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Edited by Razzupaltuff: 11/28/2014 1:33:05 PM
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Where Destiny fails

This thread is a (incomplete) list of where Destiny fails in a way or another, and of course expresses my personal opinion. A bit about myself before I start: I am over 50, have been working as software dev for 25 years, and now work as software project manager. I have been maintaining and modernizing an old 3D shooter game from the beginnings of 3D shooters for around 10 years, and have been contributing to various other open source projects. I have also been playing computer games for over 30 years. I therefore tend to believe that I am having a certain competence in the areas I will be talking about here. I am not a native English speaker, so please forebear with me if I do not satisfy your standards of proper English language and grammar at all times here. :-) [b]TL;DR: Destiny doesn't even deserve the rating "mediocre". It is a plain bad, repetitive, bug ridden game the developer of wich rules over the game and his customers with an incredibly arrogant high-handedness.[/b]

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  • Edited by Razzupaltuff: 11/28/2014 12:53:05 PM
    [b]Implementation[/b] The best that can be said about Destiny is that it is a solid shooter with very good shooter mechanics. The shooter part of this game is fun to play. Unfortunately, that's about it. Destiny contains numerous flaws and bugs that make it hard to play in various scenarios. [u]Networking[/u] First of all, Bungie fails to provide robust networking to this game. I have never experienced a game where the networking so consistently fails as Destiny. My internet connection is rock solid. I as good as never have any problems with other online games I am playing. With Destiny, I am experiencing several network failures a day. Other people cannot play Destiny at all because their connection to one of the network services Destiny requires constantly fails. This is not a problem of internet infrastructure or connection: This is a problem of Bungie's server setup and networking implementation. My guess is that Destiny's networking has a tremendous amount of probably DRM related overhead that is error prone and a reason for the constant failure of Destiny's networking. [u]Physics[/u] Destiny's the physics implementation is generic and not well tuned to the game. The most prominent example is where players bounce of surfaces when jumping at them, like the surfaces or the players were made of rubber. When a player is using boost, he is driven by thrust. That thrust should make him glide up sloped surfaces, and not bounce back like a rubber ball from a concrete wall. This is showing an amateurish and lackluster implementation of Destiny's physics features. [u]Raid Glitches[/u] There is a long list of known raid glitches. While Bungie is eager to close every loophole that allows players to play Destiny differently than Bungie wants, they apparently couldn't care less about what makes it impossible for players to play their game even the way Bungie wants it. Instead, Bungie implements features of questionable use like random team chat and trick sparrows. Again, this is saying a lot about Bungie's attitude.

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