 4-5 hours of endless Nightmare Containment to get there. I did it, but it sucked
I lost track with what i had to do. Took a whole lot of time off after the first rift fiasco in Iron Banner (didnt mind it really) and tried to finish some things in the last week. I failed to do anything as i was really looking forward to trying out Arc 3.0 so i played other games really.
datto is getting so poetic about the fact that veterans are learning that we need to take breaks. and how it was just a season, nothing different- just samey
I think while a resilience nerf is maybe warranted a buff to mobility would be nicer to even out and really make the option of focusing armor based on playstyle a choice.
I loved the season. It’s the second season I’ve fully done the season pass and gotten the title for (the only other being Arrivals). Solar 3.0 was loads of fun with hammer spam Titan.
Loved the story. Hated Containment at the end. Took a week off and realized that I play for the wonder, the fantasy, and my clanmates's camaraderie! Bring back heroic story missions, heroic strikes. Perhaps those reward weps drop with more perks, armor could be focused but only if done solo. Why? I've found the new lights in our clan need sharpening as to where enemies spawn from, loadouts to handle said spawns, and armor set ups. What helped me the most was solo play. Also, why gave all the triumphs for a seal be linked to mostly 1 activity? Containment, done 280 times, is just boring. However, grade the season A+ as I had so much fun until the containment grind burnout. Came back from time off able to help new lights in clan get conquerer, finish all weapons, except fixed and Ep. (not a single drop in 30+ runs!) But that's RnJesus, Bungie style. PvP...more cheaters than ever. If Bungie can't fix then maybe it should just be legal to use chronus? We still get ddossing on PS! I'd be Fabled if not for this. Early on, H3, we had 3 matches in a row that someone from our team didn't land with us! Yesterday, a guy was running and shooting through rocks. We have the video. Also, his teammate switched lag on and off. Why play? My buddy needs 1 more to get Unbroken. Next season will be POG! Why? Cuz Bungie has the template. Make the game a bit harder with solo game more than lost sectors and I'll be happy! Datto, thanks for helping me and Mr. Fruit get a handle on armor and vault cleaning!
What you said about leaving for a while I did just after the realise of witch queen than came back about a month ago and fell in love with the game again
That is an interesting take. I also did the moon and d1 and pretty much quit for the season of Shadowkeep but I never did the Leviathan raid and found exploring it for the first time this season quite interesting actually.
I pretty much quit playing somewhere in week 6 and came back on the VERY LAST DAY to rank up from 51 to 104 to get all my shit from the pass. Not getting on to do those weeklies really burns me when I have to do as many as possible before the pass dies, I just wanted to make sure I got as much Bright Dust and all of the cosmetics possible from it. Sever missions were great, in terms of story arcs. I just wish I had any fucking clue who the hell Zavala was whining about all season long, Crow and Caiatl's stories felt very much relatable and humanizing to them. A man afraid of a previous life, scarred by indecision and a festering, torrid fear of the pain he once caused, and behaviors he believes are innate. An empress being crushed by inordinate pressure to lead a broken people who have only ever known militant organization and war, to peace and allegiance with once-mortal enemies. I appreciate that the story and its functional properties were leveraged as a means to interrogate the cast in a much deeper and personal context than is usually present. We saw Eris in Shadowkeep, how she is haunted by loss. We get to see Zavala's unshared history, a very distant, rigid and somber person marred by tragedy involving his family (which makes Cayde's death as the Hunter Vanguard, his other, "found" family, very prescient); his decisions to abstain from seeking vengeance for Cayde's death must not have been an easy one, even more difficult to accept Crow into the ranks as a Guardian wearing the skin of his former friend's scheming murderer. We even got a much closer look at Calus' motivations and interrogated his intentions during this season as well. Where Calus intends to make us his allies, his approach does nothing to solve our immediate problems and his solution is pretty much just "Party until the lights go out." The lights being the universe, in this case. Ultimately I am a sucker for character growth and the myriad changes in both this season and last season (don't get me started on Bracus Forge, what a nuts but awesome idea) give me hope that the story isn't just stagnating. Now if we can just have Ada become relevant again...
In terms of Destiny 2 really laying into the games as a service mentality I think they did an amazing job this season. I personally like how this season felt like a good book, and its broken up into a bunch of memorable moments throughout the season (seasonal story, dungeon farming, iron banner grinding, solstice armor searching, craftable weapon farming etc). On top of all the QOL additions I truly believe this is the best Destiny has ever been and its only getting better.
