I have never played Destiny whatseover up until the free Destiny 2 period. I had the game highly recomended so I thought "It is free, nothing to lose"...
So here I am a month in, utterly addicted to the game. Loving all the quests, loot, solar system. There is SO MUCH to do in the game I almost feel like I need to grow a second pair of arms. I very swiftly paid for Forsaken and loved that, saw all the Black Forge adverts on the loading page, see EVEN MORE CONTENT and go for it. So I drop some Christmas money on the game and start the Black Forge quests.
Loving the quests, love Ada's hesitence at dealing with Guardians, love the grind of getting all the components to forge my first gun which took a while. Go to the first forge Volundr in the EDZ and then the whole game comes crashing down around my ears. Everything up to this point has been joyous and glorious and then this happens.....
I suddenly find all the Cabal are immune to my damage. I cannot do a damned thing to them. I see when I die that the recomended power level is 650 (!!!) - which is insanely out of reach for me. I am around 553 but not rising - whatever I do I remain stuck at 553 as I cannot find any equipment of a higher rating than I already have - which is why I want to do Black Armoury to get cooler kit.
So no where did I see any mention of "You must be 650 power level to even consider paying £30 of you cash into the game to get any benefit of the content" so right away I feel ripped off.
The game still lets me attempt the forge though so I think, that is okay, I am one of three players in the squad, I can still contribute with shields and collecting the energy, distracting the Cabal etc... I might not be able to hurt them but I can still complete the quest.... and that is where the next problem occurs.
There is either NO ONE AT ALL playing so I am a lone player (I die, quest ends, restarts,infinite loop of misery).
There are other players but ALL OF THEM ARE AFK (I die, quest ends, restarts, THE SAME AFK PLAYERS ARE THERE AGAIN, I die, quest ends, restarts, infinite loop of misery).
There are players but while they are moving left and right - they are only moving left and right and it is the same precise movement without shooting? IS THAT A GODAMNED FARMING CLICK BOT - (I die, quest ends, restarts, THE SAME AFK CLICK BOT PLAYERS ARE THERE AGAIN, I die, quest ends, restarts, infinite loop of misery).
There might be one other player who is online and not AFK! Yippeee! Oh no - they can't hurt the Cabal either - (we die, quest ends, restarts, infinite loop of misery continues with one of the four options occuring).
I have tried all three servers around the world and all of them have the same problem. Either a barren wasteland, AFK players clogging up the fireteam, AFK players using some sort of bollox click nonsense (why bother cheating when you can seemingly sit AFK and it keeps loading you into the forge team queue) or other players in the same boat I am - we were sold content we cannot complete desperately hoping someone, anyone (perhaps the A-Team) could help us out while we do out part because we are team players.
It is beyond frustrating and I feel ripped off.
It is bad design - who thought it was a great idea to auto load the quest so AFK players and cheaters can game the system or troll it and ruin everyones day I do not know. There must be a reason why? Who thought it was a great idea (probably Activision) to advertise and sell time limited content a new player can't complete.
TLDR - if you are a new player to the game and are thinking about buying a season pass. DON'T BOTHER.
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4 RepliesIt's almost like black armory was promoted as an extension to the endgame of forsaken. You're only 553, which isn't high enough for endgame content.