And Bungie goes and removed the only source for solo players to farm spoils of conquest... and yet another thing to add to their list of continuous fuck-ups.
This community is really, _really_ bad at self control. They have no ability to look at their situation and say "I don't like how this is now, I'll do something else" Instead, they embed themselves even deeper by continuing to play and doubling down on bitching through social media and forums. That's a sign of madness. Instead of not playing when their time isn't valued, they continue to waste their time. Been here since day 1, this community hadn't changed; at all.
I also noticed it but I also noticed that I'm whiffing a lot of shots myself with the new GL. I feel like there's something weird happening to velocity vs animation.
@@DeLawrence97 I think your talking about ignition code, and yes it does feel weird when I'm shooting on a controller. Thought it was just me. But I love slideshot on mines
That last half hurt. I don't think I've ever seen Datto both angry and swear as much as in this video. My initial reaction with transmog was fairly decent but after this, I didn't realize how big the problem was. That made me sad.
When nearing the end of the season I capped out on synthstrand like 2 weeks ago... I've already done my 10 bounties per season, not even noticing it. I'm sure, smth went wrong with the droprate, because, I had a feel, that the 2 synsthrands per minute or whatever were... a quarantee dop on top of what could be earned by killing enemies. I had so many white floof looking clouds just assaulting me during strikes and gambit, especially after multikills, It was difficult to see.
Hilariously I tried to armor synthesis on my warlock but I only got like 120 hours or something, so I didn’t even have enough armor to use all the weave. Still a terrible system tho
@@jaxs5231 you can make yourself look anyway you want, still gotta grind the item once to get it, plus the shader customisation saves shards and time. Its really good
I feel bad for Datto on the second half Honestly, I just feel bad for datto whenever he sounds tired (of the game, not from lack of sleep) or having a breakdown
A big portion of it also was simply the fact that it's the highest damaging archetype which made reserviour burst feel much more potent to begin with. Auto-loading rifts/barricades was certainly a part but it wasn't the only contributing factor by any means.
What made it good was auto loading holster and being a much higher impact archetype. I would say most people used it for quick crowd control so reloading with rifts and barricades wasn’t the most important thing.
This is how I feel. I felt wanna not pay for future stuff but I'm weak and know I will cave in to the next expansion pass. At least I don't buy stuff in the eververse 🥲
I think you just hit the nail on the head for me. I've really loved the franchise for a while, but the way bungie treats your time investment like not being worth anything was becoming unacceptable. Recently I played and grinded Outriders until I lost all interested, but goddamn did that offer me a lot for my time. In that game the blue and even greens that drop are worth it, even in end game. The crafting system is worthwhile since you can upgrade rarity, if attributes or perks are to your liking. And much more. I just feel like I now know how it could be with destiny. The potential is there. But someone at bungie is making active efforts in the opposite direction.
But honestly, this once, I felt like my feelings were being put into words ever so beautifully. Usually, when I watch a video, I start raging but the creator continues with a tempered tone. But I was relating hard with this one.
@@Ai-Ai-O Especially when he finally finished summarising the system and began the opinion portion of the segment, the first word was simply "Fuck" I.... I felt that
@@dragonba2883 I like hearing Datto rant as much as the next guy, but at the same time I feel bad for him because it must be exhausting He is a pure blooded Destiny creator and he's arguably the go-to creator for opinions and guides. It must be taxing af to constantly have to bear that responsibility, especially when Bungie is making these trash decisions
Ngl, I really miss the days when being 320 or 335 in TTK meant you were a GRINDER and was atleast difficult to obtain since you could only do the hard mode for it. Imo artifact light has always been trash and its so much worse to farm bounties as the fastest way to level up
This is what I just don't get. Pushing player "engagement metrics" made sense for when everything had to be justified to bean-counters at Activision, but now Bungie is "free to make Destiny the game we've always wanted it to be", which is worrying given some of the choices were seeing
@@never3nder Bungie is privately held but still has shareholders. Microsoft is one of them (although they are a minority shareholder). They just aren't publicly traded. In fact, if one thinks that decisions like this are motivated by the potential for activist shareholder lawsuits alleging failure to meet the requirement for fiduciary responsibility, being privately held is a higher risk than being publicly held, since the likelihood of a significant number of shareholders, with significant holdings, banding together to bring such a suit and be able to pay its legal costs is higher. Not saying that means Bungie needs to be as obviously greedy as they are being here, but they are not isolated from the influence of shareholders simply by not being publicly traded.
The whole transmog system is EA levels of greed. It’s capped AND a pain in the ass to grind to force you to give up and just buy it. If Bungie wants to keep the cap, just make it easy to get. If they uncap it, just make it a long grind. This shit isn’t that hard to figure out
Like, one armor is set is your primary, your focus, it doesn’t cost much to add cosmetics to your primary armor set; unless your a cosmetic junky who needs to tweak EVERY SINGLE ARMOR PIECE in your inventory to be the same style and aesthetic
@@rjmacready6693 I would also note; that while the process for the weave is long, it feels more like an excess thing that if you’re a junky, it dissuades you from spending all your time decorating entire armor sets, and encourages you to realize “this isn’t a fashion show, it’s a shooter, go shoot”
@@fel524 So during an interview 2 years ago with an ex Bungie employee he said activision only pushed for more expansions, looks like Warmind was planned to be on the base game and they shaved it to be an expansion, everything else was Bungies choice.
@@vlazurah789 I thought it was cool in SoA cuz Gambit in the lord was made pretty much to get ready for the darkness, and when the darkness finally came, that same mechanic was used.
Great recap. Funny part about Armor transmode is I polled my clan and other then a few sets no one plans on doing Armor Transfers to ornaments. As a guy who is D1 Beta in my experience I am proud to say I have never bought Eververse silver and I don't plan on it for ornaments. Since they are giving us some to play with 99% of my clan will be satisfied and be done just by using those freebies. Myself I don't plan on doing any unless a triumph is tied to doing one. I can see this season getting boring quick once I have grinded out each weeks worth of pinnacle drops. And once I am at power level 20 on the artifact and plus 10 on pinnacle I can forsee a dead zone. Great video as always. Enjoy
But hey gamers, I may not be able to do a basic search for name, colour or theme in my transmog system but at least I can search for synthweave in the eververse now.