We have had the same seasonal formula since chosen (I'm not counting hunt) and it has consistently delivered quality. The only issue is staleness and boredom, but I think you pointed out that this is more of a reflection on the state of the core playlists. When the story mission is done each week what I am supposed to do? The core playlists can't carry the games weight in the moments of downtime, so people over extend the seasonal content and then complain. Taking more breaks and more attention from the devs on core playlists will help like you said.
I liked the equipment and solar 3.0 but the deepsight farming and ludicrous amount of doing that public event I had to do really burned me out. Duality was dope though. However I DO think considering the enemy density, this may have been a stress test to see how many enemies they can push in an area at once, I would absolutely love Warframe levels of enemy density at some point.
I learned that a long time ago datto. Destiny has always been a game that you take a break from until the new content comes out. I reached the highest rank I've ever reached in a season (218). But I got the season title and the dungeon title and I felt that was enough. I saw little point in continue playing. I set goals and I achieved them. Once the story was done, I checked out the last 4 weeks. I'm refreshed and looking forward to the new season tomorrow.
The grind definitely multiplied because of the crafting. I think i spent as much time on hunting patterns as I did on everything else. I think it took nearly 240 runs to get the dungeon patterns. Even if those were mostly boss checkpoints after the first 50 it was still way too long. I think the last epicurean dropped right after they finally patched the drop rate.
Grinded the shit outta last season and was looking forward to this one, but I ended up taking a few months break when it dropped instead and can say it felt a lot better coming back later on
Well i didn't raid much at all this whole Witch Queen Expansion(Which is still on going)..but i have enjoyed the seasons and weapons, Void 3.0 and Solar 3.0 🙂👍 But i'm definitely doing Kings Fall raid.
On dawnblade 3.0, they REALLY need to combine icarus dash with heat rises and give us a healing focused aspect. Touch of flame should also get a secondary effect
I took a month and a half off and I'm amazed at how much of the season I managed to get through. You're right, 6 weapons that are craft able are more than enough since all but one or two will be valuable that season.
I really enjoyed this season, it was engaging. But, I jumped into this season with about 6 weeks left of it and I think that was great. It is something I am going to consider for season 18, letting the season sit for about a month and then jump in. This way I'll end up having around like 4-5 weeks worth of Triumphs to do and weekly story content as well. Bungie is doing well for the story build up to Lightfall and I cannot wait to see what amazing encounters will face in the coming year. :)
I did the bare minimum during Risen so I wasn't burning out on the game and really quite enjoyed it. Destiny can't stay mysterious and unknown forever and I think they're doing a pretty good job of unraveling everything including the characters. I also didn't get bored of the containment stuff but I also don't grind just to get everything (like patterns), I think the open arenas with lots of dudes to kill was good.
I agree with taking time off. Coming back after a month from not playing feels so good, a lot to do, still enough time to get the season pass rewards, it’s just a great time versus playing every day.
the only reason i was playing week to week, was the story missions because i was so captivated by them. once they stopped releasing, i stopped playing until the second to last week and it was only to hit rank 100
Couldn't agree more on the point you made about Duality. I really wish there was more end-game pve content that wasn't dragging around the chain and ball of champions/matchgame/burn. Activities where we can let buildcrafting off its leash.
Hear me out: New "Gambit" mode, equivalent of Nightfall for Vanguard. 4-player wave based defence focused on combat, in Gambit maps, PvE only. Legend mode: you get ammo and different positive and negative modifiers each round. Master mode: Locked loadout, you start with random green rarity stuff and baseline subclass features, and upgrade a couple slots to whatever you have equipped each round. I think people crave combat challenges like duality without the commitment and linearity of a dungeon/raid.
I have to say i'm fairly hopeful for next season, for the sole reason that each year seems to have a banger (Opulence, Dawn, Chosen) and we have yet to see this year's fan favorite
I wonder how many ppl felt the way I did this season, which was a leftover burnout from a heavy Witch Queen decreasing my desire to play. Lackluster seasonal weapons and an Iron Banner I didn’t enjoy on top of that and I took a break much sooner than I usually do. Hope this season is a hoot.
One really cool thing that I think bungee should explore is the idea of "Spartan ops" for their seasonal quest line. More or less exactly like the ones in Halo 4. If we could have some replayable campaign missions from past seasons, that would be really freaking cool. Simply put I don't want to do repetitive activities. I want a campaign playlist that has a new episode added every other week. I also want this campaign playlist to be very long. It should continually grow season after season.
