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I can't recommend this game in the current state. Bungie is not delivering substantial content, and the content that is there is shallow and incredibly mind-numbing. The game has become a bounty fest over the last few seasons, and none more of a fiesta than this current season, Season of the Worthy. The entire seasonal content stream so far is doing bounties to earn materials to rep up Warmind bunkers, then wait to do it again while continuing to do bounties.

The game's connection, server stability, and anti-cheat is flawed, leading to a vast amount of error codes, disconnects, and games in Trials of Osiris and Competitive Survival being lost to either the aforementioned issues, or hackers that can simply purchase new burner accounts at 960 power for $5, and get days worth of steam out of them before they're finally put down.

The game's loot has turned stale and boring, despite being a looter shooter. The new guns aren't terrible, but Bungie is trying to take a new direction without wiggle room, and also while trying to reinforce the idea that cosmetics are not loot. They are something that should be purchased from Eververse, their micro-transaction store. More new, creative, and frankly amazing designs go into Eververse than the rest of the game, making you only inclined to do the Bright Dust weekly bounties in order to gain any of the actually cool looking items in the game. These bounties also provide a pitiful amount for what the items sell for in Bright Dust terms, further pushing players without 2 years of building up Bright Dust reserves to spend money on Silver, their in-game paid for currency, in order to get the cool looking items that are themed specifically after activities in the game. And, yes, these activities provide no where near the cosmetic loot quality that Eververse does.

Bungie provides next to zero communication as well, with their weekly "This Week at Bungie" articles seeming like filler episodes until they have something to say, but that just highlights another problem with this game. Destiny 2 does not get good, adequate patches that can mix things up or fix problems. If an exotic is disabled due to a bug, Bungie has to bundle it up with another big patch coming sometimes months down the line. This goes for everything in the game. Bugs take forever to fix, balance passes don't come unless it is at the end of a season, potentially ruining a season's meta entirely. Bungie is slow and frankly inefficient, and makes the game just that much more frustrating when encountering the same bugs every single play session.

As a result, despite being a long-time fan of this franchise and lover of this game, its concepts, its lore, its gunplay - I cannot in good faith recommend this game in its current state. Bungie is more than likely devoting resources to a new IP, or towards the big September expansion which we have no information on. Do not waste your hard drive space on this game and certainly do not spend money on it. Wait and look for new information on content, some sense of new direction or communication.

And don't trust Luke Smith.


EDIT: Game is much better than a year ago. Bungie listens now and is expanding the game to a full-fledged MMO with actual depth, complexity, and difficulty. With the long break between Seaosn of the Lost and Witch Queen, I highly encourage anyone thinking of trying it out to give it a shot and prepare for the truth :)