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Edited by TuxyDoh:
10/5/2021 3:37:50 PM
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Solo Players
So I have a question for solo players. I prefer answers from players that have been playing solo for 2 seasons or more. My question is:
What is the point or endgame?
I'm not being a jerk etc.... I just started playing solo this season because my friends stopped playing with me. This is 100% serious question.
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3 RepliesI don't have to wait for people. I don't have to do things I'm not interested in. I'm not left in the cold when someone has to leave the fireteam. I control my own destiny to go anywhere, anytime.
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Do a presage solo on Master or Normal and you know, or a lost sector.
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For me its crucible using the Red Dead [spoiler]Dead Mand Tale[/spoiler]
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The point is that they don’t want to play with others. Endgame is solo dungeon, nightfalls, empire hunts etc
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2 RepliesPeople don't like me and really I could care less. My ex says I'm a sociopath amongst other terms. Every friend I've had has died, my kids hate coming here., the cats just want fed and the rabbit I'm stuck with treats me like crap. So I play solo, basically, except matchmaking activities. I'm old so the fact that you can play a game on tv still amazes me and I'm easily entertained just shooting stuff. The point of playing the game solo for me is simply to try and keep functioning on some level in a safe environment where I can't hurt anyone, physically. It's a real gas. There's still many civil players I run into and a bunch who obviously have little real life experience and probably will never be adult enough to grow up. I could care less.
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Edited by Natdeguerre: 10/6/2021 10:24:06 PMThe point is to have fun playing the game. Solo is my preferred state. I don’t care for social drama with internet strangers. My RL friends don’t play Destiny. I don’t mind playing in an online world with other people in it. The world gets regular updates. You come across other players, compete a little with them in pvp or join up with them in PVE. I just have no desire to talk to them, to emotionally invest myself or to listen to creaky voices from the public in my living room. I’m done with all that nonsense. I just want a relaxed gaming session in my free time.
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2 RepliesDrink beer. Go into the crucible using the most obscure weapons you can find in your vault . Keep drinking. Drink some more. Quit when the beer-lag gets worse than the game lag. Drink some more.
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Just to enjoy the game play. Bungie makes the perfect 30 second game loop… shoot, move, shoot, move, change weapon or use abilities, kill enemy, move on, repeat. They’ve been great at it since Halo, and if I’d had a Mac at the time, I’d probably be saying that about Marathon too. That’s what I’m playing Destiny for.
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I'm not sure I understand the question. The point is the same as for non-solo players. Entertainment. I guess perhaps you are indicating that what's fun to you is the teamwork. I guess the simple answer is that what's fun to me (at least sometimes) is the game itself, and advancing my characters in terms of questlines, equipment etc. As a returning player (started playing Destiny in 2014, burned out early in D2, recently came back), what I have recently enjoyed the most included unlocking stasis on my warlock, grinding to 7 ToO wins despite being a mediocre solo player, and getting complete IB armor sets for all three characters. Currently grinding to get power level up to at least 1330 and unlock statis on the other two characters. After that, it'll be something else.
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I purposefully don’t reach full light cap each season (as I’ve done since D1 ) just so I have something to grind and try new builds, I don’t do raids just cause I don’t have a good team nor the energy, but mostly just enjoying the game and content then waiting for cool new content or builds to try Playing alone is relaxing for me and I can turn my brain off and just coast while playing through pve content
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Just to pass the time on strikes, no loot chasing anymore, is pointless and boring. Bungie just can't bring something new that give you your attention, only the same of the same content, over and over again. I'm just tired of strike and raid mechanics, cmon bungie, innovate or just leave the game die!!!
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I used to play with a really active group/clan reaching way back to my Halo 3 days and then through D1 when I would raid weekly. I took a lot of time off and stepped away. I came back last year just to kill time and for nostalgia. Most of my friends went to PC and are playing different games/waiting on Infinite. So for me I just play solo content, do my weekly's and move through the seasons. As someone who works a full time job but is fully remote these days Destiny is super casual and allows me to chill at the end of a day (or sometimes in the middle). I just knock out bounties and pinnacles to max level and hit all the seasonal challenges etc. I play with my son sometimes and that is cool. I guess it's not that I don't want to play with a group. It's just that I remember the D1 feeling of Tuesday night feeling like chores every week. Raid, nightfall on at least 2 characters. I don't want that again. I would run a raid, or anything like that if I had a group to do it with. But if not, I'm not losing sleep. So what is endgame? It's whatever you make it, for me it's just time to decompress in between good surf conditions when I can get to the beach.
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Challenge,loot This game isn't for solo play...fireteam are even part of the in game lore
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Loot, that is all
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Protip: There's no "point" to any video game unless you're making money off of it.
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4 RepliesIt used to be fine solo, now I create new accs n move them on once I hit endgame, then start again. I used to hit season rank 1000 but then i found out of players used macros to afk their way to 1000 and it lost its appeal. I find endgame extremely tedious, the loot isn't near good enough to warrant going through the lfg system, and it's severely lacking in creativity. Look at endgame and tell me why people do it, other than to play with friends. Raids, basically a long strike, with 7 year old loot, n bungies creativity is to put champions in. Ran it 200 times in D1, it's tired, old, and dated Trials. You need a team or get destroyed. Again, the loot is awful n not worth the hassle. GMs 7yr and 4yr old strikes. Most are broken or glitched, fake difficulty, for once again very poor loot, lots of it from 7yrs ago. Oh and upgrade materials. Lost sectors , just LOL Bungie are -blam!- at incentives.
