JavaScript is required to use Bungie.net

Destiny 2

Discuss all things Destiny 2.
Edited by Chubby Belly: 1/17/2022 3:05:03 AM
70

Why don't people cooperate?

This is a question that's been burning inside me for a long time now. I don't mean to make this click-baity or a nostalgia trip tinted with rose-colored glasses or anything, but ever since Destiny 2 came out, I've wondered why no one cooperates anymore. Constantly, in raids, in crucible, in strikes, in gambit, really anywhere in the game, people [i]rarely[/i] revive their teammates. It's an actual problem. Let's take gambit for example. It's time to dish out damage to the primeval, here we all are, bunched together shoulder to shoulder blasting away at the boss and a sniper gets me. My body is literally underneath a teammate, but instead of the three seconds to hold the revive button, they keep shooting away as if nothing else in the world exists except their own situation. Their own reality. I feel like this is legitimately a Destiny 2 issue. Destiny 1 felt like it was so rare when your teammate's priority wasn't to pick you back up after a death. Everyone was on it. Everyone exemplified perfect team work. Keeping your team alive was the heart of the game. I think it's a friendliness thing potentially. Destiny 2, you're standing in the tower and no one is dancing with each other. No one is teabagging the air to say hello to each other. It's get in, get out. Get the hell out of the way. Destiny 1, you cannot go to the tower without a 5-minute dance-off or a teabag session with 3 other friendly guardians. And no, it's not nostalgia. Load back up Destiny 1 today and you'll see the same thing. I'm not sure what's different, but I guess after all of this, my point I'm trying to make is: Bring back the old tower.

Posting in language:

 

Play nice. Take a minute to review our Code of Conduct before submitting your post. Cancel Edit Create Fireteam Post

View Entire Topic
  • Edited by kellygreen45: 1/17/2022 3:03:02 PM
    Remember there is another human being on the other side of those pixels… …and remember what is going on out there in the world right now. We are in the middle of a once-a-century public health emergency that is about to enter its third year. We are in a global economic slowdown that about to enter its third year. In many parts of the world political unrest is building as well. As these crises are stressing people and stressing political and cultural fault lines. Many people are struggling with the loss of important people in their lives. People they hadn’t expected to lose. IOW, odds are you are dealing with someone who is stressed-out, scared, and possibly angry at the world right now and they are playing this game to get a break from that. A point I had to remind myself of two days ago as my own frustration mounted as I drove trying to find a drive through line that wasn’t a mile long, and when I did the guy gave me my food and forgot to give me the drink I’d ordered. I had to take a deep breath and remind myself that the world is a scary and confusing place right now, and we all need to cut one another a little slack right now.

    Posting in language:

     

    Play nice. Take a minute to review our Code of Conduct before submitting your post. Cancel Edit Create Fireteam Post

    6 Replies
    You are not allowed to view this content.
    ;
    preload icon
    preload icon
    preload icon