When I heard about the steps for armor synthesis, all I heard was this. "They take the dinglebop and they push it through the grumbo, where the fleeb is rubbed against it. It’s important that the fleeb is rubbed, because the fleeb has all of the fleeb juice. Then a schlami shows up, and he rubs it and spits on it. They cut the fleeb. There’s several hizzards in the way. The blamfs rub against the chumbles. And the ploobis and grumbo are shaved away. That leaves you with a regular old plumbus".
@@ALPHA_153 are you talking about the one where the core depositing in the descent is now more complex? Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think they should change the mechanics after the fact, but I also don’t think it makes it too much harder.
I'm loving that you can make multiple keys to hold onto, so you can just run override over and over without needing to fiddle around in menus as well as make room for more ether when you're full. I also like that you can get ether from just killing guys anywhere. I'm barely touching the core playlists and almost always full on ether. Hell, you can get ether while doing override, so its almost self-sustaining.
@@davidho1427 Absolutely. Sometimes I still spend half an hour on the Lament quest slaughtering waves and waves of a hefty amount of Vex. We can handle enemy density.
"The culprit was having too many friends on your friends list..." Well then, if more errors come in the future with the same issue then I guess im unstoppable.
Weekly prestige raid rotator... takes any raid at random(including vaulted raids) and makes it the “weekly challenge” on top of getting the loot again, if you complete the weekly prestige raid challenge, you should receive a cool cosmetic item that shows you were there you did that, or maybe get a piece of prestige armor each run through it that gives above average stat rolls.
RE: Armor synthesis I decided to add up how much I’ve spent on Destiny so far after a year of playing the game. I know that these purchases were for the most part optional, but I wanted to show just how much you can spend on all the ways they monetize the experience outside of armor synth. I have spent no money on armor synth and don’t plan to. $14.99 Season of Arrivals bundle $53.16 Upgrade Edition: Shadowkeep and Forsaken DLCs $49.99 Beyond Light plus Season $9.99 for Silver for Season Pass $9.99 for Silver for Season Pass $59.99 for the Guardian Games jacket (I missed out on the DSC Raid one, okay) $49.99 for Penguin Figurine after completing the Europa Triumph $22.99 for Chosen Pin after completing Season of the Chosen $22.99 for the Splintered Pin after completing Europa Triumphs *Total so far: $294.08* I really do love this game. I bought the collectables because I wanted to have physical items to reflect what I’ve done in it and the fun I’ve had so far. I spent my time earning the achievements to unlock the codes for the items. I’m mostly okay with spending my money on physical items because I’m supporting the game and they’re items that require labor and materials to make. But it is a big money sink. I didn’t realize how much money and time I put in the game so far. I’m at 610 hours of playtime right now. And I’ve only been playing for a year. I’m finding myself needing to limit my play time and spending on the game, because I’m realizing how addictive it can get, and I’m running out of Vault storage space. What I've purchased isn't even the complete amount of items they've released via the triumph to grab the code products. If you wanted to get every item they've tied to a triumph in game the total would be much, much higher.
I want to add even without the physical collector's items, I've spent $138.12 on just the game itself, the DLCs and season passes. Just to be able to fully play the game and experience all it has to offer. I really, really don't think they needed to make armor synth so complicated for more money.
You know, before the season the transmog cap didn't sound that bad. But holy shit, I've played a ton this week and even with the timer, I've gotten barely 40 strands
@@Starmotion0 entirely possible, lots of rng in the system. I feel off grinding after last Thursday, and I just started my first purchased bounty on Saturday. either way, system is kinda ass
Boy, when Datto does his Yosemite Sam-style cussing, I felt that! That and "THERE'S NO HOLDERS OF SHARES!" Classic, and so on point. Concerning Armor Synthesis...I don't know, maybe I'm one of only 10 people who just really don't care about it. I'm all about the shaders anyway, so I do like the new shader interface where I don't have to keep going into Collections just to get what I want. Other than that I just use the ornaments. But the fact that other games that I stopped playing a long time ago (Dauntless, AC Odyssey, etc.) have a way better and easier transmog experience than this one game that I play the most...that's just wild to me. Now if Ada were to make ornaments for weapons like we had in Season 10, that I would get into.
Same. For the longest time, I've kind of forced myself to not care about fashion as much and just go for the stats because I didn't want to spend extra money on ornaments, so I was hyped about this. But that hype was ultimately ruined.
Implementation is messy for sure. Haven’t had transmog for years, now I can use a few of my favorite designs without changing my armor and a cool fashion UI. Nothing lost, just not impressive gains.
But that’s not the season. Everyone gets transmog. Try to compartmentalize and look at the two separately. There’s no reason you can’t be mad about the absurd transmog but still happy about the strides in storytelling and loot.
@@FKDotFitzgerald Gameplay is terrible tho in override, it's tuned for 2-3 players but they put you with 6 and everyone is constantly getting heavy ammo.
Personally I'm loving the 'Hackerman' aesthetic; transmog and Vault shaders are annoying and I wish they wouldn't try to overmonetize something we're already paying for, but that struggle is nothing new and the season itself is really solid so far.
Anyone else notice how (for)eververse is in *overdrive* right now? Borderline predatory transmog, all ornaments up for silver (not *bad*, but definitely a gold mine for $$$), and the paid vog shaders (makes me think of the gift shops at the end of a ride in the expensive theme parks)
"Right now?" They've been attempting to shove loot boxes into this game for years. Festival of the COST. Locking Heroic Strikes behind paywall. Eververse isn't taking over...it HAS taken over.
@@veralium Well...not that it matters. They're raking in the money, so they get to be as pushy as they want. The community certainly isn't stopping them...
