The Curse of Osiris enlargement for Destiny 2 is a combined bag. I loved the 2 hour marketing campaign and a short waddle across the piddly new space, but it surely’s a meagre providing for the cash it’s important to put down. It’s comprehensible that some gamers would possibly need to give it a miss, which makes all of it the more severe that individuals who didn’t purchase the enlargement discovered that they not had entry to sure endgame actions.
The devs have written a blog post the place they apologise for excluding these gamers, and promise to repair their errors in a hotfix later as we speak. Their options, nevertheless, aren’t more likely to please everybody.
The actions that gamers have been excluded from are Prestige Nightfall Strikes, the Prestige Leviathan raid and the Trials of the Nine PVP mode. The Prestige raid can solely be accomplished in case you’ve reached the ability degree cap, which was raised to 330 for many who personal the enlargement. Bungie say the logic behind this was in order that the Prestige raid may very well be “the pinnacle of challenge, with the most prestigious rewards”, and that you just’d due to this fact must be on the most energy degree.
Trials of the Nine, in the meantime, takes place on a special particular map every week, together with some from Curse of Osiris. In the publish, Bungie speak about how they needed the mode to “evolve” every season, although that clearly doesn’t work as a justification for eradicating content material from those that have already paid for it. Bungie are, a minimum of, now recognising that:
“We’ve heard from the community that both of these plans aren’t working. The Prestige Raid was a novel experience that players value, even if they don’t own Curse of Osiris, and it was a mistake to move that experience out of reach. Throughout the lifetime of the Destiny Franchise, Trials has always required that players owned the latest Expansion. However, for Destiny 2, Trials of The Nine launched as part of the main game, so it’s not right for us to remove access to it.”
So, what are Bungie going to do about it? Firstly, within the case of Prestige Nightfall strikes – nothing in the meanwhile. They’ll stay on the 330 degree cap, and so will solely be accessible to those that personal Curse of Osiris. It’s irritating to nonetheless be locked out of part of the sport, although Bungie are toying with an precise resolution: “Moving forward, we are investigating adding a 3rd difficulty to all Prestige activities, so that we can provide both a challenge that stays relevant with each new Expansion, and a Prestige version that is available to all players.”
For the Prestige Leviathan raid, Bungie are reverting the extent requirement again to 300 in order that it’s accessible to everybody once more. They’re additionally reducing the rewards you get from it, which means there’s one much less supply of loot for max-level gamers. While that may be irritating to some, it does appear crucial.
I’m much less on board with the adjustments to Trials of the Nine, which is able to now be playable to individuals who solely personal the bottom sport when a non-curse of Osiris map is operating. That means they’ll nonetheless discover themselves excluded from it on many weeks. Implementing a separate Trials of the Nine mode for those who don’t personal the enlargement can be a messy resolution to an already convoluted system, by means of it will be fairer. Similarly, regular Nightfall strikes will solely be accessible to those that don’t personal the enlargement on weeks the place it’s operating a strike from the bottom sport. If it had been as much as me, I’d simply throw in a separate Nightfall from the bottom sport on these weeks.
Elsewhere, the Prometheus Lens controversy continues. Here’s the story up to now: one of many weapons that landed with the Curse of Osiris enlargement was a beam weapon that was overpowered within the PVP Crucible. Bungie then made it accessible to everybody by means of Xur, a tentacled vendor that drops by each week to promote unique objects. It turned the Crucible into laser tag over the weekend, which was truly plenty of enjoyable in a ‘wacky special event’ sort of manner. They promised to nerf the weapon after the weekend, and have now tweeted to say that they’re going to make the gun “too weak” as a brief time period repair, then steadiness it correctly in January. As somebody who purchased the gun on Friday its a little bit of a kick within the tooth to have my legendary shard funding rendered nugatory, however in equity everybody knew it will find yourself underpowered.
In extra optimistic information, as we speak’s replace can even brings a brand new tier of ‘Masterwork’ weapons. That locations them above legendary weapons, and every gun can have an extra perk slot that confers a random buff. It’s how weapons the weapons labored within the first Destiny, the thought being to present dedicated gamers extra loot to chase after. It’s a welcome change in my eyes, not as a result of I’m going to spend hours grinding away to get the precise gun I would like however as a result of the few that I do will really feel extra particular.
