Date played: September 21st
Platform: PS4
Session fun rating: 9/10
I finished Destiny's story missions!
While the story itself was VERY disappointing, the battles were really fun. I first completed a mission on Mars where I assaulted a Cabal base, The Buried City. It felt like almost any other mission in the game, but that's not really a bad thing. I opened up the way to a Strike mission by activating a device deep in the city. This is after slaughtering dozens of Cabal of course.
Then I played the last mission. It was very interesting because I had to use a Vex portal to reach their base, The Black Garden, on planet Mercury. The design and environments were different, which was nice. I fought through the Vex until I found a large portal with a weird mechanical blob floating in it. It made three large statues come to life and fight me. I had to be careful here as they hit really hard, but with the help of my sniper rifle and rocket launcher, I took them down. I'm not really sure what happened, but the Speaker was really happy about my actions. There was a nice cut scene where he gave a speech on Tower. I also met with the Stranger that I first met on Venus. She implied that the battle was just starting and gave me the best pulse rifle I've seen in the game yet.
After the story wrap up, I figured it was a good time to complete the two strikes on Mars. One of them was a battle against three Cabal enemies that had very potent shields and fast movement. It wasn't too bad because they couldn't deal that much damage unless in melee range, but it took coordination to even hit them enough times to take down the shields.
The other strike was a lot more interesting, but also way more difficult. We first had a big fight against a HUGE hover tank in a big outdoor area. This thing hit fucking hard, but thankfully moved fairly slow. I used my hover bike a lot to move around, get ammo and revive my fire team. The tank's hover jets were the weak point, so I mainly took potshots at it with my sniper and pulse rifles. After we took it down, we faced off against one of the toughest bosses yet, a hulking Cabal leader with a minigun, some rockets and a TON of health. We had to retry 3 times... The rockets are devastating and the minions add up if not dealt with quickly, but eventually we got him.
Finally, I played a bit of the Crucible. I tried out the 3 vs 3 playlist. On one hand, it's cool because you can revive teammates, but on the other, I didn't like it as much because it was a bit too quiet at times. I jumped into the mode with three capture points and had way more fun. I wound up with a positive K/D ratio a few times, so that felt nice. I'm starting to get a feel for the PVP combat and the pulse rifle is starting to feel better and better against humans.
Platform: PS4
Session fun rating: 9/10
I finished Destiny's story missions!
While the story itself was VERY disappointing, the battles were really fun. I first completed a mission on Mars where I assaulted a Cabal base, The Buried City. It felt like almost any other mission in the game, but that's not really a bad thing. I opened up the way to a Strike mission by activating a device deep in the city. This is after slaughtering dozens of Cabal of course.
Then I played the last mission. It was very interesting because I had to use a Vex portal to reach their base, The Black Garden, on planet Mercury. The design and environments were different, which was nice. I fought through the Vex until I found a large portal with a weird mechanical blob floating in it. It made three large statues come to life and fight me. I had to be careful here as they hit really hard, but with the help of my sniper rifle and rocket launcher, I took them down. I'm not really sure what happened, but the Speaker was really happy about my actions. There was a nice cut scene where he gave a speech on Tower. I also met with the Stranger that I first met on Venus. She implied that the battle was just starting and gave me the best pulse rifle I've seen in the game yet.
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| The Stranger and my Titan chat about life, the universe and everything |
The other strike was a lot more interesting, but also way more difficult. We first had a big fight against a HUGE hover tank in a big outdoor area. This thing hit fucking hard, but thankfully moved fairly slow. I used my hover bike a lot to move around, get ammo and revive my fire team. The tank's hover jets were the weak point, so I mainly took potshots at it with my sniper and pulse rifles. After we took it down, we faced off against one of the toughest bosses yet, a hulking Cabal leader with a minigun, some rockets and a TON of health. We had to retry 3 times... The rockets are devastating and the minions add up if not dealt with quickly, but eventually we got him.
Finally, I played a bit of the Crucible. I tried out the 3 vs 3 playlist. On one hand, it's cool because you can revive teammates, but on the other, I didn't like it as much because it was a bit too quiet at times. I jumped into the mode with three capture points and had way more fun. I wound up with a positive K/D ratio a few times, so that felt nice. I'm starting to get a feel for the PVP combat and the pulse rifle is starting to feel better and better against humans.
