I haven't finished the story.
My friends and I keep getting side tracked doing events, lost sectors and random patrol crap. I literally hit 20 before I finished the Io Missions lol.
I'm currently just under 250 power and have done 3 Strikes so far. I can't remember them by name haha , but one was the Hive one on Titan , the fallen one on Nessus , and I got the Hive one on Titan again however it was different the second time around!
The pathing was changed up and they added fallen to deal with along side the hive through out the strike , which was pretty neat. I'm kind of excited to play the Nessus one again to see if it changes things up as well.
Though it may be different in Live now, I also did the Inverted Spire strike during Beta and it was also pretty great. Pretty interested to see how they play out during Nightfall runs, I can easily see how they could be super tough.
They really did a good job with making it feel like anything you do is meaningful in the game. We've been running around just doing events and trying to figure out how to enter "Heroic" events , which so far has been pretty fun. I won't spoil anything but turning an event into a Heroic has made them pretty tough and the method to each one isn't immediately clear as well so it adds in some nice variety with great rewards.
Coupled with the new faction system and how you get reputation/tokens for them is great. You literally get them for doing anything on patrol map. By the time I hit 20 I had over 40 EZD tokens to spend on top of the 16 I had originally put in for my free Legendary engram that was waiting for me to hit 20 to retrieve. Right off the bat each turn in gave me 2 pieces of great starter gear and I was basically able to do 4 turns the second I hit 20 to mostly gear myself out.
It was a really nice feeling to be honest lol.
I'm very excited to see how the Raid plays out and plan to be in there the second it opens up. I really should get around to finishing the story haha.
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Also I think ill take this chance to rant here in safety cause I know if I drop this on like /r/games on reddit my account will die from the downvote fury it will get.
The Microtransaction "P2W" drama shit is completely fucking overblown. I've played my faaaaair share of Korean cash shop MMORPG's with actual real shit that gives you an advantage. Check my steam I got like 700 hours in Black Desert Online and about 120 shame dollars invested into.
The Destiny 2 stuff is not Pay to Win. I'm not even sure its worth buying lol. Like yeah it sucks shaders are consumables now. I do agree with that being BS, but people losing their minds over "mods" being something you can earn is so overblown by people who aren't playing the game and or understand math.
1 mod isn't going to make you over powered , even if it adds 5 light to your weapon your total power level is averaged out between literally 8 pieces of gear at best that 1 mod you paid for may bump your average up by 1 point. Big deal. These same lackluster mods are handed out left and right in game as well and often times on gear you actually want to keep (good legendaries, exotics) the baseline mod it comes with is often of better quality than the ones you can buy or earn randomly.
Saw people complaining that the boxes give you an XP boost and that it gives a "competitive advantage" because it helps you get to level 20 fast. You literally can't get the XP boost until you are level 20, so they legit don't know how the mechanic works and are just bitching.
The mechanic works as follows, Level 20 is a soft cap to your level, after 20 you still gain experience and once you get enough to level up again , instead of being awarded a level you are awarded the same shit you get from the cash shop, a loot box. Same system as Overwatch.
What do the boost do? Makes it so you can level up faster for more loot boxes that you still have to earn.
On top of that the game literally gives you a well rested buff for the first 5 levels every week if you don't want to spend money AND even then you still level up incredibly fast without the buff. I've leveled up 10 times after 20 so far and am just sitting on so much random cash shop junk that I don't know what to do with.
AND even if said XP boosts were capable of being earned pre-20 it wouldn't mean anything as far as "competitive advantages" go since in PVP all gear and levels are normalized. I.E. A level 20 300 power player does the exact same amount of damage as a level 1 in the Crucible.
Saw people complain that you can earn a Sparrow ( a motorcycle) through the loot boxes thus giving a competitive advantage over people who haven't earned it through the campaign. Completely ignoring they only work in Patrol where you compete with no one and that fast travel exists anyway.
It's really annoying to see the circlejerk on sites like Reddit etc. shit on this game. You can most of the people bitching haven't played it and are just parroting shit they saw on some youtube video without understanding the mechanics of the game.
I saw someone with -80 points because he simply said "I haven't bought any loot boxes and still have a ton of the cash shop items". It's pretty shit tbh.
