Just wanted to post my thoughts and give some feedback from my time playing the Destiny Alpha. First off I want to say great job Bungie. I think it really shows the amount of effort and love that was put into Destiny. The amount of foreseeable content, and even then amount of content that was in the Alpha is amazing. It was also very surprisingly polished for an Alpha, which I assume was the goal. Thanks for the love Bungie <3 These are my thoughts on the Alpha. Both things I think were done perfectly and things I think could use some more tweaking. :) [b]The Good[/b]: This are some of the specific things that I love, I of course love much more than just these things though. 1. Simply the idea that you can bring weapons that you gather in single player and use them in multiplayer is amazing. It really breaks the traditional multiplayer style, and I think it will take a while for people to get used to it, but it connects us to our character so much more and adds a whole new layer of strategy to it. 2. The special abilities charging rate. This was balanced so well, great job. Seeing how powerful they were I was worried when I first saw them, but they don't charge up to full very often so it really makes a meaningful decision when I should use it. 3. Medals! I'm glad the idea of medals was something that you decided to carry over from halo games. One of the best was to give positive feedback in my opinion. 4. Headshots do more damage. I'm so glad that this was put into place. I'm also glad that this comes into player with most weapons too. I find with Halo not all the weapons really followed this as much, like the assault riffle, but it was balanced with the fact that you needed to take more shots to kill someone. While in Destiny I found most weapons followed this headshot rule and it's great. 5. Vehicle handling. Oh my it's one of the first things I noticed and one of the first things I hear mentioned about Destiny. They just feels so smooth to drive, and the boost it so rewarding. 6. Gestures in Crucible! The idea of gestures alone is great, and I love them. But the fact that you can use them anywhere is even greater! But not just because it's awesome to dance in the middle of battle, but because it can be used as a tactical advantage. Who would have thought dancing while in battle could be useful? But if you want to check around a corner before you run in, or see around a pillar you're standing right behind, dancing will do this thanks to the fact it goes into third person. I would push to keep this in, except maybe balance it more with gameplay because as is right now players can jump right back into first person, making that time longer though would balance it. I think it would be amazing to have competitive players use dance or wave to their tactical advantage though. Something for people to talk about too. [b]The Bad[/b]: Just some feedback for things I thought could be tweaked. 1. I do think people die slightly too fast in crucible. Just slightly. I think player's just need an extra average lifespan of like 0.5-1 seconds to allow good players to escape if they react fast enough, or to give more of a chance to the player in a 1vs2 encounter. 2. Class abilities. I felt that the titans ability, although awesome and so much fun, was better than the others as it has such a big radius. I felt it was virtually very similar to the warlock's, the only clear difference being that the warlock doesn't end up in battle and can use theirs from a distance. The hunter's was really fun to use but has a limit of 3 kills, so if you're in battle and there's 4 people after you, you can get 3 kills and then because of the time it took you, and the speed at which you die, the fourth person is almost guaranteed to kill you, if they haven't already. I think it would balance it a tad bit more if the hunter's bullets could either, go through enemies, so 1 shot could hit more than 1 person, OR if it had a tiny radius of effect, so if two players were standing next to each other then the player that wasn't shot would lost a bit of health. 3. Particle effects. Although these were great and rewarding when shooting somebody. I felt it was hard to tell what was going on at times. Too much going on at once. 4. Radar distance. I loved the radar, I wasn't sure how I felt about it at first, but I warmed up and now I actually like it better. Although the distance it begins to register people is a little too far. It's too easy to tell when and where people were coming from. 5. Class jumps. It seems from the people I've talked to, and this is my opinion as well, the only class jump that I've heard people liking is the Hunter's double jump. I've never found and instance where the Warlock and Titan's jump abilities are more useful. Maybe if the Warlock lunged forward on the second tap rather than float in spot, making them feel very vulnerable. And the Titan's second jump seemed to be the in between for the two, and also kind of gave the vulnerable feeling of floating. Instead maybe they could slam to the ground similar to their ability, but instead of doing damage maybe they could knock players back a small distance. This also would give them the feeling of being heavier but stronger. 6. Medals. Like I said above, I loved the medals. But at the same time they didn't stand out to me. They all looked the same. And that's one things I found Halo Reach/3/2/Combat Evolved, did well. Without looking directly at the medals I knew which one I got, simply based off of the colour. With destiny they look great but they all look too similar as the things that make them stand out is too small or maybe isn't vibrant enough. This might just be up to getting used to it. But I felt I needed to read the medal to find out what it was, rather than knowing it by shape or colour. Also I usually have 'horse blinders' on when I'm doing well and getting medals, so because of this I don't even notice the medal let alone what it actually is I'm getting rewarded for. 7. Vehicles. Vehicles did feel a little bit too powerful at times. I don't have any thoughts as to how to fix this, but I feel that they could be dumbed down a little in the crucible. 8. Loading times. There was quite a bit of time in the wait window sitting in the lobby while waiting for a match. In Halo 3 it was fine because you could super easily look at people's pictures in their fileshare, or look at their stats. And I think the key to that was it was only one or two simple button presses away. Much of the wait time in Destiny I found to be with nothing to do and often with nobody's profile to look at. That's it! Again, I loved the game. And I was thoroughly impressed with the quality as it was an Alpha. Thanks for all that you do for us Bungie :) Anything to add? Didn't agree with something? Was I wrong? Post below and let me know! (Haha I rhymed)