I think renegades is good. Repetitive? Yes but its action packed and the light saber trumps everything before it

[quote] ELI5: What is the portal? I've seen videos about it, and it looks like NFs from the year of the Forsaken expansion. It's a mode where guardians can apply modifiers to increase their score?[/quote] The portal is essentially a basic UI that’s meant to be really easy to navigate. Essentially as generic of an interface as you can get. Then almost everything in there lets you customize your modifiers for every activity. Fun for a bit, but eventually the lack of building around an activity kinda sucks. [quote]How's the loot grind/gameplay loop? Where does the best loot come from?[/quote] There ain’t much grind now. Play pretty much anything and you’ll earn levels. Playing around what activities have bonus drops will have you earning tier 5s within the first week of starting fresh. Tier 5s come from content that’s about on par with a legend to master activity pre EoF. A tier 5 is a bit better than an adept weapon. All new gear can be dropped at tier 5, making everything a source for the best loot. Loot pools are overly shaded though. Solo, fireteam and arena ops all have identical loot pools for every activity in them. They’re trying some stuff with special origin traits in vanguard alerts, but it’s pretty negligible. [quote]How is old gear being treated? Is there a penalty for using out-of-season weapons during seasonal content?[/quote] Old gear is exactly the same with the exception of stats being reworked. So resilience became health and max resilience is now just kinda baked in, giving you 30% dr at base now. New armor is better in pretty much every way. When it comes to guns, your old stuff hasn’t changed. Anything releasing after EoF does do 5% more damage an can be used in new gear only activities, but there is little reason to play that kind of content and the damage buff is negligible. If you have an old gun that you want to use, you can. Though if you’re used to tier 5s, it does feel a bit wrong to be using untiered gear. [quote]How has the social experience been for you?[/quote] Social content has kinda just not been there. More casual play has been incentivized, with solo ops and all other activities being designed to be done alone if you want. Only recently did they add a general quick play that offers tier 5 rewards, which meant that a lot of people were going after gear by playing alone. [quote]What have been the best and the worst changes you have had since the changes from Edge of Fate?[/quote] The tier system is great in concept, but the execution resulted in it feeing like the default rather than the pinnacle of loot drops. If it’s not tier 5, it gets dismantled. Tier 5s aren’t uncommon or hard to earn.

Jump back into it man! While things aren’t perfect, Renegades is vastly better than Edge of Fate. Not sure what your time zone/location but feel free to friend me on here and we can run through some stuff!!

Edge of Fate is on free access until 16th December. Give it a try and find out for yourself. All it’ll cost is some time.

Best way to find out is probably just to jump into the free upgrades. The Portal seems to be Bungie’s focus on organizing the core gameplay. It’s certainly more structured than the old director, but that structure comes at the cost of feeling more restrictive. Renegades isn’t bad, but it’s not Forsaken either, as in it’s not that release that absolutely saves D2. The story itself is alright, the [b]actual[/b] missions are great (especially the final mission), but Bungie definitely made us take too many trips into the Lawless Frontier (seasonal activity) as part of the campaign. The exotic mission “Fire and Ice” where we get the Praxic Blade…isn’t terrible, depending on your tolerance for platforming, but be ready to run it at least three times for all the upgrades in the mission, each run more tedious than the last. Edge of Fate did critical damage to both the game and the community, and although Bungie is steadily trying to unboil frogs, the damage is apparent, and it is extensive.

Just don’t buy the season, play for free.

Campaign is ok ,lightsaber is awsome but will prob be nerfed due to the same top % players getting bored, after the campaign the cracks start to show , were back to haveing joe blackburns broken overloads champs in endgame content if that helps ,lastly the new seasonal activity rewards less brightdust and will have you more stressed than trials trying to get flawless if you play the invasion playlist 😆