On the eververse comment, i get what you mean, but im fine with that as long as they continue to deliver decent content, if people are funding them through cosmetic purchases enough to maintain a decent flow of good content& story telling, im fine with that, plus the brightdust store generally has some quality stuff to grab from simply just playing the game & completing seasonal challenges
I for one loved the amount of craftable weapons, sure I've not maxed them out nor have I really got them all crafted but I like having stuff like that to work towards
Thanks Datto, I agree with the sentiment of playing multiple games. I play a handful of seasonal games but they all line up at similar times (probably due to quarterly business reports) making them difficult to prioritize. 💀
Once again, thanks for being one of the few D2 content creators who tell people to take a break. People burning themselves out in this game is a real problem and it’s usually exacerbated by constant “GET THIS GOD ROLL GUN NOW OR YOU WILL FOREVER REGRET IT” that most channels stuff down people throats. It’s real simple. Start getting bored? Play something else for a bit. You are responsible for your own burnout.
For me personally ive been enjoying the game more when i play a ton during the story weeks, then take a break until the last couple weeks of the season
massively agree, my favourite d1 exotic. It lets people that can play a lot during the ‘main’ weeks enjoy all the new things, and have a nice break at the end, just at the point where burnout might start to kick in. Also allows those who have to/want to take things a bit slower to do so and have plenty of time to do things
Story with Sever missions was phenomenal, seasonal activity loop left me bored after 30 runs.
Weekly mission was also not great. No hard mode was very unfortunate
Yeah we needed a better way to passively earn umbral energy doing literally anything other than containment
@@pluto3194 I loved the weekly missions the fist time, but repeating them for bound presence sucked
The seasonal activity bored me pretty quick, wouldn't have been so bad if they didn't require us to do it like 50 times.
Counterpoint: the story could be summarized in one sentence and didn’t move the plot forward enough to justify a whole season.
Imo, I feel like we could’ve used a new strike for this season.
A corrupted Leviathan Strike as the final mission would’ve felt really good because I felt like doing the last mission alone made it anticlimactic.
Oh, and then it could’ve been a GM. That woulda been sick.
@@cammydwhammy yeah, we would’ve had to push up the final mission to be released right before GMs. (Unless it came out beforehand, I can’t remember)
hey whats up Reptilian.
They don't going to do strike for leviathan because it gonna be deleted again. But it's what I feel last 2 years with new content.
Love your metaverse selfie. Really makes me excited for N64 VR
I had a pretty good time with season of the incandescent personally, the story was great and solar 3.0 was mostly positive, though that might change with classy restoration gone. The leviathan coming back was exciting but ultimately left me wanting more with the activity there. Overall, good season!
Nightmare containment's only changes being the 3 rotating bosses was kinda annoying, it'd have been cool if they found away to rotate the activity in a different part of the leviathan (gardens/pools) but I understand that game developing is a lot more than just "hey this would be cool"
Yeah, I’ll say that if we got a Strike on the Corrupted leviathan as the final mission, instead of the one solo mission we got, it would’ve made a for a more replayable season. Especially if bungie kept the strike a secret.
I am pretty worried for gunslinger once classy resto is gone. It's going to have 0 survivability unless you run healing grenades, which of course takes up your grenade slot. Maybe it'll make gunpowder gamble more useful though, as a replacement
@@wood5596 before Solar 3.0 we had no way of healing ourselves. If your that scared of classy resto going away I’d recommend wormhusk crown.
@@wood5596 Yea once classy is gone i feel like it's just back to omni/void for GM's and Master Raids, don't really see solar being viable. But to be fair maybe 2% of my game time is spent in GM's or master raids, so who really cares. It'll still be plenty strong enough for regular connect, master NF and normal raids.
Weirdly enough I enjoyed Containment more than most seasonal activities, even though there was objectively not much to it. I think it came down to the fact that the enemy density and spawn patterns were pretty satisfying, and the whole area felt like a great trial ground for Solar builds. Quality over volume, I guess?
I loved that aspect of the event, but didn't like the inconsistency of being able to complete it. Felt like half the time I'd load in there wouldn't be anyone there.
@@BatDad-qu4fo Yeah, if it was similar to override in matchmaking I would be more inclined to grind it.
i really liked the sheer amount of enemies, but mainly i liked the minibosses, i love a high HP target where i can dump my damage and it doesnt die in 2 shots
@@ryderfurpaw4201 Yep. Felt like I had capped vestiges at all times since I couldn't use them fast enough.
compare it to all the other public event stuff we got it was so much weaker. imagine trying out Solar 3.0 on the scale of Escalation Protocol
I hope we get something involving the Bray sisters, considering they haven't been a major player in any season since BL launch. Also hoping for more Mithrax and Variks.
Apparently next season is focusing on house salvation so maybe we will see more of the bae sisters
@@nikoclesceri2267 We do love the bae sisters
Ana Bae resurgence plz
When Eramis unfreezes, they're almost certainly going to become main characters for that season.
I’m kinda hoping if SIVA ever comes back up, we learn what happened to the third Bray sister, Willa, who was a big part of that and was easily the apple closest to the tree in terms of morality.