@@RedShadowOfSaturn They never will unfortunately, since the people that are the loudest are unfortunately not the majority of people, despite how predatory these actions are.
As someone who still used Polaris lance it is also an underrated scout, MIDA is also pretty good now with No Distractions. They aren’t PvP Kings, but they’re good.
Came back last season after 2 year hiatus and I haven't looked back. This season has been fun as well. Granted I quit due to burnout, not because I didn't enjoy the game.
Yeah this season and the last have been absolutely fantastic at LEAST from a new loot to chase perspective. There's gotta be close to 60 new legendaries from the last 2 seasons to grind and a healthy amount of them are very good if not extremely viable in pve or pvp
I love that you can grind the upgrades right away. I'm doing it to make running override easier/faster for when I can put my attention on focusing engrams
@@lDoubleDownl Sounds more like annoyed. Kinda hard to get really pissed at Destiny when Bungie is often known for fking up. Most of us are pretty used to it by now. It’s like people who play Ubisoft games. They stopped expecting anything good years ago.
In a loot-driven game (like Destiny), cosmetics *do* matter, and saying microtransactions are "just cosmetic" is only making excuses for the developer to continue exploiting their game and their players. This transmog drama is the most blatant example that cosmetics being sold in a loot-based game *does* actually affect your enjoyment of the game, whether you realize it or not. If I was trying to sell you something, why would I give out any of that something for free for any reason other than to manipulate you and coerce you to buy my actual product? Having cosmetics for sale creates a conflict of interest between creating the best game possible and pushing a user towards another sale. It's admittedly true that we would have LESS total cosmetics in Destiny if not for microtransactions, but I would greatly prefer an uncompromised game with fewer, but higher quality cosmetics. I understand a lot of people do actually realize this and it isn't that hard to grasp, but the community as a whole still really struggles with accepting it as reality.
Its just amazing to me how for so many years we've been trying to get them to make the story be just as good as the lore tablets are, and when they finally reach that level, they just fail completely at something that shouldnt have been a problem in the first place like, who is making this decisions?. Bungie has one of the best gaming developer + story teams in the business right now. Its just the leadership that fucks up everything so bad its infuriating.
My favourite detail about that area is just that the Prime Servitor is still there and it makes noises showing it's possibly still alive if you push it around like a football.
I feel like i'm just watching a man slowly lose his sanity by playing Destiny. He really needs to take a break, show Bungie that they can't even keep the most influential player happy with all the shit they pull.
You hit it right on the head man. I struggled to play last season despite enjoying the story and battlegrounds because of the endless grind in strikes we have had since D2 came out. The core elements that you need to farm to be able to fully partake in the new things needs to be enjoyable or at least not dull to warrant playing in the first place
fun fact: transmog DOES have an effect on gameplay. by using a praefectus grips with a light kin ornament counts towards triumph progress for kills with seasonal armor. Now could this be some other glitch with previous seasonal armor counting? maybe. But regardless, I have only used that ornament and I have the triumph done for the seasonal armor kills.
well one of the good things at least is that they changed the 3rd DSC encounter to make diagonal nuke deposits a thing (boss being able to moving to blue in first cycle during boss encounter wouldn't hurt either but whatever) and i think they updated the add AIs since they are actually shooting for once not just meleeing (dregs and marauders)
Actually, it does impact your gameplay. At least, at the moment. It might be a bug, but some of the white armor pieces, when equipped as an ornament, give +1 to a stat. So you can bring your useless 99 to a 100.
@@wood5596 I personally love the thing, maybe because Im the only player that isn't expecting more out of scouts. 🤷🏾 I do see what the community means when they say they want a buff, but they aren't completely useless, definitely still usable weapons. Idk about GM's and shit, but You can take these scouts (like i do my nightwatch) into faily high activities and it'll do fine, but maybe thats just me
Scouts aren't necessarily bad in higher end content since range is generally the better play and things are very tanky to begin with, but in lower end and/or enemy dense content scouts will fall short since add clear is more necessary and other primaries do the job better. Dead Man's is the only exception to this simply down to the fact that cranial spike allows it to one tap most adds at stacks past 2-3. Symmetry with Revolution procced is also not too bad but it's pretty niche in comparison.
The FWC didn't see "House Light betraying the city" They heard weapons fire and saw Fallen in the city. It's vague enough that it's pretty obviously leaving it open for the Fallen to be helping fight something else inside the city.
Just a tip for the Synthesis bounties: go for the Dungeon/Raid ones. They are so much easier and being able to do them in dungeons makes them a breeze. You can complete the bounty in one dungeon run most of the times.
I hope we get the real deal strike exclusives back in witchqueen. Something unique that’s themed after the boss of that strike. Something that gets me excited for every strike that loads up and I know I can get a really cool piece of gear.
@@josephgarfield3363 Or their recently announced international headquarters in Amsterdam, or their new IP, or the media deals they are working on. The point is, they are double dipping their bread and butter to expand, not invest in the D2 IP.
This is the first time I have ever seen Datto this mad. Transmog is nothing more than a quality of life addition for ornaments we ALREADY EARNED. Monetizing quality of life like this will make other companies follow suit very quickly. It did with loot boxes and battle passes, so why not this? AAHGHGHHGHAHGHGHGGHGHGH!
For me armor synthesis is everything I wanted. In the 11 free I got , I was able to transmog almost everything I wanted and by the end of the season WILL have everything including the vog armor done. Yes I'm a long time player. But I chose what I wanted very specifically and won't transmog stuff that just looks cool because I have specific looks I like. If you want more than what you will wear, you will have an issue.
Ah, yes. The good old truism of “familiarity breeds contempt”, like the strikes that after 1-2 play through you can easily memorise the spawn locations, type and energy-shield element of any roadblock enemies such that the counter is mid-flight before they even finish spawning in (or moving/AI-enabled), or the new activities that have every gunplay our identically due to overwhelming firepower versus trash grade enemy’s so the main challenge is in racing for the dropped motes or maybe just the fact that a load of strikes/maps were removed so even the newest stuff gets stale in a fraction of the time now.
