I have to say, Shadowkeep and the Pass model brought an insane amount of reasons to log in and play Destiny. Seriously, the amount of stuff is amazing and very well thought out.
Ive been playing a ton lately and I havent even touched my other 2 characters..
In my opinion, the recent changes to the game have been extremely healthy for it's immersion and longevity.
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The season rewards are a nice addition. The are some really good changes. I would have preferred they integrate that system with faction, though. I don’t think it would’ve been too tough to make faction versions of the alloy armor set...at the least.
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I think a lot of the season pass rewards are a complete slap in the face actually. Bright engrams are few and far between, even rarer are prisms and ascendant shards. Things that would actually be useful. But you get quite a bunch of vex mod components...
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It’s possible that by season end many will feel that way. I don’t think it helps that you get more season rewards while turning in milestone bounties. Essentially, rewards are frontloaded. By the time you’ve done your 8 bounties per, you’re earning less XP per bounty, so seasonal rewards taper off drastically. On the one hand XP boost is great, and you’re rewarded for multi character milestones. On the other side of those, you feel extremely throttled, which makes me not inclined to do anything else. It is cool to log into second/third character and pick up what the previous ones earned right away. I expect my hunter, third character, to hit over 910/20 when I get to him. But, yeah, in isolation, the rewards are just OK. I might be happier if they, idk, added current season armor ornaments...? To me, that’s the biggest issue. Armor 2.0 only allows me to choose from old Eververse stuff that I never wore in the first place. The only reason I choose any of them is that they are at least better than the dreambane or alloy. Not saying much though. So, imho, what we seem to have is a better system with too little in it.
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Please let us pick up new bounties from the director. Bounties are very important this season but the need to go back to the tower to load up after every activity is incredibly aggravating. If you can do this for the eververse store, im sure its possible with a bounty board.
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But why are their limits though? I don’t mean the bounty/quest space limits, I mean that you can only buy up to five additional bounties at a time. Why can’t we get twenty if that’s how we want to spend our glimmer. Bungie always has to limit the players freedom with every single thing they implement to the game. It is getting ridiculous and annoying.
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Now that I’ve completed the Shadowkeep story and deathbringer quest, it feels like I’m back to the same old grind with nothing exciting going on. Just grinding for power level. I mean I can go for the ritual weapons etc, but that’s just a lot of grind grind grind, nothing actually exciting. Very short on the new, interesting stuff so far. If they release more story missions over the coming weeks I’d be happier.