(If she attempted to follow in her father’s footsteps and became a machine but with SIVA instead that might be cool)
Love these recaps, they're a nice reminder of the previous season and help me get excited for the upcoming season!
The Leviathan coming back but being all corrupted really reminded me of High Charity in Halo and I loved it.
I think my main problem with this season was that after the story was over, there was little to do. I hope they add more to the end of the season this time around
I’d say that’s fine though. Not every season has to have things to do every week. Especially because seasons with things to do every week for every week leave people burnt out by the end as well as a huge amount of relatively boring activities reused week after week. At least this season had good story with a variety of story missions that take us around the leviathan.
@@EggyWeggyIII I’m fine with content not being every week, but this season in particular felt like its weekly grind got old much quicker than others
@@sneakysnakesullytv8444 I didn’t mind it. It essentially boiled down to doing a public event then a story mission. I thought the story was good and I always had weapons to level or builds to make that I could test out during the public event so it never really got old for me. All about finding things to supplement the surface level content.
You must be new to destiny 2 if that’s the case you’re going to be let down *LMFAOOOOOOO*
@@slmped8598 no I’ve been playing since taken king lol. I just think this season had an especially bad last stretch
As this being my first season playing destiny 2, (new player ish) I thought it was really phenomenal, so much stuff to do and grind for, duality was my biggest gripe but after you learn, it becomes so much better because of the difficulty and learning to build craft was fun with solar 3.0. High marks for me!
11:18 actually tunnel vision activates when it auto refills the mag on kills, although yeh it’s still a much more pvp-oriented catalyst
Came down here looking for this, in the right hands, Trespasser is a monster in pvp once it gets going.
of note about Tresspasser, and correct me if this was a newer change after initial reception of the catalyst, is that Tunnel Vision procs on every time the gun auto-reloads as well. i was very pleasantly surprised by that, and knowing the catalyst perk isn't antithetical to the weapon design (cough cough black talon cough cough ruinous effigy) puts it much higher on my personal tier list, not that i have one organized or anything.
Hit pinnacle cap midway through the season and pretty much sat the rest of it out. I hardcore grinded and reset my crown of sorrow rank twice in like the first couple weeks.
Did duality, did vow. Got the weapons I wanted crafted, then took a step back for line a month.
Now I'm excited to get back into a new season.
Decent season, nothing more nothing less. I think people had a lot more free time so it was easier to burn out on than normal. However, I am very excited for next season and the showcase tomorrow is gonna be amazing!
We havent seen the showcase yet, how can you tell?
@@yol_n just seeing anything to look forward to at this point is exciting
@@richie9997 lol, we are opposites
@@yol_n alot has been leaked
"decent" is generous af.
Lazy season, one of the worse.
Totally agree. This was the first season that I actually took a real break in a long time. I'm excited for tomorrow, partially because I did take that break. But I didn't even finish all my red borders. Normally, I'd have totally completed everything by now... but the grind was intense, and the Discourse over trials was... a lot.
Still a great season, looking forward to getting back into things, but yeah.
I'm just gonna say that Destiny needs a more "laid-back" season per year, especially in Summer.
Not saying it was bad, I loved the stories, the Dungeon was awesome etc. I just enjoyed not feeling overwhelmed by the game. I did everything and still had much free time to spend doing whatever I wanted, other games, vacations, studying, hanging out with friends.
Destiny isn't a second job, if it required non-stop dedication I'd quit playing. Instead, this season I could experience it all while being able to live my life ahah
The seasonal glaive is definitely going to pop off next season, it's arc and will work with feedback fence so you'll get hyperspeed too, it'll be so wild
15:27 the thermite grenade activating the bell is such a painful thing to see
this was from his first solo flawless too, he had no idea what caused it and was quite confused why he missed a third DPS phase
I joined the season very late, so I had the story missions back-to-back-to-back, which was pretty great having so much story
Same, I came back with maybe 15 days left in the season, and it felt great having something like a mini-campaign, even if I was REALLY confused at first. Last time I played D2 was before Forsaken launch, so... 😬
@@sleepythemis forsaken and you just jumped to the haunted wow😭 you got alot of lore waiting for you
@@sleepythemis oh yeah there’s a *lot* that happened since then lmao
Totally agree with taking time off.
I was burnt out by level 50 on the season pass. Did all the story stuff and was over it.
Level 50 you've barely even played. Sounds like you just didn't enjoy the game.
@@TerraTheWise ? My brother in Christ I have 1200+ hours in destiny 2. Level 50 on THIS season pass. I did the seasonal stuff plenty. Had no motivation to grind out 100 levels this season.