"Don't worry there's still a rant comin up"
Datto knows his audience too well
that was a quick episode
@@notloopy8204 init
The problem is having too many friends? _laughs in solo_
...
_cries in solo_
same
What’s a friend?
Not even the lack of matchmaking beyond easy mode will get me not discord for this game.
And Bungie goes and removed the only source for solo players to farm spoils of conquest... and yet another thing to add to their list of continuous fuck-ups.
“The culprit was having too many friends on your friends list.”
So THAT’S why I could get in!
No friends no problem
@@kengojoe2444 FU**ing BUll****
Yeah I have 2 friends on here...so yeah..
I was gonna say the same thing, being a lonely mostly solo player finally had a benefit
Same lmao
As Asmongold said “a game should make you WANT to waste your time, not waste your time”
This community is really, _really_ bad at self control. They have no ability to look at their situation and say "I don't like how this is now, I'll do something else"
Instead, they embed themselves even deeper by continuing to play and doubling down on bitching through social media and forums. That's a sign of madness.
Instead of not playing when their time isn't valued, they continue to waste their time. Been here since day 1, this community hadn't changed; at all.
@@Real28 exactly, I like to play destiny when it’s good, and play other stuff when it’s bad. Idk why it’s so hard for people
@@Real28 im not gonna play again unless they fix the transmog system
Stopped playing years ago now...don't understand how people can eat the shit sandwich that is D2. I truly miss D1. No game will ever come close
@@PsyChoLogicZ D1 was just as much of a shit show as d2 lmao. get your head out of your ass and maybe consider laying off the nostalgia gas
here we go
Dang ur early
Datto is PISSED
Im ready for the R A N T
Hi fallout like your vids see you after this one
I love it.
I have no idea what he said for the first 2 minutes because I was tranced at how good he was at the memory test.
Take a shot for every grenade launcher whiff by Datto in this video
Don't make me please
I also noticed it but I also noticed that I'm whiffing a lot of shots myself with the new GL. I feel like there's something weird happening to velocity vs animation.
@@DeLawrence97 I think your talking about ignition code, and yes it does feel weird when I'm shooting on a controller. Thought it was just me. But I love slideshot on mines
RIP
In local news today, several destiny players have died of alcohol poisoning
That last half hurt. I don't think I've ever seen Datto both angry and swear as much as in this video. My initial reaction with transmog was fairly decent but after this, I didn't realize how big the problem was. That made me sad.
I'm more impressed by Dattos memory in that mini game than anything else in this video tbh
This is the comment I was looking for lol
Yes
I have low IQ.
@@ernestoguevara4261 I titan main same
Yes lol
"how do we make transmog as fucking awful as we possibly can?"
- someone at bungie, probably
When nearing the end of the season I capped out on synthstrand like 2 weeks ago... I've already done my 10 bounties per season, not even noticing it. I'm sure, smth went wrong with the droprate, because, I had a feel, that the 2 synsthrands per minute or whatever were... a quarantee dop on top of what could be earned by killing enemies. I had so many white floof looking clouds just assaulting me during strikes and gambit, especially after multikills, It was difficult to see.
Datto talking about how bad transmog is is the most satisfying thing I've heard all day
Him talking about it and what's wrong with it that is
Seriously, it’s nice that my thoughts and feelings towards transmog are (mostly) shared by the community. The rant was like music to my ears
We need more rants about transmog, for real.
Definitely top 5 datto rants oat
I watched this on my TV, and logged onto my phone just to comment how good that rant felt to hear lol
“The culprit was having too many friends on your friends list...”
I don’t have such weaknesses
"Spoilers for literally everything"
Welp guys I'm watching Breaking Bad and I can't afford this kind of risk so I'll see you guys in another one
Hank/ walt Whitman
Darth Vader fucking *dies*
@@r.cdahuman7682 wow, spoilers much...arya kills the night king
Don't worry. Everyone knows Skinny Pete becomes the drug lord at the end.
i've been spoiled for that so much that i gave up on the show
why is it that I get so hyped to play when I see destiny videos, then I start playing and get bored after playing for 10 minutes?
I mean, what do you play in D2?
"AAHGHGHHGHAHGHGHGGHGHGH" is how literally everyone feels about armor synthesis. Well done.
I like the new system
The actual menu isnt bad but the limit and the way to get the strands/cords whatever is a bit obnoxious
@@levvvvie your insane then lol Players deserve better man c’mon!
Hilariously I tried to armor synthesis on my warlock but I only got like 120 hours or something, so I didn’t even have enough armor to use all the weave.
Still a terrible system tho
@@jaxs5231 you can make yourself look anyway you want, still gotta grind the item once to get it, plus the shader customisation saves shards and time. Its really good
Every season datto is edging an inch closer to insanity. And I'm ngl this is one of destinys most interesting subplots rn
I feel bad for Datto on the second half
Honestly, I just feel bad for datto whenever he sounds tired (of the game, not from lack of sleep) or having a breakdown
@@AodinValar making your hobby your job is the goal my dude
I think we all forgot that loaded question was also amazing back then because we had auto reloading with warlocks and titans
A big portion of it also was simply the fact that it's the highest damaging archetype which made reserviour burst feel much more potent to begin with. Auto-loading rifts/barricades was certainly a part but it wasn't the only contributing factor by any means.
What made it good was auto loading holster and being a much higher impact archetype. I would say most people used it for quick crowd control so reloading with rifts and barricades wasn’t the most important thing.
Best part was it actually rolled with auto loading holster
My favourite part about bungie right now is their amazing ability to make me feel like a free to play player when I spend money on DLCs and seasons.
This is how I feel. I felt wanna not pay for future stuff but I'm weak and know I will cave in to the next expansion pass. At least I don't buy stuff in the eververse 🥲
Ikr, it makes me straight up not want to buy things anymore.
