The reason me and my clan play destiny is for the PVE, the PVE with friends in destiny is the best PVE experience around, but it seems with the press around D2 and especially now the beta that the balance and focus has very much shifted toward PVP, and has certainly taken away from the fun in PVE.
The enemies are bullet sponges, the super recharge is an actual joke, ability recharge isn't much better, power weapons are USELESS, and movement speed and jumping control seems way way slower than D1.
I appreciate this is a beta and things may change but it certainly seems as though the balance and focus is toward PVP in a big way, and there is nothing to show or suggest about loot drops/engrams (which be honest is why we keep coming back and back, like a borderline crack addition) that looks like any improvement on D1 if anything its worse.
Amazing representation of graphics and base gameplay, terrible representation of the game's direction and content.
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To be more specific: -most weapon tuning in Destiny 1 was based off of PvP complaints. -the new weapon layout feels like a response to PvP complaints about shotguns and sniper rifles. -the two primary system is doomed to fail if we get nothing but bullet sponge bosses in the sequel. -the slower cool down times for supers, grenades, and abilities feel like a response to PvP complaints about players spamming those things. -more gunplay, less supers/abilities, and slower player movement feel like responses to PvP complaints about those two things. I have no problem with improving the PvP experience, but please stop doing it at the expense of PvE Bungie.