Destiny 2

I know the trial is on Xbox and PS4, don't know about PC.

The combat is very smooth, and you're using soft cover (or running/gunning).
Melee (so far) is just a single push-away hit (bumper).

At level 7 the game hasn't asked me to team up with anyone yet, so I haven't...

It's mostly shooting it seems as the powers (grenades / shocks) seem to have very long cooldowns, though that might be because I'm low level.



(now if Anthem draws from the good parts of Destiny, that might be interesting.)

Mostly grenades and melee variations on the powers. It get gets a little more interesting in Destiny 2, where warlocks can lay down a AOE buff and Titans can create cover. Hunters can dodge.

Melee is pretty simple, Titans punch, Hunters have a knife, Warlocks have the vast melee because it has the most range. There are also swords.

You have three character slots, one for each class if you want. You level the one you're playing as.

Short as it was, I love the story too, especially the Almighty mission and subsequent endgame battle. Of course, I think much of its impact has to do with my countless hours spent since D1's beta and getting super hooked on the whole thing.

I dislike the loss of the OHK shoulder charge, but the thing I lament the most is the loss of the guaranteed kill sticky grenades. It was so satisfying to peek through a doorway, toss a grenade, hear that little magnetize click and get that satisfying ping of a kill XD. Now I gotta work for it! I will say though that the charged sprinting melee is a really nice teamwork tool. I love popping out of nowhere to polish off weakened enemies with that shield bash. 

Loss of 6v6 has me a pinch salty too. I was so accustomed to my bigger group, but more than that, I actually had a core group of 6 people that I would get into a match with on a regular basis. Well, there's always the raid, which I can't wait to finish.

So far though I've been making this a regular fix after work and it hasn't lost any real momentum for me, partly because the adventures littered about the worlds are immensely better than the simple patrols. 

Dunemarchers were my go to exotic in D1, that fast, tight turn to double back and shoulder-charge in pvp was glorious. But the arc damage chain perk on the new ones is really good for CC in PVE, I have yet to try them in pvp.

I'm not really ready for a raid yet, even though I have the light level. I am still enjoying end game stuff. So much to explore, so much is hidden away. I don't quite get the people who are doing EVERYthing RIGHT NOW ASAP!. The game isn't going anywhere, you know it's going to be a grind. So take your time and enjoy the scenery is my way of looking at it. (Especially when the detail they've put into the environments is so good.) Get your moneys worth

I mean, in D1 we used to spend an hour or so messing about in the bar with the jukebox, dancing with emotes etc, or doing comedy ragdoll deaths off the tower. Even last night we spent almost as long just running around the new tower, playing football, pretending to serve Ramen in the bazaar, just goofing around really  

I am enjoying the Strikes. They seem longer, a bit more epic (probably due to the music) and I love the way they have used elements from past raids (e.g. slam-dunking and carrying balls) to mix it up with different objectives. They are like mini-raids.

The main thing I don't like is that you can't see your fireteam on the map, and if the fireteam leader fast travels to another area your pals are left stranded. It's easy to get separated and lost. People are also complaining about the shader system, but I've got so many I don't know what to do with them.

I also enjoy the little secret meeting room thing they added over the hangar that you access by doing the floor is lava challenge.





 Haven't found that yet. I did the one at the Farm, and saw someone whizzing around all red last night at the tower, so I'll have to look it up!

Whoops, my mistake. At least in D1 the orbs your teammates produce stick around. It seems that in 2 they dissipate not long after they're formed. 

I was reading the guide for the raid, and this was something I was concerned about. It definitely seems like an even bigger puzzle game than the previous raids, which I have to say is kinda disappointing. That said, raids are something I do so seldom (time constraints and getting 6 people to cooperate long enough to complete it) that I'm fairly alright with it, but I suspect the Vault of Glass will remain my favorite, though I did like Wrath of the Machine too.

Interesting:

"Destiny 2 feels like an apology."

www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-09-15-destiny-2-review

Nice. I won't touch my warlock until I'v finished leveling up my titan's power. I'm fond of my titan's so far, though I need those noble constant gauntlets Ikora gives you. But I did get the raid shaders so it's all coming together now.

They destroyed trials and raiding in this game 😡 This will indeed shorten my time with the game plus my hope for destiny to be this great franchise that I expected is just gone.

Love AJS review, I can honestly see it being a 5-6 rated game as it's nothing special. Most definitely agree on his point in how much Bungie has changed cause they're unrecognizable now.

I've had that problem, but only if I quit the game before finishing the quest

Joe tends to be a bit over the top but I agree with a good amount of things on here (and lol'd a couple times). 

The "customization" aspect of the game is pretty trash. Being just about exactly the same as it was before, on top of adding restrictions to niceties added to the previous game makes it a bit of a failure. In the end, I'll probably collect a heap of shaders, but the exceptions, like the ones you earn in the raid, which probably don't drop randomly in any faction or bright engrams is a serious disappointment.

I feel that the addition of mods is a bit of an improvement overall, even if just barely. I like that that nifty armor I finally get doesn't have to be scrapped because of a roll that's of no interest to me (a shotgun ammo bonus is of no interest to me), since I can change the roll myself, sort of like I could with exotic armor in D1 when glass needles were added. The RNG can add frustration too, but you earn mods so often you're bound to get something you'll like.

I agree that the final boss is too easy. I adore the feel of the entire endgame mission that has us going from the Almighty and the Last City all the way to the flagship, but Ghaul himself was a pushover. Having the power of the light and switching between the new subclasses was an opportunity they missed. He should have been harder to deal with. It should have been that one instance where our super attack finally meets its match. But he moves so slowly and has such a watered down version of what we can do that it takes the oomph out of the whole thing. 

Not getting a sparrow through the main campaign is a baffling choice. The sparrow should have been something we salvage from the EDZ or given to us by Devrim Kay, like the Wanderwing from Hawthorne. 

PvP seems better balanced overall than what I remember from the beta, but as a non-Trials player, needless to say I don't think I'm quite fit for that just yet (and I HATE that bomb timer nonsense). I prefer straight up elimination over that defuse BS. 

As for the raid, fuck that thing. I did some of it, but I actually detest these puzzle things. The Vault of Glass is easily the best because it was more about teamwork in dealing with enemies than running around coordinating these stupid map puzzles.