I felt like that immediately when the game first became f2p so I quit
I think you just hit the nail on the head for me. I've really loved the franchise for a while, but the way bungie treats your time investment like not being worth anything was becoming unacceptable.
Recently I played and grinded Outriders until I lost all interested, but goddamn did that offer me a lot for my time. In that game the blue and even greens that drop are worth it, even in end game. The crafting system is worthwhile since you can upgrade rarity, if attributes or perks are to your liking.
And much more.
I just feel like I now know how it could be with destiny. The potential is there. But someone at bungie is making active efforts in the opposite direction.
this is exactly why I'm not spending money any more. I haven't bought this season and the last one as well.
The whole process to unlock ornaments through armor synthesis feels like something straight out of a mobile game.
Everytime Datto gets incredibly upset AND ACTUALLY SWEARS, i feel like Humanity failed
But honestly, this once, I felt like my feelings were being put into words ever so beautifully. Usually, when I watch a video, I start raging but the creator continues with a tempered tone. But I was relating hard with this one.
@@Ai-Ai-O Especially when he finally finished summarising the system and began the opinion portion of the segment, the first word was simply
"Fuck"
I.... I felt that
This time it felt soooo satisfying lmao
@@dragonba2883 I like hearing Datto rant as much as the next guy, but at the same time I feel bad for him because it must be exhausting
He is a pure blooded Destiny creator and he's arguably the go-to creator for opinions and guides. It must be taxing af to constantly have to bear that responsibility, especially when Bungie is making these trash decisions
@@flay9761 %100 agreed
Ngl, I really miss the days when being 320 or 335 in TTK meant you were a GRINDER and was atleast difficult to obtain since you could only do the hard mode for it.
Imo artifact light has always been trash and its so much worse to farm bounties as the fastest way to level up
“You don’t even have SHAREHOLDERS, BUNGIE”
Hands down best part of the video.
This is what I just don't get. Pushing player "engagement metrics" made sense for when everything had to be justified to bean-counters at Activision, but now Bungie is "free to make Destiny the game we've always wanted it to be", which is worrying given some of the choices were seeing
Luke Smith needs another Ferrari.
@@never3nder Bungie is privately held but still has shareholders. Microsoft is one of them (although they are a minority shareholder). They just aren't publicly traded. In fact, if one thinks that decisions like this are motivated by the potential for activist shareholder lawsuits alleging failure to meet the requirement for fiduciary responsibility, being privately held is a higher risk than being publicly held, since the likelihood of a significant number of shareholders, with significant holdings, banding together to bring such a suit and be able to pay its legal costs is higher. Not saying that means Bungie needs to be as obviously greedy as they are being here, but they are not isolated from the influence of shareholders simply by not being publicly traded.
THERE ARE NO HOLDERS OF THE SHARES!
@@Rampancy This is true. They might also give stock options as part of compensation, so increased value is good for retention and recruiting.
"you don't even have shareholders, bungie!" Not gonna lie that part made me spit out my drink. That was hilarious 😂
"YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE SHAREHOLDERS BUNGIE!" LMFAO
The whole transmog system is EA levels of greed. It’s capped AND a pain in the ass to grind to force you to give up and just buy it. If Bungie wants to keep the cap, just make it easy to get. If they uncap it, just make it a long grind. This shit isn’t that hard to figure out
I can literally feel my blood pressure go down as Datto goes up. Such a relief to have someone giving real feedback
Lol you realize this is the same Datto that hand waived transmog like it isn’t the most predatory Transmog system in gaming
@@rjmacready6693 it’s really not that bad...
@@rjmacready6693 I’ve used it; and I’m content, haven’t even used up all the free ones yet
Like, one armor is set is your primary, your focus, it doesn’t cost much to add cosmetics to your primary armor set; unless your a cosmetic junky who needs to tweak EVERY SINGLE ARMOR PIECE in your inventory to be the same style and aesthetic
@@rjmacready6693 I would also note; that while the process for the weave is long, it feels more like an excess thing that if you’re a junky, it dissuades you from spending all your time decorating entire armor sets, and encourages you to realize “this isn’t a fashion show, it’s a shooter, go shoot”
when DATTO gets upset, you have really really made a bad decision
It’s almost like they’re aspiring to be the villain we all thought activision on was
THEY WERE ALWAYS THAT VILLAIN. EVERVERSE WAS EVEN THEIR IDEA. BUNGIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE PROBLEM
@@hallowjupiter6305 and Activision has been always giving them a friendly nudge to make things more profitable.
@@fel524 clearly they don't even need the nudge anymore to shit on the community for money
@@anochronos yeah, they've separated and I don't see much difference at all, if any.
@@fel524 So during an interview 2 years ago with an ex Bungie employee he said activision only pushed for more expansions, looks like Warmind was planned to be on the base game and they shaved it to be an expansion, everything else was Bungies choice.
19:26 the tipping point, the two seconds of silence, speaks wonders.
Override needs more. Right now it feels like a 3 man activity that accidentally queued 2 teams together.
Needs to spend more time in Tron-land and the whole data mote thing gets old pretty quick.
@@TReynard11 the free running even when you fail is fun.
@@TReynard11 the mote thing got old during Season of Arrivals, now it’s just another boring mechanic
Aye I honestly don’t like how it is 3 man. Too little enemies for too many people. Honestly nerf the boss’s healthy and you be good to go
@@vlazurah789 I thought it was cool in SoA cuz Gambit in the lord was made pretty much to get ready for the darkness, and when the darkness finally came, that same mechanic was used.
Great recap. Funny part about Armor transmode is I polled my clan and other then a few sets no one plans on doing Armor Transfers to ornaments. As a guy who is D1 Beta in my experience I am proud to say I have never bought Eververse silver and I don't plan on it for ornaments. Since they are giving us some to play with 99% of my clan will be satisfied and be done just by using those freebies. Myself I don't plan on doing any unless a triumph is tied to doing one. I can see this season getting boring quick once I have grinded out each weeks worth of pinnacle drops. And once I am at power level 20 on the artifact and plus 10 on pinnacle I can forsee a dead zone. Great video as always. Enjoy
But hey gamers, I may not be able to do a basic search for name, colour or theme in my transmog system but at least I can search for synthweave in the eververse now.