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Dude... Not cool
@@DJock93AF Yea and I have 3000+ hours so 1200+ ain't much especially when I tend to take pretty frequent breaks from D2 myself. I was talking about this season in particular not the life of the game. For a single season level 50 BP is so easily obtainable you don't even have to try to get it so for burnout to happen so fast you weren't enjoying this season or game was my point.
I totally agree about taking a break. I played the first day or two of this season and then left, and only came back last week. Managed to complete all the seasonal storyline stuff, and played a bit with Solar 3.0. Having the break has reenergized me and I feel excited for tomorrow and Arc 3.0, plus a returning raid. Would love to get some more strikes though, as well as strike scoring back, to really help out the strike playlist.
19:14. I did just that. I came back yesterday to do the rest of the seasonal story missions (took me about 2 hours) and then I found myself staring at my level 27 season pass and at all those cosmetics that I paid for and never gonna get
Season of the haunted truly was one of the seasons from the popular online multi-player videogame commonly known as destiny 2
Absolutely agree with the take a break advice. Last 2 weeks this season was me getting on, doing the GM or raid, and then playing a different game. It's what we all did back when D1 was in a content lull (January-September), and it is definitely healthy for the game and the players.
Hadn't played destiny since last wish and I was overwhelmed at first but once back in the swinging things I was shocked at how much I enjoyed coming back to the game. Revamped sub classes were overdue, but thoroughly enjoyed grinding to max level and theory crafting builds for each character while chasing gear. Gotta give it to bungie for this return for me, I'm now actually excited from the next arc 3.0 update this week. 😄
“Just doing very similar feeling stuff” I have never had a more difficult time and love what you said… take some time off. I have been so burnt out and took almost the whole season off for the first time since launch. Actually feeling excited for arc 3.0 and next season due to a much needed break
Same
I played just enough this season to complete all sever missions, get to level 100, and get my Titan to the Pinnacle Cap. I don't think I did a single raid this season, and only did the dungeon a handful of times... So yeah, I took about a 6 week break from this game and I hope that was enough to help me enjoy this new season. I'm not sure though. Arc 3.0 is gonna have to really impress me
Regarding the comment about too many patterns, I would push back on that since last season when crafting first came out people were saying there wasn’t enough to craft. I’d rather too many than not enough. I think feeling like there’s too many patterns is more a problem with the crafting system and not so much dropping too many craftable weapons
he made the very point you described on his latest crafting video
I didnt even bother with Solstice this year, its good if you want some high stat armor - but after dealing with EAZ every damn year, no, I won't do it anymore lol glad to hear they got rid of the chest hunting at the end. What you said at the end is correct, I took a break during solstice and I really appreciated the game more after a couple weeks not loggin in
19:27 yeah I took off for most of this season (when I finally got around to turning on my pc and checking, there was 8 days left lol)
It was great having a whole different patrol zone for the seasonal activity. Would love to see more of that.
I played pretty casually last season until solstice came. Got the gilded triumph in the third day. Got a bunch of GMs and raids done. It was great to take a break
Will say, the Nezarac's Whisper was surprisingly welcome for me, and has become a staple in my kit as my go-to GM glaive. Having enhanced Lead from Gold + Adaptive Munitions has really opened me up to feeling comfortable playing with double special weapons, especially this season with Forerunner. Incredibly fun to act as a tanking/aggro role in GMs so my friends can do their thing much more safely.
My only issue with the duality dungeon is the grind for its 2 weapon patterns, particularly the machine gun being stuck in the last encounter where every single weapon and armor drops
I haven't really played a lot of d2 since witchqueen launched as most of the people i played with stopped playing but I came back about halfway through the season and really enjoyed it and am really excited for the reveal.
Solstice made me come back to D2, target farming armor is a dream come true. honestly hats off to bungie on that one
I feel like this as the low water line for seasons moving forward would be great for the game. If everything beats Haunted, I'll be stoked
I love how epic datto sounds, when explaining/ talking about ads or sponsors.
Took this season off and only hopped on last night to see what I potentially could have missed. Solar 3.0 was cool, but I’m glad I took a break.
That’s how I felt this season. Played in the beginning doing the new dungeon and then took a summer break. I Golfed on weekends didn’t play after work and grinding to level and completing the GMs for my guilded this last week was actually fun
This was the first season in a very long time that I didn’t do much past the main story. It’s been weeks since I’ve logged in for more than a few minutes. Hopefully next season brings a more enjoyable loop.
i took a break for about two months during this season, a bit sad im missing out on all the season ranks/the armor ornament sets but im actually excited season 18 to come out
heavy Anthem vibes from that sponsor lol. Hopefully they do it right.
