Last week I wrote about my 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:cur💖rent struggles as a lapsed Desti❀ny player. As someone who hasn’t played for several expansions I’ve been struggling to savour Strikes and other such missions because veteran Guardians rush through them in a matter of minutes. Combat arenas, puzzles, and boss encounters are over before I’ve even had a chance to comprehend them. It’s frustrating, but now🧔 ❀I know the community has my back.
I threw ꦦthat article into ether, not expecting the community to engage with or reach out about my determination to love a game that has so much going for it. Destiny has a content vault, meaning that full campaigns and raids are made unavailable for the entire player base until Bungie decides to put them back into rotation. It’s an inevitable consequence of live-service titles, especially one that continues to grow a♔nd evolve like Destiny does. Because of this it has become harder and harder for newcomers to play, and that’s where I come in.
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been dabbling in the Beyond Light and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Witch Queen campaigns while running my daily Vanguard duties to earn experience 🧸points and ranks I can exchange for loot and other goodies. I’m yet to reach my maximum Light level, so the consistency of new weapons, armour, and surprises has been more than adequate. Unfortunately all the new Strikes and Dungeons I was seeing melded into a single homogenous mass because I was loading in, sprinting after my fireteam, and just trying to keep 😼up. I was free to kill mobs and revive my squad, but beyond that I felt useless.
I vented my frustration, and instead of being met by the usual deluge of harassment and death threats my emails and direct 🅠messages are filled with letters of wholesome support. Several players have poked me and admitted they are💟 totally guilty of running ahead in Strikes, eager to complete them and grind through daily challenges instead of savouring the actual content. I mean, they’ve seen it countless times before, so I can’t exactly blame them for behaving in such a way. Now I’ve got loads of new friends who want to help.
It’s like Sprouts in Final Fantasy 14 running dungeons for the first time. You’ll be watching cutscenes or admiring boss introductions while the party has already waltzed ahead and started murdering the damn thing. That community - at least so far - is a smidge more toxic in how it handles ♒new players and t🥃akes them under their wing. You have the mentor system, but outside that regulars are eager to do their dailies and not much else.
🐻A level of proactivity is required to let the wider community know that you’re a newbie, and the well-meaning amongst them will be more than happy to help out. That’s what I’ve found with Destiny. Many are now deep in the endgame and determined to chase high gear scores, but 💮that doesn’t mean they aren’t willing to take a step back and look after the little guy.
That’s me, I’m the little guy, and I’m going to keep chipping away at Destiny since I know that whenever 🔯I’m struggling I can make myself heard and know people have my back. Keep the love coming, Guardians!