When I heard about the steps for armor synthesis, all I heard was this. "They take the dinglebop and they push it through the grumbo, where the fleeb is rubbed against it. It’s important that the fleeb is rubbed, because the fleeb has all of the fleeb juice. Then a schlami shows up, and he rubs it and spits on it. They cut the fleeb. There’s several hizzards in the way. The blamfs rub against the chumbles. And the ploobis and grumbo are shaved away. That leaves you with a regular old plumbus".
Can't believe Datto spoiled the Bible, the real ending to Game of Thrones, and 2021 all in one video
Dattos rant and Armor synthesis is a top 3 Datto rant. Very accurate, informative and funny.
Bungie making a large volume of *questionable* decisions recently.
"Recently?" Just...recently?
@@RedShadowOfSaturn Last season was decent. This season has looked to be better, but it got worse.
"Recently"
That dsc decision is one of the worst I have seen them make
@@ALPHA_153 are you talking about the one where the core depositing in the descent is now more complex? Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think they should change the mechanics after the fact, but I also don’t think it makes it too much harder.
Datto cursing and being so mad is the funniest thing i swear
I'm loving that you can make multiple keys to hold onto, so you can just run override over and over without needing to fiddle around in menus as well as make room for more ether when you're full. I also like that you can get ether from just killing guys anywhere. I'm barely touching the core playlists and almost always full on ether. Hell, you can get ether while doing override, so its almost self-sustaining.
And that's why I believe it's vastly superior to Chosen and Hunt.
@@davidho1427 the only thing Battlegrounds were better at was enemy density. tho it helped being a 3man.
@@GiorgosAigio96 yes, indeed. Add like a crap ton more enemies to override and it'd be perfect.
@@davidho1427 Absolutely. Sometimes I still spend half an hour on the Lament quest slaughtering waves and waves of a hefty amount of Vex. We can handle enemy density.
Problem: Having too many friends on your friends list. Me: You have no power here.....
God damnit Datto I was about to form my own opinion about this season
Can't wait for Datto to tell us this meme sucks so I can stop laughing at it!
Yep, I was having fun but I'm sure he'll convince me it's a waste of my time :(
@@HunterMearo Do you think the Destiny community listens to Datto too much
I have never heard Datto as angry as he is about Armor Synthesis ever. That is genuine.
Hilarious cuz his first video he hand waived it. Now that he’s being called a full shill he is back tracking on his stance
@@rjmacready6693 atleast he backtracked. Better than people defending this stuff
@@tardwrangler1019 Only thing he needs now is a public apology regarding his prior stance lmao
"The culprit was having too many friends on your friends list..."
Well then, if more errors come in the future with the same issue then I guess im unstoppable.
We. Are. Too. Powerful.
holy fuck, the synthesis rant was so unexpectedly invested! I genuinely didnt expect that, honestly it was cathartic to listen to. Ily Datto
Really nice to hear you finally go off about it.
Weekly prestige raid rotator... takes any raid at random(including vaulted raids) and makes it the “weekly challenge” on top of getting the loot again, if you complete the weekly prestige raid challenge, you should receive a cool cosmetic item that shows you were there you did that, or maybe get a piece of prestige armor each run through it that gives above average stat rolls.
I played override three times the other night. Never realized you had to go through the portal... lol
RE: Armor synthesis
I decided to add up how much I’ve spent on Destiny so far after a year of playing the game. I know that these purchases were for the most part optional, but I wanted to show just how much you can spend on all the ways they monetize the experience outside of armor synth. I have spent no money on armor synth and don’t plan to.
$14.99 Season of Arrivals bundle
$53.16 Upgrade Edition: Shadowkeep and Forsaken DLCs
$49.99 Beyond Light plus Season
$9.99 for Silver for Season Pass
$9.99 for Silver for Season Pass
$59.99 for the Guardian Games jacket (I missed out on the DSC Raid one, okay)
$49.99 for Penguin Figurine after completing the Europa Triumph
$22.99 for Chosen Pin after completing Season of the Chosen
$22.99 for the Splintered Pin after completing Europa Triumphs
*Total so far: $294.08*
I really do love this game. I bought the collectables because I wanted to have physical items to reflect what I’ve done in it and the fun I’ve had so far. I spent my time earning the achievements to unlock the codes for the items. I’m mostly okay with spending my money on physical items because I’m supporting the game and they’re items that require labor and materials to make. But it is a big money sink. I didn’t realize how much money and time I put in the game so far. I’m at 610 hours of playtime right now. And I’ve only been playing for a year. I’m finding myself needing to limit my play time and spending on the game, because I’m realizing how addictive it can get, and I’m running out of Vault storage space. What I've purchased isn't even the complete amount of items they've released via the triumph to grab the code products. If you wanted to get every item they've tied to a triumph in game the total would be much, much higher.
I want to add even without the physical collector's items, I've spent $138.12 on just the game itself, the DLCs and season passes. Just to be able to fully play the game and experience all it has to offer. I really, really don't think they needed to make armor synth so complicated for more money.
The second I heard datto say “juice”
I instantly envisioned a goblin yelling BOOK at the top of his lungs
Please help...
BLOOD MAGIC
You know, before the season the transmog cap didn't sound that bad. But holy shit, I've played a ton this week and even with the timer, I've gotten barely 40 strands
Hard to believe that, I played for like 2 3 days and got 3 bounties done.
@@Starmotion0 entirely possible, lots of rng in the system. I feel off grinding after last Thursday, and I just started my first purchased bounty on Saturday. either way, system is kinda ass
Huh, I guess not having friends can be a good thing...
Boy, when Datto does his Yosemite Sam-style cussing, I felt that! That and "THERE'S NO HOLDERS OF SHARES!" Classic, and so on point.