I think the resilience buff coming at the same time as classy restoration bumped the mod up in significance; I've heard a lot of "go all in on resilience, recovery doesn't matter as much" this season because of how much access to cure & restoration we got, which substitutes recovery well enough.
With healing no longer being tied to all class abilities & the flavour of the season shifting away from solar and it's healing grenades, I suspect there's going to be some people struggling with their stat distribution early next season. Recovery is going to become important for all classes again, while Resilience won't be declining without a nerf, and Hunters in particular care about Mobility on top of that.
Season of the Haunted definitely was one of the seasons ever in Destiny.
I was very invested in this season's story. I went through a break up during the beginning of this season and, as sad as it is to say, was met with a lot of nightmares and difficult nights. Luckily, I had my clan and cousin to help me through the season's story. It's funny to think that the traumas experienced by each character helped me have a better understanding of my own emotions, but I am very glad I did
13:45 What is this "meta title" called and which titles do you need? EVERY title in the game (Dredgen, Conqueror, etc.)? All event ones (Solstice, Lost, etc.)?
That was the first ad I legit watched and was intrigued
Video starts at 0:54
I may have started D2 back in season 12 (D1 is a different story), but it has felt oh so good to take this last week off from the game. I may have popped in to ready my anti-champion weapons, but I've been out of it for the most part. Feels good.
Me an my friends have a running joke that crow is essentially the main character of destiny to fill the void that is our mostly silent gaurdian. He is a new light, has amnesia because of it, gets his memories back and finds out he was a villian in his past life, has the classic family relationship to an important character, and has shown signs of mastering friendship no justsu with zavala and Saladin.
The sponsor knows datto’s audience very well
They’ve sponsored literally every big Destiny TH-camr lol
@@The_Worst_Warlock I'm surprised he didn't get a Genshin or Tower of Fantasy sponsor for his vids
I played week 1,2 6 and last week of the season. A break was soooo needed
I just came back to d2 after a year and a half away. Although there’s many new “things” in the game, it quickly felt very similar to a year and a half ago. Couldn’t agree more with the strike playlist, it needs some love
I ended up crafting most of the weapons (the only one other than the dungeon weapons that I didn’t get was Without Remorse) and they have to do something about the time it takes to level a crafted weapon. I was using them as much as possible in all activities and finally got them all to level 16, which gives you access to all enhanced perks and it probably took me about 4-5 hours of endless Nightmare Containment to get there. I did it, but it sucked
I lost track with what i had to do. Took a whole lot of time off after the first rift fiasco in Iron Banner (didnt mind it really) and tried to finish some things in the last week. I failed to do anything as i was really looking forward to trying out Arc 3.0 so i played other games really.
datto is getting so poetic about the fact that veterans are learning that we need to take breaks. and how it was just a season, nothing different- just samey
I think while a resilience nerf is maybe warranted a buff to mobility would be nicer to even out and really make the option of focusing armor based on playstyle a choice.
I loved the season. It’s the second season I’ve fully done the season pass and gotten the title for (the only other being Arrivals). Solar 3.0 was loads of fun with hammer spam Titan.
Loved the story. Hated Containment at the end. Took a week off and realized that I play for the wonder, the fantasy, and my clanmates's camaraderie!
Bring back heroic story missions, heroic strikes. Perhaps those reward weps drop with more perks, armor could be focused but only if done solo.
Why? I've found the new lights in our clan need sharpening as to where enemies spawn from, loadouts to handle said spawns, and armor set ups.
What helped me the most was solo play.
Also, why gave all the triumphs for a seal be linked to mostly 1 activity? Containment, done 280 times, is just boring.
However, grade the season A+ as I had so much fun until the containment grind burnout. Came back from time off able to help new lights in clan get conquerer, finish all weapons, except fixed and Ep. (not a single drop in 30+ runs!)
But that's RnJesus, Bungie style.
PvP...more cheaters than ever. If Bungie can't fix then maybe it should just be legal to use chronus?
We still get ddossing on PS! I'd be Fabled if not for this. Early on, H3, we had 3 matches in a row that someone from our team didn't land with us! Yesterday, a guy was running and shooting through rocks. We have the video. Also, his teammate switched lag on and off. Why play? My buddy needs 1 more to get Unbroken.
Next season will be POG! Why? Cuz Bungie has the template. Make the game a bit harder with solo game more than lost sectors and I'll be happy!
Datto, thanks for helping me and Mr. Fruit get a handle on armor and vault cleaning!
I'm honestly impressed I've watched videos from Datto, Aztecross, and Fallout today that were all sponsored by The First Descendant
What you said about leaving for a while I did just after the realise of witch queen than came back about a month ago and fell in love with the game again
That is an interesting take. I also did the moon and d1 and pretty much quit for the season of Shadowkeep but I never did the Leviathan raid and found exploring it for the first time this season quite interesting actually.
