Recent reviews by StoicJ

My friends did Rock Paper Scissors to decide who got to shoot me in the face

Good for early access. Little lacking in content but the base game is fun, the airships are cool, and its fun to explore. Will definitely be worth it with friends and more to see.

This is the Halo 5 of Destiny. Literally the worst parts of the Red War and Mercury Campaigns put together with fanfiction-level writing.

Focusing entirely on the new campaign, characters, and locations, ignoring everything else;
The writing is terrible. Whoever wrote Osiris' dialogue should be banned from ever writing for something that costs people money again. He's literally just a beligerently grumpy old man with surface-level motivations that don't play through *at all*. He spends the entire campaign yelling at you to do exactly what you're doing at any given moment, then pretends he had something to do with your victories.

The sacrifice of whatever the useless old man character is was entirely empty. Who is this guy and why did we ever care? You get like 5 interactions where he says a catch phrase out of place half the time, and then he dies and we suddenly were meant to care.

The training montage scene in the middle is horrific. What is happening, why??

The Vex and Cabal are the two least-fun enemy types in the game and they're all you fight here. The "cyberspace thing" or whatever you're fighting in, is literally just reskinned Infinite Forest. No one liked the Infinite Forest the first time around, why would you bring it back for this???

honestly, 2/10. Its SHOCKING this was made by the same people that made the Witch Queen.

Nothing about this DLC makes any sense. Guards are telepathic. Missions are nearly impossible since most of them require you to break the law but every guard within 30 feet of you will immediately demand you submit for scanning. Failing to submit results in immediate hostility.
You literally can't play the game's own missions because the AI is so broken.

the movement feels clunky and outdated. the new materials and engineering grind is somehow even worse than the base game. the weapons are basically pointless. the missions make no sense. there's no direction for what you need when starting out. the shuttle system is hilariously slow.

its just... like someone designed half of an indie FPS game and slapped it roughly into Elite Dangerous, then didn't fix it for 2 years.

XP Progression needs to be fixed. Badly. Its insane they thought this was fine.

I blew off two games to chase challenges, ignored my team and the objective just to get the challenge done. There's literally no incentive to not do this. It actually rewards better and encourages it. It doesn't matter if we win, lose, or if you're first or last on your team. At the end of the match, if you didn't complete your challenges, you get 0XP.

Finish a match 25:0, top of the board, absolutely dominate, but fail to kill someone with a shock rifle? That's 0XP for you.
Finish a match 1:25, bottom of the board, literally had no idea what game mode you were playing, but got that shock rifle challenge? Good, have 250XP.

All it encourages is players logging in, chasing their daily challenge, regardless of the game, and logging out. Half your team will eventually just be completely detached from the match, because they've got no reason to want to help you at all. Its clear the decision was made to encourage you to use the $2 PER LEVEL "Boost" system, so I don't expect it will be going away since they need to farm those micro-transactions.


Until they change the system to actually account for in-game score and things like kill-streaks and victory, I can't recommend it.

I watched a man scream "YOU WANNA PLAY GOD!?" at a Troll be instantly smashed into a wet paste. viking bote

10/10

I have yet to successfully come even remotely close to landing on a carrier, that's realistic enough for me

Is p good

Sure does a good space shoot

Tricked a buddy into trusting me and had him help vote out the rest of the lobby without needing to kill anyone. 10/10 would big brain again