Concerning Armor Synthesis...I don't know, maybe I'm one of only 10 people who just really don't care about it. I'm all about the shaders anyway, so I do like the new shader interface where I don't have to keep going into Collections just to get what I want. Other than that I just use the ornaments. But the fact that other games that I stopped playing a long time ago (Dauntless, AC Odyssey, etc.) have a way better and easier transmog experience than this one game that I play the most...that's just wild to me.
Now if Ada were to make ornaments for weapons like we had in Season 10, that I would get into.
Tranmog is making it really hard to be happy about the season for me rn
Same. For the longest time, I've kind of forced myself to not care about fashion as much and just go for the stats because I didn't want to spend extra money on ornaments, so I was hyped about this. But that hype was ultimately ruined.
Yeah me too :(
Implementation is messy for sure. Haven’t had transmog for years, now I can use a few of my favorite designs without changing my armor and a cool fashion UI. Nothing lost, just not impressive gains.
But that’s not the season. Everyone gets transmog. Try to compartmentalize and look at the two separately. There’s no reason you can’t be mad about the absurd transmog but still happy about the strides in storytelling and loot.
@@FKDotFitzgerald Gameplay is terrible tho in override, it's tuned for 2-3 players but they put you with 6 and everyone is constantly getting heavy ammo.
“Don’t worry there’s still a rant in this video. It’s coming up”. Everyone knew that was about transmog 😂
Personally I'm loving the 'Hackerman' aesthetic; transmog and Vault shaders are annoying and I wish they wouldn't try to overmonetize something we're already paying for, but that struggle is nothing new and the season itself is really solid so far.
i appreciate how you broke it up into sections :) nice video
Anyone else notice how (for)eververse is in *overdrive* right now? Borderline predatory transmog, all ornaments up for silver (not *bad*, but definitely a gold mine for $$$), and the paid vog shaders (makes me think of the gift shops at the end of a ride in the expensive theme parks)
"Right now?" They've been attempting to shove loot boxes into this game for years. Festival of the COST. Locking Heroic Strikes behind paywall. Eververse isn't taking over...it HAS taken over.
@@RedShadowOfSaturn Last couple seasons it has been there but not nearly as pushy as right now. I'm fully aware of those other incidents/events
@@veralium Well...not that it matters. They're raking in the money, so they get to be as pushy as they want. The community certainly isn't stopping them...
@@RedShadowOfSaturn They never will unfortunately, since the people that are the loudest are unfortunately not the majority of people, despite how predatory these actions are.
As someone who still used Polaris lance it is also an underrated scout, MIDA is also pretty good now with No Distractions. They aren’t PvP Kings, but they’re good.
Haven’t played destiny 2 in probably a year and I’ll still come and check datto videos just cause I miss the nostalgia
If you want to start again, this is definitely the season.
Came back last season after 2 year hiatus and I haven't looked back. This season has been fun as well. Granted I quit due to burnout, not because I didn't enjoy the game.
Yeah this season and the last have been absolutely fantastic at LEAST from a new loot to chase perspective. There's gotta be close to 60 new legendaries from the last 2 seasons to grind and a healthy amount of them are very good if not extremely viable in pve or pvp
Weird flex. Come home
@@WHlSKYtx damn man I might need to come back home the tower awaits me
I love that you can grind the upgrades right away. I'm doing it to make running override easier/faster for when I can put my attention on focusing engrams
Datto ranting about transmog is literally my spirit animal
Dattos segment on transmog might be my favourite Datto-rant in a while XD
About time D. At least your reviews are honest. Thanks for all the “exotic quest” videos BTW. 👍
Datto is pissed lol
D?
@@84m30
Short for Datto. Duh!
@@lDoubleDownl
Sounds more like annoyed. Kinda hard to get really pissed at Destiny when Bungie is often known for fking up. Most of us are pretty used to it by now.
It’s like people who play Ubisoft games. They stopped expecting anything good years ago.
So honest he hand waived transmog in his first video. Dude is clearly realizing how much a shill he looked now that all the details are out.
In a loot-driven game (like Destiny), cosmetics *do* matter, and saying microtransactions are "just cosmetic" is only making excuses for the developer to continue exploiting their game and their players. This transmog drama is the most blatant example that cosmetics being sold in a loot-based game *does* actually affect your enjoyment of the game, whether you realize it or not. If I was trying to sell you something, why would I give out any of that something for free for any reason other than to manipulate you and coerce you to buy my actual product? Having cosmetics for sale creates a conflict of interest between creating the best game possible and pushing a user towards another sale. It's admittedly true that we would have LESS total cosmetics in Destiny if not for microtransactions, but I would greatly prefer an uncompromised game with fewer, but higher quality cosmetics.
I understand a lot of people do actually realize this and it isn't that hard to grasp, but the community as a whole still really struggles with accepting it as reality.
Datto, please do another rant video. It cleanses my soul.
Its just amazing to me how for so many years we've been trying to get them to make the story be just as good as the lore tablets are, and when they finally reach that level, they just fail completely at something that shouldnt have been a problem in the first place like, who is making this decisions?.
Bungie has one of the best gaming developer + story teams in the business right now. Its just the leadership that fucks up everything so bad its infuriating.
That part of the portal I LMAO’d so hard cause it true! 😂😂😂
I love how we got to see the scourge of the past final encounter again, with outbreak mission music, and mithrax. Coolest story update in a while!
My favourite detail about that area is just that the Prime Servitor is still there and it makes noises showing it's possibly still alive if you push it around like a football.
meanwhile twab: haha yeah it's launch week poggers
Thanks for this vid Datto! Good to hear from you
I feel like i'm just watching a man slowly lose his sanity by playing Destiny. He really needs to take a break, show Bungie that they can't even keep the most influential player happy with all the shit they pull.