I pretty much quit playing somewhere in week 6 and came back on the VERY LAST DAY to rank up from 51 to 104 to get all my shit from the pass. Not getting on to do those weeklies really burns me when I have to do as many as possible before the pass dies, I just wanted to make sure I got as much Bright Dust and all of the cosmetics possible from it.
Sever missions were great, in terms of story arcs. I just wish I had any fucking clue who the hell Zavala was whining about all season long, Crow and Caiatl's stories felt very much relatable and humanizing to them. A man afraid of a previous life, scarred by indecision and a festering, torrid fear of the pain he once caused, and behaviors he believes are innate. An empress being crushed by inordinate pressure to lead a broken people who have only ever known militant organization and war, to peace and allegiance with once-mortal enemies.
I appreciate that the story and its functional properties were leveraged as a means to interrogate the cast in a much deeper and personal context than is usually present. We saw Eris in Shadowkeep, how she is haunted by loss. We get to see Zavala's unshared history, a very distant, rigid and somber person marred by tragedy involving his family (which makes Cayde's death as the Hunter Vanguard, his other, "found" family, very prescient); his decisions to abstain from seeking vengeance for Cayde's death must not have been an easy one, even more difficult to accept Crow into the ranks as a Guardian wearing the skin of his former friend's scheming murderer.
We even got a much closer look at Calus' motivations and interrogated his intentions during this season as well. Where Calus intends to make us his allies, his approach does nothing to solve our immediate problems and his solution is pretty much just "Party until the lights go out." The lights being the universe, in this case.
Ultimately I am a sucker for character growth and the myriad changes in both this season and last season (don't get me started on Bracus Forge, what a nuts but awesome idea) give me hope that the story isn't just stagnating. Now if we can just have Ada become relevant again...
In terms of Destiny 2 really laying into the games as a service mentality I think they did an amazing job this season. I personally like how this season felt like a good book, and its broken up into a bunch of memorable moments throughout the season (seasonal story, dungeon farming, iron banner grinding, solstice armor searching, craftable weapon farming etc). On top of all the QOL additions I truly believe this is the best Destiny has ever been and its only getting better.
We have had the same seasonal formula since chosen (I'm not counting hunt) and it has consistently delivered quality. The only issue is staleness and boredom, but I think you pointed out that this is more of a reflection on the state of the core playlists. When the story mission is done each week what I am supposed to do? The core playlists can't carry the games weight in the moments of downtime, so people over extend the seasonal content and then complain. Taking more breaks and more attention from the devs on core playlists will help like you said.
I liked the equipment and solar 3.0 but the deepsight farming and ludicrous amount of doing that public event I had to do really burned me out. Duality was dope though. However I DO think considering the enemy density, this may have been a stress test to see how many enemies they can push in an area at once, I would absolutely love Warframe levels of enemy density at some point.
I learned that a long time ago datto. Destiny has always been a game that you take a break from until the new content comes out. I reached the highest rank I've ever reached in a season (218). But I got the season title and the dungeon title and I felt that was enough. I saw little point in continue playing. I set goals and I achieved them. Once the story was done, I checked out the last 4 weeks. I'm refreshed and looking forward to the new season tomorrow.
The grind definitely multiplied because of the crafting. I think i spent as much time on hunting patterns as I did on everything else. I think it took nearly 240 runs to get the dungeon patterns. Even if those were mostly boss checkpoints after the first 50 it was still way too long. I think the last epicurean dropped right after they finally patched the drop rate.
I could see Resilience and Intellect having their mod costs swapped.
@The Legs of Rhulk I didn't say I want it, but it makes sense considering how the value of resilience has ballooned shortly after intelect tanked.
Grinded the shit outta last season and was looking forward to this one, but I ended up taking a few months break when it dropped instead and can say it felt a lot better coming back later on
Well i didn't raid much at all this whole Witch Queen Expansion(Which is still on going)..but i have enjoyed the seasons and weapons, Void 3.0 and Solar 3.0
🙂👍 But i'm definitely doing Kings Fall raid.
On dawnblade 3.0, they REALLY need to combine icarus dash with heat rises and give us a healing focused aspect. Touch of flame should also get a secondary effect
I took a month and a half off and I'm amazed at how much of the season I managed to get through. You're right, 6 weapons that are craft able are more than enough since all but one or two will be valuable that season.