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Hiya Guardian, in my case I play solo because I just love the parts of Destiny that I do play. The look and feel of the game mechanics. Raids, Trials and PvP (NOW) hold no interest for me at all. (Not after reading about the kinds of players they attract on this forum) Tried getting 5 or 7 friends and family to play even bought them the game myself. No one stayed on it. Tried getting my 10 year nephew interested (fortnite mad), but after one game of PvP even he said "Hell No!" 😫 He still plays Destiny but won't go back into that mess again. Work and time constraints (nights mostly) also play a factor. But mostly it's because I am a GRUMPY ANTI - SOCIAL 56 Yr OLD BUGGER.🤓🤣😅
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The point, my dear friend, is to farm prophecy with an lfg and hope for demo osmosis judgement.
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So i used to have a clan and loads of friends on destiny 1. Then i left for a while and now come back but have non of my old friends, however this doesnt detour me from playing the game. I like the solo grind and when i need people to play with, the LFG has many helpful people.
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Edited by A_Hairy_Gnome: 10/6/2021 5:33:42 AMI was playing solo when I started Destiny back in D1. I then realized some PvE end game content can't be done solo. So I started joining clans. I even made my own clan back in D1. But I really did not recruit anyone. So I joined some friends I met along the way. They are still my friends until now. But I don't play Destiny anymore. Game got shallow and stale when Activision left and seasonal model was introduced. In my honest opinion, nobody can tell you how you should play or enjoy the game. You can play solo all you want and nobody can make you change your mind. It's all on you. But, if you want to experience other offerings of the game that may need some fireteam mechanics, then you may need a bigger group. Then again, it's not necessary because nobody can really tell you how to play and enjoy the game. To answer your question about what's the point. My opinion is, there is no point. They say it's a loot game, and some people like chasing loot. If you like this kind of thing, the game may offer some of that. My issue with this is that yes there are loot in the game, but they also control so much how these loot function in the game that in the end it doesn't matter if you chase them or not. It doesn't really matter in the end because they constantly buff and nerf these loot anyway. So the bottom line is, there is no point. It's all pointless. That's my opinion and answer to your question. When it comes to the game, only you can answer it if it's for you or not as a solo player. In the end, you're gonna have to make up your own decision if the game fits you or not. I played this game for over 5 years since it was launched on the first game. That's a long time to play a single game. I don't play anymore because like I said, game has become shallow and stale. You have to eventually decide on your own if it is still good for you or not. Nobody can tell you otherwise. You have to man up and make that decision. Enjoy whatever it is you're playing.
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I chase the loot I want to have fun with till there's new loot to chase. That's essentially the gsmeplay loop.
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12 RepliesEdited by Inclement Karma: 10/6/2021 3:52:09 AMWhatever you want it to be. There is no “point” to playing a game except to have fun. The point is to play activities you enjoy. Solo, you’ll not be able to do endgame PvE except via LFG. You can solo some content if you’re very good and extremely dedicated. Most of PvP is soloable, if that’s your thing. I’ve played solo exclusively since D1, and the overriding lesson is this: you have to be okay with not getting or doing everything. Edit: tpyo
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To collect exotics or at least collect as many as you possibly can and maybe go after seasonal ornaments to look cool. Fashion is the true endgame for a solo player, it sucks but thats just how it is. If you are a hardcore pve player then grinding for nightfalls to solo on your own is the end game. If you rather play pvp like me then your goal is to make the cheesiest and most all around range build you can possibly come up with.
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Edited by SolarCerberuS: 10/6/2021 4:45:12 AMPlayed solo since starting In D1, started the game for the story and space magic rpg setting. Never Raided, Never played Trials maybe if a freelance option is added that will change. Why am I still playing? Truth be told there is just nothing else that compares to Destiny on the market. I enjoy the solo lost sectors, I enjoy the nightfalls, I like the variance in builds one can achieve that no other FPS game comes even close to. Even though it annoys me to no end there is no ingame loadout manager........HINT HINT BUNGIE. I have always liked rpgs, although more specifically arpgs and sci fi rpgs so when Desriny was announced It naturally intrigued me even though I wasnt really a fan of FPS games prior. The story is interesting as is the lore. But hands down the gunplay esp in pvp is unrivalled, Iron Banner kept me playing all through D1 even through the content droughts and to a lesser extent It does for D2 aswell just wish the armor design was more Iron lord medieval focused like it was back in D1 the feudal themes were ok but the latest introduction at what I can only imagine as an ancient primal attempt was rather lack lustre imo. Weapons are on point though.
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What’s the point of playing at all? As of lately I play for the story, loot I want, and because it’s fun. If you’re saying there’s nothing for solo’s…kinda. We could use more, but there is a bit for solos to do. Dungeons, seasonal activities, strikes. When that stuff gets old I just play something else.