You hit it right on the head man. I struggled to play last season despite enjoying the story and battlegrounds because of the endless grind in strikes we have had since D2 came out. The core elements that you need to farm to be able to fully partake in the new things needs to be enjoyable or at least not dull to warrant playing in the first place
Datto's production of videos just gets better and better with ever season. I love it ❤️
fun fact: transmog DOES have an effect on gameplay.
by using a praefectus grips with a light kin ornament counts towards triumph progress for kills with seasonal armor. Now could this be some other glitch with previous seasonal armor counting? maybe. But regardless, I have only used that ornament and I have the triumph done for the seasonal armor kills.
Oh thank God Datto finally posted this, I was worried I would have to think for myself.
Time to not have an opinion and not think for myself
well one of the good things at least is that they changed the 3rd DSC encounter to make diagonal nuke deposits a thing (boss being able to moving to blue in first cycle during boss encounter wouldn't hurt either but whatever) and i think they updated the add AIs since they are actually shooting for once not just meleeing (dregs and marauders)
There is one things that unite a game community like nothing else:
Frustration and hatred for the developer
Actually, it does impact your gameplay. At least, at the moment. It might be a bug, but some of the white armor pieces, when equipped as an ornament, give +1 to a stat. So you can bring your useless 99 to a 100.
The story isn’t getting better, the story telling is just more explicit and actually exists. Amazing what actually trying to tell a story can do
More explicit and actually exists, sounds almost like there's a word for that. I think that word is 'better'.
Yeah what did you think better ment
In Y2, you could simultaneously earn powerful rewards from Last Wish, Scourge, and Crown. Just putting that out there.
"The only good scout rifle in d2, is Dead mans Tale"
My nightwatch with damage and reload perks that I love: Am I a joke to you?
Yes it is
@@wood5596 I personally love the thing, maybe because Im the only player that isn't expecting more out of scouts. 🤷🏾 I do see what the community means when they say they want a buff, but they aren't completely useless, definitely still usable weapons. Idk about GM's and shit, but You can take these scouts (like i do my nightwatch) into faily high activities and it'll do fine, but maybe thats just me
Nah nightwatch is a good scout rifle
Skyburners oath and nightwatch with explosive payload are awesome and eternal blazon with ricochet rounds is good too.
Scouts aren't necessarily bad in higher end content since range is generally the better play and things are very tanky to begin with, but in lower end and/or enemy dense content scouts will fall short since add clear is more necessary and other primaries do the job better. Dead Man's is the only exception to this simply down to the fact that cranial spike allows it to one tap most adds at stacks past 2-3. Symmetry with Revolution procced is also not too bad but it's pretty niche in comparison.
The FWC didn't see "House Light betraying the city" They heard weapons fire and saw Fallen in the city. It's vague enough that it's pretty obviously leaving it open for the Fallen to be helping fight something else inside the city.
Pog having no friends paid off
Also Altars of Sorrow are the best place to grind for transmog currency
no thanks, i rather claw my eyes out with a spoon
happy to see im not the only one with the “light reforged” and “quid pro quo” quests still in their inventory
when vog drops if the shaders are silver only, i won't be dropping money on the game. I'll be dropping the game itself. bungie is overstepping.
14:36-14:49 I think I watched 20 times cry laughing lol I can picture datto tensing up like he’s pushing out a fart😂
I just came here to hear Datto rant and I was not disappointed lol jk
Just a tip for the Synthesis bounties: go for the Dungeon/Raid ones. They are so much easier and being able to do them in dungeons makes them a breeze. You can complete the bounty in one dungeon run most of the times.
I can’t think of a time in d2 where everybody was actually happy compared to d1
there was never a time in d1 where everyone was happy either
@@treygonzalez8909 I feel like most people were pretty happy during the taken king
Forsaken
@@treygonzalez8909 ttk and age of triumph seemed to be overwhelmingly happy
@@treygonzalez8909 I’d say anything past taken king was pretty positive
I hope we get the real deal strike exclusives back in witchqueen. Something unique that’s themed after the boss of that strike. Something that gets me excited for every strike that loads up and I know I can get a really cool piece of gear.
I like how Datto thinks that the money from transmog is going towards Destiny 2.
It's probably going towards bonuses
@@josephgarfield3363 Or their recently announced international headquarters in Amsterdam, or their new IP, or the media deals they are working on. The point is, they are double dipping their bread and butter to expand, not invest in the D2 IP.
honestly loving the story right now, I like how the line between friend and foe is getting thinner
Bungie does a fantastic job of killing their own momentum. Usually they do this by being frustratingly stingy with their rewards
Surprised to not see in the dsc section the change to encounter 3, making both left possible etc. Makes it fun.
Bungie has been making some weird changes, but the seasonal content is very good.
It’s copy and paste content. The characters standing still talking isn’t hard to make either. How is this good?
Whispers : "I'll tell you what the problem is, it's money"
*procedes to standing ovation*
DSC is supposed to give pinnacles, it's just bugged that it doesn't, from the twab, they were saying how they were fixing that.
no its not supposed to give pinnacles, its not pinnacle source anymore. Vog is
This is the first time I have ever seen Datto this mad. Transmog is nothing more than a quality of life addition for ornaments we ALREADY EARNED. Monetizing quality of life like this will make other companies follow suit very quickly. It did with loot boxes and battle passes, so why not this? AAHGHGHHGHAHGHGHGGHGHGH!
For me armor synthesis is everything I wanted.
In the 11 free I got , I was able to transmog almost everything I wanted and by the end of the season WILL have everything including the vog armor done.
Yes I'm a long time player. But I chose what I wanted very specifically and won't transmog stuff that just looks cool because I have specific looks I like.
If you want more than what you will wear, you will have an issue.
Ah, yes.
The good old truism of “familiarity breeds contempt”, like the strikes that after 1-2 play through you can easily memorise the spawn locations, type and energy-shield element of any roadblock enemies such that the counter is mid-flight before they even finish spawning in (or moving/AI-enabled), or the new activities that have every gunplay our identically due to overwhelming firepower versus trash grade enemy’s so the main challenge is in racing for the dropped motes or maybe just the fact that a load of strikes/maps were removed so even the newest stuff gets stale in a fraction of the time now.