I really enjoyed this season, it was engaging. But, I jumped into this season with about 6 weeks left of it and I think that was great. It is something I am going to consider for season 18, letting the season sit for about a month and then jump in. This way I'll end up having around like 4-5 weeks worth of Triumphs to do and weekly story content as well. Bungie is doing well for the story build up to Lightfall and I cannot wait to see what amazing encounters will face in the coming year. :)
I did the bare minimum during Risen so I wasn't burning out on the game and really quite enjoyed it. Destiny can't stay mysterious and unknown forever and I think they're doing a pretty good job of unraveling everything including the characters. I also didn't get bored of the containment stuff but I also don't grind just to get everything (like patterns), I think the open arenas with lots of dudes to kill was good.
I like how the underlying theme for the season was Ghostbusters.
I agree with taking time off. Coming back after a month from not playing feels so good, a lot to do, still enough time to get the season pass rewards, it’s just a great time versus playing every day.
the only reason i was playing week to week, was the story missions because i was so captivated by them. once they stopped releasing, i stopped playing until the second to last week and it was only to hit rank 100
Couldn't agree more on the point you made about Duality. I really wish there was more end-game pve content that wasn't dragging around the chain and ball of champions/matchgame/burn. Activities where we can let buildcrafting off its leash.
I 100% agree with the Dungeon. I had a blast soloing it with Titan Hammer strat 😂
I like that they brought back Calus’ old voice, was more sinister and intimidating
Hear me out: New "Gambit" mode, equivalent of Nightfall for Vanguard. 4-player wave based defence focused on combat, in Gambit maps, PvE only. Legend mode: you get ammo and different positive and negative modifiers each round. Master mode: Locked loadout, you start with random green rarity stuff and baseline subclass features, and upgrade a couple slots to whatever you have equipped each round. I think people crave combat challenges like duality without the commitment and linearity of a dungeon/raid.
On Haunted weapons, Nez's is great since it can roll Adaptive and Genesis
I have to say i'm fairly hopeful for next season, for the sole reason that each year seems to have a banger (Opulence, Dawn, Chosen) and we have yet to see this year's fan favorite
I wonder how many ppl felt the way I did this season, which was a leftover burnout from a heavy Witch Queen decreasing my desire to play.
Lackluster seasonal weapons and an Iron Banner I didn’t enjoy on top of that and I took a break much sooner than I usually do. Hope this season is a hoot.
came back seriously for the first time in years and this was a fun season for me to come back to, very excited for the new one
One really cool thing that I think bungee should explore is the idea of "Spartan ops" for their seasonal quest line. More or less exactly like the ones in Halo 4. If we could have some replayable campaign missions from past seasons, that would be really freaking cool. Simply put I don't want to do repetitive activities. I want a campaign playlist that has a new episode added every other week. I also want this campaign playlist to be very long. It should continually grow season after season.
man the first descendant just sponsors every destiny tuber
On the eververse comment, i get what you mean, but im fine with that as long as they continue to deliver decent content, if people are funding them through cosmetic purchases enough to maintain a decent flow of good content& story telling, im fine with that, plus the brightdust store generally has some quality stuff to grab from simply just playing the game & completing seasonal challenges
I do believe Tresspasser’s tunnel vision trait reactivates on an unrepentant kill
You are correct sir
I for one loved the amount of craftable weapons, sure I've not maxed them out nor have I really got them all crafted but I like having stuff like that to work towards
This was my time away I played the first week and dipped for a long time then came back to finish my season pass
Liked it - just dreading having to redo the pinnacle climb once again 🤷♂️
Season of the Haunted truly was one of the seasons in Destiny 2
I have my first day in college tomorrow so no spoilers for the showcase and the season intro please
Thanks Datto, I agree with the sentiment of playing multiple games.
I play a handful of seasonal games but they all line up at similar times (probably due to quarterly business reports) making them difficult to prioritize. 💀
Once again, thanks for being one of the few D2 content creators who tell people to take a break. People burning themselves out in this game is a real problem and it’s usually exacerbated by constant “GET THIS GOD ROLL GUN NOW OR YOU WILL FOREVER REGRET IT” that most channels stuff down people throats.
It’s real simple. Start getting bored? Play something else for a bit. You are responsible for your own burnout.
Took a 5 month break, excited for the next season now!
You too with the First Descendant? Lol I commend them for reach out to you and 'Cross for exposure though, and the game looks like it could be fun
For me personally ive been enjoying the game more when i play a ton during the story weeks, then take a break until the last couple weeks of the season
massively agree, my favourite d1 exotic. It lets people that can play a lot during the ‘main’ weeks enjoy all the new things, and have a nice break at the end, just at the point where burnout might start to kick in. Also allows those who have to/want to take things a bit slower to do so and have plenty of time to do things
Chain is my baby for my Warlock "Chewy Grenade"(devour focused) build